2026 Predictions and early musings

[sbgawa]

Opening a stand doesnt guarantee increased attendances.
How many matches were sold out in Shels in the season just gone??
Was there 4 or 5?
That being the case the incremental value of having a new stand will be zero bar in the 4 or 5 mathes that were sold out?
Lets say for arguements sake they could have got an extra 1000 in at 4 matchs at an average ticket price of €10, thats 40k in additional income.
I appreciate that it is building for the future etc etc but in terms of extra income in 2026 id wager the costs of opening the stand will ootweigh the extra income.

Yes they can try to sell more season tickets at a discount maybe and invite academy kids along to matches which might build "paying" crowds in the medium term but if they are increasing the playing budget based on a new stand and the "hope" that people will appear they are being optimistic at best.

[Jolly Red Giant]

Does the new increased capacity in Tolka now bring it back into play for a Bohs move or is that door still firmly shut.

To be honest I think it would be a good option for both clubs - growing the LOI overall is in the interest of every LOI club and this would benefit both during the Dalymount reconstruction. Isn't there also rumours of Bohs possibly using the RDS for the Dublin games?

[MoydowMonty]

Since it's difficult to find any info on, does anyone know if all the fixtures are out for the greatest competition in the world, the Leinster Senior Cup?

I see the group Athlone are in seem to have dates set for their games. Surely if one group of fixtures is set then all of them have too? But of course the magic of the Leinster Senior Cup is that it works in mysterious way

[kksaints]

Since it's difficult to find any info on, does anyone know if all the fixtures are out for the greatest competition in the world, the Leinster Senior Cup?

I see the group Athlone are in seem to have dates set for their games. Surely if one group of fixtures is set then all of them have too? But of course the magic of the Leinster Senior Cup is that it works in mysterious way

There's some on FAI Connect for the group with Wexford, Bohemians, Bray and Fingal United but nothing else.

[pineapple stu]

Yep - and it's worth noting that both the first and last fixtures in that group are from the second round of matches. Only the LSC could manage that.

[ger121]

Since it's difficult to find any info on, does anyone know if all the fixtures are out for the greatest competition in the world, the Leinster Senior Cup?

I see the group Athlone are in seem to have dates set for their games. Surely if one group of fixtures is set then all of them have too? But of course the magic of the Leinster Senior Cup is that it works in mysterious way

They are indeed. Bohs are actually away to Bray on the opening night of the Premier Division. I assume that will still go ahead. 2 nice fixtures that weekend to help kick-off the season.

[pineapple stu]

I see UCD have friendlies confirmed now for 10/16/23/31 Jan, so hard to see how we're going to fit in three LSC games as well (unless we put out the 19s against the non-league suffers, which we did last year)

[MoydowMonty]

Since it's difficult to find any info on, does anyone know if all the fixtures are out for the greatest competition in the world, the Leinster Senior Cup?

I see the group Athlone are in seem to have dates set for their games. Surely if one group of fixtures is set then all of them have too? But of course the magic of the Leinster Senior Cup is that it works in mysterious way

The fixtures starting to trickle out with seeming randomness and lack of consistency, as if they read this thread and remembered they hadn't set the fixtures, so they scrambled to arrange it with the same energy of leaving all your homework till the night before. God bless the Leinster Senior Cup, under it's leadership we shall reach new heights

[2 Year Contract]

https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soc...eading_button#
I’m not sure who exactly had the authority to give the BetVictor ‘supercomputer’ it’s name but it’s safe to say that’s the last name I’d be giving it after predicting Pats to finish 10 points ahead of Shels, 18 points ahead of Bohs, Galway to come 4th above those two sides also with Caulfield’s men to be second top goalscorers in the league not to mention Drogheda in 8th!

[total hoofball]

I requested ChatGPT to do it's own simulation of the final table and the result was looking realistic enough until I looked down to 9th and 10th spots

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Shamrock Rovers	36	22	8	6	68	31	+37	74
2	Derry City	36	20	9	7	63	36	+27	69
3	St Patrick’s Athletic	36	18	10	8	55	33	+22	64
4	Shelbourne	36	16	11	9	50	36	+14	59
5	Bohemians	36	15	10	11	52	39	+13	55
6	Dundalk	36	12	11	13	46	45	+1	47
7	Sligo Rovers	36	11	10	15	39	50	-11	43
8	Drogheda United	36	10	10	16	37	52	-15	40
9	Cork City	36	7	9	20	31	61	-30	30
10	U.C.D.	36	4	6	26	21	71	-50	18

[nigel-harps1954]

Chat GPT data is largely from 2024, so it presumably takes the teams who finished the 2023 season.

[Roones26]

CoPilot has produced a fairly believable, interesting one. Though I suspect the First Division is way off

Premier Division

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Shamrock Rovers	36	21	8	7	62	30	+32	71
2	Derry City	36	20	7	9	57	34	+23	67
3	Shelbourne	36	16	12	8	48	35	+13	60
4	St Pat's Ath.	36	15	11	10	46	36	+10	56
5	Bohemians	36	14	10	12	47	43	+4	52
6	Drogheda United	36	12	11	13	39	44	-5	47
7	Sligo Rovers	36	11	10	15	41	51	-10	43
8	Galway United	36	10	9	17	36	50	-14	39
9	Waterford	36	9	10	17	38	55	-17	37
10	Dundalk	36	6	8	22	29	61	-32	26

First Division

Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Cork City	36	23	8	5	68	24	+44	77
2	UCD	36	17	11	8	54	36	+18	62
3	Bray Wanderers	36	16	10	10	58	44	+14	58
4	Athlone Town	36	15	10	11	53	48	+5	55
5	Finn Harps	36	13	11	12	46	45	+1	50
6	Wexford	36	12	12	12	49	51	-2	48
7	Treaty United	36	11	11	14	43	48	-5	44
8	Cobh Ramblers	36	10	10	16	41	57	-16	40
9	Longford Town	36	7	10	19	38	62	-24	31
10	Kerry FC	36	6	9	21	36	62	-26	27