Rovers Opening Fixtures 2009

**Rovers Maniac** · 16/02/2009, 4:05 PM

Home to Cork
Away to Shams
Home to Pats
Away to Galway
Home to Dundalk
Home to Bray - Midweek
Away to Derry
Home to Bohs
Away to Drogs

Last match of the seaon Home to Drogs

**sligoman** · 16/02/2009, 4:06 PM

Looking forward to March 14th

**sligofan4ever** · 16/02/2009, 4:08 PM

Are all our home games the day after every other team plays ?

March 14th will be a big game, also looking forward to 4th April

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**sligoman** · 16/02/2009, 4:22 PM

Originally Posted by sligofan4ever

Are all our home games the day after every other team plays ?

, we do play Saturday's. Saturday's tend to come after Friday's, when most other teams play.

**Rovers Maniac** · 16/02/2009, 4:30 PM

Link here !

http://www.eircomloi.ie/news-centre/...news/index.xml

**dong** · 16/02/2009, 4:32 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

Looking forward to March 14th

Couldn't agree more. Mouthwatering. Great to get the list and have some football to look forward to.

**Well Red** · 16/02/2009, 4:58 PM

Ironic that we played Shamrock Rovers in the last ever competitive game on their old ground at Milltown and now we play them again in the first competitive match at their new ground in Tallagh.

**forza rovers** · 17/02/2009, 7:23 AM

cant wait to play shams in tallagh

**Dodge** · 17/02/2009, 7:55 AM

You might have to. All indications are that the ground won't be ready

**Guts&Glory** · 17/02/2009, 1:06 PM

Having gone by the ground at the weekend seems alot of tidying up / finishing work needs to be done yet but you never know.

As for the coincidence of Rovers (of Sligo) being the first team to visit Shams (well possibly depending on the ongoing works) to visit Tallgaht is quiet a coincidence indeed!!

Fair play to the FAI....I mean imagine having such luck as to pull that one out on the computer fixture list programme.

You know the newspaper articles and TV coverage will be full of the last game at Milltown first game at Tallaght Stadium link when the game comes around.

Even Con Murphy of MNS mentioned what a great occasion and coincidence it would be in his interview with TBORST website back in November.

**LondonRover** · 18/02/2009, 2:53 AM

Absolutely gutted that I won't be able to make that first game at Tallaght but flights to Dublin for that weekend (with it being close to Paddy's Day) are just criminal.

Just booked my flights for my first game of the season though - Dundalk away on Friday 29th May. Ages away yet but can't wait - hope it doesn't get pp for any reason!!!

**Inside Man** · 18/02/2009, 10:37 AM

The game won't be in tallaght because the floodlights won't be ready. They have to undergo 3 tests before they can be used in a LOI match. Sorry to blow the bubble but we'll be playing Shams in Tolka.

**Rovers Maniac** · 18/02/2009, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by Inside Man

The game won't be in tallaght because the floodlights won't be ready. They have to undergo 3 tests before they can be used in a LOI match. Sorry to blow the bubble but we'll be playing Shams in Tolka.

Doing this sort of act to a monkey is just sick

**dong** · 18/02/2009, 11:33 AM

At least we can keep the "Homeless" jibe going for another while!!

**Guts&Glory** · 18/02/2009, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by Inside Man

The game won't be in tallaght because the floodlights won't be ready. They have to undergo 3 tests before they can be used in a LOI match. Sorry to blow the bubble but we'll be playing Shams in Tolka.

Fair enough, I suppose a 3pm kick off isn't a runner either given most of their fans dont get out of bed until after 6pm : )

**blackholesun** · 18/02/2009, 9:13 PM

Originally Posted by Inside Man

The game won't be in tallaght because the floodlights won't be ready. They have to undergo 3 tests before they can be used in a LOI match. Sorry to blow the bubble but we'll be playing Shams in Tolka.

Was speaking to one of the Rovers directors last night and we are going full steam ahead for the Sligo game to be in Tallaght.

Obviously, Id guess the final call will be made a week or so before hand but at this stage supposedly its looking good, fingers crossed!

bhs

**Rovers1** · 18/02/2009, 9:16 PM

Please God.

**sligoman** · 18/02/2009, 9:19 PM

Only 3,000?

I was thinking there would be a bigger crowd than that for this game.

**blackholesun** · 18/02/2009, 9:32 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

Only 3,000?

I was thinking there would be a bigger crowd than that for this game.

We could obviously sell way more tickets than this for the first game as could any other club in similar circumstances, but to be honest the council are very nervous about safety etc especially as there prob wont even be a dry run under age match in the ground beforehand. Id say there might be a few 100 terrace tkts for behind either goal maybe released in the week before hand, but again the council are very nervous about safety

There are already over 1000 season tkts sold, I say final figure will be about 1500 so obviously tkts for the first game wont be easy to come by out of whats left over after the season tkt holders.

bhs

**sligoman** · 18/02/2009, 9:35 PM

Originally Posted by blackholesun

We could obviously sell way more tickets than this for the first game as could any other club in similar circumstances, but to be honest the council are very nervous about safety etc especially as there prob wont even be a dry run under age match in the ground beforehand. Id say there might be a few 100 terrace tkts for behind either goal maybe released in the week before hand, but again the council are very nervous about safety

There are already over 1000 season tkts sold, I say final figure will be about 1500 so obviously tkts for the first game wont be easy to come by out of whats left over after the season tkt holders.

bhs

What percentage of tickets do we get?