LOI rumours etc

CSF

Zebra3 wrote: »

What's going on in Tallaght?

Are those players being signed up for their B team?

I'd say that is it, which is ridiculous. I remember people used to go on about how well-run Shamrock Rovers are. Other than having a big catchment area I don't see how they're any better run than all the other tenpenny operations in the league.

doncarlos

CSF wrote: »

Other than having a big catchment area I don't see how they're any better run than all the other tenpenny operations in the league.

A free ground and wiping a multimillion euro debt helped too

Pedro K

dreamers75 wrote: »

Bayly and Kelly confirmed for Rovers?

Absolutely disgusted with Bayly. He's not a very good player at all, and we all know what he's like.

I remember we played UCD in Bellfield,I think in 2010, and we lost 3-2. They scored a free kick that shouldn't have been given.

Bayly came on in the second half, didn't even look like he wanted to be there, did absolutely nothing.

Got himself involved in a scrap, sent off and then as he was getting taken off he tried to have a go at some of our fans (who were obviously voicing their displeasure) and spat at them.

Scumbag.

dan1895

Pedro K wrote: »

Absolutely disgusted with Bayly. He's not a very good player at all, and we all know what he's like.

I remember we played UCD in Bellfield,I think in 2010, and we lost 3-2. They scored a free kick that shouldn't have been given.

Bayly came on in the second half, didn't even look like he wanted to be there, did absolutely nothing.

Got himself involved in a scrap, sent off and then as he was getting taken off he tried to have a go at some of our fans (who were obviously voicing their displeasure) and spat at them.

Scumbag.

Bayley having a go at fans? Never!!

Know a Rovers fan in work who is distraught by all this

dreamers75

We playing Shels in a sekrit freindly morrow at 5 on Crumlins New astro.

Rumour

born2bwild

Pedro K wrote: »

Absolutely disgusted with Bayly. He's not a very good player at all, and we all know what he's like.

I remember we played UCD in Bellfield,I think in 2010, and we lost 3-2. They scored a free kick that shouldn't have been given.

Bayly came on in the second half, didn't even look like he wanted to be there, did absolutely nothing.

Got himself involved in a scrap, sent off and then as he was getting taken off he tried to have a go at some of our fans (who were obviously voicing their displeasure) and spat at them.

Scumbag.

Bayly is a good player.

Your assessment is spot on in every other respect.

Saw the same crap last year away to Bray, too: inviting Shels fans out for a fight behind the goal.

Even if he was ten times the footballer he is I wouldn't sign him because he will let you down every time with the disciplinary/attitude stuff.

gimmick

CHealy wrote: »

There was a time a few years ago before we went bust when Arkaga were paying City players a couple of grand a week, and someone on our forum posted jokingly that James Milner was on the way over for talks. The next day the Evening Echo ran with it all over the back page.

Long story short, LOI is either full of the most gullible people known to man, or its full of pure sensationalists who love a good rumour. Saying that its probably both.

That was Neil Mellor as a result of a prank phone call from Dave Rogers and Greg no?

dreamers75

Beat shels 4-1, tad windy out :O

We were nice enough to not play Fahey and Brennan together they got a half each. Totally dominated the match only it was a preseason and it would have been a lot more. Keegan scored a lovely goal for Shels.

kksaints

dreamers75 wrote: »

Beat shels 4-1, tad windy out :O

We were nice enough to not play Fahey and Brennan together they got a half each. Totally dominated the match only it was a preseason and it would have been a lot more. Keegan scored a lovely goal for Shels.

Who played well dreamers?

dreamers75

kksaints wrote: »

Who played well dreamers?

1st half
..........Gilmartin
GOB Foran Brown Lorcan F
............Fahey
....Chambers Bayly
Byrne..................Kavanagh
............Durrad

2nd half
..............Gilmartin
MC Cormack....Oman Hoare....Bermo
...................Bolger
............Brennan Lynch
Chindea......................Forrester
..............Verdon


Some outstanding football, the young lads all did well Chindea and Verdon stood out 2nd half.

CSF

Bayly?

Mars Bar

It's 4-1 in Fahy's Field at the moment. Apparently Manning has just hit a cracking 30 yarder

kksaints

CSF wrote: »

Bayly?

Think hes an under-19 player.

dreamers75

CSF wrote: »

Bayly?

Jack Bayly excellent prospect plays for ireland under 18s.

Forrester pulled off some weird reverse nutmeg on shels right back then shanked an open goal out of the park.:p

Mars Bar

5-3 in Fahey's Field so far and Ndo scored directly from a corner

oldyouth

Wexford Youths comfortably beat Drogheda 2-0 tonight. It should have been 3 but the lino refused to give an obvious one that crossed the line (unbiased opinion on that one )

We have a very strong squad this year and will surprise a lot of people

AgileMyth

Awful conditions in Galway tonight. We lost a half and won a half. Wind played a huge part!

can't take much out of it. Odhiambo is going to be quality when he settles in.

red sean

AgileMyth wrote: »

Awful conditions in Galway tonight. We lost a half and won a half. Wind played a huge part!

can't take much out of it. Odhiambo is going to be quality when he settles in.

Good to hear. Anything else positive? Danny?
Conditions must have been atrocious.

AgileMyth

red sean wrote: »

Good to hear. Anything else positive? Danny?
Conditions must have been atrocious.

Danny had one chance and he took it well. Looks relatively fit. Beat the line a couple more times but it didnt get to him

Boylan looked decent at rb in the first, with no support from dj. Loftus looked good in the second.

O'Conor will be a good signing too. Spillane needs to learn to stop hoofing, looks like McGuiness when he first arrived.

hugo29

AgileMyth wrote: »

Danny had one chance and he took it well. Looks relatively fit. Beat the line a couple more times but it didnt get to him

Boylan looked decent at rb in the first, with no support from dj. Loftus looked good in the second.

O'Conor will be a good signing too. Spillane needs to learn to stop hoofing, looks like McGuiness when he first arrived.

Did Russell or ledgewidth play

AgileMyth

hugo29 wrote: »

Did Russell or ledgewidth play

Ledwith played the first. There was a young lad in front of him who didn't look great so hard to judge his own performance.

Gaynor showed the same flaws as before so hopefully ledwith can step up.

Russell is injured.

Wilberto

AgileMyth wrote: »

O'Conor will be a good signing too. Spillane needs to learn to stop hoofing, looks like McGuiness when he first arrived.

Kalen is it?? I think he's actually trying to play pinpoint long balls, but he just hasn't realised that he really can't!! That's certainly one thing I won't be miss anyway!! He's a good young defender though apart from that. I was surprised we let him go to be honest.

dreamers75

Beat Crumlin 3-1 today 18 or so players got a game. Forrester and Durrad with 2.

Crumlin much tougher than Shels yesterday being in season and on their pitch.

overshoot

Harps & Cork played out a 3-3 draw in galway today. Cork coming back from 3-1 down. we also lost 2 of our defenders after a bad clash of heads early on, cowan needed stitches, mcnulty was concussed
Harps team;
Winn (trial ex dunalk, shams, galway)
McNulty,P Mailey, Cowan, Coll,
McCann,Funston,Tiofack (trial, ex limerick), Ruari Keating (on trial sligo lad)
McCarron, McHugh

Also meant to be on trial is a young Canadian called Graham Fisher (ex Schalke) and Longford lad Daryl Carrigy (ex derby)... although longford are in for him now too

Mars Bar

Was it windy up there? I have to get my car door fixed after the wind had its way with it yesterday.

AgileMyth

overshoot wrote: »

, Ruari Keating (on trial sligo lad)

Thought he was gone to ye on loan.

AgileMyth

Wilberto wrote: »

Kalen is it?? I think he's actually trying to play pinpoint long balls, but he just hasn't realised that he really can't!! That's certainly one thing I won't be miss anyway!! He's a good young defender though apart from that. I was surprised we let him go to be honest.

Thats the fella. Hes big and has a good first touch. Once Baraclough beats that out of him he'll be grand.

overshoot

AgileMyth wrote: »

Thought he was gone to ye on loan.

possibly, hasnt been too much said about him & nothing official. been flat out the last week so a bit out of the loop

CHealy

Seemed like a good weekend up in Galway for City. Delighted Harps gave us a game cause both teams will take a whole lot more from that game than lets say going out and battering Mervue 6-1 like on the Saturday.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Marky Sull with 3 in 2 games. Love too see him do well this season

CHealy

MrMac84 wrote: »

Marky Sull with 3 in 2 games. Love too see him do well this season

Quality player, should have been playing LOI for the last 10 years if he fully committed himself to it.

hufpc8w3adnk65

CHealy wrote: »

Quality player, should have been playing LOI for the last 10 years if he fully committed himself to it.

Well with a wedding too pay for etc in the near future I think he'll commit this time for the few bob alone and also cotter & caulfield will know how too man manage him.

Gavin "shels"

Gavin shels wrote: »

David Cassidy expected to sign for Bray.

Confirmed over the weekend.

dan1895

Gavin "shels" wrote: »

Confirmed over the weekend.

Hope his neck holds up.

That_Guy

Was hoping Bohs would take a punt on Cassidy. Ah well.

10green bottles

overshoot wrote: »

Harps & Cork played out a 3-3 draw in galway today. Cork coming back from 3-1 down. we also lost 2 of our defenders after a bad clash of heads early on, cowan needed stitches, mcnulty was concussed
Harps team;
Winn (trial ex dunalk, shams, galway)
McNulty,P Mailey, Cowan, Coll,
McCann,Funston,Tiofack (trial, ex limerick), Ruari Keating (on trial sligo lad)
McCarron, McHugh

Also meant to be on trial is a young Canadian called Graham Fisher (ex Schalke) and Longford lad Daryl Carrigy (ex derby)... although longford are in for him now too

Played the 1st 45mins for us last week v Wex.Youths.Ran around like a headless chicken for most of the half and didnt seem to know what position to slot into.(trials can be daunting so i understand his nervousness) I'm sure hes a good player at some level and he is prob on a learning curve atm.Very speedy ok but not LOI standard right now.

dreamers75

Nearly time

PREMIER DIVISION WINNERS Pat's
EUROPA LEAGUE SPOTS Dundalk, Sligo
FAI CUP WINNERS Dundalk
EA SPORTS CUP WINNERS Derry
SETANTA CUP WINNERS Sligo
LEINSTER SENIOR CUP WINNERS Shamrock
FIRST DIVISION WINNERS Longford
RELEGATED Noone
POTY Quigley
1st player to England Towell
Top Scorer Patterson
1st Manager gone Collins
Overacheiver Bohs

AgileMyth

Following dreamers template

PREMIER DIVISION WINNERS Pats
EUROPA LEAGUE SPOTS Rovers, Derry
FAI CUP WINNERS The usual
EA SPORTS CUP WINNERS Shams
SETANTA CUP WINNERS Dundalk
LEINSTER SENIOR CUP WINNERS Who cares?
FIRST DIVISION WINNERS Longford
RELEGATED Bray
POTY Djilali
1st player to England Fahey
Top Scorer North
1st Manager gone Croly
Overacheiver Cork

AgileMyth

Galway have a 24 man squad including 4 goalkeepers. Anybody have any idea what thats all about?

UnleashTheBeast

AgileMyth wrote: »

Galway have a 24 man squad including 4 goalkeepers. Anybody have any idea what thats all about?

No youth or underage teams. Decent size squad is a must.

Vision of Disorder

UnleashTheBeast wrote: »

No youth or underage teams. Decent size squad is a must.

Four keepers is all the more overkill without youth or underage teams. Realistically three of them will get next to no regular football, their development would probably be better served playing in the local junior leagues.

UnleashTheBeast

Vision of Disorder wrote: »

Four keepers is all the more overkill without youth or underage teams. Realistically three of them will get next to no regular football, their development would probably be better served playing in the local junior leagues.

Fair point but nobody is holding a gun to their heads making them sign for the club. A lot of our players will be on amateur deals anyway, so it doesn't bother me. They're eager to be involved with the club. All four keepers are from Galway and are of a decent standard, no harm having them.

kksaints

PREMIER DIVISION WINNERS Pat's
EUROPA LEAGUE SPOTS Dundalk, Sligo
FAI CUP WINNERS Pats
EA SPORTS CUP WINNERS Dundalk
SETANTA CUP WINNERS Dundalk
LEINSTER SENIOR CUP WINNERS Shamrock
FIRST DIVISION WINNERS Longford
RELEGATED UCD
POTY Fahey
1st player to England Towell
Top Scorer Byrne
1st Manager gone Russell if hes still there otherwise Collins
Overacheiver Cork

Vision of Disorder

UnleashTheBeast wrote: »

Fair point but nobody is holding a gun to their heads making them sign for the club. A lot of our players will be on amateur deals anyway, so it doesn't bother me. They're eager to be involved with the club. All four keepers are from Galway and are of a decent standard, no harm having them.

Agreed on most of that (don't rate them all to be honest but the chaff won't be playing anyway so that's hardly an issue).

UnleashTheBeast

Vision of Disorder wrote: »

Agreed on most of that (don't rate them all to be honest but the chaff won't be playing anyway so that's hardly an issue).

To be honest, we definitely missed the boat not getting Conor O'Malley but circumstances worked against us. I heard he (O'Malley) is in college in Maynooth so it's no real surprise that he has signed for Shamrock Rovers. I wouldn't say any of them are world beaters. But they're decent. Look around the League, there certainly aren't many great keepers.

That being said, if I had a choice right now of a position to improve it would probably be an experienced centre half or goalkeeper.

GLaDOS

Bohs have Steven Beattie on trial (Formerly of Shels, Toronto and Tindastoll of Iceland). Scored a hat trick at the weekend against Swords Celtic.

http://www.herald.ie/sport/soccer/heary-mulling-over-beattie-contract-29979102.html

AgileMyth

UnleashTheBeast wrote: »

That being said, if I had a choice right now of a position to improve it would probably be an experienced centre half or goalkeeper.

Maybe ye can bring in a fifth keeper in July.

AgileMyth

kksaints wrote: »

FAI CUP WINNERS Pats

I doubt it.

kksaints

AgileMyth wrote: »

I doubt it.

I'm an optimist. Also forgot to put this down.
Champions League Winner 2014/15 St Pats.

Gavin "shels"

Can we start a new thread for predictions?