Greatest League in the World 2024 [new thread available]

If they were afraid to make mistakes it didn't stop them.

Didn't think it was a bad game for a nil nil. Either team could have nicked it.

Speedy recovery to Conor Kane.

The dead cat bounce from Bohs tonight. As much a certainty as death and taxes.

Be interesting to see if Derry can apply a bit of pressure to Rovers over the next few weeks.

3 points for us but we made it much harder for ourselves with poor finishing against a game but limited Harps. Sam Curtis will be one of the next lads off soon enough, excellent defending for a 17 year old.

Thanks for limiting the away tickets......having been there on many of the bad nights Im glad I missed that s* .

I was right at the front of the away end a couple of times on Friday and the pitch actually looks even worse in person! How they're allowed play matches on that is beyond shambolic!

Any old timers here may remember Richie Brooks of Cork Celtic who has passed away. RIP. Part of the team when Cork soccer was on a high with massive crowds at Celtic Hibs derbies.

Sligo to lose the points from the win over Dundalk?

The way we handle suspensions in the league has always been ridiculous. You have guys getting their 5th yellow card in a game on a Monday, playing Friday and then being suspended the following Friday. It makes absolutely no sense.

Rules surrounding suspensions are clear and concise elsewhere. Why do we have to make it so complicated here? McDonnell was booked against Pats on the 14th but was eligible to play against Harps on the 19th and then banned against Dundalk on the 29th supposedly.

Looks like the club intend to fight it all the way. Hopefully that "contradictory advice" is in an email and the FAI haven't a leg to stand on. If the FAI advised the club that McDonnell was out for the Drogheda game then that should be case closed.

Although this is the club that have a player on loan from Leipzig for the next year who can't play for them or go back to Leipzig because someone at the club screwed up his registration.

You'd never think the club has a fulltime CEO.

Sligo's statement is now admitting they made an error but claiming the omission of McDonnell from the FAI's weekly suspension list contributed to their error, they are still seeking legal advice

Almost reminds me of Wexford making repeated player admin errors in less than a season losing points a few years back

Back in 2010 our captain Richie Ryan picked up his 8th yellow of the season in a 2-1 win against Bray on October 5th and was due a ban.

He played in 4 games following this: Dundalk on Oct 9th, Bohs in the cup semi on Oct 15th, UCD on Oct 22nd and Pats on Oct 29th.

The FAI then banned him and Matthew Blinkhorn for the cup final against Shams on Nov 14th due to yellows they had picked up 4/5 games previously. This is still the most absurd story I can think of from the LOI.

It must be a rule that every foreign manager has to refer to Irish teams having a typical British style of play, heres Djugardens managers take on Rovers.

"It will be exciting going into the group stage and we will be thrown straight into the storm. It's going to be an incredibly enthusiastic crowd in the arena and we're taking on a team with a mostly classic British style of play, so it's going to be a tough challenge for us. I think they will go all out and attack constantly from the start and maybe throughout the game. They have a lot of energy in their game at home and have a strong record at home in the international matches they have played. But as I understand it, we will have a lot of DIF supporters with us on site to support us. So it feels good that we have them behind us, says Kim from the bus on the way to Dublin in typical Irish weather with rain and wind where the players are resting up before the evening session. - We have gotten pretty good at recovery, both physically and mentally, and I think we are in good shape for the next task. Then we'll see how it looks on the training ground during Wednesday evening when we run a session somewhere around match time."

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Ferizaj starts and McCann is back in. Seems like pretty much everyone is available, although beginning to wonder will Jack be fit at all this season. Surprised Tallaght hasn't sold out yet - guess the ticket prices have put people off a bit.

Rovers catching a break with Hoare going off. Always feel he’s a liability in these games. Don’t understand Byrne, Burke or Gaffney not starting.

Djurgarden certainly nothing to be afraid of so far.

Settle for that, had a good spell when we were well on top but they came back well without forcing a save from Mannus but some dangerous crosses

They get an extra €166k for a draw

Will the Bohs Derry game be postponed this evening? Any updates?