Quote from: referee on November 17, 2023, 07:05:49 PMTotally agree G&T,earn your spot in the div ,both teams finished 2 & 3 in div 2 fs,look at what happened in the div 1 versus div 2 relegation/promotion game last year when Aghagallon had been on the tear most off that week and still won at a canter,that was the true barometer
Poor example.
Aghagllon championship team very different to their league team last year.
Had they all their players available they would have been pushing for winning division 1.
You say they had been on the tear all week but totally ignore the fact Ballymena had not played a competitive game in weeks, maybe months, when they were asked to play a Championship finalist with all the sharpness that brings. And early sending off didn't help either.
But had Ballymena been asked to play a genuine bottom Div 1 team the week after their last league fixture they would have had a really strong chance.
Teams coming up from Div 2 will struggle to break top half but if we look at it the other way round, most teams coming down to Div 2 in recent years have sunk like a stone.