Successful day all round Id say for the Everton game. A nice wee earner. Very entertaining game, fiesty for a friendly too. No first team regulars played which I was fine with, but the underage players were brilliant and more than held their own. Weather stayed pretty good.
I heard sligo fans were singing about only getting 60 grand for Seamus Coleman. I presume it was balefully sung?
Didn't Sligo actually get around 400k after selling some clauses to Eveton
Think about 250Originally Posted by Acornvilla
The LSC semi-finals are yet to be played. Stephen Kenny might yet claim some silverware! What the general opinion on the LSC? Is it well run or amateur hour?
I think the five Munster clubs are better off arranging a Munster League Cup than enter the MSC amateur hour.
Well most clubs are treating the LSC as an u20 tournament. So in that way it's valuable. Can't say whether it's well run or not
I love it and just want to see Longford win it once
Was good business in retrospect considering Coleman's loyalty to Everton and no activation of the potential windfall of a sell on. There may have been appearances and internation caps clauses but a sell on would bound to be the biggest cost to Everton and for all the big money moves that were touted they enver hapened of course. There were a multi million £ move to Old Trafford and The Emirates at one time that would have netted 7 figures at 10% for Sligo which would have been a sickener and selling the clauses vilified ala Cork City years back to plug short term finaces
Ironically both the Alan Browne and Sean Maguire clauses that Cork sold back to Preston for a quick cash injection turned out to be a great decision as both left Preston for free!
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Not LOI but Mervue are playing a friendly against Shkupi of North Macedonia today at 4.30 according to Flashscore,about as random as it gets!!!
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Manager said they'd go for a few scoops in North Mayo, someone misheard and here we are.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
Futbol24 says it's Merv FC of Turkmenistan btw
Which is still random - yet I feel slightly less so...!
Boooo! Down with factual information! I enjoyed the brief half hour where we lived in a world where Mervue were playing Shkupi
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I was happier when it was Mervue,could you not just have left it at that
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
I like that they're playing a team from a Silk Road city destroyed and abandoned centuries ago. But then I've a bit of fascination with the Silk Road route and some of the great names in and around it - Kyzylkum, Samarkand, Khiva.
I acknowledge I may be slightly in a minority in that regard...!
None of them a patch on Fahy’s Field!!
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Merv was razed to the ground more than once - the Mongols and the Iranians both at it. It's a barren desert wasteland at this stage, twinned with Baghdad, Aleppo and Karbala.
So yeah, as desolation goes, it does sound it's still behind Mervue alright...
Though wiki has a quote "It was a memorable day for shrieking and weeping and wailing. Then Genghis Khan ordered that the dead should be counted and there were around 700,000 corpses", and that sounds one level of nastiness up from Cromwell in fairness.
Ever been to any of those places?
Nope. Uzbekistan is on the list though. Tashkent (the metro stations are amazing), Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, maybe Moynaq where the boats are rusting miles away from the Aral Sea. In fact, most of the Stans look amazing, possibly excepting Tajikistan, which I think has a relatively high incidence of Islamic fundamentalism.
For a brief moment Id visions of Stu on the dark web trading ....rare UCD AFC programmes. Not quite as rustic or remote as places metioned above but I spent 4 weeks in Azerbaijan teaching airline pilots English back in 2000 which looking back is pretty mad in itself. Wasnt as sparkling and new then as it would be now with all that oil money. But did get to see it kind of unspoilt by tourism especiallly on the coast, but cant say the same for the Soviet influence of unspoilt - only worth a wrecking ball. We were treated ridiculously well, paid a small fortune to young a graduate and never experienced humidity like it. I didnt appreciate it then tbh, would love to do it again and make better use of the time in the region.
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