Well if thats you take on it fella then i wont say another word !! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by d f x-
Except for that is a complete crock
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Well if thats you take on it fella then i wont say another word !! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by d f x-
Except for that is a complete crock
It's a version of communism they are trying out in Tallaght at the moment. Their communist Roman Abramovic if you will.Quote:
Originally Posted by robbiesdrogs
Yes. Except the ones that are less equal. But even they are as equal as the others who are equal to the ones who pay the same amount of money equally.Quote:
Originally Posted by robbiesdrogs
Have you lot really got nothing better to do with your time?
It's actually all a cunning plot jointly hatched by the boards of Pats and Rovers. We need to do up Richmond, they need a whole new stadium. So both clubs are going over on the pretext of pre-season friendlies purely so's we can nick Sunderland's stadium - we get to keep the "Stadium of Light" name and all the red and white seats, Rovers get to keep the rest, Bob's your uncle.
Have you been in touch with Benfica about that though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub
You can ****ing keep it. WE don't want it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub
:p
Eh, he's a Rovers fan and member - like Niall Quinn ;) - you on the other hand are a random internet WUM. I'm going with the man in the know. In fact I'll go with what I know myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
The level of petty bitterness in Irish football is unreal. A famous ex-Ireland international is a Rovers member and has asked the first team over for pre-season. Cue fans of small clubs bleating about us losing our players. You couldn't make it up. Although Nightdub and KJDAC's versions are scarily possible......
KOH
Is the village you come from missing someone? As Rovers fans we know more about our club than fans of other small clubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
I notice you didnt answer my question about the sunderland manager investing in your club.
Rogue trader do you have to be watered twice a week or something? Quinn did try to help the club in 2005.
Robbiedrogs some Rovers fans are students, some are very well off. It is not up to anyone to tell anyone else what to do with their money.
Jealousy ladies will get you nowhere. Lose the bitterness.
KOH
Haha!!Quote:
Originally Posted by NY Hoop
:D
And you're entitled to your opinion even though it is inaccurate. I've no doubt he could have gone the extra mile but that's his business.Quote:
Originally Posted by robbiesdrogs
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Originally Posted by TonyD
Well he is 6ft 3 at least
Sunderland are due in Galway for the Galway Races and a friendly. You'll all be welcome....August 1st....book it now...........They could be a Premiership team by then - although I doubt it
Stead off Sheffield United? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogue Trader
Nick Leeson is really doing the business now.
Roy Keane to bring Sunderland to Galway while Tony Cousins strengthens his squad Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Roy Keane's Sunderland will be coming to Galway this summer to take on Galway United in a glamour friendly at Terryland Park.
The game which takes place on Wednesday of Race Week is sure to be a sell out as Sunderland, who could be a Premiership side by then, take to the field at Terryland. Kick off is at 7.45pm on the 1st of August and more information will become available on the club website as the date approaches.
Meanwhile Sunderland, headed up by CEO Niall Quinn, are to host a group of Galway United fans at the Stadium of Light in the next few months.
It was intended for the Galway United group to travel over for this weekend's clash with Southend, but that has now been put back to April when Sunderland will host Mick McCarthy's Wolves.
On the transfer front, Derek Glynn has put pen to paper as manager Tony Cousins puts the finishing touches to his squad for United's return to the Premier Division.
The striker, who turns 24 in May, caught the attention of Cousins with impressive performances with the Mayo League along with scoring with ease for his hometown Claremorris FC.
Midfielder Shane Tracy will also be a Galway United player from the 19th of February. A skilful left-footed winger, Tracy played reserve team football at Arsenal last season, making eight appearances for the Gunners.
Tracy has been with Arsenal since he was 15 and impressed Liam Brady when playing for Wembley Rovers in Limerick. The 18 year old also featured in Galway United's 2-0 win against the Kildare Oscar Traynor team
You better watch that they don't pilfer your squad while they're here. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by MyTown
KOH
Or you could just let them too :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by WeAreRovers
It's not even in English FFS. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogue Trader
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Great come back :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by WeAreRovers
OK.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in the late 1590s. Although the main thrust is obviously comic, there are darker concerns dealt with also, and it ends up with a bunch of marriages. It shares some elements with Romeo and Juliet and other darker Shakespearean works.
How's that?
Of course an opinion can be inaccurate! If I said it's my opinion that the world is flat, I would be inaccurate. You don't know what you're talking about.
And what is this opinion that you've formed based on? (As opposed to ours)
As a wise coloured individual once said; "Cant we all just get along?!"
Screw that! Bickering and division is the Irish way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buller
And another individual once said - "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, und eine Disko"Quote:
Originally Posted by Buller
Exactly .... why all of a sudden is an English club giving eL clubs a hand out like this? I have been supporting eL along time and i have never been given any reason to believe that they would help us out. I have never witnessed an eL come off better with an English club involved. Get bitten once fair enough, get bittne twice, then maybe but when you are toren to shreds from the dog you stay the fawk away from him.Quote:
Originally Posted by robbiesdrogs
Why is in now any different because its Rover, Galway or Pats? Out of all the clubs i'm more suprised by Pats thinking they would be a bit clued in to some degree. Galway probably think its Christmas, and Rovers have a history of not learning.
Leicester were meant to have us kings of Europe after the link up with City, and we obviously are still waiting. It was too good to be true, they were doing it for the good of the game. It was a gesture of good will. It was a gift horse, dont look it in the mouth.
Rovers fans cant see for all the lights and shiny things, fair enough but we'll all be here to say we told you so when your flat on your face again.
Jesus lads, is this a slow news day or what.
Shamrocks pull a few strings, get themselves a glamour friendly/team bonding junket together for their squad. Well done to them, more power etc.
Their players are stll reletive unknowns in the Irish game. I know the hooped huns like to talk their players up but who'se getting taken in here.
Sunderland can have any player they want from the Eircom League for what is a pittance in English League terms - the clubs are too poor to say no and the players would probably swim over the Irish Sea if they had to in order to get top flight (ish) football in England.
If Sunderland had some nefarious plan to steal Irish players then would they not ask over a team from the top of the higher division rather than a team from the top of the lower division.
Either you are wumming, and I have been taken in, so fair play to you - or you're off your rocker.
Even a Bohs fan can see it for what it is;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Vitruvian Man
Yeah, that must be it. Thanks for the help. Yawn.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
Our lot are flying over on Wednesday morning, playing Sunderland that afternoon, flying home that night. Ninety minutes of a pre-season friendly will really give Sunderland a good idea of who they want to poach off us. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
Reading only needed eight minutes to poach Shane Long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub
Lads i'll agree i sound fairly alarmist here, but i'd definitely wouldn't be jumping in with two feet. Fact of the matter is you'd have to question why Sunderland are doing this and it would be madness not to. If Quinn is being so supportive then why didn't he invest in the club first day when Rovers were nearly a memory? And dont wheel out the "green giant" sure why wouldn't he, he's Irish lark. And €40 is not an investment on his part. Its a joke.
Not for one second do I think any of our players will end up at Sunderland BUT we're in dire financial straights and if they wanna pay €200k for any of our players I'd snap the hands of them. All well & good having intentions of succesful sides but pragmatism has to come into it when we're talking LOI side. If Sunderland offer us a million I'd sell the whole fecking squad to them...Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
As it is Its just a friendly. Fair play to ROvers for organising some quality training facilities. Pats/Drogs/Bohs organised it in Spain, ROvers did it in Sunderland. In the past Curtis Fleming organised it so that Pats would use Middlesbrough and even Darlington's facilities. No big deal...
So - how many Drogheda players are Zenit St Petersburg going to sign then?
About the same number that FK Shinnik Yaroslavl signed off us last year. Or that Leicester, West Ham, Sunderland, Kilmarnock, Huddersfield, etc signed off us after we played friendlies against them in the years before the switch to summer soccer.
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Originally Posted by A face
What a load of rubbish. Just because you got shafted on the Doyle and Long deals doesn't mean other clubs will make the same mistakes.
So Quinn gives us 40 quid a month, more of a publicity stunt than anything iif you ask me. On the back of it we get to go over and use excellent training facilities for free!
As for the falling flat on our face bit, thats just utter ****e. We turned down any player who asked for wages we didn't feel were within our budget and have largely the same squad as last year with just a few low profile additions.
Your bitterness over losing your big assets for peanuts is completely clouding your judgement.
Dead right i'm bitter, not clouded in the slightest, just sceptical, very sceptical. Its a rule of thumb at this stage.Quote:
Originally Posted by swano
On what do you base these priceless nuggets of information? Since WE the supporters took over the club where have we established a 'history of not learning' as you so eliquently put it?Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
Either way people here can dream up whatever conspiracies they wish, though i must admit it reads as wishful thinking on their part as opposed to a constructive thought process! An inner perhaps fear of how strong Rovers may be in the coming season??
If however someone at Sunderland decides during the course of our visit we have a player they could use, at this stage he's under contract & they can pay handsomely for his services!! If that constitutes falling flat on your face well i suppose it would be Cork that would forewarn us, afterall they have a history of to doing it with the applomb of an olympic diver with no arms!
Koh
Are you drunk ?? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by DvB
I can assure you i am competely sober!Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
That comment in my post was included to question the thinking behind the questionable content of your own posts. Hence the question marks at the end of the sentence. Based on what i've read previously i'm struggling to understand why you seem to be grasping the nettle on this so tightly, unless of course the cork delusions have failed to abate in the season we were away from the premier division on 'other business'?
Koh
Best thread ever! :D
KOH