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It's a way of saying that good professional role model referees are in short supply in the League of Ireland (which is of relevance here). The abuse they get would not be representative of the reception a good referee would get.Quote:
Originally Posted by gormacha
Not agreeing or disagreeing with you monkey9 but have a look here http://www.dundalkfc.com/update-on-c...ith-ian-fosterQuote:
Originally Posted by monkey9
Also an online pool on Orielweb http://www.orielweb.com/dundalktalk/...php?f=1&t=8571 gives him 67% of the vote, from 134 people that voted.(for him to remain as Dundalk manager)
I just honestly don't get that support for Foster. I have absolutely no issues with Dundalk whatsover, i just think with the squad you's have had this season, a decent manager would have you further up the table.Quote:
Originally Posted by bullit
As an outsider looking in, all i can see is that Ian Foster became your manager and you went backwards!!
Lads, I think people forget how inexperienced Ian Foster is. He's only been in management for a couple of years and he's the same age as Hawkins and Jason Byrne. He's had Dundalk playing lovely football and he's going to become a very, very good manager. I hope he does it in Ireland rather than going back to England and working his way through the leagues there.
Would I be correct in saying most of Dundalk's players still live in Dublin? At least the ones who don't actually come from Louth. Dundalk will always have to pay a wage premium to attract players so you'll have to pay more money to the same player than the likes of Bohs or Pats, and I suspect you'll also get lads who aren't as fully committed to the cause as others.
Foster has passion, which is good, but is vastly inexperienced, and with Dundalk probably wanting to kick on and become serious contenders for honours, then he's probably not the man for that. He's helped them consolidate their position in the Premier, which he deserves a certain amount of credit for, and there's probably a fair few things that he's doing right, but from a Dundalk perspective I guess ye don't want to / can't afford to sit around and wait for him to "grow" as a manager.
Who in Ireland is going to replace him that has those qualities though? Martin Russell is just as inexperienced as Foster. Doolin is unlikely to leave his Ireland post. After that you're into the same old pool of Richardson, Collins, etc. that you really don't want to be dipping into.
This is a question i was expecting to come up and i don't have an answer to. But take this Dundalk squad. Surely the likes of Damien Richardson can do better.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
People slag of Fenlon for being a cheque book manager, but he's put together a decent squad and is challeging for honours! Dundalk's season is over!!
I suppose he is young, in fairness. But the nonsense he spouts on MNS does my head in!!
Same as Pete Mahon sure..Quote:
Originally Posted by monkey9
Damien Richardson might be able to do better... until he decides he likes being a TV pundit more and quits. The LOI is too small to rely on a small pool of established managers and we're always going to have to blood young managers like Foster, O'Neill and Cook.
Fenlon should be untouchable. He's a great manager and should have moved onto a better paying job in the SPL by now. I'm a Rovers fan but I have huge respect for the job he's done and it should be obvious how good he is. It seems in this country that managers don't get the credit they deserve - look at Michael O'Neill, he's qualified for the Europa League and people still say he's a crap manager.
Pete sure likes WHINE with his cheese :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
How very dare you!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I do agree with you Charlie and you're right. It's always great to have a good pool, a bit like the playing options. But there's something about Foster that just does me head in. I think he's a chancer!!
Well he was offered a job there, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I think he should be the next Ireland manager.
Bray 1-0 up in Tallaght, but down to 10 men (Shane O'Connor, two yellows) and Devlin sent from the bench as well.
1-1 now, not looking good for us now. McCabe with the goal.
C'mon lads!
Harps - Salthill was brutal on the eye but... that's now our 4th clean sheet in a row (6 in the last 7) and we've now taken 14 of the last 21 points on offer.
I just hope te fook that Felix can maintain this into next season and we can get a push on for promotion places again.
Fair point. At the start of the season when Bolger signed for the now defunct Fingal instead of us, he said his reason was due to the extra travel involved. Of our current 17 first team squad, I'd say 7 would be based in & around Dublin. 7 are locals and the other 3 probably moved close enough to Dundalk. We also have a bunch of youths on the bench.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Finished 5-2 to Rovers in Tallaght. McCabe with 2, Rickets, Finn & Twigg. Jake Kelly with both of Brays.
Does anybody know how many players/Managers that Tool Winters has sent off this year??
Every game he is in charge of he sends somebody off.
The game in Tallaght looked like it was following the same pattern as the two previous matches this season. The sending of was a tad harsh and turned the game.
It looked like he was trying to put his arm across him rather than hit him in the face. It was more to do with big man v small man than anything nasty.
I have to say I'm not MON's biggest fan, as a person he's grand, as a coach and tactician he's grand, but he's too defensive minded for my liking and could have done so much more this season with the players he has - how is that for stupidity on my part. Rovers are in the running for the league again, made history in Europe and still finding fault with a top manager. I'd love to see him move to a league where his ability would be tested and valued, same with PF, both would do good jobs with middling sides in a number of countries. Right now they're 1 and 2 in Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Ian Foster I liked at Galway, at Dundalk he can make all the excuses he wants and spin in circles, he's just not the manager needed to make the most of a better bunch of players. Would Rico do better with them, wasn't he in the running for the Dundalk job originally but turned it down (sure a DFC insider can clear that up). He has the knowledge and contacts to get results at a club like Dundalk, but would the fans understand it?
The LOI is a good testing ground for managers, like other little brother leagues in Europe (Austria and Switzerland for Germany etc). But I can't see where the next bright hope is coming from.
7 clean sheets in six games? Impressive. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
Devlins an idiot. There was absolutely no way he could have seen why the bray player was sent off from the angle he was at on that side of the pitch. But as usual he went ballistic at the officials and gave them no choice but to get rid of him.
Apart from that Bray have a few nice players, and dempsey is the kind of leader on the pitch that the likes of rice and turner could only hope to be. Kellys goal was superb too, but rovers were always going to destroy them in the second half with that wind, and whats at stake for us.
Dempsey is different class alright. I wonder if we're bottom (or should I say top) of the disciplinary league. Doesn't that carry a fine at the end of the season?
Yeah, we're magic.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
He did come from a Scottish League. Stephen Kenny did too, only with a big sack, and not so much as a "thank you for your efforts".Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
As the biggest club in the country, the expectation level at SRFC is very high, and that's why people are finding fault with the coach. In Europe he's done a great job, although relies too much on a 4-5-1 line-up for my liking, limiting the likes of Twigg upfront. In the league, we have by some distance the best team and squad in the country, and the league should have been a walkover, but it isn't, and that's where the main issue lies.
Just a question that I suppose could be asked about many coaches - is he afraid of losing? By now he should be teflon, but I kind of get a vibe (like with Eddie O'Sullivan at the end of his Irish tenure) that he was more afraid to lose than to push on and win. I don't buy this - football should be entertaining bit - the 0-0 in Moscow was one of the most entertaining games I've witnessed live for a long time. If it was Slovenia vs Kazakhstan (on tv) I'd have switched the channel, but it was my country and I wanted them to do well. I just, in one way, don't know how Rovers are not more dominant in Ireland (barring the odd wobble).
Oh, mother of the Sweet Divine Jesus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika
Oh, dear. And they wonder why no one likes them?.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Great to see Devlin losing his cool. Haven't seen it often enough in Tallaght. He was behind Winters for the incident, called him and the fourth official w*nkers. He didn't take kindly to a couple of lads taking his seat during half-time either :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sundance kid
Not a great Rovers performance, but against Bray you have to take any win you get..
Hmm I didn't hear that...he certainly didn't call Winters a w@nker (not to his face anyway) and I was behind him more or less. The fourth official was being a tool; Devlin was annoyed and yer man was goading him, imo. I reckon he took his sending off well enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by dfx-
Bray would have lost anyway, I think.
It seems your players have taken the same attitude. No league is ever a walkover, on paper you may have the strongest squad, but when is the game ever played on paper. Silly comment by you there!!Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
UCD 2-0 Bohs FT
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From RTEMNS twitter
There is an altercation between Pat Fenlon and a couple of Bohs fans as they have a go at Anto Flood. Fenlon sticking up for his players.
Bohs are fooked. Any hope of European football gone tonight with that result, unless the win the cup of course (hope not)
not a chance after that draw in the FAI Cup!Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Did you honestly think that European qualification was going to have even the remotest bearing on their financial situation at season's end?Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Bohs have played Sligo 3 times this season, won 2 of them and drawn the other....of course they have a chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Exactly, absolutely no gaurantee we will beat them.Quote:
Originally Posted by GalwayRed
I'm not confident at all. The one team this year who always seem to know how to play against us and handle us.
^They rode their luck both times they beat us to put it plainly we threw those games away. We ought to finish stronger and hopefully get past them, Pats would heve been a worse away draw, they defend well then look to hit you on the sucker.