Let the football talk and the bullsh*t walk.
If you get promoted you deserve it, simple!
Dublin City will have Ronan Seery's house.Originally Posted by Buller
Rovers have the SouthWest
Shels are going to have the entire North..
Bohs will have the CityCenter
Pats will have the West/CityCenter
UCD will have the SouthEast
And eh, dublin city/home farm can just... eh... yea..
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
didnt they get kicked outta de league for finincial irregularities(splet wrong i think)
wonder if its an omen...
arent we all just magic little monkeys...
You forgotSligo:
Premier Division: 2 1936-37, 1976-77
FAI Cup 2 1983, 1994
League Cup 1 1997-98
First Division: 1 1993-94
6 honours in 77 years - Woooweee
Galway have 4 in 28 BTW
Dublin City Cup-1937
AND
First Division Shield-1994
Oh ya and Galway have actually got 6 trophies to there name. Don't forget we've still won more and won the league twice.
Definitely too many Dublin clubs.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Ya but Rovers kept LOI football alive in the northwest and Connacht when Derry where playing with the Brits and long before Harps and Galway joint the LOISligo:
Premier Division: 2 1936-37, 1976-77
FAI Cup 2 1983, 1994
League Cup 1 1997-98
First Division: 1 1993-94
6 honours in 77 years - Woooweee
Galway have 4 in 28 BTW
its all well and good stating population percentages but you've got to segment the market.
heres where it gets controversial, think before you reply
- 50% of the population wont go to games: because they are women.
im not saying no women go to games, 51% of the population are women and about 1% would go.- 20 % of the population have firmly closed minds. for various reasons: they express their rebelious republican side by joining celtic supporters clubs and the like. or the gaa fanatic who wont even watch soccer because been knocked into them by their AllSports tracksuit wearing coaches that "its crap".
- that leaves 30% of the population as our market base. the vast majority of these people still have yet to be converted, and for most, only entry to the league stages of the champions league will convert them.
for people wishing to see some dublin clubs merge or drop out, just wait til a dublin team gets to the CL groups: it'll doom the future support of several other clubs. dublin city would go (unless its them, and i dont think anyone can see that happening except their chairman). rovers might go. its all well and good that they've a core of excellent supporters, but if the club isnt viable it'll fold.
Your Chairperson,
Gavin
Membership Advisory Board
"Ex Bardus , Vicis"
5 is enough. Chuck out CHF. They bring nothing to the league. No fans, no club. Replace them with a Kerry club.
KOH
Is it just me, or does every body who follows EL have this as their favourite saying?
My position on this question is the same expressed above by a CHF fan, i.e. that it should be settled on the pitch, although he put it much more eloquently.
I agree with that as a basic principle, because it's eminently fair. But I wouldn't go so far as to apply it to 'Dublin City'.
Sometimes, you've just gotta get rid of the runt. People from (down) the country, where I think this thread started, will understand that.
When Seery was setting up that club .... did he consider investing in one of the existing clubs .... you know, instead of spliting the market kinda thing ??
I mean ... starting Kildare county around the same time was a great idea imo .... totally new area, new fanbase etc. .... Why didn't Seery think of something like that or going in with an existing club ??
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
[QUOTE=A face]When Seery was setting up that club .... did he consider investing in one of the existing clubs .... you know, instead of spliting the market kinda thing ?/QUOTE]
Some people would say that he did invest in an existing club.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
[QUOTE=Schumi]He certainly didn't invest in an existing club, but he definitely took-over the place of one.....When Seery was setting up that club .... did he consider investing in one of the existing clubs .... you know, instead of spliting the market kinda thing ?/QUOTE]
Some people would say that he did invest in an existing club.
what I mean is that Shels, Pats, Bohs, Rovers and UCD are there since ages and worked their way up from nothing. Whereas DCFC kinda took over what remained of an existing club and didn't start from zero, they used the previous work to get themselves started at a semi-professional level.We won the first division title & got promoted. This year two teams came second & third & got promoted
Kildare County: good idea, but WTF did that stadium in Newbridge ever pass the license commission ?? Oh yeah right, that's just for next year... Anyway, if Kildare wants a semi-professional club, fair enough, but they should take care of having a decent stadium as well. The stadium in Newbridge is a joke ; very well for the amateur league purposes of Newbridge Town FC, but for Eircom League the stadium is way too small.
Ok whatever about the debates on whether DCFC is a new entity or Home Farm in a different form or whatever, they are now here and certainly deserve to be on footballing merit having never finished lower than 7th in 1st Division. They are winning the 1st Division while we have a club like Kilkenny City who despite being well run are doing little else but propping up the 1st Division for nearly the fourth season in a row. I am not questioing Kilkenny's place but merely saying how can we attack a team doing well on playing merit and even for a second suggest removing them when they are doing better than other clubs?
I saw your team last nite. They are crap. So are Rovers. UCD & shels are probably the only 2 Dublin teams that play football. You can't deny me that. Even at 3-0 down College still played football against youes. None of this hit & hope crap. Pass & move. Another 10 minutes & we woulda had youes 4-3. Pats are only there coz some teams are even worse. Lucky for yee.
"I always likened him to a Rolls Royce. You just used him once a week & he'd be flawless"
Townsend on McGrath
Sounds about right to me,even let Dublin City go on a tour of the Dublin grounds.Play 2 matches in a ground then move on.There is easily room for five clubs!
Rovers have the SouthWest
Shels are going to have the entire North..
Bohs will have the CityCenter
Pats will have the West/CityCenter
UCD will have the SouthEast
And eh, dublin city/home farm can just... eh... yea..
Thats already happening.Sounds about right to me,even let Dublin City go on a tour of the Dublin grounds.Play 2 matches in a ground then move on.
They've changed their home tie in the League cup against us (College) to an away one. Like travelling I guess.
"I always likened him to a Rolls Royce. You just used him once a week & he'd be flawless"
Townsend on McGrath
Bohs Prague have been kicked out of the League and in mid season I might add. The fans have rallied around and a rescue looks likely. However they will be forced to play in Division 3 next season and I believe they may be going amateur for a couple of years too in order to prevent the club going under again.didnt they get kicked outta de league for finincial irregularities(splet wrong i think)
wonder if its an omen...
Gerrit
I wouldn't be so sure about that in the short term after all as they average somewhere in the 300 bracket Station Road is fine for their purposes.
What you are trying to say is if they ever get promoted it will be too small and you have a point on that issue.
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