Highs and lows of 2005

[A face]

Highs and lows of 2005 .... league related obviously.
Simple .... three of each (strictly)

Highs

1. The competition in the league, with three teams in it for a long while, and then winning it in the end.
2. NLSA
3. The time at the start of the season when we thought we were going to get great coverage of the league


Lows

1. As a Cork City fan, not winning the double
2. Genisis Report on the league
3. The coverage the league got, long periods with no games at all

[dancinpants]

Highs

1. Going beyond all expectations to come 2nd
2. Mark Farren bagging 18 goals this season
3. The demolition of Cork at the Brandywell


Lows

1. Losing the league on the last day
2. Losing the Cup semi to an injury time peno
3. (Can't think of a 3rd)

(My No1 High and No1 Low kind of contadict eachother I know)

[Rovers1]

HIGHS
1.winning the league
2.winning the league
3.winning the league

LOWS
1.losing to Cork in cup
2.seeing dublin come up with us
3.losing 3-1 in dublin

[De Town]

HIGHS
1. Winning for the first time in Europe
2. Winning away to Cork in the LC
3. 4 of the top 5 in the League being country teams

LOWS
1. Carmarthen away
2. 2-1 up away to Rovers with 20 minutes to go and losing 4-2
3. Not picking up as many points as we should have

[Conor H]

HIGHS
1 Signing of Alan Murphy
2 Suppose the general buzz around the club at the moment buliding up the 2006 season
3 Crack with the other supporters especially at the home game v Sligo,the demolition of limerick and all of the away trips were brillaint....we had alot of laughs!

LOWS
1 Loosing at home to Kilkenny in front of our lowest attendance of the year.
2 Getting hammered by Sligo 4-1 and not beating them once
3 The whole season bar the last 12 games....and especially the first 12-15 games when we were second last for ages!

[Red4Eva]

HIGH:
1.holding the cup
2.mons 4-0
3.beating pat's comfortably(givin us reason to be hopeful of a good year next season)

LOW:
1.losing 2-0 at home v dundalk
2.drawing away to kildare after missing last min penalty
3.losing 3-1 to dublin city

[Roverstillidie]

Highs:

1 Fans taking over the club and removing the evil empire that was mcliar and co. Future loooking very bright.

2 Tallaght finally getting sorted. Should be playing there next season.

3 Hammering the filth in Dalymount when they were, ahem, mounting a title challenge. No laughing at the back.

Lows

1 Ending up in the 1st despite finishing 8th in the league.

2 Having Roderick Collins associated with the club.

3 The 8 points debacle. Not going over old ground, but left a bad taste, especially as we would have been fine if the correct info was submitted and we pointed out the mistake.

[ccfcgirl]

Highs

1. Winning the League on the last day of the season
2. Roy O Donavan joining City and having a great season
3. Beating Shels 2-0

Lows

1. Kevin Doyle leaving
2. City getting beat in Prague
3. Shed going

[sligoman]

Highs:

(1) Winning the league(obviously),
(2) Seeing Rovers play the best football they have in years,
(3) Beating Harps and Pat's in the cup games

Lows:

(1) Been robbed of victory in Dublin(3-1 defeat )
(2) The standard of refereeing in the First Division(Duddy, Hilda and co.)
(3) The lack of coverage of the First Division

[pineapple stu]

Highs
The League Cup semi (especially injury time in the semi and the equaliser in final)
Keeping two clean sheets in the blue of UCD against Longford Town in the half-time supporters' games.
Winning the U-21 trophy again

Lows
The last ten games or so
The Genesis Report - biggest load of rubbish I've read in a long while. Quite scary to think it might be acted on.
The Genesis Report - biggest load of rubbish I've read in a long while. Quite scary they didn't consider the supporters an important enough section of the league to consult.

[dcfcsteve]

I think A Face was trying to make this about the league overall, rather than about clubs, so I'll play along with my EL highs and lows :

HI'S
1) A truly compeitive and exciting league season, that caught a lot of public attention.
2) 25,000 colourful fans at the Cup Final.
3) Secret discussions re an all-island league happening, alongside the expansion of the successful Setanta Cup initiative.

LOW'S
1) Media coverage failing to live up to expectations.
2) The FAI - another year, another 12 months of inertia regarding our league.
3) Dublin City back in the Premier.

[Peadar]

Highs

• The Premier Division title race.
• The fact that such a big crowd turned up for the FAI Cup Final.
• The improved media coverage.

Lows

• The league losing a player of Kevin Doyles ability for loose change.
• Longford in Europe.
• Dublin City getting promoted.

*Edit* Only read your list after posting my own, Steve.

[Mental Man]

HIGHS
1. The only team in the country not to have been beaten by Cork city and taking points from them.
2. Staying up in the premiere.
3. The game against rovers up in dalyer.

LOWS
1. having 4 different managers in the same season.
2. Our mid season slump.
3. Losing Daryl Murphy to that waster of a Mick McCarthy

[Speranza]

Highs

1. The NLSA. To finally have a group of supporters united in their goals and fully commited to the future of the league makes this season a sucess alone.

2. The standard of football played by the top sides in the country this year has been a huge improvement on the long-ball nonsense of the past.

3. Match day atmosphere at the Brandywell was the best I have ever experienced. Atmosphere til the very end in Cork made me proud to be a city fan

Lows

1. Continued ineptitude of the F.A.I

2. The state that the Brandywell stadium is in and the thought of us being back at the top of Irish soccer and welcoming European clubs to such a woeful sight. Well done Derry City Council

3. Ollie Byrne and $helbourne in general being allowed to make a mockery of the rulebook

[sonofstan]

Highs
1) Dom Foley - for a couple of months he was the best player in the league
2) Beating Shels at Dalymount in May
3) Rovers going down

Lows
1) Dom Foley - not for leaving but for leaving in such an underhand way (not helped by our board's incompetence, admittedly)
2) finishing 6th with - at a guess - the 3rd highest wage bill in the league
3) The behaviour of some of our fans - particularly at the last Shels game - left Dalymount for the last time this year feeling sick

[Rochey]

Highs

(1) Winning the Cup
(2) Getting into the Uefa cup on Merit
(3) Finally looking like a top side near the end of the season and the improvement of Gavin Whelan.

Lows

(1) Too many draws!!
(2) Losing 3-2 to bohs despite leading 2-1 with 5 mins to go
(3) Ollie Byrne getting away with assault!! again


Loads more highs there but those three will do!!

[wws]

Highs

1) trashing the champions elect in Cork and giving us real hope of a title challenge next season as the top teams will all falter now

2) Jersey sales, passing the 1 million 7 year remark mark. Thank You American Tourists!

3) Linfield pishing all over Shels in the setanta cup


Lows

1) Cup Knockouts

2) Sh.t league form

3) signing rutherford

[Raheny Red]

HIGHS:

1) Hammering Glentoran home & away.

2) Joey Ndo in the games in which he played..........but not enough IMO!!

3) Outclassing Bohs on the final game of the season

lows

1) Crowe not making an impact.

2) League Cup semi......less said the better!

3) No 3 in a row

[Slash/ED]

Highs
1) Dom Foley - for a couple of months he was the best player in the league

ah that's cheered me up a bit anyway

Highs

- Set a record in Europe for co-efficent points, the progress is there for all to see.
- TV Audience for the last game of the season and cup final
- Setanta cup proving a success

Lows

- Kevin Doyle and Wes Hoolahan, need say no more.
- The mickey-mouse way the TV deal was handled with absolutley pathetic choices of matches doing nothing to promote the league
- The return to the unfair 12 team league which, it could be argued, cost Derry a league title unfairly.

[pineapple stu]

2) League Cup semi......less said the better!

Nope...don't seem to remember that one...what happened again?

Incidentally, would the club have a video of that? Even the last five minutes would do me...