Dream team strike force make Fenlon’s Reds the team to beat

AS the boy Yeatsy might have said about the new eircom league season, all is changed, changed utterly.

And he would have a case, at least in terms of the hugely increased prize fund and unprecedented television coverage attending the 2005 campaign, which kicks off tonight when champions Shelbourne host newly promoted UCD at Tolka Park (8pm).

But where the destiny of the title itself is concerned, even before a ball has been kicked it's hard to shake off the conviction that this could be more like Groundhog Season, with Shels firmly installed as red-hot favourites to secure three-in-a-row championship titles.