QuoteThey found asbestos on the Connacht St side so work has stopped on the new away end with a knock on for ST holders in the Des Kelly - as that kip will still be the away end for at least the start of the season.
What news?Originally Posted by WeAreRovers
They found asbestos on the Connacht St side so work has stopped on the new away end with a knock on for ST holders in the Des Kelly - as that kip will still be the away end for at least the start of the season.
No One Likes Us, We Don't Care
You're not playing in Dalymount till April. The stand should be ready by then. Not your fault but I'm sick hearing Rovers fans have access to information that only members and season ticket holders should be able to see. For some reason though a portion of fanbase can't help themselves though.
Rovers fans accusing others of “putting on the poor mouth”?
Get the **** up the yard. Bohs pumped as much money as we could afford into dalymount over the years, at the expense of the team, most of our good young players in the eighties leaving for more money at guess where? Yep the team overspending and going homeless.
The only time the team got prioritised was when we thought wrongly we were moving and flush. Big mistake there.
BUT we never stuck our creditors by going bust with no assets and broke several small businesses by offering 4% settlement .
Or got relegated despite spending grant money on players . What a shower to be handing out advice and criticism. **** off.
If he was around 20 years ago you could have brought him to every ground in Dublin to watch Rovers home matches
Does anyone else have an opinion on the changes needed to make LOI grounds more amenable for possible increased attendences, other than bitter bozos whos club currently occupies the LOI version of the Chinese 5 spice-at-the-back-of-the-cupboard role, ie. largely ignored?
Its a discussion to improve facilities for all, to push the game on a bit here in this country.
Having had to endure years of been slagged off by fans of other clubs ( Xmas trees in Milltown chants etc.) I don’t have any sympathy for fans of other clubs on account of many of them ( a few notable exceptions like Finn Harps) that relished in their usual small minded manner us being homeless….
I would however for the overall good of the league love to see every club with their own version of Tallaght …… as for humility no , as we don’t have any reason to act that way , appreciation of what we got from SDCC yes and proud of how we’ve built a successful community based club on the back of it.
When does the work start?
20 leagues and 25 cups.
Your son has as much chance of getting silicosis at tallaght as getting asbestosis at Dalymount or any other old ground. If you are that concerned why do you go? It's probably best you both stay at home and be the best footballers in the world on your X Box.
What like the one that posted the news on the club website?
https://bohemianfc.com/?p=18825
Paaatrick's Agletic
Fair enough, they didn’t exactly make it obvious they posted it on the website though on their other social media pages so you can excuse me for not checking a site regularly that's pretty irrelevant when all the updates get sent to fans directly.
So the club didn't update its members about the asbestos through the usual channels?
Weird
An email was sent out to members and season ticket holders. I wasn't aware that it was posted to the website too.
Fairy nuff; took you up wrong
Whilst I agree with the broad jist of what you've written - the above is deeply ironic from a Glentoran fan in the week that your club signs NI international Niall McGinn, whilst it also continues to wait for Stormont to build it a new stadium. How has Glentoran's long-term financial competence and management of The Oval been?
1.Where have I ever claimed that the Glens have been competently run in recent years? Quite obviously they haven't. However, my point is that had they not owned their own stadium, they almost certainly would have gone bust before now, possibly have ceased even to exist entirely;
2. The money to sign McGinn is coming from the owner/benefactor. An owner/benefactor who almost certainly wouldn't have bought into the club and cleared its debts etc had the club not also owned its own stadium;
3. It is a decade since The Fools on the Hill announced that £10m(?) of the £36m Sub-Regional funding allocation would go towards a new UEFA compliant, medium-sized (8K?) rebuild at The Oval, since delayed by their interminable squabbling. Which in turn is why Glentoran are only doing the minimum to keep the turnstiles open and the lights on i.e. why would the owner pour new money into an old facility which is due to be replaced anyhow?
Apart from all that, you cetainly got me there...
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Meanwhile, Newry City are another example of a club which was badly run still managing to re-emerge because the fans owned the stadium.
While on a more positive note, Coleraine are an example of a club which is currently being very well run and which, since it too owns its own stadium, is in a position to apply for Government "levelling-up" funding for an impressive new development at Ballycastle Road:
https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/sport/...g-bid-25637911
Meaning that whether well run or badly run, clubs in NI would be in a much more parlous state were they relying on their local Council to gift them a new stadium. Meaning in turn that Shams notwithstanding, unless things are radically different* with Councils in ROI, LOI clubs are in the same boat.
* - I'll leave it to others to judge that one.
It's all still very ironic from a Glentoran fan though1.Where have I ever claimed that the Glens have been competently run in recent years? Quite obviously they haven't. However, my point is that had they not owned their own stadium, they almost certainly would have gone bust before now, possibly have ceased even to exist entirely;
2. The money to sign McGinn is coming from the owner/benefactor. An owner/benefactor who almost certainly wouldn't have bought into the club and cleared its debts etc had the club not also owned its own stadium;
3. It is a decade since The Fools on the Hill announced that £10m(?) of the £36m Sub-Regional funding allocation would go towards a new UEFA compliant, medium-sized (8K?) rebuild at The Oval, since delayed by their interminable squabbling. Which in turn is why Glentoran are only doing the minimum to keep the turnstiles open and the lights on i.e. why would the owner pour new money into an old facility which is due to be replaced anyhow?
Apart from all that, you cetainly got me there...As the old saying goes - "if you're explaining, you're losing". (or at the very least, you're defensive).
#GlassHouses
Well Ballymena and Derry are at least 2 clubs in NI with council-owned faciltiies. Are there any others?
Isn't the Coleraine Showgrounds owned by some agricultural body, rather than the club?
No, it would only be "ironic" had I been proposing Glentoran as a model-run club, or one which was not dependant upon a benefactor, or had I suggested clubs should be building new stadia entirely from their own resources.
None of which applies, rendering your claim as just another jab at me which has missed its target.
Merely "explaining" why your post was gash.
Poster A has a pop at Poster B's post, Poster B defends it. It's how a discussion forum works.
#Troll
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