LOI rumours etc

Gavin "shels"

S.R.F.C. wrote: »

He's been getting more of a look-in recently and with our other forwards current form along with how well he's performed whenever he's got a chance to, I'd be quite disappointed to see him go on loan now, especially at this stage of the season.

Ye so I've seen, supposedly he had a falling out with O'Neill (...who hasn't at this stage! ). I'd be happy enough with Laurence Gaughan and Phily Gorman anyway. Gaughan as an extra cover for centre defence where Paisley has been injured a good bit this season and Gorman as cover for Hughes and hopefully ahead of Bermo up front.

stovelid

Kelly has been getting some game time and has impressed so wouldn't like see him going on loan. Any player would be unhappy not be featuring and it doesn't equate to a falling out.

dreamers75

Rumours we getting Kavanagh from Rovers. Dont see why myself but fair amount of pats fans talking about it.

Rovers fans shed anything on it?

iregk

He has fallen out with O'Neill over some twitter comments and hasn't really played a lot. To be honest the return we've gotten from him has been poor at best since his arrival. Had a spell of about 3 good games last season but that was about it. 2 goals in 2 years, not really up to it.

Good riddance to Kavanagh and good luck with that one Pats!

I'm also assuming the Powel to Sligo one is in this thread somewhere?

flas

Gavin shels wrote: »

Laurence Gaughan has been training with Shels and Phily Gorman has started back fully training so should be signing soon enough.

Dean Kelly also will be moving on loan to either ourselves, Limerick or Longford supposedly.

id say the town have the best chance of this loan move, the amount of loanees tony cousins has brought in from rovers over the last season and a half most notably being don cowan last year before he signed for us! he seems to have great pull up in tallaght!

AgileMyth

iregk wrote: »

I'm also assuming the Powel to Sligo one is in this thread somewhere?

He was unveiled at the Drogheda game. Good player but we already have Davoren and Greene has looked good at left back in the last couple of games.

There are also strong rumours that Boco is coming back. The Drogheda fans (great bunch of lads btw) reckoned we were signing Gartland but I'd heard nothing about that one around here and can't see it happening.

Fowler signed for some team in Thailand so that rubbishes that rumour anyway :rolleyes:

stovelid

dreamers75 wrote: »

Rumours we getting Kavanagh from Rovers. Dont see why myself but fair amount of pats fans talking about it.

Rovers fans shed anything on it?

I can't see him being around for much longer. Appears completely frozen out. I wouldn't be as harsh as most on him although I'm probably in the minority. He's a talented player that's a bit lightweight and definitely a confidence player. I don't think he's ever got a consistent run of full appearances in the team between injury and other players ahead of him. Not to say he's anything he's not: just that other players' lack of performances seemed to be humoured a lot longer than PK's.

Funny he's such a gob on twitter as he's legendarily the most inarticulate player in the league if you stick a mike in front of him.

djpbarry

iregk wrote: »

I'm also assuming the Powel to Sligo one is in this thread somewhere?

Massively over-rated player. Looks good going forward as he's pacey, but his final ball is consistently wayward and his positional sense for a full-back is atrocious. A poor man's Seamus Coleman.

Gavin "shels"

flas wrote: »

id say the town have the best chance of this loan move, the amount of loanees tony cousins has brought in from rovers over the last season and a half most notably being don cowan last year before he signed for us! he seems to have great pull up in tallaght!

He was on his way to us pre-season on loan but Rovers wanted to much of his wages paid or something which we couldn't afford.

stovelid

Gavin shels wrote: »

He was on his way to us pre-season on loan but Rovers wanted to much of his wages paid or something which we couldn't afford.

Should have given a few of your existing players a wage-cut so.

Gavin "shels"

stovelid wrote: »

Should have given a few of your existing players a wage-cut so.

Fairly difficult where they aren't on too much, most of the bigger names at Tolka are under bonus based contracts along with a wage. Budget is €5,000~ so presume it was used by the time they got around to looking into Dean Kelly as that was near the end of February when that was looked into.

stovelid

Gavin shels wrote: »

Fairly difficult where they aren't on too much, most of the bigger names at Tolka are under bonus based contracts along with a wage. Budget is €5,000~ so presume it was used by the time they got around to looking into Dean Kelly as that was near the end of February when that was looked into.

I doubt Kelly's overall wages would be that high (for us) as they would be incentive based on things like appearances.

Gavin "shels"

stovelid wrote: »

I doubt Kelly's overall wages would be that high (for us) as they would be incentive based on things like appearances.

Key words!;)

doncarlos

Dundalk have signed current Irish U19 international Carl McHugh on loan from Reading.

Don't know much about him apart from he's a defender.

flas

in other news we have these new signings

Thomas Crawley St Pats loan
Sean Skelly Drogheda Utd
Jean Biansumba English non league( not sure of team but he used to play for notts forest)

good signings, our squad which was in flying from for a while there was very light in that one or two injuries or suspensions and our form dipped dramatically!

GLaDOS

djpbarry wrote: »

Massively over-rated player. Looks good going forward as he's pacey, but his final ball is consistently wayward and his positional sense for a full-back is atrocious. A poor man's Seamus Coleman.

He was fantastic for us in '08 and '09, seemed to go backwards in '10, though most of the team did

Pinturicchio

djpbarry wrote: »

Massively over-rated player. Looks good going forward as he's pacey, but his final ball is consistently wayward and his positional sense for a full-back is atrocious. A poor man's Seamus Coleman.

Better than playing Aaron Greene left back.

Oat23

Pinturicchio wrote: »

Better than playing Aaron Greene left back.

Aaron Greene played the position very tell while Davoren was injured.

I wouldn't take Davoren out of the team for Powell. It's an exciting signing but I think we could have used the funds at another position.

AgileMyth

Pinturicchio wrote: »

Better than playing Aaron Greene left back.

Have to agree with Oatesy there. Greene looked very good at left back, I wouldn't be too surprised if he keeps his place there.

stovelid

Oatesy23 wrote: »

but I think we could have used the funds at another position.

That why you're charging 25 quid for the European game? :pac:

In fairness, if you can fill out the ground, it will be a good haul.

Oat23

stovelid wrote: »

That why you're charging 25 quid for the European game? :pac:

In fairness, if you can fill out the ground, it will be a good haul.

Need to make back the €50,000 the club is spending to get the ground up to standard. €25 per person will be a good start.

bohsboy

bohsboy wrote: »

Bohsboy's top five....

1. Sligo
2. Derry (On goal difference)
3. Airfix
4. Pats
5. Bohs

Bring it on.....;)

I think I'm going to get a savage payout on this........:cool:

doncarlos

stovelid wrote: »

That why you're charging 25 quid for the European game? :pac:

In fairness, if you can fill out the ground, it will be a good haul.

€25 is scandalous for a match ticket. Obviously the hard core will pay it but might be hard selling tickets to the casual fan unless drawn with a really big side.

Zebra3

doncarlos wrote: »

€25 is scandalous for a match ticket. Obviously the hard core will pay it but might be hard selling tickets to the casual fan unless drawn with a really big side.

Well, it's cheaper than paying €15 into Tallaght or the RDS and having to travel to Dublin.

And at least the money is being invested into their club's long term future.

dreamers75

Zebra3 wrote: »

Well, it's cheaper than paying €15 into Tallaght or the RDS and having to travel to Dublin.

And at least the money is being invested into their club's long term future.Powell/Boco

Fixed that for you.

stovelid

Won't Sligo be getting a decent wad for getting to the third qualifying round - nearly 200k I would have though.

doncarlos

stovelid wrote: »

Won't Sligo be getting a decent wad for getting to the third qualifying round - nearly 200k I would have though.

Just 90k, same as you get for entering the first qualifying round.

Dundalk got 180k for playing in two rounds last year whereas Sporting Fingal would have gotten 90k for playing one.

edit*

1st qualifying round: €90,000
2nd qualifying round: €90,000
3rd qualifying round: €90,000
Playoffs: €90,000
Group stage: €1,000,000
Group match victory: €120,000
Group match draw: €60,000
1st knock out round: €180,000
2nd knock out round: €270,000
Quarter-finals: €360,000
Semi-finals: €630,000
Losing Finalist: €2,000,000
Winning the Final: €3,000,000

You also get money for wins, draws, televised games etc

Oat23

You don't get the money until after the season either which is why it's important to start making back the money invested in the ground right away.

The ticket money isn't used to fund player signings, it's to cover costs. The club already raised €40k about 6 weeks ago to fund player signings iirc.

AgileMyth

Zebra3 wrote: »

Well, it's cheaper than paying €15 into Tallaght or the RDS and having to travel to Dublin.

Nail on the head there, its a small price to pay for European football at the Showgrounds.

doncarlos

AgileMyth wrote: »

Nail on the head there, its a small price to pay for European football at the Showgrounds.

For you, not the casual fan.

Unless Sligo get a big name in the draw, no way will they sell out or even close to it with €25 a ticket

doncarlos

Oatesy23 wrote: »

You don't get the money until after the season either which is why it's important to start making back the money invested in the ground right away.

The ticket money isn't used to fund player signings, it's to cover costs. The club already raised €40k about 6 weeks ago to fund player signings iirc.

Officially they money isn't paid out by UEFA until the competition is finished which is the following may. However, as the money is paid to the governing body rather than the clubs themselves, the FAI have advanced money to clubs knowing that they were guaranteed to get the money back from UEFA as soon as the competition ends.

stovelid

AgileMyth wrote: »

Its a small price to pay for European football at the Showgrounds.

Still a big price for the average punter and European football won't mean much to the average punter unless it's a big name.

If it pays off, you'll make the money but you may drive people away.

Hard Worker

Zebra3 wrote: »

Well, it's cheaper than paying €15 into Tallaght or the RDS and having to travel to Dublin.

And at least the money is being invested into their club's long term future.

Where's the evidence for that? What plans have they got for the future?
I would say the excessive charge of €25 is to cater for the short term.

stovelid

Oatesy23 wrote: »

The club already raised €40k about 6 weeks ago to fund player signings iirc.

20k to cover each players contract? :pac:

Oat23

stovelid wrote: »

20k to cover each players contract? :pac:

We've only signed 1 player and loaned out Daryl Horgan to Cork for the rest of the season.

Gemeral manager also left about 2 months ago.

born2bwild

Anyone know where foot.ie has gone?

CSF

born2bwild wrote: »

Anyone know where foot.ie has gone?

Still there.

dreamers75

sadly...........

born2bwild

i can't get on to it.

Gavin "shels"

born2bwild wrote: »

i can't get on to it.

It's upgrading it says.

iregk

born2bwild wrote: »

i can't get on to it.

no loss there...

_blank_

worst. website. ever.

run by monkeys, for monkeys.

stovelid

born2bwild wrote: »

Anyone know where foot.ie has gone?

to the dogs?

doncarlos

stovelid wrote: »

to the dogs?

No arguments there. Used to be a great forum but has gotten very poor.
At least on here when opposition fans wind you up there is a bit of intelligance put in to it!

djpbarry

doncarlos wrote: »

At least on here when opposition fans wind you up there is a bit of intelligance put in to it!

So's yer ma.

iregk

doncarlos wrote: »

At least on here when opposition fans wind you up there is a bit of intelligance put in to it!

My cats breath smells like cat food!

doncarlos

djpbarry wrote: »

So's yer ma.

iregk wrote: »

My cats breath smells like cat food!

I suppose I asked for that!!

LiamMc

Tommy Stewart - Partick Thistle

Non-transfers:
James Keddy formerly Player/Manager of Bluebell Utd. last season was unable to sign for Longford as he had previously got a tax-rebate/tax refund after retiring from LoI football a few years ago.

dreamers75

LiamMc wrote: »

Tommy Stewart - Partick Thistle

Non-transfers:
James Keddy formerly Player/Manager of Bluebell Utd. last season was unable to sign for Longford as he had previously got a tax-rebate/tax refund after retiring from LoI football a few years ago.

Tony Grant had same issue with Drogs.

AgileMyth

doncarlos wrote: »

For you, not the casual fan.

Unless Sligo get a big name in the draw, no way will they sell out or even close to it with €25 a ticket

Looking like the tickets will be sold out before the draw is even made.