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It's a great read and anyone with an interest in the LOI would love it. Some of the stories are crazy. I particularly liked the early chapter about the Dolan 'regime'. He seems far more OTT than I ever expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Good Son
Finished Neal Horgan's Death Of A Football Club last night.
An excellent read. Very interesting insights into the dressing room while all the nonsense with Arkaga and Coughlan was going on.
It will be an easier read for Cork fans, now that they are back at the business end of the league, but the sheer frustration at all the stuff that could have been avoided...
I'd say far more could have been said about certain "characters". You'd nearly need to be a solicitor yourself to talk about anyone in this league at times.
Some of the stuff that went on sounded very familiar, even if it was more incompetence than malice that was behind it in Cork.
It was near the end of the book so it probably sticks with me more, but Tom Coughlan undermining Alan Mathews at every turn and even suggesting to Mathews that the team could be run by committee "like in rugby". Hard to know if that was him swinging his dick, to remind Mathews who was in charge or if he was actually that clueless. Or both...
Anyone bothered enough about LOI to be looking at this thread should read it.
The History of the Showgrounds book has now been published.
http://sligorovers.com/news/15/jan/h...ds-book-launch
That's at least another three new ones this off season, is'nt it?
Sligo Showgrounds
Dundalk 2014 review
Neal Horgan
Gonna need a shelf extension...
assumption SeanD i am getting from that thread on sligo rovers book is that it wont be on sale?Quote:
Originally Posted by seand
Kind of looks like it, doesn't it? Any Sligo fans able to confirm if its going on general sale? Gonna be a pain the arse to source if not!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Pardon my complete ignorance but what would be the reasons for not putting it on public sale.
To keep it as a collectors item or something?
Cost? They might only be allowed print copies in batches of (say) 250 so if they're unsure of how it'd sell, they might stick with 250 instead of a possible loss making 500Quote:
Originally Posted by dong
Yeah that's true enough.
pity as its rare that a book about sligo rovers comes out. The last time would have being Eamonn Sweeneys effort in mid 90s!
If you include the new one about the Showground this will be the fourth book about Sligo Rovers since Sweeneys one. They Thinks it's All Over was based on the 94/95 season from a fans perspective, North West Frontier (Conal Collier) documented around 15 months between 1997-98 when Nicky Reid was manager, Joe Molloy also wrote a history of the club which was published in the late nineties and this current one makes it four.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
The book is only available, free of charge, to current season ticket holders, club members and 500 club members. More details soon.
Can you tell me the author and year of this book.Quote:
Originally Posted by red bellied
They will need at least a print run of 500. Seeing as each member of the 500 Club is getting a copy.Plus season ticket holders and members. I'd guess a print run of 1,000 would be more like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
remember reading conal colliers effort! how do I get a copy of Joe Molloys book as I never have seen/read it?Quote:
Originally Posted by red bellied
The book was written by Declan Burke and came out shortly after the 94/95 season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Professor K
The current Showgrounds book is not on sale because it was funded through Peace III, so is only available free of charge.
I myself don't have it so ebay and second hand book shops are probably your only hope. I asked Molloy for a copy after it had gone out of print and he said he didn't even have one himself. There was also another book published on the history in the late seventies, I actually had this or maybe still do buried in my mothers attic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
would that be the same Declan Burke who writes crime novels ?
The very same....Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
I was just picking figures for illustration. Nice to see Sligo members get it free though. That'll be a nice souvenir to keepQuote:
Originally Posted by Redzer