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Its not made up at all.You could'nt blame him for choosing carrick,at least he knew he would win something.If he hadn't been injured near the end of the season cobh would have stayed up.What division are ye in again!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by blue til i die
what has what division we're in have anything to do with what he allegedly did to our ex managers car?Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFella 09
we're in the first division..oh wait...so are cobh, dumdum!!
Your bad mouthing a fella you know nothing about lad an im cork city ya langer!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by blue til i die
you don't know what you're talking bout, lad! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFella 09
I'm not picking this post as a specific example, but Dundalk have signed (and are rumoured to be signing) a bunch of has beens, bar Hughes, Burns and Faz. And personally I'll be suprised if any of those two players end up in Dundalk.Quote:
Originally Posted by dannydundalk
Turner while talented has let himself go and will not regain fitness under any Con-nor regime
Singh is a dishonest, moody git who is good when motvitated but rarely is.
Fabio is past it.
Rogers.. Hahaha. The very definition of past it, although be never had it to begin with.
Mansaram, an overrated player who was second rate in the Blue Square Premier. Enough said.
I can only see Dundalk scraping up if they stay up at all. Connor's second rate management coupled with Steve Bruce, average players and budget bigger than Johnny Vegas' waistline spells nothing positive in my opinion.
fair enough that's your opinion not that i agree with any though
I think Dundalk will do fair enough, Hughes is a good player if they get him, Turner if they can get him back playing is a very good footballer, Burns is very good and so is Faz. Mansarram is alright, works hard for the team. Singh i would have serious concern with him on the that plastic pitch but still football in him. Decent team and i think you will have an advantage with the pitch so your home form should be very good, see a chance for you to be in the top half if everythings click. Although that pitch may not suit Burns if it plays quick.
Just out of interest have you seen the surface in Oriel or played on it or similar? As quite an injury prone 28yr old myself i play on it regularly and find it much easier on the knees than many grass pitches (united park standing out as exceptional) FIFA stats show no significant change in amount or type of injury on this generation of surface....we are not talking about Luton/QPR stuff here. Even better after pending upgrade. Not having a go but negative comments regarding the safety of the pitch(not whether it is an advantage or not) really is due to lack of knowledge imoQuote:
Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac
Apologies for going off topic:o
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Originally Posted by SligoBrewer
Tbf if we were signing those players you wouldn't be saying the same thing. Id take them all bar Rogers.
I really really hope Dundaaaaalk sign Mickey Collins. He reacts even to the smallest hint of abuse and is likely to get sent off. Much like Dave Hill in his heyday.
I'll use this post as an example of how bitter fans of other clubs can become. How in the name of goodness could a 28 year old be described as 'past it'. Get a grip man.Quote:
Originally Posted by SligoBrewer
You'll also excuse me I don't value your opinion on the other players. I think we should just leave it and see which club does better.
Portadown's Mick Collins? He got sent off (or at least the ref ordered him to be taken off) in a friendly v Pats a couple of years ago. Kicked out at one of our players and got some light hearted slagging form our fans (we numbered about 60 in a total crowd of 100). As he walked off he continued to have a go at the Pats fans with gestures and "obsceneties"Quote:
Originally Posted by maroon ultra
Every Pats fan just laughed at him. Never seen anyone so up for a friendly...
not at this stage I wouldn't. Bar Burns maybe, I wouldn't see one of them getting into our first team at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers fan
Anyone who signs Liam Burns is getting an excellent centre back. Would walk into any team in the country. Lacks pace, but he is a great reader of the game so is rarely exposed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red&White Rover
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Originally Posted by Dodge
That was funny as f*ck. The ref told their manager to take him off before he sends him off :D The guy's a grade A moron
No offence but having a kick about with your mates is a lot different than playing a competitive league of Ireland premier league match with tackles flying in at you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
He quoted Keith Armstrong, boss of Finland's HJK Helsinki on his club's conversion from grass: "He says that their players abhor it. Their physiotherapists' opinions are that it could take four years off a player's career. We don't like it full stop. I think it's significant that no footballers like it. Nor do technical staff like it.
"Earlier in the season when we told Jean-Alain Boumsong [about Dunfermline's pitch], he couldn't believe it. It could deter foreign players from coming here." McLeish is not speaking out of ignorance. his club can boast a FIELDturf training pitch, in common with several English Premiership clubs. "I know people say these pitches can enhance the community. Well, just build one for the community. Why make the professional elite league play on it?"
Dunfirmiline players also felt they picked up more injuries on a plastic surface/Art grass than the real thing and in my view that is the real proof in the pudding as they are the boys that have to use it.
I think he has probably seen him more than you this year. I seen Fabio play in Dalymount v Bohs and all he did was try and kick Killian Brennan when he came on. From what i seen of him i think the injuries may have caught up with him.Quote:
Originally Posted by SMorgan
I dont think we can win the premier this year, in all honesty thats fairy talk!
We are piecing together a good squad, and hopefully the signings of the players linked this week materialise and help lead us to the top 5, which is a more achievable target, but being brutally honest, I just want to see us stay uo, and if that means one place above the play offs then so be it!
Just out of curiosity, can anyone tell me what Burns was earning a week at Bohs last year?
Dunfermline's pitch was a of a lower quality than the one we have been playing on and we are upgrading to a pitch of an even higher quality. All studies suggest that there are less injuries on these pitches so i'd trust the studies carried out by FIFA over claims that a manager heard that another manager had heard from their physios that their "opinion" was it caused more injuries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac
You assume that im having a kick about with my mates...well they're mates but a little more than a kick about lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac
Ok everyone to their own but i find it better than most grass pitches with exceptions. Chatting to for example the Glenavon manager after a friendly they were impressed and enjoyed it. Terry Collins had said they were considering such a surface in their abortive stadium after playing in Finland. I'll accept that not all will like it...especially those who aint fit(most likely reason for injuries as it exposes poor condition). Wont go off topic again:p
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Originally Posted by dannydundalk
Eh, NO, we cant win the prem div this year. 5th place and a wage bill we can afford (which I have serious concerns about) would do very nicely for me.
Maybe in 3 years time we can mount a challenge, but for now, its all about consolidation.
i just feel with the league in a mess and most teams in trouble we could take advantage
although players do take time to gel together
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Originally Posted by dannydundalk
i know what you mean!!!!! :D:D
Next season will be a very tough one for us Danny, no longer the case of heading up to oriel to see how many goals we can score - more likely we will go through sequence of games not even winning at home.
And you`re right, the gelling together may take a while, so we`ll take one step at a time, build slowly and get the basics right first.
He plays with Newry City now..Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Um. That was my point?Quote:
Originally Posted by wexfordned
I'd only take back Turner from the players who I said wouldn't succeed at Dundalk. Solely because Cook would get him back into shape and playing at his best which he ha done with every player bar Foyzer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers fan
Ah but you see there are studies and there are 'studies' ... if you know what i mean. You can 'study' anything to make it suit 'your needs' and then point to the 'report' when ever you are questioned on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louth4sam
Ok fair point, well put it this way, go on to http://www.fieldturf.com/ and look at the teams in different sports that have Fieldturf installed. The biggest names in NFL use it for matches and a lot of the top football clubs use it for training. Do you really think physios from HJK Helsinki have some insight into potential injuries from this surface that more than likely the best physios in the world don't have?Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
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Originally Posted by Rovers Maniac
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Originally Posted by Louth4sam
Most negative comments about our surface are made by people who have never played on a surface like ours and when the word artifical comes up in a sentence they immediately think Luton and QPR's type surfaces. Oriels is nothing like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by A face
I will say that in the last 2 seasons no player has pulled up with a serious injury that was a result of our pitch in a competitive match in Oriel Park that dundalk fc have played in.
However over the course of the last 2 seasons we have been made in play on crap cabbage patch surfaces of monaghan, kildare, morton (2008), longford, ballybofey (2007) to name a few.
What on earth has pitch surfaces got to do with transfer rumours???? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite
Exactly!!! Why does this thread continuously meander onto dundalk? Half the time you check this thread it's people slagging each other off or talking about dundalk.Quote:
Originally Posted by garyderry
Back ON-TOPIC, rumours abound that Danny O'Connor is being released by Rovers.
Probably because Dundalk are at the heart of almost every transfer rumour going?Quote:
Why does this thread continuously meander onto dundalk? Half the time you check this thread it's people slagging each other off or talking about dundalk.
And will end up like shels bohs and drogs the way they are goingQuote:
Originally Posted by brianw82
i think jealousy is here now :cool:
our owner doesn't even like football he is in a construction business and is a wise fellow that knows his money
no chance!!:D
DUNDALK FC ARE BACK :rolleyes:
and Cork and Rovers (4%) and Dublin City and Kilkenny City and Derry a few years back...
That's what they said about Sean Fitzpatrick at Anglo-Irish.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by dannydundalk
On a serious note though it seems a bit odd the way Dundalk are spending when virtually every other club in the league is cutting back. It should be an interesting ride for the fans anyway.
I would ask you please not to get too cocky Danny, As GM is not a football man whos to say that he wont get ****ed off with the club in a year or few years and want to cash in?.Im not saying he would or wouldnt but dont get too excited..Quote:
Originally Posted by dannydundalk
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Originally Posted by dannydundalk
have we gone back in time??:confused:
Stop being a tool and assuming those kind of things! Dundalk nearly went under 5 years ago! Trevor Anderson(god forbid me for bringing his name back up) nearly destroyed us and left us ina emss...he basically p!@d all our money away on nobodies...Gerry Matthews came in and brought us back from the dead, hes a shrewd local business man...he has no interest in football, sure he didnt even go to Kildare on the last day of the season.He said and i quote "Ill be damned if I ever let this club go like that again". He aint going to let us go like that again sure we've operated on a tight budget the last number of years, last year he gave Gill an increased budegt to finally get past that final hurdle...Sean Connor said it himself around the David Cassidy incident that ALL CONTRACTS HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY GERRY, so any mad wages will be throwing out the window!! So grow the hell up and stop assuming we are the next Shels, Drogs or Dublin City...we have one of the biggest fan bases and support in this league and we'll all be damned if we let our club go like that again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flexy