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Looking forward to a distraction from the league. Hopefully a good cup game.
Athlone have done well against Shels and Ucd in recent games so might not be an easy tie to be fair. We have been playing quite well since the shels result so im still optimistic.
What do any athlone fans think. Will yous have a full squad to pick from.
i reckon we will either scrap a win by a goal or get hammered by 3,4 or even 5.
if we play well and franco gorgescu and dave o connor gel with the team well we have a very realistic chance of getting something out of this game.
we should of bet ye the last time we played ye and that is something to be positive about and we have drawn with shels and ucd in the last 3 games and we should of beaten ucd so hopefully we can pull it off.
should be a good lot travelling from athlone so hope its a good game with a good result from our perspective :D
good luck anyways lads
Yous did give us a bit of a scare last time alright.Quote:
Originally Posted by ATFC-1887
Hope a good few of yous do come up. Always makes for a better atmosphere. And when yous go home crying it will be even better:p:D
Crying with joy son, Crying with joy ;)
i reckon maybe 100-200 from town will be going up
Our travelling support is up and down but the league match against you we brought about 70 and I will be dissapointed if we dont get near the 200 mark for this oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc
In our 9 games against you we have lost them all and failed to score in any of them. We are travelling under no pressure as everyone is expecting you to win.
Including 2 shels fans;).Quote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
It would be great if yous could bring up that many. Heres to a good game of football. 2 days to go:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
we have 10 starting players out
:eek: Are you serious? If so why?Quote:
Originally Posted by ATFC-1887
Just a sprinkle of kidology thrown into that article methinks. While it does look like yous will miss a few, im sure come kick off it wont be 10.
whoever is named there will be out! ya can check yourself when the teams are announced.
Cant wait for this. full 22 seater leavin at 4 and should be a good 150-200 driving up. gonna be a quality night no matter the result. :D
Well at least yous got that elusive goal against us you where looking for.:o
Hard look lads. I guess the lads you where missing really hurt yous tonight.
Will yous have many of them back for the game next week?
All of them other than one long termQuote:
Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc
Great, so you will have no excuses when we knock in another 4 then :)
Where was your predicted 100 to 200 athlone fans ? :D
We brought half of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lep
As for our fans were were yours. Your at home and throwing money at players and wouldnt have taken enough on the gate to pay the officials. It is unsustainable and is Dublin City / Shels / Cork City waiting to happen.
I was totally shocked when I heard the playing budget there. It is 14 times ours per week.
there was at east 70-80 athlone fans there if not 100
**** poor home attendance from a club that WILL go bust in time.
As has been explained a thousand times over. Of course the money from the gates dont pay for the players. Thats the same for most of the clubs in the LOI. We have really good sponsorship that pays the wages. This sponsorship was guaranteed for 4 years. So there is nothing to worry about.
but were they not saying that Dublin City when they had the sponsorship deal with Carrolls? I am only making a point I dont like to see any fellow clubs out of business! Believe that Kirbs has bein great for ye the last few games saw that he got mom on fri!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc
Maybe they where but we are not Dublin City so i fail to see any connection (not trying to be smart by the way)Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Kirbs, williams and Conan have been great by and large all season. The team is finally starting to gel thank god. Our injury nightmare is coming to an end and the team is reaping the rewards of this.
no worries at all lamper.thats good about kirbs what about paisley?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc
You dont be worrying your socks about our budget :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
Sporting Fingal will be still in the league in 10 to 20 years time.
Are you shocked by your own home support? You should be more concerned about your own survival than worrying about Sporting Fingal.
We still have a higher average attendance than Athlone and we are only in the league 2 years. Where are the Athlone faithful? The last time i was down there was a few years ago with Dublin City in st mels and the home support was far less than what Sporting Fingal average.
I'll be down there on sat night so come over and make yourself known and have a chat.
Just for the record, i like Athlone and wish them well.
How good was Rod de Khors? Did you read his book?
were averaging 500-600 which is far more than you
Of course you are :D
sure look it up .
ye have a possible one million+ people as potential fans. we have 20-25000 people and we still get more than you.
Our average attendance is higher (650 to 700). Our catchment area is 200000 to 250000 aprox. (obviously higher than yours) but we are only going a year and a half. Now lets stop the crap please.Quote:
Originally Posted by ATFC-1887
Hard to say as Iv probably only seen him in about 5 games in total. He was injured in pre season and missed the first month of the season, he then came back and got injured again after 2 or 3 matches. He has only been back since the last shels game. In that shels game he looked very rusty but has improved since then. Im sure we will see the real paisley in the final phase of games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
The fact O Neil, Maher, Byrne and Paisley have returned from long term injuries has installed confidence in our side as well as the obvious rise in quality.
Do you reckon there will be many SF supporters travelling on Sat?
id say 6 like last time.
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Originally Posted by ATFC-1887
:rolleyes:
Ok mate. Now your just trolling. Take it elsewhere.
Doubt it. We dont have the biggest away support to be fair. A lot of our crowd is made up of families who are unlikely to go to away games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
It will be a while before we build up a hardcore group of fans who travel.
All in good time I hope.
Now thet we've broken our goalscoring duck on ye I hope we can follow it up with a few more!
If i had the choice id trade our win in the cup for a win tomorrow.
But hopefully we can have our cake and eat it.
that group that travelled down on the us tonight are a bunch of di**heads...simple as that. the abuse the ref and lino got was a disgrace.
fair play on the win lads anyways.. good game of ball tonight. we ran ye close :D
before i start just to let you know i'm a rovers supporter, popped in to your game against athlone in the cup, the majority of your supporters were kids under 12 who are let in free and who have no interest in the matches, the remainder of the supporters are relatives and friends of the players and committee men/ women, dont think i saw anyone with a jersey or scarf, i think i may have been the only one who paid in, the facility is a shambles and i'll give fingal another 2 years max before they fold or become amateur you cant sustain that budget with no supporters and the council or wealthy builders wont continue to fund that operation
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Originally Posted by The Lep
who guaranteed the sponsorship?
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Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc
Keelings.Quote:
Originally Posted by jonboy
Mate. You have no idea what your talking about. That night was one of our worst nights for attendance and you cant base an opinion on one night. We do have a lot of kids, I agree with you there. Its part of the clubs initiative. Its the hope of the club that these young fans will eventually become supporters. We have to start somewhere you know. The remainder where not just families of the kids you mentioned and there was plenty of people with jerseys (me included). Neither the council or a wealthy builder funds us, fact. I love your prediction by the way. We will be gone or go amateur in 2 years. At least it seems we must be doing better now considering when we started we where told we would be gone in a year. Now its 2yrs and we may only go back to amateur. Things are looking up:)Quote:
Originally Posted by jonboy
Take the trolling elsewhere buddy. Your post is nothing we hav nt heard before.
You really havent got a clue have you :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jonboy
Are you just making it up to get a reaction or what?
keelings wont keep up the money, nor will your builder, just plain economics no money - no club, if you get promoted (unlikely) you might get another year out of it, not slagging off or trying to stir it, its just the way it is mon ami!