Airtiricity League XI v Manchester United confirmed for Aviva Stadium on August 4

This is gonna be great! The Airtricity team is likely to be missing some of the league's best player, hopefully through European participation. Also, why would Rovers or Bohs want any of their players involved 2 days before their big derby in Tallaght? Indeed every other club in the league has a game 2 days later. Dundalk, Sligo, Sh Rovers and Monaghan are in the League Cup semis 2 days before. And ManYoo are likely to send the reserves too, who will win comfortably against a weakened league team that will be presented as the best the "domestic" game has to offer.

Reminds me of Sunderland's trip over here when they were the New Celtic ... I think they beat Bohs by a single goal and it was mentioned that they were missing a couple of players. Bohs had basically played their reserves, but it was presented by RTE among others as a weakened Sunderland beating Bohs.

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Originally Posted by seand

Dundalk, Sligo, Sh Rovers and Monaghan are in the League Cup semis 2 days before.

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Have you not heard? Those games have been moved to two weeks later to faciliate this joke of a game.

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Originally Posted by seand

This is gonna be great! The Airtricity team is likely to be missing some of the league's best player, hopefully through European participation. Also, why would Rovers or Bohs want any of their players involved 2 days before their big derby in Tallaght? Indeed every other club in the league has a game 2 days later. Dundalk, Sligo, Sh Rovers and Monaghan are in the League Cup semis 2 days before. And ManYoo are likely to send the reserves too, who will win comfortably against a weakened league team that will be presented as the best the "domestic" game has to offer.

Reminds me of Sunderland's trip over here when they were the New Celtic ... I think they beat Bohs by a single goal and it was mentioned that they were missing a couple of players. Bohs had basically played their reserves, but it was presented by RTE among others as a weakened Sunderland beating Bohs.

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To be honest Seand it makes no difference what team Rico patches together (just please, NO bohs players ;) ) the match is about 60% Man Ure and 39% the new stadium (approx 1% with an interest in LOI team). Whatever result arises will be "spun" to favour man Ure - "weakened Utd held to draw by cream of Irish soccer". No credit will accrue to the LOI team and none of the bar stoolers will darken the doorway of any game in Ireland for the rest of the season.

As a mater of interest, anyone out there begin supporting LOI after attending a friendly ?

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Originally Posted by marinobohs

This is a total disgrace ! It should be at least twice that price, fleece the barstool gob****es and event junkies (I just want to see the new stadium) crawling out of the woodwork to see Man U. i do not believe for one nano second that any of those attending wil be "converted" to LOI so fleece away - less money to be extorted from real fans to save the FAI ass in the future.

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Couldn't agree more. Post of the year!!!
Prices should start at 300 euros with top tickets 1,000 euros.

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As a mater of interest, anyone out there begin supporting LOI after attending a friendly ?

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Yeah I did. My first games in Oriel Park were in 1994 against Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester United. There was one ticket for the two games which also got you into the first three home games of the new season. My dad (a Manchester United fan) brought myself and my brother along to these too. I was 9 at the time and up until then I didn't even know there was a league in this country. We didn't immediately become diehard fans but it definitely put the club on the radar for us.

To put this in perspective, the IRFU is opening the Aviva with an U-20 match between the four provinces. There was no mention at any point in the publicity that it wasn't going to feature a single senior player, but it's already sold 40,000 tickets. I'm guessing some people are going to be very upset. So, I mean, as far as scams go the IRFU is miles ahead of the FAI.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/rug...274871915.html

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

To put this in perspective, the IRFU is opening the Aviva with an U-20 match between the four provinces. There was no mention at any point in the publicity that it wasn't going to feature a single senior player, but it's already sold 40,000 tickets. I'm guessing some people are going to be very upset. So, I mean, as far as scams go the IRFU is miles ahead of the FAI.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/rug...274871915.html

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At the bottom of the ad for the the rugby game in The Irish Times last week, it CLEARLY stated that the squads would be made up of U20/A Players.

Yeah but tickets went on sale 6 weeks ago and it was "rising stars." Bit of a step down from that to second-tier underage players.

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

To put this in perspective, the IRFU is opening the Aviva with an U-20 match between the four provinces. There was no mention at any point in the publicity that it wasn't going to feature a single senior player, but it's already sold 40,000 tickets. I'm guessing some people are going to be very upset. So, I mean, as far as scams go the IRFU is miles ahead of the FAI.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/rug...274871915.html

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Tickets are a tenner each. Seems reasonable to me. I certainly knew what I was buying.

Ah, I didn't know they were that cheap. Guess I'll withdraw my point:pumpkin:

they should have a mascot race at half time like the one in england?

Rico picking squad for this on friday. Nicely hedging his bets to see who's in and out of Europe. I presume he would have to contact the players in advance of naming the squad though.

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Rico picking squad for this on friday. Nicely hedging his bets to see who's in and out of Europe. I presume he would have to contact the players in advance of naming the squad though.

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As mentioned before I want NO Bohs players involved in this game as we have a very important game on the Friday - even if not playing in Europe. Presume I am not alone in that sentiment.

Is this real or is it a wind up?

http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2...e-coming-home/

If its true then that just sickens me.

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Originally Posted by Riddickcule

Is this real or is it a wind up?

http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2...e-coming-home/

If its true then that just sickens me.

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Very unsubtle wind up :)

It's satire - he's even tagged it "barstoolers"

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Is this real or is it a wind up?

http://footballpress.wordpress.com/2...e-coming-home/

If its true then that just sickens me.

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Its actually quite funny

Were you able to hear the announcements tonight at the Juve game, ordered by the FAI, that tickets were on sale for this farce? Both times they were met with resounding boos and whistles.

It's not sold out yet? Tsk.

Fire sale for this