Greatest League in the World 2025 [LOI Thread]

No. Only if we drop points before then. If we win our 3 games we finish on 63 and Derry’s max would be 62

Not if they’ve lost to us

Probably not, no.

But Rovers winning the next 3 is probably less than 50% likely also, and Derry only need 3 wins from the next 4 to be guaranteed their chance of a title decider on the last day anyway.

Rovers have positioned themselves as well as they can (Pats game aside), but they still need the ‘nobody wants to win this league’ vibe to continue for them to win it really.

Rovers had one of our better performances of the season last night, Jack Byrne looked very good and caused Shels a lot of problems, but agree Shels didn't play too badly considering the amount of players they had missing. Pohls had a brilliant game. We took our chances and Shels didn't.

So hard to predict now. Despite Shels still being top for now I just can't see them winning it with their form. If Derry can win their next two games in hand then you'd have to fancy them, but any slip ups there and it's possible now that Rovers could win their last 3 and finish on 61 points. A three horse race going into the last game of the season seems likely.

I didn’t say league was gone, I said it’s probably gone. I’ve never seen a team be in such poor form at such an important time of the season. 1 league win in 10!!!

I’ve been at our last 3 games and most our home games and I’ve been concerned for months that we’ve looked very nervous and have really been lacking a bite up front. Passing it around the back line and struggling to counter quickly.

It’s been in our hands for weeks and we’ve consistently failed to take advantage of it. I haven’t given up, went to Pats and Rovers game even though I was worried we’d lose on our form. I will goto our remaining games aswell (although not confident I will get a ticket for the Derry game). I convinced a friend to buy the final few game ticket package and bring his son so I haven’t given up.

But I’m not pretending we will find form out of nowhere and win our final three. I believe we can, but as a team that hasn’t won the league in a long time, the pressure on the lads must be immense. On last nights performance I hope they’ve taken enough into the final three games to believe it themselves.

Rovers excellent last night with Farrugia somewhere near his best. Delighted with that win. Should win remaining 3 games so down to what Derry will do.

I'd fancy Rovers for the title now. You can forget about Shels.

I don’t think we’ve ever even been more than 4 points clear.

Yeah, but won’t that mean that same logic will apply to everyone else who doesn’t win it?

Jf the logic is just that it was there for the taking.

So if Derry win it, don’t we just isolate Rovers bottlejobs (4 wins from last 9 isn’t exactly a relentless title charge either) and if Rovers win it, we can point out that Derry’s form is largely the same as ours.

Ultimately one team are going to win it, and not care a bit about the games they didn’t win, and 2 teams are going to see it as a massive missed opportunity.

And Rovers are ultimately the one with the sort of budget where they’re supposed to win it.

I think that's fair.

& FWIW i think Rovers have totally bottled it, and are only in with a slim chance through the inconsistency of the rest, with that squad the 5IAR was there to be won and if we dont win it ( still dont think we will, think its Derry's to lose) have only ourselves to blame.

Shels were very consistent for most if the league, probably the only side who had been but now their form has nosedived when the title is in sight. Losing Jarvis and Molloy has been a disaster tbf. I wouldn't call it a bottle job tbh, they just have no experience of getting over the line while Rovers have seen a weakness and are now piling on pressure at exactly the right time.

Derry must drive their supporters bananas. They're such a good side on their day that they should be clear but just no consistency and yet they could win the double.

Mad league, it's great fun for the outsider.

I think everyone knew our ability to win games by 1 goals constantly couldn’t be sustained, but if we’d even regressed to midtable form we’d have been fine. Unfortunately that hasn’t been the case and we’ll have to do it the hard way now.

First things first we have to wrap up Europe. If Derry had lost to Bohs on Friday, that would have been even more of a conversation. I hope to be able to cheer on Kevin Doherty and a bunch of other ex-reds in the final, but that will obviously depend on us wrapping up that top 3 spot.

As a Drogheda supporter, if you'd offered us that six weeks ago, I'd have taken the hand off you!

No Drogheda supporter would take the play-off game for granted and Kevin Doherty certainly won't.

Wexford played very well yesterday but we were dreadfully poor in the first half. We were much improved in the second half and were by far the better team but, that said, it took a 92nd minute goal to win it. However, once we got to 1-1, I never thought that we would lose even when Wexford made it 2-2.

Wexford have some lovely young players; the two CBs were good and Corbally in mf looked decent.

Yeah ye deserve Europe at the least. I've enjoyed Duff this season and when I've seen Shels they've been a really good side before the dip in form.

Over 20,000 sold on day 1 of ticket sales for the cup final!