Shamrock Rovers........:bs: 1-1 at home, followed by the INEVITABLE 5-0 away bashing. We will NEVER have a team in a competition proper. Shelbourne had a great chance in 2004 when they took a 0-0 aggregate score to Spain for the 2nd leg vs Deportivo La Coruna in the final stage of the Champions League qualifiers. Today, that Shelbourne no longer even exists.:boohoo:
Wow......if they are that is a surprise to me. Bray Wanderers, aka "The Seagulls", are in the top-tier. Bray are Irelands answer to Blackpool, shitty little stadium right on the Sea. "Michael Collins" was in-part filmed there. Bray is €2 bus-ride from my home village. The next-nearest League of Ireland side to my village, apart from the Dublin teams, is Wexford Youths, which was founded by builder {and now a Member of Parliament in Ireland} Mick Wallace. Shitehawks the lot of them. They know they won't win a damned thing ever, so its not like they are fooling themselves or anyone else, but its painful shite to watch.
Airtricity Premier Division 1 Derry City 51pts pl26 2 Shamrock Rovers pts 51 pl25 3 Sligo Rovers pts 48 pl26 4 St. Patrick's Athletic pts44 pl25 5 Bohemian FC pts41 p24 6 Dundalk pts39 pl26 7 Bray Wanderers pts37 pl25 8 U.C.D pts19 pl25 9 Drogheda United pts18 pl26 10 Galway United pts5 pl26 Airtricity First Division 1 Shelbourne pts53 pl21 2 Cork City pts44 pl21 3 Monaghan United pts43 pl20 4 Limerick pts43 pl21 5 Waterford United pts29 pl21 6 Longford Town pts29 pl21 7 Mervue United pts27 pl21 8 Athlone Town pts22 pl21 9 Finn Harps pts18 pl21 10 Wexford Youths pts10 pl21 11 Salthill Devon pts9 pl21
:: Look at Derry!!!! Did you know their is another league in the North of Ireland? Derry is in the North but play in the Airtricity League, teams like Glentoran and Crusaders play in their own league. Its fucked up. Personally the Rugby guys have it down correct, 4 Provinces, one National Side.
Athlone town centre is not far at all from where my family is from. Ballymore to be precise. About a 20-30 minute drive.
Yeah Athlone Town is not too bad, they also have their own team, and there is a College there which sort of lends some life to the place.
Don't the northern irish and Airtricity teams compete in a cup style knockout tournament? I'm sure this has been running for the past few seasons at least? Why haven't they made a super league involving the northern irish and republic teams?
I like Fernandes, I think he'll be transparent and deliver on his word. I'm optimistic for the future.
Same, he comes across as legit to me. You could just sense from the look of bernie that he wasn't all that. There's something different about Tony. I'm excited.
Yeah, the Setanta Cup or something. Football in Northern Ireland is sectarian as hell....its largely dominated by Unionists, so the chances of them coming down to play in the South and get bashed, which they surely would, is slim. They are way off the pace, playing in the North, on their own, in their own goldfish bowl. They had a keeper once who played for them in a vital qualifier at Lansdowne Road {now the Aviva} in 1989. The guys name was George Dunlop. Here are his club honours: Club Career:Manchester City (Football League) 1972/73; Glentoran (Irish League) 1973/74-1974/75 (11/0 Domestic); Ballymena United (Irish League); Linfield (Irish League) 1977/78-1990/91 (24(1)/0 Europe); Larne loan (Irish League) 1990/91 (1/0 Other); RUC (Irish League 'B' Division) 1990/91-1993/94 Bear in mind that this guy succeeded Pat Jennings, who was probably one of the greatest keepers of all time. Northern Irish football has been in decline for some time. In part because of Hun shite like this: <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xI1KuKKY7JU?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xI1KuKKY7JU?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></object>
You saying you see something odd about this chap??? Looks perfectly normal to me. He reminds me of yer man Spector. Not Jonathan. Phil. yeah, he ain't a fucking midget ::
What was his name? Will Oxo-Chamberlain start tomorrow? In 18 months Arsenal are going to be unstoppable.........:nana: Seriously......Liverpool have the best chance in years to beat Arsenal in London but I fancy Arsenal to get a result one way or the other. Liverpool will be a slow burner and won't hit any sort of form until after Christmas when the finally bed in the better players and get some sort of rhythm going.
Costa Rican striker named Joel Campbell. I am not sure about Oxo, but the Jappo Ryo Myaichi (another teenager) has been named in the squad and may start. Keep in mind - no Cesc, no Clichy. Gibbs/Traore/Djourou all injured. Rosicky/Wilshere injured. Song/Gervinho banned. Nasri has been included in teh squad, i think out of pure necessity since we have literally no one else. Thin squad. But to your shegrin, Irish, the mad Russion will be playing and to my recollection he enjoys seeing Liverpool across the way. I favour a draw here, with AA bagging at least a goal.
Chagrin. Chagrin.:nono: :Thumbs::nana: I hear what you are saying about the lack of players for Arsenal, but Liverpools away form at Arsenal is nothing short of awful, a few draws between 2007 and 2008 is all I can recall of any worth. In fact Liverpools form versus Arsenal has been shite, apart from the CL win in the quarters, which was itself canceled out by the drubbings in the Cup and League Cup the previous year. Walcott and Arshavin will still be threats. Nasri may come on at some point. If Liverpool go behind they won't win. Dalglish needs to bed these new players in and make sure that Liverpool are not so far behind by the time he does it that we can't make a proper run at the top 4, which he undoubtedly would have managed if he had gotten the job sooner last year.
I know. I like Wenger, I think he has become the papers favourite whipping boy since Benitez left management in England, and its obvious that the press want him and Arsenal to fail. However, Wenger has somewhat made a rod for his own back. A win tomorrow over Liverpool would get him some brief respite, considering the lack of players they have right now, but I don't know where Arsenal go next. I really don't. :dunno:
I'm new to watching "footie" but it seems to me Liverpool has spent more time looking to replace goals Torres scored (in the games he managed to get on the field) and have neglected defense. offensively I think they're fine I think defensively they've got issues. Seems they only play one half of the field. Am I offbase here?
No. They need a Gary Cahill (Bolton) type of centre back. Carragher can still do a job, but is getting on abit. The new crop of players Liverpool have are going to be good.
I'm buzzing right now ahead of the trip to Goodison Park. First away game in the premier league since May 5th 1996 (a 3-0 loss to Forest I believe). Come on you rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr's
Youre being kind, Carragher is terrible nowdays. I agree with you and Irish though, in a few months Liverpool are going to be a different beast to what they are now. If Arsenal can get some sort of result Ill be extremely happy.
