Greatest League in the World 2026 [LOI Thread]

Joke away. You're just embarrassing yourself. You haven't written a single sensible reply.

Anyway, I'm done.

A cup of tea. A slice of cake.

You must be one of the fat, pissed Temu casuals that your club thinks is OK to let manhandle visting players and staff who can't do anything back.

I get that derby wins are very important to your board to deflect internal dissent in the membership with a lack of trophies and football being a subsidiary wing of Lambert PLC these days, but you have to run match days professionally, you know, like a match as opposed to one of your community drum workshops.

I take it for granted that we lose at Dalymount these days tbf. We just can't seem to rise to it at the moment.

I guess five league titles in six years, a double, European group stages and running the best academy in the country makes us take our eye of the ball re: the more serious bizness of beating Bohs.

Fair enough for answering with an actual post.

Nobody cares about players being abused per se. Ditto the drawbacks of Dalymount as a venue.

And I'm over the result.

Getting beaten in Dalymount certainly hasn't held us back in recent years.

Maybe Reynolds might suggest to play every game like that and you might actually win something.

I think we both know that the current match arrangements that are deliberately borderline to influence the game can't go on any longer despite your deflection.

And I've a feeling they won't.

Youre right about coming back for more and I will leave it at this for now.

I'll continue laughing at the idea that purposely making the away team and staff at the most fractious fixture in the league walk through the fcuking members bar after the game 'isn't ideal'.

Thank fcuk that one is here for posterity.

Wouldn't say it was a harsh loss. We dominated that match and the winner is what we deserved. Galway played their typical game and it'll get them enough to stay up.

6 points out of 6 this weekend and two clean sheets. Not a bad weekend.

Ye did defend well, I'll give you that, but we were the better team. Didn't look like a winner was coming, but it was a nice move and super finish from Leavy (who was superb again.) We shipped a couple of knocks, which might be worry for Friday and Tolka.

Benny the Bull from Sligo

Sean Hoare also went off (though I have a bit of a downer on him, so that a might not be a bad thing 😁).

On the positive side we got Keena on the pitch again, and Max Mata too, who looked useful.

Don't think it's a reputation thing per se. More so that they're just Chinese tat watches at stupid markups and then made to look like they're reduced to a really good price. Saw over on Reddit someone showing the exact same thing on Temu for 20 quid.

Probably not great looks for Rovers coming on the back of the gambling sponsor too.

They're a scam and predatory towards people who might fall for buzz words like "luxury brand" and "Swiss made". Giving 85% discounts for Shams fans on watches priced at 2 grand tells you everything you need to know. This and the betting crowd lately is a poor look.

I could be wrong but I don't believe Rovers fans are obliged to buy them?

It's part of the professionalising of football here where we are sadly following the English model rather than the German one.

The likes of Shams are no longer staffed by volunteers/fans. They have professionals with no historical ties to the club just doing a job, and their job doesn't include worrying about fan opinion. That's how you end up with a gambling sponsor presented as a "responsibility partner" and the "luxury" AliExpress watches.

When they post about it on their LinkedIn they won't mention any backlash from fans on social media because they don't care and it doesn't matter. It'll just say "Responsible for adding over €100,000 in commercial income" or something.

can you explain how Rovers fans are being gouged? I’m a rovers season ticket holder,it doesn’t cost me a single euro more that Rovers have taken on a sponsorship willing to put money into the club