[QUOTE. Also unhappy that there will be no showers available after the games![/QUOTE]
Could someone else confirm this. I refuse to believe in this day that the FAI are still treating our players like this.
If true the players should pull out.
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[QUOTE. Also unhappy that there will be no showers available after the games![/QUOTE]
Could someone else confirm this. I refuse to believe in this day that the FAI are still treating our players like this.
If true the players should pull out.
How much are/were they charging for this thing?
Saw that about the showers this morning...can't be true can it?
I wonder is that happening to the other teamsQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lilywhites
No way, you just know they're being shafted to make room for the other teams....Quote:
Originally Posted by cornflakes
Yep, it's a fecking disgrace if true.Quote:
Originally Posted by fionnsci
Daniel McDonnell is tweeting about the showers, seems the Irish team has to get a bus to Wanderers rugby club for a shower
http://twitter.com/#!/McDonnellDan
Small piece here:Quote:
Originally Posted by hoops1
http://www.tv3.ie/article.php?articl...pagename=sport
If that shower thing is true I wouldn't have an iota of sympathy for any player who choses to take part.
Sure you have the "honour" of being massacred by Man City infront of a crowd of yahooing morons but what about your dignity??
Where's Stephen McGuinness in all of this?? He seems to be prone to these extreme bouts of shyness at the worst possible times.
650 euros before tax covers that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lim till i die
Rico,s a total discrace his players not allowed to have showers,its 2011come on.Bus tickets for players who want to shower after the match,the massive wages the FAI splashed out on the Airtricity League X1 would just about cover there dinner.The whole of europe must b having a rite sneer.Rico should stand behind his team,and stop arselicking the FAI:kissed:
This comment clearly shows Rico has most definitely lost the plot and touch with reality - "he was happy enough with the player's fees and said that this weekend would be an experience money cannot buy."
I'd love to know how much he is getting or is he doing it for the experience. I think he thinks he is managing in the champions league.
I thought Wanderers were based in Landsdowne road? Will the players be getting a 2 minute bus journey to the other side of the ground?
why dont they do what they do in jackman and rotate the dressing room space four people at a time
So the FAI finally prove they're so dismissive of the league they can no longer even be called a right shower.
I'm seething at the treatment of the players. They, the league and the fans all deserve proper respect.
The worst part is them spending €50k so Celtic can have their showers and refusing to do the same for the LOI players. Joke of a tournament, hope they lose their shirts on it.
So the 'star' teams get a permanently reserved dressing room ?
I had support for the competition before this. That is an absolute joke. If the players have any pride, they'll pull out of this farce and have no involvement in this shambles.Quote:
Originally Posted by cornflakes
Was listening to this on the radio. Both newstalk and rte sport were almost sniggering as they were discussing it.
Hard to have any respect for the FAI when they're treating their own players like this. The loi lads should withdraw their services. They deserve better.
I didn't believe it myself when I first heard it. Ludicrous. The players should certainly pull out, no doubt about it.
The Aviva isn't exactly a great stadium if they're hosting a competition like this and don't have the proper facilities for 4 teams. I don't Croke Park will have that problem for the 4 counties playing on Saturday and then the other 4 counties playing on Sunday.
I doubt if any player would pull out over it seeing its an extra weeks wage for some of them .
Anyone like to predict the results?
Not many bookies with odds yet but Man city -1 is 9/10 with www.tipico.com (yes they are reliable as I have withdrawn winnings with them a few times!)
Seems like the boycott is off :angry3:
[QUOTE Soccer: The League of Ireland players due to take part in the Dublin Super Cup have resolved “issues” they had with their treatment by the FAI ahead of this weekend’s inaugural tournament at the Aviva Stadium.
After a meeting between the PFAI and Airtricity League director Fran Gavin this evening, a statement from the former said the dispute was over.
“Following discussions between the general secretary of the PFAI and the Director of the League, the PFAI is please to announce that the issues between the Airtricity League XI and the FAI have been resolved,” a statement read this evening. “The players are looking forward to playing at the weekend and are relieved to put this dispute behind them.”
PFAI general secretary Stephen McGuinness told Newstalk this evening that the issue was mainly about “respect” and there was never a chance the players would boycott the tournament.
A statement from McGuinness earlier today said the players “expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the conditions offered to them for their participation in the Dublin Super Cup”.
Chief among them was the money on offer for the 22 players, a take-home of around €300, but it is now believed the association has agreed to raise the €650 gross fee due to each player to €1,000 and increase their ticket allocation for the four-game tounament from two to six.
McGuiness played down the issue surrounding the facilities being made available to the players after their games against Manchester City on Saturday and Celtic on Sunday.
After both games, they will have to be bussed to Wanderers RFC for showers because their dressing room, one of four in the stadium, is not adequately equipped.
Celtic would have been in a similar position had the FAI not installed showers recently and McGuinness revealed this evening there was a commitment from the association to have the fourth dressing room up to standard by the time next year’s pre-season tournament comes round.
Inter Milan are the fourth team in the tournament but they will not face Damien Richardson's Airtricity XI.][/QUOTE]
http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/soc...301487660.html
Sick sick sick.
Disgusted at this resolution.
Wait, this is an actual competition? If they've made a real trophy I'm just going to give up.Quote:
Originally Posted by eL Bettor
The players are right to go ahead and play it. Why would they turn down getting paid €1000 for a few hours of something any of us would love to do?
They get to play Man City and Celtic in a top class stadium and get €1,000, which more than a lot of them get in a week, and this is a bad deal how? Bit of a bummer about the shower facilities but they're not pampered millionairres like the others so they'll get on with it.
You should have paid €175 for the honour of playing at Tolka against the Shels legends team to find an ice cold shower awaiting me after it :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BonnieShels
There was a trophy last year, wasn't there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Edit - look away now...
http://www.sportsfile.com/winshare/w...619/448790.jpg
Nothing is worth the humiliation of representing your league in your HOME country while knowing that the majority of people in the stadium have nothing but derision for the league you play in, and are there to support the foreign team you are playing against. Add to that a probable heavy defeat as you play in an ill-prepared team with a buffoon of a manager. Nothing is worth that. NOTHING.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Maroon
Obvious point: As well as 'ill prepared', I should also add 'weakened' as the most successful clubs still involved in European competition are obviously not releasing their players for this fiasco.
Best of luck to the players, I only hope they don't need the money to pay bills now or in the near future
Not a chance: no amount of money is worth that. They're basically cannon fodder. It's degrading and insulting to everyone who cares about the LOI.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Maroon
How many of the players would fall into that category though?Quote:
Originally Posted by born2bwild
I don't think they'll see it like that, though. It's a great experience I'm sure for a lot of them and they're getting €1,000 for the pleasure. I don't see the big deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by born2bwild
Quote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
......sod the experience, the LOI and any self respect, its a grand and getting to mingle with and have a photo taken with "famous" players.:rolleyes:
That is what most of those selected will see.
Not about getting your photo with them, it's a chance to get to pit your wits again some world class and international class players in a top class stadium with the game being televised on SKY. It's a great opportunity for the players and they're getting paid more than what most of them make in a week for doing it. If they get well beaten it won't come as a shock but if they do make an account of themselves then great.Quote:
Originally Posted by marinobohs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwbzx...eature=related
Pathetic. Like everything in Irish football.
Except Limerick obviously. http://data.whicdn.com/avatars/56984...png?1297581053
But they're not getting €1000? Isn't that before tax? Meaning they'll only get about €650-€700 (no idea, just an estimate).Quote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
Yeah but they get taxed on their income for their clubs as well. You have to expect to pay tax. They're doing alright imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954