Long shot but used to live in Dublin and go to all the Bohs games as season ticket holder before moving to London. Seriously considering flying back for Bohs–Pats quarter final if I can sort tickets. Will any go on sale? or anyone know how I could somehow get 1 or 2?
Waterford FC vs Sligo Rovers
Drogheda United vs Galway United
Derry City vs Dundalk FC
St Patrick's Athletic vs Bohemian FC
How bad would this have been for LOI? We barely get a footnote in the article, I imagine the league would be collatoral dmanage.
Without trying to sound salty, how boring is it that all 8 quarter finalists play in the Premier Division? Any cup competition needs someone to go on a shock run to at least the semi finals to be interesting.
I've lurked a bit before posting this but I've seen some posts on here getting a bit prickly when some people say LOI isn't as strong blah blah. I respect the passion but i think some folks on here then over correct.
While the league has come on, I also think the Conference League has created a skewed progress picture a little. Conference League has had semi pro teams going deep in to qualifying rounds. Respectfully the standard to get to group stage isn't exactly always the highest usually.
If we compare Europa league win percentages for say 2015/15 to 2020/21 (6 seasons before conference league), then 21/22 (6 seasons since Conference league started) the win percentages for LOI clubs in Europa league are near identical. They are about 35% each. So it doesnt look like theres been mad progress when you go outside Conference League. Sure, it hasn't gotten worse, but its not big progress.
Then people here bristle at "LOI PD is League 2 standard" type comments. I get the frustration because they usually come from GAA or EPL fanboys trolling, but realistically, thats not that inaccurate. Financially at least. If you look at financial breakdown for League 2, likes of Rovers and Bohs, the top 2 earners in the legaue, would only be around mid to lower level in League 2. MK Dons made 60% more in a comparable period vs Rovers and Bohs while in League 2.
Look, we've made great strides. Attendance and investment are getting better and better. The increasing numbers of young players coming through LOI clubs and moving on to bigger teams/leagues is very encouraging.
But I think we don't always have a balanced perspective. I think this season has been a bit of a reality check about where we are. We can't just presume we'll always get 1 or 2 teams in to group stage of Conference League. We can't just assume other leagues and teams we used to do well against aren't also getting better, and better quickly e.g Larne up North look like the only team on the island who might make it to Conference League this year and were unlucky not to progress in Europa League.
Our top league is going right direction, but we're not strong enough yet to make meaningful progress in Tier1 or Tier 2 UEFA competitions and won't be for a long time. We're not strong enough yet to bank on a couple of our teams making it to Conference League year in year out yet. We're certainly not "English Championship level" yet as I've seen some more excitable LOI folks on Reddit say (seriously lads c'mon).
This transfer completely passed me by. Seemingly went for a couple of million which is a massive return for Lincoln on their initial €75'000 investment. Can't find any official word on wheter Shels had a sell on clause. Be very disappointing if they didn't as anything less than a six figure sum for Shels would be a massive balls up
Anyone here also follow the league up north?
While definitely not the same quality as the League of Ireland, I try and get to a Cliftonville game once or twice a year if I can.
If so, who do you support?
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| Home Team | Score | Away Team | Ground | Status | Kickoff | Scorers |
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| Galway United | 1-1 | Bray Wanderers | Eamonn Deacy Park | FT | 19:45 | David Hurley 86' - Tyreik Sammy 80' |
| UCD | 1-2 | Derry City | UCD Bowl | FT | 19:45 | Louis Dignam 17' - Michael Duffy 7', Tyler Smith 63' |
| Waterford | 2-1 | Athlone Town | Waterford RSC | FT | 19:45 | Pádraig Amond 17', Benny Couto 50' - Cillian Tollett 25' |
| Home Team | Score | Away Team | Ground | Status | Kickoff | Scorers |
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| College Corinthians | vs | Drogheda United | TBD | - | 16:00 | |
| Dundalk | vs | Castlebar Celtic | Oriel Park | - | 17:00 | |
| Sligo Rovers | vs | Kerry FC | The Showgrounds | - | 19:45 |
| Home Team | Score | Away Team | Ground | Status | Kickoff | Scorers |
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| St. Patrick's Athletic | vs | Shamrock Rovers | Richmond Park | - | 14:00 | |
| Bohemian FC | vs | Longford Town | Dalymount Park | - | 19:00 |
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Having watched this utter shambles of a shamrock rovers "performance", is this actually the worst performance from any league of Ireland team?
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| Egnatia | 5-1 | Shamrock Rovers | Arena Egnatia | FT | 20:00 | Daniel Adjessa 4', 38', Alessandro Albanese 11', 58', Ildi Gruda 20' - Graham Burke 74' |
Aggregate: Egnatia 6-4 Shamrock Rovers (1st leg: Shamrock Rovers 3-1 Egnatia)
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Ronan scored 5 goals today in a pre-season friendly against Burnley, which ended 7-2 to City. This game featured a mixture of U15 & U16 players.
Earlier this year, Ronan also had the opportunity to train in Portugal with Benfica’s U15 & U16 age groups.
Wont be able to actually join Man City until he's 18 unless his family move over for unrelated reasons, or he could opt for the Melia route and play for Galway until 18 and then move.
Early days anyway so wont get too excited. After all, life is like a rollercoaster. Just gotta ride it.. sorry.
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| Shelbourne | 2-2 | Ajax | Tolka Park | FT | 19:45 | Evan Caffrey 24', Sean Moore 85' - Julian Brandt 20', Anton Gaaei 39' |
Aggregate: Shelbourne 3-5 Ajax (1st leg: Ajax 3-1 Shelbourne)
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Genuine question, especially for the Irish football fans who follow the Premier League..
why do you choose it over your own in the League of Ireland?
I’ve been following LOI for years and I genuinely don’t really understand why it isn’t far more popular. Recently its gaining popularity and I would love to see it take off
With a good domestic league we would see ourselves perform better at international level, have more european games to watch locally, and in general have good entertainment at our doorsteps
The games are entertaining, the standard is quite decent especially since 2023 introduction of minimum wage in the league,
tickets are affordable, and the atmosphere at live games can be brilliant.
You constantly hear people talking about wanting to support local communities and Irish sport, yet when it comes to football, a huge number of people are far more invested in a club in England than one they could actually go and watch every week and might even cross paths with the players
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with supporting a club in the prem, but it just seems like strange choice to make
Im very interested to know; how there’s so many fans who feel more connected to a club overseas than the one of your hometown or 30-60min train ride away?
Lastly if you watch international football do you root for the English? The common consensus tells me that not only do we not root for English, we in fact root against them, yet I see Liverpool, arsenal, united, Tottenham jerseys everywhere?