LOI rumours etc

Pighead

awec wrote: »

Is he a goalscoring striker, or the sort that needs 10 chances to get 1 goal?

Wouldn't call him clinical as he tends to miss quite a few but in saying that he hasn't been given a regular starting spot in quite a while now and it's probably not fair to judge him on a handful of sub appearances. I had high hopes for him years ago but he's never quite fulfilled that promise.

djpbarry

Pighead wrote: »

I had high hopes for him years ago but he's never quite fulfilled that promise.

I remember when he first appeared in 2007 and broke into the Ireland under-age setup there were big things expected of him. Hasn't really come on much since unfortunately.

civis_liberalis

major bill wrote: »

Alan Matthews????

How does this eijet continue to get work in this league?

****ing spoofer

Mathews is an ok manager. Things went badly wrong at Shels, but if every manager was judged on their worst season...

djpbarry

civis_liberalis wrote: »

Mathews is an ok manager. Things went badly wrong at Shels, but if every manager was judged on their worst season...

...Matthews would still be bottom of the pile.

Gavin "shels"

civis_liberalis wrote: »

Mathews is an ok manager. Things went badly wrong at Shels, but if every manager was judged on their worst season...

Dire manager and dire attitude! Full blown bluffer too.

NIMAN

Higgins to Dundalk a done deal.

dreamers75

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/bray-civil-war-not-my-fight-reveals-alan-mathews-29909916.html

Looking forwards to devlons press release, you know its going to be car crash material.

SportingFun

Wexford announced 17 players today
Graham Doyle
Craig McCabe
Jimmy Dermody
Stephen Last
CJ Browne
Shane Nolan
Shane Dunne
Ricky Fox
Craig Wall
Eric Molloy
Rocks Keenan
Sean Skelly
Danny Fitz
Daragh Walshe
Danny Furlong
Dean Broaders
Graham Delaney

upandcumming

In fairness to Mathews he brought us to the four cup finals in two years, winning three. You can't fuck with that.

Never liked his style of ball though.

Gavin "shels"

upandcumming wrote: »

In fairness to Mathews he brought us to the four cup finals in two years, winning three. You can't fuck with that.

Never liked his style of ball though.

He overspent on a couple of journeymen, and was deluded to think we were going for a 4th place spot...........

CHealy

SportingFun wrote: »

Wexford announced 17 players today


Danny Furlong

Happy to see he got something sorted closer to home.

dundalkfc10

NIMAN wrote: »

Higgins to Dundalk a done deal.

Higgins signing to be confirmed tomorrow is the word around the Town today

Keith Ward back training with us aswell along with Simon Kelly (can play anywere across back or midfield) and Conor McDonald from our U-19 side.

Higgins plus them 3 will be our final squad id imagine

oldyouth

SportingFun wrote: »

Wexford announced 17 players today

There are 3/4 more key players on the brink of signing and Shane Keegan is confident that this will be his strongest squad during 3 years in charge. Personally, I think if we had kept 2 of the 6 players lost to Waterford, we would be in the mix at the end of the season. We rebuild from scratch most years but we've kept the spine of the team this time.

Gavin "shels"

Conor Murphy (Bohs) and Robert Gaul (Salthill) both signed up for 2014 with us. Say the average age of our squad is about 22.

GLaDOS

Murphy was pretty poor whenever he got a game for us. Didn't get a spot consistently though I suppose.

Mars Bar

Gavin shels wrote: »

Conor Murphy (Bohs) and Robert Gaul (Salthill) both signed up for 2014 with us. Say the average age of our squad is about 22.

Gaul was one of the better Devon players when I was going to see them in Drom. Is he in college or have a job over there? Would have thought he would have been a player for Galway FC.

kksaints

Gavin shels wrote: »

Conor Murphy (Bohs) and Robert Gaul (Salthill) both signed up for 2014 with us. Say the average age of our squad is about 22.

Murphy didnt play very much for us and the few times he played he wasnt very good. He was a flop at Bohs aswell.

Gavin "shels"

Mars Bar wrote: »

Gaul was one of the better Devon players when I was going to see them in Drom. Is he in college or have a job over there? Would have thought he would have been a player for Galway FC.

From Swords people think, and he was over in the West for college possibly.

Mars Bar

Ah, that would certainly make sense.

Lovely Bloke

The thing with Matthews is that he lost the fans by calling them a bunch of cúnts, pretty much destroying the squad by filling it with players who asked fans to meet them after friendly games for a fight and instilling a sense of pretty bad indiscipline, there was a stage at the beginning of last season where we had a man sent off in near enough every game.

That was down the the manager and the players he brought in.

He put that squad together and then proclaimed that it was top 4 material. Deluded wasn't the word.

Then when it was obvious what was happening - the players weren't playing for him, there was a poisonous atmosphere at every game, home and away, results were getting worse - and he knew the club couldn't afford to sack him, he held on for about a month more than he had any right to.

Yes, he took us up into the Premier, had us in cup finals, but he also took us back down (the relegation was squarely his fault (and the board, but that's another story)) and made a mockery of the club.

We'll be back, but with absolutely no thanks to that man.

I used to like Bray Wanderers, and I hope they realise quickly what this appointment means.

popzmaster

dreamers75 wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/bray-civil-war-not-my-fight-reveals-alan-mathews-29909916.html

Looking forwards to devlons press release, you know its going to be car crash material.

2 o'clock today I read somewhere...

Gavin "shels"

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

destroying the squad by filling it with players who asked fans to meet them after friendly games for a fight

That was the first League game actually, would have loved to see it! Bayly probably wouldn't have been playing ball again.

Lovely Bloke

Gavin shels wrote: »

That was the first League game actually, would have loved to see it! Bayly probably wouldn't have been playing ball again.

Yes, in Bray of all places.

Lovely Bloke

Of course, in Bray of all places.

Mars Bar

Already a fixture clash!

Sun 16th March

2 p.m Shamrock Rovers Women's vs Peamount United
3 p.m Shamrock Rovers "B" vs Finn Harps

Lovely Bloke

Do the SR women play in Tallaght?

Gavin "shels"

http://www.airtricityleague.ie/images/2014-Season-Airtricity-League-First-Division-Fixture-List.pdf

Least I've a couple of months still left to get my full license

Gavin "shels"

https://twitter.com/paulohehir

Some updates fro Pat Devlins press conference.

CHealy

Gavin shels wrote: »

http://www.airtricityleague.ie/images/2014-Season-Airtricity-League-First-Division-Fixture-List.pdf

Least I've a couple of months still left to get my full license

Welcome to the world of every team outside of Leinster in both leagues. Wouldnt have it any other way though, makes for some serious bus trips.

Mars Bar

Mars Bar wrote: »

Already a fixture clash!

Sun 16th March

2 p.m Shamrock Rovers Women's vs Peamount United
3 p.m Shamrock Rovers "B" vs Finn Harps

That should be SRW vs Galway WFC, not Peamount

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

Do the SR women play in Tallaght?

They do, yeah

dreamers75

FAI PRESS RELEASE

FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

President’s Cup fixture finalised

The inaugural President’s Cup match between 2013 Airtricity League Premier Division champions St Patrick’s Athletic and 2013 FAI Ford Cup winners St Patrick’s Athletic will take place on Sunday, March 2, at Richmond Park with a 4pm kick-off.

In the event of the scores being level after 90 minutes of play, the winners of the Cup will be decided on a penalty-shoot out. Please note that extra-time will not be played.

Uachtaráin na hÉireann, President Michael D Higgins, has presented the trophy that the teams will be playing for on the day and his gesture has been warmly welcomed by the Chairman of the National League Executive Committee, Eamon Naughton.

“President Higgins support for the Airtricity League and Irish soccer is deeply appreciated and the introduction of the President’s Cup will provide us with an exciting game between the league champions and cup winners to start each new season,” said Mr Naughton.

The Director of the Airtricity League Fran Gavin said: “President Higgins is a huge supporter of our game and takes the time out from his busy schedule to go to games and meet players, officials and supporters. He is really behind this idea and the game will also have a charitable aspect to it.”

ENDS

Issued by:

Gerry McDermott
Communications Department
Football Association of Ireland

Get in......playing our B team and we won the cup last year

Gavin "shels"

Jordan Keegan and John Sullivan signed for us today. Average age of the squad is 21 but I'm happy enough. Lacking any keepers and a couple of defenders. Rumours of late last season Greg Murray and today of Darren Quigley in goal, Brian Shortall possibly staying with us if he passes a medical.

dfx-

Mars Bar wrote: »

Already a fixture clash!

Sun 16th March

2 p.m Shamrock Rovers Women's vs Peamount United
3 p.m Shamrock Rovers "B" vs Finn Harps

half hour each way, be grand:pac:

Gavin "shels"

CHealy wrote: »

Welcome to the world of every team outside of Leinster in both leagues. Wouldnt have it any other way though, makes for some serious bus trips.

Been there done it for the few years we were down there, granted at that I was in school and then a part-time working student. Now I'm full time working and have very little intention to forfeit a shed load of holidays to go to the back arse of Cobh!

AgileMyth

Gavin shels wrote: »

Been there done it for the few years we were down there, granted at that I was in school and then a part-time working student. Now I'm full time working and have very little intention to forfeit a shed load of holidays to go to the back arse of Cobh!

I've arranged so that I work Sunday-Thursday purely so I don't have to miss games or take a day off every second week.

It'd be much easier if everyone played on Saturdays.

CHealy

Gavin shels wrote: »

Been there done it for the few years we were down there, granted at that I was in school and then a part-time working student. Now I'm full time working and have very little intention to forfeit a shed load of holidays to go to the back arse of Cobh!

True that, and Cobh is an awful kip to make matters worse.

gimmick

Cobh still play Saturdays, so anyone who has a proper job ie Mon - fri 9-5 could get there no problem.

civis_liberalis

CHealy wrote: »

True that, and Cobh is an awful kip to make matters worse.

Worst trip I was ever on was to Cobh. They played us off the park. Jeff Kenna playing himself when he was a liability... One of the lads never made it home with us that night, he was so tired and emotional. Landed back in Galway the next evening. I "knew" we were relegated that night. Of course we ended up beating UCD away on the last night of the season to stay up. That said, they had a nice cosy little bar, nice Beamish and very friendly people at the club to greet us. Ground is a fairly basic otherwise, but wasn't in bad repair either.

Gavin "shels"

CHealy wrote: »

True that, and Cobh is an awful kip to make matters worse.

Last time we played down there years ago we had the local welcoming committee. The guards knowing all the young lads names was priceless, saying they'll tell their mothers.

gimmick wrote: »

Cobh still play Saturdays, so anyone who has a proper job ie Mon - fri 9-5 could get there no problem.

Not according to the fixture list, how sure are you?

gimmick

Gavin shels wrote: »

Not according to the fixture list, how sure are you?

They have played at home on Saturdays always. Very rarely a friday as they want to avoid clashing with CCFC matches as CCFC fans with feck all else to do make up a nice portion of their gate.

I would be very surprised if they change it this season.

EDIT: Looking at the fixtures, it would seem the game on June 13th is there to accomodate the mid season break from 14th-27th as pretty much all their other home games are Saturday. You also play them Oct 11, which is a Saturday.

Gavin "shels"

gimmick wrote: »

They have played at home on Saturdays always. Very rarely a friday as they want to avoid clashing with CCFC matches as CCFC fans with feck all else to do make up a nice portion of their gate.

I would be very surprised if they change it this season.

EDIT: Looking at the fixtures, it would seem the game on June 13th is there to accomodate the mid season break from 14th-27th as pretty much all their other home games are Saturday. You also play them Oct 11, which is a Saturday.

Feck. Oct 11th is due to it being the last round of League games though.

CHealy

gimmick wrote: »

They have played at home on Saturdays always. Very rarely a friday as they want to avoid clashing with CCFC matches as CCFC fans with feck all else to do make up a nice portion of their gate.

If your trying to stay away from the pints on a Saturday night its a good way to keep occupied. I went down three or four times last year and every match out did each other with goals and sending offs. There was a Mervue match there mid season it ended something like 5-3 with two sending offs and three penalties, it was nuts.

Only fifteen minutes on the train from Kent aswell.

SantryRed

Gavin shels wrote: »

Feck. Oct 11th is due to it being the last round of League games though.

Cobh have always played on Saturdays Gav.

Lovely Bloke

SantryRed wrote: »

Cobh have always played on Saturdays Gav.

Yeah, any time I've been down it's been a Saturday.

flas

pat sullivan signed for longford

Gavin "shels"

Gavin shels wrote: »

Jordan Keegan and John Sullivan signed for us today. Average age of the squad is 21 but I'm happy enough. Lacking any keepers and a couple of defenders. Rumours of late last season Greg Murray and today of Darren Quigley in goal, Brian Shortall possibly staying with us if he passes a medical.

An Athlone fan on foot.ie saying Jordan Keegan is with them for pre-season, even after our players confirmed he's signed.

Does Dodge still post on here? Deluded, supposedly Dundalk are the only team paying a players a 52-week contract.......Conan Byrne!

Vision of Disorder

Gavin shels wrote: »

An Athlone fan on foot.ie saying Jordan Keegan is with them for pre-season, even after our players confirmed he's signed.

There's one Athlone fan talking an awful lot of rubbish over there since they started picking up form in the second half of last season. I'd take all he says with plenty of salt.

Gavin "shels"

Vision of Disorder wrote: »

There's one Athlone fan talking an awful lot of rubbish over there since they started picking up form in the second half of last season. I'd take all he says with plenty of salt.

Can't say I'm an avid reader, just bored in work with 10 mins to kill! :pac:

dreamers75

Galacticos

I like it!

AgileMyth

flas wrote: »

pat sullivan signed for longford

Hope they're not pushing the boat out too much for him. Big name signing even if he is a terrible footballer.