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Monday, September 30, 2024 - The late drama in Tolka Park was mirrored in the September monthly competition with St Patricks Athletic's winning goal earning five points for the September winner - you can see the final standings for the month here...

Carl Toner was looking to make it three weeks at the top of the overall standings - you can see how got on along with the rest of the contenders for the main prize here...

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - As well as a full programme of games on Friday night, we also have the long-awaited semi finals in our league cup competition - you can see the draw for the last four here...

Saturday, August 30, 2024 - Andy Dunne finished the month strongly to win the monthly prize for August - you can see the final standings for the month here...

Saturday, July 27, 2024 - It's well done to Greg Donaghy who won our monthly prize for July - you can see the final standings for the month here....

Saturday, June 29, 2024 - Once again we've ended up with two people sharing top spot on the monthly competition - you can see the final standings for June here...

Saturday, June 1, 2024 - The monthly competition for May ended up with two people sharing top spot - you can see the final standings for the month here...

Wednesday, April 30, 2024 - Francis Gilligan becomes our third monthly winner of the season - you can see the final standings for April here...

Saturday, April 13, 2024 - This week also sees the launch of the Tales from the East Stand mini league - you can see all the details on that one here...

Saturday, March 30, 2024 - Well done to Christopher Uzell who wins our second monthly competition of the season - you can see the final standings for March here...

Thursday, February 29, 2024 - Well done to Darragh Kenny and Ger Coppinger who shared top spot in our first monthly competition of the season. You can see the final standings for February by clicking here...

Saturday, February 17, 2024 - We've finished up with 93 taking part in this season's competition - easily the largest number in the fifth season I've run the competition. As a result we've a prize fund of over €900. You can see the full list of people taking part and the prizes available for 2024 on the entrants page...

   

How Does It All Work Then?
Points are earned from predicting the scorelines in each match in the 2024 SSE Airtricity Premier and First Divisions - for each game you'll get either zero, five or ten points depending how close you are to getting the scoreline exactly right.

Full details on the scoring system can be found on the fixtures page and the entry form page...

This year's entrance fee will be a tenner and can be paid via Revolut at 087-6879269.

All the tenners collected will go into the prize fund for the season. Prizes are on offer for monthly winners, cup competition winners and the overall leading positions at the end of the season.

A scores update is available on the site after every round of games along with a weekly email update. The weekly email update also contains a spreadsheet with your match by match scores. A fixtures reminder email is also sent out on a Wednesday night before each round of games.



 
 


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