Airtiricity League XI v Manchester United confirmed for Aviva Stadium on August 4

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04/08/2010, 1:15 PM
dong

Maybe not, but quite funny really.
I know I'll be watching, hoping against hope that maybe, just maybe, Ndo nutmegs Gary Neville, Richie Ryan scores afree kick or Peers wins a header against Berbatov. Oh the surge of pride will be enormous, won't it?
Then we can all devote another 16 pages to chatting about the game we wish never happened.
04/08/2010, 1:17 PM
Dodge

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Originally Posted by dong

16 pages on a match that nobody wants to happen...?
Give me a break. The majority of the people who are so anti this game will be glued to it tonight, make no mistake.

As opposed to a slient protest in front of a blank TV screen? I wont be watching it (haven't the time this evening) but most football fans I know will try and watch as much football as thye can on TV. Doesn't mean they think its a great idea
04/08/2010, 1:22 PM
gustavo

Team for the game

Airtricity League XI: Gary Rogers, Brian Shelley, Conor Powell, Gavin Peers, Ken Oman, Ryan Guy, Paul Keegan, Shaun Williams, Joseph Ndo, Killian Brennan, Paddy Madden

http://www.airtricityleague.com/inde...e-xi-to-attack
04/08/2010, 1:31 PM
marinobohs

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Originally Posted by gustavo

Team for the game

Airtricity League XI: Gary Rogers, Brian Shelley, Conor Powell, Gavin Peers, Ken Oman, Ryan Guy, Paul Keegan, Shaun Williams, Joseph Ndo, Killian Brennan, Paddy Madden

http://www.airtricityleague.com/inde...e-xi-to-attack

C*nt richardson playing all the Bohs players ! once a sham always...........
04/08/2010, 2:05 PM
Charlie Darwin

I would have started with Sheppard up top, but looks like a decent team.
04/08/2010, 3:41 PM
sligo23

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

I would have started with Sheppard up top, but looks like a decent team.

Nah Sheppard is far too hot and cold, and mostly cold. Madden is a far better player. Interesting to see he hasn't started the league's best midfielder, thankfully, the last thing we need is to loose him to an injury. Hopefully Joey and Peers only play the first half.
04/08/2010, 3:53 PM
PartySaint

He hasnt started the leagues best defender either but im delighted with that
04/08/2010, 3:54 PM
jbyrne

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Originally Posted by Dodge

All Irish clubs are on their knees. They need every penny they can get. The FAI have signed a contract that means LOI clubs CANNOT host games like this on order to fundraise

What other LOI activities? They also earn substantial participation fees from clubs, not to mention sponsors for various competitions, so they’re not bankrolling the whole show…

Why do you think they did that, if they couldn’t afford to pay for it?

The reasons for it have been clearly explained throughout this thread. If you can’t understand them, I’d have to surmise that you’re a bit slow.

Irish players have shown very clearly over the past number of years that they don’t have the best interests of the game at heart, so in no way should their interests be the deciding factor in any issue

When you add in various factors like the FAI postponing competitive fixtures for this game, not allowing Limerick play Barcelona, not allowing Bohs v bray clash with a Champions League qualifier despite this game clashing, the LOI publicity machine in overdrive for this when they barely mentioned clubs European games this year, the fact that players will have to play again on Friday night and numerous other cringeworthy factors its clear there are plenty of possible reasons for people not to like this game

But if you can’t understand any of them..

so bray didnt play villareal and bohs didnt play aston villa recently?
the barca v limerick match wouldve been a financial disaster given the small crowd that wouldve turned up. limerick / munster people just dont turn up to these things.
never said the FAI bank rolled the whole lge.
so the fai shouldnt have got involved with the new stadium??

personalising your argument with the "a bit slow" comment is poor posting really but maybe it will earn you another green dot. well done
04/08/2010, 3:56 PM
pineapple stu

The small crowd that would have turned up to watch one of the biggest clubs in the world? Come off it.

The games you mention don't constitute "Games like this" as per Dodge's post. Limerick v Barca does.

(And sorry Dodge - I know you're well able to answer for yourself too...)
04/08/2010, 4:07 PM
HammerNThongs

There's also the question of saturation. The casual fans over here are probably pretty sick of seeing the same 5 or 6 English teams come over to play in games like this. It's probably only fans of the Premiership clubs specifically and the odd LoI fan who attends these games, that's certainly the way it looked at the Villa-Bohs game anyway. If it was Limerick vs Barcelona, there would be A LOT more casual interest to see a team live that one never or very rarely gets the chance to see live.

But United arent even my reason for hating this game, it's that, for ever, the answer to the question "What was the first soccer match ever played at the Aviva stadium?" will basically be "a desperate fundraiser" rather than something we can have a bit of pride in.
04/08/2010, 4:53 PM
harpskid

Long shot but spare ticket available here, one of the �45 ones - 087-9499073 if anyone is after one
04/08/2010, 5:01 PM
MeathDrog

Is it a sell out?
04/08/2010, 5:11 PM
tippex

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Originally Posted by MeathDrog

Is it a sell out?

I doubt it. but then again the rugby was a "sell out" apparently 40k tickets had been sold but the attendance was 35k and that was at a tenner a ticket compared to tonights at a min of �45 per ticket.
04/08/2010, 5:16 PM
HammerNThongs

According to another forum I'm on, they read somewhere that the FAI have declared it a sell out :rolleyes:
04/08/2010, 5:22 PM
Dodge

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Originally Posted by jbyrne

so the fai shouldnt have got involved with the new stadium??

Not if they can't afford it. Simple business sense

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personalising your argument with the "a bit slow" comment is poor posting really

Then stop trying to use the "I can't understand" argument. Either you can't understand it (ie you're a bit slow), or you can understand it and choose not to
04/08/2010, 5:22 PM
Charlie Darwin

Hope our boys do us proud tonight and destroy this bunch of Irish league journeymen.
04/08/2010, 5:24 PM
Straightstory

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Originally Posted by dong

Maybe not, but quite funny really.
I know I'll be watching, hoping against hope that maybe, just maybe, Ndo nutmegs Gary Neville, Richie Ryan scores afree kick or Peers wins a header against Berbatov. Oh the surge of pride will be enormous, won't it?
Then we can all devote another 16 pages to chatting about the game we wish never happened.

What I'm hoping is that some of United's star players (Rooney would be perfect) pick up a few injuries which would keep them out for a month or two (nothing life threatening or overly serious, but something niggling which would stop them playing until October).
04/08/2010, 5:29 PM
Straightstory

From Extra Time interview with Paddy Madden:

'Madden is delighted to be in the squad to face the side he has supported all his life and is looking forward to facing some of the world’s best players... '

“When I heard that I’d got into the squad I was chuffed, because as a United fan I’m getting to play against the team I support all my life” '

That's what we're up against in a nutshell.
There is no hope.
04/08/2010, 5:39 PM
Lim till i die

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Originally Posted by jbyrne

the barca v limerick match wouldve been a financial disaster given the small crowd that wouldve turned up. limerick / munster people just dont turn up to these things.

What in the name of God do you base this ludicrous garbage on??
04/08/2010, 5:41 PM
danthesaint

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Originally Posted by harpskid

Long shot but spare ticket available here, one of the �45 ones - 087-9499073 if anyone is after one

is it for the man ure end of the ground?? :cool:
04/08/2010, 6:03 PM
eL Bettor

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Originally Posted by Lim till i die

What in the name of God do you base this ludicrous garbage on??

There were 2 Irish friendlies in Thomond with small crowds.
04/08/2010, 6:14 PM
Magicme

In the aviva with my sons and while Dylan spots united players I loi fan spot. Aviva la difference!

Oh and for those watching at home I am sitting at the low end of the stadium just to the left of the goal with my mons scarf on.
04/08/2010, 6:15 PM
osarusan

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Originally Posted by eL Bettor

There were 2 Irish friendlies in Thomond with small crowds.

And when you consider that Barcelona are nowhere near the draw that South Africa is, it's case closed.
04/08/2010, 6:22 PM
ped_ped

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Originally Posted by eL Bettor

There were 2 Irish friendlies in Thomond with small crowds.

Event junkies don't care for the Irish national team vs subpar opposition. If Ireland vs Australia or Ireland vs South Africa were held in Croke Park, the attendance wouldn't be that different.

Meanwhile, thousands show up to get autographs of Cristiano Ronaldo, etc.

You're actually telling me that the people of Munster not wanting to see Irealdn Reserves vs Tim Cahill or Stephen Pienaar means they don't want to see Lionel Messi, David Villa, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Xavi, Iniesta, Bojan? (unsure how many of these would've been available)
04/08/2010, 6:24 PM
Charlie Darwin

Only Ibrahimovic and Bojan would have been there. Still, it would have outsold the Ireland games, but I'm not convinced it would have been a sell-out.
04/08/2010, 6:26 PM
danthesaint

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Originally Posted by Magicme

In the aviva with my sons and while Dylan spots united players I loi fan spot. Aviva la difference!

Oh and for those watching at home I am sitting at the low end of the stadium just to the left of the goal with my mons scarf on.

is there many LOI supporters there??
04/08/2010, 6:26 PM
ped_ped

I heard Messi was confirmed? Then again, World Cup, Catalonian national side . . . who knows. Still, a Shels XI in Barcelona jerseys would pull more than SA or Australia.
04/08/2010, 6:30 PM
Doomofman

Rogers; Shelley, Oman, Peers, Powell; Guy, Keegan, Williams, Brennan; Ndo, Madden.

Kusczak, Evans, Smalling, Vidic, O'Shea, Valencia, Carrick, Gibson, Park, Rooney, Owen
04/08/2010, 6:33 PM
Magicme

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Originally Posted by danthesaint

is there many LOI supporters there??

Have seen loads and spoken to some shams, athlone, Bohs, sporting,
04/08/2010, 6:36 PM
Dunny

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Originally Posted by Magicme

Have seen loads and spoken to some shams, athlone, Bohs, sporting,

Are they wearing their colours?
04/08/2010, 6:36 PM
Charlie Darwin

Quote:

Originally Posted by ped_ped

I heard Messi was confirmed? Then again, World Cup, Catalonian national side . . . who knows. Still, a Shels XI in Barcelona jerseys would pull more than SA or Australia.

I doubt it. He's skipped out on the international game in the Aviva to go touring Asia.
04/08/2010, 6:37 PM
Charlie Darwin

Did Sadlier just say "Gary Keegan"?
04/08/2010, 6:39 PM
osarusan

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Only Ibrahimovic and Bojan would have been there. Still, it would have outsold the Ireland games, but I'm not convinced it would have been a sell-out.

Maybe, I heard some fairly hefty ticket prices rumoured. That said, I'd like to think we'd have sold most of the tickets before the final Barca squad was announced, and it was in the contract that we paid them less for each star player that wasn't featured.

That's all beside the point though. The point that jbyrne doesn't want to accept is that the FAI didn't refuse to sanction the friendly because they wanted to save Limerick from losing money, they did it because they've decided that any real money-making friendlies will be have to be at the Aviva, so the FAI get the cash.

The 15,000 attendance cap in the third-party contract, and Delaney's admission that the clause is 'all about money' to Marian Finucane (I think) make that pretty obvious.
04/08/2010, 6:42 PM
ped_ped

Love the Airtricity League XI jersey!

United one ain't bad either, mind.
04/08/2010, 6:42 PM
atfconline

Was that Monaghan's Brian Gartland doing the piece at the start?
04/08/2010, 6:43 PM
Magicme

Yup how else would I know who they supported? :-p oh and talkin to lims one and only gspain
04/08/2010, 6:45 PM
Dunny

Umbro couldnt even put the players names on the shirts!

(just being picky but ffs..)
04/08/2010, 6:48 PM
peadar1987

Has anyone got a stream for this that will work outside Ireland? Iraqgoals only wants to show me PAOK against Ajax in some rubbish meaningful competitive game!
04/08/2010, 6:49 PM
Dunny

http://sporting-tv.yolasite.com/channel-2

Try that
04/08/2010, 6:51 PM
Charlie Darwin

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Originally Posted by peadar1987

Has anyone got a stream for this that will work outside Ireland? Iraqgoals only wants to show me PAOK against Ajax in some rubbish meaningful competitive game!

Need to download a player for this one but it's completely safe and great quality: http://veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4c574ecd11088

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