Rovers not allowed play in Tallaght this weekend

Just got a Rovers club text there and they're running free buses from Tallagth stadium to Tolka on Saturday, that's an excellent idea I think.

Originally Posted by passinginterest

Just got a Rovers club text there and they're running free buses from Tallagth stadium to Tolka on Saturday, that's an excellent idea I think.

yeah, fair play

Would Sligo fans be welcome to use those buses too?

Originally Posted by Dodge

Surprised you didn't suggest walkover.

Long walk over from Tallaght to Tolka

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

(FWIW, E30k would be about 10% of our budget. If you don't want it, we'll take it)

I can see his point and yours too. No one should turn there noses up at €30k but your club isn't in the sh*ts. Bohs and Cork appear to be and what % of their budget is €30k? Very little i'd imagine

Can see that point alright, but to suggest it's not of benefit is nonsense.

(For Cork, for example, it'd be a good chunk of the money they need for Revenue next week; add it to the rumoured Healy/Behan money and they'd be almost half way there already)

Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie

Would Sligo fans be welcome to use those buses too?

They're being run by Dublin bus, so I don't see why not, the stipulation is that you have to show a match ticket or season ticket to use them, so if they already have match tickets it shouldn't be a problem, and it may be possible to buy match tickets in Tallaght.

Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie

Would Sligo fans be welcome to use those buses too?

If they ask "are you a Rovers fan?", just answer truthfully.

AFAIK Cork are only getting €58k for Healy and Behan so i wouldn't say half way there but again, i'm not 100% either so it's still all pie in the sky.

I think they've been asked for E200k up front, with the rest in instalments. So 58k + 30K is 88k, which is where I'm getting "nearly half" from. May be wrong on that though.

Put another way, Drogheda are putting a lot of effort into a Legends weekend which may make them E30k if they're lucky; by the same logic, why bother?

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Put another way, Drogheda are putting a lot of effort into a Legends weekend which may make them E30k if they're lucky; by the same logic, why bother?

Good point. I didn't know about the money up front and installments either.

Originally Posted by Schumi

If they ask "are you a Rovers fan?", just answer truthfully.

I am, the one and only Rovers fan

Can see that point alright, but to suggest it's not of benefit is nonsense.

I'm not suggesting for a minute that anyone should turn their nose up at 30 grand, or at 30 euro for that matter - but at what price?

I for one am sick to the teeth of all this Real Madrid hype over the past week or so and the farce with the switching of tonights game is the final straw. It is a total insult to Irish soccer!!!

Shams now have to put on free buses and play their game at a different venue on a different night. How much change are they going to have out of €30k.

I'd take a sell-out game against Real and E30k if it meant Real were talked about in the media a bit.

The change of venue is unfortunate alright, but still doesn't negate the benefits, IMO.

If Real played a friendly in Ireland every year for the next six years, it'd be good for the game.

If nothing else, this should motivate Rovers to kick the living bejesus out of Real.

Has there been any comment from SDCC on this? I remain genuinely mystified as to why they would do this.

In the SDCC release on this did they actually cite 'Health and Safety reasons' without further expansion on it. I mean despite been a Health and Safety Inspector I would never go up to somebody and say I'm making this decision on Health and Safety Grounds. Its just too vague and in fact if somebody just cited health and safety grounds I'd say they really don't know what they are talking about.

Logistically as only one stand is used for Shams home games then there should be no impact on the temporary set up for the Real Madrid game.

They can have as many vague statements as they like, its nothing more than a powerplay by SDCC

Its finally hitting home with Rovers fans that they are merely tenants in the ground, and they are at the whim of the landlords

I guarentee you that they wouldn't have been shafted like this by Pats, Bohs or Shels if they were renting those grounds

Heard the Shams Chairman on Newstalk there and he's delighted with the whole thing. Great to have a club like Real Madrid coming to play after all the struggles of the Hoops over the years.............Blah Blah blah..........finally in their "own" ground..........
It's not your ground. You have zero say in what happens there you silly man. This whole affair has made the league look unbelievably amateurish. Coming in your pants when Ronaldo and Co. come to town! I read the piece in the Irish Times this morning where Jonathon Roche said "If we'd known this we wouldn't have agreed to play Real Madrid"! It would make you cringe.
Nice headline to the piece too "Rovers on Move Again". What a laugh.

Originally Posted by dong2008

I read the piece in the Irish Times this morning where Jonathon Roche said "If we'd known this we wouldn't have agreed to play Real Madrid"! It would make you cringe.

So, you didn't believe him then?

He is nobodies fool, and he knows the right PR things to say!

Maybe you think so. I just see it as making two totally different comments on the issue in the one day.