Greatest League in the World 2024 [new thread available]

fatbhoy

grayzer75 wrote: »

Absolute scumbag thing to do on a teammate:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54565938

Psychopath. And not even ashamed of doing it, so he says.

"I'm not ashamed of it, either, because in my head it was me or him and I was choosing me."

joeysoap

kksaints wrote: »

Wexford vs Drogheda off. Covid case in Wexford squad.

I don’t get it . Forfeit the match if you can’t field a team. Simples.

Zebra3

Dillonb3 wrote: »

Brewitt is going viral now over this; Steven Gerrard's cousin, Anthony Gerrard, is calling him out

Wow.

Ohmeha

grayzer75 wrote: »

Absolute scumbag thing to do on a teammate:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54565938

He's obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed to admit it but it does go in the game, be it against your own teammates or opponents and people in the game will observe that

Any footballer who isn't good enough that he has to resort to injuring his own teammates will always have someone more talented them in front of them anyway they will always be failure like this scumbag

Oat23

Shams are going to end up winning a league title in a season where only 14 games were played. Amazing.

Zebra3

Oat23 wrote: »

Shams are going to end up winning a league title in a season where only 14 games were played. Amazing.

Half the teams are on 15 games.

If Bohs play tonight that puts them on 16 games.

The league will likely finish, the cup will be sacrificed if needs be though.

adaminho

kksaints wrote: »

Wexford vs Drogheda off. Covid case in Wexford squad.

Did anyone check to see if he was even eligible to play

Oat23

Zebra3 wrote: »

Half the teams are on 15 games.

If Bohs play tonight that puts them on 16 games.

The league will likely finish, the cup will be sacrificed if needs be though.

Is the cup being cancelled just a guess or part of their plan should it be necessary?

Zebra3

Oat23 wrote: »

Is the cup being cancelled just a guess or part of their plan should it be necessary?

Educated guess that priority will be to get the league finished as much as is possible. That can provide all the European places if needs be and ensures promotion/relegation gets sorted.

There's only 7 games over 3 rounds left in the cup. If needs be it could finished within a week.

Oat23

Zebra3 wrote: »

Educated guess that priority will be to get the league finished as much as is possible. That can provide all the European places if needs be and ensures promotion/relegation gets sorted.

There's only 7 games over 3 rounds left in the cup. If needs be it could finished within a week.

A lot can happen in the next 2 weeks. If cases continue to rise and level 5 is implemented then that's it. Shams don't have another game until Nov 1st currently, so they could end up as champions with 14 games played.

Zebra3

Oat23 wrote: »

A lot can happen in the next 2 weeks. If cases continue to rise and level 5 is implemented then that's it. Shams don't have another game until Nov 1st currently, so they could end up as champions with 14 games played.

Depends.

The Gah Cup is starting up soon. If the LoI is cancelled so is that.

We've seen, how should I put it, a lot of flexibility with the different levels.

A league champion declared with 14 games is far from perfect, but that's the way life is now sadly.

Dunmoreroader

If they finish up the league and declare Shams champs, is there any provision for points per matches played to determine other placings down to fourth for Euro spots? Such a calculation would see The Right Honourable St Patricks Athletic F.C. Esquire (I'm trying to avoid a 2nd yellow and an early bath) jump above Waterford into 4th.

Omackeral

Zebra3 wrote: »

A league champion declared with 14 games is far from perfect, but that's the way life is now sadly.

I’m a Bohs man. I have to say if Rovers have gone this far undefeated and we drop any points against Dundalk (making it mathematically impossible to catch them) then it would be completely unfair if they aren’t crowned winners.






Would be funny though

doncarlos

Zebra3 wrote: »

A league champion declared with 14 games is far from perfect, but that's the way life is now sadly.

If we start next season and have to stop after a couple of games do we crown a new champion?

A champion declared after 14 games isn't just far from perfect it's farcical

MonkstownHoop

Oat23 wrote: »

A lot can happen in the next 2 weeks. If cases continue to rise and level 5 is implemented then that's it. Shams don't have another game until Nov 1st currently, so they could end up as champions with 14 games played.

I think under the last level 5 recommendations the league was still able to go ahead so hopefully it's the same

Zebra3

doncarlos wrote: »

If we start next season and have to stop after a couple of games do we crown a new champion?

I have no idea.

doncarlos wrote: »

A champion declared after 14 games isn't just far from perfect it's farcical

Not really. Only one side can catch them and that's highly unlikely so it's not really farcical.

What has been farcical has been the poor effort from the most expensive side in the league.

dreamers75

Dunmoreroader wrote: »

If they finish up the league and declare Shams champs, is there any provision for points per matches played to determine other placings down to fourth for Euro spots? Such a calculation would see The Right Honourable St Patricks Athletic F.C. Esquire (I'm trying to avoid a 2nd yellow and an early bath) jump above Waterford into 4th.

Which lets be honest , would be fcuking hilarious.

For us, not you.

Zebra3

Tom McNulty to get winner for Dundalk tonight? :pac::pac::pac:

joeysoap

Tom was great, but I don’t think he’s Peter Pan

MonkstownHoop

Dear lord the commentator :eek:

joeysoap

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

Dear lord the commentator :eek:

Agreed. She’s dire. Not very impartial either.

Tchaikovsky

Bohs have 2 Wards up front. Keith Ward and Andre Ward.

Ohmeha

Graham Gartland has also made his LOI comeback for Dundalk tonight

joeysoap

His mammy will be pleased.

joeysoap

Typical loi referee, booked for nothing.

joeysoap

Never played the ball. No card

Zebra3

joeysoap wrote: »

Tom was great, but I don’t think he’s Peter Pan

Just a joke with Bohs being delayed on the way up.

joeysoap

Who is at fault ? That road is busy, especially on a Friday and there’s no county restrictions on Norhern Ireland

Zebra3

https://twitter.com/McDonnellDan/status/1317136681758228481

Probably AGS checkpoints.

Dillonb3

Dundalk very blunt again upfront. Pat Dolan in the Star today was suggesting Ireland should call up Hoban, No idea what games he's been watching

GLaDOS

Dillonb3 wrote: »

Dundalk very blunt again upfront.

We were missing our 3 best cbs as well. 4th choice and a left back filling in tonight.

joeysoap

Came across this


Eamonn Duggan
@Eamonn120
Replying to
@McDonnellDan
A Bohs bus issue ( also at Oriel ) gifted City the title back in 93

I heard of slow learners but 27 years ? :pac:

kksaints

The FAI have stopped the underage leagues for the weekend.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020/1016/1172087-fai-postpones-weekend-underage-action/

PTH2009

I ****ing bet ya Cork will beat Waterford tomorrow

Ending our European hopes

Cape Clear

Zebra3 wrote: »

Just a joke with Bohs being delayed on the way up.

Was Turlough O Connor driving?

Omackeral

Cape Clear wrote: »

Was Turlough O Connor driving?

No, it was his brother Gridlough.

joeysoap

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

I think under the last level 5 recommendations the league was still able to go ahead so hopefully it's the same

Don’t think so. League sorta stopped after 4/5 matches and was cut to 18 matches and afaik no players tested positive at that time either, unlike now.

Wilberto

MonkstownHoop wrote: »

I think under the last level 5 recommendations the league was still able to go ahead so hopefully it's the same

joeysoap wrote: »

Don’t think so. League sorta stopped after 4/5 matches and was cut to 18 matches and afaik no players tested positive at that time either, unlike now.

Level 3 & 4 - No matches or events (except elite sports)
Level 5 - No Matches or events


So the league must cease under level 5 restrictions.

Zebra3

It's been make up as you go along since the first day that nonsense came in.

Ireland playing Bulgaria next month in Lansdowne. Highly unlikely that will be stopped by the government.

There'll be all sorts of exemptions from that.

artanevilla

Dublin has been on level 3 for longer than the rest of the country and pubs haven't been allowed open since March, unlike the rest of the country which they should be being in level 3.

Its makey uppy as they go along.

Liberta Per Gli Ultra

joeysoap wrote: »

Don’t think so. League sorta stopped after 4/5 matches and was cut to 18 matches and afaik no players tested positive at that time either, unlike now.

You are referring to the original lockdown, he is not. No such thing as "Level 5" back then.

The Level 5 recommendations that he is referring to, which the government did not implement, may have contained (I think I saw it somewhere) an exemption for "elite" sport despite the nice chart that somebody went to the bother of making.

Captain Havoc

artanevilla wrote: »

Its makey uppy as they go along.

It's a once in a century event to be fair.

joeysoap

Spot the difference

Molde- 4/10 Brann
17/10 Bodo
22/10 Dundalk



Dundalk 4/10 Finn Harps
13/10 Cork City
16/10 Bohs
19/10 Derry City
22/10 Molde

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/dundalk-chief-hulsizer-reveals-owners-increasing-frustration-over-bureaucracy-39630643.html

Zebra3

joeysoap wrote: »

Spot the difference

Molde- 4/10 Brann
17/10 Bodo
22/10 Dundalk



Dundalk 4/10 Finn Harps
13/10 Cork City
16/10 Bohs
19/10 Derry City
22/10 Molde

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/dundalk-chief-hulsizer-reveals-owners-increasing-frustration-over-bureaucracy-39630643.html

Dundalk have more fixtures?

Is there a point to all this?

Footballers can't play twice a week?

joeysoap

Zebra3 wrote: »

Footballers can't play twice a week?

Twice a week would be great


Three matches in a week is pushing it ( 16th 19th 22nd)

Zebra3

joeysoap wrote: »

Twice a week would be great


Three matches in a week is pushing it ( 16th 19th 22nd)

Not the first club to play three games in seven days and won't be the last.

Shouldn't be a problem to a club who's budget dwarves the rest of the clubs in the league.

artanevilla

How much money do you get for these matches again?

Zebra3

This year Dundalk have played 14 league matches, 2 FAI Cup, 1 CL qualifier, 3 EL qualifiers.

20 competitive games.

This is week 42 of 2020.

Whinging about a fixture pile up while their team has been floundering against opposing players who also have to hold down jobs.

:o:o:o

artanevilla

They need Mike Tracey back to really put it the FAI.

dfx-

Dundalk v Bohs was a very even game, but very hectic. Imposible for either team to control the ball. Bohs' right winger seemed useful, strangely Dundalk looked the more likely team as the game went on and Bohs dropped back.