Ollie Byrne in the media

**Dr.Nightdub** · 04/01/2007, 7:41 PM

Watch it again - things have truly come to a sorry state in Tolka when Ollie can't even afford a bit of tape to hold his broken glasses together.

**Gareth** · 04/01/2007, 9:03 PM

His glasses are very cool the way they open and close.

**Dr.Nightdub** · 04/01/2007, 9:24 PM

God, is there no end to the adulation of Ollie among you lot?

**Philly** · 04/01/2007, 10:02 PM

Notice how he talks about how going part time is something that "we" will have to consider... It's just him!

He's skitzo and has broken glasses, this is great revealing journalism by TV3!

**Gareth** · 04/01/2007, 10:36 PM

I have always thought his galsses were very novel and if you owned a pair I would tip my hat your way too, even if your a Pats fan

As for the Tv3 bit, nothing new, nothing new.

**CharlesThompson** · 04/01/2007, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXyLx9gfvP8

Is Ollies nose getting bigger?

**Soper** · 04/01/2007, 11:08 PM

Poor Oily is like a less sophisticated version of Max Bialystock from 'The Producers'

**BohsPartisan** · 04/01/2007, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Soper

Poor Oily is like a less sophisticated version of Max Bialystock from 'The Producers'

Maybe he reckons he can make more money if the club is a failure...

**R�iteoir** · 04/01/2007, 11:20 PM

First old lady rolls up:
"Congratulations - you now own 50% of Shelbourne FC"

Second old lady rolls up:
Congratulations - you now own 50% of Shelbourne FC

Third old lady toddles up:
Congratulations - you now own 75% of Shelbourne FC

Fourth old lady rolls up:
Congratulations - you now own 162% of Shelbourne FC

and so on

**Soper** · 04/01/2007, 11:21 PM

''No Way Outtttttt''

**Billy Lord** · 04/01/2007, 11:50 PM

Problem is: Ollie isn't dealing with gullible oul wans, he's dealing with callous sharks such as Jeremiah O'Reilly who would think nothing of bulldozing him, Shels, Tolka Park, as well as anything and anyone who stands in the way of them making shedloads of money.
O'Reilly tried to pull a fast one with Rovers in Tallaght, but got nobbled. He saw a mirror image of Tony Maguire/Joe Colwell in Ollie and went for it. I genuinely thought Ollie was smarter than that, but the Champions League mirage caught him like a rabbit in headlights.

**R�iteoir** · 04/01/2007, 11:56 PM

and without the suit of armour in the shape of two precious away goals

**CollegeTillIDie** · 05/01/2007, 6:34 AM

Originally Posted by Billy Lord

Problem is: Ollie isn't dealing with gullible oul wans, he's dealing with callous sharks such as Jeremiah O'Reilly who would think nothing of bulldozing him, Shels, Tolka Park, as well as anything and anyone who stands in the way of them making shedloads of money.
O'Reilly tried to pull a fast one with Rovers in Tallaght, but got nobbled. He saw a mirror image of Tony Maguire/Joe Colwell in Ollie and went for it. I genuinely thought Ollie was smarter than that, but the Champions League mirage caught him like a rabbit in headlights.

That's very harsh thing to say about Joe Colwell..

**gspain** · 05/01/2007, 7:17 AM

Am I the only non Shels fan that feels genuinely sorry for Ollie here?

I appreciate he has make enemies and can rub people up the wrong way. However nobody can question his commitment to Shelbourne FC and doing what he thought was best for the club.

He was clearly chasing the dream of making the Group Stages of the Champions League. He saw the opportunity to maybe finally have Irish football fans supporting an irish team rather than Man Utd/Liverpool. I'll save my anger for those who came into clubs with the sole intention of milking them for personal profit.

**CharlesThompson** · 05/01/2007, 7:29 AM

Not sure if you're the only neutral to sympathise with him, but I'd say you're in a very small minority. If you listen to any of his interviews this week it is plain to see that Oily places himself with more importance than the club he proports to love. Anything he says is laced with his own personal feelings i.e. I've put myself out for this club, I stood this club back up, I can't/won't take a backseat in my club. Oily thinks that he is Shelbourne and that Shelbourne is him.

He has spent over €6.5m over the last three years of money the club was promised by the sale of it's ground on increasing players wages - something we have all had to deal with since - and has remortgaged the future of his club by gambling on Champions League success. This money should have been ringfenced for structural funds in guaranteeing that when the inevitable comes and Shels are kicked out of Tolka Park that their future will be in their own hands. Thanks to Oily, that is now not going to be the case and the people who are going to pay for this ultimately are the supporters of the club.

**OneRedArmy** · 05/01/2007, 7:54 AM

Originally Posted by gspain

Am I the only non Shels fan that feels genuinely sorry for Ollie here?

I appreciate he has make enemies and can rub people up the wrong way. However nobody can question his commitment to Shelbourne FC and doing what he thought was best for the club.

He was clearly chasing the dream of making the Group Stages of the Champions League. He saw the opportunity to maybe finally have Irish football fans supporting an irish team rather than Man Utd/Liverpool. I'll save my anger for those who came into clubs with the sole intention of milking them for personal profit.

I'm not buying the naive dreamer line.

Ask the Derry City fan he allegedly assaulted if he is sorry for him?

Ask those who were on the end of his many legal threats and actions?

He has caused more damage than improvement to the League and if it takes Shels going under to get him out of football then so be it.

**green-blood** · 05/01/2007, 7:59 AM

That's very harsh thing to say about Joe Colwell..

rubbish, the guy has got a very easy ride of it... nice chap, they all are when you're having a pint, but just as bad as the rest. I wonder which port the stadium roof is waiting at now???

**BohsFans** · 05/01/2007, 8:28 AM

there goes the co-efficient!

**drummerboy** · 05/01/2007, 9:03 AM

Lots of sympathy for genuine Shels supporters. Ollie has sold the family heirlooms, seemingly without the backing of other board members, who have since resigned. The investors he talks about are no more than vultures, waiting to build apartments and make a shedload of cash. They will bankroll Shels until 2008, if Byrne vanishes. By that time Shels will be tennants to either Bohs or Fingal Co Council. Obviously no bank is going to touch Shels now, otherwise they would have reached agreement with Fingal for Santry.

**OneRedArmy** · 05/01/2007, 9:15 AM

Originally Posted by drummerboy

Lots of sympathy for genuine Shels supporters. Ollie has sold the family heirlooms, seemingly without the backing of other board members, who have since resigned. The investors he talks about are no more than vultures, waiting to build apartments and make a shedload of cash. They will bankroll Shels until 2008, if Byrne vanishes. By that time Shels will be tennants to either Bohs or Fingal Co Council. Obviously no bank is going to touch Shels now, otherwise they would have reached agreement with Fingal for Santry.

Why would you have sympathy for Shels supporters?

They knowingly rode the rollercoaster on the way up, when it was clear to everyone that the sums didn't add up and they deified Ollie, refusing to question or criticise and buying into the dream. Its only in the last few months when the wall of lies collapsed that they have started to whine.

Too little, too late.