Games weekend 5th to 8th Feb 2026

[sidewayspasser]

I posted about this in the stadium thread earlier. It's very strange alright. Did Rovers complain to conceal their guilt? Or was it something to do with gambling. One of the caretakers wanted to make the pitch very heavy to try get a particular result, but went too far and got the game called off instead unintentionally?

Is it possible to bet on a game being called off? If so, maybe it was something like that?

[outspoken]

Is it possible to bet on a game being called off? If so, maybe it was something like that?

Definitely not with any traditional Bookmaker. Maybe if the pitch was like a bag under 2.5 goals would be a lot more likely. The whole thing seems incredibly bizarre. The fact they are going through his phone suggests they feel there's something more to it than incompetence

[sessylU]

Very strange.What happens next? Points deduction, expunge them from the league for the last, say, five years, and a strongly worded letter.FAI need to be seen to be tough on this sort of thing. Whatever sort of thing this sort of thing is.

[Buckett]

Down with this sort of thing

[sbgawa]

good luck getting a phone off one of SDCC staff and their union.No one is losing a job over this , its the council, the staff are on a paid holiday before being brought back to the parks division but probably not tallaght stadium

[Dermobohs]

They’ve already got the phones, so if there’s anything in it they’ll be ****ed.
Can’t see rovers involved here at all, was not in their interest to call it off, and in the end they dropped two points on the Monday?

[Glen Of Aherlow]

[QUOTE=Dermobohs;2241221]They’ve already got the phones, so if there’s anything in it they’ll be ****ed.
Can’t see rovers involved here at all, was not in their interest to call it off, and in the end they dropped two points on the

It was Drogheda’s fault

[Dalymountrower]

good luck getting a phone off one of SDCC staff and their union.No one is losing a job over this , its the council, the staff are on a paid holiday before being brought back to the parks division but probably not tallaght stadium

Hopefully it was crossed wires.
The SDCC staff maintaining that stadium and pitch take a huge pride in their work so difficult to believe there was deliberste damage to the pitch.