Greatest League in the World 2024 [new thread available]

What sort of comment even is this!

Yeah, it's what the majority think.

Coverage is becoming ubiquitous because of a media agenda.

Or, just quite possibly, because British and European clubs have seen the commercial opportunities and growth potential from getting involved in women's football - Barcelona v Real Madrid sold out the Camp Nou for a Women's Champions League semi-final match this year.

Interesting that this season's licensing manual asks current and new applicants to outline their plans for a women's team, and given only eight of the existing LoI clubs are currently involved in the WNL, there's ample room for expansion, especially with Sligo performing very respectably in their first season.

The women's national team sold out Tallaght for this first time for the upcoming match. Think tickets were all sold on the first day.

Women's football is gaining in popularity globally, and it's not because of some far left media agenda. Absolutely bizarre take.

And galway missed a penalty too. Galway really should've scored just now

Made harder work of that than we needed to but a big three points with the other results tonight. Atakayi has scored three goals for us all of which involved a bad backpass and him tapping into an empty net.

Disappointed with only getting another 1pt tonight in Drogheda, but to be fair Drogs always give us a tough game.

John Russell might have been facing the chop tonight if McGinty didn't save those penalties against Bala. Deserved nothing from the match in Ballybofey.

It was also a vintage refereeing performance from Rob Hennessy.

Yeah that struck me too when Serge scored. Bizarre, but who’s complaining ? Didn’t think we were good in the first half. Lots of possession, but doing little with it, and Lonergan from UCD had a couple of very good efforts, one of which could easily have gone in. Thought we were sharper second half and created more, despite giving the soft goal away. Eoin Doyle with another miss with a good chance from a header. Overall, a very good result with Derry drawing. Four points behind now. The race for the top three might not be over yet.

Agree on the penalty. Shouted for it at the time but saw the replay from LOITV on the way home. Never a penalty.

On the minute silence it was planned for Emmo, first home game since he passed i think, but it was also announced as being for Mono and for someone else at Bohs. Like you say rivalries can be put aside for stuff like that.

From the main stand I had a bad feeling once I saw JRs tackle but mates in Riverside tell me different. I dunno who's right.

Overall though in the circumstances was happy with a point going home. Going 1-0 down so early, losing our two centre half's early on then going down to 10 men. Thought Gavin Molloy was excellent as a make shift centre half.

It was clear that SOD though that Rovers would play their normal passing game and tried to press them high up the pitch, unfortunately for Dundalk Bradley obviously expected this & used it to his advantage by going over the top with 3 willing runners. The bizarre thing for me was that SOD made no in-game changes to his system despite it clearly not working as intended, even allowing for the personnel issues it was an incredible risk sticking to the gameplan after the first goal went in. It was really a case of how many Rovers would score after the 2nd went in.

Either way, we've a nice buffer now given the upcoming crowded fixture list, fingers crossed we wont need it but I suspect we'll drop points due to the european games. Up to Derry & Dundalk and see how they react now. Fall away completely or roll up their sleeves and put pressure on Rovers as they slog it out in Europe.

Player of the Year for me, so far, is Gary Deegan just pipping Darragh Markey.

Manager of the Year is Kev Doherty.

But they won't get it. I don't see the other teams enough to say who, from what team, should get it. But it will probably be a Rovers player and Bradser will probably get MOTY. And if they win the league, it's hard to argue with that.

Minute silence was for two Reds - Emmo & Gary Daly along with Mono too. Our official programme (digital these days) opened with a paragraph on Mono and was dedicated to Emmo & Gary. Fairplay to the large grouping of Bohs fans who clapped on the 31st Min when the Emmo banner/flares went up.

As for the game, I missed the Red but by all accounts it was very harsh. Was never a peno for us but we definitely deserved the draw.

That's fantastic for him.

Congratulations Waterford. They seemed to have snared themselves a right winner this time.

Edit:That article is 2 years old, The total Fleetwood debt now stands at £24 million and they're hemorrhaging £54,000 a week!

Anything to be said for a fit and proper ownership test?