Harps Are Up

[Bald Student]

there should be a minimum requirement for promotion.


There is a mnimum requirement. To be promoted a team must finish in the top three in the First Division.

[1 9 2 8]

Aah there ya go.Not something you hear or see any day. A Sligo Rovers supporter.
We have been going through a few bad years but we still average around 1000 for our home or maybe just under it while harps only get that when they're wining :eek:
30 years and counting :D

[jimhacker]

Good to have Harps back.....an ideal premier would include themselves , Derry, Sligo, Limerick, and Galway with a few of the lame duck/bankrupt Dublin clubs dropping out.

That group above (if well financed and stable) together with Shels, Bohs, Pats, Cork and Waterford, and maybe Dundalk and Longford would make an ideal league.

[dortie]

Nothing wrong with a bit of rivilary and banter, but this fella just seems to want to stir up constant ****

Your club going behind our backs asking for the PSNI/RUC to be present in our ground was the final straw for me. As it was for MANY.

Other than that, the reason I HATE Finn Harps is

Your smugness as fans to other clubs, even though youve never won anything.

The verbal rhetoric Ive had to listen too both on the net and at games towards Derry People in general. Yep its a slagging, although the greyhound and unemployment welfare stigma is a laugh particularly to me as ive never had either.

Mmmmm Let me see, I dont like Donegal either. Other than that, Just dont like yee.

:D

[dortie]

Wile understandably Derry City and Harps fans dont agree to much there is a general concensus amongst both that Dortie/Housty is a ******!!!!!!!!!!!May as well play him at his own game.

Brendan


LOL :D ....

[Macy]

Serious point on the UEFA Licence though - how can any First Division clubs realistically make the changes without any Government/FAI funding, which was promised when eircom Park fell through? I'd say half the teams in the league have had games when the gate didn't even pay the officials - how are they supposed to build a 1500-seater stand? UEFA Licencing is a great idea, but it seems to have bene appallingly implemented and won't have any miplications for which team plays in which division next season.
The 1500 covered seats was a rule from years ago. Technically, you should've been relegated on that technicality years before you actually were on the pitch. Town had to get a one year exemption on promotion to get one built (which we did, with fúck all from the FAI), but still clubs are let off with it. It's not a new thing with Licencing, just an old rule that's still being fúckin fudged by the league...

[WeAreRovers]

Rover have 9 million invested,


Congrats to Harps, about bleedin' time. ;) Great to see our second favourite club back where they belong.

Just to clear up some confusion - Rovers have NOT had €9 million invested. That's a spoof by our lying toerag of a chairman which some people seem to have swallowed (fortunately that doesn't include us long-suffering Hoops)

For anyone who missed it the piece below from last Sunday's Indo explains it. Apologies to Harps for hijacking this thread but I felt it needed to be said.

KOH

Sunday Indo - Business section

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'Saviour' of the Hoops in a pure property play

MARTIN FITZPATRICK

SOME domestic soccer supporters were getting a little carried away after the news last week that Dublin-based businessman Conor Clarkson had swooped to "rescue" Shamrock Rovers.

"Cash-starved" is a phrase that has followed Rovers' nomadic trudge through a series of rented Dublin stadia in recent years, while the shell of its stadium in Tallaght has been a reproach to its supporters. However, the news of Mr Clarkson's "rescue" was interpreted - and elaborately portrayed - as a E9m "investment" in Rovers and the end to all the hard times.

The latter may be true, but it is not true that Clarkson is stuffing Rovers' coffers. It is a pure property play. The Clarkson company's sole interest - and its cash - will be ploughed into the completion of an integrated sporting and leisure complex in Tallaght.

He may have a nominee on the Shamrock Rovers board but this column understands that Clarkson himself won't be a Rovers director. And the investment in the project will be nearer E7.5m than the reported E9m.

However, when the project is completed in 12 months' time, Rovers will have a landlord rather than a guardian angel. And impatient Rovers supporters will have to get used to the idea that it will be the 2006 season before they can take up residence in their westside home.

[pineapple stu]

The 1500 covered seats was a rule from years ago. Technically, you should've been relegated on that technicality years before you actually were on the pitch.

True, actually (although then Drogheda and Rovers (maybe Waterford? never been down there) would have had to go as well, while nobody in the First would come up), if tangential to my point. The smaller clubs still can't do anything about it without grant assistance, which was my point. Meanwhile, the FAI throws away another quarter of a million because of its incompetence...

[BobtheDrog]

congrats on coming up, it took a while but you made it

[carrickharp]

congrats on coming up, it took a while but you made it
Years off heart break in them feckin play-offs, it's good to be back.

[joey B]

ONE THING I THINK DERRY FANS SHOULD REMEMBER IS THAT IT WAS HARPS WHO GOT YOU IN THE DAMN LEAGUE IN THE FIRST PLACE.AND THE WHOLE RUC THING IS ABOUT PERSONAL SAFETY WITH YOU SCUMBAGS. :eek:

[Mad Moose]

Muckers and selective memory. Best team in the league hi!!!!!!!!!

Brendan

[corkharps]

ONE THING I THINK DERRY FANS SHOULD REMEMBER IS THAT IT WAS HARPS WHO GOT YOU IN THE DAMN LEAGUE IN THE FIRST PLACE.AND THE WHOLE RUC THING IS ABOUT PERSONAL SAFETY WITH YOU SCUMBAGS. :eek:
Don't even rise to Dortie's ramblings.He claims to hate Donegal,yet he can be spotted quite often on a Saturday night dragging his arms behinde him,Where? Letterkenny! :eek: Hes a fool, just ignore him! ;)