Northern Ireland Carnegie Premier 23rd feb

[Finn McCool]

Northern Ireland Premier

23 Feb 15:00 Coleraine v Crusaders 2.25 3.40 2.62
23 Feb 15:00 Donegal Celtic v Linfield 6.00 4.50 1.40
23 Feb 15:00 Dungannon Swifts v Ballymena Utd 2.25 3.25 2.75
23 Feb 15:00 Glenavon v Limavady United 1.90 3.25 3.50
23 Feb 15:00 Institute v Cliftonville 6.00 4.00 1.44
23 Feb 15:00 Larne v Portadown 5.00 3.60 1.57
23 Feb 15:00 Lisburn Distillery v Armagh City 1.57 3.60 5.00
23 Feb 15:00 Newry City v Glentoran 4.50 3.50 1.66
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Carnegie Irish Premier Division : Table
20 Feb 21:53
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Team P W D L F A W D L F A GD PTS
1 Linfield 21 10 1 0 25 5 7 1 2 27 11 36 53

2 Cliftonville 21 8 3 0 26 13 7 2 1 14 4 23 50
3 Glentoran 21 7 2 1 22 9 7 2 2 27 11 29 46
4 Lisburn Distillery 21 6 2 3 14 6 6 2 2 25 16 17 40
5 Portadown 21 7 0 4 20 16 4 2 4 12 8 8 35
6 Ballymena 21 5 3 3 14 14 5 1 4 16 14 2 34
7 Newry 21 4 3 3 15 15 5 0 6 19 20 -1 30
8 Coleraine 21 4 2 4 14 18 4 3 4 11 16 -9 29
9 Dungannon Swifts 21 4 3 4 20 18 2 3 5 9 14 -3 24
10 Crusaders 20 4 2 3 14 12 2 4 5 12 21 -7 24
11 Armagh City 21 3 3 5 13 17 2 2 6 11 17 -10 20
12 Institute 21 2 4 4 8 10 2 2 7 9 19 -12 18
13 Donegal Celtic 21 2 2 6 12 16 2 4 5 10 19 -13 18
14 Glenavon 21 2 0 8 11 18 3 2 6 15 18 -10 17
15 Larne 20 2 2 7 18 28 2 2 5 9 20 -21 16
16 Limavady 21 2 2 6 6 17 1 2 8 6 24 -29 13

[Goose]

few ideas on what i think will happen in the irish league this weekend:
coleraine v crusaders-very tight match but i will have to swing the advantage to the home team tho it could very easily go either way (prediction 2-1)
donegal celtic v linfield-this is a walk in the park for linfield,if they dont walk away with the 3 points here then i am a cats uncle (prediction 0-4)
dungannon swifts v ballymena utd-at first glance i thought that this one will be a draw but in giving it a second thought i will back ballymena utd to snatch this one (prediction 0-1)
glenavon v limavady-what ever happened to glenavon? once one of the biggest teams in this irish league and now relegation strugglers,this game has a draw written all over it. it'll take an rare great performance from either of these teams to win here but unfortunately i cant see that happening (prediction 1-1)
institute v cliftonville-cliftonville will i believe travel away from home, bag themselves 3 points and travel home again without even breaking a sweat (prediction 0-2)
larne v portadown-after last weekend v armagh i hope portadown bounce back with a storming display and take larne to the cleaners (prediction 1-5)
lisburn distillery v armagh city-well they drew with portadown last weekend but teams get a wee bit of luck from time to time,cant see them upsetting distillery (prediction 3-1)
newry city v glentoran-another tough match to call,could go either way but i'm backing glentoran (prediction 0-2)

well thats it,football is a funny game and we'll see how it goes

[Finn McCool]

On a local forum today

Originally Posted by whataboutye
£1250 on linfield, glens, distillery and c/ville..... the misses will fecking hang me if i loose this

[Finn McCool]

Wayne Buchnan is available again for Lisburn Distillery after serving a suspension as the Whites hope to continue their good run.
Paul Kirk's men have not lost in the league since November, winning 11 and drawing four to rise to fourth place.

"We are not going to win league titles, so the next best thing is a place in Europe or the Setanta Cup," said Kirk.

"We have nine matches left and if we can get 20 points we will not be far away from achieving something."

Distillery @ 1.57 are my nap of the week

Coleraine @2.25 can take the C'rues who have won 2/11 away so far

Cliftonville @1.44 must win at 'Stute to keep on the tails of L'field who will win @ 1.40 away at strugglers Celtic.

Those are my 4 tips this weekend C'raine ,Distillery,Linfield and Cliftonville .
# cover C'raine with the Draw @3.40 for 2 fourfolds .

[Cinny]

For me Linfield against a poor DC outfit, Distillery who have been playing super recently and im going to take portadown to grab a win at larne they were unlucky lst week vs armagh getting a man sent off and then ended up drawing. Cliftonville should beat a poor stute team that newry beat 2-0 last week

Linfield, Distillery, Cliftonville and Portadown

have a sneaky felling we can get something vs glentoran tho!

[Finn McCool]

Binfield cost a lot of favourite backers a pretty packet with Celt's scoring a last min equaliser with their only direct shot in 90 mins.

[Cinny]

Cost a lot in the local a neat amount, done me out of my irish league teams and a 7 team accumulator!!