Vikings boss blasts summer soccer

**Sheridan** · 20/07/2006, 2:55 PM

People don't want to watch your atavistic long ball sh1t in any weather, Dermot.

**Raheny Red** · 20/07/2006, 3:09 PM

Attendances not up, results in Europe up - that'll do me nicely

**mypost** · 20/07/2006, 3:26 PM

Originally Posted by Philly

What crowds are we getting?

Now, staff at Home Farm are hardly fit to lecture the rest of the club's about lack of numbers. Their very presence in the league, was one of the reasons why crowds were low. I hope that their replacements bring colour, ambition, and a fan base with them next year, and will be a welcome addition to our league.

**KildareFan** · 20/07/2006, 3:53 PM

Their very presence in the league, was one of the reasons why crowds were low.

So it's Dublin City's fault that attendances are low throughout the league???

Sure why not blame them for the trouble in the middle east when you are at it

**nshoop** · 20/07/2006, 3:56 PM

Originally Posted by KildareFan

So it's Dublin City's fault that attendances are low throughout the league???

Sure why not blame them for the trouble in the middle east when you are at it

He said ONE of the reasons and its true,they brought nothing to the league they just made it look like a joke

**BrayUnknowns** · 20/07/2006, 3:58 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Their very presence in the league, was one of the reasons why crowds were low.

That is just tripe ! how unearth can for example, Finn Harps, Galway, Kildare or Kilkenny blame Dublin City on poor attendences ?

Maybe the crowds that came to watch Finn Harps, Galway, Kildare or Kilkenny play Dublin City were'nt great, but neither are for for matches against the other league sides.

**bigmac** · 20/07/2006, 4:01 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Their very presence in the league, was one of the reasons why crowds were low. I hope that their replacements bring colour, ambition, and a fan base with them next year, and will be a welcome addition to our league.

Doubt that any team coming in will bring a big set of fans with them - could you expect a Kerry team to bring a big contingent to any away games bar maybe Limerick, Cork or Cobh? As for ambition, DC had too much of that - I'd welcome a team with more realism to the league - it'll be hard to survive for the first few seasons.

Any new teams from non-represented areas are more than welcome in my book though.

**KildareFan** · 20/07/2006, 4:03 PM

That is a ridiculous thing to say

The trouble that Rovers fans have caused over the years has turned lots more people away from the Eircom League football than the presence of Dublin City ever would have.

Rovers fans won't like that statement but it's true.

**osarusan** · 20/07/2006, 4:10 PM

Has anybody else noticed that most fans from other teams, apart from Shamrock Rovers, have offered commiserations to DC fans and been obective about the situation.

Most of the Rovers fans whose posts I've read seem to take a genuine delight in insulting the club and witnessing its demise.

**nshoop** · 20/07/2006, 4:10 PM

Originally Posted by KildareFan

That is a ridiculous thing to say

The trouble that Rovers fans have caused over the years has turned lots more people away from the Eircom League football than the presence of Dublin City ever would have.

Rovers fans won't like that statement but it's true.

BOLL*CKS,more fans come out because of our unfair reputation,to have a go at us or the thrill of seeing the dublin scumbags,you're talking out of your hole!

**mypost** · 20/07/2006, 4:12 PM

Originally Posted by KildareFan

Rovers fans won't like that statement but it's true.

If it's true, then the statement that you don't support Kildare is also true. So it's false.

Originally Posted by osarusan

Most of the Rovers fans whose posts I've read seem to take a genuine delight in insulting the club and witnessing its demise.

Wonder why??

**nshoop** · 20/07/2006, 4:12 PM

Originally Posted by osarusan

Has anybody else noticed that most fans from other teams, apart from Shamrock Rovers, have offered commiserations to DC fans and been obective about the situation.

Most of the Rovers fans whose posts I've read seem to take a genuine delight in insulting the club and witnessing its demise.

Because they loved relegating us so much and wanted us to go out of existence,f*ck them,they were a waste of time and money!

**OneRedArmy** · 20/07/2006, 6:31 PM

Originally Posted by Macy

Clearly Summer football has nothing to do with CHF going under. However, there is a need for an objective look at whether it has been a success or failure across the whole league.

Even the European successes have done nothing with the credibility of the league in my experience - the naysayers simply say it's only because we've a fitness advantage not because of skill level of the league having improved.

The skill levels certainly haven't improved in Longford.

Don't confuse a local problem (Longford having Keely Junior as manager) with the wider League, which, regardless of the overall health of the League, has seen a HUGE increase in skill over the past decade IMHO.

**passerrby** · 20/07/2006, 7:03 PM

there is not and never will be enough supporters in LOI to sustain full time footballers and those who try the experimentwill get burned eventually.

**pineapple stu** · 20/07/2006, 7:11 PM

Originally Posted by Passive

I say that if we played a winter season Dublin City would have attracted 30-35,000 per game and would probably, somehow, have won the World Cup this summer.

And they'd still have hideously overspent and gone broke.

**OneRedArmy** · 20/07/2006, 7:28 PM

Originally Posted by passerrby

there is not and never will be enough supporters in LOI to sustain full time footballers and those who try the experimentwill get burned eventually.

With ambition like that who needs knockers.

If you inserted the word "Monaghan" in your post it may be more accurate.

Full-time football may currently not be paying its way but to say a football mad country with 4million people, rising quickly, cannot sustain a professional League is absolute tripe.

If its done right it can work.

**anto eile** · 20/07/2006, 7:37 PM

summer or winter we wont pack our stadia because theyre sh!t holes

so accept that crowds will be sh!t uintil the stadia cease to be

one bonus of summer football is that the european results in a summer season should consistently improve (so far ,overall,they have)
european results right now are how the public judges the leagues credibility

**pineapple stu** · 20/07/2006, 7:38 PM

Originally Posted by passerrby

there is not and never will be enough supporters in LOI to sustain full time footballers and those who try the experimentwill get burned eventually.

One word. Denmark.

**anto eile** · 20/07/2006, 7:41 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

Now, staff at Home Farm are hardly fit to lecture the rest of the club's about lack of numbers. Their very presence in the league, was one of the reasons why crowds were low. I hope that their replacements bring colour, ambition, and a fan base with them next year, and will be a welcome addition to our league.

why replace them??
better still cut it down to 20 teams, (2 divisions of 10)
as it stands not one junior club would be an addition to the league. kerry league mayfield castlebar have been mentioned (the latter have a great junior set-up,but really all it is is a pitch with a wall round it and sloped gravel on 2 sides.that shouldnt belong in a professional league) etc.
such clubs wouldnt improve the league

**anto eile** · 20/07/2006, 7:43 PM

Originally Posted by osarusan

Has anybody else noticed that most fans from other teams, apart from Shamrock Rovers, have offered commiserations to DC fans and been obective about the situation.

Most of the Rovers fans whose posts I've read seem to take a genuine delight in insulting the club and witnessing its demise.

why should we feel sorry for a cynical wreckless soulless b@stard franchise run by one lunatic going out of business?