Official Premiership Thread

**Pablo** · 11/12/2006, 5:33 PM

Originally Posted by Hooperatzi

Absolutley. Rovers back by popular demand. Galway up as a reward for being well run and lovely chaps. Dundalk rotting where they belong. Whats the problem?

and welcome back Rovers of course! I look forward to a nice and easy 18 points off ye!

If only UCD had been banished it'd be a perfect day!

**jebus** · 11/12/2006, 5:34 PM

Originally Posted by pete

The media regularily report cup games as league games & get incorrect scores so I would listen to them too much.

The playoff was to decide the official ranking for the 2006 season which was worth 20% of the total points for the IAG.

I don't understand why a limerick fan is backing Dundalk. Aside from winning 1 playoff this season Dundalk have been poor on the pitch for last 5 years & even on the pitch are only good financially due to recent sugar daddy acquisition.

I'm not backing Dundalk as such, I'm backing on the field competition rather than off the field. If Dundalk win a promotion playoff and are awarded a Premier License than how can a Licensing Comittee deny them entry?

And I'll make my point again. This FAI Premiership is being set up to attract new fans to Irish football, because without them we will die a death. These same fans will have heard and read that it was a playoff final and thought it so, so they will listen to the Irish media, and they're who matter in the scheme of this

**jebus** · 11/12/2006, 5:35 PM

Originally Posted by JW.

It's at times like this that the pain of going through all the messages posted here becomes so real.

Yeah I've been enjoying your fantastic points of discussion all day JW

**sniffa** · 11/12/2006, 5:35 PM

Originally Posted by Terry

If w'ford did finish on more points than GUFC then it is a disgrace that we were put in infront of them, BUT, I would never believe what cahill says. For e.g. I heard in work that GUFC actually finished higher than a few other clubs (points wise) that are also in the premier, so what story do you believe?

By the way, commiserations to waterford but Im sure ye'll be back. Delighted to see UCD still there too, totally deservant.

Seeing as Cahill was part of the committee that evaluated the applications then what he said has to be taken seriously.

" I heard in work....."

What do you think the reaction would have been had Dundalk been invited rather than Galway with no invite to Waterford?

**Aaron** · 11/12/2006, 5:38 PM

Amazing how this line of arguement is coming out of people who support clubs who this no promotion/relegation issue had no effect on whatsoever. What do you think would happen if, say Dundalk, had voted against it? Do you think that would have stopped this happening? Because all I think would have happened there would they would either a) have had no chance of being promoted this year because the FAI would have a grudge against them, or b) be kicked out of the league altogether because the FAI would have had a grudge against them. Do you really think Dundalk voting against this would have stopped it? Really?

But the fact is that Dundalk DID sign up to this league and knew exactly what thay were signing up for, and now when they know they didnt get in they start a debacle. The fact is if i was supporting Kilkenny or Monaghan (no disrespect to either club) and we were consigned to the First Division again i would know its because we signed to the agreement and have only ourselves to blame. It dosnt matter who i support my argument would be the same

**GalwayFrancis** · 11/12/2006, 5:39 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

I'm not backing Dundalk as such, I'm backing on the field competition rather than off the field. If Dundalk win a promotion playoff and are awarded a Premier License than how can a Licensing Comittee deny them entry?

because it wasnt a promotion play off!

**jebus** · 11/12/2006, 5:40 PM

Originally Posted by Hooperatzi

are you for real?

did you sleep through the whole 5 year and off the field points system?

they didnt get enough points. galway did. end of.

Am I not saying all day that that 5 year on and off the field points system was a sham to begin with, isn't that the point of practically all of my posts? Don't understand where you are getting confused here

**mcgonigle** · 11/12/2006, 5:40 PM

Originally Posted by Hooperatzi

are you for real?

did you sleep through the whole 5 year and off the field points system?

they didnt get enough points. galway did. end of.

Shows how much you know hooperatzi, it was based on 4 years, if it was 5 then we would be there, as we came 10th of 12 in the premier n won the cup

**Louth4sam** · 11/12/2006, 5:43 PM

Originally Posted by Hooperatzi

our way of doing it was legal and agreed with all our creditors.

Legal but unfair to other clubs that were/run fairly

Originally Posted by Hooperatzi

your way was a blatant attempt to cheat.

How the hell did we cheat??

Originally Posted by Hooperatzi

sort out your matchday shambles and iffy property bills before you lecture the rest of us.

How can we be possibly be responsible for something that happens outside our ground? IF rovers ever move to tallaght will SRFC garantee the safty of every away supporter that visits the area??

Originally Posted by Hooperatzi

aside from the sniping, did you expect to come up? and if so, where did you reckon the points would come from?

Firstly im not sniping it was yourself and NYHOOP that started all the petty comments. Did we expect to come up? Most of us didnt as we thought it would be the same eleven teams plus rovers. The biggest dissapointment is Galway getting in ahead of us. We have achieved great things both on and off the pitch this year. I thought we would have got very good marks on our off the field. I hope the FAI will realese the scores that ever club can see where they scored highly and lowly and for what.

**JW.** · 11/12/2006, 5:43 PM

If you think Galway are a sham of a club jebus, particularly given your own allegiance, you must on drugs that have some serious side effects.

**jebus** · 11/12/2006, 5:44 PM

Originally Posted by GalwayFrancis

because it wasnt a promotion play off!

Jesus Christ GalwayFrancis do you drop in and out of comas or something? Have I not been saying all day long that a) it should have been, b) it was reported as such and c) the non-EL football fan that we are trying to entice to our league would have viewed it as such. Did I not say in that same sentence that I back on the field competition rather than off the field competition?

I see Galway are referring to their background organisation staff as Galway Utd Legends now, says a lot about your club really. Sure put their portraits up at Terryland, tell your grandkids all about that great day the four of them won promotion for the club and look blankly at them when they ask where the trophy is

**BrayUnknowns** · 11/12/2006, 5:45 PM

Originally Posted by pete

Bray are very lucky to survive.

Explain, and explain with good reaso and not just because you don't like Bray, i'm dying to hear your explanation as to why we were very lucky to stay up.....

on the field we were WELL ahead of Dundalk and Galway, off the field they were not better than us.

**jebus** · 11/12/2006, 5:45 PM

Originally Posted by JW.

If you think Galway are a sham of a club jebus, particularly given your own allegiance, you must on drugs that have some serious side effects.

My drug use and its side effects have little to do with any of my ravings (except the ones about where my drugs are) and look above at the piece I wrote about your new Galway Legends to see why I think your club is a sham of a football club

**Sheridan** · 11/12/2006, 5:48 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

Sure put their portraits up at Terryland, tell your grandkids all about that great day the four of them won promotion for the club and look blankly at them when they ask where the trophy is

That's the crux of it, very nicely expressed. Anyone who can't empathize with that statement is following the wrong sport.

**Jerry The Saint** · 11/12/2006, 5:48 PM

Originally Posted by mcgonigle

Shows how much you know hooperatzi, it was based on 4 years, if it was 5 then we would be there, as we came 10th of 12 in the premier n won the cup

And this was only changed after the original announcement when somebody pointed out to the FAI that one of their clubs (Kildare) didn't exist 5 seasons ago. Of course, the on-pitch points awarded for this season were missing one club as well. Oh it's a GOOD system all right.

**mcgonigle** · 11/12/2006, 5:58 PM

Hooperatzi, lets not get into a discussion about, fan discipline, rovers wouldnt have a leg to stand on

**dfx-** · 11/12/2006, 6:07 PM

Why are people surprised about Dundalk?! I could understand a fuss about UCD not being in, but my dead cat could've predicted Dundalk not to get into the league. They are not good enough. They won a pointless play off that most people knew meant nothing - I suspect Waterford weren't even trying 100% because they guessed it was irrelevant (as with a fair few of their final league games) to whether they'd stay up or not - and now they try and push it about being on the pitch blah blah. Galway were always going to be stronger than Dundalk and are deservedly in, imo.

So if it was a choice between Dundalk or UCD, there's no competition there either.

If this is the reaction to Dundalk being out, imagine what the UCD lads would be like on here now if they had failed like they thought..

**GuisaSaigon** · 11/12/2006, 6:12 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

I think I have been questioning your support of football in general Conor, as I have been of a lot of Galway fans, not of your support for your sham of a club that pretends to be a football team.

Sham !!!!!!!!???????????
if we are a sham of a club what does that make Limerick, you havent even got a 1st division license ffs. I usually dont bother replying to your posts because its obvious you've got a chip on your shoulder when it comes to Galway United.Get over it man, we are in the premier while ye are a pathethic mess.You should be concentrating on sorting out your own club.

**jebus** · 11/12/2006, 6:26 PM

Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon

Sham !!!!!!!!???????????
if we are a sham of a club what does that make Limerick, you havent even got a 1st division license ffs. I usually dont bother replying to your posts because its obvious you've got a chip on your shoulder when it comes to Galway United.Get over it man, we are in the premier while ye are a pathethic mess.You should be concentrating on sorting out your own club.

Another well reasoned discussion from a Galway supporter on this I see. I'll tell you why I call Galway a sham of a club. It's because you lot have purposefully gone out to try and get promotion through non-sporting ways, i.e. ye put a lick of paint up at Terryland, and are now rejoicing in the fact that Galway United as a football club couldn't get the job done, but Galway United as a business proposition did. I don't expect much in the way of dignity from football fans in general but the way Galway fans are proud of this achievement really takes the biscuit