I think Rovers good fortune in the draws thus year has to run out so think it will be
Dundalk Vs Rovers
Cork Vs Limerick
If we can avoid Dundalk away I'd be quietly confident of Rovers winning any other permutation.
In the words of Edwin Starr, " 25 miles to go "
Cork haven't become a bad team overnight. If Maguire had missed a couple of matches with injury people wouldn't have said cork were a walk over......ita confidence simple as, if they beat limerick they will know the league is won and that monkey off their back will see them play better again I reckon.
Cork v Limerick
Dundalk v Rovers
F**k
Although as we are going to lose to all of those teams, probably the best draw for us financially.
Maybe I missed it but it looked like they didn't even spin the balls, strategically picked out the first two.
Two positives, more money and we are complete bottlers at home and probably stand a better chance away from the home crowd.
The largest security operation in the history of the state will have to be mounted just to stop our fans from murdering one another.
They'll call the Rangers out for that. Last time we went to Cork they thought we were going to rape and pillage and burn the city to the ground.
And did ye?
Na, nothing down there worth it, and that's saying something from a Limerick man.
They do that now when we bring a decent crowd down there. 1st League game down there this season, must have been upto 50 guards in and around away entrance/end, for about 3/400 fans.Originally Posted by LK37oldskool
****ers don't even let you have a cigarette watching the game
It was nuts, Guards in balaclavas forming a cordon to escort old lads in their 70s into the ground.
I presume that Cork City ended up footing the bill.
It can be as bad in Oriel as well. The Guards go overboard for certain games. They'll have the armed response unit there for the Rovers game.
Happy memories of the last FAI Semi-final meeting between Dundalk and Shamrock Rovers at Oriel Park -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb-fcI-Hgcs
Yep, Gards bill the clubs, hence why you tend to get hundreds of the lads volunteering to work at random games that you'd never see any trouble at on a night there's nothing else on.
How much would AGS be billing clubs for in situations when they send up dog units and ARU to matches?
Surely clubs don't have to foot the whole bill for what amounts to a completely OTT Gardai presence at matches
It's only one example, but according to this report Bohs paid €4,000 and Rovers €15,000 on policing costs for the three derbies in 2013. There was only one game in Tallaght that year so I have a feeling it may refer to the year before when Rovers were home twice, but it's a racket either way.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crim...ions-1.1935638
Last edited by Charlie Darwin; 11/09/2017 at 10:56 PM.
Seems like a bit of a racket(or favoritism) alright when you consider the GAA figure.That figure does not include much smaller sums paid by soccer clubs affiliated to the organisation.
Billing the clubs and actually getting paid are different things to be fair. Not advocating this approach but as I understand it from a historical perspective they're not likely to issue a winding up order should their payment be delayed. They may be more ruthless now but a certain controversial former Dublin club owner who is no longer with us felt he was doing us a favour when he once advised not to make AGS a priority, "we get their bills but we never actually pay them".
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
Gaa favortism at its finest
I could be wrong but I thought the clubs only paid for the Gardai in the ground? Not those outside?How much would AGS be billing clubs for in situations when they send up dog units and ARU to matches?
Surely clubs don't have to foot the whole bill for what amounts to a completely OTT Gardai presence at matches
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