Finn Harps Thread

Mr_A · 21-05-2010 1:39pm

Why would that need to happen?

The only one I can think of that would influence things would be a debt to the taxman as we could not proceed without a tax clearance cert, but that isn't an issue.

ootbitb · 30-05-2010 12:38am

thought tonight Harps played their best football this year. well played Brolly, who I thought was our best player tonight, after all the stick he received recently.

ootbitb · 16-07-2010 11:15pm

what's happened to the character selling half time draw tickets at the Chestnut Rd entrance? Haven't seen him this season.

EAFC_rdfl · 19-07-2010 1:51pm

was at fridays game, thought crossan was very good and covered up for mailey a couple of times. brolly was good in the 2nd half too. great work rate from them all for the 90 mins, good to see

muffler · 15-09-2010 10:57pm

Away from the game itself have there been any developments regarding the new stadium?

ootbitb · 16-09-2010 6:26am

the way things have gone attendance wise a new stadium would be a white elephant just now:(

Harps · 16-09-2010 11:15pm

Harps wrote: »

Wasnt the work nearing commencement 2 years ago? Its a complete joke.

In another 8-10 weeks we'll here of some other form that takes 3 months for someone to sign their name on.

Make that 4 months and counting, we'll get another 'things are on track' update soon enough I'd imagine before another familiar spell of nothing happening.

In any case theres no point going ahead with it when the club and the league as a whole are a total shambles

rushnaldo · 19-09-2010 11:26pm

In today's democrat that celtic are coming over in November and will play Harps In a friendly with half the gate going to Charity and the other half to harps

muffler · 19-09-2010 11:43pm

rushnaldo wrote: »

half the gate going to Charity and the other half to harps

Hard to tell the deference

Mint Sauce · 21-09-2010 11:54am

ootbitb wrote: »

the way things have gone attendance wise a new stadium would be a white elephant just now:(

i was at the derby match last month against sligo rovers (supporting rovers), first time in finn park, and whould have thought rather than building a new stadium, for the numbers that was there would they now be better off redeveloping the gound, save them self some money rather than build a purpose built place.

would guess the games would still be able to go ahead whist developing going ahead, ie, develop one stand/terrace at a time.

granted, a new stadium would be great for the club, but would their be the numbers to use it.

fullstop · 23-09-2010 2:58pm

irish-stew wrote: »

i was at the derby match last month against sligo rovers (supporting rovers), first time in finn park, and whould have thought rather than building a new stadium, for the numbers that was there would they now be better off redeveloping the gound, save them self some money rather than build a purpose built place.

would guess the games would still be able to go ahead whist developing going ahead, ie, develop one stand/terrace at a time.

granted, a new stadium would be great for the club, but would their be the numbers to use it.

The club do not have the money to redevelop Finn Park. The cost of the new stadium is to be covered by the sale of the existing site to the developers and government funding, thus costing Harps feck all....in theory.

Carrickman · 10-11-2010 2:42pm

I have been recently been uploading old clips I took from a video that was given to me to convert to DVD and then put on YouTube of matches from the 1990's, enjoy:)
http://www.youtube.com/user/fhfc1954

Mr_A · 11-12-2010 7:20pm

Super Season Ticket deals on offer this year!

Mint Sauce · 18-01-2011 7:39pm

Was reading some where over new year, cant remember where, that the redevelopment could be back on, any confirmation?

Harps · 18-01-2011 8:15pm

There was work reported to be going on at the site but seemingly its stopped again

http://www.irishfootienetwork.com/viewtopic.php?t=11570&start=255&sid=c27386606550604967abf0c04c9b28f1

Carrickman · 29-01-2011 11:22pm

Harps drew 1-1 with Sligo today in a pre season friendly.
Follow Harps on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/FinnHarpsFC

ootbitb · 30-01-2011 8:14am

can McMenamins support this project in the current climate?

what is Finn Park worth now?

can't see much progress til it suits them.

muffler · 30-01-2011 12:50pm

ootbitb wrote: »

can McMenamins support this project in the current climate?

Just for clarity this would be Joe Mcmenamin and Sons. Not to be confused with McMenamin Brothers who are a completely different firm of builders/developers.

ootbitb · 30-01-2011 7:43pm

sorry, didn't realize there were two builders with that name.

girly girl · 31-01-2011 1:07am

ootbitb wrote: »

sorry, didn't realize there were two builders with that name.

mcmenamins are ready to go on this harps are ready to go just waiting for the first draw down of the goverment grants the contractors have all ready started the work on this but as per contract they only can do so much work untill they get paid for each part then the last payment on completion is finn park regardless of what its worth
joe mcmenamin and son is the contractor
mcmenamin brothers are the other firm which a lot of people get mixed up
hope this helps

overshoot · 07-02-2011 10:16pm

harps bet derry 4-2 on penalties in the jj reid cup yesterday. attendance approx 400 which was great for a pre season match

ootbitb · 08-02-2011 7:45am

overshoot wrote: »

harps bet derry 4-2 on penalties in the jj reid cup yesterday. attendance approx 400 which was great for a pre season match

First half was quite competitive but James's substitutions after half time saw the ball almost exclusively in Harp's half.

For me Harps only looked at all dangerous when football was being played. Still two little men up front so can't see much improvement there to be honest. Where is Parky?

Whoever guesstimated 400 has double vision.

overshoot · 08-02-2011 7:13pm

ootbitb wrote: »

First half was quite competitive but James's substitutions after half time saw the ball almost exclusively in Harp's half.

For me Harps only looked at all dangerous when football was being played. Still two little men up front so can't see much improvement there to be honest. Where is Parky?

Whoever guesstimated 400 has double vision.

wasnt at it myself, going of someone else's words on the forum. someone also said parky was in the stands, hopefully jamesy goes in for him, would be a great addition. for the budget we have tho i would imagine it would be some stretch

curry-muff · 05-03-2011 2:44am

2-2 at home to Limerick tonight, lost the lead twice but good to see Mc Hugh and Harkin scoring, lost Forster to a sending off around the 60th minute, anyone at the match? How'd they play?

ootbitb · 05-03-2011 8:08am

curry-muff wrote: »

2-2 at home to Limerick tonight, lost the lead twice but good to see Mc Hugh and Harkin scoring, lost Forster to a sending off around the 60th minute, anyone at the match? How'd they play?

Played quite well second half. Forker possibly cost them the game with a stupid tackle in midfield. Why the crowd cheer off red carded Harps players beats me.
Mailey lucky not to see red too. Same old Harps with no discipline.

Harkin my MOM and O'Grady looks an excellent signing too.

Crowd about 6-700.

Technique · 06-03-2011 1:09am

ootbitb wrote: »

Played quite well second half. Forker possibly cost them the game with a stupid tackle in midfield. Why the crowd cheer off red carded Harps players beats me.
Mailey lucky not to see red too. Same old Harps with no discipline.

Harkin my MOM and O'Grady looks an excellent signing too.

Crowd about 6-700.

I was right beside the incident and actually thought it was a hard but fair tackle.

Anyway, Harps played some good football against a bigger and better Limerick side. Some nice ball players in the side this year, Harkin was good as was McHugh.

Hopefully we'll get a decent run in the league to keep the interest going as last season was a bit of a damp squib.

harpstilidie · 09-03-2011 1:17pm

ootbitb wrote: »

Played quite well second half. Forker possibly cost them the game with a stupid tackle in midfield. Why the crowd cheer off red carded Harps players beats me.
Mailey lucky not to see red too. Same old Harps with no discipline.

Harkin my MOM and O'Grady looks an excellent signing too.

Crowd about 6-700.

No discipline? Absolutely nothing wrong with Forkers tackle. He clearly got the ball.

Look at the highlights... http://finnharps.com/site/index.php?...rts&Itemid=157

Don't know what you mean about Mailey, he done nothing wrong. O'Flynn headbutted him.

Ref was a disgrace as well. Clean through on goal and he brings it back for a free. Disaster. That would have been 3-1 Harps and game over.

overshoot · 09-03-2011 1:35pm

harps being clean through and getting called back starts at about 4.25, the forker tackle is just after it. shenahan was just unlucky to come out so badly, he was one of the favourites to be top scorer, o'flynn too (who should get his ban extended but it is loi...) so their loss will hurt limerick badly. ironic that chrissy breen will be leading their strike force now!

Carrickman · 20-03-2011 12:40am

Highlights of the Monaghan match http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF7XVUkMzJo

Carrickman · 23-04-2011 11:05am

James Gallagher departs Harps

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