You can add in six in a row in the 60s. Regardless, I sincerely doubt anyone who gets wound up by the media using the term 'cup specialists' would be any more pleased with the term 'cup kings' and you'd have the exact same whinging about the time since Rovers last won it.
I really don't understand what winds people up so much. Rovers have won the competition 24 times - more than double the number of times of any other club. For that reason there is an association between Rovers and the cup and journalists/commentators/pundits highlight that. They just as frequently highlight the fact that it's been 32 years since the last one. Just get over it.
Completely remiss of me, especially on the LSC wins! Wouldnt have minded nabbing a Setanta Cup especially after the deluge v Sligo. Can set that straight in some way in the current version of a cross border competition in November.
Nah not WW2 but definitely Cold War! ;P
Its ok I'm well over it, By 31 years after seeing the most obvious stonewall penalty ever awarded in LoI history! (sorry Derry fans!!).
Sounds fair and Derry are officially League Cup specialists!
Last edited by Nesta99; 02/10/2019 at 6:37 PM.
You sure you dont need to get over people not calling Rovers cup kings or cup specialists Sonny?
Away section in Showgrounds holds 330 seats plus standing area to side of Jinks avenue. There was just over 500 tickets sold by Dundalk.
If this was the case then it is certainly wrong on so many levels - I have had the odd rant on overcrowding either due to selling too many tickets, too many people let crowd in to one or more blocks than should be considered safe, insufficient access or egress for numbers in attendance or simply that a safe holding capacity is set too high to be actually safe which thankfully these days a wink and a nod doesnt set a capacity...I hope! I wont repeat the rant but it is a really dodgy risk to take!!
I havent seen the tantrums you mention - a few scoffs or chuckles maybe!?
Last edited by Nesta99; 03/10/2019 at 4:59 PM.
Based on what the clubs said before the match, 800 tickets were sent and 200 returned
I don't know the exact number of seats or tickets, but I can tell you I was in the away section and it was way overcrowded.
People were forced to stand in each aisle, in the area between the seats and wall (normally not allowed by stewards) and in many cases more people were standing in each row than seat spaces.
They weren't obliged to enter the stand, they had the option to stand behind the goal. The same thing happened at the other semi with lots of empty seats in the tramway end of the Jodi and people cramming into the School End of that stand.
If one is going to be concerned at ground safety your only have to look at the Grassy Knoll at Oriel, I wouldn't want to standing on that on wet night wearing a Columbo coat.
Classic whataboutery - I would not want to stand on the Oriel Park grass area either, with or without a Columbo coat. Similarly I'm not sure how any alleged safety issues around over-crowding in Dalymount is some form of justification for the Showgrounds overcrowding highlighted
Are you seriously suggesting that supporters themselves created the problem by ignoring the direction and stewarding of the AGS and the Sligo Rovers stewards?
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