LOI rumours etc

dreamers75 · 28-10-2010 9:35pm

Lamper.sffc wrote: »

We are trying to redress the balance in the league as Pats do nothing else but hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof the ball forward. Of course mahon would have us all believe that pats play good attractive football.

And its 3 midfielders B!tch:p

We did the fancy football thing for a bit came 2nd a lot, looked nice Ndo Fahey and Keane etc: . Rovers have it mastered it tho top of the league with "cultural" football.

CSF · 28-10-2010 9:43pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

/Onto the rumours Gannon wont be ploughing money into Fingal next season due to his umm other financial commitments. So firesale? Anyone want 4 fancy midfielders who dont actually play the ball forward but are easy on the eye? Do Rovers have enough midfielders?

Believe Crowe is subject to a bidding war between Roma and Mizzonis.

I was wondering why I wasn't seeing Fingal linked to any of the players. Do you think there is truth in that rumour? I'd expected them to be the main beneficiaries of the Phibsborough exodus.

frantic190 · 28-10-2010 9:57pm

Winter football :pac:

Has its benefits, but it has its drawbacks too (see above). Nothing like a night on the terraces in Morton or Carlisle to change our minds about it, I like going to the odd match in a pair of shorts. The atmosphere used to be great under floodlights though.

dreamers75 · 28-10-2010 10:00pm

frantic190 wrote: »

Winter football :pac:

Summer football :pac:

Your points here are seriously winning me over :pac:

frantic190 · 28-10-2010 10:02pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Summer football :pac:

Your points here are seriously winning me over :pac:

That was a bad day alright

oldyouth · 28-10-2010 10:20pm

Looking out at the weather tonight, I shudder to think about attendances and the quality of pitches if we were only 10 games in to a LOI season. Let's face it, most teams struggle to put a passing movement together on a calm dry evening, let alone on a wet windy one.

Summer football gives a chance for families to attend a game together (and so introduce the next generation to the beautiful game), whereas winter football only attracts the hardened supporter.

dreamers75 · 28-10-2010 10:24pm

oldyouth wrote: »

Looking out at the weather tonight, I shudder to think about attendances and the quality of pitches if we were only 10 games in to a LOI season. Let's face it, most teams struggle to put a passing movement together on a calm dry evening, let alone on a wet windy one.

Summer football gives a chance for families to attend a game together (and so introduce the next generation to the beautiful game), whereas winter football only attracts the hardened supporter.

So after 7 years why are our(i means everyones Rovers the anomally here granted) attendances lower than when we began? Why are the kids that actually go the ones of the parents who were going there anyway?

Clubs are trying http://stpatsfc.com/news.php?id=4025 sure others have the same things going on.

monkey9 · 28-10-2010 10:33pm

Jaysus, the Morton in December!!! :eek:

My only hope would be that it would be too cold to rain!!

I'd still go though!! :rolleyes::rolleyes:

dreamers75 · 28-10-2010 10:47pm

monkey9 wrote: »

Jaysus, the Morton in December!!! :eek:

My only hope would be that it would be too cold to rain!!

I'd still go though!! :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Been there and outnumbered the home support there :pac::D Was many years ago, my fondest memory is Marcus Hallows skins 2 defenders on the edge of the box hes tru one on one, drifts wide of the onrushing keeper with some serious sublime skill, then runs into the ****ing post nearly knocking himself un ****ing concsious. Rovers win 2-1 and i start to hate that ****ing elvis impersonsator. Oh how how happy i was when told we we siging Sligos goal machine believing it to be Padraig Moran. Oh how unhappy i was when Hallows modelled a jersey

Hallows = Waste of a pair of football boots.

his actual job at 29.

stovelid · 28-10-2010 11:26pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Summer football has cost every club attendances (even rovers :eek: )

??

dfx- · 28-10-2010 11:55pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Summer football :pac:

Your points here are seriously winning me over :pac:

I could bet that you'll find a lot more examples in Winter than Summer than just one..

Drogheda last week at Tallaght
Pats first game at Tallaght
Jaguars game at Tallaght last season
Bray away pre-season

Ferris_Bueller · 29-10-2010 1:21am

Should probably be seperate threads for the whole summwer/winter season argument and actual LoI rumours.

oldyouth · 29-10-2010 7:58am

dreamers75 wrote: »

So after 7 years why are our(i means everyones Rovers the anomally here granted) attendances lower than when we began? Why are the kids that actually go the ones of the parents who were going there anyway?

Because facilities, generally, are not up to the standard the public require these days. But inferior facilities are more tolerable in June than they are in January

stovelid · 29-10-2010 9:42am

At the end of the day, something extra is needed to push the matches out to families/kids/newbs and summer football helps that.

Certainly in Tallaght it has.

Some can laugh and say the hardcore like winter football and that who wants new blood but you know....do we want to attract new people to the league or not. I'm not even talking about ingrained barstoolers, but families, kids and younger supporters that drop in and end up getting what it's all about like has happened in Tallaght

GLaDOS · 29-10-2010 10:34am

Personally I definitely want to stick with summer football

Paulw · 29-10-2010 10:48am

One of the Fingal forwards is most likely leaving at the end of season and is in discussions about playing overseas. Info direct from the horses mouth, so to speak.

CiaranC · 29-10-2010 12:29pm

dreamers75 wrote: »

Yes.

Everyone got more before it. Product hasnt changed.

Have you any actual proof of this?

Ferris_Bueller · 29-10-2010 1:34pm

I can't see why people would want to change back to a winter league, what benefits has it got going for it? Despite things not being great right now, I think winter football would just make things even worse, there's a fat chance of someone whos never gone to a LoI game going on a night where its minus 5 outside or lashing rain.

We have performed better in Europe since the change (maybe coincidence), but why risk going backwards? It's also nice to still have football on during the summer when all other leagues are over. I just cannot see why we would change back.

FreeOSCAR · 29-10-2010 2:45pm

Paulw wrote: »

One of the Fingal forwards is most likely leaving at the end of season and is in discussions about playing overseas. Info direct from the horses mouth, so to speak.

Ah im sure he will do well in the Libyan league.

More than likely Crowe will be gone and apparently Gary O'Neill still hasn't been offered a new deal yet.

BOHtox · 30-10-2010 2:58pm

Looks like Dundalk will have a good squad next year:
Wayne Hatswell
Ross Gaynor
Daniel Kearns
Simon Madden
Dean Bennett
Stephen Maher
Peter Cherrie

All re-signed. Would It be fair to say they're their best 7.

Lamper.sffc · 30-10-2010 4:46pm

FreeOSCAR wrote: »

Ah im sure he will do well in the Libyan league.

More than likely Crowe will be gone and apparently Gary O'Neill still hasn't been offered a new deal yet.

Yeah. It has to be Zayed. Fingal and Zayed never quite fit. He was always in and out of the team and a lot of the time looked un-interested. Thats said he was easily on of the best finishers iv seen in the league and would constantly score with his first chance on goal. Not a total loss but I guess it depends on who we get to replace him.

frantic190 · 31-10-2010 1:49am

Conor Powell has left the club, perhaps the rumour he is going to Pats is true. He left along with Killian Brennan, Jason Byrne, Mark Quigley, Mark Rossiter and Jason McGuinness.

BOHtox · 31-10-2010 6:37pm

Jason McGuiness
Killian Brennan
Mark Rossiter
Mark Quigley
Anto Murphy
Jason Byrne
Connor Powell

All released from Bohs.
We have 8-12 players contracted for next year

iregk · 31-10-2010 8:48pm

Gavin shels wrote: »

BOOM!

May have been the sun but it is true.

http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/4605/

also in this...

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/too-little-too-late-for-fenlons-men-2400506.html

So once again BOOM!

super_furry · 01-11-2010 4:02pm

"Fenlon content to stay"

I'm sure he is and let's not have any silly talk of any kind of pay cut either.

pablomakaveli · 01-11-2010 4:04pm

I don't know. He could easily get a job across the water where he would'nt have the hassle of working with a severly reduced squad and budget.

Sure Bohs could always take Roddy back.:D

GLaDOS · 01-11-2010 4:12pm

I expect Fenlon to apply anywhere and everywhere, can't see him staying and probably for the best (financially) if he doesn't

stovelid · 01-11-2010 4:18pm

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I expect Fenlon to apply anywhere and everywhere, can't see him staying and probably for the best (financially) if he doesn't

Roddy - waiting pensively beside the phone, yesterday.

Töpher · 01-11-2010 4:31pm

Nothing a bit of plastering won't solve there, love.

dfx- · 01-11-2010 4:55pm

stovelid wrote: »

Roddy - waiting pensively beside the phone, yesterday.

"Sorry Mr. Delaney, we've appointed Roddy, so relegation is obviously not possible"

dreamers75 · 01-11-2010 5:23pm

Fenlon owed a few quid there prolly best for him to say nowt for the moment.

Tallaght Saint · 01-11-2010 5:28pm

Rumours of Conor Kenna joining rovers are gathering pace.

Meanwhile, Dave McAllister has apparently told Rovers to **** off as he wants to stay in Inchicore

holidaysong · 01-11-2010 5:41pm

BOHtox wrote: »

Looks like Dundalk will have a good squad next year:
Wayne Hatswell
Ross Gaynor
Daniel Kearns
Simon Madden
Dean Bennett
Stephen Maher
Peter Cherrie

All re-signed. Would It be fair to say they're their best 7.

Dean Bennett isn't all that great. Not sure why he was re-signed. Two of our better players Faz Kuduzovic and Tom Miller haven't re-signed and are looking to try their hands abroad. The other 6 there that have re-signed are key for us though.

Neither of our centre backs (Gary Breen and Liam Burns) have re-signed yet so it's unclear what's happening in this vital part of the team. Burns held out for a better contract this time last year so wouldn't be surprised if he's playing hard ball again this year. Would love to see McGuinness from Bohs sign for us.

dreamers75 · 01-11-2010 6:06pm

Tallaght Saint wrote: »

Rumours of Conor Kenna joining rovers are gathering pace.

Hasnt signed for either of us, but would assume whoever pays him over the winter will get him (he did turn us down for more money at drogs last season) see no reason why he wouldnt again. He better sort it by the POTY night

Tallaght Saint · 01-11-2010 6:11pm

If he wins POTY i'd like to think he'd stay

Paulw · 01-11-2010 10:27pm

I heard a few good ones today -

Fingal are to play in Dalymount next season, not Morton.
Fingal are short of funds due to Nama and Gannon, so the team will be part-time.
Fingal are out of money so the club won't exist next season at all.
Fingal have found a new backer for next season and are already looking at some new players.

Take your pick.

Töpher · 01-11-2010 10:35pm

You say that as if they were jokes and there's nothing to be worried about... Except the last one, that's obviously in there for comedic effect :pac:

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I'd have money on Morton not hosting any Fingal games next season, for starters.

dreamers75 · 01-11-2010 11:03pm

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-2010-2402168.html

Mac Allister should be on the ones to watch list.

Banner of the year.....yay!!!

pablomakaveli · 01-11-2010 11:12pm

172 Total goals conceded by Galway clubs Mervue United and Salthill Devon in the First Division over the course of the league campaign

Thats a pretty depressing stat for those clubs.

Pineapple stu · 01-11-2010 11:20pm

Töpher wrote: »

You say that as if they were jokes and there's nothing to be worried about... Except the last one, that's obviously in there for comedic effect :pac:

I'd have money on Morton not hosting any Fingal games next season, for starters.

Forget Paddy Powers, i'll take your money on that one

BOHtox · 01-11-2010 11:23pm

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Thats a pretty depressing stat for those clubs.

They bring nothing to the league and the three Galway clubs should merge. Then promote Cobh and X. Creating new clubs to fill the spaces in the A championship. Maybe a Kildare team or Kerry or or north Cork or Clare or something like that

Pinturicchio · 01-11-2010 11:54pm

BOHtox wrote: »

They bring nothing to the league and the three Galway clubs should merge.

No thanks.

herbieflowers · 02-11-2010 12:10am

BOHtox wrote: »

the three Galway clubs should merge.

That will never happen.

bUILDERtHEbOB · 02-11-2010 1:29am

BOHtox wrote: »

They bring nothing to the league and the three Galway clubs should merge.

Not a hope, Salthill and Mervue are the biggest clubs in town.

Pineapple stu · 02-11-2010 7:34pm

There already was a Kildare team.

BOHtox · 02-11-2010 8:56pm

Pineapple stu wrote: »

There already was a Kildare team.

I know, but it was in Newbridge. I would put the new one in Naas.

Pineapple stu · 02-11-2010 11:08pm

What would a matter of a few miles achieve ?

BOHtox · 02-11-2010 11:10pm

Pineapple stu wrote: »

What would a matter of a few miles achieve ?

3,000 more people in the town+bigger surrounding areas

dan1895 · 02-11-2010 11:12pm

Why would you want to parachute another made up franchise team into the league ahead of teams that have been around for years?

Pineapple stu · 02-11-2010 11:14pm

If they didnt travel a few miles down the road, then they wont when its on their door step. If they supported Kildare county then they would have come from all over the county and not just Newbridge and Naas.

LOI rumours etc

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