The "How the enemy are getting on" thread

LeixlipRed

3 TUE OCT 2 Coffin Dodgers 0 3 Dunbar Pensioners
3 TUE OCT 2 IFG United 5 Fred West Ham
3 TUE OCT 2 SS Rovers 2 1 Ravenhill
3 MON OCT 1 IBM DSL FC 2 0 Eddie Rockets

This weeks results above. Fred West Ham beat San Marino reserves 5-0. Which is what you'd expect at least. Our opponents next week Ravenhill have lost 2 and drawn one but only lost by a goal each time. Eddie Rockets have lost all their games as have IFG. Looks early days but Fred West Ham look to be our main challengers for the title

homerjay2005

ya definately, fred west are the team to watch out for. and trinity biotech will be good also, a mate of mine used be their manager and then won their section a few years ago..

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Good thread idea.

But, I hope this little witticism

LeixlipRed wrote:

San Marino reserves 5-0

doesn't come back to bite you in the ass.

WeAreShels

In fairness, they were absolutely shocking

LeixlipRed

The reason I call them that is because we escaped with a victory in the dying minutes. Just like Ireland did v San Marino. It's not like we haven't played them yet

LeixlipRed

4 TUE OCT 9 Coffin Dodgers 3 0 Eddie Rockets
4 TUE OCT 9 IBM DSL FC 0 3 SS Rovers

Results from last week. Meant to be another result there but no sign of it. SS Rovers are in second behind Fred West Ham. Dunbar Pensioners are 3rd and we're 4th. We play IBM DSL FC on Tuesday. They've played 3 and have 4 points

LeixlipRed

Fred West Ham and Dunbar both won last night meaning they've both won all their games. Yet to play each other

homerjay2005

LeixlipRed wrote: »

Fred West Ham and Dunbar both won last night meaning they've both won all their games. Yet to play each other

ideally 2 draws when they play each other, meaning we could gain back 4 points on each of them, leaving us to play each of them once more.

LeixlipRed

Dunbar beat Trinity 1-0 tonight giving them 7 wins from 7. And Fred West Ham beat IBM 4-0 to give them 8 from 8. We're playing for 3rd place lads. Which after last night will hopefully come at the expense of SS Rovers

LeixlipRed

Trinity beat Eddie rockets and IBM beat Coffin Dodgers in this weeks other games. IBM and SS Rovers still lie between us and the top 2

Savman

Aye, but IBM play Dunbar next week. Draw would be nice

Savman

IBM got hammered 5-0 by Dunbar, SS Rovers won too so we're 4th.

IBM still have game in hand, if they beat Eddie Rockets nxt week, as one would assume they might, they leapfrog us so we'll probably be back 5th next week as we've no game.

SS Rovers are now 3rd, 1pt ahead of us also with a game in hand nxt week V Ravenhill.

Make sense of all that

emc2

This week saw Fred West Ham beat IFG 3-0, Dunbar beat coffin dodgers 2-0, SS Rovers beat Ravenhill (our next opponents) 4-0 and IBM beat Eddie Rockets 2-0.

The table has been updated and all the teams have played at least 7 games, we have played 9 games and are 4th. None of the teams below us can over take us if they win there games in hand.

This is a good point to start the second half of the season from. We really need to push on from here and put pressure on the teams about us. I think it's not unreasonable to feel that we can go on an unbeaten run for the next 9 game, we just need to put the effort in.

Iago

emc2 wrote: »

and IBM beat Eddie Rockets 2-0.

IBM were beaten 3-2 by eddie rockets

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Iago wrote: »

IBM were beaten 3-2 by eddie rockets

WTF?

How did Eddie Rockets beat them?

Iago

DesF wrote: »

WTF?

How did Eddie Rockets beat them?

Think it involved something about scoring more goals

IBM have a real problem with players, some weeks they only start with 9-10 and some weeks they finish with only 10. Guess this was one of those weeks.

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Eddie Rockets have a problem with players too.

There back line, midfield and forwards are all from different continents.

I can't imagine communication is very good on that team at all.

Although, as the ref said, football is an international language.

homerjay2005

the table looks alot better for us now that its updated...only 3 teams have scored more and conceded less than us, so looks like we doing ok. ss rovers should be in our sights....we owe them one for what happened when we played them...

LeixlipRed

Now that the dust has settled (just noticed that every single score has been entered on astro.ie so its all up-to-date) on last nights games and we're exactly half way through the season, 2 things are clear. We can't win the league and we should be looking to win every single game from now til the end of the season. We only have to play 2 games against teams above us and then 7 games against those below us. Even a full 27 points wont win the league I dont think but it's definitely achievable (the 27 points that is )

LeixlipRed

0-0 draw between the top 2 last night. It's tight at the top

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Hmm.

It sure is.

We need to beat IBM next week, that should secure at least 4th place for us.

They are 5 points behind us, with a game in hand, so we'd have to call that 2 points.

And then we'll have to beat SS Rovers to leapfrog them, and continue making ground on the top two.

We are ten points off top spot, if we can halve that, and finish third this season will be successful, imo.

Having said that, a fourth place finish is looking likely, and isn't too bad, considering the progress we are making.

Remember, this is this team's third season in existence, and in reality at this stage this particular group of players have been playing together for what? 16/17 games? The second half of last season and the first half of this.

The lads who have been here since the start will recognise the progress from us being whipping boys and finishing second last, into last season where we "unlucky" in games, finishing 7th, and into this where we are very disappointed if we don't come away from game with three points and are looking for a top 4 finish at the very least.

It's looking good lads, this progress pleases me.

Savman

Without putting too much pressure on any one game, it is important we get a result against IBM because if we were to lose that fixture then they would go 2pts behind us with a game in hand.

If we win, we open up an 8pt gap between us and them which would be hella nice going into the Eddie Rockets game in the new year.

We could probably consider the game next week to be a mini-decider for 4th place.

Looking upwards, if we win next week we'd only be 7pts off Fred West Ham with same number of games played. If we're looking over our shoulder at IBM and Trinity Biotech, then FWH and Dunbar should be looking over theirs at Boardeaux and SS Rovers and with good cause.

We've already had more slip ups than we can afford, so it's a big ask for us to go the rest of the season undefeated but I think if we approach each game the same and not rest on our laurels we'll be ready to pounce when (not "if") the Top 3 slip up.

Thanks for stopping by.

LeixlipRed

Dunbar are due a slip up. What's interesting is that Dunbar's last two games are against SS Rovers and ourselves. If they lose those two and Fred West Ham slip up elsewhere it might not be over yet. What's important is that we keep winning

FrankGrimes

I reckon we should be looking to at least win the 2nd half of the season and to finish 3rd at least.

8 games left = 24 points. We're all pushing for all 24 points, and we shouldn't be satisfied with anything less than 20 points from those last 24. That would put us on 38 points from a possible 54, not bad but we should really be looking for better this season and next season.

We're benefitting from a much more stable squad this season with less turnover, though we do have a high number of injuries. The more players settle into their position and build up understandings with those around them the better, and its not just our results that have improved cos of this - its great to see the improvement as a team but also in each individual player. This team is going places.

Iago

Iago's tip of the day:

when 6 of your first 11 cry off the afternoon of the game, and you arrive at the ground to find the lights off and the pitch closed because it's frosted over, just go home and accept it wasn't meant to be.

Don't under any circumstances agree to a different venue and play the game regardless. Otherwise notwithstanding scoring a prime candidate for goal of the season you'll have the sickening task of informing others of the shambolic performance that surrounded that goal.

Eddie Rockets 4 Dunbar 2

Savman

Eeeeeek.

Somehow :eek: doesn't quite do it.

LeixlipRed

Throws it wide open. With a miracle akin to a virgin giving birth we could still win this league

Savman

I've been saying (to Des) for weeks that teams like Eddie Rockets are always a danger to pull off a couple of surprise results.

Now they've just won 2 on the trot and they're off the bottom so you have to give them due credit and not expect an easy ride on 3rd Jan.

LeixlipRed wrote:

Throws it wide open. With a miracle akin to a virgin giving birth we could still win this league

Let's not go nuts
Dunbar still have to play FWH again, be interesting to see which way that swings. Also our last game is V Dunbar so that's sizing up to be a fairly important fixture in the grand scheme of things.

Long way to go yet tho.

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LeixlipRed wrote: »

Dunbar are due a slip up.

Iago wrote: »

Eddie Rockets 4 Dunbar 2

:eek:

Euromillions Lotto numbers for Friday please Martin, we could do with a few water bottles or something.

LeixlipRed

Even with the **** teams in these leagues, every team will slip up!! Important that we take the Eddie Rockets game very seriously now. They're on a roll

Also, anyone remember GeoDocs, the team that knocked us out of the cup last season on penos? Won all their games in Division 3 so far. That's what we should aim for

Savman

IBM's next 2 games are against FWH and Dunbar, cant see them getting anything from those games.
So bearing that in mind it looks like the Top 4 have pulled away a bit.

Both ourselves and SS Rovers still a lot to do to catch Top 2.

LeixlipRed

SS won 5-1 against coffin dodgers last night. They're 3 points off the top. They can definitely still win the league. We have to pray to Jeebus

emc2

LeixlipRed wrote: »

SS won 5-1 against coffin dodgers last night. They're 3 points off the top. They can definitely still win the league. We have to pray to Jeebus

Yea, a couple of draws between ss and Fred west ham and then dunbar and fred west ham would help us out a lot.

LeixlipRed

SS Rovers beat IFG last night. Puts them level on 28 points with FWH and Dunbar but with a game more played

Iago

Some relegation battle last night with IFG going down 5-4 to Eddie Rockets.

Maybe Kevin Keegan has taken over the management reins at Eddie Rockets

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Sounds like a class game.

Excellent defenders.

LeixlipRed

I think IFG's performances rely solely on Jules mate being in the team or not. He's a class player. Hint Hint Des

homerjay2005

LeixlipRed wrote: »

I think IFG's performances rely solely on Jules mate being in the team or not. He's a class player. Hint Hint Des

which fellow was he? cant remember any stand out player really.....

FrankGrimes

number 8, centre midfield. Collie Murphy. an outstanding, understated footballer.

LeixlipRed

As Jules said, an absolutely quality player. He must be sick of losing all the time with IFG. Jules can tempt him with a sign on fee of a promise of Jager bombs on the team night out

LeixlipRed

Fred West beat IBM. But Dunbar drew with Trinity!!

FrankGrimes

Damn, was hoping IBM would do us a favour - 3-1 is a good result for FWH.

Trinity did us a favour by taking 2 points of Dunbar, and might do the same against FWH. That said, this means they'll definitely give us a tough game.

LeixlipRed

I hate to say it at this stage but I think FWH have it sown up. They have the easiest run in. Even if they get beaten by Dunbar they'd have a good chance of winning it

homerjay2005

hmmm, has any worked out now what that means for us? if dunbar beat fred west and we do the unthinable and win 6 from 6, are we going to win it?

at worst, there surely wont be more than a point or 2 in it. lads, second now is the least we should aim for. though saying that, trinity drawing should be a wake up call. we should not take them for granted, there a decent team.

LeixlipRed

if dunbar beat fred west and fw win the rest of their games we cant finish ahead of them

FrankGrimes

Out max potential is 42 points, meaning we'd need both FWH and Dunbar to only take 10 from remaining 15 points to put them on 42 and then hope we've better goal difference and heads-up results against them.

That'd mean we'd need Dunbar to beat FWH and someone like Trinity to draw or beat FWH.

We'd need SS Rovers to beat Dunbar, that's well possible.

The biggest assumption here is that we win all 6 of our remaining games. Once we take care of that, there's a reasonable chance of the above working out for us, given that the most unlikely result of the above is for Trinity to take points of FWH.

6 from 6 and we'll at least take 2nd spot, but we're not out of it yet lads.

LeixlipRed

If we win our last 6 and SS beat Dunbar think we'll be second then. And relying on Dunbar and a.n. other to beat FWH to win it

LeixlipRed

SS won last night

LeixlipRed

Fred West 8 Trinity 2. ffs

LeixlipRed

To clearly illustrate how bad we were tonight lads. Fred West Ham put 8 past the coffin dodgers. This is a team we ripped to shreds before Christmas

homerjay2005

LeixlipRed wrote: »

To clearly illustrate how bad we were tonight lads. Fred West Ham put 8 past the coffin dodgers. This is a team we ripped to shreds before Christmas

why?? cos we got stuck into fred west and every single team we played up until 2 weeks ago. there was no bite tonight nor the last 2 games either. we need to start fighting for balls and brushing players aside. we are gone back to being a nice team and its time to stop this again.