THE DECIDER. HUGE MATCH. DUNDALK FC V CORK CITY

losthorizon

NIMAN wrote: »

There was a guy on The Last Word a while back who did footy stats, and he studied spending v success across European leagues for the last few decades, and it generally followed in football that whoever spent the most, won the most, irrespective of manager.

So true and its even more true in sports like F1. Two teams wont even be at the next race.

legendary.xix

SantryRed wrote: »

Maybe the past few years but 2005-2009 all those clubs went through financial difficulty after winning the league.

Hopefully the last 5 champions have shown the way ahead. I notice the low level European leagues of N Ireland and Wales have something like 30 clubs in the two tiers below their top tier of 12. We have only a single tier of 8. The league is lacking a national vibrancy that is unfortunately affecting the status of big games like last Friday night. Their needs to be a blueprint and a natural desire from the FAI and league to addressing this. So much for the much maligned Genesis Report into the league.

dfx-

Cork City

SantryRed wrote: »

Maybe the past few years but 2005-2009 all those clubs went through financial difficulty after winning the league.

It's indicative of the boom and bust cycle, league constantly changing hands. Players constantly transferring across from one champion to the future champions. And consequently poor results in Europe, with no side getting a sustained run at it with a settled side.

There are three last day cliffhangers though and only two times that a side has run away with it, 2007 and 2008.

Pighead

Cork City

TopBombing wrote: »

What an amazing night that was in Oriel, and the general buzz around the Town all weekend, great to see.

We fully deserved the League trophy after that season, played some of the best football I've seen in the League of Ireland for many years.

Badly need a liver replacement now though!!

Hell of a weekend. I would thoroughly recommend winning the league to all clubs in the division. So much fun.

Stephen O'Donnell is so so good. Didn't train at all during the week and only passed a fitness test a couple of hours before the match. We would have won the league a month ago if he hadn't got injured.

Going to be hard to top that feeling of winning the league. The fact we hadn't won it for so long and have been so rubbish for so long added to the feel good factor. Looks like we'll be keeping more or less the whole team for next year although Richie Towell is in Cardiff at the minute training with them.

Stephen Kenny is a legend. Best manager in the league and plenty of BOTTLE too.

SteelyDanJalapeno

What happened with Flares being thrown into the away end from outside the stadium?

Looked like the town fans rushed over to the away end at full time too to gloat from RTE, would they not be better off celebrating?

White Horse

Cork City

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Looked like the town fans rushed over to the away end at full time too to gloat from RTE, would they not be better of celebrating?

Some 20-30 scumbags did exactly what you say. It says a lot about them that they didn't join the thousands who ran to their players to celebrate.

Fair play to the Cork fans for not reacting to their stupidity.

Pighead

Cork City

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Looked like the town fans rushed over to the away end at full time too to gloat from RTE, would they not be better of celebrating?

Small gang of spanners making a show of themselves. Met loads of Cork fans Friday night and they were all sound.

CSF

Cork City

dreamers75 wrote: »

Its not competitve, who ever pays the most for certain players wins the league.

Its actually ****e as it doesnt make a competive league it makes the opposite. Who has the money will win.

It goes to a saying you hear in the LSL " X are good this year" hardly club/brand/history building.

Can win the league one year then run out of money and be relegated the next....its not a good thing.

Find it hard to believe that Dundalk were spending more than Pats/Rovers this year

dundalkfc10

Cork City

TiltedBrain wrote: »

What happened with Flares being thrown into the away end from outside the stadium?

Looked like the town fans rushed over to the away end at full time too to gloat from RTE, would they not be better off celebrating?

The second part is true yeh, 20/30 scumbags tried to gloat at the Cork fans

The first part though, is the biggest load of nonsense Ive ever read on any forum!

hufpc8w3adnk65

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

The second part is true yeh, 20/30 scumbags tried to gloat at the Cork fans

The first part though, is the biggest load of nonsense Ive ever read on any forum!

Well it's not just on this forum!

magma69

Cork City

Well done...dalk!

How do I come up with this stuff!

Seriously though, enjoyable season and an epic way to finish it. Delighted for Dundalk. Who would have backed them to win the league at the start of last season? That's kinda one of the fun aspects of LOI, so much can change in a season.

kfallon

Is Pighead still alive or did he spontaneously combust with the excitement of Friday night?

dundalkfc10

Cork City

MrMac84 wrote: »

Well it's not just on this forum!

Have u been in Oriel Park away end? Their is nowere for anyone to throw anything into the away end (from outside the ground)

Have you a link to any forum that says flares were thrown into the away end from outside the ground? Or have any proof, as this would have made national news and as someone who reads every forum its the 1st ive seen of it

anncoates

CSF wrote: »

Find it hard to believe that Dundalk were spending more than Pats/Rovers this year

I would assume Dundalk and definitely Pats were higher than us this season.

blingrhino

Cork City

magma69 wrote: »

Well done...dalk!

How do I come up with this stuff!

Seriously though, enjoyable season and an epic way to finish it. Delighted for Dundalk. Who would have backed them to win the league at the start of last season? That's kinda one of the fun aspects of LOI, so much can change in a season.

Me ! @6/1

White Horse

Cork City

Just read in a local paper that Cork fans drank one pub dry of it's supply of Harp. That takes some doing. Respect.

Corholio

magma69 wrote: »

Well done...dalk!

How do I come up with this stuff!

Seriously though, enjoyable season and an epic way to finish it. Delighted for Dundalk. Who would have backed them to win the league at the start of last season? That's kinda one of the fun aspects of LOI, so much can change in a season.

They went up 1 place.

dundalkfc10

Cork City

White Horse wrote: »

Just read in a local paper that Cork fans drank one pub dry of it's supply of Harp. That takes some doing. Respect.

Does it say which pub? Best pint of Harp in the world in Dundalk

Oriel kept running out of drink all day Saturday. At once stage they were selling cans and vodka they bought from the shop next door

Pighead

Cork City

kfallon wrote: »

Is Pighead still alive or did he spontaneously combust with the excitement of Friday night?

I've never felt more alive fallon. There's a warm fuzzy feeling that has enveloped me and I haven't stopped smiling since approximately 9:37 last Friday evening.

If you fancy a trip to a champion town you could do worse than hop on your bike and cycle up here on Saturday. The champions will be parading the trophy around the town on an open topped bus from 3:30.

No messing from the boys behind the scenes in Dundalk with five players signing up for next year. Shields, Meenan, McMillan, Boyle and Massey tied down for 2015 so far. Towell playing a trial match for Cardiff against Chelsea either tonight or tomorrow night. Hopefully he's still drunk and has a stinker.

White Horse

Cork City

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

Does it say which pub? Best pint of Harp in the world in Dundalk

McArdle's in Anne Street.

jacool

Corholio wrote: »

They went up 1 place.

That's all it takes
2011 1-2 Shamrock Rovers (retained title), Sligo Rovers
2012 1-2 Sligo Rovers, St. Pats
2013 1-2 St. Pats, Dundalk
2014 1-2 Dundalk, Cork City

We know next year's winners already !

kksaints

jacool wrote: »

That's all it takes
2011 1-2 Shamrock Rovers (retained title), Sligo Rovers
2012 1-2 Sligo Rovers, St. Pats
2013 1-2 St. Pats, Dundalk
2014 1-2 Dundalk, Cork City

We know next year's winners already !

We finished 3rd in 2012. Drogs finished 2nd.

dundalkfc10

Cork City

White Horse wrote: »

McArdle's in Anne Street.

Was full of Dundalk fans, always is. They run buses to away games too

They have videos/pics on favebook and it is all Dundalk fans even in the lounge

dfx-

Cork City

White Horse wrote: »

Just read in a local paper that Cork fans drank one pub dry of it's supply of Harp. That takes some doing. Respect.

To stomach more than one pint takes some doing alright...

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

Was full of Dundalk fans, always is. They run buses to away games too

They have videos/pics on favebook and it is all Dundalk fans even in the lounge

That explains it. Nothing ever calls for Harp..

miroslavklose

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

Best pint of Harp in the world in Dundalk

To be fair, there are no pints of Harps anywhere else in the world.

RayCon

dundalkfc10 wrote: »

Best pint of Harp

Surely that's an oxymoron no ?

Zebra3

White Horse wrote: »

Just read in a local paper that Cork fans drank one pub dry of it's supply of Harp. That takes some doing. Respect.

It takes some doing all right, but respect is not the word.