Games weekend 25th to 27th April

[Nesta99]

To be fair, I'd say 11k per week is probably a combination of two or three other first division budgets put together.

It could be 3 or 4, take a Cobh spending splrge out too. Horgan alone isnt on a 1st Division wage and a couple of clubs would be operating on what would be more like expenses. It is a FT setup though evening training or not. Ive also heard about investment hanging in the wings to see if were promoted. We are going to have to have a very good manager and its very possible in Kilduff, actual crowd backing with a significant rise in attendances and some investment to get a licence and players to add to the development this year of young lads for next year if promoted- easy! Doherty moves on and we go poaching....

[Zico]

That would probably be a wages bill, so probably around 800k for the club - and in your case gates of 2000 would give you match day income of over 600k so a very doable 200k to fundraise.

As I understand with changes in solidarity payments (including 2 years of payments this year due to changes in timing of payments) Dundalk received the premier allocation (85% divided 9 ways) of circa €350k for 24/25 season paid in April and then will get €45k in Oct for 1st division allocation for 25/26 season. Every other club in first division gets €90k for 2 years of payments.
Quite the difference that also helps fund a full time budget this season.

[D24Saint]

Thanks for that info Tony D.

I remember a green Pat's away shirt and a navy and striped away.Thought the sky blue was only over the past few seasons.

The manky sky blue only started this year. Our main away colours had traditionally been navy. The current Umbro merchandise is really shoddy quality this season. I’m hoping we move on from them sooner rather than later. It’s the first season in a long time that I have bought no official merchandise, the design and quality is dreadful.

[DCSIL]

Sligo (and a fair few moaning posters here) got very upset against Dundalk last year for a banner in a similar vain (that had nothing to do with Sligo) last year.

Some people just love to offended.

Dundalk fans have been using that for years on Social Media and Posters, Wasn't there a Sligo Rovers SM post along the lines of " don't slip out of business on your way down" around the same time.

[Nesta99]

The outrage can be funny, its a national passtime and in LoI the cringe at own fans has its entertainment value too. Social media.....what would would it have been like during the days of chanting about the queen to Derry fans??

[Another Bohemia]

The outrage can be funny, its a national passtime and in LoI the cringe at own fans has its entertainment value too. Social media.....what would would it have been like during the days of chanting about the queen to Derry fans??

I've deffo heard that chant in the times of social media. But the Lizzie's in a box chant that got shels in trouble during their Euro game gives you a good idea of what it would be like.

[Nesta99]

Oh it didnt age and got rolled out but think latter 1980s and it really really wound up Derry fans at the time. It was a tad insensitive under the circumstances at the time so multiply Shels in Gibralter by a lot, if there had been social media....
But then its was been chanted by a section of the Dundalk support that would have seen themselves as total socialists yet named themselves the Mujahideen during a war with the forces of a country whose ideology they revered. Yes occupation, shinners blah blah. It got even more amusing when the younger fans latter 90s thought they were called the Mushahalee??? and then just shortened to Mudja. But full circle by the WoT of the 2000s so maybe it was genius....

Id love to see a book written on the origins and evolution of The Shed section of the Dundalk support thats not a focus on Linfield. The antics, stories, chants, good and bad and through to the SSA today and how they formed and ummm rebranded. Connections with other groups, how they really get on with rivals, real thoughts on pyro, fines, yarns, profile of characters of the years (add in a Mary McGelligot piece even - the original waving umbrella fan before Dalymount one). Itd be a bit different from player biographies or club history.

[Martinho II]

Oh it didnt age and got rolled out but think latter 1980s and it really really wound up Derry fans at the time. It was a tad insensitive under the circumstances at the time so multiply Shels in Gibralter by a lot, if there had been social media....
But then its was been chanted by a section of the Dundalk support that would have seen themselves as total socialists yet named themselves the Mujahideen during a war with the forces of a country whose ideology they revered. Yes occupation, shinners blah blah. It got even more amusing when the younger fans latter 90s thought they were called the Mushahalee??? and then just shortened to Mudja. But full circle by the WoT of the 2000s so maybe it was genius....

Id love to see a book written on the origins and evolution of The Shed section of the Dundalk support thats not a focus on Linfield. The antics, stories, chants, good and bad and through to the SSA today and how they formed and ummm rebranded. Connections with other groups, how they really get on with rivals, real thoughts on pyro, fines, yarns, profile of characters of the years (add in a Mary McGelligot piece even - the original waving umbrella fan before Dalymount one). Itd be a bit different from player biographies or club history.

Have to agree with you on this. Maxi the late Dundalk fan Im sure there was great tales from that era.

[Nesta99]

There were a few grimier moments. Id a work colleague who was in Tolka in the 80s. He said himself and a friend jumped down from the back of a terrace, one chap landed on the chest of a Shels fan with 2 feet, walked off, leaving him (hopefully just winded), went of an offie and got on a bus that didnt take them to the game to both booze and hide. As a grown up, rather than adult, with kids, he told me this sitting at work in LCC and says he has no idea why he bothered, regrets it and often wonder how the chap was. Im sure there are worse incidents but would love to get stuck in to having these stories recorded and see how they are thought of by the culprits in later life. As a kid I never got the fooking annoying 'taking the The Shed' then Dundalk shedheads charging to take it back over and over, my cousin got clobbered by a can of 7-up obviously thrown by some posh flash Bohs git. Maxi was more character than malice I think, So some nitty gritty stuff and todays Ultra motivations would be a good read imo. Would take a skilled writer to elicit the stories and truths even if anonomysed. That and how the groups evolved from the 50s say cause probably by the 70s it was mimicking England to a good extent. Like young Danny, head of the SSA and I think used to post here but how he ended up in his role and the forming of the SSA, why bust themsleves supporting something and why then potentially damage efforts.

[Stuttgart88]

I think I was at a different game ….. we controlled the game against an average hard working Shels team ( with JB again picking up motm)…. Had enough chances to score at least 5…. Shels in fairness caught us out very badly with two decent crosses which we should have cleared … aside from that they created nothing …. Also it was a good entertaining game ( aside from Duffs usual childlike histrionic behaviours; he’s doing a fine job but at this stage his sideline carry on is becoming an embarrassment )

We should be killing these games though. Ahead in all 3 Dublin derbies and 2 point.

Both Shels goals came from our RWB position. Grant culpable?