View Full Version : Shamrock Rovers Vs. Sunderland
sligoman
09/08/2008, 5:23 PM
Just heard on Setanta that the game tonight has been "postponed"...they never said why? Anyone know? I heard the weather's bad in Dublin so I'm assuming that's it?
mypost
09/08/2008, 5:26 PM
That is the reason. Hoping to reschedule the game for a later time.
Sheridan
09/08/2008, 5:26 PM
Not just bad, apocalyptically bad. No way you could play football anywhere in North Dublin tonight. Absolutely bucketed down for 2-3 hours.
Sheridan
09/08/2008, 6:02 PM
FAI.ie:
Tonight's friendly between Shelbourne and Sunderland at Tolka Park has been postponed because the pitch is flooded.
Celdrog
09/08/2008, 6:06 PM
Its hardly postponed is it - it must be cancelled????
sligoman
09/08/2008, 6:08 PM
Its hardly postponed is it - it must be cancelled????
Hoping to reschedule the game for a later time......
brianw82
09/08/2008, 6:29 PM
Walls of water falling from the sky all afternoon. Surprised the GAA wasn't washed out.
passinginterest
09/08/2008, 6:31 PM
Walls of water falling from the sky all afternoon. Surprised the GAA wasn't washed out.
Only started about half three. Played in a mini tournament in Terenure this morning and it was warm and sunny for the whole thing.
Surprised the GAA wasn't washed out.
Heh...the chance. They'd play underwater..
Richmond Road flooded, game to be honoured at a later date. Hopefully won't affect Friday's Cup game.
skitz3
09/08/2008, 6:49 PM
Richmond Road flooded, game to be honoured at a later date. Hopefully won't affect Friday's Cup game.
Hopefully it won't effect the survival of Shelbourne FC.
HarpoJoyce
09/08/2008, 7:08 PM
Hopefully it won't effect the survival of Shelbourne FC.
http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3402&Itemid=9
"Tonight's friendly between Shelbourne and Sunderland at Tolka Park has been postponed because the pitch is flooded."
I suppose it doesn't really matter who was not playing.
The most appropiate thing to do is refund the price of the ticket to fans who want a refund.
Greenforever
09/08/2008, 7:15 PM
http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3402&Itemid=9
"Tonight's friendly between Shelbourne and Sunderland at Tolka Park has been postponed because the pitch is flooded."
I suppose it doesn't really matter who was not playing.
The most appropiate thing to do is refund the price of the ticket to fans who want a refund.
Are you mad, why not just say the tickets for valid for the next 3 home games for Rovers!! The vast majority of those going tonight probably will never go to an EL game,
HarpoJoyce
09/08/2008, 7:27 PM
Are you mad, why not just say the tickets for valid for the next 3 home games for Rovers!! The vast majority of those going tonight probably will never go to an EL game,
Well, I will say I am able-minded because I don't presume the profile of people who bought tickets for a pre-/mid-season friendly. I do know some football fans bought tickets for a game, game didn't go ahead. Refund the price of the ticket. Shamrock Rovers were unlucky with the weather, why cause unnecessary anxiety.
SMorgan
09/08/2008, 7:48 PM
I assume this will be a big financial hit for Rovers, with the advertising of game along with the printing of tickets and programmes. I wouldn't even be surprised if they still had to meet some of Sunderland's expenses.
It bad enough not to be getting the expected revenue, but to have to meet the likely costs will be a set-back for the club.
Hopefully it won't effect the survival of Shelbourne FC.
Looking at some of the pictures from the ground and the weather forecast for the week adding to it, that's a pretty substantial risk..
Saint_Charlie
09/08/2008, 11:53 PM
http://www.fai.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3402&Itemid=9
"Tonight's friendly between Shelbourne and Sunderland at Tolka Park has been postponed because the pitch is flooded."
That's terrrible. Can the FAI not at least pretend they have some respect for the league :o
higgins
10/08/2008, 2:17 AM
Looking at some of the pictures from the ground and the weather forecast for the week adding to it, that's a pretty substantial risk..
Football club go to the wall due to heavy rain!!
Yeah, can see the headlines now :rolleyes:
Relax, there's plenty for Shelboune FC to worry about but a washed out Tolka Park isn't one of them.
You just worry about yourselves.
Between the figure you're paying Ndo coupled with the loss from the game today, you should be more worried about meeting the 65% targets than ourselves ;)
:rolleyes:
We're doing fine thanks.
higgins
10/08/2008, 2:32 AM
So are we, under the circumstances :)
Don't mind the rain!!!
Any word yet on when the replay will be ?
Nope. Could be off for a while with their season starting and to re-arrange everything again
SMorgan
10/08/2008, 1:01 PM
Rovers are asking people with tickets for the game to hold on to them and said that the game will be played at the next possible opportunity.
In other words they want to hold onto the money and not give refunds. Good luck to them but I can't see too many people wanting to hold on to tickets for a game that won't be played anytime soon.
Joe Strummer
10/08/2008, 4:13 PM
Rovers are asking people with tickets for the game to hold on to them and said that the game will be played at the next possible opportunity.
In other words they want to hold onto the money and not give refunds. Good luck to them but I can't see too many people wanting to hold on to tickets for a game that won't be played anytime soon.
Monday September the 8th is when the game is on
Monday September the 8th is when the game is on
Dont mind S. Morgan more worried in Knocking other teams than bothering with his own.
Greenforever
11/08/2008, 4:49 AM
Rovers are asking people with tickets for the game to hold on to them and said that the game will be played at the next possible opportunity.
In other words they want to hold onto the money and not give refunds. Good luck to them but I can't see too many people wanting to hold on to tickets for a game that won't be played anytime soon.
Im sure you will find on the tickets it says if the match is postponed the tickets will be valid for the rearranged date and no refunds will be made.
SMorgan
11/08/2008, 6:05 AM
I doubt that very much. How on earth could it?To state that Sunderland would have had to agree to come back to Ireland for a one-off game prior to last Saturday's game. I very much doubt if that were the case.
The spin from Rovers is that Sunderland have agreed to play the game for "the first possible opportunity". Sunderland have a free weekend in early September. Lets see if they come over to play this match. I bet that the possibility for the match being played during the Premiership season is zero.
Relax, there's plenty for Shelboune FC to worry about but a washed out Tolka Park isn't one of them.
Sure shels are well used to using a washed out Tolka Park to their advantage.
Schumi
11/08/2008, 9:42 AM
Dont mind S. Morgan more worried in Knocking other teams than bothering with his own.Unlike this post. :D
Monday September the 8th is when the game is on
:confused:
Not happening.
Louth4sam
11/08/2008, 10:06 AM
your a thick dundalk bell end
stop talking about something you know nothing about.
:confused:
Not happening.
I'd say your feeling quite foolish now placid casual! :p
oriel
11/08/2008, 11:25 AM
I'd say your feeling quite foolish now placid casual! :p
Rovers should never have got involved with this Sunderland nonsense, what is the attraction with them ? 2,000 max attendance, just to see his lordship roy one more time ?
Hopefully another season of a relegation battle or worse will see the irish media leave them where they belong, in the 'football snippets' section
And finally put an end to Charlie Chawle and the embarrassement of the irish day trippers to a club with zero irish tradition.
Rovers, like all Irish clubs who play them, were no doubt in it for the money. Sunderland annoy my happiness- but at least their trips to Ireland are putting a few quid back into the Irish game.
...2,000 max attendance, just to see his lordship roy one more time ?.....
Nup:)
brianw82
11/08/2008, 11:55 AM
The Indo reported today that the game may be postponed until February, and be the first game at the 10,000-capacity Tallaght Stadium.
That would be nifty, but I can't really see people holding on to the tickets for that long.
passinginterest
11/08/2008, 11:59 AM
The Indo reported today that the game may be postponed until February, and be the first game at the 10,000-capacity Tallaght Stadium.
That would be nifty, but I can't really see people holding on to the tickets for that long.
Most of the real Rovers fans won't mind, and a lot of the real Sunderland fans won't be too bothered either. It's only really the day trippers that will look for money back.
A lot of the Rovers crowd are not too keen on having Sunderland open the stadium as they know it'd be full even if Rovers first team played Rovers reserves. The fans want it to be all about Rovers and the true Rovers supporters, rather than day trippers there to see Keano and the boys.It's a fair point really, it's going to be a momentous day in their history.
Mark Breen
11/08/2008, 12:37 PM
The Indo reported today that the game may be postponed until February, and be the first game at the 10,000-capacity Tallaght Stadium.
That would be nifty, but I can't really see people holding on to the tickets for that long.
Don't know were that ridiculious figure came from..... Only ONE stand will be complete by the time rovers more in and that will only hold 3 thousand, and H&S wouldn't let 7 thousand more stand in the ground, even with temp seats i can't see the 'stadium' holding more than 5 or 6 thousand....
I'd love to see them relegated so Quinn would have a tougher job convincing the band wagon jumpers that they are "Irish"
Odds of 9/2 still available for Sunderland to go down, marvelous value if you ask me for a season long bet, just a pity the teams who came up this year are possibly the weakest in history, still there`s always hope they will get sucked in !
fingers crossed
ps will that finally be the end of the MOST annoying thing ever on irish tv/radio
' roy keanes sunderland'
inchicore_saint
12/08/2008, 10:41 AM
Rovers opening night should be against an Ireland XI.
Rovers opening night should be against an Ireland XI.
Or similar to Galway Utd a few years ago playing Galway Gaa in a fundraiser, maybe Rovers should take on Thomas Davis so they can beat them both on and off the pitch :)
LeixlipRed
12/08/2008, 10:56 AM
Or maybe a Kilcoyne Family XI?
jbyrne
12/08/2008, 11:56 AM
Odds of 9/2 still available for Sunderland to go down, marvelous value if you ask me for a season long bet, just a pity the teams who came up this year are possibly the weakest in history, still there`s always hope they will get sucked in !
fingers crossed
ps will that finally be the end of the MOST annoying thing ever on irish tv/radio
' roy keanes sunderland'
sad, very sad. with all the Irish lads playing there you'd still like to see them relegated
oriel
12/08/2008, 12:52 PM
If they were any good they`d be playing with better teams that sunderland, the problem i have is with the irish media, quinn, chawlke, all his annoying buddies and the new embarrassing irish fan group that all of a sudden has fallen for this pathetic attempt of trying to create an irish club in the uk.
Its a disgrace that plane loads are still going over on day trips to watch a team who will come no higher than 17th or 18th, ut this is nothing on the shameful elevation the irish media has bestowed them for what ??? Tradition ? Dont think so, decent and proper clubs with historical irish interest and a brilliant history over a hundred years like Celtic (and to be fair Rangers for the other side living here), now see their media space eaten up with this shambolic johnny come lately effort, or as Eamonn Sweeeney once wrote in the Sun Indo 'paddy come lately'.
The final cringo stroy was a feature on tyne tees (sunderland local tv region) interviewing supporters and they weren`t one bit happy with the irish coming over, saying to everyone this is an english club. Quite.
Sooner the get relegated the better. Championship is their level. Be interesting if the day trippers would still go then...............I think not.
mypost
12/08/2008, 1:50 PM
the problem i have is with the irish media, quinn, chawlke, all his annoying buddies and the new embarrassing irish fan group that all of a sudden has fallen for this pathetic attempt of trying to create an irish club in the uk.
They're not an Irish club, nor are Celtic. If you want to find an Irish club, go to/stay in Ireland. Yes they have an Irish boss, and Irish players, but at Liverpool, we have a Spanish boss and Spanish players. Still makes LFC no more Spanish than Rovers.
Meanwhile at Rovers, all options are under consideration regarding the first game in Tallaght.
sad, very sad. with all the Irish lads playing there you'd still like to see them relegated
*flogs dead horse*
More like because of all the Irish players playing there ;)
jbyrne
12/08/2008, 3:04 PM
Oh God. So what if they have irish palyers in their team. Those players are on big wages and are gonna be fine no matter what happens the club. Plus a load of irish players get relegated every year in Ireland. These players are usually part time and have a far less secure future than those at Sunderland and most of the football "fans" on this island couldn't give a rats ass about them
i couldnt give a damn about their wages. most of them are part of the national team and relegation would hardly help our cause (sorry, the national team cause which i know many of you despise). They are still Irish lads trying to better themselves but sure hang the lot of them for not staying in Ireland and playing in front of miserable crowds in miserable facilities.
to the rovers fans posting here... the cheek of any of you giving out about how any club is funded when you are currently on the end of a €10m hand out for your new stadium
passinginterest
12/08/2008, 3:19 PM
to the rovers fans posting here... the cheek of any of you giving out about how any club is funded when you are currently on the end of a €10m hand out for your new stadium
In Rovers defence it's South Dublin County Council getting the handout and it's for a municipal stadium that will hugely benefit the Tallaght community. As a Tallaght resident I can say it's the kind of investment that is needed and valued.
jbyrne
12/08/2008, 3:23 PM
In Rovers defence it's South Dublin County Council getting the handout and it's for a municipal stadium that will hugely benefit the Tallaght community. As a Tallaght resident I can say it's the kind of investment that is needed and valued.
i dont deny for a second that its the right thing for a local authority to be doing. people will take money from anywhere to better their clubs. SDCC dont need a stadium though, rovers do. its municiple value will be minimal other than for rovers use
mypost
12/08/2008, 3:40 PM
to the rovers fans posting here... the cheek of any of you giving out about how any club is funded when you are currently on the end of a €10m hand out for your new stadium
And your problem with that is?? :confused:
to the rovers fans posting here... the cheek of any of you giving out about how any club is funded when you are currently on the end of a €10m hand out for your new stadium
If some of the knobs that Quinn got to invest in Sunderland had invested in actual Irish Football, maybe they wouldn't need a municipal stadium.
Straightstory
13/08/2008, 11:47 AM
My main interest in the increasingly boring and predictable Premiership is Sunderland - and to hopefully see them relegated. They (and Keane) appeal to all the worst instincts in Irish football 'supporters'.
mypost
13/08/2008, 12:24 PM
My main interest in the increasingly boring and predictable Premiership is Sunderland - and to hopefully see them relegated.
aka Begrudgery.:rolleyes:
Don't you think they've been relegated enough times lately??
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