Irish American Football Association DV8 Development League 2008

Enda Mulcahy

6 years ago

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League Table

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA	BP	Pts
*Cork Admirals 2nds	6	5	1	0	145	25	5	25
*Dublin Rebels 2nds	6	5	1	0	176	27	4	24
Craigavon Cowboys	6	5	1	0	228	70	4	24
Dublin Dragons	6	2	4	0	149	197	3	11
TCD Thunderbolts	6	1	5	0	79	192	1	5
Edenderry Soldiers	6	0	6	0	32	282	1	1

Note: 4 Pts Win. 1 Bonus Point for scoring three touchdowns. 1 Bonus Point for losing by less than 7 Points. Teams can gain two Bonus Points in one match.

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Final
08.2008	Cork Admirals 2nds	30	Dublin Rebels 2nds	0

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
09.03.08	Craigavon Cowboys	67	Edenderry Soldiers	6
	Week 3
20.03.08	Cork Admirals 2nds	22	Edenderry Soldiers	0
	Week 5
05.04.08	Craigavon Cowboys	45	TCD Thunderbolts	12
06.04.08	Cork Admirals 2nds	24	Dublin Dragons	0
	Week 7
19.04.08	TCD Thunderbolts	8	Craigavon Cowboys	52
19.04.08	Dublin Dragons	34	Edenderry Soldiers	6
20.04.08	Dublin Rebels 2nds	12	Cork Admirals 2nds	6
	Week 8
28.04.08	Edenderry Soldiers	0	Dublin Rebels 2nds	65
	Week 9
04.05.08	Dublin Rebels 2nds	39	TCD Thunderbolts	8
	Week 10
11.05.08	TCD Thunderbolts	51	Dublin Dragons	20
	Week 11
18.05.08	TCD Thunderbolts	0	Cork Admirals 2nds	14
	Week 12
25.05.08	TCD Thunderbolts	0	Dublin Rebels 2nds	22
25.05.08	Edenderry Soldiers	20	Dublin Dragons	60
	Week 13
01.06.08	Dublin Dragons	13	Craigavon Cowboys	51
	Week 14
08.06.08	Craigavon Cowboys	0	Dublin Rebels 2nds	25
	Week 15
14.06.08	Dublin Dragons	13	Cork Admirals 2nds	45
14.06.08	Dublin Rebels 2nds	6	Craigavon Cowboys	13
	Week 16
06.07.08	Edenderry Soldiers	0	Cork Admirals 2nds	34

Venues

Team	Home Ground
Craigavon Cowboys	Brownlow Sports Complex, Craigavon
Cork Admirals 2nds	Douglas Community School, Cork Carrigaline Rugby Club, Cork
Dublin Dragons	ALSAA, Dublin Airport Lucan Community College, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Rebels 2nds	Sportslink, Dublin
Edenderry Soldiers	Edenderry FC, Edenderry, Co. Offaly
TCD Thunderbolts	Lucan Community College, Co. South Dublin Tallaght RFC pitch at National Basketball Arena, Tallaght

Report

The first DV8 Development League was extremely competitive, with Cork Admirals 2nds, Dublin Rebels 2nds and Craigavon Cowboys all finishing on 5-1 Records. The Admirals and Rebels qualified for the Final, which was won by the Admirals 2nds 30-0.

Dublin Dragons dropped down to the DV8 Development League in order to rebuild and managed two wins against newcomers Edenderry Soldiers from Co. Offaly. The other new team, Trinity College Dublin Thunderbolts won one game against the Dragons.

About

The DV8 Development League was an 8-a-side fully kitted league and was set up in 2008 with two main aims: (1) To give teams in the Irish Regions a chance to play Competitive Football while building up their kit & player numbers and (2) to enable 2nds teams of bigger IAFL teams in the main league to field 2nds teams.

References

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Internet Archive

[2] Irish American Football Association – Wayback Machine (2014) Home [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20081023215441/http://www.americanfootball.ie/ [Accessed 25 March 2017]

Images

[1] Irish American Football Association (2010) IAFA Logo [Internet] Available from: http://www.americanfootball.ie/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IAFA.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

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Last Updated: 13 May 2019