Greatest League in the World 2024 [new thread available]

It's about professional respect.

You don't get it and Duff doesn't get it.

That's ok.

Didn't travel but I'd more concerned about the behaviour of the Shels fans than whether or not Duff and Doherty shook hands. No excuse for it and needs to be stamped out.

As opposed to you with the glittering LOI career experience of professional respect?

Get out of here with the sanctimonious bullsh*t.

Weirdly enough, I also respect the people I work with and manage to finish up the work day without a handshake.

Team that is predicted to finish 8th, likely finishes in 8th shocker? If nobody particularly overachieves where they’re expected to at the end of the season, just give it to Bradley.

Good man, well done.

Is the problem with giving it to Bradley not the same as giving it to Doherty? He has the best team in the league with the biggest budget. He's just doing what is expected. He'll still get the award though.

Duff should be the MOTY if he gets Shels to 5th or 6th. I thought Sean Connor should have got it in 2006 for achieving similar his first season in the top tier with Sligo Rovers, but it went to Fenlon despite Shels' financial doping.

Kev's job was to keep Drogheda in the division and it appears that he has done that comfortably. Considering that we lost our entire back 5 in the close season, he has done superbly.

Every team above us in the league is full-time and we have the second lowest budget in the league (only UCD is lower but they offer scholarships). We have beaten both Rovers and Dubdalk (twice) and taken points from Derry, Pats and Sligo.

The team plays as a team and have a great connection with supporters.

Kev won't get manager of the year. We don't care, he is doing a super job.

Anang looks like he's been recalled by West Ham to go on loan to Derby. Blow for us he's been impressive since a slightly shaky start.

I think their might be lingering negative mutual feeling between Duff and Doherty.

Just catching up on the LOI TV highlights show. OK, some of the opinions are a bit safe as you would expect from a show made by the league but its way better than what RTE offered with Soccer Republic back in the day

Think Shels should beat Bohs friday. The scoreline flattered Bohs last time in Tolka. Last time Shels put in such a woeful performance like Drogheda, there was a bounce back, I'm thinking first Finn Harps game. Lost to Rovers last minute following game I think, but players were up for it.

Think Bohs on a downward trajectory in general, Shels slowly on the up. After the scoreline last time in Tolka, and the fact Bohs came from behind to get draw in Phibsborough at the start of the season, we owe them a beating.

Shels-Bohs rivalry definitely heating up again, since Shels are competitive, Rovers game with Bohs only became bigger with Shels' demise. This is a bigger rivalry traditionally and will become the big one again over the next few years I think. Can feel the undercurrent of the rivalry growing again with each match Shels are back and competitive, with all their fans back

If Boyd is suspended/injured, we will lose meekly.

Hard to remember a more one sided game, they have been multiple levels above. Probably no harm being in the ECL group stages in fairness, hopefully will be more competitive.

Another lol . They won 2 ties and lost 2 ties in Europe - hardly embarrassing

Congratulations on the victories over the best Malta (44th) and North Macedonia (52nd) have to offer.

As has always been the case, any half decent side and Bradley bottles it.

In better European News - Shels caused a bit of an upset in Slovenia! Was a nervy match after a great opening from Shels, roll on Sundays game! Loads of media coverage of it which is excellent given the huge strides the club have made in recent years between bring both senior teams under the one name, both playing out of Tolka, decent crowds, etc... hopefully the next step is to move the WNL League away from being fully amateur so clubs get a fee of some sort when players get grabbed from foreign teams.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2022/0818/1316504-shelbourne-claim-famous-win-in-slovenia/

No one gives a shite. Let them get their own football and stop piggybacking on men's football.

Shams have the biggest budget in the league and their pick of any player. In 5/6 years in Europe I think Brann (a mid-table Norwegian side at the time) is the only team from a higher ranked league that Bradley has ever managed to beat. He hasn't achieved anything, and whenever they come up against a half decent side with a good coach he gets exposed. He bottled it tactically in Bulgaria and again in Hungary last night. Last year it was an Estonian side that exposed him.

Comparing the European performances of a club run on a much smaller budget to one who spent whatever they wanted running up massive debts to get where they are and then sold off half their club to Ray Wilson and Dermot Desmond to balance the books is disingenuous. They are in a different league with far bigger ambitions than the likes of Sligo Rovers will ever have.