Harps Are Up

**yur man** · 02/11/2004, 1:38 PM

im sure harps will have it sorted by next season

the alternative of playin their games in the brandywell will be enough of a motivation

**Ash** · 02/11/2004, 2:01 PM

Originally Posted by Aberdonian Stu

By the way thanks Ash! (Just to show we have no beef with the Thoroughbreds).

I've nothing to do with Kildare?

**Pablo** · 02/11/2004, 3:05 PM

Originally Posted by Aberdonian Stu

Pablo, seeing as you pretty much asked for it...HA HA!

We're baaaaaack!

But of course Pablo you're absolutely right, we have contributed nothing to the league over the years, what with fostering so many players many of who were going nowhere after not making it in England and getting them some sort of qualification and developing them as footballers what on earth were we thinking? Furthermore how dare we run football as a meritocracy, by gad sir Kildare with that fine ground of theirs and its stadium that rivals Old Trafford should be promoted. What were we thinking?

i agree, Kildare shouldnt come up either but there should be a minimum requirement for promotion.

can anyone disagree with that?

**Mad Moose** · 02/11/2004, 3:12 PM

Originally Posted by 1 9 2 8

No, we hate the b@stards

Aah there ya go.Not something you hear or see any day. A Sligo Rovers supporter.

Aye and you've plenty to shout about, well that you do but nothing to look forward to.

Brendan

**dortie** · 02/11/2004, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by Harpsbear

Aah there ya go.Not something you hear or see any day. A Sligo Rovers supporter.

Aye and you've plenty to shout about, well that you do but nothing to look forward to.

Brendan

At least the lad witnessed his club WIN something in the past 30 years. Who are Harps to slag off any club.

**Neish** · 02/11/2004, 3:42 PM

Originally Posted by dortie

Damn, sssssshh shouldnt bring that dreaded A-license thing up should i

If id a rock to climb under id maybe bounce it off your head first.

More incite full input from Dortie

Dortie can you explain exactly why you hate Finn Harps FC, and why you just abuse any Harps fan that is trying to hold a decent debate with you.

Personally I don't hate Derry City, I just think some of your fans a fools at best.

**Pablo** · 02/11/2004, 3:43 PM

Originally Posted by Neish

Dortie can you explain exactly why you hate Finn Harps FC, and why you just abuse any Harps fan that is trying to hold a decent debate with you.

Personally I don't hate Derry City, I just think some of your fans a fools at best.

its rivalry i presume! more of it! it livens the place up a bit!

**Neish** · 02/11/2004, 3:45 PM

Originally Posted by Pablo

its rivalry i presume! more of it! it livens the place up a bit!

Nothing wrong with a bit of rivilary and banter, but this fella just seems to want to stir up constant ****

**harry crumb** · 02/11/2004, 4:21 PM

Does Patsy McGowen go to your matches as a fan?

**Mad Moose** · 02/11/2004, 4:29 PM

Wile understandably Derry City and Harps fans dont agree to much there is a general concensus amongst both that Dortie/Housty is a ******!!!!!!!!!!!May as well play him at his own game.

Brendan

**Bald Student** · 02/11/2004, 4:46 PM

Originally Posted by Pablo

there should be a minimum requirement for promotion.

There is a mnimum requirement. To be promoted a team must finish in the top three in the First Division.

**1 9 2 8** · 02/11/2004, 6:07 PM

Originally Posted by Harpsbear

Aah there ya go.Not something you hear or see any day. A Sligo Rovers supporter.

We have been going through a few bad years but we still average around 1000 for our home or maybe just under it while harps only get that when they're wining

30 years and counting

**jimhacker** · 03/11/2004, 8:48 AM

Good to have Harps back.....an ideal premier would include themselves , Derry, Sligo, Limerick, and Galway with a few of the lame duck/bankrupt Dublin clubs dropping out.

That group above (if well financed and stable) together with Shels, Bohs, Pats, Cork and Waterford, and maybe Dundalk and Longford would make an ideal league.

**dortie** · 03/11/2004, 9:07 AM

Originally Posted by Neish

Nothing wrong with a bit of rivilary and banter, but this fella just seems to want to stir up constant ****

Your club going behind our backs asking for the PSNI/RUC to be present in our ground was the final straw for me. As it was for MANY.

Other than that, the reason I HATE Finn Harps is

Your smugness as fans to other clubs, even though youve never won anything.

The verbal rhetoric Ive had to listen too both on the net and at games towards Derry People in general. Yep its a slagging, although the greyhound and unemployment welfare stigma is a laugh particularly to me as ive never had either.

Mmmmm Let me see, I dont like Donegal either. Other than that, Just dont like yee.

**dortie** · 03/11/2004, 9:09 AM

Originally Posted by Harpsbear

Wile understandably Derry City and Harps fans dont agree to much there is a general concensus amongst both that Dortie/Housty is a ******!!!!!!!!!!!May as well play him at his own game.

Brendan

LOL

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**Macy** · 03/11/2004, 9:46 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Serious point on the UEFA Licence though - how can any First Division clubs realistically make the changes without any Government/FAI funding, which was promised when eircom Park fell through? I'd say half the teams in the league have had games when the gate didn't even pay the officials - how are they supposed to build a 1500-seater stand? UEFA Licencing is a great idea, but it seems to have bene appallingly implemented and won't have any miplications for which team plays in which division next season.

The 1500 covered seats was a rule from years ago. Technically, you should've been relegated on that technicality years before you actually were on the pitch. Town had to get a one year exemption on promotion to get one built (which we did, with fúck all from the FAI), but still clubs are let off with it. It's not a new thing with Licencing, just an old rule that's still being fúckin fudged by the league...

**WeAreRovers** · 03/11/2004, 2:26 PM

Originally Posted by A face

Rover have 9 million invested,

Congrats to Harps, about bleedin' time.

Great to see our second favourite club back where they belong.

Just to clear up some confusion - Rovers have NOT had €9 million invested. That's a spoof by our lying toerag of a chairman which some people seem to have swallowed (fortunately that doesn't include us long-suffering Hoops)

For anyone who missed it the piece below from last Sunday's Indo explains it. Apologies to Harps for hijacking this thread but I felt it needed to be said.

KOH

Sunday Indo - Business section

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'Saviour' of the Hoops in a pure property play

MARTIN FITZPATRICK

SOME domestic soccer supporters were getting a little carried away after the news last week that Dublin-based businessman Conor Clarkson had swooped to "rescue" Shamrock Rovers.

"Cash-starved" is a phrase that has followed Rovers' nomadic trudge through a series of rented Dublin stadia in recent years, while the shell of its stadium in Tallaght has been a reproach to its supporters. However, the news of Mr Clarkson's "rescue" was interpreted - and elaborately portrayed - as a E9m "investment" in Rovers and the end to all the hard times.

The latter may be true, but it is not true that Clarkson is stuffing Rovers' coffers. It is a pure property play. The Clarkson company's sole interest - and its cash - will be ploughed into the completion of an integrated sporting and leisure complex in Tallaght.

He may have a nominee on the Shamrock Rovers board but this column understands that Clarkson himself won't be a Rovers director. And the investment in the project will be nearer E7.5m than the reported E9m.

However, when the project is completed in 12 months' time, Rovers will have a landlord rather than a guardian angel. And impatient Rovers supporters will have to get used to the idea that it will be the 2006 season before they can take up residence in their westside home.

**pineapple stu** · 03/11/2004, 5:47 PM

Originally Posted by Macy

The 1500 covered seats was a rule from years ago. Technically, you should've been relegated on that technicality years before you actually were on the pitch.

True, actually (although then Drogheda and Rovers (maybe Waterford? never been down there) would have had to go as well, while nobody in the First would come up), if tangential to my point. The smaller clubs still can't do anything about it without grant assistance, which was my point. Meanwhile, the FAI throws away another quarter of a million because of its incompetence...