The Official Derry Rovers Hoolie Not Much Happened Thread

**Frankfurt Hoop** · 15/05/2007, 1:43 AM

Great match and great atmos at tonight's game. Fair play to the Derry fans as usual.

Nothing outrageous happened, I'm bored to report. Except a bunch of skangers tried to rob the engine from the Hoops Supporters Club bus. In advance of any ferocious rebuttals from enraged Derry wordsmiths, Rovers fans are happy to accept that the local disaffected youth involved were not at the match. In fact it's pretty difficult to be at a match and rob the engine out of bus that's parked 500m away at the same time. So let's get that out of the way.

Why they didn't just rob the bus and take the engine out later escapes me. And after they'd misappropriated the engine from the bus, how were they going to get it out of the car park? Maybe on shopping trolleys?

**dcfcsteve** · 15/05/2007, 1:47 AM

Originally Posted by Frankfurt Hoop

Great match and great atmos at tonight's game. Fair play to the Derry fans as usual.

Nothing outrageous happened, I'm bored to report. Except a bunch of skangers tried to rob the engine from the Hoops Supporters Club bus. In advance of any ferocious rebuttals from enraged Derry wordsmiths, Rovers fans are happy to accept that the local disaffected youth involved were not at the match. In fact it's pretty difficult to be at a match and rob the engine out of bus that's parked 500m away at the same time. So let's get that out of the way.

Why they didn't just rob the bus and take the engine out later escapes me. And after they'd misappropriated the engine from the bus, how were they going to get it out of the car park? Maybe on shopping trolleys?

You sure it wasn't the wheels that came off Rovers tonight, not the engine....?

**SkStu** · 15/05/2007, 4:58 AM

Originally Posted by Frankfurt Hoop

Why they didn't just rob the bus and take the engine out later escapes me. And after they'd misappropriated the engine from the bus, how were they going to get it out of the car park? Maybe on shopping trolleys?

sounds like you could teach them where theyre going wrong?

**BohsPartisan** · 15/05/2007, 9:07 AM

Originally Posted by robbiesdrogs

a bit more imaginative than robbing the bus surely would there be a market for used bus engines???

If you steal enough of them, there'll be people looking for replacements.

**rebs23** · 15/05/2007, 9:22 AM

It's absolutely outrageous that such an incident should occur to a great bunch of travelling supporters who sang their heart out for the team for the entire 90 minutes and brought the biggest away support to Derry in well over 100 years.
I am going to immediately contact the Derry Tourist Office (as LOI Supporter of course) to complain that visiting buses are no longer safe and that measures must be taken by the stewards and police to ensure the safe passage of buses to and from Derry.
Just because some flash hallions from the South come up to Derry with their brand new 3000cc engines does not justify some local toe rag trying to rob them.
Hasn't anyone thought of the mini buses!

**Dodge** · 15/05/2007, 9:27 AM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

You sure it wasn't the wheels that came off Rovers tonight, not the engine....?

Yet another fan tries to deflect away from the problem

Derry obviously has a major problem with engine stealing steve! Rather than have a go at Rovers maybe you should sort your own problems out!!!

**OneRedArmy** · 15/05/2007, 9:41 AM

This is the start of the fightback Dubs!

We are sick and tired of having our poor Nordie vehicles robbed on our trips to Dublin (not to mention taking 10 years after we came into the LoI to realise that you weren't actually obliged to pay the auld fella in the flat cap to "mind yer car").

**dcfcsteve** · 15/05/2007, 10:42 AM

Rumour is that the hoods involved were actually looking to take the engine from the Rovers team.

Then someone told them we already signed Pat McCourt 2 years ago, so they had to console themselves with the bus engine instead.....

We should have just hijacked and burned it for tradition's sake......

**CharlesThompson** · 15/05/2007, 10:44 AM

Well far be it for me to intrude on this abysmal attempt of Rovers SCUM [sic] to garner sympathy from the greater support of the eircom League of Ireland pupulous, but this would never have happened if in fact you did not bring the bus with you in the first place.

There are numerous options you could have chosen for the purpose of transporting your fanbase into northern Ireland to see the match. Bringing a bus with you was obviously an incitement on your part to the Derry youth in the first instance but then leaving the bus unaccompanied for the duration of the proceedings at the Brandywell Stadium was always going to be like a red rag to a bull under the circumstances.

Trying to blame our innocent northern compatriots in this way by inciting them to remove the engine from your bus is obviously a (poor) attempt at deflecting from the inappropriate and despicable chanting and singing by the core support in green and white hoops who travelled up to the Brandwell appropriated in the name of Shamrock Rovers and it has to stop.

Chants like "Rovers (clap clap clap) Rovers (clap clap clap)" and other such abberations are clearly not acceptable in this day and age and no amount of engine robbing or bus molestation should take away from the seriousness of the issue.

And trying to paper over the utter contempt your players have of scoring into open goals by running into each other and falling to the ground, with blaming bystanders in the general Bogside area of common thievery of bus engines is only fit to be ignored and seen for what it actually is, i.e. deflecting critisism in a most abhorrent way.

Good night! :wheresthesmiliesgone:

**lofty9** · 15/05/2007, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by robbiesdrogs

i just cant picture it really was there many involved

Just the one engine.............

**dcfcsteve** · 15/05/2007, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by robbiesdrogs

i just cant picture it really was there many involved

No - just the one engine....

**dcfcsteve** · 15/05/2007, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by lofty9

Just the one engine.............

Bar-steward - yee beat me to it......!

**lofty9** · 15/05/2007, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

Bar-steward - yee beat me to it......!

I was going to say great minds and all that, but we're not from Cork!

**dcfcsteve** · 15/05/2007, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by lofty9

I was going to say great minds and all that, but we're not from Cork!

Hence why 'great minds' would've been appropriate......

**dcfcsteve** · 15/05/2007, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by robbiesdrogs

i asked for that really

did nutsy offer to repair the engine

No - all the tools were in the away part of the ground....! (ba-boom)

Thank you ladies and gentlemen - I'm here all week....

**Jerry The Saint** · 15/05/2007, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by robbiesdrogs

i asked for that really

did nutsy offer to repair the engine

I think it's time for the engine to take a long hard look at itself. It hasn't been firing on all cylinders this season.

**Frankfurt Hoop** · 15/05/2007, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by CharlesThompson

And trying to paper over the utter contempt your players have of scoring into open goals by running into each other and falling to the ground, with blaming bystanders in the general Bogside area of common thievery of bus engines...

C'mon on, Charles. It's a well documented fact that footballers run into each other and fall over in front of open goals when the local tracksuited are trying to half-inch the engine out of their supporters bus. Losing 0-1 away is the invariable result of the despair that players often feel as the result of such outrages. It's about time Scully got his act together and started pointing his finger in the right direction after matches. The "small club from Dublin" chant also upset players and was extremely unhelpful to our cause. One word - disgraceful.

On a happier note, Ian Paisley is hardly a wet week in power and he's already doing a great job. If Enda Kenny wants to win the election he should sign the Reverend P up as party leader immediately. I got eight cans of Stella and and two large Snickers bars for 12 Euro in a pub in Omagh last night. There's a contract we could all sign up to.