Premier Relegation

1980 wrote: Seen Drogs twice over the weekend, keeper has made mistakes in both games, nothing up front and rely on Sean Thornton sticking a few crosses and free kicks in.

Has he not been fantastic all year? I've only heard good things.

Think Limerick will just about run out of games. It's then between Galway and Drogheda as Sligo and Derry will pull ahead I imagine. As said above Galway should be marginal favourites if they can get their strongest team back on the pitch. That's a big variable though.

That was a massive blow for Limerick tonight, dropping 2 pts to Longford. I`ve just read the match report and they were well in control but didn`t put away their chances at a critical stage of the game. It sounded like an exciting 3-3 draw with plenty of goals for the decent gate, but draws are the last thing Martin Russell needs right now in the final round of 11 games.  In seasons gone by it was always the usual suspects like Bray and UCD scrapping for survival. It makes for a refreshing change to see Bray in the top half of the table and UCD poised for a premier return. So who`ll be the bottom 2 sides come the end of the season? Right now there`s only 3 pts separating five sides. If Limerick go on another mini-run then that would include six clubs battling for survival.

Big win for us tonight. Especially seeing as Shams and Dundalk are our next 2 league games so it would be hard to see us picking up any points there. Getting very interesting.

Huge point tonight, luckily Drogheda are f**king poison going forward. We need Curran, Connolly, Horgan, Ludden, Molloy, Cantwell and O'Connell back as soon as possible. The squad that was available tonight certainly isn't good enough to stay in the division. Drogheda should get a bollocking for not winning tonight, woeful stuff from them.

Melody definitely looked the best of the 19's although it was a stupid free kick to give away for the goal. He wasn't great off the ball, pretty good on it, the usual for an 18 year old.. O'Laoi and McConnell struggled which is understandable, they've played f**k all football this year.

With the league wrapped up for Dundalk, if they send their first 11 down to Galway on Friday they could score 7 or 8.

Jake Keegan is brilliant. Great attitude and improving as a player every week.

Edited by tribalarmy - 17 Aug 2015 at 10:10pm

Massive game for us tonight, we are depleted with injuries and suspensions. 7 u19's drafted in to the squad to make up numbers

The title is over already. Cork made a bit of a contest up until the Limerick game.
About 75 points has won the title for the last few years.
To get to that mark Dundalk only need 17 from the remaining 30 points.

Shams will be left relying on one of the teams who qualified through the league winning the FAI cup, same as last year.
I think with Bohs the only mid-table side with absolutely nothing left in the league to play for they can concentrate completely on the cup. So Shams may well have a nervous time coming up.

The relegation fight is very interesting. We have a massive game against Derry tonight. Win that and I think we`ll rise up the table. Galway and Drogs are in real danger now. Particularly Galway with their injury list and the distraction of the league cup.

corkery wrote: GoneToShowgies wrote: corkery wrote: As a Cork fan, I'd like Sligo to get relegated because it's a long away trip. you do know Derry is further I do but Derry is a good away trip and isn't a town full of hillbillies

Would hate to see Sligo go down. Hope it's the sixtoes