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    Milwall to boost its Irish contingent ?

    I see in one of the local papers here in London there's a spread on Paul Keegan and Eamon Zayed being talked to by Milwall.

    Rather commically, Zayed is described as "well built...." !

    David Forde has been Milwall's No 1 choice keeper since the Summer, where the reputation he earned as a shot-stopper at City has continued.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dcfcsteve View Post
    I see in one of the local papers here in London there's a spread on Paul Keegan and Eamon Zayed being talked to by Milwall.

    Rather commically, Zayed is described as "well built...." !

    David Forde has been Milwall's No 1 choice keeper since the Summer, where the reputation he earned as a shot-stopper at City has continued.
    Zayed signed for Fingal, that will be some profit for them if they sell him on before the season even starts

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    Quote Originally Posted by garyderry View Post
    Zayed signed for Fingal, that will be some profit for them if they sell him on before the season even starts
    Has the deal been done ?

    In fairness the paper did say he "looked set to join rivals Sporting Fingal".

    I'm still in shock at the idea of Zayed being well built though....

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    Quote Originally Posted by dcfcsteve View Post
    Has the deal been done ?

    In fairness the paper did say he "looked set to join rivals Sporting Fingal".
    Done deal.

    How are Drogheda Utd and Sporting Fingal rivals though? They've never even played each other!
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    Quote Originally Posted by holidaysong View Post
    Done deal.

    How are Drogheda Utd and Sporting Fingal rivals though? They've never even played each other!
    Yeah, but Fingal have a good team this year, and all those die-hard Drogheda fans who appeared after they started winning stuff might just change loyalties.
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    Quote Originally Posted by John83 View Post
    Yeah, but Fingal have a good team this year, and all those die-hard Drogheda fans who appeared after they started winning stuff might just change loyalties.
    Its not some mickey mouse university team, Drogheda actually have a club history and fans. Sooner we see them back strong again the better.

    as for you lot

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    Quote Originally Posted by garyderry View Post
    Its not some mickey mouse university team, Drogheda actually have a club history and fans. Sooner we see them back strong again the better.

    as for you lot
    Club history? Founded around thirty years after us, elected to the league fifteen years before us, propped up the table for a bit, had a decent spell in the mid and late 70s, then yo-yoed between divisions for a few decades, racking up debts sufficient that the FAI had to buy their ground from them, before recently buying a little success with money they didn't have. I'm deeply impressed. I'm reasonably sure that before they started mortaging their future, the club had won squat. Maybe there's a cup win somewhere I've forgotten about, but even UCD have that. I'm not sure how this constitutes 'history' we don't have.

    Oh, and fans are the guys who turn up when you aren't winning. Drogheda had few enough of those.
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    Quote Originally Posted by John83 View Post

    Oh, and fans are the guys who turn up when you aren't winning. Drogheda had few enough of those.
    More and better than you lot ever had.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sonofstan View Post
    More and better than you lot ever had.
    Remember many good nights in drogheda with no shortage of fans
    when they were far from a trophy winning team, always a good place
    to go for a few pints with before and after.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dcfcsteve View Post
    David Forde has been Milwall's No 1 choice keeper since the Summer, where the reputation he earned as a shot-stopper at City has continued.
    I think he may have earned that reputation before joining Derry...

    I guess the term "shot-stopper" refers to a keeper who can't catch a cross to save his life and can't kick the ball straight.

    To be fair though he's done really well for himself and it's good to see him playing in England.

    I remember one game in Belfield that we beat UCD 1-0 and he was unbelievable. Shots on target must have been about 25-1 in UCD's favour!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by John83 View Post
    Yeah, but Fingal have a good team this year, and all those die-hard Drogheda fans who appeared after they started winning stuff might just change loyalties.
    Cop on you muppett

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    Quote Originally Posted by sonofstan View Post
    More and better than you lot ever had.
    I've seen both of us play in front of 250 when we're not winning.

    Not sure what makes a fan better?

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    Quote Originally Posted by disabledrog View Post
    Cop on you muppett
    Grow a sense of humour.
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    Quote Originally Posted by John83 View Post
    Club history? Founded around thirty years after us, elected to the league fifteen years before us, propped up the table for a bit, had a decent spell in the mid and late 70s, then yo-yoed between divisions for a few decades, racking up debts sufficient that the FAI had to buy their ground from them, before recently buying a little success with money they didn't have. I'm deeply impressed. I'm reasonably sure that before they started mortaging their future, the club had won squat. Maybe there's a cup win somewhere I've forgotten about, but even UCD have that. I'm not sure how this constitutes 'history' we don't have.

    Oh, and fans are the guys who turn up when you aren't winning. Drogheda had few enough of those.
    Ho hum... I presume all this childish bitterness from UCD fans because of their dislike of Doolin will now be transferred to Cork.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Straightstory View Post
    Ho hum... I presume all this childish bitterness from UCD fans because of their dislike of Doolin will now be transferred to Cork.
    Anyone going to claim that Cork have a longer history than UCD so?
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    Facts shmacts, eh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Straightstory View Post
    Ho hum... I presume all this childish bitterness from UCD fans because of their dislike of Doolin will now be transferred to Cork.
    I never liked Cork anyway.
    We're not arrogant, we're just better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schumi View Post
    I never liked Cork anyway.
    It's true. Some of earliest memories of meeting Schumi involve him yelling obscenities at the Cork management.
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    Funnily enough, some of schumi's earliest UCD memories date from around two years after that.

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