Irish football this weekend, 12/14 March

bohsman

So sweet, word of the Pats goal filtered in just as we were scoring those 2 aswell.

dfx-

Fair play to SPA, they took their two chances in the wind, Rovers didn't in the first half. The wind was very very strong, the keepers at the car park goal need not have played in either half.

Barrett was ok in the first half, non-entity in the second, but so would have Twigg or Baker.

As for the incident, the guy ran on right beside me...took a running jump, he looked around for stewards, realised none were around, none of the nine Gardaí around did anything either and so pushed Rogers. Hope the book is thrown at us.

To make it worse...on the other side of me for the entire game was the only Pats fan in the Rovers end cheering for the goals etc...

CiaranC

dfx- wrote: »

As for the incident, the guy ran on right beside me...took a running jump, he looked around for stewards, realised none were around, none of the nine Gardaí around did anything either and so pushed Rogers. Hope the book is thrown at us.

Have to agree, something needs to be done.

Depressing night all round.

SligoBrewer

CiaranC wrote: »

Have to agree, something needs to be done.

Depressing night all round.

stovelid

Pat's deserved their win and made good use of the atrocious wind, especially with the excellent free. The goal kicks into the wind reminded me of fruitlessly trying to take same up in Killinarden park when I was a kid.

Shocking, gutless performance from Rovers well punished. Ref did deny us what I thought were two handballs (one blatant) and a shove just outside the box, but none of us can look to the referee for blame for our performance.

Fair play to Pats for the great turnout too. Atmosphere was a great advertisement for the league. One of the young schoolboy team lads going round at half-time with the cup apparently lifted his trackie and flashed a pat's shirt at our end. Only laugh of an utterly dismal night.

As for that spa that came on to the pitch, this is a good chance for the club to come down with both feet. A small number of twats are going to ruin what is a great night out for everyone else. No argument with whatever punishment comes our way.

dreamers75

photoshopped tbh

ShamoBuc

Good to see a different name on top of the table. Pity most of the talk is of some thick Rovers fan who wanted his two mins of fame.

OhNoYouDidn't

Gavin shels wrote: »

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Wonder will Shams avoid more fines like they did last season!:rolleyes:

I have no idea who 'Shams' are, but what fines did Rovers avoid last season?

What can you do? A lone wolf runs onto the pitch, it happens. No-one recognises him as a regular. Very worrying that the stewards and Gardaí did nothing about it though. We pay them a lot of money and they pointedly failed to deal with this guy.

_blank_

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

No-one recognises him as a regular.

Of course they don't.

OhNoYouDidn't

Des wrote: »

Of course they don't.

If it were a regular, I would be the first to admit it and he would be drummed out of the regiment. Unfortunatly, this is a case of one random nutter who came from nowhere and invaded the pitch. Regardless of whether he is a Rovers fan or not, he came from the Rovers end, so we deserve all we get.

I fully expect a deserved whopper of a fine and Rovers need to do an urgent review of the matchday security arrangements. But what can you actually do to prevent these things happening?

Hard Worker

This was a random lunatic. I don't remember any similar case in the last 10 years. Between the delayed kick off and the assault on Pats keeper, the club will be heavily fined, and unfortunately, rightly so. Whatever about like minded fools wanting to meet up outside football grounds for a shape throwing contest, no player in the League, for any team, should be subjected to what happened in Tallaght. The one small consolation here is that no one was hurt.

Gavin "shels"

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

I have no idea who 'Shams' are, but what fines did Rovers avoid last season?

Have it on good authority that the display by the Ultras last season against Pats afaik (the one with the flares behind the SRFC ULTRAS banner), that there was no fines given. Could be wrong mind you, but since the FAI have stopped publishing fines online it's hard to know.

OhNoYouDidn't

Hard Worker wrote: »

This was a random lunatic. I don't remember any similar case in the last 10 years. Between the delayed kick off and the assault on Pats keeper, the club will be heavily fined, and unfortunately, rightly so. Whatever about like minded fools wanting to meet up outside football grounds for a shape throwing contest, no player in the League, for any team, should be subjected to what happened in Tallaght. The one small consolation here is that no one was hurt.

Well he will be joined in court by the Pats fan who tried to smuggle a baseball bat into the ground....

IvySlayer

Damn you Pats.

OhNoYouDidn't

Gavin shels wrote: »

Have it on good authority that the display by the Ultras last season against Pats afaik (the one with the flares behind the SRFC ULTRAS banner), that there was no fines given. Could be wrong mind you, but since the FAI have stopped publishing fines online it's hard to know.

Didn't stop you declaring it as fact though, did it...

Hard Worker

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

Didn't stop you declaring it as fact though, did it...

But he has it on good authority .........

Gavin "shels"

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

Didn't stop you declaring it as fact though, did it...

Well fairly confident it is, but since the FAI don't publish them anymore I'm only 99% sure.

Hard Worker wrote: »

But he has it on good authority .........

Indeed I do. Was also plenty of talk of it at the time.

OhNoYouDidn't

Gavin shels wrote: »

Well fairly confident it is, but since the FAI don't publish them anymore I'm only 99% sure.



Indeed I do. Was also plenty of talk of it at the time.

Lets put aside for a second that you are reporting rumour as fact, the implication was that Rovers get some form of special treatment from the FAI because we might not have gotten a fine for lighting a few flares. Utter arse.

If the match day delegate didn't report it, no fine. Simple as that.

dreamers75

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

I fully expect a deserved whopper of a fine and Rovers need to do an urgent review of the matchday security arrangements. But what can you actually do to prevent these things happening?

Have stewards behind the goals, we have them even with our pittance crowds. Dont really care who he was a fan of he was on the pitch for a few minutes and Pats players had to get him off.

Why rogers tho ? Puzzles me.

Gavin "shels"

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

Lets put aside for a second that you are reporting rumour as fact, the implication was that Rovers get some form of special treatment from the FAI because we might not have gotten a fine for lighting a few flares. Utter arse.

If the match day delegate didn't report it, no fine. Simple as that.

Well they clearly did as the flares were allowed to be lit in the stadium, and after having a few emails to Padraig Smith and Noel Mooney (iirc), they said that flares weren't even allow to be let in a sadium at all not even in closed parts of a stadium.

OhNoYouDidn't

dreamers75 wrote: »

Have stewards behind the goals, we have them even with our pittance crowds. Dont really care who he was a fan of he was on the pitch for a few minutes and Pats players had to get him off.

Why rogers tho ? Puzzles me.

I 100% agree. The match day security team dropped the ball big time. You can clearly see a dayglo jacket standing watching it all with his hands in his pockets. It took one of our directors to hand him over to the Gardaí in the end.

Who knows? Like I say, lone nut, very difficult to stop, but he was on the pitch nearly a minute before the players removed him.

OhNoYouDidn't

Gavin shels wrote: »

Well they clearly did as the flares were allowed to be lit in the stadium, and after having a few emails to Padraig Smith and Noel Mooney (iirc), they said that flares weren't even allow to be let in a sadium at all not even in closed parts of a stadium.

But if the match day delegate doesn't report it, no action can happen. Simple as that. There is no big conspiracy.

We will revisit this when the FAI hammer the snot out of Rovers for the incident. Lets see then if we are getting away with murder...

simonw

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

I have no idea who 'Shams' are, but what fines did Rovers avoid last season?

Were Rovers fined for a "fan" hitting the linesman with a bottle when they played against bohs in tallaght? That's not an accusation that you's weren't fined, I just can't remember

Gavin "shels"

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

But if the match day delegate doesn't report it, no action can happen. Simple as that. There is no big conspiracy.

Yup, and the stewards didn't take the flares off them as advised by your club (one lad got kicked out because the guards weren't informed).

Hard Worker

Gavin shels wrote: »

Well they clearly did as the flares were allowed to be lit in the stadium, and after having a few emails to Padraig Smith and Noel Mooney (iirc), they said that flares weren't even allow to be let in a sadium at all not even in closed parts of a stadium.

You sent e mails to Padraig Smith and Noel Mooney?
What say would either of them have in issuing fines for flares?

OhNoYouDidn't

simonw wrote: »

Were Rovers fined for a "fan" hitting the linesman with a bottle when they played against bohs in tallaght? That's not an accusation that you's weren't fined, I just can't remember

Yes, and we got a warning about future conduct which is why this will be brutal from the FAI, and its hard to argue against it.

That kid got run out of it and hasn't been seen since. This guy will get his formal lifetime ban when he is finished in court today. Hard to legislate for it, which is why your stewards should react - to me thats the worrying thing here.

OhNoYouDidn't

Hard Worker wrote: »

You sent e mails to Padraig Smith and Noel Mooney?
What say would either of them have in issuing fines for flares?

Good point, missed that.

Was he asking could he or ratting us out?

OhNoYouDidn't

Gavin shels wrote: »

Yup, and the stewards didn't take the flares off them as advised by your club (one lad got kicked out because the guards weren't informed).

And the stewards stood and watched a pitch invader. We have useless stewards and I have no doubt that arrangement will now be reviewed. Whats your point?

Hard Worker

Gavin shels wrote: »

Yup, and the stewards didn't take the flares off them as advised by your club (one lad got kicked out because the guards weren't informed).

Cloud cukooland stuff.
There are firefighters in Tallaght Stadium to handle any issues regarding dangerous use of flares. Stewards would be advised NOT to handle flares. What do you think happens if a steward goes in among a large crowd to grab a flare?

Gavin "shels"

Hard Worker wrote: »

Cloud cukooland stuff.
There are firefighters in Tallaght Stadium to handle any issues regarding dangerous use of flares. Stewards would be advised NOT to handle flares. What do you think happens if a steward goes in among a large crowd to grab a flare?

Well actually in this case the flares were lit at the front of the stand.

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

Good point, missed that.

Was he asking could he or ratting us out?

Was wondering if there's anyway flares can be used in a stadium without getting a fine, was well before the Shams one.

antomorro-sei

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

Well he will be joined in court by the Pats fan who tried to smuggle a baseball bat into the ground....

LOL :rolleyes:

stovelid

Gavin shels wrote: »

Have it on good authority that the display by the Ultras last season against Pats afaik (the one with the flares behind the SRFC ULTRAS banner), that there was no fines given. Could be wrong mind you, but since the FAI have stopped publishing fines online it's hard to know.

I suppose you're as worked up about Pats lighting one up on Tuesday (and throwing it on to the pitch - albeit behind the goal line - as well) or is it just Rovers that you have a problem with?

Hint: rhetorical question

fh041205

Pineapple stu wrote: »

Being picky about grammer now ?

I always am. I'm only vocal about it when its particularly blatant/incorrect.

Pineapple stu wrote: »

Post 23

You're clearly beyond help if you can find fault with my post grammar-wise. On a lighter note, we're level with Rovers whohooo.....!!!

Pineapple stu

Point being, it was a bit sad to reply like you did to an obvious light hearted post. Dont take it so seriously and i didnt know there was points on offer for grammer.


You obviously havent understood my post then have you. You just jumped in with a reply without thinking. Have a look again at your post i quoted

You missed post 28,13, and i'll let you know of any more you do.

I dont care about your mistakes so why should you have a pop at my intentional ones?

stovelid

Lollers at the deathly silence that has descended on the thread.

Of course, if we had thrown a flare out of the stand at Tolka, Dalyer or Richmond......

dreamers75

stovelid wrote: »

Of course, if we had thrown a flare out of the stand at Richmond......

you did last season but we threw 3 :cool:

fh041205

Pineapple stu wrote: »

You obviously havent understood my post then have you.

tbh yes I'm still struggling to understand what the hell you're saying. You're one to talk about taking lighthearted posts seriously aren't you? Especially when you respond to a cat pic ffs.

Genuinely, wtf are you on about?

edit: and please god learn to multi-quote, instead of referencing posts.

Gavin "shels"

fh041205 wrote: »

edit: and please god learn to multi-quote, instead of referencing posts.

+1,000,000

Pineapple stu

fh041205 wrote: »

tbh yes I'm still struggling to understand what the hell you're saying. You're one to talk about taking lighthearted posts seriously aren't you? Especially when you respond to a cat pic ffs.

Genuinely, wtf are you on about?

edit: and please god learn to multi-quote, instead of referencing posts.

You know very well, you are just being thick for the sake of it.

What i find strange is Gavin thanking every post that has a pop at me or anything Fingal related .

fh041205

Pineapple stu wrote: »

You know very well, you are just being thick for the sake of it.

Ok so I think I'll leave it there.