Dundalk FC up for grabs!

**GCdfc** · 05/12/2011, 7:00 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

I think the surface is awful

Have you played on it?

**Dodge** · 05/12/2011, 9:38 AM

Originally Posted by GCdfc

Have you played on it?

Yep. About 18 months ago.

**bullit** · 06/12/2011, 6:32 PM

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Edit: Should read "up to 30k"

**Financial Stew** · 09/12/2011, 4:07 PM

Heard Eddie Gormley is favourite for the Dundalk job, any thoughts out there. Particulary like to hear
from Bray fans

**Spudulika** · 09/12/2011, 4:15 PM

Not the worst appointment by a long way, knows decent players, but can he handle the hassle he'll get? Seeing as Pete Mahon and Liam Buckley gave it a body swerve, there wasn't alot on the go.

**Dillonman** · 09/12/2011, 4:23 PM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

Not the worst appointment by a long way, knows decent players, but can he handle the hassle he'll get? Seeing as Pete Mahon and Liam Buckley gave it a body swerve, there wasn't alot on the go.

Looks like a last resort and desperate appointment by the club, would rather Roddy. Can any Mons fans confirm if Roddy is contracted for next season?

**Spudulika** · 09/12/2011, 4:54 PM

Originally Posted by Dillonman

Looks like a last resort and desperate appointment by the club, would rather Roddy. Can any Mons fans confirm if Roddy is contracted for next season?

Can I smoke some of what you're smoking? :-)

**Magicme** · 10/12/2011, 8:58 AM

Yeah Dillonman, he signed his contract for the season.

**lawman** · 10/12/2011, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite

I wasn't Connor's biggest fan but sometimes we played good stuff under him.
i'd take him back only without the baggage that comes with him.

And boy does that man carry some baggage with him

everybody from match officials to the weather to the FAI having a hidden agenda to get rid of his teams, get the blame when he doesnt get the right result.A player is sent off, refs fault, a player is injured in a 50/50, pure malice from opponent... etc etc

**oriel** · 10/12/2011, 8:05 PM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

Not the worst appointment by a long way, knows decent players, but can he handle the hassle he'll get?

GORMLEY.......................are you serious ? FFS, this is 3 times worse than Foster. A terrible manager, end of, and if our selection committe are stupid enough to appoint him, we will have gone back 10 years.

**Dunny** · 10/12/2011, 8:31 PM

Originally Posted by Magicme

Yeah Dillonman, he signed his contract for the season.

BALLS!

Please not Gormley..

**Dillonman** · 11/12/2011, 10:08 AM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

Can I smoke some of what you're smoking? :-)

I'm smoking nothing, he's a terrible man manager, look what Pat Devlin did with the exact same squad when he took over from Gormley. He was worse than FOster week in week out on MNS blaming the refs for everything.

**Spudulika** · 11/12/2011, 11:43 AM

Originally Posted by Dillonman

I'm smoking nothing, he's a terrible man manager, look what Pat Devlin did with the exact same squad when he took over from Gormley. He was worse than FOster week in week out on MNS blaming the refs for everything.

Whereas Roddy..........

**Martinho II** · 11/12/2011, 10:25 PM

I was at our own stall yesterday and someone in the club working with me was chatting to a fellow from Dundalk working there for the day and I hear Mark McGhee is strongly in the running and has a strong chance of getting the job!

**HomerJay** · 12/12/2011, 12:13 AM

Originally Posted by Martinho II

I was at our own stall yesterday and someone in the club working with me was chatting to a fellow from Dundalk working there for the day and I hear Mark McGhee is strongly in the running and has a strong chance of getting the job!

He is meant to have applied, It was on the BBC Gossip a while back. 3 weeks ago or so. Doubt It'llbe Mark mcghee or the likes when its eddie flaming gormley being mentioned at the moment.

**superfrank** · 12/12/2011, 6:56 AM

Eddie did well when he had money and struggled when he didn't. We always upped our game against the bigger sides but struggled against teams closer to our level.

If he gets money, he could be alright for yez. If he doesn't, I can't seem him doing anything miraculous.

He did a great job when he initially took over in 2006. We looked dead certs for relegation that year but he turned it around completely.

We finished 9/12 in 2007, though not much off the bottom. In 2008, we finished sixth, our best ever finish. The next season was when things started going down the toilet for him. IIRC, what hurt most wasn't that we lost our best player but that we lost a lot of fringe players so when we were missing a few players, we struggled more so than in previous seasons.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to him for what happened at the start of the 2010 season. Up until the weekend before the season started we didn't know what division we'd be in, thanks to the FAI making a balls of Cork City. The squad was decimated and of course we struggled then. There were actually some signs that he was turning it around when he got sacked and some of the players he had signed in July 2010 went onto be big players when Devo took over again, like Dempsey, Gregg and O'Connor.

Also, he has a tendency to fall out with players and, if he does, that player will be gone from the club. We lost some good players that way.

Overall, he's not a bad manager but he's not going to be great, either.

**Spudulika** · 12/12/2011, 7:50 AM

superfrank, as you'd be closer to the club and I've only heard 2nd hand, would there have been a case of Devo always being in control behind the scenes? Not to run down Eddie's achievements because I always thought he was a decent coach (maybe a bully though but I never saw him behind the scenes).

**Dunny** · 12/12/2011, 9:04 AM

Originally Posted by superfrank

Eddie did well when he had money and struggled when he didn't. We always upped our game against the bigger sides but struggled against teams closer to our level.

If he gets money, he could be alright for yez. If he doesn't, I can't seem him doing anything miraculous.

He did a great job when he initially took over in 2006. We looked dead certs for relegation that year but he turned it around completely.

We finished 9/12 in 2007, though not much off the bottom. In 2008, we finished sixth, our best ever finish. The next season was when things started going down the toilet for him. IIRC, what hurt most wasn't that we lost our best player but that we lost a lot of fringe players so when we were missing a few players, we struggled more so than in previous seasons.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to him for what happened at the start of the 2010 season. Up until the weekend before the season started we didn't know what division we'd be in, thanks to the FAI making a balls of Cork City. The squad was decimated and of course we struggled then. There were actually some signs that he was turning it around when he got sacked and some of the players he had signed in July 2010 went onto be big players when Devo took over again, like Dempsey, Gregg and O'Connor.

Also, he has a tendency to fall out with players and, if he does, that player will be gone from the club. We lost some good players that way.

Overall, he's not a bad manager but he's not going to be great, either.

We have no money, so no thanks.

**superfrank** · 12/12/2011, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Spudulika

superfrank, as you'd be closer to the club and I've only heard 2nd hand, would there have been a case of Devo always being in control behind the scenes? Not to run down Eddie's achievements because I always thought he was a decent coach (maybe a bully though but I never saw him behind the scenes).

I heard a few things but I couldn't be certain whether they are true or not so I won't say.

All I know is he had no official position at the club during Eddie's time as manager.

**Spudulika** · 12/12/2011, 3:54 PM

Originally Posted by superfrank

I heard a few things but I couldn't be certain whether they are true or not so I won't say.

All I know is he had no official position at the club during Eddie's time as manager.

Thanks superfrank, I'm the same as yourself. A former employee told me about the kind of chaotic stuff that went on behind the scenes and I wondered how it all was getting along. I think the perfect fit for Dundalk right now is someone like Mick Cooke, who can work on very little and get results. But I'd be pretty much 100% sure he didn't throw his name in the hat.