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Front page story on Indo sport today that Tallaght-based GAA club Thomas Davis are €2million in debt and is "no longer in a position to meet its on-going financial commitments".
Would their bigoted campaign against Shamrock Rovers moving to the Tallaght Stadium have cost them a lot of money? If so, the chickens have come home to roost
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gael...l-2544477.html
More evidence of the way soccer is callously destroying our great national game.
Tell it to the potato.
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Was waiting for a Rovers fan to post this. Is it any surprise we're in the state we are?
As a gaa supporter its hard to feel sorry for them. I didn't agree with what went on and I have to say though the way hq are letting them dangle is a bit unfair considering they backed them to the hilt.
Anyway, even high I hated them and round towers as a kid when we played them I hope they can make it through. Maybe Rovers could lend them a hand?
I'd like to claim I am a better man than to revel in the discomfort of a GAA club. But I'd be lying. An organisation that has a history of bigotry, racism and sectarianism which continues to propogate the lie that it is an amatuer organisation featuring amateur players, yet has county managers being paid 'expenses' that would come close to covering the monthly wage bill for a squad of 20 players at a lot of LOI clubs. Not that I'm bitter or anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
'Rovers offer to help Tos Davis gah club'. Nice headline, that would really sicken a few diehards!
That'd be one classy bit of revenge.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
They're too busy being treated in tallaght hospital for split sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
Rightly so. Every LOI fan should at least have a smile reading that story.
Is there an organisation that hasn't a history of what you've rightly stated? From a practical point of view the GAA is an efficient outfit that can, in some senses, be borrowed from to push football on, however Ireland cannot do this as it's outside of our mentality to do so. I count myself in this, I was against opening up Croke Park on the arguments offered by the FAI, Dublin Chamber of Commerce etc, I also admire the GAA for how intelligently they have conducted themselves, though I am disillusioned with their performance in developing hurling. As with any sporting club in Ireland, we can ill afford any to collapse, especially Davis who have given a heck of a lot to the Tallaght area.Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
Shamrock Rovers - "Last Man Standing"
So, from your Fingal dying will kill the league analogy, if TD will the Dublin county championship die too?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
Well, the soccer world for a sta . . . oh. Fair enough, they might have done a lot in the are, but I am not a GAA fan, never have been, never will be, and that story gave me a smile on a week that has been short of reasons to be cheerful for me as a Galway United fan
Don't misquote or misrepresent Dodge, when did I say Fingal dying would kill the league, not once. Clubs in Ireland have disappeared and we limp on, it just makes life a little more difficult as it's a completely commercial enterprise for the most part. Clubs have disappeared in the GAA or merged, it goes on, it's community based and a club will spring up in it's place. If you want to wum do it to a Rovers fan, they've a reason to be happy, though what goes around.....(as it has in this case).Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Saw this headline this morning and had a chuckle to myself. Don't like to see sports clubs in trouble, but if anyone deserves us its those hoorbags.
Slap it right up them.
These bigots spent years and 100s of 1000s or Euro fighting tooth and nail stop Rovers / loi soccer getting to Tallaght.
Their clubhouse and facilities are way over the top and any time I drive past the car park is largely empty and their all weather training pitch also empty.
Absolutely delighted for them! Fully deserved!!
No sign of the Revenue ever investigating the expense regime in the GAA as it did the LoI either. And whatever about anything else, I'm pretty bloody bitter about double standards on such important matters from arms of the State, especially now given the State's financial situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
On Thomas Davis, I really hope that it's legal costs from the challenges to Tallaght that has tipped them over the financial edge. Serves them right.
Wonder how much they would have saved had they avoided thier spitefull campaign against shams/Tallaght stadium ? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by corkharps
Really, really love the idea of shams offering a fund raising match/ function to help "bail" them out. Watching them squirm while trying to wriggle out of it (I remember the RDS fiasco) would be priceless.
Come on Hoops, do it for every LOI fan :cool:
I propose a fundraising Shamrock Rovers bake sale so that the people of Tallaght really can "feast on a diet of association football"
............I believe John Delaney does very good fudge :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Jicked