LOI Talk, Rumours, Gossip, Transfers etc 2018

topmanamillion

Oat23 wrote: »

We are so f*cked.

https://twitter.com/sligorovers/status/835224147064197120

You can sing that.

red sean

Oat23 wrote: »

We are so f*cked.

https://twitter.com/sligorovers/status/835224147064197120

Looks like we're relegation fodder after half a game.

OldMrBrennan83

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D14Rugby

I know we (rovers) lost but there was enough in that performance for me to be positive about the season. A good mix of fight and skill I thought.

Darkglasses

Athlone Town take a 1-0 lead. So much for preparation.

ShamoBuc

Darkglasses wrote: »

Athlone Town take a 1-0 lead. So much for preparation.

Saw that with 15 to go at 0-0, was going to throw a fiver on Athlone at 20/1 as it seemed even enough on stats, didn't though :rolleyes:

Oat23

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Saw that with 15 to go at 0-0, was going to throw a fiver on Athlone at 20/1 as it seemed even enough on stats, didn't though :rolleyes:

I used to manage Rodrigo Tosi in football manager a few years ago. When Limerick signed him I said I'd throw €20 on him to be top scorer. Forgot.

Scored a hattrick tonight. Won't get those 35/1 odds again.

dan1895

Patww79 wrote: »

Will Shelbourne hit 3 figures for attendance tonight?

Why wouldn't we? Great atmosphere tonight especially at half time in the bar.

Great 3 points for Cork tonight....Come on the City

peteeeed

Great win for bray , bossed the game from the start , should have won by more , ref went a bit mental near the end

Alfa Quadrifoglio

A Brazilian scores a hat trick for Limerick in the League of Ireland against Sligo.....nearly 5000 in Oriel for hi octane game where injury hit champions Dundalk prevail over Rovers....huge crowd in Dalymount where despite Keith Long seriously narrowing the pitch Derry run out easy winners 4-1...first relegation six pointer goes to the Drogs against Gaillimh...Pats get two men sent off and continue to flatter to deceive losing to Bray....Seanie scores for Cork on a wild night in Donegal against Harps .. yes folks the greatest League in the World is back!!!
The Big Dublin Derby between Rovers and Bohs in Tallaght and the big week 1 winners Derry and Limerick just a couple of the exciting games to look forward to next week.....

ben.schlomo

We should have been out of sight after 20 minutes but just didnt take our chances. Drogs were very defensive first half and we were poor second half, a lesson in chance taking, they had one and won the game. Onwards, and at least a little upwards please.

Saint_Mel

Crazy evening in Lissywollen ... mains tripped so lights went out during warmup, switched to generator and something went bang and with a cloud of smoke the lights went out. Then lights went out in the press box and by some miracle all came back online again!

OldMrBrennan83

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The_Kew_Tour

Good win for Cork. Just cant wait till next week. Great to have games on doorstep again

Mars Bar

Question for Cork fans. How long would it take to get from Fota Island to Turner's Cross on a Friday evening? How easy is it to get parking at Turner's Cross? I'm in Cork next week and am debating to go to the Galway United game.

Mars Bar

Mars Bar wrote: »

Question for Cork fans. How long would it take to get from Fota Island to Turner's Cross on a Friday evening? How easy is it to get parking at Turner's Cross? I'm in Cork next week and am debating to go to the Galway United game.[/quote

Not very easy. There are a few parks nearby the stadium but you'd have to get in early around 6-6.30 as most locals will block off parking spaces

Mars Bar

Thanks Davester.

I finish in Fota Island around 4pm. Would I be better off to start making my way over and park up and go find food? How easy is it to get out?

Mars Bar

Mars Bar wrote: »

Thanks Davester.

I finish in Fota Island around 4pm. Would I be better of to start making my way over and park up and go find food? How easy is it to get out?

If there's a match in Musgrave park at times it can get crowded /busy - getting in can be a pain as there's a lot of traffic from workers going home and all that jazz - I find getting out is ok and quicker

ShamoBuc

Mars Bar wrote: »

Thanks Davester.

I finish in Fota Island around 4pm. Would I be better off to start making my way over and park up and go find food? How easy is it to get out?

Have a meal in fota or The Elm Tree and drive over then . If you are there by 6.30 ish you will find parking by woodies and a 2 min walk. Or really splash the cash and go to McDonald's a hundred yards from woodies. You will be on the road quickly after the match, as long as you are going back the way you came.

Mars Bar

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Have a meal in fota or The Elm Tree and drive over then . If you are there by 6.30 ish you will find parking by woodies and a 2 min walk. Or really splash the cash and go to McDonald's a hundred yards from woodies. You will be on the road quickly after the match, as long as you are going back the way you came.

Thank you!
I'll be heading back to Galway if I do go so my plan is to follow the supporters bus out of the city. I know my way after that!

CrowdedHouse

Mars Bar wrote: »

Thank you!
I'll be heading back to Galway if I do go so my plan is to follow the supporters bus out of the city. I know my way after that!

Are you sure there is one M......? :eek:

Sure you can follow the team bus or get a Garmin!

Mars Bar

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Are you sure there is one M......? :eek:

Sure you can follow the team bus or get a Garmin!

I'm sure I'll find Ronan C and Dom W somewhere in the grounds!

CrowdedHouse

PS - We are doomed *

You that's an expert MB - what formation were they trying to play last night?







*may or may not be true but I like saying it!

The_Kew_Tour

No Munster match next week in Cork so should not be too bad. Getting out of Cork at night is fine though. I try get there for 6.30 give yourself time. I expect 4,000 at it

Captain Havoc

I'm generally come in from the Dublin road and get through the Dunkettle roundabout quickly enough. I don't even bother trying to park close to the stadium, I usually park near Musgrave park, which is only a ten minute walk anyway. I'm going to Kinsale afterwards though so I'm already pointing in the right direction but I've never had much hassle getting out.

Mars Bar

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

PS - We are doomed *

You that's an expert MB - what formation were they trying to play last night?


*may or may not be true but I like saying it!

4-4-2 with one forward dropping deep. Didn't think Cunningham offered anything at all playing on the right. There was very little combination work between the full backs and wingers and I didn't think much of the number 8 dropping to get the ball. They threatened to play out from the keeper but weren't committed!

hufpc8w3adnk65

It's 15 mins from fota to the cross...if you come in around 4/4:30 you'll find parking no problem! Could take a walk to McDonald's for grub or if you'd prefer a meal and it's a nice day maybe the Hawtorn for food or there's a full Chinese upstairs there and you'll have views of the lough which on a sunny evening is nice to sit outside and watch the world go by. You could walk from Turners cross out to the Lough in 10/12 mins (after you park the car) have some food and a drink and walk down again in plenty of time for kick off.

http://www.discoveringcork.ie/hawthorn-bar/

Mars Bar

Thank you all very much!

ShamoBuc

Mars Bar wrote: »

Thank you all very much!

You have to go now :pac:

Mars Bar

ShamoBuc wrote: »

You have to go now :pac:

I'm doing my UEFA B in Fota Island so I may just be completely sick of football by Friday evening that I'll just head home. Weather will also come in to play. No fun driving home on a dark, wet night. Especially if I've failed!

hufpc8w3adnk65

Mars Bar wrote: »

I'm doing my UEFA B in Fota Island so I may just be completely sick of football by Friday evening that I'll just head home. Weather will also come in to play. No fun driving home on a dark, wet night. Especially if I've failed!

Christ best of luck with the UEFA B. Facilities in Cobh are top class. Didn't think you were assessed on the day with the B licence. You'd be mad not to take in some of the match. Turners Cross with 4000+ people in it is something special and Friday should see huge numbers at it.

On a Friday night you'd get from the cross to Galway in 2 hours no problem. There'll be no traffic

Mars Bar

MrMac84 wrote: »

Christ best of luck with the UEFA B. Facilities in Cobh are top class. Didn't think you were assessed on the day with the B licence. You'd be mad not to take in some of the match. Turners Cross with 4000+ people in it is something special and Friday should see huge numbers at it.

On a Friday night you'd get from the cross to Galway in 2 hours no problem. There'll be no traffic

Thank you! I'm not sure if we find out on the day but they've done away with final assessments in the old sense of "35 minutes of your best or you fail." I think you know yourself whether you've done enough or not by body language and communication.

I was in Terryland last night and I'm not joking when I say that it only dawned on my today that it was a possibility to go. Of course if there are any Boardsie home fans willing to meet for a soft drink, I'll be happy to introduce myself. As I said though, it'll depend on a few factors.

gimmick

MrMac84 wrote: »

On a Friday night you'd get from the cross to Galway in 2 hours no problem. There'll be no traffic

15 mins from FOTA and 2hrs back to Galway?

I must be a very slow driver

Peppa Pig

Father Ted creator has a pop at barstoolers.
Sunday Times
It's behind a pay wall, something like 2 free articles a week

Each place possesses its own charm, though, and even now, as he prepares for his 47th season as a League of Ireland fan, there’s still that boyish excitement within Mathews as he visualises the approach to grounds through narrow, old streets, guided by the floodlights in the sky and the smell of fried onions on the pan. Haute cuisine hasn’t made it to too many League of Ireland grounds thus far.

Then again, nor have the majority of Ireland’s population. There are those, like Mathews, who don’t need the product sold back to them but for so many others, League of Ireland football is considered the sporting equivalent of a ghetto, inhabited by supporters whose sensitive reaction to any real, or imagined, criticism is practically cultish in its fanaticism.

in between winning Baftas and writing scripts for Harry Enfield and Simon Pegg, he’s returned to the same spot inside United Park to watch the team he has supported since 1970.

My favourite part of the article

The usual answer is because the standard of Irish football is poor, no matter how much we’d like to pretend otherwise. Say this to Mathews, though, and he shoots you the kind of look that Father Jack gave to Ted when he discovered his bottle of whiskey contained …. ‘feckin’ water’.

“I’m a Drogheda fan so supposedly, I’m meant to hate Dundalk,” Mathews said. “But it’s not like that in the League of Ireland. Instead, whenever I meet someone wearing a St Pat’s, Shamrock Rovers or Limerick jersey, it’s like coming across a fellow survivor from a Japanese prisoner of war camp. You know what I mean? Watching our teams over the years is like those who built the bridge across the River Kwai – the ultimate test of our spirit and endurance.

hufpc8w3adnk65

gimmick wrote: »

15 mins from FOTA and 2hrs back to Galway?

I must be a very slow driver

Yes you must be.

joeysoap

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

The league website is 'live' according to the FAI twitter account, but nothing seems to be working on it.

It's working, but whether it's any good or not ......

If you click on statistics section in the premier league it shows Cork as 3 yellows and no red, pats 2 yellows and 2 reds, Bohs as 1 yellow,

And better still if you click on the pats v bray match they don't know who the officials were.

Poor.

MD1990

Usually the first thing you see when it shows stats is top goal scorers & then assists.

But no the LOI website has yellow/red cards probably so they can easily keep track of fines to make money.

joeysoap

MD1990 wrote: »

Usually the first thing you see when it shows stats is top goal scorers & then assists.

But no the LOI website has yellow/red cards probably so they can easily keep track of fines to make money.

But their not right. Bohs got no cards, and City had 4 yellows and a red. Even if they are not going down the usual road with stats, they at least have to be accurate with what they put on the site. How many yellows did pats get 4 or 5? Since I posted this morning pats have been 'upgraded' from 2 to 5 yellows.

Darkglasses

https://fora.ie/bray-wanderers-carlisle-grounds-stadium-3255210-Feb2017/

Bray not planning to leave after all.

topmanamillion

Darkglasses wrote: »

https://fora.ie/bray-wanderers-carlisle-grounds-stadium-3255210-Feb2017/

Bray not planning to leave after all.

The only reason they`ve changed their tune is because Wicklow Co Co hauled them in because of all the crap they put in their strategic plan.
I don't trust that O`Connor fella an inch.

They are E1.3M in debt (as of 2015s accounts, who knows what it is now) but yet they have upped the playing budget?
I wouldn't be sleeping well if I was a Bray fan.

civis_liberalis

Darkglasses wrote: »

Bray not planning to leave after all.

peteeeed

topmanamillion wrote: »

The only reason they`ve changed their tune is because Wicklow Co Co hauled them in because of all the crap they put in their strategic plan.
I don't trust that O`Connor fella an inch.

They are E1.3M in debt (as of 2015s accounts, who knows what it is now) but yet they have upped the playing budget?
I wouldn't be sleeping well if I was a Bray fan.

gerry mulvey now owns 80 % of the club so bray are in a much better financial situation but people around here don't like to see that

peteeeed

former arsenal player justin hoyte traning with bray

SEANoftheDEAD

At least Bray want to stay in Bray. The club would die a death of it moved anywhere else.
I like that little green stand in the ground, having that all the way round the pitch would make a nice little stadium.

peteeeed

SEANoftheDEAD wrote: »

At least Bray want to stay in Bray. The club would die a death of it moved anywhere else.
I like that little green stand in the ground, having that all the way round the pitch would make a nice little stadium.

agreed . when the opposite side (mostly away fans side ) needs a roof and there's not much else needed

Mushy

peteeeed wrote: »

SEANoftheDEAD wrote: »

At least Bray want to stay in Bray. The club would die a death of it moved anywhere else.
I like that little green stand in the ground, having that all the way round the pitch would make a nice little stadium.

agreed . when the opposite side (mostly away fans side ) needs a roof and there's not much else needed

The toilets need doing up (unless it's been done). Tbh I think a small terrace at the bowling alley end would be cool too.

The_Kew_Tour

If Bray want to be ambitious better luck to them.

I get pleasure out of clubs doing poorly on the field, but in all honesty if Bray did suffer in near furure what good does that do to the league?

Even other day I gave little dig at Shels and lack of fans, but if they suddenly were getting 2000+, better luck to them too.

joeysoap

General consensus on SR last night is that a 10 team league wouldn't solve anything, been tried twice before and too many repetitive matches in a 36 match league. Anyone know from 2018 what the promotion/relegation situation is?

Captain Havoc

joeysoap wrote: »

General consensus on SR last night is that a 10 team league wouldn't solve anything, been tried twice before and too many repetitive matches in a 36 match league. Anyone know from 2018 what the promotion/relegation situation is?

Knowing the FAI: three up, one down.