Carnegie Irish League 7/8 march.

[Finn McCool]

Northern Ireland Premier

07 Mar 20:00 Glentoran v Coleraine 1.40 3.75 7.00
08 Mar 15:00 Armagh City v Dungannon Swifts 2.80 3.20 2.20
08 Mar 15:00 Cliftonville v Donegal Celtic 1.40 3.75 7.00
08 Mar 15:00 Crusaders v Institute 1.80 3.20 4.00
08 Mar 15:00 Linfield v Larne 1.14 6.50 11.00
08 Mar 15:00 Glenavon v Newry City 3.50 3.20 1.90
08 Mar 15:00 Limavady United v Ballymena Utd 4.33 3.40 1.66
08 Mar 15:00 Portadown v Lisburn Distillery 2.20 3.20 2.80

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carnegie Premier League 2007/2008
Pos Team P W D L F A GD Pts
1 Linfield 22 17 3 2 53 17 36 54
2 Cliftonville 22 16 5 1 42 18 24 53
3 Glentoran 22 15 4 3 52 20 32 49
4 Lisburn Distillery 22 13 4 5 40 22 18 43
5 Portadown 22 12 2 8 34 25 9 38
6 Ballymena United 22 10 4 8 31 30 1 34
7 Newry City 22 9 3 10 34 38 -4 30
8 Coleraine 22 8 6 8 28 37 -9 30
9 Dungannon Swifts 22 7 6 9 31 33 -2 27
10 Crusaders 21 6 7 8 29 36 -7 25
11 Armagh City 22 5 5 12 24 35 -11 20
12 Donegal Celtic 22 4 7 11 21 35 -14 19
13 Institute 22 4 6 12 18 31 -13 18
14 Glenavon 22 5 2 15 26 39 -13 17
15 Larne 21 4 4 13 28 50 -22 16
16 Limavady United 22 4 4 14 14 39 -25 16

[Finn McCool]

Glentoran have a tough home game against a Coleraine team on a high after thrashing 'Stute 5-1 in the cup midweek.This is a game the Glen's cannot afford to loose as the top two teams are almost sure of win's on saturday. bANNSIDER fancies a draw @ 3.75

D'gannon @ 2.20 are a bit inconsistent but in the mood can win here.

Cliftonville @1.40 are much to strong allround team and despite D.C. having two great results the reds will get 3 pts.

Crusaders @ 1.80 will be trying hard to hold on to 10th place and not get sucked into the bottom 4 who will be relegated in a new 12 team league next year.'Stute got a walloping midweek and wont be looking forward to playing in the tight little pitch on the shore road.

Larne are in a real mess manager resigns-chairman resigns- manager reinstated, what's going on Linfield easy win @1.14

Glenavon v Newry both in a poor run look's like a booring draw.

Limavady are doomed unless they win this game against B'mena who are in freefall i've got a sneaking feeling L'vady @ 4.33 could upset the sheepmen.

Portadown v Distillery i'm going for a draw.

[kompressaur]

Morning Finn. Lets have a Pricewatch on your fancies this week...

Glentoran draw a stand-out 7/2 with Coral. As low as 13/5 with William Hill

D'gannon 2.30 with bwin and eastern european bookies

Cliftonville 1.50 with Betdirect, Betterbet and stan James. 1.30 in places

Crusaders 1.91 with Betdirect, Betterbet and stan James. 1.70 in places

Linfield short as ever all round.

Limavady 500 with Betterbet, Paddy Power and Stan James

Here's hoping its a good one for you Finn.

[Cinny]

Not too many facies this week for me but the one team i do think will win comfortably is Crusaders. They had a good win thrashing Larne last week and have picked up a good form over the past few games whereas Stute got thumped midweek by Coleraine in the cup replay and morale could be very low.

[Finn McCool]

Glentoran 2 - 1 ColeraineFriday 7th March

Tonight's rescheduled Carnegie Premier League game finished with a well earned 2-1 victory to the Glens. It was a hard fought game that saw the Glens take the lead through David Scullion on 56 minutes although having the better of the chances throughout the first half. It seemed as though the game would play out from here with a second goal on the cards, however Coleraine struck back from the penalty spot after Jamie McGovern was penalised for holding John Watt in the area. The equaliser put more spice into the game forcing both teams to go for the win, but the difference once again was Gary Hamilton. The top scorer Hamilton found himself on the end of a Jamie McGovern cross to head home for the Glen and sealing the victory and another vital 3 points. Tonight's result puts Glentoran just 2 points behind league leaders Linfield and one behind Cliftonville, however both teams have a game in hand.

[Finn McCool]

Carnegie Irish Premier results

ARMAGH CITY 0-1 DUNGANNON SWIFTS CLIFTONVILLE 5-1 DONEGAL CELTIC CRUSADERS 1-0 INSTITUTE GLENAVON 1-0 NEWRY CITY LIMAVADY UTD -P- BALLYMENA UTD LINFIELD 3-0 LARNE PORTADOWN 0-1 LIS DISTILLERY