Don't you know Sham Rovers get 2 points for a draw. Fookin FAI Dublin bias.
Are you for real??Fair play to Shams on winning the league,i always think the table never lies and no matter what we started we ended up on 63 points which is enough to make us the 3rd best team in the league this season which seems about right to me,the fact that we didnt beat bohs or shams in the league this season is why we werent that little bit closer but looking forward to the Cup final and next year already.
Don't you know Sham Rovers get 2 points for a draw. Fookin FAI Dublin bias.
mathematics class 2 : shams + officials + fai = league
The sadness in this post is what really gets to me.
I can handle most "banter" from opposition fans but as someone who attended 99% of Rovers games home and away,this season and most of the last 20,I can honestly say we have suffered as much as anyone with dodgy refereeing decisions,and of course we have benefitted from their ineptitude aswell.Some big and some small.
An example how fans differ in their opinion was brought home to me this year as I left Tallaght after a Sligo game were I felt the referee gave us nothing I overheard a Sligo fan saying something like,"How can we beat 12 men".I was so taken aback I took him up on his statement but he didn't want to know!
Which one of us was right,probably both.
The FAI "bias" is a bit more complex but all I can say is that the FAI has helped out many clubs in difficult circumstances over the years.Bohs and Drogheda spring to mind both with regard to their home grounds.
We have also rightly been on the receiving end of the FAI when they relegated us for submitting the wrong accounts.This fate has happened with Cork,Derry,Shels of course,all correctly.
People argue clubs like Dublin City and Kilkenny didn't recieve much help from the FAI but then I don't think they deserved help as they failed to attract a core support to prove these clubs had an appetite for long term survival.Cobh fans will I'd imagine suggest the FAI did feck all to help them but from the little I know a lot of the people down there wanted to be demoted in order to get their house in order.Their unfortunate timing with regard to the building of the aviva stadium and the FAI's lack of funds didn't help either.
To sum up I dont feel the FAI treated us any different than another club in our position in a fight to the last against the GAA.
Nor do I blame them for constantly refeering to us when trying to preach a gospel of sustainability in this car crash of a league-Who do you think they should refer to ??
In time the "model club" tag adopted with sarcastic distain by many will dilute as clubs like Derry,Cork.Drogheda,Cobh become "model clubs" themselves.
Rovers are just the first to rise from the ashes and are all the FAI can use in their propaganda war trying to defend and promote this league.
Rovers won the league because they scored more goals than bohs.The fact that we done so against a club living way beyond their means makes it all the sweeter.Their budget may have been in the same region but the difference is we could/can afford ours-They obviously can't.
Will Rovers be the first team since we last won the league not to go bust?.....Only time will tell,but all the wishful thinking from bohs fans among others won't affect this-No matter how hard they try.Having come through what I personally have supporting my team 20+ years and knowing those in charge well I am truly confident Rovers are here for the long haul.
you won the league because bray second goal was not givin and it wasn't even a close call .
Good read in the Indo touching on the finances side:
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...n-2401327.html
Congrats Shams, best team over the full season. I just hope we bring the FAI Cup home with us.
TO TELL THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY
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All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
Galway are the best team, the best city, best people outside Dublin so fairplay to Sligo for overcoming these disadvantages to finish ahead of them. Credit where credit is due and all that.
Not winning the league though. For one, the FAI weren't on your side
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The Model Club
Tell all the Bohs you know
that we've gone and won two-in-a-row
and it's not gonna be three
and it's not gonna be four
it's more likely to be 5-1.
Lets have a game of.........."we got more bogey decisions than you".It'll make the Cork and Derry threads last year look like single posts and be just as much fun as "your hooligans are worse than ours" thats been dragging on in the cup semi thread for weeks now.
Or you could just accept Shamrock Rovers won the league on friday.There,there little HL's,it'll all be over soon!
TO TELL THE TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY
The ONLY foot.ie user with a type of logic named after them!
All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
em, just wanted to say...
4%.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Ive watched the league over the past decade and this Shams team is the worst footballing side to win the league in the past decade.
Nothing to do with statistics or that, just on watching your performances this season you were at best mediocre.
Now as you pointed out there that doesnt say much about the league, including ourselves.
Your absolutely right, the standard of the league this season has absolutely plummeted in comparison to years gone past.
Any impartial observer will tell you the same that Shams are the worst LOI winners in the past decade.
Also because I know the usual victimisation by Shams fans will be thrown out here, if for example that Bohs won the league on the last day instead of Shams I would be saying the exact same thing. Only difference is that Bohs fans seem to realise how bad their team actually was while Shams fans continue their delusions of grandeur.
And yes I know we have only knocked you out of the LC this season and havent beaten you in the league hence why you are more desrving winners than us.
Your the best of a very average and generally bad lot.
It was a poor league this season. The league did suffer from the loss of Cork and Derry. There was a quality deficit. Drogheda and Bray weren't good enough either. They should have been relegated last season and added little to the league this season with the second chance they had. It is a bit harsh on those clubs though. The Drog's have their problems and Bray had been preparing for life in Division One. Bray in fairness though have got their act together late in the season and I can see them surviving. I'm hoping for a better quality league next season, with all provinces represented.
You've never heard of "1 point won, 2 points lost" so.Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
12-2 =
An Fear Sligeach: "8"
Try again. 12-2 =
"10"
Very good. You might get a gold star for the right answer. Except in your case, it's the bronze star for 3rd place.
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