Weekend Latest (w/e 11 March)

[harleyleeds]

Only seats on that aer aarann plane ............... better hurry . How much to lease one of those anyway , you know and then its there for the way home too . Really lads .......if ye really want it .

[dfx-]

In fairness, Aer Arann have increased their fares on their Dublin - Sligo - Dublin service to cope with the demand to see Sligo play football, so definitely best by coach. Even the DART will struggle to handle the loads next weekend

[sligo23]

As long as its doesn't interfer with dole day, the shams boys will be there.
Can't wait 'til Bray on friday!

[poster]

To be fair Poster SJ has you there.

Well my original point still stands about people working from 9-5. If the bus leaves at 3.30 alot of people will find it hard to get the two hours extra off. I'd expect about 150 or so in Bray Friday SJ.

[harleyleeds]

deffo going over from NY for that one so lets see hmmmm ....... $495 one way (might get lift back) , flight leaves day before so time shouldnt be a problem cos it gets in at 6 am , so far so good , 20 mins through airport yeah and what , airport bus to bray yeah , couple of bucks ok . should get to bray by 8 am .

Darn bray wont be open .........oh well thats that then back to the drawing board .

[Réiteoir]

And you still can't get from the plane to the front of Dublin Airport in five minutes even without waiting for baggage reclaim.

I've tried it many a time - absolutely impossible to do.

Saying that - I stopped taking anything myspoof says seriously ever since Vaduz-gate. Truly he is a mercury drinker of the highest order

[pineapple stu]

Ah, Vaduz-gate. Thanks for reminding me!

We should do a top ten of mypost's insanities.

[de bowez]

No buses from Tallaght to Phibsboro-gate.

[mypost]

Ah, Vaduz-gate. Thanks for reminding me!

We should do a top ten of mypost's.

Every one of them will be defended and contested.

Again.

[bluemovie]

Separate thread for helpful Shamrock Rovers fans wanting to assist Sligo supporters' travel plans?

[passerrby]

I was once on a plane landing in dublin were a passinger had a heart attack ,amublance came and rushed him off it took at least ten minutes.. but then he was not going to the match

[harleyleeds]

c'mon now youse are not taking this seriously .

[mypost]

was only 3 years ago shams were homeless, struggeling to get 1000 fans to home games. a move to a new ground, and they all come crawling back. thats not passion. thats jumping on the bandwagon.

we might not have a perfect all seater ground with 4000 bandwagoners

It's not about what city the games are in, it's about the distance. Dundalk, Drogs, Bray, Pat's, UCD, Bohs and Shams are all around 2 and 1/2-3 hours drive from Sligo.
Also your point about the Lansdowne game, that was a cup final, all the sunshiners were out for that one no matter where it was the country and obviously the €10 to the new stadium was gonna be an attraction too.

Right, so when the "standard" of Sligo game is deemed worthy of attending, their fans are "sunshiners", yet when we have the biggest attendance in the league, (and the second biggest) we're called "bandwagoners".

Mad.

[Rasputin]

Mad.

Your class.
Can someone here point me to the Vaduz-gate affair please?
I already had the pleasure to witness the No Bus from Tallaght to Phibsborough affair.
Comedy gold.

[Réiteoir]

Basically can be summed up by him thinking that Vaduz are a pub team who have no place in European Football

http://foot.ie/threads/37400-Gretna-...56&#post514356

I agree that they would do well, in the A League. A semi-decent match fit NL side would and should wallop bus drivers and brickies from the then Swiss second division.

So you honestly think losing to Vaduz - a team who've progressed the past three years now and who boast numerous internationals - is a worse result than losing to Maltese, Estonian or Welsh opposition? Or losing 10-0 to Moldovans?

Give it over, will you?

So you honestly think Pats would have lost by that score if they had 17 league games under their belt, do you?

I'm not denying Vaduz have internationals, Liechtenstein ones. Shels have an excuse, they were winning their game until the last minute of it, last minute defeats can happen to anyone.

Actually, their current squad lists only four Liechtenstein nationals. They do boast a Macedonian international with Premiership experience, and in their lats campaign had a player with SPL experience as well.

In addition, the Liechtenstein national team isn't that bad, having gotten results in the past four years against Portugal, Luxembourg (7-1 on aggregate), Latvia, Iceland, Macedonia and Slovakia.

LOL at the notion that the Shels result was grand until Hibs scored. Sure isn't every result a 0-0 until someone scores?

Want to keep digging?

I see you haven't answered the Pats question. We'll take that as a no then, shall we??

Despite the busmen's apparantly great results lately, (still losing btw), they walloped fellow part-timers Luxembourg, (not difficult ) however I should point out that they're also the only team to lose to San Marino as well. (not included of course )

Re Shels: Everyone remembers them beating Hajduk Split, while forgetting to mention that they barely scraped past an Icelandic team in the previous round on away goals. There's a reason for that.

You're not still pandering to the pathetic notion that Vaduz are of the calibre of Libertas or Carmarthen even after all they've achieved in the past couple of years?!

Yes. Probably the LOI's worst result in European history.

[Rasputin]

Basically can be summed up by him thinking that Vaduz are a pub team who have no place in European Football

http://foot.ie/threads/37400-Gretna-...56&#post514356

Ahh brilliant, not as comical as the Tallaght-Phibsborough thread or even this one but still comedy gold.

Just a quick point for Mypost.
For us our away trips this season being Derry 2 hours, 2 and a half hours to Galway and usually 3 to Dublin.
Now if Shams fans had this sort of travelling every season on every other FRIDAY to the same repatative urban area would you still continuously bring the guts of 600 to the showgies?
In my opinion you wouldnt and its utter fantasy to suggest otherwise.
Financial implications in this current economic context, times of games be they on saturday or friday, repetative journeys to much the same destination etc all are factors in fans making away games.
We dont bring the biggest numbers to Dublin but I do know from experience we bring some of the biggest crowds to Galway and this season to Derry (neither of them under 2 hours), last season we brought an enormous crowd to Harps.
It may usually only be about 200 at a Dublin fixture but in reality if shams fans faced the same circumstances we did then their away crowds would be much the same.

[HulaHoop]

It may usually only be about 200 at a Dublin fixture but in reality if shams fans faced the same circumstances we did then their away crowds would be much the same.

When we were in the discover Ireland first division we brought large away crowds all over the country every other week and that was pre Tallaght when we averaged 1200 at home games.

[Rasputin]

When we were in the discover Ireland first division we brought large away crowds all over the country every other week and that was pre Tallaght when we averaged 1200 at home games.

True but it is not the same context.
If shams were in our context there would be little to no difference.

[mypost]

Ahh brilliant, not as comical as the Tallaght-Phibsborough thread or even this one but still comedy gold.

Vaduz are still a crap side that any half-decent team should be beating, and there's still no direct bus from Tallaght to Phibsborough. Meanwhile...

Just a quick point for Mypost.
For us our away trips this season being Derry 2 hours, 2 and a half hours to Galway and usually 3 to Dublin.
Financial implications in this current economic context, times of games be they on saturday or friday, repetative journeys to much the same destination etc all are factors in fans making away games.
We dont bring the biggest numbers to Dublin but I do know from experience we bring some of the biggest crowds to Galway and this season to Derry (neither of them under 2 hours), last season we brought an enormous crowd to Harps.
It may usually only be about 200 at a Dublin fixture but in reality if shams fans faced the same circumstances we did then their away crowds would be much the same.

When we had to travel every week out of Dublin in 2006, we usually gave the home side their biggest crowd of the season.

[Rasputin]

When we had to travel every week out of Dublin in 2006, we usually gave the home side their biggest crowd of the season.

In our promotion season we also brought very big crowds around the country.
But as I stated before both situations vary considerably so it is moot point.