Greatest League in the World 2024 [new thread available]

Interesting move by Shels to propose buying Tolka, but I'd love to see how they could possibly afford it. The only way it's possible is if they've proposed buying it at a price far lower than the market value.

The cynic in me suggests it's more of a PR move designed to fail, so that in future they can claim they tried to buy Tolka but the council refused, and only for that everything would be OK. I'm reminded of those cases where people took out huge mortgages and subsequently couldn't repay, but in statements to the media they try to gain sympathy by claiming they made a "reasonable offer" to the bank. Then when the case reaches the courts it turns out the "reasonable offer" involved the bank writing off 90% of the debt and the mortgagee paying €100 a month for the next 60 years.

What a display from Cork City last night. Haven't seen ruthlessness like that since we won the league.

Anyone listen to the League of Ireland Late Night phone in thing Off The Ball did on Twitter Spaces?

Johnny Ward seems like good craic and I love LOI Central but i'd say you would tear your hair out trying to work with him. Trying to give his opinion on the matches on the bus and then I'm assuming while he was walking home was just really amateurish

It reminds me why phone ins are dead though. Didn't make for a good listen

Longford's cancellation tonight means their first game of the season will be Cork City at home in two weeks.

This feels very reactionary. It’s only one (very bad) game.

Shels were embarrassing vs Cork City last week. I said it after that game, Pats will batter em. They’ve no system, can’t cope with the press and spent the whole night screaming at each other.

Kerrigan for UCD was very good against Rovers. Will cause trouble for a lot of teams this year.

It's not reactionary to asses the opening season performance on inevitable comparisons between last seasons FD title winning squad and an almost brand new squad, before Friday night I was of opinion the squad is not improved with the exception that the players are now training full-time and are still young which may reap benefits as the season progresses

Duff has his work cut-out for him but knows the task he signed up for, this is a young developmental squad that will have a celling of 7th spot while under massive pressure to avoid the dreaded 9th/10th sports

It absolutely is reactionary to be drawing any meaningful conclusions from 1 game. We will have excellent performances this season and we will have terrible ones, similar to every team in pretty much any division. Duff will ultimately be judged on the quantity of each, and this game was a bad start in that regard, but there is 2 next week for him to start putting that right.

We played some nice football at times, but you can’t give the ball away in dangerous areas as many times as we did and still be in any way satisfied with your performance. There’s been a lot of talk about how it was Pats and the quality in their team, but I think if we make that quantity of individual error against Drogheda and UCD next week, it’ll be the same outcome.

But I’m sure that will be something that Duff will be done emphasising and working on all week now, so hopefully we can start our season off properly on Friday now.

Could be a condition of getting a licence. There'd still be loads of ways around it though. Most clubs would be spending a fair bit on maintaining their grounds at their current poor level and trying to stop them getting worse.

Where would be a safe place to park your car near the Derry city stadium? southern reg car.

I thought the analysis went on a bit. Dundalk/Derry had 11 minutes of highlights and 12 minutes of analysis. Shams/UCD had 10 minutes of highlights and 11 minutes of analysis.

Overall it's a good show but the analysis could do with being cut down a bit. It's possible it will be and they filled out the show this week with my analysis since there was only 3 PD games played.

He was on Tales from the East Stand (Rovers podcast) there during the week. An entertaining listen but very hard to take anything he said seriously. Would love to know if anything he said was true at all.

Entrance is at the clubhouse across from the hospital.

Thete is (paid) large HSE carpark on the Crosslanes (near the home terrace) that would be best if you dont know the area.

The LEDP must have thought it was beach football Treaty were playing this season. It's why the Waterford game in the Munster senior was moved to UL. Never had issues like that when Limerick had someone who was allowed look after the pitch but the LEDP put a stop to that and started doing it themselves.

You should be fine, no-one will bother you!

Disappointing result for us in Richmond. Could have got a last minute equaliser but tbh we were poor for most of that match. Defence in particular was shaky and Burns and Abankwah had their worst match for us. Sligo were good for the 1st half and were dangerous on the counter in the 2nd until we scored. Ref was bad, seemed to allow McGinley take as long as he wanted for goal kicks.

Are you for the Brandywell on Monday night @Oat23