Rovers to play in Dalymount

**pineapple stu** · 04/02/2005, 12:41 PM

From eleven-a-side. In the least surprising news of all time, the move to Drogheda has been revealed as just a temporary measure to get past UEFA Licencing! Games to kick-off at 7:45, not 7:00, and games v. Bohs to possibly moved to Tolka (according to the Irish Times).

**Slash/ED** · 04/02/2005, 12:56 PM

What a shock

Still, it's good news to see it confirmed. It'll help Rovers a hell of alot and Bohs almost as much with the badly needed money.

**the 12 th man** · 04/02/2005, 1:01 PM

had they not agreed a deal with drogheda ?

**$Leon$** · 04/02/2005, 1:02 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

games v. Bohs to possibly moved to Tolka (according to the Irish Times).

why?
whats the idea behind that?

**Schumi** · 04/02/2005, 1:07 PM

They don't want Bohs to effectively have home advantage over them 3 times in the season.

**Slash/ED** · 04/02/2005, 1:09 PM

I don't think that's needed, it'll be Rovers home ground too afterall. It's not like when they played in Richmond and had to play Bohs away 4 times, but I wont complain if Shels get the money for three extra games I suppose.

**Schumi** · 04/02/2005, 1:18 PM

Originally Posted by Slash/ED

I don't think that's needed, it'll be Rovers home ground too afterall.

Not really, Rovers fans would be on the Connaught St. side and I'd say Bohs would insist on using the home dressing rooms, etc.

**Slash/ED** · 04/02/2005, 9:07 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

Not really, Rovers fans would be on the Connaught St. side and I'd say Bohs would insist on using the home dressing rooms, etc.

Yes but that's similar to when Rovers played in Tolka and had four games v Shels, or when Dublin City did it, or when Rovers played Pats in Richmond. I don't think it's really needed.

**CollegeTillIDie** · 04/02/2005, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by the 12 th man

had they not agreed a deal with drogheda ?

That was their fallback position. Had to declare a ground before a certain Friday in January. Bohs next board meeting was the following Monday and it was on the agenda so Drogheda stepped into the breach to bail the Hoops out.

**NY Hoop** · 07/02/2005, 12:37 PM

Well it doesnt really matter where in the ground they put us cos there is a fair amount of Hoopers who are sick of this board and therefore not going to dalymount this season. Step too far when they could have got santry for half the money. Away games only this season.

KOH

**mypost** · 08/02/2005, 4:53 AM

Originally Posted by NY Hoop

Well it doesnt really matter where in the ground they put us cos there is a fair amount of Hoopers who are sick of this board and therefore not going to dalymount this season. Step too far when they could have got santry for half the money. Away games only this season.

KOH

Tolka '87 revisited? Regardless of what you think of the board, the team need our support whether we're playing at home in Dalyer, Derry, or Drogheda. Dalyer's not ideal, but we have to play home games somewhere. The alternative after all, was Drogheda! D'you fancy going to Cork for more home games? No, me neither, so we have to take what we're given.

At least when we're not playing Bohs, we have unlimited access to the Shed End, and Jodi Stand, so we can see how the other half live!

**drummerboy** · 08/02/2005, 8:50 AM

Originally Posted by NY Hoop

Well it doesnt really matter where in the ground they put us cos there is a fair amount of Hoopers who are sick of this board and therefore not going to dalymount this season. Step too far when they could have got santry for half the money. Away games only this season.

KOH

The pitch has been widened in Santry and the surface is far superior now than when Rovers last played there. Unfortunately methinks Rovers left Morton without paying bill.

**NY Hoop** · 09/02/2005, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Tolka '87 revisited? Regardless of what you think of the board, the team need our support whether we're playing at home in Dalyer, Derry, or Drogheda. Dalyer's not ideal, but we have to play home games somewhere. The alternative after all, was Drogheda! D'you fancy going to Cork for more home games? No, me neither, so we have to take what we're given.

At least when we're not playing Bohs, we have unlimited access to the Shed End, and Jodi Stand, so we can see how the other half live!

No organised boycott but people just want go. Yeah the team needs support and they will get it at away games. Paying into dalymoan is the last straw and giving any more money to this disgrace of a board is a sin.

And what makes you think the scum will allow you into the main stand??

KOH

**mypost** · 10/02/2005, 4:18 AM

I'm sure you and others, have hated various members of the FAI in the past, however it didn't stop you buying match tickets to watch Ireland home games before, in a rented stadium, did it? How many fans cancelled their trips to the World Cup in Japan after the Saipan fiasco? Not that many. Ireland had the second highest support of European teams at the last World Cup.

Part of being a fan of a football club, means supporting your club when your team/club endures hard times. Many teams fans around the world, are unhappy with their owners/boards, but they still go to watch their team play, good or bad. Above all else, the teams' interests come first. Yes, our board are inept, but the players have to play, and they need us with them, especially when things get tough, like they are now at the club. It's your duty to turn up and support your club, regardless of where the game is played or what goes on behind the scenes at any one time, unless you can't for an unavoidable reason. That's what a football club fan does.

**Bald Student** · 10/02/2005, 8:56 AM

I agree with a lot of what you said mypost, but I don't think that it applies to Rovers. Thay have been in this position for a long time now and the fans have certainly stuck with the club through bad times. The problem is that the current situation cannot be allowed to go on forever. I understand that Rovers are in debt and that the board plans to make a further loss this year, that type of activity has to stop sooner rather than later. The supporters are perfectly correct to give their club tough love and bring the issue to a head. While it may mean the club running short of money or even the first team getting relagated, even that is better than allowing the club to continue to be mis-managed. Shamrock Rovers is an old and successfull club. It will survive a season of poor results. It might not survive if it continues building up debt year on year.

**NY Hoop** · 10/02/2005, 12:24 PM

Spot on Bald Student. It's incredible that there are still Rovers fans who are pro board and that it takes an opposing fan to point out the truth. Guarantee you this board have no interest in the club, it's what is at the end of the line that is keeping them on board.

KOH

**A face** · 10/02/2005, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Ireland had the second highest support of European teams at the last World Cup.

Who had the highest ??

**Slash/ED** · 10/02/2005, 12:43 PM

England I think.

**joeraki** · 10/02/2005, 4:33 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Part of being a fan of a football club, means supporting your club when your team/club endures hard times. Many teams fans around the world, are unhappy with their owners/boards, but they still go to watch their team play, good or bad. Above all else, the teams' interests come first. Yes, our board are inept, but the players have to play, and they need us with them, especially when things get tough, like they are now at the club. It's your duty to turn up and support your club, regardless of where the game is played or what goes on behind the scenes at any one time, unless you can't for an unavoidable reason. That's what a football club fan does.

That sounds like a happy go lucky fan to me to be honest, nothing wrong with that. If the figure of whats been said on various message boards is true �13 then thats not an inept board, thats a blooming criminal one !! If Rovers fans choose to go to war with the board through whatever means thats their business. War has no winnings or losers only victims, the team in this case, small price to pay if it mean theres a Rovers in a few years time

**mypost** · 11/02/2005, 4:16 AM

Originally Posted by NY Hoop

It's incredible that there are still Rovers fans who are pro board.

KOH

Sorry but I don't see how my posts can be interpreted as pro-board. What I am saying is that you have to support your club (whoever it is) during their games, regardless of what goes on at boardroom level. You can't really blame the players if a club is being run by eejits. We don't like the current living arrangements, or the board, but the fans have to go to the games for the benefit of the team. If you deliberately don't go to the games, you only make a bad situation worse. The price in Rovers case could be relegation, which could torpedo the club into freefall, and eventually put us out-of-existence.