Just so people know .... Mon 24th - Rovers v UCD kicks off at 17.00 on RTE and then MNS starts at 23.40
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Just so people know .... Mon 24th - Rovers v UCD kicks off at 17.00 on RTE and then MNS starts at 23.40
RTE never begin a live game broadcast 2 hours before ko. Even Sky gave that up years ago.
Will Rovers fans struggle for tickets to that one? If I remember the layout rightly, it would just be a case of hopping a few fences and you're on the grassy knoll opposite the seating area.
On a side note, RTE should be showing Shels vs Cork City next Saturday night. It's a winner-takes-all title decider, regardless of the fact that it's the first division it should definitely be on telly and would draw an audience.
On telly with updates regularly from Limeirck vs Waterford and Athlone vs Mons.Quote:
Originally Posted by adamd164
You have a point, but RTE want nothing to do with that division. Don't even show highlights ffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by adamd164
They're only showing us on Monday, because the title race will be all over then, and they want to be there for it. They had no interest in showing UCD for the past 3 seasons, and no interest in Monday Night games for longer than that. If they had their way, they'd have dragged us all the way back from Salonika to play last night at 7.35pm because, well that's their live game ko time, and they don't do compromise or consideration. And because we've inconvenienced them by having to play on a different night, they've made us play this game at 7pm for their convenience.
Event Junkies.
Pitch inspection at 16.30
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
I'll be astonished if it's played. All the approach roads like Clonskeagh Road and the N11 will be choked with slow traffic/flooded (?), hills that people stand on, steps and accessways etc etc.
When is the earliest it can be played at shortest notice...surely not tomorrow or Wednesday..
shels v harps is bound to be under threat aswell for tomorrow night?
tolka used to always get flooded/waterlogged
Shams Twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/shamrockroversQuote:
ShamrockRovers Shamrock Rovers F.C.
Referee Neil Doyle to conduct further inspection, expect news in 10 mins or so. Original inspection found pitch playable with some work.
Rumours on twitter that Neil Doyle has awarded the game to Shams
Match off
I'd imagine RTÉ will try and encourage the game to go ahead.
I've never known a UCD home game to be postponed; the pitch is usually in decent nick. That said, the Bowl is in, well, a bowl, and I don't recall such heavy, persistent rain all match-day since we moved. No sign of a let-up either; meteireann.ie suggests it's about to get even heavier.
Edit - yeah, first time for everything it seems. Game off. Dunno when we'll get a chance to play it as the rain seems to be in for the week?
Edit edit - actually, looks like Wednesday's going to be clear; maybe then? Away to Sligo on Friday, so has to be either tomorrow or Wednesday really.
match off
Think that RTE are saying that it is on Tomorrow night ?? Anyway MNS reverts to the 7pm slot.
What's the earliest that this can be played?
No heavy rain is forecast for tomorrow so with some work on the pitch tomorrow I'd be confident it will go ahead.Quote:
Originally Posted by colinf
Match kicking off at 7:05pm tomorrow
Is it still on TV?Quote:
Originally Posted by monkey9
They really need to try tomorrow night with the final round of fixtures on Friday night.Quote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
Shams Twitter says yesQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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ShamrockRovers Shamrock Rovers F.C.
“@Laura_Fitzer: @shamrockrovers V @UCDAFC is off. @RTEMNS will now be live at 7.00pm on RTÉ Two”
1 minute ago
More rain expected tomorrow. Mad to reschedule it tomorrow, just to suit the FAI.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Both clubs should have objected. It should be played next Monday. The league will be won by then.
Would UCD need to pay their players for an extra week though if it got rescheduled to beyond the end of the season?Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Latest pics from belfield:
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...19565315_n.jpg
http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/9097/ucd20bowl.jpg
Are those photos real? The first doesn't look like the Bowl (the background doesn't look correct). The second - if that's what the ground was like, why on earth was there a pitch inspection?
Contracts end on the last day of the season. I remember when we were in the Cup semi in 2007, it would have cost us as much to extend the players' contracts as we would have gotten from being in the final in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
If the game were on next Monday though, maybe we could get around it. Rovers are going to beat Galway anyway, so this game isn't really decisive.
He he heQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
This game doesn't really matter, Rovers are gong to win the league on Friday, may as well just leave it and mark it down as a draw
:O Wow my photoshopping is better than I thought! ;) But seriously I put it on my facebook there and about 5 people have commented horrified!! They are genuinely scared to go into college tomorrow...
Ive no idea where the first picture is from I was only kidding :P
Touché. It's not actually bad, in fairness! I've been down the country all day so wasn't entirely sure what the rain was like (except that Kilmac on the way back up genuinely doesn't look too dissimilar to your photo).Quote:
Originally Posted by Buller
The season ends when the last game is played. In our case it's December.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Good to see Tony McD back
how the hell did you ever get into UCD?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Are you serious or just fishing?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
But at the start of the season clubs would budget for the season to end on Friday. If they get to the cup final or the group stages in Europe then the extra wages that they will have to pay for the extra weeks would be covered by the gate receipts / prize money they would receive for reaching the latter stages of these tournaments.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
UCD though wouldn't be getting this extra money (indeed if it was moved to Monday they'll get way less people at the game as Shams will already have won the league by beating Galway so would lose out on the double if they had to pay an extra weeks wages)
Of course not, the bottom is clearly Tolka Park in 2005.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Where is Bertie?Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
any one else notice that they got the day and date wrong for the last first division fixtures of the season??
Yes, the presenter of the show noticed. Con mentioned that the caption was wrong and that the games were due to be played on Saturday.
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Originally Posted by athloneman
Facedown? :crossed:Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
Up to his balls in bibbi baskin ?Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
the right decision was made on the game tonight.
With better weather tomorrow it should be a decent crowd, and hopefully a decent game.
students ? bag o ****e....
They would have budgeted for the season finishing on Friday, but it's not that simple, and things change. Sligo have to play another week, Galway will have to play another week, we have to play until December, and the game was postponed tonight. Only the league season is scheduled to finish on Friday, there's still lots of football to play after it, and lots of contracts have to be reviewed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Announced last night on MNS that it would be on "live" if it goes ahead tonight. Given the level of rain this morning and history of bad drainage atTolka I would be wary of possible cancellation for Shels game.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu