The Collins curse

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17/08/2005, 1:09 PM
TheOwl

The Collins curse

Lets look at the stats

Eamon Collins - Decides to use his Rasputin style mind tricks to get Pat Fenlon to turn Shelbourne from a successful passing outfit to a thug ball struggling one.

Roddy Collins - Where to start? Bad decision after bad decision, let�s start with deciding that Carlton Palmer and Efan Ekoku would be good signings for Dublin City.

Steve Collins - Decides to beat his wife.

Joan Collins - Decides to get married, decides to get a divorce. Decides to get married, decides to get a divorce. Decides to get married, decides to get a divorce. Decides to get married, decides to get a divorce. Decides to get married��..currently on husband number five.

Eamon Collins (No. 2) - Ex-IRA man decides to write a book about the inhumanity of the IRA, and gets murdered for his troubles while out walking his dogs.

Phil Collins - Decides to turn Genesis from a respectable rock band to an awful pop outfit that produced putrid hit after putrid hit. Decides to embark on an even more horrible solo career.

Collins publishing company - A very reputable publishing company that specialised in education and religious books decides in 1989 to join Rupert Murdoch�s evil empire and merge with Harper & Row to become Harper Collins. Now just another blood-thirsty multi-national.

The question is - why does the surname Collins make people make such bad decisions? Why does it attract such idiots? Is there something nasty in the blood of this �clan�?

For the first time ever I�m starting to think that maybe we shouldn�t have signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty back in 1921!
17/08/2005, 1:20 PM
tiktok

John Collins - While playing football with Fulham becomes butt of jokes as they also have a player named Collins John
Collins John - While playing football with Fulham becomes butt of jokes as they also have a player named John Collins

it's true :eek:
17/08/2005, 1:24 PM
Sheridan

To bring this full circle, not a lot of people know that Roddy attempted to sign John Collins for Dublin City as well...
17/08/2005, 1:26 PM
ThatGuy

Carlton Palmer was excellent for Dublin City when they played Bohs anyway.
17/08/2005, 1:27 PM
pineapple stu

Is anybody on foot.ie called Collins? :)
17/08/2005, 1:29 PM
hoops1

Roderick Collins

Any man who walks out on Dublin City and makes Ronan Seery
cry like a baby is to be applauded not mocked!
17/08/2005, 1:29 PM
bigmac

Quote:

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Is anybody on foot.ie called Collins? :)

Colin is (geddit? Colin's)

sorry, it's been a tough day :o
17/08/2005, 1:33 PM
wws

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheOwl

Lets look at the stats

Eamon Collins - Decides to use his Rasputin style mind tricks to get Pat Fenlon to turn Shelbourne from a successful passing outfit to a thug ball struggling one.

how true? not very. Shels won the league with percentages football and a sh;t hot striker. Their striker has lost the "hot" and is now just sh:t. they still play percentages football - just they dont get the percentages anymore.....like say Mark Farren does with derry - even his mistakes lead to goals - when ure time is in - ure time is in. ipso facto - shels play sh:t football....always have, even when they won the league - their playmaker is david crawley ffs while they bench or bypass the only decent player they have, houlihan!
17/08/2005, 1:35 PM
Sheridan

Quote:

Originally Posted by hoops1

Any man who walks out on Dublin City and makes Ronan Seery
cry like a baby is to be applauded not mocked!

Hoops1, I know stupidity is prized as a badge of honour among Rovers fans, but will you kindly stop attempting to format your posts manually by pressing return instead of allowing the lines to wrap of their own accord, thus rendering them as illegible as they are nonsensical.
17/08/2005, 1:37 PM
hoops1

rubbish

Rubbish,Shels played some cracking football when they won the league.
They havent done it this season and are paying for it.
If any club plays Percentage football its Pats.
17/08/2005, 1:38 PM
drinkfeckarse

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sheridan

To bring this full circle, not a lot of people know that Roddy attempted to sign John Collins for Dublin City as well...

Didn't know that, he was playing against my team last week for a team of ex pro's (Alan Kernaghan,Paul Kane,Michael O'Neil,Tosh McKinlay and the likes). He's a local lad here and has good ties with my team so they play us every year.

I don't know him that well but would've thought I'd have heard that from him.
17/08/2005, 1:39 PM
wws

im afraid you dont watch much football

Crawley supplies most of their attacking "plays" via a big caveman punt upfield - the rest of their game relies on rogers/stuey byrne et al surrounding the ref and hoping that gets the free given their way - always works

They're sh:t

pure sh:t
17/08/2005, 1:41 PM
hoops1

sheridan

Sorry Shero
Its football we are talking about here
You wouldnt understand it either way!
17/08/2005, 1:44 PM
TheOwl

Quote:

Originally Posted by hoops1

Rubbish,Shels played some cracking football when they won the league.
They havent done it this season and are paying for it.
If any club plays Percentage football its Pats.

Maybe his name is Collins :)
17/08/2005, 1:44 PM
hoops1

wws

Thats the way they play this season!
Not last when the won the league.
Pats are playing that way 20years!
17/08/2005, 1:55 PM
James

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheOwl

Lets look at the stats

Eamon Collins - Decides to use his Rasputin style mind tricks to get Pat Fenlon to turn Shelbourne from a successful passing outfit to a thug ball struggling one.
!

leave Eugene alone, boscos having a tough time at the moment
its not easy being around anyone associated with shels at the moment
17/08/2005, 2:32 PM
WeAreRovers

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sheridan

Hoops1, I know stupidity is prized as a badge of honour among Rovers fans

:rolleyes:

I know I shouldn't bite Shero, but the chance to use the roll eyes smiley in response is too good a chance to pass up.

KOH
17/08/2005, 3:02 PM
bluemovie

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheOwl

The question is - why does the surname Collins make people make such bad decisions? Why does it attract such idiots? Is there something nasty in the blood of this �clan�?

What about the other Michael Collins - the third astronaut for the first moon landing?

NASA - "Michael, would you mind risking your life on a rocket to the moon?"

Collins - "Jaysus, I don't know. Nobody's ever been there before and with crap 1960s technology, it could be very dangerous."

NASA - "Don't be a pussy."

Collins - "Okay. At least I'll go down in history as the first man on the moon."

NASA - "Oh that's the other thing. Neil and Buzz get to walk on the moon. We want you to mind the shuttle like a spare prik."

Collins - "Ah balls. Can't we just film the two boys with an American flag in a TV studio?"

(actual conversation may have differed slightly)
17/08/2005, 3:58 PM
ThatGuy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cop on

Isn't that what they did ?? If not, then how come there's that shot of the two boys 'landing' on the moon. Was there a cameraman there before them ? or were they not the first two to step on the lunar landscape ??? :confused:

In relation to that, there was a show on Discovery recently which dispelled every single piece of conspiracy theory "evidence" behing the moon landing being a hoax.

I think everyone likes a good conspiracy, but (un?)fortunately you can rest assured that the moon landing really did take place!
17/08/2005, 9:02 PM
joeraki

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheOwl

Lets look at the stats
Roddy Collins - Where to start? Bad decision after bad decision, let�s start with deciding that Carlton Palmer and Efan Ekoku would be good signings for Dublin City.

Could start with the fact that he helped Bohs to the double. Its a short list of managers that can or will claim that
18/08/2005, 5:46 PM
pineapple stu

A lot of people put that down to Pete Mahon's coaching though.
19/08/2005, 9:34 AM
hoops1

Gimp

Alot of Stupid people do!
Because Pete Didnt take over until after Roddy
So it was quite a miracle it was down to his coaching!
Get your facts straight muppet!
Before you comment!
19/08/2005, 12:22 PM
pineapple stu

:rolleyes:
Pete Mahon was Roddy Collins' assistant before taking over.
19/08/2005, 1:04 PM
hoops1

Yes

Yes he was water carrier,kit man,and ball boy!
But when he got a chance to run the team he made
a pigs ear of it!
19/08/2005, 1:14 PM
drummerboy

Quote:

Originally Posted by hoops1

Yes he was water carrier,kit man,and ball boy!
But when he got a chance to run the team he made
a pigs ear of it!

Are you trying to defend Roddy's managerial skills. At the start of the season he had the second biggest outlay on wages in the league and look where he got you. This is after the wonderful progress he made with Dublin City. And of course not to be forgotten his exploits at Carlisle.
19/08/2005, 2:00 PM
hoops1

Roderick

Roderick has won a double!Bohs first in 20 odd years
Hyped himself into a job in England!
And Will keep Rovers up after all the trouble!
What a Man!
20/08/2005, 8:41 PM
LukeO

Quote:

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

A lot of people put that down to Pete Mahon's coaching though.

That's just stupid... Its a well known fact that Roddy took the training sessions and Mahon had little to do other than collect the cones. The fact that he stayed in the job and allowed Roddy to make him look like a fool is a major reason why the players had absolutely no respect for him when he took over.
20/08/2005, 10:45 PM
ThatGuy

Like Roddy or not, he was the manager when Bohs had the best season of its existence, so he gets the managerial credit. I am sure that Pete Mahon played his role in the success, as John Lewis did the year previously too.

As for Roddy's work with Rovers, when you ignore points deductions they would be 5 points behind Bohs and Drogheda. He is not doing as bad a job as people are making out(but he is not doing a great job either).

As far as Pete Mahon goes, he must have done a good job as Roddy's assistant when we won the double. The manager's job was too much for him as he was a disaster, plain and simple. The UCD job is probably tailor made for him and he is doing a good job there, but he is not up to managing a club with ambition like Bohs/Shels/Cork/Derry/Rovers etc.