Shamrock Rovers

**TrapAPony** · 31/08/2011, 2:26 PM

The rumour was true. Enda Stevens on his way to Aston Villa according to SSN

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,11677_7140492,00.html

**Charlie Darwin** · 31/08/2011, 2:35 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

was on rte as well.

Would he really be an addition? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohan_Ricketts

He's about League One standard, roughly the same as Dean Kelly was when he came in at the start of the season. The fixtures are going to pile up since we're already behind schedule so it makes sense to have an extra striker but I doubt he'd make the bench for the Europa ties. Or he might come in and be brilliant, who knows?

**paul_oshea** · 31/08/2011, 2:40 PM

Yep so long as he comes in at around the average wage price.

**paul_oshea** · 31/08/2011, 2:43 PM

Everyone this side of the water refers to them as Shamrock....

Now most people generally refer to the second name of the team and "pluralise" it depending on the last letter. So I would have assumed everyone called them rovers be default or possibly stretching to shamrocks, but yet everyone is calling them Shamrock...doesn't make sense to me.

Anyway at least Mcleish recognises the deal being good for both parties and acknowledges that, unlike Moyes saying it was a great bit of business - #60k for Seamie Coleman. Thats hardly great business its called stealing or raping in some peoples mind.

**Charlie Darwin** · 31/08/2011, 2:47 PM

Assume they think it's the same as Blackburn Rovers, who nobody outside of Blackburn calls just Rovers. The Sun is the only UK paper I've seen consistently call us Rovers.

McLeish also bought Keith Fahey and put him straight into the Birmingham team, so I reckon he'd have a greater appreciation of the league than Moyes.

**irishfan86** · 31/08/2011, 3:12 PM

Ricketts is a winger, not a striker. Was OK for Toronto FC without being spectacular. He's got the raw talent but never really put it together, and you can see that based on the way he's jumped from club to club.

Hope they haven't broken the bank for him.

**osarusan** · 31/08/2011, 3:13 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Now most people generally refer to the second name of the team and "pluralise" it depending on the last letter. So I would have assumed everyone called them rovers be default or possibly stretching to shamrocks, but yet everyone is calling them Shamrock...doesn't make sense to me.

Maybe they think the team is from a place called Shamrock.

**DannyInvincible** · 31/08/2011, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by osarusan

Maybe they think the team is from a place called Shamrock.

Weren't they named after a Shamrock Avenue in Dublin? Nevertheless, to me, it would sound as strange as referring to Crystal Palace as "Crystal".

**BonnieShels** · 31/08/2011, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by osarusan

Maybe they think the team is from a place called Shamrock.

near Raith isn't it?

**elroy** · 31/08/2011, 5:18 PM

How much €€€'s are Rovers getting out of the Stevens deal?

Presumably he was out of contract at the end of the season and its probably a deal just based on appearances, international appearances etc?

**paul_oshea** · 31/08/2011, 5:21 PM

I thought it was �250k

**paul_oshea** · 31/08/2011, 8:19 PM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Assume they think it's the same as Blackburn Rovers, who nobody outside of Blackburn calls just Rovers. The Sun is the only UK paper I've seen consistently call us Rovers.

McLeish also bought Keith Fahey and put him straight into the Birmingham team, so I reckon he'd have a greater appreciation of the league than Moyes.

he also bought jay oshea from galway and look what happened there....

Anyway isn't it great we have 4 pages on a loi team in the Ireland section and still being talked about.

**tricky_colour** · 01/09/2011, 3:01 AM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Weren't they named after a Shamrock Avenue in Dublin? Nevertheless, to me, it would sound as strange as referring to Crystal Palace as "Crystal".

I was thinking the very same thing before I read your post.

Crystal Palace is odd in that it is named after a 'thing' building rather than a place.

Shamrock were named after Shamrock Avenue, although that itself named after a 'thing'.

Shamrock Rovers have supplied more players to the Republic of Ireland national football team (62) than any other club.

Usually the more unique name is preferred to avoid confusion. (Both Crystal and Palace are unique I think but I guess Crystal sounds more stupid especially
as it is a girls name).

Leyton Orient is another odd one, I think it used to just be called Orient at one time, and maybe still is. Leyton is also a man's name as in Leighton Rees.

Of course the biggest tragedy in the naming of football clubs is that Waterford United were not called Waterford Crystal.

However following receivership it would now be called KPS Capital Partners/Wedgwood, Royal Doulton Holdings Ltd United.

It would be interesting when the fans started chanting, Give us a K-K, Give us a P-P Give us an S-S etc....

**BonnieShels** · 01/09/2011, 7:48 AM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

Weren't they named after a Shamrock Avenue in Dublin? Nevertheless, to me, it would sound as strange as referring to Crystal Palace as "Crystal".

As were we named after Shelbourne Road and there was a chance it coulda been Bath FC but for the flip of a coin.

**ifk101** · 01/09/2011, 7:54 AM

If this is the anything to do with Shamrock Rvs thread, ex. striker Don Cowan has joined Stevenage from Longford Town.

**AlaskaFox** · 01/09/2011, 8:39 AM

Originally Posted by tricky_colour

Leyton Orient is another odd one, I think it used to just be called Orient at one time, and maybe still is. Leyton is also a man's name as in Leighton Rees.

It's also a woman's name. Leighton Meester from Gossip Girl/The Town. And a surname, Jim Leighton. Strange one.

**ped_ped** · 15/09/2011, 12:40 PM

Rigth so - what would we be requiring from the likes of McCormack, McCabe, Dennehy (. . . etc.) tonight and over the coming weeks to properly justify this thread's place in the Ireland section?