FAI Cup draw-Tomorrow(Wednesday)

[Jerry The Saint]

Anyone not in colours is not "there for the football" maybe?

I imagine there'll be plenty at Shamrock vs. Bohemian who won't be wearing colours and won't be there for the football either...

[Roverstillidie]

Ah the blind romance of the Cup , fare play to ye ! I hope you put it up to them, would be a great scalp for Shams if you could do it. But there is a serious step up from First division level you are used to playing and the premier division but on a one off occasion if everything falls right you may just have a chance of creating a bit of a shock. Remember the likes of Burton Albion and how they lived their dream last year ! Best of luck

am i getting patronised by a bog rover?

we have been in the 1st ten minutes ffs. you were there nearly 10 years. we are hardly used to it.

would it be classed as a 'shock' if we did them?

and anyone who uses romance in the context of a Rovers v pox game is either on a wind up or a different planet

[Dodge]

Cups are for losers

[Raheny Red]

Cups are for losers

45 years now is it?!

[BohsFans]

you get 40% after costs

you are slower than the average bozo to be fair.

wrong there homeless.

FAI take their cut and then 60/40 to home/away team.

Pay YOUR "security" bill out of your 60%.

[Red4Eva]

what are you talking about?

not even the most hardened/deluded gypo belives any of that. have a skim through gypoweb, they have the game lost already.

we have lost once all season. they are at their lowest ebb in years. the only thing they have is the higher division they are just about in

i've seen boths bohs&shams recently(galway v shams & bohs v us) and even though bohs fans would be disgusted with their performance against us i wouldn't give shams a hope in hell if they played like they did against galway. a lot can change between now&then but if i was betting on it i'd have my money on bohs

[Roverstillidie]

Ah jesus man not trying to wind you up, you are coming across as being very insecure , look what ever you hang ups are if you go out and play your game against them and take your chances will then you may do it. Of course it is romantic to see a team from a lower division coming to play well one of the leading lights of the eircom league.

I think you need a reality check go and watch a premier divison game and then first division game, that should sort you out . As you know Bohs are not playing well if you believe and get stuck in you may just do it. I suppose The Shams directors are probably hoping the game goes to a replay so you can get a big pay day at a premier divison ground, will it would make financial sense but as keeping with what i was saying for the romance of the Cup go out an do your best and you never know. One thing for sure this home game you will have more than a few hundred at your game which would be welcome by any club in the ame position.

anyone who calls the bores a 'leading light of the EL' and thinks we get a few hundred at games is on a wind up. clueless.

[higgins]

I thought your last home game was 300 and your last away game was 200 ??
Id call that a couple of hundred...
No use pretending otherwise.

and before you go down the road of shels have no fans,
I know!!!

[gustavo]

Ah jesus man not trying to wind you up, you are coming across as being very insecure , look what ever you hang ups are if you go out and play your game against them and take your chances will then you may do it. Of course it is romantic to see a team from a lower division coming to play well one of the leading lights of the eircom league.

I think you need a reality check go and watch a premier divison game and then first division game, that should sort you out . As you know Bohs are not playing well if you believe and get stuck in you may just do it. I suppose The Shams directors are probably hoping the game goes to a replay so you can get a big pay day at a premier divison ground, will it would make financial sense but as keeping with what i was saying for the romance of the Cup go out an do your best and you never know. One thing for sure this home game you will have more than a few hundred at your game which would be welcome by any club in the ame position.

[mypost]

I think you need a reality check go and watch a premier divison game and then first division game, that should sort you out .

Limerick, Cobh, and ourselves, are better sides than the bottom 6 in the other division.

I suppose The Shams directors are probably hoping the game goes to a replay so you can get a big pay day at a premier divison ground, will it would make financial sense but as keeping with what i was saying for the romance of the Cup go out an do your best and you never know.

A Rovers-Bohs game is not romance. It's blood-and-guts, car-crash football, the only LOI fixture where form does not count. And no, we don't need a replay. We played 20 times at Dalymount last season, so we're sick of the place.

[Dodge]

Limerick, Cobh, and ourselves, are better sides than the bottom 6 in the other division.

History says you're wrong. Promoted sides rarely do well.

[BohDiddley]

anyone who calls the bores a 'leading light of the EL' and thinks we get a few hundred at games is on a wind up. clueless.

Keep it up Rogue Trader. You're killin' him!

[Raheny Red]

Would I be right in saying that hardly any of this Rovers side have been involved in this derby before?!

[Philo]

Would I be right in saying that hardly any of this Rovers side have been involved in this derby before?!

I'm sure they'll get the general idea very quickly.

[dfx-]

anyone who calls the bores a 'leading light of the EL' and thinks we get a few hundred at games is on a wind up. clueless.

Limerick, Cobh, and ourselves, are better sides than the bottom 6 in the other division.

A Rovers-Bohs game is not romance. It's blood-and-guts, car-crash football, the only LOI fixture where form does not count. And no, we don't need a replay.

Stop biting to him....he's not used to being in a higher division or dealing with the prospect of a big derby, bless..

He should be more concerned with filling a 14 seater bus to a *big* premier division match on Friday than fishing at Rovers fans.

[Derek]

Limerick, Cobh, and ourselves, are better sides than the bottom 6 in the other division.

So that's how you ended up in the first division, you are better than the bottom of the premier. Dream on.

[Roverstillidie]

So that's how you ended up in the first division, you are better than the bottom of the premier. Dream on.

on the pitch where did we finish....

[Derek]

on the pitch where did we finish....

OK, I was just having a go. dont get many chances

[alabama rover]

There will be more people at the Shels and Derry game there for the football, than the Top of Division One -v- Bottom of Premier encounter.

What's your point exactly.... There will be more people at the Rovers-Bohs game for better reasons than that! We get football every week.......

[bohs til i die]

eleven-a-side call it worng I guess

http://www.eleven-a-side.com/faicup/...p?newsid=23236

Crowd may be bigger at the Rovers Bohs game, but that will have a lot to do with the fact its your one and only encounter for the season.

Shels v Derry is the bigger game, I have no doubts about that.

as for the results in both,
Shels to win at home. we beat them 1-0 last time at home and the 1-1 in the setanta was a last min goal from Derry that willo let slip through his hands, we've had the better of Derry at home this season (eventually !!! )

Bohs to win easily. Rovers are in the first division for a reason and your not even top of a very poor division. You needed Killkenny to miss a peno the other night to get a 0-0 and I cant see any reason why your team can progress past even a bad Bohs team. One off cup game and all that but when I look at the teams sheets of both teams it seems to spell out Bohs every time...

Shels v Derry is bigger because its 2 of the top 4.

Bohs v Rovers is bigger because it'll have the biggest crowd of the round, it'll be the headline grabber in the week leading up to the game because of its once off nature this year. This will be Shels /Derry 5th time this season I think.

Bohs v Rovers will be the most unique fixture in this league for a long time. One fallen giant against one sliding backwards giant. It might well be the one and only time there is a derby between Bohs and Rovers with the teams in different divisions. For that reason it gives it something extra that Shels v Derry wont have simply because of the number of times you have played Derry this season.