Clare League 2009/10

[Stanley]

maybe ambition was to high bit of a tough game playing against loi 11 players . and unfortunatly heavy defeat may have a negative effect on team .. could management not arranged game aginst a weaker opposition

Yeah it'd be great if teams could choose only to play "weaker opposition" unfortunately it doesn't work that way, this was a competitive fixture in the national competition...

Valuable addition to the subject there old git...

[Planners]

Yeah it'd be great if teams could choose only to play "weaker opposition" unfortunately it doesn't work that way, this was a competitive fixture in the national competition...

Valuable addition to the subject there old git...

Might not be a bad thing playing teams at top level - it will give the players an idea where they are at and what the have to improve by - so they could take alot from the game IMO

[Stanley]

Might not be a bad thing playing teams at top level - it will give the players an idea where they are at and what the have to improve by - so they could take alot from the game IMO

It might not be a bad thing to read posts and not just make random comments...

They, eh, played one of the "top level" teams

[Stanley]

Stanley relax will you your getting worked up about a team that u have nothing to do wit. Just concentrate on getting Olympic to beat rock again.

I just don't see what's the point in entering these competitions if guys like u are going to defend them by saying " the other team had 4 LOI players" .

You know aswell as I do that they only had 12 togged against oscars last weekend. 3 days before a big game. That's not acceptable. Or is it ??

It's pointless even trying to explain simple concepts to most people here, I didn't "defend" a team. The question was asked how they got on, comments were made which were incorrect, I corrected the information and added more facts to the discussion. People either willfully ignored or can't understand the simple facts and made thoughtless statements based on nothing more than selective out-of-context parts of a post.

I have no idea how many players from either team did or did not turn up for the training session and I'll just ignore your Olympic and Rock off topic comment/fishing expedition

[Stanley]

You've lost it. We all gave our opinions which we are entitled to do. Yes ?? You came on disagreeing with everyone.

I take it u were at the match last nite.. If so how many did clare have togged

Look just read the posts again. Pay attention to who gave their opinions and what those opinions were based on?
Who did I disagree with? Old git queried whether the team you've chosen to play "weaker opposition"? He obviously didn't know it was a competitive game and yet chose to comment. Planners then made a comment based on my reply to old git's already incorrect comment
As for YNWA's comment? well I'd consider that was just trolling...

As for you? Why not deal with my posts directed at you individually? The genius analysis of ambiton post, for example?...

As it happens, I wasn't at the match but I spoke with someone connected to the team who was, and they told me that 16 togged.

Oh and I noticed your disagreement with old git's post about olympic, rock and paddy dunne. Are you the only one allowed to question other poster's opinions?

[old git]

Yeah it'd be great if teams could choose only to play "weaker opposition" unfortunately it doesn't work that way, this was a competitive fixture in the national competition...

Valuable addition to the subject there old git...

apologies to all i assumed game was only a friendly my humblest apologies again

[old git]

Because they are unbeaten in last 2 games and have already beat rock away in league. So why not??

why not indeed , olympic are more than capable of beating rock
but trying to make point that all game plan / tactics etc go out the window with referee involved that is doing match

[Stanley]

p.s. as for old gits post..i replied as he commented to me personally..is that ok wit you..

And I commented to YNWA, Planners and Old git "personally" and you commented on all of them too... And with that dave I leave it...

[devilfish]

And I commented to YNWA, Planners and Old git "personally" and you commented on all of them too... And with that dave I leave it...

Morning lads, just spotted this debate and wanted to ask Stanley for clarification on the "Dave" item above. Eoin, I presume this is another "Dave" that exists on this and not me, otherwise you have seriously mis-taken user names and those that hide behind them. Apologies in advance if it's not me that you were directing that rant towards. FYI, I do believe that the special 1 is actually a member of your club.

[devilfish]

It's not always about you hogie

I'm not the "1" stirring it on here and hiding behind a name....anyway i've been down this road before with you so would prefer not to be entertained by you any further...

[talisman]

Because they are unbeaten in last 2 games and have already beat rock away in league. So why not??

wow! ''unbeaten in their last two games'' , thats some going its not often you see any team go two games without defeat. rock will be shakin in their boots with oly in that kind of scintillating form

of course it would take you to come out with a stat like that . lets look at the bigger picture here. olympic have the 2nd worst defence in the league (and their attack isn't exactly firing in all cylinders either), oly have played 9 lge games and have only won one of them . rock on the other hand are the form team, since they lost to ye in ennis(missing afew player and just had a bad day) they have won their last 5 games in all comps. so it should be a handy win by minimum two goals for rock. olympic for the drop

[talisman]

The old they were missing a few players when they lost.. That excuse never gets boring...

Olympic will win that game mark my words. Up for it big time.

up for it or not up for it olympic will be beaten by rock. mark my words. but if youre not playin oly might have some chance

[Planners]

Some chance so

If Rock want to contend the league they need to be beating the see saw teams like Olympic - can't see Rock loosing

[Stanley]

Morning lads, just spotted this debate and wanted to ask Stanley for clarification on the "Dave" item above. Eoin, I presume this is another "Dave" that exists on this and not me, otherwise you have seriously mis-taken user names and those that hide behind them. Apologies in advance if it's not me that you were directing that rant towards. FYI, I do believe that the special 1 is actually a member of your club.

While it strikes me as rather cocky (or sensitive) to automatically assume that all uses of the name dave are in reference to you, I have been aware of your alter-ego, devilfish, for some time, so no, it's not a "rant" (if one sentence can be a rant?) directed at you. To be honest, it was a vague reference to "only fools and horses" where trigger always gets rodney's name wrong. A bit too subtle for here methinks...

[Truth Meister]

up for it or not up for it olympic will be beaten by rock. mark my words. but if youre not playin oly might have some chance

should you not concentrate on your own game against Bridge Utd.That type of dismissive attitude is why the title holders are sitting mid table. Cost you 2 points against them a few weeks ago.Anything can happen on Sunday in any of the games, how can you talk about "the form" team, there hasn't been a game for weeks.

Some tasty ties and very hard to call results this week, especially with the break. Maybe Talisman can look into his crystal ball and give us some more results, mark his words lads - he can see the future

[Truth Meister]

If Rock want to contend the league they need to be beating the see saw teams like Olympic - can't see Rock loosing

That powerhouse of Clare football - Rineanna Rovers - making statements like that. What has the world come to

[Planners]

That powerhouse of Clare football - Rineanna Rovers - making statements like that. What has the world come to

If someone can disagree with me then please step forward !

Who said we were a powerhouse - far from it - I was just giving an opinion

[studsup]

It was 7-1 but that Galway side were last years beaten finalists and have 4 effectively full-time players on the FAS scheme, including one lad who got 4 of the goals for them, starts for Merview in the LoI and starts for the Oscar Traynor junior team too.

So what, big deal if Galway had 4 lads playing LOI or Oscar Traynor, a lot of League Of Ireland clubs are just glorified junior teams anyway, Merview are no world beaters. The way you're talking you'd swear it was on a par with the FA Premier League or La Liga. As far as I'm aware I thought if you signed with(playing with) a LOI club that you were ineligible to play amateur soccer ie. with a junior/youths team??

While it strikes me as rather cocky (or sensitive) to automatically assume that all uses of the name dave are in reference to you, I have been aware of your alter-ego, devilfish, for some time, so no, it's not a "rant" (if one sentence can be a rant?) directed at you. To be honest, it was a vague reference to "only fools and horses" where trigger always gets rodney's name wrong. A bit too subtle for here methinks...

And how was anyone meant to understand that rubbish piece of humour? Good one Stanley

[Stanley]

So what, big deal if Galway had 4 lads playing LOI or Oscar Traynor, a lot of League Of Ireland clubs are just glorified junior teams anyway, Merview are no world beaters. The way you're talking you'd swear it was on a par with the FA Premier League or La Liga. As far as I'm aware I thought if you signed with(playing with) a LOI club that you were ineligible to play amateur soccer ie. with a junior/youths team??

So you think that playing fulltime or competing at a higher level does not give lads any advantage over players who are not? Good one studsup

The only distinction between players is whether they are professional or amateur, these players would be classed as amateur.

Oh, the guy who scored the 4 goals for Galway is called Pat Hoban, he scored 3 goals from 4 appearances for Mervue in LoI Divison 1 last year. Just your average youth player then...

And how was anyone meant to understand that rubbish piece of humour? Good one Stanley

it's beauty is in the eye of the beholder, don't worry about it, I'm sure lots of stuff passes over your head...

[First]

Lads can ye leave out the rubbish debate since most of ye seem unable to follow a logical discussion or from what I have seen this morning , read someone's post and understand it before jumping on the "reply to quote " button. It doesn't make for enjoyable reading when every second post is a post explaining your previous post.