Sorry for pounding you on the shoulder when the second goal went in, Derek. I kind of lost it a bit.
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To all the DCFC/Shams haters. The simple fact is Dublin won tonight. If they win on Friday than they deserve it. If Shams win on Friday then they'll deserve it. Whoever wins the play-off overall deserves to be in the Premier, regardless of how many supporters they have or weather they create an atmosphere or not, FACT!
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The only walk Rovers will be doing is a few long walks next season down to Kilkenny and up to Monaghan cause they will have no money for bus fairs in the first divOriginally Posted by Dodge
I can't talk about the matter any more, it is with my solicitorSorry for pounding you on the shoulder when the second goal went in, Derek. I kind of lost it a bit.
It was great, the pounding was great, the game was great, the win was great, the team saying hello after the game was great, Brendan Kennedy giving me a wave was great, the flares were great, seeing Rovers in disarray was great, the silent Rovers fans at the end was great, beating Rovers was great and I'll tell you if we pull this off it will be great and on the performance I think we are in with a shout, GREAT.
I agree with you sligoman, thats how the game works and all the bullsh!te talk does not change the result.To all the DCFC/Shams haters. The simple fact is Dublin won tonight. If they win on Friday than they deserve it. If Shams win on Friday then they'll deserve it. Whoever wins the play-off overall deserves to be in the Premier, regardless of how many supporters they have or weather they create an atmosphere or not, FACT!
Don't you mean "super"?
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I was tring to expand my vocabularyDon't you mean "super"?
Was it wrong? Compared to our previous experiences, nut-throwing doesn't even register as disorder, never mind hooliganism.
I also find it ridiculous that a poster here felt the need to make it an issue.I find it ridiculous anyone felt the need to do it.
Er, yes you did. See below.I didn't ask for clubs to be fined,
For God's sake, we're the ones who would be fined for your fans behaviour.
There is nothing to defend, as this is not an incident. No arrests were made, because it is at best, a trivial matter. Ì'm going mad about it because, here we have a case of another club's fans looking to make a big deal about a non event regarding our fans. Longford started it, and look at the anger that has caused between them and us. You shouldn't be going down the same road.You can't defend it, and why are you going so mad about it?
Afraid so.
I don't think neutrals actually realise exactly how bad our team really is. We have several players playing for us who are so poor, that they wouldn't even get into a first division side. I know most of them are little older than kids, but they are really, really bad players, who can't perform relatively simple tasks such as kicking the ball, passing it to their team-mates, clearing their lines, challenge for headers, creating chances, etc, etc. Most of them are beyond improvement, in both their short and long-term development. The only thing they are able to do, is get suspended.
[QUOTE=Sheridan]In fairness, there was nothing dubious about the penalty, it was a reckless tackle. QUOTE]
o.K.. he certainly made the most of it. Looked like he'd been shot. Thought holding us back for 10 mins was stupid. Just gave the Rovers scum , time to run around and wait for us. As i was coming out some of them were running towards the gate with scarves over their faces. Good Garda presence, prevented any trouble. Will have to keep them in on Friday, 0n the river side. It’s a pity this type of thing goes on in the League.
Dublin City had over 100 people in Athlone last weekend, not sure but i would guess that that would beat the travelling support for a lot of eircom league sides. We had a decent crowd in the Des Kelly stand last night, albeit with a few floaters there, but i'd estimate that we had about 200/250 of our own established supporters. (hopefully more liked what they saw and will stay with the club)
All we are looking for is the opportunity to grow the club, and not be put down at every opportunity.
We aren't looking to rob existing fans, we are looking to collect new eircom League fans, surely this should be the aim for every club.
Okay lets do a quick survey:
Club Colours
Home Farm: Royal Blue and White
Dublin City: Sky Blue & Navy
Verdict: Different
Home Ground
Home Farm: Own Whitehall
Dublin City: Rent Whitehall
Verdict: Dublin City play out of Whitehall for a number of reasons, including its smaller so a better atmosphere, better surface, nicer bar and very importantly, its cheaper than any of the rental alternatives in Dublin.
Ethos
Home Farm: Focusing on the Schoolboy aspect of things, developing players, have a couple of junior/intermediate sides, but aren't the main focus of the club.
Dublin City: Senior Football is the priority of the club, also fielding an U-21 side.
Verdict: Completely different in its focus.
Fan Base
Home Farm: Parents and family of the players
Dublin City: A small group of enthusiastic supporters has been garnered bit by bit over the last few years. although there is probably about 10/15 people who are a hang over from the Home Farm days.
Verdict: Dublin City has attracted new supporters through its identity as a City wide club.
Reality
Home Farm are a hugely successful Schoolboy and Junior side who have a host of Internationals in their illustrious past.
Founded by Don Seery (Ronan's Father) and Brendan Menton Snr. they have collected many national titles at numerous levels, including an FAI Senior Cup.
When Home Farm decided to pull out of Senior Football, there then head of the senior set up Ronan Seery, decided that he would take on the mantle of running the club. He rented Home Farm's facility to play in, recruited a manager, players and Dublin City was born.
Yes, Dublin City and Home Farm have extremely close ties, but they are not and never where the same thing. Every Dublin City fan would love to have Home Farm's history and heritage, but we don't we are now creating our own.
In 5 seasons, we have challenged for promotion for the first three years, finally winning the title in 2003. a number of factors saw us relegated in 2004, and now we are 90 minutes away from securing our top flight status again. Not bad for a nothing club.
As a neutral last night I thoroughly enjoyed the game. DCFC were clearly the better side and deserved to win. Frankly I was very disappointed with Rovers especially having got the equaliser I expected them to push on and win the game. They were pushed back for the remainder of the game.
I still don't think this tie is over though. Tolka is hardly home advantage for DCFC and they will be heavily outnumbered supporter wise. Rovers will hardly be as bad again. DCFC looked a much better side than that which drew with Limerick a few weeks back and they may not play as well again.
Come on DCFC
MAKE ROVERS HISTORY
Won't be that big a difference now all the Pats/Bohs/Shels etc wiil jump on the bandwagon
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Home Advantage or not They have scored 2 AWAY goals
Rovers need to Score 2 to stay up
anyone can get 100 fans to athlone if the club pay for the bus. 100 supporters travelling for free is hardly a boast.
and if you think there were 250 in the des kelly, you are on a different planet.
In case you haven't noticed, away goals in this tie, DO NOT COUNT. So we only need to score 1 goal to stay in the league.
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In case you haven't noticed, away goals in this tie, DO NOT COUNT. So we only need to score 1 goal to stay in the league.
I was under the Impression that they did!!
I know this was the case when bohs played cobh in 2000
but because of the fact that we scored 6 in cobh in the first leg it didn't come into the equation
No problem whatsoever with the result last night - the best team won. Or rather the only team on the pitch won but that comment is a disgrace. Barry spent most of last night in A&E in the Mater after having his ankle stamped on.
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