QuoteFeck off, no I wont!Originally Posted by 1 9 2 8
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The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Feck off, no I wont!
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
Sligoman, fair play on your sig...Any tips for the weekend??
The first thing to say is congrats to Dublin City on their promotion. Whether I like it or not they clearly deserve it. They had the all important momentum going into the playoffs whereas Shamrock Rovers on the other hand were like a deflating balloon.
Whatever your views on Shamrock Rovers and their "scum element" (which most clubs have to one degree or another) their demotion to the first division is not good news for the league overall. I know that most Cork City fans look to the fixture list to see when and where we are playing the Hoops. They bring the biggest away following to Turners Cross and always create atmosphere. Bohs fans, what are you guys going to do without your Dublin derbys and always guaranteed 1/2 biggest gates of the season?
No disrespect to Dublin City, who I re-iterate are there on merit, but they have no fans and an absolute príck of a chairman/chief executive/owner.
I never thought I would say it but, Shamrock Rovers we will miss you.
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, it's been there since pre-season, I'm just glad it's finally come true
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Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
Rovers are dead, long live the rovers.
They deserve to be where they are. Sligo bring alot more to the premier then shams. Firstly a ground and better support. lets see how much of these "loyal" fans pay into 1st div games next year. I bet you harps and galway will have bigger attendences
The Rovers board last season to my mind did a most unforgivable thing - they poached the manager from the only team that could relegate them, with three games left to go in the season. Whatever the rights and wrongs of Roddy's decision to jump ship when he did, what the Board of Rovers did was totally unethical and immoral.
It doesn't often happen, but when it does, its sweet.
What goes around, comes around.
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People should not forget that like many other things this was not a Rovers first. Drogs did the same to UCD three seasons ago. Only it backfired and almost relegated them.
100% spot on there!
As much as I hate those swines Keely and Sneery, they're there on merit.
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Wait for the obvious High Court challenge over the 8 point deduction.
Continuity Home Farm may deserve to be in the Prem by merit, but by any other measure they shouldn't be there.
They will bring nothing - repeat, NOTHING to the Premiership.
We've swopped one Homeless Dublin-based club run by fans and with decent support for another homeless Dublin-based club run by a delusional **** and with absurdly little support. I challenge any Dublin City fan to tell me how that is good for the Premier division. You are the Milton Keynes Dons of Ireland - unloved, unwanted, and unlikely to survive beyond the short-to-medium term.
If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then the Premier Division of the Eircom League just got a whole lot weaker...
On the positive side, I suspect this will be the base-line Year Zero for Rovers. Things can only get better from here. Finish Tallaght and get out of the graveyard league asap.
A bad day for our league...
I don't see any change to the league format next season, as the 12-team Premier Division has once again being a success this season. There may be extra promotion/relegation places next year however. By now, they can't change the Premier Division to a 10-team league next season, and there is zero chance of there being a 22-team league, as even the FAI won't be mad enough to force (part-time) clubs to play 42 league games in 8 months!!
We are relegated, but if there are extra promotion places on offer next year, we stand a good chance of coming back to where we belong in 2007.
Our relegation will cost every Premier Division club money next season, as they will lose 500-1,000 fans that would be there if we were playing. That's a lot of money down the drain, the likes of money that Bohs gloaters and other debt-ridden clubs like them, could do with. Ask Jim Roddy, Jim Hanley, Brian Lennox, and even Gerry Cuffe if they're happy losing that amount of money next season, especially as we are often the biggest draw in town.
It's a sad day for the league when the league's best-run club are replaced next year by a club with a fake title, no support, no heart, and no soul, i.e. nothing. The league this year was great domestically, but Home Farm getting promoted has soured it to a certain extent. The club are a throwback to the bad old days which dominated this league for so long, as they represent all the problems with it.
It is an awful end to a good season.
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Hate seein' Rovers relegated TBH, but as a few pointed out, no team has a divine right to be in the top flight - but the bottom line is, it was bad management in the background that relegated them and not strictly the foorball. I just hope they don't go the way of Dundalk and get lost in the mire indefinitely.
Might be good for the 1st division regulars though, as it might raise the profile of the division for 2006.
What he said.
Revenge for 2002
Our relegation will cost every Premier Division club money next season, as they will lose 500-1,000 fans that would be there if we were playing. That's a lot of money down the drain, the likes of money that Bohs gloaters and other debt-ridden clubs like them, could do with. Ask Jim Roddy, Jim Hanley, Brian Lennox, and even Gerry Cuffe if they're happy losing that amount of money next season, especially as we are often the biggest draw in town.
We would only be playing Rovers at home ONCE next season, so our gate income will be down very slightly. You would only be bringing those 500-1000 to Dalyer once, so thats all Bohs lose out on.
We are talking about €15000, not €250,000 so get over yourself.
Anyway, Bohs v Rovers in the cup would make up for that little loss
That is the problem down here. If you don't get out the first year it gets harder due to lack of money through the gates to invest in players.I just hope they don't go the way of Dundalk and get lost in the mire indefinitely.
This is where you really find out who your supporters are.
That is a positive from Rovers going down. The Dublin media might realise that there are two divisions in this country and imagine teams outside the PaleMight be good for the 1st division regulars though, as it might raise the profile of the division for 2006
But at least some good matches next year. Just in time for our new ground opening at the end of June hopefully.
A pretty big statement from a club that cheated with their license application and spent half the season paying ridiculous wages they couldn't afford.It's a sad day for the league when the league's best run club
Rovers may be well run now, but the current regime did benefit from the deeds of the previous board to some extent- it could well be that but for their overspending last season Rovers would have been in the first division already.
The next year will really show if Rovers are well-run or not, as it stands it's too soon to tell.
Spot on, as I've been saying on all these DCFC/Rovers threads.
Last night's result has cost every club in the Premier League money, at the very time it's so badly needed.
DCFC attracted a massive 85 paying customers to their home game with Limerick FC this season. Thats EXACTLY what the eL Premier division needs, isn't it?
After a season of unprecedented TV coverage and interest, this is a terrible result for the eL. DCFC might be there on merit on the field, but how in the name of God can a little egomaniac's personal pet project do anything for this league?
Thanks for all the bitter comments from fans of the usual 2 or 3 clubs. We lost our premier div status on the pitch so let's leave it at that. On a brighter note I'm 100% confident that we'll be straight back up, as our soon to be unveiled new manager is the ideal man to do it. Ps, to all those fans who continue to bark on about Rovers 'getting away' with things, I ask one question. How's your clubs tax clearance cert coming along?
Our tax situation is grand- we pay every cent that's due on time, every time, and have done for the last four or five years at least.
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