The Worst Team in Ireland.

Starting a new career game as Im falling out of love with fm. My last attempt.

Taking over Salthill in Ireland. They are the lowest rep playable team and have an awful squad. Due to some sillyness on my part, we're 23 games into the season when I join but its up to me to turn the worst team in Ireland in a great side (if I stick around).

[b]Manager History League[/b]
2011 - Salthill - Irish First Division - Pos 7th - 11th upon taking over midseason.
2012 - Salthill - Irish First Division - Pos 1st - Promotion and League Title.
2013 - Salthill - Irish Premier League - Pos 2nd - Last Day heartache denies the team expected to finish last the title.
2014 - Salthill - Irish Premier League - Post 1st - Champions!!!!
2015 - Salthill - Irish Premier League - Left with club first in the League.
2015-16 - West Brom - N-Power Championship - 1st - Promoted at the first attempt with ease.
2016-17 - West Brom - English Premier League - /// - Left at Christmas sitting in Euro qualifying positions
2016-17 - Man City  - English Premier League - 1st - Coming back from 6th when I took over at Christmas.
2017-18 - Man City - English Premier League - 1st - Dominating win.
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Manager Major Cup[/b]
2011 - U/A
2012 - Salthill - Senior Challenge Cup - 3rd Round
2012 - Salthill - League Cup - Champions
2013 - Salthill - Senior Challenge Cup - Semi Final defeat to lower division opp.
2013 - Salthill - League Cup - Champions
2014 - Salthill - Senior Challenge Cup - Champions
2014 - Salthill - League Cup - Champions
2015-16 - West Brom - English League Cup - Champions
2015-16 - West Brom - FA Cup - Champions
2016-17 - West Brom - League Cup - 4th Round
2016-17 - West Brom - Europa League - 4th Qualifying Round
2016-17 - Man City - FA Cup - Semi-Finals
2016-17 - Man City - Champions League - Quarter Finals
2017-18 - Man City - FA Cup - 4th Round
2017-18 - Man City - League Cup - 3rd Round
2017-18 - Man City - Champions League - Quarter Finals
2018 - Spain - World Cup - Final - Beaten by Italy on penalties.

[b]Manager Honours
[/b]Irish Premier League Manager of the Year - 2013, 2014
Irish First Division Manager of the Year - 2012
NPower Championship Manager of the Year - 2016
Premier League Manager of the Year - 2018

[b]Manager Goals - Achieved Shows Year Next to Goal
[/b]Win the Irish First Division - 2012
Win the Irish Premier League - 2014
Win the Irish League Cup - 2012
Win the Irish Senior Cup - 2014
Win Serie A
Win La Liga
Win the Premiership - 2017
Win French Title
Win Bundesliga
Win the Europa League
Win the Champions League
Become an international Manager - 2016 - Spain (woohoo.....)
Win the European Cup
Win the World Cup
Become the top manager to manage in Ireland
Become the top English Manager
Beat Sir Alex and top the hall of fame
Have a Stadium Named After Me

Team: Salthill

Uefa Co-Ef: Non ranked

Club Rep: 0.5* - Lowest playable team in the country

Club Value: £1.6m (God knows how?)

Media Prediction: 11th (of 11)

League: Irish First Division

League Ranking: 286th - 1*

Top Div Ranking: 72nd - 2*

Nation & Ranking: Ireland - 31st

Upon taking over the club sat cut off at the bottom of the Irish First Division with 17 points from 23 games, 6 behind Finn Harps in 10th place. (Screenshots coming soon)

season summary

After a patchy start we set the division alight taking 37 points from our remaining 17 games, led in no small part by LLM Legend Jamil Adams who chipped in with 16 goals in 17 starts.

We also scored 60 times during the season making us the leagues 2nd top scorers behind winner Cork City.

End of Season 2011 Roundup

League Placing 7th.

Top Scorer Jamil Adam 16 in 17

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See you guys in Season 2.

Coming into the new season there was alot of chopping and changing, wheeling and dealing and trying to strengthen the club but no change in our rep and we were still the lowest rep team in the division despite 3 non league sides joining the now 13 team Division.

Team: Salthill

Uefa Co-Ef: Non ranked

Club Rep: 0.5* - No Change

Club Value: £1.6m - No Change

Media Prediction: 9th (of 13)

League: Irish First Division

League Ranking: 286th - 1*

Top Div Ranking: 72nd - 2*

National Team Ranking: Ireland - 16th - Up 15.

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March

Salthill 1-1 Monaghan United - Paul Byrne putting us ahead on his debut, only to concede at the death.

Rockmount 0-2 Salthill - New signing Keith Shevlin on his debut and Martin Reilly.

Salthill 5-1 Shelbourne - Great win as we were huge underdogs despite beating them by the same score last season. Jamil Adam hatrick.

Longford 2-4 Salthill - Comfortable away win, 4-1 up after the hour but conceded late. Goals were shard among the team

Salthill 2-0 Avondale - Easy win against a team we were expected to beat.

Douglas Hall 2-4 Salthill - Adam with all four goals, taking his season tally to 7 (scored in 2 games).

At the end of March we sit 2nd in the table with 16 out of 18 points. Finn Harps currently lead with 18pts from 7 games. Our first game of April sees us travel to unbeaten UCD who have 1 win and 5 draws from their opening 6 encounters. Being relegated from the prem last season they will be easily our toughest challenge of the season.

League Results

UCD 1-3 Salthill - A tough game that we edged ahead in through an og, scored two late on to go 3 up before conceding a late one.

Salthill 6-0 Waterford - 5 goals for Adam (hes now scored 3 in a game, 4 in a game and 5 in a game)

Salthill 3-1 Cherry Orchard - Game we were expected to win, 1 down at half time meant a tough team talk. Adam equalising after 65 minutes and 2 late goals from Vinny Faherty.

Salthill 2-0 Athlone Town - Comfy game that was over at half time.

Wexford 0-4 Salthill - Easy game, goals shared.

League Cup Result

Salthill 3-0 Athlone Town - Red card for Davy Byrne but we still won easily.

RoundUp

We now sit comfortably at the top of the league with 31 points from 11 games. Finn Harps are our closest challengers 8 points behind from 11 games. UCD sit 3rd on 21.

We have drawn Home Farm in the league cup 2nd round. A non league team. We face Shelbourne in Senior Challenge Cup 2nd round after a bye in the first round.

League Results

Monaghan Utd 3-3 Salthill - went from 1-0 up to 3-1 down by half time, pulled a goal back in 60th minute and got an 86th minute equaliser. Lucky.

Salthill 2-1 Rockmount - Another patchy performance and we went behind after 70 min, equalised a minute later and grabbed a 92nd minute winner through Faherty.

Salthill 4-0 Longford - Walk in the park, 2 more from Faherty along with a goal a piece from Adam and Byrne

Shelbourne 0-0 Salthill - zzzzz.......

Avondale 0-7 Salthill - Hattricks from Byrne and Adam

Salthill 3-1 Douglas Hall - went 1 down but won easily.

Cup Competitions

League Cup 2nd Round - Salthill 3-1 Homefarm - Comfortable win against non league opposition.

Senior Challenge Cup - Salthill 3-0 Shelbourne - Easy and got their thick manager sacked. Hurrah.

RoundUp

For May in all comps we've played 8, won 6, drawn2, scored 25 and conceded 6.

We top the first Division with 48 points from 18 games. Monaghan United are currently second on 30 points from 17 games. Finn Harps sit on 30 from 18 but its 4th placed UCD who look our biggest threat currently sitting on 29 but with 2 games in hand. Jamil Adam currently sits top of scorers charts with 21 goals, followed in 2nd by our other marksman Paul Byrne who has 15. Next in line are a few players on 10.

We meet last seasons Division 1 champs Cork City in the League Cup last 8, Senior Challenge draw yet to be made.

Also huge congrats to Jamil Adam on making the Irish u21 squad even if we did lose him for a game.

Around the World - England

Liverpool have won the Premiership edging out Man United by a point, City finish 3rd with Arsenal 4th. The always overachieving Wolves finish 5th, Fulham 6th, Spurs 7th and Chelsea a lowly 9th.

Man United beat Aston Villa 2-0 in the FA Cup Final

Spurs deny Fulham a Europa spot by beating City 1-0 in League Cup Final

Around the World - Spain

Barcelona stroll to La Liga, their 98 points leaving Real in their wake by 14. They also coast past Valencia to claim the Spanish Cup.

Around the World - Italy

AC Milan beat title rivals Inter by 5 points but Inters challenge lasted till the final day. Juve beat Napoli 2-0 to claim the Italian Cup.

Around the World - European Football

Manchester City win the Champions League beating Inter on penalties, they also accounted for Barca in the semis.

Again decided on penalties Zenit beat Lille after a 3 all draw over 120 minutes.

European Championships Draw

The groups for the upcoming Euro Champs are as follows.

Group A

Sweden

Portugal

Italy

Ukraine

Group B

Russia

Poland

Germany

Scotland

Group C

Slovenia

Holland

France

Turkey

Group D Tough group.

Ireland

England

Croatia

Spain

League Results

Waterford 1-6 Salthill - With Jamil Adam gone on u21 duty, Martin Reilly took his 1st team chance with a hattrick.

Salthill 2-1 UCD - An early peno put us 1 up, but UCD dominated and equalised early. They blew a host of chances before Reilly popped up 5 minutes from time with the winner

Cherry Orchard 1-5 Salthill - Adams returns from the u21's and bags himself a hattrick. Reilly unlucky to be dropped.

Salthill 3-1 Finn Harps - 1-1 after 5 minutes but we dispatched another of our rivals comfortably, despite taking to injury time to get our 3rd.

RoundUp

22 games in and our 60 points gives us an 18 point margin over UCD our only realistic threat as Monaghan and Finn Harps now sit 23 points behind us. We've scored a quite pleasing 76 times (over 3 a game) and promotion while not guaranteed is looking a formality.

Cup Competitions

League Cup Last 8 - Salthill 2-1 Cork City - A stunning win for whats pretty much my b-team over top division opposition. Youngster Marc Hughes with a brace.

Parent Club

We have announced a link with Bohemians as our parent club. A deal that allows us to recieve their players on loan for free and a yearly friendly.

A day later

We have drawn our parent club in the League Cup SemiFinals. Might have to try and loan their entire team.

European Championships

Group A

Portugal topped the group with 7 points. Italy sneak through in 2nd despite having the same goal differenceto Ukraine. Italy beating them 1-0 in their clash.

B

Germany top the group ahead of Poland with both finishing on 6 points.

C

9pts and a 100% record eases France through well ahead of 2nd place Holland who finish on 4 pts.

D

England top the group of death beating all Spain, Croatia and Ireland for a 9pt haul. Spain finish 2nd despite losing to England and only drawing with Ireland. A late winner puts them in ahead of Croatia.

Last 8

Portugal 1-1 Poland - Portugal win on penalties.

Italy 3-2 Germany

France 1-1 Spain - Spain win on penalties

Holland 3-2 England

Semi Finals

Portugal 0-1 Holland

Italy 0-2 Spain

Final

Holland 1-0 Spain

League Results

Athlone Town 1-3 Salthill - yet another Jamil Adam hattrick, his 5th time scoring at least 3 goals in a match this season.

Salthill 7-1 Wexford - Goals shared among 6 players, brace for Faherty

Salthill 4-1 Monaghan - Easy win against promotion chasers

Rockmount 0-4 Salthill - Easy win against strugglers.

Salthill 1-1 Shelbourne - Tough game, went behind early, hit back before half time.

Longford 0-2 Salthill - 2 goals from our cb John Fitzgerald

Roundup

We now have 76 points from our 28 games. If we win our next 20 (its a 48 games season) we could finish the season with a staggering 136 points, but I'd happily take 130.

Our closest rivals are still Monaghan who sit 27 points being us. 20 games to go, I think we could wrap the league up in 8 games or so if things go well.

Adam leads the goal chart with 30, Paul Byrne still remains 2nd on 20, Vinny Faherty joint 4th with 14.

We dominate the assists as well with midfielder Conor O'Grady and striker Vinny Faherty on 15. Jamil Adam is 3rd behind our other two with 13.

Adam leads the way in the average rating with all the top 5 coming from Salthill.

Adam also leads the man of the match charts with 8.

Cup Draw

We face Premier League leaders Derry City away in the Senior Challenge Cup 3rd round (August 26th), 5 days after the trip to face Bohemians in the League Cup Semi's. I may have to sacrifice a run in the SCC to try and save energy for the promotion push.

Transfer News

We have loaned Marc Hughes to Derry as cover, just to stop him whinging. He'll be lucky to play at all there but at least its not my ear he'll be in.

Enjoying this read Good stuff mate

Results

Irish First Division - Salthill 2-1 Avondale - 1 up and got a red. Avondale quickly equalised but lucky for us supersub Reilly headed the winner in the dying seconds.

Irish First Division - Douglas Hall 0-2 Salthill - Adam to the double.

Irish First Division - Salthill 4-2 Waterford - Adam with yet another hatrick (thats 6 this season)

Irish First Division - UCD 1-0 Salthill - The unbeaten run comes to an end at our 32nd outing. Totally didn't turn up and probably should have lost by more.

Irish League Cup Semi Final Report - Bohemians 2-2 Salthill

39 - We went 1-0 up through an own goal.

69 - While bossing the game we had Davy Byrne sent off

84 - Disaster when Boh's equalised and we went to extra time.

97 - The numbers were balanced when Boh's lost a man to injury after using 3 subs 10v10

115 - Absolute disaster when we went 2-1 down with 5 minutes of extra time remaining.

117 - Another own goal hand us a lifeline 2-2. 3 minutes to go.

120 - In injury time our best penalty taker goes off injured. Game finished 10v9

Peno's

We score 1-0 Salthill

Bohs score 1-1

We score 2-1 Salthill

Bohs miss 2-1 Salthill

We score 3-1 Salthill

Bohs score 3-2 Salthill

We miss 3-2 Salthill

Bohs miss 3-2 Salthill

We score 4-2 Salthill

9 man Salthill beat one of Irelands greatest and most successful clubs 4-2 on penalties to reach the league cup final

Cup Draw

We will meet Sligo Rovers in the League Cup Final.

Results

Senior Challenge Cup Rd 3 - Derry City 2-1 Saltill - Our b team almost causes a huge shock against the runaway premier league leaders, falling to an 83rd minute goal. We bow out, heads held high.

Irish First Division - Salthill 3-0 Cherry Orchard - We bounce back in the league easily dispatching Cherry Orchard. Paul Byrnes brace ending his goal drought.

Round Up

Mixed feelings about this month. We pretty much have the league won but I was sickened to lose. Was hoping on doing an invincibles on it. the other negative is I feel my first team could possibly have beaten Derry as they were there for the taking and I think we may have wasted a competition. the plus side is of course the cup final and we'll go into it with nothing to fear after putting up a great showing against both Derry and Boh's. Sligo are one of 3 pro teams in the country though and they will be another huge challenge.

League Table as of 1st of September

1st - Salthill -pl 33 - w28 - d4 - l1 - gd 82 - pts88

2nd - Finn Harps -pl 34 - w17 - d8 - l9 - gd 06 - pts59

3rd - Monaghan U-pl 32 - w15 - d7 - l10- gd 08 - pts52

The rest dont really matter.

Results

Irish First Division - Finn Harps 2-3 Salthill - the title battle saw us take a rapid 2-0 lead, Harps hit back before the break and possibly should have being level at half time. We hit a 3rd from P Byrne to pretty much kill the game before a late consolation made the game look close.

Irish First Division - salthill 5-0 Athlone - Adam bagging all 5 for the second time and his 7th time scoring a hattrick or better. We now lead by 35 points with 39 to play for.

Irish First Division - Wexford 1-4 Salthill - After Finn Harps draw, 3 points would of secured us the title and we wasted no time in doing that. Going 3-0 up before easing to 4-1. Paul Byrnes hitting a hattrick and our 120th goal of the season to kill the league with 12 games still left.

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Congrats on the win.

Well done on the title, Just a little feedback (not having a go or anything) but maybe try to have more structured updates like other threads and this thread can be very good, a lot of potential KUTGW

Results

Irish First Division - Monaghan 0-2 Salthill - Easy win for our newly crowned champions

Irish First Division - Shelbourne 2-4 Salthill - A mix and match of A and B team players eased past Shels thanks to Adam's brace.

Irish First Division - Salthill 5-1 Rockmount - Another 4 for Jamil Adam (thats now 7 hattricks or better this season) as we warm up for the League Cup Final. On a negative note, we lost defensive midfielder Davy Byrne for 5 weeks through injury.

League Cup Final - The Wounded vs the Angry

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4min - Disaster as the professional Sligo side after dominating the first 3 minutes hit the front thanks to Jamie White - Salthill 0-1 Sligo

20-45 - We take control of the game but fail to convert, Sligo pick up 3 yellows to our one though.

HT - After a long think I decide to be hard on the team, telling them assertively to go and win.

55 - We lose our lb Crossan to injury.

69 - We lose our best midfielder O'Grady to injury

77 - Our hard work and endeavour are rewarded when the goal machine Adam fires us level from no where. - Salthill 1-1 Sligo

79 - Great news as Angry Sligo lose a man, Alan Kirby sending off is Sligo's 5th booking of the match - 11v10 in our favour.

90 - Another Sligo booking as we dominate but fail to convert.

Extra Time

94 - Booking for our sub Fitzgerald

98 - Another Sligo booking taking there tally to 7.

112 - We'll never have a greater chance. Sligo are reduced to 9 men as a second booking sees Brian Wake follow Kirby down the tunnel. 11v9.

116 - Its now 10 v 9 as we lose a key penalty taker to our 3rd injury. GoalMachine Paul Byrne limps off.

120 - End of extra time and the dreaded spot kicks again.

Penos

Salthill go first.

Adrian Harper Scores 1-0 Salthill

Danny Ventre Scores 1-1

Alan Murphy Scores 2-1 Salthill

G O'Connor misses 2-1 Salthill

Jamil Adam Scores 3-1 Salthill

Dylan Nissan misses 3-1 Salthill

David McGill misses 3-1 Salthill

Jamie White Scores 3-2 Salthill

Pat Flynn Scores 4-2 Salthill

Salthill have won the Irish League Cup after beating Sligo Rovers on penalties.

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Round Up

Well what can I say. The greatest month in Salthills history and probably the best month I've ever had on Football Manager. League is over, Cup is won, we can relax and enjoy the rest of the season. Plus now I can switch to commentary only and get this massive season over.

On a slightly negative note half my first team are now injured with Crossan, Davy Byrne and Connor O'Grady all out for a couple of weeks. Paul Byrne is fine though.

Another negative is there is no European football for winning the cup which is slightly disappointing.

thx for the advice and congrats lads. I'll try to work out some form of neater structure.

With nothing to play for i decided to put these into one update and be done the 2012 season.

Results

Irish First Division - Salthill 0-0 Longford - it looked like our team had celebrated too much. Lucky point

Irish First Division - Avondale 1-1 Salthill - Bad draw against a team we should be beating. Team thinking they are on holiday already. Wont happen again.

Irish First Division - Salthill 5-1 Douglas Hall - Tough talking before kick off got the team back motivated. Good win against the leagues weakest side.

Irish First Division - Waterford 1-4 Salthill - Another Adam hattrick. Thats 8.

Irish First Division - Salthill 3-0 UCD - Brace for Adam this time.

Irish First Division - Salthill 2-0 Cherry Orchard - Another brace for Adam saw us ease past the strugglers to make it 9 goals in 5 games.

Irish First Division - Salthill 2-1 Finn Harps - Lucky win from 1 down.

Irish First Division - Athlone 3-2 Salthill - We were 2 nil up after 20 minutes and fell apart. disgusted.

Irish First Division - Salthill 5-1 Wexford - Great win to wrap things up considering Adam had being called away with the Irish u21's.

Roundup

I had to give Jamil Adam a bumper contract to stick around but luckily we got his minimum release clause up to 550k which would be hugely helpful was someone to come in for him. Easy couple of months to wind down and although we had a couple of dodgy performance I'm quite happy.

Jamil Adam is quality, and I know a lot of people who've had him in various sides and said much the same.

Irish First Division

Great season and despite our prediction of 9th I told the board I would win the league and luckily we delivered. 2 defeats in 48 league games is quite pleasing and only 1 during the period that mattered. Quite a long season having to play 48 games and I had players resting and exhausted at the half way point but we got there.

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Awards

Player of the year

Jamil Adam had an increible season weighing in with a massive 61 goals in 48 appearances and making the Irish u21 panel.

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My other 2 strikers came 2nd and 3rd. Vinny Faherty 2nd and Paul Byrne 3rd

Manager of the Year P oD (Salthill)

Keeper of the Year Colin Cassidy (Salthill)

Team of the Year

GK - Colin Cassidy (Salthill)

RB - Matthew Cassidy (Salthill)

LB - Barry Clancy (Shelbourne)

CB - Alan McDermott (Salthill)

CB - Packie Mailey (Finn Harps)

RM - David Hutton (Monaghan)

LM - Fiachra McArdle (Monaghan)

CM - Conor O'Gorman (Salthill)

CM - David Cassidy (Shelbourne)

FC - Jamil Adam (Salthill)

FC - Vinny Faherty (Salthill)

Records

We smashed quite a few albeit aided by the longer season.

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Irish Premier League

Sligo Rovers retained Irelands top title in the end finishing with a 12 point cushion over Bohemians, St Pats and Shamrock Rovers who all finished on 62 points. Shamrock missing out on european football on goal difference.

Galway United were relegated bringing a smug smile to my face as now ourselves and Mervue sit as the top Galway teams and the ever so arrogant ones sit in a lower Division crippled by years of mismanagement.

Senior Challenge Cup

A doube for Sligo who saw of Bray Wanderers in the final with ease. Their only really challenge along the way a 4-3 extra time win over St Pats in the quater finals.

League Cup

Our greatest achievement and the game that denied Sligo the treble. It took 2 penalty shootouts to claim it but it was against two of Irelands top 3.

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NOTE: As much as I hate to, the prize money bug is still in my game in Ireland top division so I may have to use fmrte to fix this. Sligo picking up 60k less than 2nd place is just unfair and a major SI oversight. If not the game becomes completely unplayable. with bottom of the league making more than the division champions

Jamil Adam is quality, and I know a lot of people who've had him in various sides and said much the same.

Absolute goal machine at low levels. Still if I get 450k+ offer I'd snap someones hand off as it would be huge for the club.

Team: Salthill

Uefa Co-Ef: Non ranked

Club Rep: 0.5* - Up from Local to Regional

Club Value: £1.8m - Up 200k

Competition: Irish Premier League

Media Prediction: 12th (of 12)

Season Ticket Sales: 184 (up 109)

Irish League Rankings

Irish Premier Lge: 52nd (Up 20) - 2.5* (up .5)

Irish 1st Division: 261st (Up 25) - 1*

European Places: 1 Champs League Q2, 1 Europa Lge Q2, 2 Europa Lge Q1.

National Team Ranking: Ireland - 24th -Dwn 8.

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Busy, busy, busy

With a seasonal goal of staying in the division I set about reshaping the team. Armed with a transfter kitty of £0 but a wage budget of £5k (up £3k) I set about reshaping the team.

In came 10 players, all who will be first team or thereabouts, the strongest being ex Sheffield Wednesday midfielder James O'Connor plus two current u21 internationals in Graham Burke and Shane McEleney plus ex U21 international keeper Saul Deeney. Out of the club went 12 players including five of last years starting squad, the most notable of which being last years holding midfield star Davy Byrne and centre back Alan McDermott.

Pre Season Results

I let the assistant handle friendlies as I was busy shopping for pre season and results were not too bad. Best result was a hammering of fellow expected struggler Bray, while the worst was recieving a hammering from Shamrock Rovers. Still against 3 premier teams we'd managed to win, draw and lose and I had a feeling 3 points from every 4 games would keep us well safe with only 1 team guaranteed relegated.

Salthill 1-1 Bohemians

Salthill 0-0 Galway United

Salthill 4-0 Bray Wanderers

Salthill 1-4 Shamrock Rovers

Salthill 2-0 Ballina

Salthill 3-0 Newbridge

We have announced our season ticket sales. They stand at 184, up by 109 on last seasons 75.

Results

Irish Premier League - Derry City 3-0 Salthill - Derry dominated us from the off and went ahead through a peno before doubling there lead on half time. We played much better 2nd half and probably deserved a goal but a stupid mistake saw us concede another peno. A harsh lesson that we cant afford to make errors in the top division

Irish Premier League - Salthill 4-0 Limerick FC - Super performance in our first home game. Record attendance of 738 turned up to see it. Thats over double last seasons average.

Irish Premier League - Bohemians 1-3 Salthill - Brilliant result against one of Irelands top teams. Adam bagging a hattrick to show hes ready for the challenge of top flight footie.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 2-2 Sligo Rovers - Another brilliant display against the best team in the country. We went ahead, were pegged back, went behind and hit back for a draw.

Irish Premier League - Drogheda 0-3 Salthill - Fantastic away win against a team I expect us to be close to in the bottom 5.

Round Up

What a brilliant opening to the season. Lessons were learned from our opening day hammering and we've bounced back brilliantly finishing the month in 4th spot and already points clear of relegation. have to hold my hand up and say the Derry result was probably my fault for playing down our chances and sucking the confidence out of our team. We lost new signing Graham Burke and Midfielder Davy McGill to injury.

League Cup Draw

We were drawn at home to either Waterford United or Athone Town of the Irish First Division

Awesome month!

Results

Irish Premier League - Salthill 5-1 Dundalk - We tore into them and went 5-0 up before halftime thanks to an Adam hattrick. Poor second half but the game was dead so I wasnt too annoyed.

Irish Premier League - Bray Wanderers 2-2 Salthill - Bray missed an early pen but went 1 up anyway before we levelled from the spot. 2-2 at half time and full time but we were lucky.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 1-1 Shamrock Rovers - We led for most the match but still a great result against the league leaders.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 1-1 Cork City - Went ahead through a penalty early in 2nd half but got pegged back just a minute later.

Irish Premier League - St Pats 2-2 Salthill - Sat top of the bunch when we met and despite us giving a good showing we were 2-0 down after 50 minutes but goals from Faherty and Byrne fired us back to level terms and a super draw.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 0-1 Mervue United - Home game against our cross city and relegation rivals and our worst performance of the season. No win in 5 games now.

Irish League Cup Rd2 - Salthill 4-0 Waterford - Cup stroll and at a much needed time to boost confidence. Hopefully it should settle us down for the league.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 1-1 Derry - We scored early and dominated the game, but Derry hit us on the break at the death to take our winless run to 6 in the league.

Irish Premier League - Limerick 3-5 Salthill - Came back from 2-0 down to draw at half time, Ian Ryan headed us in front on 65 before a Limerick red card allowed us to ease to 3 points.

Senior Challenge Cup - Salthill 4-1 Athlone - Another easy cup win and into the last 16 of the SCC.

Round Up

A mixed bag, while I'm not disgusted with the two months I am slightly disappointed. We should have won the Shamrock, Cork and Derry games. And losing the derby sickened me to the very core of my soul.

Wit our 21 points we still sit in a hugely impressive 4th spot in the league and while 10 points behind Shamrock Rovers we are 10 ahead of the relegation playoff (which is currently occupied by reigning double winners Sligo Rovers) and 15 ahead of bottom of the table Limerick.

Top of the Table

Shamrock -pl 13 - pts 31

Dundalk -pl 13 - pts 25

St Patricks-pl 13 - pts 25

Salthill Dev-pl 13 - pts 21

We have drawn rivals Galway United away in the last 8 of the League Cup. A game I expect us to win.

Only 2 games in June and than mid season break but July was hectic.

Results

Irish Premier League - Salthill 4-0 Bohemians - Brilliant dismantling of Boh's. Our form is back.

Irish League Cup QFn - Galway United 0-3 Salthill - 2 goals on his return for Graham Burke

Irish Premier League - Sligo Rovers 0-1 Salthill - Tough win against the struggling champions

Irish Premier League - Salthill 6-1 Bray Wanderers - Easy win and fires us to 2nd

Irish Premier League - Salthill 1-1 Drogheda - Game we dominated but failed to convert our chanes.

Irish Premier League - Shamrock Rovers 2-2 Salthill - 2-2 at half time and we had our cb sent off 1 minute into 2nd half. We hung on though

Irish Premier League - Dundalk 2-0 Shelbourne - Outplayed from minute 1. Disgraceful performance and a missed penalty

Irish Premier League - Salthill 3-1 St Pats - Great win over our rivals for 2nd that fires us back above them, albeit with 2 games more played than our opponents.

Irish Premier League - Cork City 1-4 Salthill - Tougher game than it looked. 2 late goals flatterred us.

Irish Premier League - Mervue 1-2 Salthill - Tough battle against our local rivals that we just deserved.

Shock, Horror, Club Crisis

During the game with Mervue Jamil Adam was taken off injured, I got out of the match and he's out for 5-6 months with a torn calf muscle. Going to be hard to hold our season together now.

Cup Semi's

We travel to St Pats in the League Cup Semi's and host Monaghan 3 days later in the Senior Challenge Cup.

Round Up

Much better 2 months and we did brilliantly in a hectic July that saw us play 8 games between the 3rd and 26th.

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Hope you can keep it up without Adam.

Excellent read mate, keep going.

thx lads. Hope we dont falter with out Jamil.

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Results

Irish Premier League - Derry City 0-2 salthill - Life without Adam gets off to a great start. Graham Burke delivering on his central role.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 2-1 Limerick - A battling win against the relegation strugglers.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 0-0 Sligo Rvrs - We were on top in this one before an O'Connor red card meant we had to shut up shop and settle for a point.

League Cup SemiFinal - St Pats 0-1 Salthill - Nip and tuck game decided by cb Ian Ryan in the 89th minute.

S-Challenge Cup Lst16- Salthill 3-0 Monaghan Utd - 2-0 at half time and game over. We scored our 3rd late on to compound a simple victory

Irish Premier League - Drogheda 1-1 Salthill - Went 1 up with an early peno but were pegged back inside 10 minutes. Plenty of chances and I have to say the first game where we missed Adam.

Cup Drawsl

We will play Derry City in the final as we bid to retain our league cup. Draw for the last 8 of the SCC is on 2nd of next month.

RoundUp

Wehad a good spell in the league but tbh we missed Jamil in the two tight games. We played well but struggled to put teams away and the 2 draws have completely killed any hopes of threatening Shamrock Rovers title charge. We trail them by 6 points and have played a game more. Ourselves and Dundalk seem to be battling for 2nd with St Pats falling away so its looking good for at least a top 3 finish.

Results

Irish Premier League - Bohemians 2-0 Salthill - Our lack of a goal scorer really came to haunt us. A game we should of won easily, but 2 late goals did for us.

Irish Premier League - Bray Wanderers 0-3 Salthill - An early peno and red card gave us the upper hand within 5 minutes and thankfully we took the opportunity for our first league win in 4 attempts.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 3-1 Dundalk - Biggest League Game of the campaign. We took a 5 point advantage over the 3rd place side going in and thanks to a Faherty brace we were able to inflict a 3rd consecutive defeat on Dundalk and open an 8 point gap.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 2-0 Cork City - We went 2-0 up early. A new found confidence in Faherty after ending his 11 hour drought last time out leading the line. Cruised to the points

Senior Challenge Q/F - Salthill 2-2 Bluebell Utd - We made hard work of our non league opposition and they deserved their 90th minute equaliser and replay.

League Cup Final - Salthill vs Derry City

45 - the first 45 saw little in the way of goalmouth action and only a couple of half chances. Not alot really so all I could do was encourage the team.

47 - Seemed to work as a minute after the restart brilliant work from Burke set up Paul Byrne for the opener - 1-0 Salthill

54 - Derry's Kevin Deery hits back in style to level up. 1-1.

64 - Great graft from sub Martin Reilly tees up midfieler Ronan Finn. 2-1 Salthill

80 - Centre Back Shane McEleney limps off through injury.

91 - In injury time up steps midfielder Paul Keegan to fire home what surely is the match winner. 3-1 Salthill.

92 - The game is not without a sting in the tail as Deery's second ensures a tense finish. 3-2 Salthill

94 - Salthill are the League Cup Champions after beating Derry City 3-2 at the Aviva.

Round Up

Back to back League Cup Triumphs for the underdogs. Great performance with 2 of our strongest players on the injury list.

In the Premier League we now trail the leaders by 8 points with both having 8 games to go. We will also face them twice, so 2 wins could really put the cat amongst the pigeons. Could have done without the cup replay to open October as our next game is at home to Shamrock.

In other news, silly season has started in the Premiership with Roberto Mancini getting the boot from City after back to back Champions League victories and a 100% start to the season. Louis Van Gaal left Chelsea to take over at the Etihad stadium.

Senior Cup QF Replay - Bluebell 1-2 Salthill - 2 goals up through Byrne before said player missed a peno and Bluebell broke from the rebound and scored. From than on we hung on but we got the job done

Irish Premier League - Salthill 2-1 Shamrock Rovers - Another big game and german defender Trapp put us 1 up before again we conceded almost straight away. Defender McEleney walked for a second booking but we never gave in and were rewarded at the death when Paul Byrne blew the title race wide open.

Irish Premier League - St Pats Athletic 5-1 Salthill - A crushing display and our best performance in my 3 years as we tore Pats apart roaring to a 5-0 lead before easing off a little. Shamrock beat Sligo 3-0 to maintain their 5 point lead.

Irish Premier League - Salthill - Mervue Utd - A tough win against our rivals who led till 70 minute mark despite having a man sent off after 15. More importantly St Pats got a draw at Shamrock reducing the gap to 3 points as we enter the league split. We'll get another crack at Shamrock, can we make it count?

Irish Premier League - Salthill vs Shamrock Rovers

2 - yellow card for our own Ronan Finn

10 - Rovers hit the front through Gary Twigg who was clearly offside. 1-0 Shamrock Rovers

14 - Disaster - Red Card for Maurice Trapp. Goal down and a man down. Both poor decisions.

37 - Game seems to be slipping away as rovers are unlucky not to be 2 up. twigg hits the post.

45 - Angry words in the dressing room

74 - chance after chance goes begging as we boss the 2nd half. time for desperate measures

93 - In Fergie time we break down the left, Graham Burke crosses in and sub Martin Reilly fires home. 1-1 and the final whistle.

Irish Premier League - Salthill 1-1 Shamrock Rovers - Great result considering we were nearly shafted by the ref. Great spirit and still in the hunt for the title. We have also qualified for Europe.

Irish Premier League - Dundalk 1-3 Salthill - A comfy win after going behind in the 1st minute. Shamrock win against Pats to stay 3 points ahead.

Senior Cup SemiFinal - Galway Utd 3-2 Salthill - Worryingly another red card and we let a 2-1 lead slip to bow out in the semi's. Losing to 1st division opposition and fierce rivals hurts.

Irish Premier League - Bohemians 1-3 Salthill - A huge win at Boh's sees us level at the top of the table with Shamrock. Derry City doing us a massive favour.

With 2 games to go we are right in the hunt. Top 2 shows:

1st Shamrock - pl 36, pts 74, gd 47

2nd Salthill - pl 36, pts 74, gd 44

Irish Premier League - Salthill 3-0 St Pats Ath - Our lads were fired up and done exactly what was asked. Unfortunately Shamrock won too so it was going to the last day as follows.

1st Shamrock - pl 37, pts 77, gd 49

2nd Salthill - pl 37, pts 77, gd 47

So here it was the final day of the season and we travelled to Derry while Shamrock were at home to Dundalk

Last Match of the Season

3 - Early booking for Paul Byrne

13- Ronan Finn breaks through and hits the post. Unlucky Salthill

14- Yellow card for McEleney

15- NEWS - Dundalk lead at Shamrock Rovers, Quigley after 9 minutes. Advantage Salthill

29- NEWS - Twigg equalises for Shamrock. Advantage Shamrock

42- Stewart Greacen heads home from a corner to dent our hopes - 1-0 Derry

HT Derry 1-0 Salthill, Shamrock 1-1 Dundalk

46- Purcell looks to have killed our dream. 2-0 Derry

49- Penalty Salthill - Dispatched by Keegan. 2-1 Derry, life in the title battle yet!!!

70- Its over now. A McLaughlin own goal puts Shamrock 2-1 up and only a miracle will deny them the title.

FT Derry 2-1 Salthill, Shamrock 2-1 Dundalk.

Salthill Season Roundup

Irish Premier League

What a brilliant season yet I'm left feeling gutted. We did absolutely brilliantly to finish where we did but the fact we went so close only to falter is sickening me. Had we had Adam I think we'd of shaded it. Still its incredible for our first season but I get a feeling next season will be harder as teams won't underestimate us and we could find the going tougher.

Senior Challenge Cup

A great run to the semi's but disaster in losing to a First Division team. Shocking even. A chance passed up but as another First Division Team awaited in the Final (Finn Harps)

League Cup

Again a brilliant feat to retain it. Delighted as we played brilliantly throughout.

Irish Football Season RoundUp

Irish Premier League

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So Shamrock displace Sligo as Irelands top team. Pipping us on the last day of the season. No doubt we're the team of the season with Sligo the underachievers. Mervue United say goodbye as Shelbourne make their return to Ireland top flight.

Senior Challenge Cup

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Shocks aplenty as we end up with an all First Division Final in Irelands Major Cup. Full credit to Harps who accounted for Sharmrock and St Pats along the way.

League Cup

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Super stuff form us with yours truly at the helm and much less in the way of shocks than the SCC.

Salthill Devon - 2014 Season

Uefa Co-Ef: Non ranked

Club Rep: 0.5* - No Change

Club Value: £2m - Up 200k

Competition: Irish Premier League

Media Prediction: 8th (of 12)

Season Ticket Sales: 195 (up 11)

Irish League Rankings

Irish Premier Lge: 79th (Dwn 27) - 2* (down .5)

Irish 1st Division: 286th (Dwn 25) - 1*

European Places: 1 Champs League Q2, 1 Europa Lge Q2, 2 Europa Lge Q1.

National Team Ranking: Ireland - 55th -Dwn 31.

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January Wheeling and Dealing.

Players In:
Padraig Amond - Striker - free
Arpad Molnar - Midfield - free
Iorfa Donimic - Defence - free
Dean Shiels - Midfield - free
Akwasi Asante - Striker - free
Phillip Lowry - Midfield - free
Justin Young - Keeper - free

Players Out:
Paul Byrne - Shamrock Rovers - £20k
John Fitzgerald - Shamrock Rovers - £4k
David McGill - St Pats -free
Simon Dunne - St Pats -free
Pat Flynn - St Pats - free
Shaun Williams - Drogheda - free
Colin Cassidy - Sligo Rovers - free
Martin Reilly - free
Marc Hughes - free
Colm Horgan - free
Matthew Crossan - free
Conor O'Grady - free

February - Pre-Season.

We entered the season with a smaller but much better quality squad and we tried to fit in an extra 2 weeks conditioning training to keep us fitter for the long haul. Pre-Season went really well, our only defeat coming to Scotlands Hibernian who beat us 4-0 in a money spinning friendly and a sign of how tough European football was going to be. Every other game was a good win we even dished out a couple of hammerings.

March - The Big KickOff

IPD - Dundalk 0-1 Salthill - Sub Burke gets our season off on the right note with a late winner.

IPD - Salthill 3-1 Cork - Comfy win despite going behind in our first home game.

IPD - Shelbourne 0-5 Salthill - Title warning is sent. Faherty hattrick and a brace from MC Finn.

IPD - Salthill 6-0 Bray Wanderers - Adams first goal since injury put us ahead before Finn was red carded in the 20th min. Another for Adam and a Keegan freekick ended the contest. Adam finishing the rout with 4. Not bad for a team who played 70 minutes with only 10 players.

IPD - Sligo 0-3 Salthill - Comfy away win keeps our 100% start to the season moving.

We rounded off an impressive month on top of the pile with a 100% start, albeit matched by Shamrock Rovers I have a good feeling so far.

April - Results

IPD - Salthill 3-0 Drogheda Utd - Faherty brace as we ease to 6 out of 6.

IPD - Shamrock 0-2 Salthill - Goals for Trapp and Adam as we beat the champs and end their 100% record.

IPD - Salthill 3-1 St Pats - Eased to this one again. 3-0 up after half an hour.

IPD - Bohemians 0-3 Salthill - Weird game, went 1 up and had Finn sent off (his second red of the season), scored twice more and than Boh's had 2 men sent off to finish 10v9.

2 months in and 9 wins from 9 games saw us off to a phenomenal start. 6 points in front of Shamrock albeit with a game more played. Delighted with a super start.

Hope you can stay up there.

Results

IPD - Salthill 3-0 Derry - Easy win but yeat another red card. Time to get tough I think.

IPD - Salthill 4-0 Limerick - Brace from Adam in yet another straight forward win.

ILC - Derry City 0-4 Salthill - Adam hattrick starts our league cup defence in super style.

IPD - Salthill 3-1 Dundalk - Despite dominating we trailed from the 5th to 65th minute before Dundalk finally cracked. Adam equalising and a Faherty brace sealing the points.

IPD - Cork City 0-1 Salthill - We must have hit the post 8 times before Faherty popped up in the 78th minute to bag the winner.

ISC - Salthill 0-0 Shelbourne - We wasted a ton of chances to put Shels to bed and now have to go through a replay.

ISC - Shelbourne 1-3 Salthill - Part 2 of the Shelbourne triple header, and another of our toughest games. Another red card and I smell a 2 week fine coming for Ger o'Brien.

IPD - Salthill 3-1 Shelbourne - No its not a mistype we played Shels the 25th, 28th and 30th of May and I'm sick of them tbh. Repeat of the last game except without the red card.

ILC - Salthill 3-1 shamrock Rovers - Comfy as we make the semi's of what I expect to be called the Salthill Cup next season.

IPD - Drogheda 2-3 Salthill - Another win that was more comfortable than suggested and we entered the June break with 45 points from 15 games.

Round Up

A hugely successful couple of months on all fronts and at the June break we lead the table by 6 points from Shamrock Rovers. Interestingly St. Pats need a miracle to stay up in a Division where anything can happen. When we return in mid July our European adventure begins and we are still in all Irish competitions.

We face the tough prospect of St. Pats in the Senior Challenge Cup, but have a cosiderably easier tie away to Athlone in the League Cup Semi-Finals.

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Hope you can stay up there.

thx, Delta. Things are really going our way so far.

July 2014 - European Adventure

ELQ2- Grasshopper Zurich 0-0 Salthill - A backs to the wall effort but the greatest result in Salthills history. Take a bow lads. Amazing.

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After our European heroics we watched the draw for the 3rd round and we have all the motivation one could need when our reward if we could topple Grasshopper was La Liga side Espanyol, quickly this was followed by even more good news.

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IPD - Derry City 1-0 Salthill - Our poorest performance of the year. Possibly the team were still coming down from Europe.

ELQ2- Salthill 1-4 Grasshopper - For 39 minutes we bossed the game. than a stupid Ger O'Brien mistake saw him red carded and Grasshopper hit the front through a penalty. Amazingly we leveled through Adam for a chance at half time. Unfortuantely we couldn't cope 2nd half being a man down and Orlando Engelaar put us to the sword.

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IPD - Limerick 1-6 Salthill - Asante hattrick and a brace from Adam as we bounce back in style.

IPD - St. Pats 1-1 Salthill - Adam getting us out of jail after a poor 1st half.

August

IPD - Dundalk 2-0 Salthill - An embarrasment. 2 red cards, 9 bookings and our keeper threw in an og for good measure. Entire team is lucky they aren't fined.

IPD - Salthill 4-0 Bohemians - Faherty with the hattrick as again we bounced back despite being without 4 players.

IPD - Salthill 3-1 Cork City - Brace from Asante as we record back to back wins for the first time in awhile.

IPD - Shelbourne 3-1 Salthill - 3-0 down at half time. Another embarrasing performance. Our away form is gone down the toilet. Lucky for us Shamrock are stuttering too.

ILC - Salthill 2-0 Athlone - Goals from Faherty and Iorfa put us in our 3rd league cup final in 3 seasons.

ISC - St Pats 0-2 Salthill - We went 2-0 up after 85 min before a late consolation for Pats.

IPD - Sligo Rovers 1-4 Salthill - 1 down at half time, stern words and Vinny Faherty again to the rescue, his early brace putting us 2-1 up before we ran away with it.

September

IPD - Salthill 6-0 Drogheda - Asante hattrick as we hit 3 goals in each half. We've started to get our swagger back after 4 straight wins.

IPD - Shamrock Rovers 3-3 Salthill - 3 times we trailed and 3 times we hit back. Adam may have won it at the death but for the post, but the draw keeps our 6 point lead at the top.

IPD - Salthill 3-0 Bray Wanderers - Adam hattrick as Bray are easily dispatched.

IPD - Salthill 2-0 St Pats Ath. - Another red card. We have red card fever this season. 2 week fine for O'Connor. Won this one undeservedly with goals in the 87th and 90th minute. Character.

IPD - Salthill 2-2 Shamrock Rovers - We went into what is pretty much a title decider with 5 first teamers out, 3 suspended including Adam and our 2 strongest MC's out injured, Two exhaused midfielders started with only 5 players on the bench. A dream start when we won a 1st minute penalty which Finn stuck away. An og from keeper Young levelled the tie on 29. Vinnie Faherty limped off on the hour. A daft pass by our lb Papastathopoulos that beat our keeper let Twigg to top in and save us another og embarrasment for Shamrock to lead 2-1 on 70 minutes but yet again we refused to accept our beating. Brilliant work by Keegan in the 90th minute forcing Brennan to turn into his own net for a late equaliser maintaining our 9 point lead at the top.

ISC - Salthill 6-0 UCD - Last 8 Senior Cup tie and an exhausted Salthill team took the pitch. Still 2 goals from Adam (who finished with 4) and one from Molnar ended the tie by half time as we marched into the semi-finals..

We had to draft in a couple of players on pay as you play contracts just to get to the end of the month. Kurtis Byrne, Robbie Gibbons and Kevin O'Connor all joining.

Irish League Cup Final - Dundalk vs Salthill.

With suspensions, injuries and tiredness all ravaging our squad it was tough to field a team that didn't include new pay as you play signings but needs must and eventually we got 16 players who were able to stand.

13 - First blood Salthill, Asante fires us ahead from Adam's pass. 1-0 Salthill.

24 - Injury crisis worsens, Maurice Trapp is taken off.

27 - Josh Magennis doubles our lead from another Adam assist 2-0 Salthill

47 - A crazy Dundalk og ends the tie. 3-0 Salthill

56 - Finn blazes a penalty over the bar.

60 - Adam adds a 4th in style. 4-0 Salthill

FT - Dundalk 0-4 Salthill - Salthill win their 3rd consecutive Irish League Cup.

IPD - Salthill 3-1 Sligo Rovers - A comfortable win fires us 11 points clear at the top.

Round Up

Three brilliant months and we now sit a huge 11 points clear at the top of the Premier League, are in the semi's of the Senior Cup, retained the League Cup and aquitted ourselves well in Europe (I still haven't forgiven O'Brien fully though... what might have bein and all that.....) Goals are being shared but Jamil is still the leagues and clubs top scorer but everyone whose come in has done well. We were looking a bit thin towards the end but the 3 arrivals on pay as you play deals have fleshed out the squad a bit. Hopefully we can celebrate a treble at seasons end but at this moment I'd take adding the league to our League Cup.

Such a shame to get something in Switzerland and see it crashing down.

Such a shame to get something in Switzerland and see it crashing down.

tbh I feel we'd of won with 11 v 11 and how I didn't terminate O'Briens contract I'll never know. My missus still thinks I'm crazy cause of the screaming at the screen.

IPD - Bohemians 1-0 Salthill - Keith Buckley with a fluke goal after over hitting his cross sends us to defeat number 4

IPD - Bray Wanderers 0-1 Salthill - A 94th minute Adam goal stops Shamrock from closing the gap to 6 points. We lead by 8 with 21 to play for.

IPD - Salthill 0-1 Derry City - Weakened by injury and suspension we still dominated but went behind to a peno after a Trapp mistake. Gap is now 7 points with 6 to play after Cork held Shamrock.

Much needed 10 days break as our thin and ravaged squad are out on its feet. Shamrock have reeled in 4 points of our 11 gap in 3 games and it should easily have being 8 and a four point gap. We now need 12 points from our last 6 games to guarantee the title.

In other news giants St Pats have being relegated from the Irish Premier League with 6 games to play, Dundalks late equaliser sending them down.

IPD - Salthill 4-1 Limerick - Fully refreshed we rammed Pat Scully's pre-match bull right down his throat. Taking a 3 goal lead in 12 minutes. 10 point lead with games to play.

IPD - Shamrock 1-1 Salthill - Was going to write a report on this one but there was 2 shots, a goal each and that was it. 3 points from glory.

IPD - Salthill 2-1 Derry - A brace from cb Shane McEleney (his first goals of the season) wins Salthill the league title.

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CHAMPIONS!!!!!

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ISC - Limerick 0-5 Salthill - Adams hattrick fires us into the Senior Cup Final

IPD - Bohemians 0-4 Salthill - We celebrated our title victory in style. Brace for Adam and Asante.

IPD - Salthill 1-0 Cork City - 3 subs at half time and 2 players go off injured in 2nd half putting us down to 9 men.

IPD - Dundalk 3-1 Salthill - We were already dreaming of the Cup final and got well beaten.

Senior Cup Final - Salthill vs Galway United

The treble decider for us and Galways 2nd successive senior cup final despite being outside the top division.

6min - Booking for McCrory

12 - Booking for Asante

40 - Key midfielder Phillip Lowry leaves the field injured.

86 - Callum Reynolds is sent off for our opposition, Shane Williams is booked protesting

90+2- Maurice Trapp rises highest from a free kick heading Salthill to the treble.

A game of little action and in the end we probably didn't even deserve it but thanks to some dodgy refereeing Salthill claim the treble and PoD is King of the hill.

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Salthill Devon FC

What can I say the perfect season. Brilliant in every competition and we deserved the lot. We won the league comfortably in the end and only the Senior Cup proved tricky but we got that too. Europe was a baptism of fire but we'll keep trying.

Jamil Adam topped the appearances, assists and goals chart with 42 goals and 22 assists in 47 apps in all competitions. Going to be hard to top this and in the back of my mind Im feeling maybe I've outgrown Irish football. We'll see what comes my way in the future.

Irish Premier League.

Shocks all around as little known Salthill claim the league title as part of a historical treble. History at the other end as St Pats are shockinly relegated with 18 points from 38 encounters. What awaits these giants of Irish Football.

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Irish Senior Challenge Cup

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Irish League Cup

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Team - Saltill Devon

Uefa Co-Ef: 1.425 - Unranked

Club Rep: 1* - Up .5*, Now National Reputation

Club Value: £1.9m - Down 100k

Competition: Irish Premier League

Media Prediction: 4th (of 12)

Season Ticket Sales: 266 (up 71)

Irish League Rankings

Irish Premier Lge: 62nd (Up 17) - 2*

Irish 1st Division: 278th (Up 8) - 1*

European Places: 1 Champs League Q2, 1 Europa Lge Q2, 2 Europa Lge Q1.

National Team Ranking: Ireland - 41st (Up 14)

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PreSeason

After such a successful campain last season there was very little needed in the way of change. This season we decided to push ourselves in preseason and see how our team shapes up to likely European rivals and needed very little wheeling and dealings in the window.

Players In
Hope Akpan - Holding Midfielder - Pay as you play
Liam Boyce - Striker - Free

Players Out
Robbie Gibbons - Released
Kevin O'Connor - Released
Matthew Cassidy - Released
Graham Burke - Free to Longford

An incredibly tough preseason looked as follows

Salthill 0-2 Willem II

Salthill 0-2 Glasgow Celtic

Salthill 1-0 Inverness

Salthill 1-2 Steaua

NUIG 0-4 Salthill

Salthill 0-0 Vannes

Salthill 3-2 Glasgow Rangers -

Salthill 0-3 Motherwell

Salthill 2-2 Hibernian

Salthill 2-2 De Graafschap

Salthill 0-0 Dusseldorf

Salthill 2-0 Shamrock Rovers

Against an impressive arroy of bigger clubs we finished pre season p11, w3, d4, l4. Including NUIG it was 4-4-4 which I'd of taken at the start. Highlight obviously beating Rangers.

March - The Big Kick Off

IPD - Drogheda 0-1 Salthill - Lowry opens our season with a scarcely deserved 3 points.

IPD - Salthill 5-0 Bohemians - Crushing win and title warning well and truly handed out. Adam with a hattrick

IPD - Salthill 6-0 Shamrock Rovers - Four from Adam one from Shiels and an og as we humiliate our rivals. Can we be stopped?

IPD - Bray Wanderers 1-1 Salthill - A game in which the woodwork twice denied us victory and maybe a kick in the bum to avoid overconfidence

IPD - Salthill 5-2 Limerick - Braces for Adam and Kurtis Byrne in a game that was tighter than the score suggests.

RoundUP

A super month but despite our 13 points we trailled Cork City by 2 at the end of month one. A new look City winning 5 from 5 and showing tons of promise.

April 2015

IPD - Shelbourne 0-3 Salthill - New striker Liam Boyce finally opens his account with a brace and Iorfa's header as we begin April as we finished March.

IPD - Salthill 1-1 Dundalk - Early bath for our holding mid Alpan. We took an 83rd minute lead through a controversial peno but Dundalk got a deserved equaliser in the 2nd minute of injury time.

ILC - Salthill 3-0 Limerick - Goals from Shiels, Finn and Trapp in a cup canter.

IPD - Salthill 3-1 Monaghan - Goals for Adam Boyce and Keegan in a comfy win.

IPD - Cork City 1-3 Salthill - Our hosts took a 1 point advantage at the top into this game and for 50 minutes it looked as though they'd maintain it but two quick goals from Bynre and Magennis inside 5 minutes put us on the verge and sub Magennis second ended the contest on 70 minutes. there was still time for another stupid sending off this time McCrory to keep the game remotely interesting and Cork got their consolation on the 90 minute mark.

May 2015

IPD - Sligo 2-2 Salthill - A game we twice led but Sligo easily deserved their point.

IPD - Salthill 1-0 Derry City - Adam with the winner in 1st half injury time. Scarcely deserved, but comfort in the fact we can win ugly. A sign of real champions.

ILC - Salthill 6-0 Avondale - 3 from Magennis, 2 from Adam and 1 from Boyce as we cruise into the next round

IPD - Salthill 3-0 Drogheda - 2 more from Adam and 1 for Magennis. Good performance. Paul keegan did miss a peno which is disappointing.

ISC - St. Pats 1-4 Salthill - Adam brace in easy win.

Daniel o'Reilly signs after being spotted by scouts than this happens. Than out of the blue comes an interesting offer.... tbh I really don't know what to do. Never thought I'd get an offer of this stature and even though their a champ side its quite a big offer and money I could only dream of at Salthill. Going to have to think this over..........

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TAKE IT! Would be a good oppurtinity to prove your worth at a bigger level

OD makes the move

P OD has joined West Bromwich Albion on a 5 year deal increasing his wage from £300 per week to a heft £17k.

West Brom

Sad and all as I was to part from Devon West Brom were a huge step up and a job I never expected to be offered. Relegated from the premiership I inherited a premier level squad to compete in the championship. The board offered me £11m to reach the playoffs but when I said I was going to win the championship it was increased to £13m. Time to do damage.

Uefa Co-Ef: ---

Club Rep: 2.5* -

Club Value: £65m

Competition: English Championship

Media Prediction: 6th (of 24)

Season Ticket Sales: 21,144

English League Rankings

Premier League: 1st - 4.5*

Championship: 22nd - 3*

National Team Ranking: England - 5th

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Squad

In goal we had the quite good Frank Fielding with decent cover in Johan Dalin.

In defence we had plenty of players good enough for the prem never mind championship. The star of the defence and team was easily ex Man City defender Dedryk Boyata, left back Lionel Carole was easily another of the strongest.

The midfield tended to revolve around Graham Dorrans again a player whose ability is superior to the championship average but we had an overabundance of wingers who were quite strong but needed to be moved on as I play 433.

Up top again the quality was good. Kermit Erasmum, Shane Long and Emmanuel Adebayor looked like an impressive front 3 while cover was limited.

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July & August 2015

Lots of comings during July and goings over the two month and I was delighted with our squad. thrilled to hold on to most our top talent through the window.

Players In:
Hamza Veenboer - Defensive Midfield - Chelsea - £6.25m
Lenny Nangis - Striker/Winger - Manchester City - £2.5m
Sean Allen - Striker - AIK - £2.1m (sent on loan to Croatia to get WP)
Marcao - Central Midfield - Jeju - £3m
Kasper Schmichael - Goalkeeper - Leicester City - £2.1m

Total Spending: £16m

Players Out:
Djalma - Hull City - £2.8m
Alex Chipciu - Blackpool - £4.2m
Dusan Svento - Norwich - £3.1m
Denis Krklic - Stoke - £110k
James Hurst - Leicester City - £240k
Chris Wood - Napoli - £170k
Espen Ruud - Sunderland - £400k
Ivan Ivanov - Lazio - £2.6m
Sean Allen - Slaven Belupo - Loan
Jack Colback - Watford - Loan £230k
Tal Ben-Haim - Released
Lateef Elford-Alliyu - Released
Joel Ambalu - Released
Keiron Metcalfe - Released
Barry Law - Released

Total Recieved: £13.75m

So into the new season we went all guns blazing and hoping for a good start and possible promotion push.

Results

Champ - West Brom 5-0 Norwich - Opening day demolition of Norwich gets us off to a flyer. Braces for new signing Nangis and RB Boyata plus Adebayor's strike put us top after Rd.1

LgCup - West Brom 4-0 Plymouth - 2 goals for Beric as we coast through.

Champ - Bristol City 0-5 West Brom - nangis opener an Ade hattrick and superb Dorrans freekick destroys City. Sub Long gets our first red of the season.

Champ - West Brom 1-1 Wigan - 1 down at half time and things got worse with a red card for Carole on the hour. Rescued in the 89th minute through a Dorrans penalty

Champ - Sheffield United 0-5 West Brom - 2 from Adebayor as we hand out our 3rd 5 goal thrashing in 4 league games.

LgCup - Scunthorpe 1-5 West Brom - Brace for Erasmus in simple win.

Champ - West Brom 3-1 Colchester - Goals were shared as we eased to 3-0 lead before a late consolation for Colchester.

Round Up

A brilliant start to the season saw us sit top of the championship on goal difference from a Christian Eriksson inspired Birmingham. Our massive goal difference being the seperator. We sat on +17, Birmingham on +6. Leicester and Ipswich sat 3rd and 4th. Adebayor who was in the reserves when I arrived leads the goal charts with 7 in 5 league appearances and 2 in the League Cup from 2 sub appearances.

I suggest trying to get your thread names changed with an admin

I suggest trying to get your thread names changed with an admin

true haha. although I intend to go back there and win the champs league to round off a glorious career. My manager turned 74 this year haha so he should be about 1645 when I achieve it.

Been to Salthill a few times. Lovely place. Did not know they have a football team.

Been to Salthill a few times. Lovely place. Did not know they have a football team.

Lovely spot alright. Used to live there while at college. The team only recently joined the Irish league with the re-structuring. Before that they were essentially just one of the better sunday league sides.

September

Champ - Millwall 1-8 West Brom - That'll teach you to keep your mouth shut Mr. Thompson. Nangis hattrick and a brace for Long.

Champ - Southampton 0-3 West Brom - Dorrans and Boyata sink our promotion rivals before Nangis puts a flattering sheen on the result.

Note: Shane Long will miss 2 weeks through injury.

LgCup - West Brom 2-0 Leicester City - 2 goals from Ade, a red card for Lopes and an injury to Marcao in an incident packed first half. Thankfully incident free 2nd period as we ease into the last 16.

Champ - West Brom 3-1 Brighton - Comfy win, with the only blemish Schmichael coming out of the goal and stupidly running past the ball to allow their consolation.

Champ - West Brom 1-1 QPR - A poor 1st half showing saw us deservedly trail but a superb second saw Ade equalise and we were unlucky not to win.

Round Up

At the end of September ourselves and Birmingham were still inseperable at the top of the championship, only our goal difference being the difference. The gap had now opened to 6 points to 3rd placed Leicester with Colchester sitting in 4th a further point behind. I also picked up my 2nd consecutive manager of the month award for my hard work.

October 2015

Champ - MK Dons 1-0 West Brom - A tight first half finished goalless but the Dons took the lead early in the 2nd. Things got tougher when after making 3 subs Carole limped off. Despite our strongest efforts our 10 men couldn't find a way through.

Champ - Derby 0-1 West Brom - Ade put us ahead in the 80th minute of a tight game and it was backs to the wall for the final 10 minutes, Boyata having to head off the line as Derby probably deserved an equaliser.

Champ - West Brom 3-0 Leicester - 2 from Ade and 1 from Long as we took a huge step back to form.

Champ - Portsmouth 0-3 West Brom - An og and an Ade finish decided a tight contest at Pompey before Long added a 3rd late on.

LgCup - Aston Villa 0-1 West Brom - A brilliant win, Ciaran Clarks 92nd minute og putting us through to the quarter finals.

League Cup Last 8 Draw

West Brom v Sunderland, Arsenal v Chelsea, Man City v Tottenham, Reading v Wolves

So the 4 of the big guns will be down to 2 and if we can sneak by Sunderland it'd be nice to draw the winner of Reading and Wolves.

Champ - West Brom 3-0 Burnley - 2 for Ade and one for Marcao as 3rd place are easily dispatched.

Round Up

Despite our brilliant start to the season, Birmingham lead us by 3 points at the end of October. They capatilised on our defeat to MK Dons and matched us stride for stride since. The ever widening gap to the playoff is 10 points to 3rd place Colchester and 12 to Burnley. On to November and at the end of the month a huge trip to Birmingham.