General league of Ireland chat

I'm lead to believe the majority of the arrests surround one Munster based club.

There was a time when this club should not have received a licence to participate in the league of Ireland and while it did, it found itself in a position where payments to players were not made or not made on time.

Now if I'm a young player with a family and a mortgage your loyalty is no longer to your sh1te club/employer but to your family to keep a roof over your head and food on the table. It's easy to see how you could be persuaded to participate in such activities as match fixing.

Dodge on Twitter sharing some videos of goals from that season with the alleged club/player involved. Not exactly subtle.

The team sheets at Shamrock Rovers and Athlone Town will be interesting watches this weekend.

Yeah, because people are going to do that !

Some people do post rumours via pm to spread the word without public post

While i can understand that it would be easy to pay off an LOI player to influence a certain outcome, it's pretty easily caught. I used to work in a betting shop and for example, a game between say Harps vs Shels (to pick two random teams) would have such a small market for betting that even a few grand going on a certain scoreline would be - and often was - significant enough to arouse suspicion. I've heard of a handful of games that were apparently going to be 'fixed' over the years and by the time it had done the rounds on whatsapp almost all bookies had suspended markets on the game and the outcome never happened - whether that was because it was bullsh*t or because the players got spooked i don't know, but specific unusual bets in LOI raise questions.

The Athlone one on the other hand is.... They appear to have a new number 7 

Which begs the question what happened to the usual fella wearing 7?