League of Ireland transfers/rumours [Mod Note Post #1, #750]

djpbarry

stovelid wrote: »

So much of the project is actually good, as in the local authorities getting behind a club and the community aspect. It's just a pity it's built on the sand of the same old profligacy that has sunk other clubs before.

And yet they are placed up on a pedestal for all other clubs to admire and aspire to – absolutely baffling.

dfx-

Gavin shels wrote: »

Shams approach is better, club and authority work together but are separate entities.

It has been a rocky road..

Pineapple stu

Pure_Cork wrote: »

No, that looks unlikely. Chances are Fingal will follow the same path as your beloved Dublin City FC.

Not a hope thats just wishful thinking on your behalf and Gavin who thanks every post thats negative against Fingal

Cork City went the same path as Dublin City remember ? Foras will be gone before Fingal will .
Its a sad situation we have with some followers of the League here when they enjoy the demise of other league clubs just because they dont like them.
Sporting Fingal will be around for a good number of years yet so dont get excited about that article. At worst we would go part time but there will always be a SPORTING FINGAL.
SPORTING ARE GOING SUPERSONIC

Pineapple stu

JUST A NOTE

Can you please post something new instead of repeating posts you did last year about Sporting Fingal.

Pure_Cork

Pineapple stu wrote: »

Cork City went the same path as Dublin City remember ? Foras will be gone before Fingal will .

Cork City are still playing football. Dublin City are extinct. The fans (i.e. FORAS) are here today, here forever. I'd be impressed if you could post about Cork City without any reference about CCIFL going bust.

Pineapple stu wrote: »

Its a sad situation we have with some followers of the League here when they enjoy the demise of other league clubs just because they dont like them.

It's sad the state the league is in. Most fans would like to see a healthy league with clubs living within their means, and a good geographical spread.

Pineapple stu wrote: »

Sporting Fingal will be around for a good number of years yet so dont get excited about that article. At worst we would go part time but there will always be a SPORTING FINGAL. SPORTING ARE GOING SUPERSONIC

Surely Fingal wouldn't go part-time?! Ye can surely afford full-time professional football with crowds of a few hundred coming through the gate.


What amazes me is that you don't even appear to be concerned about the situation at Fingal, especially since you already lost Dublin City.

SantryRed

How big was the crowd in Fingal tonight? I could literally hear a pin drop as I walked by about 8 o'clock.

Pineapple stu

Pure_Cork wrote: »

Cork City are still playing football. Dublin City are extinct. The fans (i.e. FORAS) are here today, here forever. I'd be impressed if you could post about Cork City without any reference about CCIFL going bust.

Cork City are extinct dont kid yourself, as you should know a new team was set up. I only post about cork city going belly up if its relevant to the post im replying to.

It's sad the state the league is in. Most fans would like to see a healthy league with clubs living within their means, and a good geographical spread.

True but some cant make up their minds to what they want. They complain that there are too many Dublin teams in the league and at the same time they called division one the Discover ireland league and was glad they got out of it.


Surely Fingal wouldn't go part-time?! Ye can surely afford full-time professional football with crowds of a few hundred coming through the gate.

That doesnt deserve a proper answer.

What amazes me is that you don't even appear to be concerned about the situation at Fingal, especially since you already lost Dublin City.

There isnt a situation to be worried about unless Tom Coughlan has joined us yesterday.:D

All you need to worry about is how long the backers of Foras will hang around if you dont get promotion and dont be worried about us and i have far more things to be concerned about than a footy team going belly up.
ITS ONLY FOOTBALL.
IN SPORTING I TRUST

Pineapple stu

SantryRed wrote: »

How big was the crowd in Fingal tonight? I could literally hear a pin drop as I walked by about 8 o'clock.

How did you know it was a pin?

Lamper.sffc

SantryRed wrote: »

How big was the crowd in Fingal tonight? I could literally hear a pin drop as I walked by about 8 o'clock.

1200 aprox. Bigger than shels against Mons, fact Not bad for a team 2 years old.

bohsman

Lamper.sffc wrote: »

1200 aprox. Bigger than shels against Mons, fact Not bad for a team 2 years old.

Did they get lost on their way to Dalymount last week?

stovelid

How many of them were Sligo? Decent crowd in fairness. Didn't Cork get a big gate too? And Bohs got nearly 3k? Hopefully all the crowds will hold up.

Hopefully a big crowd for us on Tuesday, given the holiday the next day.

bohsman

Yea 3kish at Dalymount, app 30 Fingal fans.

SantryRed

Lamper.sffc wrote: »

1200 aprox. Bigger than shels against Mons, fact Not bad for a team 2 years old.

Serious?? Jesus, I actually thought there was no one in there. Fair play on the crowd but it's all about sustaining it.

Lamper.sffc

SantryRed wrote: »

Serious?? Jesus, I actually thought there was no one in there. Fair play on the crowd but it's all about sustaining it.

Seriously. About 150 sligo lads who in fairness never stoped singing. Far stand wasnt used so maybe thats what made it sound quiet. Iv never seen our stand so jammed tbh. A lot of people had to stand and plenty of fans down around the Railings.

Agree with you though, it is important to sustain it but its not a bad start.

thusspakeblixa

Lamper.sffc wrote: »

1200 aprox. Bigger than shels against Mons, fact Not bad for a team 2 years old.

1276 - Official Figure

stovelid wrote: »

How many of them were Sligo?

Not too many. 100-150 at the very most. AFAIK that was the second highest attendance ever at Fingal (The highest being Dundalk 2 years ago if I'm correct.

Lamper.sffc

bohsman wrote: »

Yea 3kish at Dalymount, app 30 Fingal fans.

I knew this would start again this year. I was at the game myself, it was close on 200 our end. Did a rough count. With more scattered in other areas of the stand.

Now I know your going to chime back in with plenty of :eek: and lots of "NO WAY THERE 200" and other such over dramatizations, but the fact will still remain that there was. I dont exaggerate on these things.

Lamper.sffc

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

1276 - Official Figure



Not too many. 100-150 at the very most. AFAIK that was the second highest attendance ever at Fingal (The highest being Dundalk 2 years ago if I'm correct.

Close but not the highest. We got over 1400 at a shels game with half coming from shels. (que GAV rant;))

Actually I think both Shels games got around that figure last year. In our first year Dundalk did bring the biggest away crowds as far as i remember.

bohsman

Lamper.sffc wrote: »

I knew this would start again this year. I was at the game myself, it was close on 200 our end. Did a rough count. With more scattered in other areas of the stand.

Now I know your going to chime back in with plenty of :eek: and lots of "NO WAY THERE 200" and other such over dramatizations, but the fact will still remain that there was. I dont exaggerate on these things.

Fair enough, 30 seemed to be the general consensus among Bohs fans. I was in the bar till just after kickoff and the far end of the stand for the match so will take your word for it. You're forgetting that Im not a Shels fan, my main objection to the club is that there's enough teams in Dublin but I do like this solution...

blackholesun wrote: »

Dublin City proved that one man bands cant survive in the LOI.

Buckley has his heart in the right place and is a lot more copped on than that fool Ronan Seery ever was, but even still a team with no tradition and a tiny support base backed by one of Namas customers is only going to last for so long.

My prediction is a year from now, Fingal and Shels will merge to be become Sporting Shelbourne or Shelbourne Fingal FC, soon afterwards the double barrel name will be forgotten and it will be refered to as Shels, they will vacate Tolka and try to base themselves in North County Dublin as per SF's current plans and Buckley will be CEO / mananger and Shels will end up back in the premier division.

A nice neat tidy solution that should sort out a few problems in one go!

bhs

Lamper.sffc

bohsman wrote: »

Fair enough, 30 seemed to be the general consensus among Bohs fans. I was in the bar till just after kickoff and the far end of the stand for the match so will take your word for it. You're forgetting that Im not a Shels fan, my main objection to the club is that there's enough teams in Dublin but I do like this solution...

Im too used to those lads I guess:D.

Originally Posted by blackholesun
Dublin City proved that one man bands cant survive in the LOI.

Buckley has his heart in the right place and is a lot more copped on than that fool Ronan Seery ever was, but even still a team with no tradition and a tiny support base backed by one of Namas customers is only going to last for so long.

My prediction is a year from now, Fingal and Shels will merge to be become Sporting Shelbourne or Shelbourne Fingal FC, soon afterwards the double barrel name will be forgotten and it will be refered to as Shels, they will vacate Tolka and try to base themselves in North County Dublin as per SF's current plans and Buckley will be CEO / mananger and Shels will end up back in the premier division.

A nice neat tidy solution that should sort out a few problems in one go!

bhs

I seen that. No thank you.

This did come to mind when reading it though






NEVER

GLaDOS

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

1276 - Official Figure

Feckin' hell, that's pretty (surprisingly) good, if you can keep it up fair play.

SantryRed

Are you still offering Family tickets though?

And are prices the same as last year?

djpbarry

SantryRed wrote: »

Are you still offering Family tickets though?

I was going to ask a similar question - how many of that 1,200 paid full price? Gate receipts rather than absolute attendances would be much more indicative of support levels.

Lamper.sffc

SantryRed wrote: »

Are you still offering Family tickets though?

And are prices the same as last year?

Still doing the family tickets and like last year, we dont automatically count them as four if that is where we are heading with this one.

Prices are now 15e a head, up from 12 last year and 10 now for a student up from 5 and the kids ticket have remained at 5.

Lads honestly, this was the crowd, SF have been promoting the club non stop and it payed off last night. Can we stop looking for something other than what it was and that was a good home support for fingal. The hard work is still ahead of us which is trying to maintain that support but its a good start. Im happy, stop ruining it:mad:

bohsman

djpbarry wrote: »

I was going to ask a similar question - how many of that 1,200 paid full price? Gate receipts rather than absolute attendances would be much more indicative of support levels.

It really doesn't matter, you couldn't pay half the people on this forum to go to games so they all count.

fh041205

Lollymcd wrote: »

We've sold out to a snack food!!!! I hope they got a lot of money for it because it's a bit embarrassing!

I'm hearing some very nice figures about it. Its a two year deal, and its 6 figures which AFAIK includes the jersey sponsorship for this season.

Iago

You all know the rules, stick to them or I'll start handing out bans rather than warnings.

RebelRockChick

stovelid wrote: »

How many of them were Sligo? Decent crowd in fairness. Didn't Cork get a big gate too? And Bohs got nearly 3k? Hopefully all the crowds will hold up.

Hopefully a big crowd for us on Tuesday, given the holiday the next day.

4,401, kick-off was delayed for 10 minutes due to crowd congestion outside the ground. It was great to see the cross so packed

Great gate for Foras, as well as selling all of the 1000 printed programmes and new club scarves sold out (granted a limited number were available in time for the game). Hopefully the crowds keep coming back.

Lamper.sffc

fh041205 wrote: »

I'm hearing some very nice figures about it. Its a two year deal, and its 6 figures which AFAIK includes the jersey sponsorship for this season.

Good to hear. Unfortunate name but if yous get some decent funding then its worth it. Helps to make things hunky dory:o. Thats terrible:)

bohsman

Buttimer still an absolute joke of a ref, at least it was a nothing game and it made amends for the penalty against Fingal.

artanevilla

Was going to go but got called into work. Looked a poor crowd on the tele, bar the away fans.

TheBigLebowski

Hoops land Bayly
Monday, 15 March 2010 15:47
Shamrock Rovers have completed the signing of former Cherry Orchard, Leeds United and Sporting Fingal player Robert Bayly.

The 22-year-old – an attacking midfielder and nephew of former Hoop, Richie Bayly – has agreed a one-year deal and if cleared in time could feature in the squad for tomorrow’s (March 16th) game against St Patrick’s Athletic at Tallaght Stadium.

“Robert’s a talented player who had a very good season last year with Sporting Fingal,” says Rovers’ boss, Michael O’Neill. “He’ll make a welcome addition to our squad.”



Great news. (for rovers obviously, not so great for fingal)

Pineapple stu

Why is it bad news for Fingal ? He was let go by Fingal. He is a good player and i was suprised that he was let go. He always gave it 100% which sometimes got him sent off.

applehunter

Pineapple stu wrote: »

Why is it bad news for Fingal ? He was let go by Fingal. He is a good player and i was suprised that he was let go. He always gave it 100% which sometimes got him sent off.

Sounds like you are undecided.

Pineapple stu

No. He was one of my favourite players and im glad he's been signed up.

bohsman

So Bohs are collecting all the decent strikers in the league while Rovers have a midfield collection going or does this mean Turner isn't going to sign?

The Volt

bohsman wrote: »

So Bohs are collecting all the decent strikers in the league while Rovers have a midfield collection going or does this mean Turner isn't going to sign?

The latter I think is probably closer to home.

bohsman

Brilliant, hope thats the end of Turner.

dfx-

Rovers are doing a good impression of Spurs with all these midfielders

CantGetNoSleep

Does anyone want to have a whip round and buy the name Cork City FC from their liquidators so that co-op crowd can't claim all their history?

Pineapple stu

They cant claim their history anyway. I'd like to find out how much it would go for

OhNoYouDidn't

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Does anyone want to have a whip round and buy the name Cork City FC from their liquidators so that co-op crowd can't claim all their history?

We are waaaay ahead of you. Seriously.

ShamoBuc

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Does anyone want to have a whip round and buy the name Cork City FC from their liquidators so that co-op crowd can't claim all their history?

Buying the name is not buying the history - afterall whats in a name?:)

CrowdedHouse

Galway have signed Anto Flood

http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/united-sign-striker

Gavin "shels"

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Galway have signed Anto Flood

http://www.galwayunitedfc.ie/united-sign-striker

That's the 5th player from our last seasons sqaud to sign for a Premier team.:eek:

CrowdedHouse

Gavin shels wrote: »

That's the 5th player from our last seasons sqaud to sign for a Premier team.:eek:

What do you make of him Gavin ?

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CrowdedHouse wrote: »

What do you make of him Gavin ?

Not good enough for the PD, imo

Gavin "shels"

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

What do you make of him Gavin ?

If he sorts out his attitude he could do well, if he doesn't well that's probably why Keely got rid of him.

Des wrote: »

Not good enough for the PD, imo

Hey Gavin!:rolleyes:

dfx-

Des wrote: »

Not good enough for the PD, imo

I had heard on Tuesday night that Rovers were in for him again. My look of horror started there and stayed for a couple of hours..

Have just found and listened to the weekly RTÉ League of Ireland Podcast thing. Have to say it's decent. Sufficient Rovers presence with Darragh Maguire and John Byrne this week too.:cool:

stovelid

dfx- wrote: »

Have just found and listened to the weekly RTÉ League of Ireland Podcast thing. Have to say it's decent. Sufficient Rovers presence with Darragh Maguire and John Byrne this week too.:cool:

It's a good show.

Darragh was put rightly on the spot when they asked him if his heart was in Inchicore or Tallaght.

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anyone got a link for that podcast lads?