There's no Dublin Bias, we're all paranoid

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Surprise surprise two Dublin clubs say jump the FAI ask how high

here

[Dodge]

The only arguement was between two Dublin clubs. How can the league favouring Bohs over Shels show a dublin bias? Paranoid muppet

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Yea Longford are a Dublin club arent they Dodge?

Anyone remember a League Cup Semi Final? Im just so paranoid, I just cant help it.

[Dodge]

Read the Longford section. Pats and Longford agreed to the game being called WEEKS ago. There was never an arguement between those clubs.

And still on that semi? The one that was always fixed for Monday (the day we had designated as our midweek game) ? The game that was NEVER moved?

I'll repeat. paranoid muppet

[SÓC]

Originally posted by Dodge

And still on that semi? The one that was always fixed for Monday (the day we had designated as our midweek game) ? The game that was NEVER moved?

I'll repeat. paranoid muppet

Ohh lets follow Dodge's logic so.

FAI Cup semi replay was always going to be on Wed. so then the league game today should NEVER have been moved?

Basically Dodge if it had been Cork City or some other non-pale Club looking for a game to be put off it just wouldnt have happened.

Poor old Dodgey-boy cant have a discussion without name calling.

[Dodge]

Originally posted by SÓCcfc
Ohh lets follow Dodge's logic so.

FAI Cup semi replay was always going to be on Wed. so then the league game today should NEVER have been moved?

Basically Dodge if it had been Cork City or some other non-pale Club looking for a game to be put off it just wouldnt have happened.

Poor old Dodgey-boy cant have a discussion without name calling.

The name calling referred to thethread title. the muppet bit was put in to counter your

The FAI fixed the FAI cup semi for Wednesday. Not Pats or Bohs. They wanted it love on TV. (Pats wanted it on Tuesday BTW) What can't you understand?

[SÓC]

What cant I understand? How there is one rule for one set of clubs and another for the other clubs, surley a bit of an oddity.

Now how was I to know you would take me giving the FAI a rollie-eyes smilie so personally that you would be compelled to call me a muppet.

[patsh]

No point SoC.
You are trying to deal with a guy who does not know the meaning of logic, is self-contradictory and lives in some world which is up his own hole.
Does not matter what your point is, it will be wrong in that bizarre, dark little tunnel wherein only the green light from the glowing chip on Collins' shoulder permeates.

[Dodge]

Originally posted by SÓCcfc
What cant I understand? How there is one rule for one set of clubs and another for the other clubs, surley a bit of an oddity.

can you give me one example of this please?

[SÓC]

LC Semi. Call it what ya like Dodge very similiar set of facts with two different outcomes, hummm the only substantial difference seems to be one club isnt actually in Dublin.

Is there an echo in here?

[Macy]

Just to clarify, Longford didn't want the game tonight either... Pats and Longford agreed when the draw was made that in the event of replay the game would be postponed.....

What you should give out about is pro-shels bias in that the only one of the four clubs that actually wanted the games to go ahead tonight was Shels, who the league pandered too...

btw the FAI had no choice once the appeal was lodged, particularly with Bohs ready to go to court to get an injunction if they didn't (which I wouldn't have agreed with)

[Dodge]

Sighs.

Situation No. 1 League Cup Semi. Home team decides to play match on the day they have nominated for midweek games. League ratifies this.

Situation No. 2 Shels v Bohs. Shels initially ask for game to be postponed. League deny due to worries about extending season. When Cup game needed replay. FAI fixed replay for Wednesday. Bohs asked Shels and league to postpone league game on Friday (with Bohs due to play next Monday too). Shels and League Deny. Bohs appeal. League postpones Friday game in order to hear appeal.

Pats v Longford. When FAI Cup draw is made, Pats and Longford agree that if EITHER semi needs a replay, the Friday league game postponed. When Cup game goes to replay both assume this agreement will be ratified League announces game must be played on Friday. Pats appeal, with the backing on Longford. League eventually postpones both games

The ONLY reason Pats and Longford was dragged into it was because the league didn’t want to give Bohs the opportunity of saying “Well if Pats can postpone their game, why can’t we?”

Now, how are those situations the same?

[SÓC]

Ok Dodge your dressing it up but it is still very similiar facts. The main difference is;

Situation No. 1 League turns down request -> Non Dub

Situation No. 2 League allows appeal ->Dub

I shall take my leave of this tread, its going nowhere (except trash) fast, dont have the time to spend the day replying

[Dodge]

Talk about over simplifying it. Nothing AT ALL similar to either situation. Why did Cork want the LC Semi postponed and did they appela or was it just internet talk

[Macy]

Originally posted by SÓCcfc
Situation No. 2 League allows appeal ->Dub

Alternatively if they hadn't allowed the appeal -> Dub

Clear bias, yeah.... This one was between 2 Dublin clubs, so no matter what the decision it would've been a decision for a Dub team you thick fookers...

[Colm]

On the league cup semi, City had been led to believe that the game would be played on the Tuesday, however, Pats then decided to play it on the Monday and, as alway, the FAI took the side of the Dublin club. This denyed City a days recovery. Pats had an extra days rest as they had not played since the previous Thursday night.

On the Shels v Bohs game, read Pat Dolan's column in the Star today. He said that if the two clubs had agreed to play the fixture tomorrow night (saturday), Cork City would have obliged Shels by moving our game v them to Tuesday night.

[joe]

From what I can remember City were first told that the LC semi-final would be on either Tuesday or Wednesday before being informed that it would go ahead on the Monday. AFAIK the club wrote to the FAI to find out the exact ruling in question but I heard no more on the matter.

I feel sorry for any Longford fans who had booked time off work to go to the match and only find out for sure that morning that the game was off

As to what the porblem is playing three games in Dublin in a week is . . .

[Dodge]

The problem is 4 games in 8 days. I thought Fridays games should have gone ahead. Longford maintained all along that they had no intention of playing so they weren't put out that much. I agree it was a disgrace that it was called off only 18 hours before the kick off though.

Who informed City it would be on the Tuesday? A quick check with the league fixtures would have shown all our midweek games down for Mondays.

Oh and whenever the game was to be played we would have had an extra day's rest. Didn't really matter once we played the u21s *






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Pete Mahon seems to think their is a bias shown towards the big Dublin Clubs
here

He must be a thick fooker eh Macy?

[Dodge]

Where did you read Dublin bias into that? Bit hard to really seeing as its a Dublin man, managing a Dublin club complaining...