Is he any good? Let me guess another "honest worker" type we seem to enjoy signing so many of:o
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Is he any good? Let me guess another "honest worker" type we seem to enjoy signing so many of:o
Well I never heard of jim roddy until he started acting the bo**ox with the drogs - sometime might be best not be to 'heard' :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Remember a good piece in the EL star magazine a couple of years ago (still have it at work so must read it again tomorrow) profiling him and i think it said he used be treasurer and had other roles with home farm for years
He's definately in the Top 10 worst Rovers players I've ever seen, he can't tackle on his right side so just turns sideways and tackles with his arse!! To be honest at the moment Dublin City's squad looks more like a first division one than a premierQuote:
Originally Posted by Maynard
Ooh, don't mention the War :DQuote:
Originally Posted by northside hoop
[QUOTE=dcfcsteve]My avatar and 'handle' might give a clue. I'm a Derry City fan. We only joined the league in 1985 - years after Home Farm entered the league, let alone were founded.... [QUOTE]
think the boys at home farm might disagree
you'd know;)Quote:
Originally Posted by hoopy
Eh ??? So you're telling me that Home Farm joined the league and/or were created after 1985...?:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ringo
I think you need to lie down....
It was the founded bit:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
"Home Farm Millennium Yearbook"
In addition to the club's history, copies of which are also available, the golden jubilee of the club was celebrated with a yearbook in 1978 and the diamond jubilee with another yearbook in 1988. The present millennium yearbook covers details of recent activities of the club as well as plans for future developments.
"Home Farm - The Story of a Dublin Football Club 1928-1998"
The author, Brendan Menton, is a co-founder, with the late Don Seery, of the Home Farm Fottball Club. He was the club's first Honorary Secretary as a schoolboy and has held the position since 1942.
Dr. Menton is a former President of the Football Association of Ireland and a former committee member of the Union des Associations Europeennes de Football, (U.E.F.A.).
On the academic side, as an external student of the University of London, the author has a primary degree in economics, a master's degree in banking and a Ph.D degree for work on Theories of Adjustment in the Balance of International Payments. He has been a senior adviser in the Irish Department of Finance and has served on the Economic Policy Committees of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, (O.E.C.D.) in Paris and of the European Community in Brussels. He has also been President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland.
i do need to lie down, was taken you up wrong:o . thought you were suggesting they were founded after Derry:o .Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
dcfcsteve, Seery was CEO of Home Farm between 1993-1997 (his father was the treasurer for 50 years before that)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cosmo
Shams have a heartland around Tallaght, thats their fanbase, thats where their building their stadium. Where is your San Siro being built, where is your fanbase, where is your heartland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ringo
its one of the motivations behind it, not saying its the only one.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
He started out playing in Whitehall, he moved to Morton Stadium when Whitehall was being redeveloped into the best playing surface in the league.
Then when promotion beckoned we were forced into moving to Tolka to comply with Licensing recommendations, when we attempted to get back into Whitehall at the start of last season, we were blocked by the fact that both Belgrove and Home Farm were playing their LSL league games there.
When the season finished for both sides Dublin City managed to get back into whitehall, and are now attempting to negotiate a long term deal. So we have moved out of necessity rather than out of desire unfortunately.
It's only natural that any newly promoted club should set their sights on staying up and consolidating their position in the division before they think about moving into European places. I'd imagine that privately, this is the plan.
No harm in having goals though, it's nice to see a bit of ambition (though I can't bring myself to like Seer, and I think his presence makes me dislike DCFC more than I should).
And with garbage like him you'll know in 9 months timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Ringo
KOH
He's pregnant:eek: :eek: :eek:Quote:
Originally posted by NY Hoop
And with garbage like him you'll know in 9 months time
Classic responseQuote:
Originally Posted by Raheny Red
But I have to agree some of our signings are a bit dubious, but then we have Dermot Keely and his judgement is sound so we should be OK.
Although we will need a few more big names for the european campaign;)
i was talking about Sligo:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Da Real Rover
*Rubs eyes to ensure he read that right.... *Quote:
Originally Posted by Derek
Holy feck - you think Dermot Keely has sound judgement - particularly in the transfer market !?!?
I don't think anyone on Foyleside will agree with you there. He nearly destroyed our club with his absurd transfer and geneal management shenanigans. The fact that Stephen Kenny has taken us to where we are now with roughly the same resources as Keely shows just how rubbish a Manager he was for us.
Bad for Derry, agreed, but he took a basically new team to the premier. So for me his judgement is sound.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Christ in a cartoon that man lost the plot moons ago. Glad he's managing you lot as he'll bring you down again. Him and seery suit each other living in the world they live in..........Quote:
Originally Posted by Derek
KOH
Can somebody PLEASE find this baby his bottle, otherwise his bitter, salted tears might short-circuit this entire site!Quote:
Originally Posted by NY Hoop
And for what it's worth IMO: Rodgers, Pender, Whelehan, Brennan, McGill, Crowley, Collins, Freeman, and possibly McCarthy are Premier Division standard, with a few (Sheilo, Rooney, McDonnell, Keely) that I'll reserve my judgement on until I see them in 2006. And for me that's not a bad basis of a team who's only obligation is to survive...
All the smaller Prem clubs have bit part players/squad players/journeymen, so we can't expect the Harlem F@cking Globe Trotters;)
Im just perplexed at the moment, i'll take it as a joke because it doesnt make one ounce of sense. I know where are fanbase is, believe it or not Sligo is a town outside the pale, you might of heard about us. We have a decent premier division ground and are firmly rooted in the sligo community.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ringo
You have yet to point out where your 'roots' are, wheres your home, have you even got a home?
4 pages on the the dublin city chairmans comments :eek:
Are Dublin City now officially the BIG CLUB in Dublin :D
Well if you think that keely has sound judgment you need to suck on a big bottle kid!Quote:
Originally Posted by Maynard
KOH
Yeah, people do seem to talk a lot of sh!te on here lately:D.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cosmo
Coming from you of all people that is the quote of the century:D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
KOH
There's a simple solution to that, just call them Home Farm like me, as everyone knows what you're talking about. Why? Because it'sQuote:
Originally Posted by Da Real Rover
effectively the same club.
Not effectively the same club - it IS the same club.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
And if anyone tries to tell you otherwise, ask them when Dublin City got elected to the league in Home Farm's place....
yawn, :rolleyes: have you nothing better add to the debate.
At least they've got vision for the future!
RR, wasn't Ollie's ban from the pitch and not the actual stadia?
Unlikely, considering Ollie would have no business being on the pitch or in the dugout in the first place.
Nothing wrong with ambition or having high objectives. Dolan used to come out with much the same kind of stuff when he was managing us. However, stating objectives without a plan of how and when they'll be achieved is just so much hot air.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gerrit
Maybe Seery just hasn't been around the eL long enough for reality to sink in. Last season was, what, CHF's fourth year of existence? I dunno how long Longford have been in the League, but while they've certainly consolidated themselves and made huge progress on and off the pitch, they're still light years from the kind of level Seery's talking about.
So far, Seery's talking a big game - Dolan Lite, that's the height of it.
I could be mistaken DR, but I'm sure I read it somewhere that he had a ground ban.
Yawn - just like Continuity Home Farm Frankenstein City have nothing better to add to the league..... :D :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Ringo
Jesus Christ:rolleyes: Would you ever read a f@cking book or something? Perhaps start with "Spot the Dog" and work upwards, because your vocabulary on this (and any other DC issue) is increbibly stunted and boring, get a life and support your own bloody team.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
The classic response of someone who's defeated in an arguement - resort to personal insults.... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maynard
I'll busy myself when you and all the other Continuity Home Farm fans stop trying to force your pipe-dream on everyone else, and once and for all admit that either one of the following is true regarding your club :
a) That you're not a new club, and are just Home Farm in another guise.
If the answer to this is 'no' then the following is, by default, true instead :
b) That you're in the league 'illegally' as you weren't elected into it according to its rules.
Time to stop deluding yourself and everyone else. Decide which of the above 2 sceanrios is correct, tell us all, and then I'll happily read Spot the Dog to you before putting you to bed at night.
P.S. To highlight the irony of you criticising "my vocabulary" on this issue, and suggesting I indulge in remedial reading - whilst you would have had a point in stating that my arguement on the legitimacy of CHF in the league is repetitive, my "vocabulary" certainly isn't. There's a more than subtle and obvious difference.
Defeated in an arguement? I wasn't aware that merely repeating the same boring slurs at a club in general ammounted to the structures of an arguement...? How exactly is this "arguement" resolved? "Yes I support Home Farm" perhaps? Well I don't..."Ok so my club doesn't actually exist and is taking the place of some exctremely well run regional club that is knocking the eL's door down year upon year only to be denied purely because my non-club exists (in some sort of transient vacum obviously) and is stopping the eL from expanding" ? Well that's bullsh1t as well. In short you are full of it, and if you think spouting the same two lines of mind-numbing diatribe constitutes and arguement then you should become a f@cking politcian. If you think that you are going to get me back on a barstool with the thousands of other "football supporters" in Dublin then you are very much mistaken, and similarly if you think that your comments are going to get me to run out on the club that I have experienced middling highs and plumetting lows with in the past 4 years and supported throughout, in favour of one of the other Dublin teams that don't represent me or where I'm from then you are again, very much mistaken.
You can argue away to your hearts content, but you will not stop the club I (and believe it or not, some others also:eek: ) support from existing and it's people like you that give us the fuel to not give up on our club no matter how difficult things get. I won't waste any more of my time on this psuedo discussion as my opinion has been made clear on more than one occasion. As above I recommend you invest your energies in your own club and let me look after mine.
Good to hear - better you lot and ronan seery doing what you're at than doing that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maynard
Like ffs I would love if both UCD and Dublin weren't in the Premier League, and a couple of other teams with big support from around the country got promoted.
But they're there on merit - if 2 clubs with sh!t support can do it, I can't see why its not possible for the likes of Finn Harps, Galway, Craptown, etc to do it? :confused:
Dublin City are here on merit, so live with it and hopefully other clubs from around the country can learn a thing or 2 from them get promoted, send the both down (no offence dublin or UCD supporters ;) )and we've more country teams with decent suppot in the Premier League
Never mind that i should become a politician - you're proving expert at refusing to answer a question you don't want to face yourself. Instead you've gone down the usual "we shall not be deterred by you and your like, I'm not going back to my barstool, yedda, yedda, yedda" rant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maynard
So I'll put my question very clearly to you again, and see if you try to dodge out of answering it yet again. One or other of the following situations must be true with regards Dublin City. Which one is it :
a) That you're not a new club, and are just Home Farm in another guise.
If so, then drop all this 'new club' bullsh!t.
However - if the answer to a) is 'no' then the following must, by default, be true instead :
b) That your club is in the league 'illegally', as it wasn't elected into it according to its rules.
In case you try to dodge the question yet again by giving out the aul "I don't have to answer to you, blah blah" response - the only reason why this is ever asked about Dublin City is because there are genuine question marks over the legitimate presence of your club in our league. Not from an on-the-pitch footballing perspective, but from an off-the-pitch administrative and legislative one. Here is an opportunity for you and any other Dublin City fan to solve that situation by giving us an answer to the above question.
FFS lads! I wrote this post (5th post of this thread). Forget why they shouldn't be in the league now....they are here now so just face it :mad: !Quote:
Originally posted by Raheny Red
P.S for those who think DCFC should not be the eL please don't bring up comments like "DCFC don't deserve a place....". They are in the premier now, so just face it!!
DCFC seem to have great vision for the future. Good luck to them, they may not succeed but at least they are trying to reach for the top! If they do fail in their attempt they will at least know they tried and gave it their. What's the point being involved in football if you are not going to set high standards??