Ballyboughal
Castleknock
Clontarf
Kilmacud Crokes B
Na Fianna B
Naomh Fhionbarra
Naomh Mearnog
Naomh Olaf
Raheny
Round Towers C
Round Towers Lusk
Scoil Ui Chonnaill
St Marys
St Patricks P
St Sylvesters
Whitehall Colmcille
Div 2 looking a lot stronger this year, think the gap between the top teams and everyone else is getting wider again.
N. Mearnog, Round Towers C, Naomh Olaf & Clontarf in the Top 4 for me
St Pats could struggle this year & Whitehall possibly as well, Scoils window is closing IMO but maybe new manager could breath new life into them
Castleknock and Syls will be there or there abouts come the end of the year. Marys as well who finished strong last year and have a young enough team. They might get hit in the summer is the only problem with such a young team
I would possibly have Olafs and Syls ahead of Castleknock considering Kilkenny will be missing for the bulk of their games.
I expect Raheny to finish midtable as they are stretched thin by the loss of Fenton and Howard plus the strain of hurling as well which seemed to effect them last year anyway
Also as Pastit said, it is only top 4 in contention to go up
Ah right, thinking the old system ha. Might be right about raheny, just think castlknock still have some excellent players and are still stronger than the rest.
Few people saying the relegated Div1 teams to go straight back up. Not sure why other then because they were Div 1?
Decided to check previous relegated teams records and a bit surprsing
AFL1
AFL2
2014
2015
St Patricks D
Relagation
12th
St Marys
Relagation
10th
2015
2016
Parnells
Relagation
Relagation
TSS
Relagation
6th
2016
2017
Raheny
Relagation
5th (Lost Playoff SF)
Ravens
Relagation
8th
2017
2018
Skerries
Relegation
4th - (Won Playoff Final)
Clontarf
Relegation
10th
TSS & Skerries both back up now, but skerries going up via playoff & TSS took a few years to recover. Skerries probably unlucky to be relegated in the first place (how often does a team draw 5 games in a season?)
Ravens, St Pats P & Raheny both down the bottom of Div 2 last year with Pats & Ravens playing each other in the relegation playoff (Ravens in Div 3 now)
Clontarf struggled last year but, along with Marys seem to be at home in Div 2
Parnells are Parnells
So, on history, the Div 1 teams don’t seem to have it all their own way once they come down. They get relegated for a reason
Pats had reached there peak and were on a decline.
Mary’s again were in transition and struggling needed time to rebuild and get young lads through.
Clontarf and Parnells both went a year without winning a game not sure why people would have tipped them to go back up.
Raheny and TSS loosing their core to Dublin. So hats of to TSS. Big year for them.
I think Syls have enough quality to come back up if they can toughen up as there are some difficult games in Div2. I’m not sure were CK but i would think they have plenty of players coming through to be a div1 club.
Not going on the fact that they were in Div 1 last year. Syls prob unlucky with the extra team going down last year. Four points separating Ballymun in 6th and Syls in the playoff with seven teams in-between. they should have enough to come back up based on champ performances last year, but we shall see.
