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Dunno what all the fuss is with you people and Collins' signings. I think hes a good manager myself. But thats beside the point. Could it be that some of you are worried that Dublin City might stay up with there band of mercenaries and one of ye will go down?
He managed 30 mins in a friendly against TNS from Wales.Quote:
Originally Posted by dancinpants
I seriously would like to see where Dublin City are getting all this money...?
Also played against Longford
What money, no one is hiding anything. We saved a serious amount of money by releasing 15 players. That's fifteen eircom League (12 or so had featured in most of our games.) Premier Division wages saved.Quote:
Originally Posted by dortie
The Guys he brought in are on similar money, there is also the small matter of there being less brought in, a number of them are playing for peanuts as a favour to Roddy. It's what friends do, you help out your friends when they are in trouble, if you can.
Roddy took on a tough job, it's become a little harder. Have your say at the end of the season, whether we manage to survive or not, you can pass judgement on Roddy and the Club's actions then, but at least give us the decency to put in a little fight first. If anyone from Longford, Derry, Pats or even Shamrock Rovers saw either of our last two games, against Drogheda or Cork, I don't think they would see the last twelve games as a foregone conclusion.
Your too far behind at this stage lad. In all honesty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Breifne
I saw the Cork game. CHF are awful. We were worse. But you're not staying up. It's over. Byeeeeee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Breifne
I sincerely hope that Dublin City stay up just in order to deliver an arsekicking to all the smug *******s supporting the big name teams on this thread. Stick it to them Roddy.
If CHF do get relegated will all the new signings play in the first division or will The Rod really miss those fifteen players he's let go?
I doubt either the players or Roddy will be there next season if they do go down.
You released 15 poor standard Premier players (they did land you bottom of the league) and replaced them with former international players. There is no way Efan Ekoku has come out of retirement for E200 a week. Byrne, Rowland, Ekoku, Palmer, that Polish bloke - their wages wouldn't be far off the 15 players released, not to mention getting Ekoku and Palmer to Ireland for games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Breifne
We tried a similar tack in the mid 80s - signed Peter Lorimer among others. Won the Cup but nearly went bankrupt and spent seven of the next eight years in the First Division. I fail to see what's so different about Dublin City's situation, to be honest. I speak merely from experience!
Agreed, this is the pitfall ..... surely though, after all this, DCFC will have to do it all again next year if they do stay up, they have a cushion next year with two more teams though.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
When Dublin City change there name from CHF ... they said Europe in five years ?? What does everyone think now ??
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Originally Posted by Breifne
Roddy's not the man for a relegation fight. True - he did a job at Bohs when he first joined them, but Bohs didn't seriously look like they would go down (regardless of what Cobh fans at the time might have liked to have thought !).
You're only as good as your recent record, and Roddy's is muck. Last season he managed Carlisle through something like their first 15 games, and only picked up 5 points, getting the sack with the club rock-bottom of the English third and a whopping 20+ points adrift of the team above them. They ended the season only 2 points adrift of the pack, 4 points off safety, and with a form since Roddy's departure that would have put them well into the promotion play-offs.
Still reckon Roddy's the man to put up a relegation fight...?
cant wait to see them go down at the end of the season
Agreed. Roddy's a cúnt and deserves to go down. These mickey-mouse signings make the league look like some kind of fúcking old peoples home. It's no coincidence that the best teams in this league have young, under-age internationals in the squad, not washed up old prunes.Quote:
Originally Posted by thecorner
To be honest, i'd be suprised if Roddy is still there next season, whether CHF are in this division or the one below.
Roddy is only there in a voluntary capacity till the end of the season. Couple that with the fact that nobody expects him to get Home Farm out of this mess. He's under no pressure whatsoever, and only took the job to keep himself in the public eye and remind other clubs of his existance (such as Rovers :eek: )
The latest rumour doing the rounds is that Des Kelly and Roddy will buy Rocky out and then purchase the ground in Tallaght. At this stage anything can happen.
Just remembered the day when Steve Archibald (Ex Spurs, Aberdeen and Scotland) came over to play for HF. Keely took him off at half time and told him to F*** off back to Scotland.