LOI Talk, Rumours, Gossip, Transfers etc 2018

Darkglasses

In other news, extratime have totally overhauled their website. Huge improvement, much quicker and cleaner looking. Always a great site but it needed an overhaul ages ago, so well done to them

OldMrBrennan83

This post has been deleted.

JoeyJJ

Yeah ET looking good, serious commitment from Gareth and the team there to produce the best coverage.

pablomakaveli

Cork City due to play Oman in a friendly on the 23rd Aug. Bit of a strange one.

Mars Bar

The mobile site is great!

johnnyryan89

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Cork City due to play Oman in a friendly on the 23rd Aug. Bit of a strange one.

Yeah they're playing Limerick too on the Friday night as well, bit strange indeed.

MD1990

JoeyJJ wrote: »

Yeah ET looking good, serious commitment from Gareth and the team there to produce the best coverage.

I do think it is poor that they don't pay any of their reporters though.

JoeyJJ

MD1990 wrote: »

I do think it is poor that they don't pay any of their reporters though.

Does the site bring in that much revenue that it can? I don't know the answer, one guy in Sligo deffo shouldn't be getting paid for producing what he does. Surprised he was let stay on after something he wrote on his blog.

MD1990

JoeyJJ wrote: »

Does the site bring in that much revenue that it can? I don't know the answer, one guy in Sligo deffo shouldn't be getting paid for producing what he does. Surprised he was let stay on after something he wrote on his blog.

I would guess they could afford a €20 fee for the live updates they give & a similar fee for a match report or article.

JoeyJJ

From what revenue? The site isn't monetised for google ads etc.

Darkglasses

Ah I wouldn't start criticising them unless you know what the balance sheet actually looks like. Plus once you pay one, you have to pay a tonne of others. I don't think anyone is getting rich off ET at the moment.

I would love to see them go the crowd funding route though personally.

kksaints

New look ET is great, always been a great website especially since the sorted out that problem they had a good few years ago when the live updates page would crash in the last 10 minutes of every matchnight.

overshoot

Kenny sheils has actually tried to get tonight's game with Harps called off because he has a lot of defensive injuries. The man just keeps giving!!

JoeyJJ

Rovers short price to beat Shams tonight, would have thought Shams were shorter price. Should be a good game.

Oat23

JoeyJJ wrote: »

Does the site bring in that much revenue that it can? I don't know the answer, one guy in Sligo deffo shouldn't be getting paid for producing what he does. Surprised he was let stay on after something he wrote on his blog.

Is this the fella who slandered a well respected volunteer based on hearsay? That kid isn't a journalist... why the hell have ET got him writing for them.

gimmick

CCFC Vs Bohs tonight. After Dundalk somehow managed to ease the blow of us losing to Sligo on Monday, we absolutely have to win this tonight. No excuses.

Away to Derry then Monday. If we were to win both games we go level at the top. Lose both and Derry go ahead of us I think.

CrowdedHouse

https://twitter.com/FranGavinAtmo/status/764097560000638976

gimmick

Disgraceful showing from city tonight against a limited but well organised Bohs.

Dundalk let a window and a door open but City are happy to sit outside it seems. We are now in 3rd.

Stuey Byrne questioned the CCFC mentality at the start of the season. He was right to it appears.

So cross / disappointed.

Ronan|Raven

Now, calm down, Neddly diddily diddily diddily, doodily. They did their best shodaiddily iddily iddily diddily diddily. Gotta be nice, hostidididildilidilly... aw, hell-diddly-ding-dong crap! Can't you morons do anything right?! :eek::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:


2-0 to Wexford, that is it, back to the graveyard.. assuming there still is a graveyard next year..

Sue Pa Key Pa

Longford fans gave their players dogs abuse as they came back out for the warm down. Very harsh I thought on the effort they put in

Alfa Quadrifoglio

Bohs very impressive in the last half hour against Finn Harps and would have taken confidence from that which had been lacking recently. Cork had two goals disallowed and Bohs seemed to have the backs to the wall according to the twitter feed.
Derry now second and Sligo Rovers on a great run with a decent crowd in the Showgrounds tonight.

Ronan|Raven

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

Longford fans gave their players dogs abuse as they came back out for the warm down. Very harsh I thought on the effort they put in

Too late for effort the majority of this season has been pure ****e. The manager needs to take some responsibility though. The players do as well as they can but frankly when you have had nearly more players sent off all year than goals scored there comes a breaking point.

9de5q7tsr8u2im

Sitting here and I an finding it extremely difficult to express my thoughts on what I witnessed tonight without being disrespectful. I have been attending Cork City matches with over twenty five years and it's the first time in that period that I am totally fed up with what I am witnessing. I am not even talking about the results I am talking about the football and the intent. When I say intent I mean the desire to progress forward and attack. I must have counted at least ten if not more times when either K. O'Connor was on the half way line begging for the ball to be played into his path so he could run onto it but no, the ball went back to Bennett, then McNulty, then a kick out and the momentum was gone. Anytime we get the ball in the midfield there's no attacking thoughts only the same result everytime, back to defenders then back to keeper. For Gods sake lads, please, play the game like Dundalk, watch them off the ball how their looking for forward passes everytime and not thinking negatively. I love this City and I love this Club but for the first time in my life I feel dejected with our football. Dundalk are laughing at us.

Darkglasses

I'm not for abusing players or people in general but I would have to give most of the Longford team about 1 out of 10 tonight. Big Yann was ok, tried his best at least, and Ryan Coulter kept them in it. Simon was absolutely appalling compared to the performance he put in against us the first time. Thought Don Cowan could have done a lot better too.

SantryRed

I can't believe Cousins has lasted as Longford manager for all these years.

Ronan|Raven

Darkglasses wrote: »

Thought Don Cowan could have done a lot better too.

That is Don always... run down the wing, run the ball out of play, rinse repeat.

Oat23

Amazing 7 days for us. 1300km round trips to Wexford & Cork and a great win at home tonight. 10 goals scored and 9 points picked up.

Darkglasses

Oat23 wrote: »

Amazing 7 days for us. 1300km round trips to Wexford & Cork and a great win at home tonight. 10 goals scored and 9 points picked up.

Sligo have turned into some team. Mad to think how bad things looked for you early on. Fair play to Robertson!

gimmick

Alfa Quadrifoglio wrote: »

Bohs very impressive in the last half hour against Finn Harps and would have taken confidence from that which had been lacking recently. Cork had two goals disallowed and Bohs seemed to have the backs to the wall according to the twitter feed.
Derry now second and Sligo Rovers on a great run with a decent crowd in the Showgrounds tonight.

The first disallowed one the flag was up long before it went it so I wouldn't get too excited about that. The 2nd I don't know. He may have been but was told it was an early flag as well so it was pretty obvious.

Not even dwelling on them. We had chances to win but were fluffed badly.

eire4

Darkglasses wrote: »

Sligo have turned into some team. Mad to think how bad things looked for you early on. Fair play to Robertson!

It has been quite the turn for the better for Sligo recently to put it mildly. Good to see one of the more progressive and better managed clubs in the league doing well on the field.

A_Sober_Paddy

gimmick wrote: »

Disgraceful showing from city tonight against a limited but well organised Bohs.

Dundalk let a window and a door open but City are happy to sit outside it seems. We are now in 3rd.

Stuey Byrne questioned the CCFC mentality at the start of the season. He was right to it appears.

So cross / disappointed.

Is it time to look at a replacement for caulfield

hufpc8w3adnk65

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

Is it time to look at a replacement for caulfield

I'm beginning to think so but who's out there and available/gettable?

The_Kew_Tour

Last 2 nights are the worst back to back performances I have seen from City in a long long time. Rubbish and that is all it was.

Kiss the league goodbye and Caulfield needs to go. I have stuck by him long enough, but if you only play for 1 half in a game, then you deserve everything you get.

Bohs were horrible to watch btw. At least Sligo seemed to have a gameplan, the other night and took their chances.

A_Sober_Paddy

MrMac84 wrote: »

I'm beginning to think so but who's out there and available/gettable?

Keith Long, cuts his cloth so to speak. Bohs may be negative this year, but last year I saw a few games and they looked tidy, comfortable on the ball and good going forward.

But I'd imagine there are managers in Britain who are reachable

Mushy

Or Pat Fenlon!

gimmick

Whatever the rights and wrongs of sacking JC, our board won't do it. They will look at our league position and the strong financial position we are in after Europe and deem everything an uncategorised success.

That said JC shouldn't be sacked. Madness to even discuss it. We are still in touch with the lead. Last 2 games ask huge questions about CCFCs bottle but we are still a point closer now to Dundalk than what we thought we would be.

A_Sober_Paddy

Mushy wrote: »

Or Pat Fenlon!

I reckon they've thrown away enough on some of caulfields squads...

hufpc8w3adnk65

Mushy wrote: »

Or Pat Fenlon!

God no...

Mushy

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

Mushy wrote: »

Or Pat Fenlon!

I reckon they've thrown away enough on some of caulfields squads...

I was kinda joking, don't have smilies on responsive site.

That must have been awful by Cork. Two great chances to capitalise, didn't do enough.

joeysoap

gimmick wrote: »

Whatever the rights and wrongs of sacking JC, our board won't do it.

That said JC shouldn't be sacked. Madness to even discuss it. We are still in touch with the lead. Last 2 games ask huge questions about CCFCs bottle but we are still a point closer now to Dundalk than what we thought we would be.

City would be nuts to even contemplate sacking Caulfield. Could have won the league in 2014 with one draw. Only team that kept a very good Dundalk team honest last year, and with any other Cup final opponents would probably have won.

Dundalk haven't been firing on all cylinders for some time now, lucky to beat Longford 4 -3 in the last minute (Dundalk's last league win), they appear to be distracted by the European matches. Dundalk were lucky with injuries last year but you can't stay lucky forever. Gartland is a big loss. With 8 more European matches and a backlog of league matches, this league is anybody's. But I think most people would have expected CC to take advantage of the situation. Only closing the gap from two home games by 1 point is surprising. Sligo are on fire but maybe just a titch too far behind to win the league, Rovers are not entirely out of it yet. As for Derry, while he is a good manager, Shields is definitely a lucky manager. And luck has a lot to do with it.

SteelyDanJalapeno

10 games of football now since City have scored a goal from in play 15 hours, sums up the current mentality.

gimmick

Bennett scored from open play v Genk. That was last week ffs.

SteelyDanJalapeno

gimmick wrote: »

Bennett scored from open play v Genk. That was last week ffs.

That was from a set piece ffs.

kksaints

3 points for us last night. Fagan took his goal well and Clarke made two great saves to keep a clean sheet. Galway dominated the first 25 minutes of the 2nd half but apart from one great chance in the first half we were fairly comfortable. We had a good few young players starting last night. Kinsella who we signed on loan from Everton could be very useful in a few years time.

A_Sober_Paddy

gimmick wrote: »

Bennett scored from open play v Genk. That was last week ffs.

Header from a free kick.

Caulfield has brought ye as far as he will, 3 times runner up

HalloweenJack

Does the site bring in that much revenue that it can? I don't know the answer, one guy in Sligo deffo shouldn't be getting paid for producing what he does. Surprised he was let stay on after something he wrote on his blog.

Been away for a bit so still catching up on this thread.

Any link for this? Or background at least.

I did stuff for ET myself for years. Can't imagine Gareth's making much money but I wouldn't know anything about it whatsoever. He basically relies on people's goodwill and there's a lot of resistance from the established journos out there which makes it a difficult job at times.

ShamoBuc

Caulfield out? Definitely not. He has got us into challengers for the league. We are unfortunate that we are up against one of the best teams the league has seen in Dundalk. Could someone else do better? Yes but they could also make us a mid table side. Stick with him till the end of the season, maybe he will go himself.

We are playing dreadful football at the moment, but I think it will pass soon enough. The players need to take a bit of responsibility aswell.

Ronan|Raven

Farewell Tony Cousins, thanks for promotion and everything over the years but it had run its course.
Alan Matthews to take over until the end of the season?

red sean

Ronan|Raven wrote: »

Farewell Tony Cousins, thanks for promotion and everything over the years but it had run its course.
Alan Matthews to take over until the end of the season?

No. Give Roddy a shout. He's never been relegated!

Bateman

Hard to know with the Cousins thing. I was kind of surprised he was sacked. Why wait til Wexford beat them? They're more or less down now. Giving a new man a few months in the top division won't be great preparation for the first division IMO. Sometimes teams should give these things more thought than they do.