Ask the young footballer from Scotland about the ghost nun scaring the bejsyus out of him when he stayed there.
Ask the young footballer from Scotland about the ghost nun scaring the bejsyus out of him when he stayed there.
Id say twas more the Blue Nun got to young Jordan.
Having said that dunno if I'd fancy living there if I was a youngfella!
There are plans about plans for training facilities in Bruff. Personally I think it's grand location wise, it's only fifteen minutes out the road.
Be a great place if it was completed as to original plans.
Yeah, there was a big song and dance about the place for a while, then it was tumbleweeds. Probably ties back into the money question.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Had a dream last night that Willie John was actually kept on til the end of the season and we limped to a 5th place finish with everyone complaining that we missed a glorious chance of Europe by not bringing in a big name like Neil MCDonald! Harry Kenny was then appointed as Willie John went back to the academy.....,
At least you didn't have the nightmare where MR never left, we finished 6th and there was consternation because we did not meet targets or our 4th biggest budget in the league.
We are further from the drop now then when Russell left.
Steady Willie was steadily steadying us which would have led to much needed steadiness.
Now granted his last game in charge was one of the worst Limerick performances I have ever seen and easily the worst performance of this terrible season.
But steady.
Steady like a good marraige. Steady like our steady drop towards relegation.
Steady.
And that's not even a cut off Willie I know nothing much about the man. (Hence what does Willie Boland do?)
But the revisionism on here.
Russell had a future.
Willie was doing grand.
Ian Turner will do a job for us.
Nonsense.
And the What if-ery about Boland is especially pointless, considering he doesn't have the badges, right? People just seem to think that doesn't matter at all.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
No one saying Russell had a star studded European future. But it is not revisionist to say we would not have been relegated. The board, hangers on and MacDonald have turned us into a serious relegation candidate. No one cares about a future now, just the next few games and surviving.
With the bad decisions made all year (including keeping MR if they didn't like him), does anyone trust the current regime to move us to the next level even if we stay up?
Martin Russell would have been perfectly capable of getting us into this situation.
He should have been sacked in January when it became apparent he was unable to sign any ****in players.
I'm tired of people everywhere referring to "the board" and "the regime" as well like they are some kind of abstract, unknowable entity in a castle somewhere plotting our doom.
I know of three members of the board. Only one of whom puts in a shilling as far as I'm aware. And unfortunately for the multitudes who would que at the gate.of the Markets Field to lick his arse the buck literally stops with him.
I read a good piece by Mike Aherne on Facebook but at one stage he was bemoaning the fact that the current "board" is squandering all the money Pat O'Sullivan put in and the progress he made!!
I mean come off it. A Jesuit would be proud of that kind of cognitive dissonance.
Not familiar with Ahearne's piece.....but I assume you are not suggesting anyone on here does not know that the board and regime is a one man show so far?
Anyone has the ability to get us into a situation... But you can't be serious when you say MRs team would have been this bad.
We have now played 25 games. If you are comparing the 3 points we now sit above relegation to the 1 point or so after 7 games, that isn't a great indicator.
There's no way to know. The brief upturn in performance quality under Boland might not have happened with Russell still in charge, and if he had the same transfer problems during the summer as McDonald has had, we'd be in a similar situation. Russell was no great manager, and it's far too easy to start claiming he was anything but with the club in the position it is now. Taylor would probably have us 7th, and Scully and whoever else. They aren't in charge anymore.
The maddening What if-ery I focus on is that we could turn around and get 5-6 points off our next few games - which no matter what the doomsayers say, is achievable with the squad and the manager we have, if they get it together - and this will all be academic. It'll just be another forgettable, mostly underwhelming lower mid-table season, maybe with a half-decent cup run if they get past Harps.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Yeah, its achievable. I hope we do it. Then I hope the clear-out goes to the top.
Maybe we'll ask Joe Young or Danny Drew or Jack McCarthy to come back in and take over
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