How did we win this?

**ramsfan** · 22/11/2007, 11:24 AM

Drogheda United followed up their historic eircom League of Ireland title victory by landing the 2007 FAI Premier Division Fair Play competition this week, with Cobh Ramblers adding the First Division award to their own championship win.

Drogheda finished top of the table with 1035 points, just ahead of joint runners-up Derry City and St. Patrick�s Athletic, who were tied on 1034 points.

In a statement, Drogheda said the award was �testament to the honest, hard-working attitude instilled in all our players and management and the club are delighted with the announcement.�

The First Division table was also won by the league champions, Cobh Ramblers, with Dundalk finishing in second place.

The clubs to top the Premier Division and First Division receive �4,500 each. The clubs to finish second receive �2,000, although this sum has been shared by Derry City and St Patrick�s Athletic in the Premier Division.

The club to finish top of the domestic Fair Play tables faces the possibility of being entered into a draw to take part in the 2008/09 Uefa Cup, depending on the overall Republic of Ireland Fair Play coefficient, which will not be known until next April.

As Drogheda United have already qualified for next season�s Uefa Champions League, and St. Patrick�s Athletic have already qualified for the Uefa Cup, Derry City would be nominated for the draw for a place in the 2008/09 Uefa Cup.

The point totals are based on league fixtures only and are scored in accordance with Uefa guidelines. The assessment includes factors such as red and yellow cards, attacking play, behaviour of team officials and behaviour of players.

Premier Division Fair Play table 2007:

1. Drogheda United - 1035 (�4500)
2. Derry City, St Patrick�s Ath - 1034 (�1000 each)
4. Longford Town - 1032
5. Cork City - 1022
6. Galway United - 998
7. Shamrock Rovers - 995
8. Bohemians - 989
9. Bray Wanderers - 973
10. Waterford United - 948
11. Sligo Rovers - 941
12. UCD - 898

First Division Fair Play table 2007:

1. Cobh Ramblers - 1137 (�4500)
2. Dundalk - 1132 (�2000)
3. Finn Harps - 1120
4. Wexford Youths - 1118
5. Athlone Town, Limerick 37 - 1101
7. Kilkenny City - 1097
8. Monaghan United - 1091
9. Shelbourne - 1084
10. Kildare County - 1077
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good on ehtought we had a lot of cards this season i was wrong

**Rams-07** · 22/11/2007, 11:45 AM

Thats great news,another award for the club..what a great season..congrats to everyone involved

**drinkfeckarse** · 22/11/2007, 11:54 AM

A handy few bob too that wouldn't be budgeted for.

**MojoPin** · 22/11/2007, 12:04 PM

that'll just about pay for the players drinks over the last few weeks.......

well deserved

**don ramo** · 22/11/2007, 12:23 PM

and a few people said we had bad disaplin, nice work lads, well done pity we dont quailfy for fair play award, isnt it weird that the first is well worse than the prem though, wierd,

**MojoPin** · 22/11/2007, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by don ramo

isnt it weird that the first is well worse than the prem though, wierd,

what you mean? we have more points than most premier teams

**rambler14** · 22/11/2007, 12:51 PM

Maybe because all our yellow cards went to Shane Barrett

and we had 3 players sent-off in 3 games. Barrett, Muckie and Murray.
Normally we finish last in that so it's nice to see.........i can't believe it Ramblers winning the fair play award.

**don ramo** · 22/11/2007, 1:06 PM

Originally Posted by MojoPin

what you mean? we have more points than most premier teams

its just confusin, we have more points than any other team, is it the more points the better the diciplin, always thought it was the least, say you get two points for yellow, 4 for red, and 6 for 7 yellows in one game, so the less points you have the better your disiplin, thats makes more sense

**sadloserkid** · 22/11/2007, 1:21 PM

You've come a long, long way since the Dave Hill days for sure!

**ramsfan** · 22/11/2007, 3:52 PM

points awarded for attacking play, discipline etc -

read original post

**The Rebel Ram** · 22/11/2007, 3:55 PM

Good to see, I recon most of the points were made up early on in the season. We had very few bookings early on due to the small squad.
Must have been the pressure later on in the season

**MojoPin** · 22/11/2007, 4:14 PM

Originally Posted by don ramo

its just confusin, we have more points than any other team, is it the more points the better the diciplin, always thought it was the least, say you get two points for yellow, 4 for red, and 6 for 7 yellows in one game, so the less points you have the better your disiplin, thats makes more sense

not confusing at all really.. your theory would suggest that we won the FAIR play award for being the worst team in the fair play league

**pineapple stu** · 22/11/2007, 4:21 PM

Originally Posted by ramsfan

points awarded for attacking play, discipline etc -

read original post

The league winners quiet often do well in the Fair Play because of, as you noted, attacking play. It's not all to do with discipline (in fact, that's relatively little of it)