Originally Posted by
pineapple stu
That's not what it says.
It has the top three in L1 - but Dundalk about last (or maybe sneaking the last playoff spot in L2). Both Dundalk and Bohs have gone backwards since last year.
It has Harps and Waterford as Conference level, and the league as a whole (which is what the question was) sightly behind L2.
Going on another chart on that thread, it rates the LoI above Romania and Slovakia, which I don't believe (this is the whole league, not just the European teams) and I suspect it may overrate the LoI slightly, possibly due to summer soccer and postponed games helping a bit in European results, which are used to try rank the various leagues (which I think then help anchor the club results in that league)
And I'm not sure how it'd compare the 36-game LoI season with the 46-game English season (which has three Cups to our, at present, one) because that would definitely be a factor in my mind.
Can I ask again why you think there are no LoI players in the national squad if the league is around L1 standard, but there's 6 L1 players (I think - Bazunu, McClean, Sykes, Parrott, Ogbene, Keane) in it?
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