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Man Utd. Legends -v- Liverpool Legends @ Tolka Park

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,173 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Have to say I'm surprised with the quality of players there,wasn't expecting it at all when I opened the link,be a good match to go and see I'd say!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Rya Houghton. Hmmmm, never rated him.

    Mike.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,122 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


    Ben Thornley!!!! he played about 10 mins for United. Legend me bumbum


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,985 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/18004099DA172DEF?artistid=965676&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=10004

    Tickets are pricey. For anyone going parking is scarce around Tolka.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,173 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    http://www.ticketmaster.ie/event/18004099DA172DEF?artistid=965676&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=10004

    Tickets are pricey. For anyone going parking is scarce around Tolka.
    Nice apperance fee for them so!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,985 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    kmart6 wrote: »
    Nice apperance fee for them so!

    And hopefully a few bob to Shels for us letting the stadium be used during our season*.





    * Next home game is Friday against Wexford Youths, kick-off 8pm. Tickets are €15 Adult, €10 Student and €5 child. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,173 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Shel's paying you for that?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,985 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    kmart6 wrote: »
    Shel's paying you for that?!



    It's Shels, and no (as they say every little helps).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    Hmmmmm.

    How do the militant EL fans feel about this one?

    Is it like the 39th game for old me?:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    Eirebear wrote: »
    Hmmmmm.

    How do the militant EL fans feel about this one?

    Is it like the 39th game for old me?:D

    All for it. Nice money for the club.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,173 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    It's Shels, and no (as they say every little helps).
    What a little thing to pick on!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    DSB wrote: »
    All for it. Nice money for the club.

    Selling out to the Premiership "Legends"? Think how many people will turn up to that who never go near an EL ground in general...and probably wont afterwards.
    I wouldnt mind if they were playing a Shelbourne side, but Liverpool V Man Utd just reeks of growing the premiership "brand"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    Eirebear wrote: »
    Selling out to the Premiership "Legends"? Think how many people will turn up to that who never go near an EL ground in general...and probably wont afterwards.
    I wouldnt mind if they were playing a Shelbourne side, but Liverpool V Man Utd just reeks of growing the premiership "brand"

    Given Shelbourne's recent and ongoing financial difficulties, shafting the barstoolers for a few quid doesn't exactly count as selling at all. If you think a few washed up ex-pros are going to help grow the Premiership brand then you're fairly deluded.

    Hopefully people will turn up to Eircom League games afterwards. I wouldn't bet on it though and to be honest its not like we've anything to lose in that respect anyways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,985 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    mike65 wrote: »
    Rya Houghton. Hmmmm, never rated him.

    Mike.

    I'd love to go along, if only to shout at Hindsight Houghton, yes thats right Ray, you should have shot instead of passing, and passed when you shot. Sweet revenge for your inane commentating. ;)

    PS. Whoever updates the Shels website, you do some proof reading.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    DSB wrote: »
    Given Shelbourne's recent and ongoing financial difficulties, shafting the barstoolers for a few quid doesn't exactly count as selling at all. If you think a few washed up ex-pros are going to help grow the Premiership brand then you're fairly deluded.

    Hopefully people will turn up to Eircom League games afterwards. I wouldn't bet on it though and to be honest its not like we've anything to lose in that respect anyways.

    Deluded?
    So the people who turn up to that, and take their young impressionable kids with them, fill them with stories about the great of Man Utd and Liverpool and how its an amazing opportunity to see them in the flesh even if they are getting on a bit, and how its great that they think of their Irish fans in this way by playing a game over here etc etc.

    those kids arent gonna come away suppoting Shels are they?

    I understand the club need money, but its a dangerous game to play IMO


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Eirebear wrote: »
    Deluded?
    So the people who turn up to that, and take their young impressionable kids with them, fill them with stories about the great of Man Utd and Liverpool and how its an amazing opportunity to see them in the flesh even if they are getting on a bit, and how its great that they think of their Irish fans in this way by playing a game over here etc etc.

    those kids arent gonna come away suppoting Shels are they?

    I understand the club need money, but its a dangerous game to play IMO

    I think you talking a lot of bollox Eirebear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    kerash wrote: »
    I think you talking a lot of bollox Eirebear.

    Thanks for that fantastic addition to the conversation Kerash, im simply giving my opinion.


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,872 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Whoever wrote the lineups needs a few spelling lessons methinks. Also, I see Michael Thomas is doublejobbing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Eirebear wrote: »
    Thanks for that fantastic addition to the conversation Kerash, im simply giving my opinion.

    So am i, i thought i'd keep it simple. You're implying that it would do more harm that good to shels/eircom league, which is bollox imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    kerash wrote: »
    So am i, i thought i'd keep it simple. You're implying that it would do more harm that good to shels/eircom league, which is bollox imo.

    Why?

    In the short term they recieve money. Good, great.

    In the long term Man Utd and Liverpool fans who "picked" the team that they support after seeing them play on TV take their young kids along and they get to see their first taste of live football.

    How many of these dads will take them along to see Shels play? Very few i bet.

    If people can choose a team support because they seen them on TV once when they were five....how are they going to differ when they see their dad/uncle/brother enthusing about the "legends" in the flesh?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    Eirebear wrote: »
    Why?

    In the short term they recieve money. Good, great.

    In the long term Man Utd and Liverpool fans who "picked" the team that they support after seeing them play on TV take their young kids along and they get to see their first taste of live football.

    How many of these dads will take them along to see Shels play? Very few i bet.

    If people can choose a team support because they seen them on TV once when they were five....how are they going to differ when they see their dad/uncle/brother enthusing about the "legends" in the flesh?

    How would not putting this match on getting money for it help promote Shels anymore than not putting it on though?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    DSB wrote: »
    How would not putting this match on getting money for it help promote Shels anymore than not putting it on though?

    Thats the problem, a rock and a hard place etc etc.

    Im not trying to cause an argument here, i was honestly just wondering what peoples opinions on it were.

    I personally dont think it should be a habit EL clubs should be getting into, if its a one of then fine, if it becomes a regular thing then it really is asking for trouble.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    Eirebear wrote: »
    Thats the problem, a rock and a hard place etc etc.

    Im not trying to cause an argument here, i was honestly just wondering what peoples opinions on it were.

    I personally dont think it should be a habit EL clubs should be getting into, if its a one of then fine, if it becomes a regular thing then it really is asking for trouble.

    But theres no problem. This isn't a venture to promote Shelbourne FC as such. We have Leeds and Milwall coming over in the summer which are attempts to do that. This is a moneymaking venture and you can be sure the barstoolers will be in for this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    DSB wrote: »
    But theres no problem. This isn't a venture to promote Shelbourne FC as such. We have Leeds and Milwall coming over in the summer which are attempts to do that. This is a moneymaking venture and you can be sure the barstoolers will be in for this.

    But it could be a problem in the long term, for me all this is doing is giving Shelbourne some cash in order to promote Liverpool and Man Utd as football clubs that Irish supporters should follow.

    As i say, as a one of it wont cause too much ham, but if more EL clubs do it, or Shels do it on a regular basis then what kind of message does that send out?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,077 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    It's hardly a new thing though really. Shels have been hosting games like this for ages, along with those Dream Team friendlies that cropped up every year and also didn't involve a team from the club.

    I really don't see any problem with them making a few quid. Shels aren't exactly known for their sell out crowds so this is a way to balance that out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭Roar


    tickets for the game in cork selling very slowly from what i'm hearing..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    It's hardly a new thing though really. Shels have been hosting games like this for ages, along with those Dream Team friendlies that cropped up every year and also didn't involve a team from the club..

    But when that did happen, one of the team's playing was Shels. I agree in parts with what Eirebear is saying.. Aslong as it's a once off it's a good thing because it's taking money off the barstoolers. However, if it was to develop in to a yearly thing I don't know how people can't see how much of a bad thing it would be for for the EL's long term future.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,985 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Got some more info regarding tickets. They will be available from the offices at Tolka Park from Wednesday and will be available on Saturday before the game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,985 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Why are the ticket prices so weird?

    Adults €27.15
    Concessions €17.15
    Family (2 Adults/2 Children) €80.60


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