I think paying 2k a week for players may have more to do with the demise of Sligo than the particular season in which the club plays.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Redie
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I think paying 2k a week for players may have more to do with the demise of Sligo than the particular season in which the club plays.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Redie
Steve hi, first of all he is not on that money but second he his not costing the club anything during the playing season.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Do ye just pay him during the off season? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac
Business people are covering his wages, he is not on 2,000 grand a week either.Quote:
Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
my point was how can anyone rationally choose a muck game like Ga over football?Quote:
Originally Posted by londonred
Going by the Sam Maguire thread, you seem to be a big fan of GAA. :confused:
Yeah why not make things up to prove your point:rolleyes:.How would you know what he's on anyway? He's not on 2k a week nor has that figure even been mentioned before.At the start of the season it was rumoured that he's on 1.5k a week but it is actually less than that and the club don't even pay his wages.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Is that allowed? how does it fit in to the 65% wage cap rule?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers fan
Attendances at Waterford United this season have been terrible and worse than when we had winter soccer. I remember going to 1st division games back in the 90's in worse weather and much worse facilities at the RSC and the crowds were bigger. Clubs must be so frustrated that they've improved facilities,tried to improve standards and still crowds are poor.
i don't know how anyone can call GAA a muck game. Soccer is so slow compared to it. A Gaa game can change in seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
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Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
Well it's just like getting funding and using it to pay wages,it would still be part of the 65%.
As far as attendance figures go I think we can all agree that when they are up they are up, when they are down they are down and when they are only halfway up they are neither up nor down.
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Originally Posted by superfrank
Well football is number one
Everyother sport pales in significance, but i still watch them all
Jesus i even spent 4 hours watching the golf yesterday:(
Really!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite
I find it the other way around, hand passing around and around the field, hopping it off the ground, hitting wides in front of the post, and all the running with no particular plan, and absolutely NO SKILL
No way would the GA EVER come before Football
Hurling I could get your idea, but def not Ga
Sorry for dragging this off topic but I'm confused.The club raise money from local businessmen and spend it on player wages. I don't see how Sligo are not paying his wages. Sure, the money originally comes from these donors but is the money not given to Sligo Rovers? these business men are hardly paying Boco's wages directly into his bank account are they?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers fan
Thats sounds like a very bad day in OrielQuote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
As can basketball. Who likes that?? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite
Every summer we have the attendances whinge. Attendances are a year-round problem, be it a pre-season friendly in Monaghan in February, the cup final in December, or Rovers-Pats in July. For as long as I've been watching the LOI, attendances have been permanently poor. Winter or summer football is not to blame. It's the Irish sporting culture.
Attendances can be improved, by the elimination of Friday night games, later kos, and a reduction in prices. But still, low crowds is something we just have to accept in this country. Only the top leagues sell out.
They don't. It springs from decades of propaganda and conditioning, followed by more decades of sheer habit, all fertilised by tons of interminable hype served up by our media, which often won't even call football football.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
Forget about the history and the rivalry. GAA football is ugly, pure and simple. It is the antithesis of how good foothball is played, and in objective terms is pointless, because scoring is facile.
No one in their right mind making an informed decision would choose to follow GAA. The problem for football is that choosing a sport is rarely a rational decision.
Well said BOHDIDDLEY!! :D
Thats complete rubbish. By your reckoning all GAA is crap and it is only popular because of decades of being brain washed by the auhtories. Cop on. The GAA is so popular because it is so well organised. There is a GAA club in every parish in the country. This is main difference between the two. Soccer in this country is supposed to be professional run but is run by a shower of amateurs who only ever seem to be involved because of their own interest not for the love of the game, while Gaelic is amateur but is probably the most professional sporting organisation in the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by BohDiddley
If the FAI could try to do half what the GAA has done football in this country would be 10 times better
That's ridiculous. You're ridiculous. No-one in the league ever had ten thousand male fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr A
Though watch our for Bohs making an offer for Dwight Yorke soon...
On an aside, the GAA bashing and defending has been done to death elsewhere; can we leave it out here and stay on topic? People like different sports; that should be enough.
just got out of the car after driving for a while and listened to northern sound roundup for events for the weekend they spoke of everything from monaghan county senior , minors ,ladies sports, club games, snooker, bar b ques, special masses ,birthday parties,
fund rasing events everything except eircom league games , i wonder does this have anything to do with attendances
Would have something , if it was december there would be less bbqs to talk about and the football might sneak a mention, GAA minded presenters attitude to football is similar to Sky Sports News coverage of events they don't hold the rights to , neither gets a mention.Quote:
Originally Posted by passerrby
Other way aroundQuote:
Originally Posted by passerrby
as long as there is no more banking errors againQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Humour me, tell me of one time it happened. I recall a league match against St. Pats being called off the year they did/didn't win the league. It was then in the Press that it was the first first-team game in Oriel Park to be called off in 15 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
Going back 10 or 15 years, I remember of a Dundalk-Limerick game abandoned after 70 minutes due to fog. The fog cleared within 10 minutes, but the players were in the shower by then. :o
I didn't make it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers fan
It was alleged in a newspaper article : http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...n-1433750.html
Hence why I said 'apparently'
:rolleyes: yourself....
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Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Touche:o Its still bullsh*t though,he's not on that amount.
As much as I'm loath to trust a journalist, he is a hair higher on the credibility scale than some guy on the internet. Any particular reason for thinking that the article is incorrect?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers fan
I can say for certain that he is not on that money as well. I don't want to post on the net the exact amount but if you deducted the said amount by 400 everytime he plays you would not be far away and by 800 if he does not.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
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Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite
last year out of all the championship games in the GAA calender, i dont know about 30 games or more, there was only about ONE great game (Dublin - Kerry)
Did you see this years Euro Champs? Excellent stuff. Please dont tell me you could watch a GAA game after watching Spain, Russia, Holland and the like play?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ternet_dog.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac
Two random guys from the internet is not really any more credible than one. It would help a little if you would suggest a source. If, for instance, the Sligo chairman told you himself, then it's simply a matter of believing that (a) the Sligo chairman would have told someone what a player was earning, and (b) you're telling the truth. On the other hand, if your sister's best mate is dating a player, all sorts of sources of error come into play.
A source yes myself go figure ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
Sorry saw this well after, my mistake, sorry:)Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Who give as Sh**! Jesus look at the state ofr our club at the moment.Of which most fans are of the opinion Summer Soccer if partly to blame. I for one give a **** and Keeley and them have been around the game long enough to give their opinion!A good pitch wont sustain a team in the league.Crowds do! Crowds are definitly down in the Showgrounds! Summer Soccer not working in my opinion but I know Pats and Drogs fans would disagree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie
Tbh i couldn't give a sh*te if "some guy on the internet" doesn't believe me.I know for a fact that he isn't on 2k a week,i don't feel obligated to prove myself to a UCD fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
You don't care whether or not I believe you, but you care enough to post your 'fact' and that you don't care whether or not I believe you? Someone told you this down the pub, didn't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers fan
Guys, quit the pointless arguing about Boco's wages. This stupid tit-for-tat arguing is one of the most annoying things about this forum. This thread is about ATTENDANCES!
I think this point made by a previous poster is spot-f'ing-on:
Continuing with the rugby example, Leinster constantly harp on about how they're the best-supported team in the Magners League, 4th best overall in Europe, and so on. As of this moment, they've only sold 8,000 season tickets in an 18,000+ capacity ground. Everyone wants to go to the Heineken cup games because they're 'events' and have all the hype, but nobody really gives a **** about the league. They rely a helluva lot on bundling league game tickets with H Cup games to get people through the gates.Quote:
Our biggest problem is that Irish people are event junkies. How many Cork/Galway hurling supporters do you see turning out for their league games in March? Couple of thousand maybe, but thurles will be packed with them on sat night and whoever progresses will bring an even bigger crowd to Croker.
Where are all the munster fans, when munster play edinburgh on a november friday night in Musgrave park, yet for a heineken cup game in thomond against wasps, tickets cant be got such is the demand!!
Bottom line is, if big sports like rugby can get their grounds only 75% full over the course of a season, with massive promotion and media coverage, it will take a gargantuan effort for EL clubs to do the same.