If Drogs beat Dundalk

do people think that will be the end of O'Connor with Dundalk?

The back of the Drogheda Indo this week had Matthews pinning his future to drogs as rumours suggested he may be approached to replace O'Connor. The Drogs board also said that there are 18months left on Alans contract and they will not allow any approaches - to be fair it did sound like he was more than happy to stay and enjoying the challenge of developing this team against all the odds.

The real bit that caught my eye was the Duns chairman giving his vote of confidence to O'Connor (never a good sign).

Going back to work in the bank soon so Drogs would suit him fine for the next while.

It would surely be the last straw,with fans alredy staying away from oriel due to unhappiness with the current regime.

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Originally Posted by SeanDrog

do people think that will be the end of O'Connor with Dundalk?

The back of the Drogheda Indo this week had Matthews pinning his future to drogs as rumours suggested he may be approached to replace O'Connor. The Drogs board also said that there are 18months left on Alans contract and they will not allow any approaches - to be fair it did sound like he was more than happy to stay and enjoying the challenge of developing this team against all the odds.

The real bit that caught my eye was the Duns chairman giving his vote of confidence to O'Connor (never a good sign).

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What has Dunne's chairman got to do with us? Learn to spell will you..;)

Who are Drogs anyway? The last straw should be the game tomorrow night then that should be that if we lose, give Joe Miller the reigns. God knows how much it would cost to get rid of him though.

The game is another month and half away isnt it? They have Bray (H), Cork (A) and Derry (H) in their next 3 games. Three difficult fixtures. Connor could be gone by the time the Drogheda game comes around. On the other hand, is'nt Connor just there to keep Dundalk in the Premier at the end of the day, along with a few other managers in the LoI Premier, trying to keep their own teams up?

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Originally Posted by Rovers1

The game is another month and half away isnt it? They have Bray (H), Cork (A) and Derry (H) in their next 3 games. Three difficult fixtures. Connor could be gone by the time the Drogheda game comes around. On the other hand, is'nt Connor just there to keep Dundalk in the Premier at the end of the day, along with a few other managers in the LoI Premier, trying to keep their own teams up?

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Spot on. His job is to keep us up and believe me 7th would be fantastic. I believe it's just all the hype and talk before the season with the players signed expectations were high.

Would u honestly be happy with 7th?...after ye got promoted last season ye got rid of your Manager(a good one imo) and more or less all the squad and replaced them with more expensive and experienced players some with league and cup medals from the last few seasons and you think just avoiding relegation is success?!....oh if only Cookie and Rovers had some of ur cash/players....i believe myself and others warned what a spoofer Connor was a while ago ang got grief for it!!...3 league defeats on the bounce since..maybe we had a point.

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Originally Posted by SeanDrog

do people think that will be the end of O'Connor with Dundalk?

The back of the Drogheda Indo this week had Matthews pinning his future to drogs as rumours suggested he may be approached to replace O'Connor. The Drogs board also said that there are 18months left on Alans contract and they will not allow any approaches - to be fair it did sound like he was more than happy to stay and enjoying the challenge of developing this team against all the odds.

The real bit that caught my eye was the Duns chairman giving his vote of confidence to O'Connor (never a good sign).

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The mans name is Connor not O'Connor ya clown ya!

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Originally Posted by CarrickFan

Would u honestly be happy with 7th?...after ye got promoted last season ye got rid of your Manager(a good one imo) and more or less all the squad and replaced them with more expensive and experienced players some with league and cup medals from the last few seasons and you think just avoiding relegation is success?!....oh if only Cookie and Rovers had some of ur cash/players....i believe myself and others warned what a spoofer Connor was a while ago ang got grief for it!!...3 league defeats on the bounce since..maybe we had a point.

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yeah of course we'd be happy. why would we not be happy. we spent 7 seasons in the graveyard and never ever want to go back down. after 7 seasons in that division anything is a success.

as dunny said if we lose tomorrow night then connor is a goner imo. at the mo there is about 70% of supporters want him gone and 29% don't know and like myself are sitting on the fence and the 1% love Connor. There should be a 1% margin of error

7th place was always the target because even though we brought in quality we don't have the quantity of players to compete for 1st team places. few people did mouth off that europe was the objective but they where clearly deluded.

i am pretty sure that sligo operate on a similar budget to us.

at the end of the day the league table doesn't lie and we haven't been good enough especially at home and until that is rectified we will still be in trouble. Over seeing how bad sligo, pats, rovers (in oriel), drogheda & galway actually are I can't believe we threw away all those silly points but hindsight is a wonderful thing.

on another point if we beat bray and other results go our way we'll be out of the relgation zone and someone else will be back in there. form 6th down to 10th are going to be in a scrap all season and the placings are going to change so much.

I'd say that not even 15pts will be the difference between 6th and 10th

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Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite

i am pretty sure that sligo operate on a similar budget to us.

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I'd be fairly sure yer budget is alot bigger than ours.

sligo rovers are operating off a player budget of less than 12.5K a week.

come on

In my opinion Connor should be shown the door if Dundalk lose tomorrow night. The budget he was given at the start of the season was that of a team capable of qualifying for europe. So going by the resources he was given. . . . . .I'd say he's underachieving

Forza Reds

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Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite

sligo rovers are operating off a player budget of less than 12.5K a week.

come on

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Originally Posted by Dunny

Who are Drogs anyway?

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The only Louth team to win the league this century.

I wouldn't be too disappointed losing to the Drogs if we won our next 3 :)

There's two things in that statment that I'm pretty sure won't happen :D

Whats Dundalk's wage bill anyway? 17k a week is it?

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Originally Posted by gufc2000

Whats Dundalk's wage bill anyway? 17k a week is it?

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And you just pulled 17k out of the air is it? Or did someone on the Galway forum hear it......

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Originally Posted by Dunny

And you just pulled 17k out of the air is it? Or did someone on the Galway forum hear it......

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No I didn't actually. No need to get so touchy, I only asked a question. I seen 17k on this forum

If craptown lose to bray tomorrow, connor will be gone i reckon!!

A craptown fan that defended connor at the start of the season to me, now wants him out straight away and reckons it'll be worth the pay off!! Ah, how opinions change in a few weeks :D

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Originally Posted by Celdrog

The only Louth team to win the league this century.

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Surely that should be bought the league title...