town match finished 2-1, don cowan and craig walshe scored for us im hearing. cowan is starting to get into his stride now, from seeing him in pre season aswell, bodes well for us. ucd in next round i think, in flancare!
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town match finished 2-1, don cowan and craig walshe scored for us im hearing. cowan is starting to get into his stride now, from seeing him in pre season aswell, bodes well for us. ucd in next round i think, in flancare!
Salthill 2-0 Fanad FT
Seriously? There are 7 clubs around the pale ffs. Thats 14 trips across the country on a friday evening trying to make a 745 kick off, 14 friday afternoons that you have to try and take off early from work, 14 fills of juice for your car you can ill afford......... I'm neither self employed nor flush with cash, I have to pick and choose any away game I go to carefullyQuote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Yep, should have been three or four up at HT but we dropped a gear or two and let them back into it. Athlone couldn't handle Cowan at all, resorting to fouling him most of the time, excellent strike for his goal and a nice free kick from Walsh for the first. Coffey got Athlone's goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by howsyourtouch
Come back to me when you try out the discover Ireland division. We'd be pretty delighted with only having to travel to the pale.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingoballs
you get bored of it pretty quickly trust me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
at least in this division its somewhere new each week. though they are almost all pretty far for the likes of us
salthill 2 fanad 0, salthill had a penalty saved by paul given in the first half but went ahead soon after, quick counter attack of a fanad free kick. second half fanad battered them but couldnt score, salthill got the 2nd in injury time with given (and everyone else) up for a corner the forward lobbed him as he tried to make it back to his own net. very young fanad team, if they get a couple of older heads back involved they might do ok in the A champ
Ye brought 15,00 to the cup final as well. Where were they all for the Dundalk game?Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Tallaght Garda station.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Bray 0-2 Saints
Should have been more, We dominated most of the game, Had a strong-ish side out, Stand out performances for me were Daryl Kavanagh and Jordon Keegan
Dublin is half an hour from Sligo with Aer Arann on a Friday evening. For the price of a 3 hour car/bus/train journey. Most of the Dublin based grounds are within 30 minutes of the airport. Drogheda is another half hour away, Dundalk a few minutes more. You can be in Sligo at 6pm and still make ko in Bray. You also have an extra 15 minutes to get to Tallaght. And you don't need taxis from the airport either.Quote:
Originally Posted by bingoballs
I hate playing Fridays as well, but if you're resourceful, there's lots of ways and means of getting to games that save time and money.
They were all squeezed in to the biggest attendance at any game that weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
And it's only 90 quid round trip, with the return flight the next day! Those lazy Sligo barstooling losers.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Aer Arran never accept my card,the hoorsQuote:
Originally Posted by mypost
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Who needs a return flight? The deadline is the ko, not getting home.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Roughly 30 Euro flight, 2-5 Euro for a bus, 15 Euro Game, 15 Euro for bus back. Free if getting a "lift". You don't have to pay it all on the spot either.
As I say, there's ways and means of getting there and saving money, even if you're on a budget. It's difficult certainly, but not impossible.
45 euro one way according to their website. You may say that there are ways of saving money, but a flight clearly isn't one.
Oh.My.God.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
It costs €92 to go to Dublin this Friday and back the next day. The flight leaves at 6.15, in Dublin at 7. Takes at least an hour to get through airport and to a Dart station, that's 8pm. Then depending on what time you get the Dart at it could be 8.45 before you arrive in Bray. You see one half of the match and have to stay in a hotel for the night in Bray/ Dublin costing about €50. Food, tickets etc.
So you pay about €150 to see one half of a game in Bray.
As for your half an hour to Drogheda from Dublin and just over a half hour to Dundalk on a Friday night... :doh:
A good crowd went to Derry probably alot on the back of the final . Still contributed to a good atmosphere and so might encourage some to return . When new or not so often fans go the idea would be to give them a reason to return so imo facilities would be a big plus . entertainment on the field but also off the field . Maybe back to Sunday afternoon or Saturday night . Hotels in the area could put on football specials with entertainment after game or something . bus trips can be fun (not dooley at final but proper buses ) for parents and kids , songs etc . Shams crowd at Showgies would have contributed to great atmosphere and these are the chances to convince the odd timers too return . A lot of people are (from what I read ) putting a huge voluntary effort in so hopefully it will pay off and crowds return . I'm sure its not easy for a lot of people these days what with low funds and/or worry about job so big away support from anyone should be appreciated but smaller efforts count too .
Would having more Saturday night games not make sense? The only thing they'd clash with would be Spanish football on Sky and far more convenient for travelling fans. Certainly among the bigger teams like last week's Sligo-Rovers clash. Perhaps it's not great for TV but we don't get much of that anyway.
if sligo rovers fans had to travel only between 30-60 minutes to the majority of away games we'd take hundreds every week. takes at least 3 hours to get to any ground apart from derry and galway for us.
loved the post about the aer arann flight. brilliant
And if you're prepared to leave booking to the last minute, it will cost you 150 quid. If not, there are ways and means of keeping costs down.Quote:
Originally Posted by poster
Book early for 6.15pm flight + 30 minutes = 6.45. Get your skates on, bypass baggage reclaim, 6.50 out of airport. Bus to Dublin 7 = 20 minutes, Tolka 15 minutes, couple of Euros. Bray via Aircoach. Rovers via flybus direct to Tallaght, or DublinCoach to Red Cow, 10 minutes on Luas. In stadium for ko. Aircoach/Bus Eireann buses from airport 34 kilometres to Drogheda/60 to Dundalk, 10 Euro.
Arrange transport back after the game. Home for 1am. 90 minutes of a game for barely 50 Euro on the night. Repeat 4 times in Dublin every 4 months. No luggage, no hotels, no return flights, no 150 quid. Bit of inconvenience alright, but that's what you have to do if you're prepared to be resourceful, instead of looking for obstacles.
you're missing one very important element mypost - not everyone is as clinically insane as you ;)
Forgot nothing. Sligo fans looking to justify why they cherry pick games.
You want to go to a game, you use every option available. Don't want to go, you'll find lots of road blocks in your way.
Superfan!
You've to be at the airport at least half an hour before the flight, and it's what - 20 minutes outside of Sligo? So you've to be leaving Sligo about 5pm at the very latest, which you've ignored and which isn't always doable with work. But the best is yet to come...Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
From the tarmac on the plane to outside the airport in five minutes?! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mypost
The Aircoach to Bray takes over an hour and leaves you a good ten minutes' walk from the ground, and that's if you manage to catch the 7pm one. So the best you can do is be about half an hour late for the game. And it costs you E12 or so.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Flybus departs at a quarter past the hour, and takes 50 minutes to get to Tallaght. DublinCoach also leaves on the half hour, so you'd have to get the 7:30 one, which leaves you in Red Cow for 7:50. Either way, you're going to miss at least half an hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Bus Eireann buses leave the airport at 8:20, and arrive at Drogheda bus station - a couple of miles from the ground - at 9pm, and at Dundalk bus station at 9:35. The previous bus, the 7:20 from the airport, bypasses Drogheda and Dundalk.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Ah, the infamous "Scene missing". And this is to be arranged for free too, it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
So for a Sligo fan looking to travel out for the UCD game next month, you're looking at E35 for the flight at the moment, E8 for the Aircoach (which leaves every 15 minutes, would take an hour to get to the flyover and then leave you a 15 minute walk to the ground - so you'd miss the first half-hour), pay in at the gate (E15) and then you're stuck in Dublin with only your mystical "arrange transport back after the game" to rely on. So E58 all told spent - E8 over your budget - and you've only gotten a one-way trip.
Truly you are a complete and utter space cadet of the highest order.
I nearly fell of the chair with laughing when I read that line.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Not only could mypost do it. He could then travel back in time to watch the second half of the Rovers match.
To be fair the Rovers/Pats games in Tallaght have been very enjoyable imop. When you have a big away crowd there it adds to the whole thing. Looking forward to what has become a proper derby.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
mypost that tardus is fryingh your brain
This thread is fast becoming nerd heaven for trainspotters and people who collect bus timetables....
Rather that than a Rovers v Rovers bitchfest.
Precisely. They're going to Dublin for a couple of hours, not coming back off a 2 week family package holiday from Lanzarote.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
You'll miss 5 minutes as our home games start later than everyone else's. What's 5 minutes missed in 2 hours? Would you prefer to stay at home and miss the game?Quote:
The Aircoach to Bray takes over an hour and leaves you a good ten minutes' walk from the ground, and that's if you manage to catch the 7pm one. So the best you can do is be about half an hour late for the game. And it costs you E12 or so. Flybus departs at a quarter past the hour, and takes 50 minutes to get to Tallaght. DublinCoach also leaves on the half hour, so you'd have to get the 7:30 one, which leaves you in Red Cow for 7:50. Either way, you're going to miss at least half an hour.
More excuses, together with the traditional parting jibe.Quote:
Ah, the infamous "Scene missing". And this is to be arranged for free too, it seems.
So for a Sligo fan looking to travel out for the UCD game next month, you're looking at E35 for the flight at the moment, E8 for the Aircoach (which leaves every 15 minutes, would take an hour to get to the flyover and then leave you a 15 minute walk to the ground - so you'd miss the first half-hour), pay in at the gate (E15) and then you're stuck in Dublin with only your mystical "arrange transport back after the game" to rely on. So E58 all told spent - E8 over your budget - and you've only gotten a one-way trip.
Truly you are a complete and utter space cadet of the highest order.
€58 is a hell of a lot cheaper than the €150 earlier quoted. If you want to go, you'll go.
What difference does it make where you've arrived from? You won't get through Dublin Airport in five minutes.
E58 is one-way. You've still to get back, or failing that (which you probably will at that time of night), stay over in a hotel (more cost) and head back the following day (more cost) - you're getting close enough to the E150 quoted.
Not having a lift back can't be dismissed as an "excuse" - it's a major, major factor in going to a game.
You'll miss far more than 5 minutes of a Rovers game given the LUAS doesn't drop you at the gate of the ground, or that the LUAS doesn't arrive immediately, or that there are no other delays en route (whoever heard of a bus being late?)
Seriously, attempting to defend such drivel is probably one of the silliest things you have ever, ever posted.
This thread is great. Long live ignorance.
Well for this Friday's game V Bray in Carlisle the Dooley Express will bring us for €20, leaving The Showgrounds at 3.30pm. Very handy if you're not in a 9-5 job or working evenings, which the majority of people who go to Rovers games are.
It makes a big difference. No bags needed to get, no long passport queues. Buses available 2 minutes outside the door.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
All excuses.Quote:
E58 is one-way. You've still to get back, or failing that (which you probably will at that time of night), stay over in a hotel (more cost) and head back the following day (more cost) - you're getting close enough to the E150 quoted.
Not having a lift back can't be dismissed as an "excuse" - it's a major, major factor in going to a game.
You'll miss far more than 5 minutes of a Rovers game given the LUAS doesn't drop you at the gate of the ground, or that the LUAS doesn't arrive immediately, or that there are no other delays en route (whoever heard of a bus being late?
The ground is within 3-5 minutes walking distance of the Luas and the flybus. The Main Street in Bray is 5 minutes from Bray's ground. Dublin Bus drops you at the other Dublin grounds at the gates.
I accept it's not convenient, I know it's awkward, but you can either gamble to watch games, or sit in front of the PC watching a ticker, complaining about poor crowds.
Explain to me how you're going to get back after the game?
Explain to me how not having a lift back after a game is merely a trifle not to be considered?
Explain to me how the fact that buses are sometimes late isn't an issue?
And you still can't get from the plane to the front of Dublin Airport in five minutes even without waiting for baggage reclaim.
And explain to me what a federal case is, I'm mixing the barley with the grape again.
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I expect to see a big crowd so poster :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by poster
Moaning about travelling times? at least ye's don't have to go to the bureau de change anytime you try to get to an away game:p
This thread has turned out to be fun reading . To be fair Poster SJ has you there.