Sadlier

**depor** · 23/04/2008, 5:27 PM

that sadlier or whatever his name is, is a complete clown. he said on MNS the rams v pats game was a dire game, bull****, there was some good football played that night. wether its his grudge against roy keane or the fact that his team(team hes associated with) didnt hammer us, is no excuse. hes a liar. he also said there was a small crowd at it, maybe compared to the linfield game but it wasnt small compared to their normal gate, unless therir normal gate is well over 4000 which it isnt. there was at least 2500/3000 at it. ''no offence to cobh ramblers'' what an assh*le.

the fact is he refused to admit that our team played some nice football. it was far from the ''most dire game'' as he put it.

**GavinZac** · 23/04/2008, 5:52 PM

christ, when will Ramblers fans get a grip and realise that Keane played 12 games for ye in one season before getting out as soon as he could. I would highly doubt Keane has anything to do with Sadlier's opinions, as much as I would doubt any Ramblers fan's claim to have a more informed opinion on what good football is after spending over a decade watching the likes of st francis, kilkenny, and dublin city.

There was a smaller than usual attendance for the Linfield game so having a small crowd compared to that should mean having a small crowd compared to the usual.

**Da Real Rover** · 23/04/2008, 5:53 PM

No pundit is ever going to be spot on, but as Sadlier gos hes the best pundit on it without a doubt. You could be right but as for the highlights, it was pure muck.
How small minded to create a new thread just to bash a pundit you dont agree with after he 'might' be incorrect on one episode.

**ramsfan** · 23/04/2008, 5:58 PM

Originally Posted by GavinZac

christ, when will Ramblers fans get a grip and realise that Keane played 12 games for ye in one season before getting out as soon as he could. I would highly doubt Keane has anything to do with Sadlier's opinions, as much as I would doubt any Ramblers fan's claim to have a more opinion on what good football is after spending over a decade watching the likes of st francis, kilkenny, and dublin city.

There was a smaller than usual attendance for the Linfield game so having a small crowd compared to that should mean having a small crowd compared to the usual.

defo a roddy collins lover, has to be to be such a clown

**MojoPin** · 23/04/2008, 6:12 PM

Originally Posted by GavinZac

after spending over a decade watching the likes of st francis, kilkenny, and dublin city.

thanks for including 3 clubs that went bust

**pineapple stu** · 23/04/2008, 6:19 PM

As a Cork fan, he can relate to it.

**micls** · 23/04/2008, 6:22 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

As a Cork fan, he can relate to it.

Given he wasnt born when any club went bust then I dont think he can....

**GavinZac** · 23/04/2008, 6:26 PM

Originally Posted by MojoPin

thanks for including 3 clubs that went bust

Nice spot, hot shot.

Originally Posted by ramsfan

defo a roddy collins lover, has to be to be such a clown

I've been accused of many, many things on Foot.ie, but have never been accused of being a Roddy lover. Congrats on a first

**don ramo** · 23/04/2008, 6:28 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

As a Cork fan, he can relate to it.

ya but i didnt like what he said, he must watch some top, top, class games every week to make such comments (i must find out where as i know of no league thats that good all the time), pats fans said it was boring also, but at the same time thanked us for coming up for a game of football and not hoffball, so how do you make poeple happy, you play football your crticised, you play hoffball your critcised, i was there and personally found it to be a good game of football, 2500/3000 seemed a good attendance for a game against us minnows from down south, pats average is 2271, so i would condsider it a good crowd,

**deecay** · 23/04/2008, 7:34 PM

I really like him as a pundit

**nijboyle** · 23/04/2008, 7:40 PM

Isnt he working as a journalist now he knacked his knee, anyone know where?

**Martinho II** · 23/04/2008, 8:39 PM

sunday indo plus hes a director of pats... it was his scoop on clive clarke which kicked off the roy keane row...

**Mr A** · 23/04/2008, 8:56 PM

Originally Posted by nijboyle

Isnt he working as a journalist now he knacked his knee, anyone know where?

Somewhere between the shin and the thigh maybe?

**passinginterest** · 23/04/2008, 9:05 PM

I was at that Pat's Cobh game too and I thought well under 2,000 there. I'd like to see the official figure. As for the match it certainly had some good spells, first 20 mins were very good, after that it was poor enough. Most of the Pat's fans seem to think it was an awful game too. I though it was OK myself. Bit over the top to be bashing Sadlier for an opinion.

**Dodge** · 23/04/2008, 9:39 PM

Originally Posted by depor

that sadlier or whatever his name is, is a complete clown. he said on MNS the rams v pats game was a dire game, bull****,

I said on here after the game it was poor. What has he to gain by deliberately being negative?

Too honest maybe. By far the worst game we've been involved with this year

**mark12345** · 23/04/2008, 10:29 PM

I can't say I saw the match in question but Sadlier is not alone in thinking bad of the Irish domestic football. I have to confess I had'nt seen an Irish domestic game in a few years (living abroad) but I have heard great things about the standard in general from friends.

I tuned in to a couple of MNS's on the web and God preserve us but it was pure unadulterated rubbish, every one of the four games I saw - that included Drogheda, Bohs, Rovers and Galway. I was telling myself beforehand that I should not be so cynical, and to be more accepting of my own country's game, but I got a ruder than rude awakening.

The standard is abysmal. Long balls to nowhere, teams unable to hold possession for longer than two or three passes, creativity nil, technical ability less than nil. I have long since criticised the English game for all of the above (because the Premier League would be nothing without its foreign imports) but at least it has a halfway decent standard about it.

It pains me to say it but I don't know where the light at the end of the tunnel is for Irish football.

**Sheridan** · 23/04/2008, 10:33 PM

Well, that's it for me, lads. If some nameless blow-in has proclaimed our league worthless on the basis of a few edited highlights packages, that's good enough for me. I don't know what I was thinking all these years. See you all at the bar for the next installment of The Premiership!

**don ramo** · 23/04/2008, 10:52 PM

i saw a few of sadliers games, and hes games werent exactly the most entertaining games, as i said he said "it was the most dire game of football he had ever seen]" what kind of pundit says somthing like that, especially considering hes a director or whatever association he has with pats, to put the club down, that will really help attendances, MNS is better than TV3 highlight are better, analysis, and also its much better at putting the league down, anyone can pick out bad points to a game of football its 22 players running for 90 mins, there are gonna be bad games, bad periods, its just how it is, but sometimes they just go out of there way to find bad points, shoddy is proof of that and sadlier is no better,

**TonyD** · 23/04/2008, 10:56 PM

Sadlier didn't make a general point about the standard of the league, he was talking about one game in particular (I don't think he was specifically aiming the comment at Cobh either, so Depor should calm down a bit). I find him fairly inteligent and articulate as a pundit myself.

As for Mark, perhaps you should see a few full games before you judge. Comparing the league here with one of the richest(possibly the richest) in europe is completely unfair - though the football played by the majority of teams in that league can be pretty unattractive stuff, just witness Liverpool v Chelsea last night, a horrible game.