enough for the prem...

**4th-div-are-we** · 27/09/2007, 7:54 PM

ramblers have done extremely well this year beating great teams throughout but will they have what it takes for the likes of drogheda,shamrock rovers and cork city...well maybe not cork city!!!...but if we get up will we stay up....?

**Mr A** · 27/09/2007, 8:25 PM

Time enough to worry about that, gotta get there first.

**rambler14** · 27/09/2007, 8:55 PM

Originally Posted by 4th-div-are-we

ramblers have done extremely well this year beating great teams throughout but will they have what it takes for the likes of drogheda,shamrock rovers and cork city...well maybe not cork city!!!...but if we get up will we stay up....?

GET OFF THIS FORUM NOW!
Ramblers are a way better team than Cork City and have been for the past 2-3 years, which is proven in the fact that rams record vs city is so good. We also play better football than them and we are more creative than those negative fools.
In response to your question it'll be tough to stay up but i think we can do it.............just.

**4th-div-are-we** · 27/09/2007, 9:00 PM

thats why i said.MAYBE NOT CORK CITY..!!!!

**rambler14** · 27/09/2007, 9:03 PM

Ahh, i think what u were trying to say is that cork city arn't a great team. my bad.

**Sam_Heggy** · 27/09/2007, 9:11 PM

Next season will be a real test for any team promoted imo. With 3 teams to be relegated and just one promoted the chances are high, but ye have to get there first b4 worryin about such things

**adamcarr** · 27/09/2007, 9:23 PM

Originally Posted by rambler14

GET OFF THIS FORUM NOW!
Ramblers are a way better team than Cork City and have been for the past 2-3 years, which is proven in the fact that rams record vs city is so good. We also play better football than them and we are more creative than those negative fools.
In response to your question it'll be tough to stay up but i think we can do it.............just.

Thats brilliant. We may not be great but we are much better than your shower. Rams recored vs City, name one meaningful game that we have played against ye in the last 5 years?

**drinkfeckarse** · 28/09/2007, 7:29 AM

Originally Posted by rambler14

Ramblers are a way better team than Cork City and have been for the past 2-3 years,
In response to your question it'll be tough to stay up but i think we can do it.............just.

Stop being stupid man! Ramblers do not have the quality that City have, a blind man can see that. We can match them on our day but that is a completely different thing.

You answered your own question by saying "it'll be tough to stay up". Do you think City find it tough to stay up?

**thegafferman** · 28/09/2007, 8:34 AM

well said ....if we are to stay up if we need about six players ,and we can match city on the day but not long term which is requierd for survival in the premiership

**Rams-07** · 28/09/2007, 9:06 AM

Ya must agree with you there Gafferman..tougher league altogether in the premier...we would definitly need some quality players..but lets cross that bridge when we come to it..
Tonight is probably one of the most important games in the clubs history..
if we win tonight its in our own hands..
After listening to Hendo at the AGM and finding out that the wages had been cut to nearly nothing I must confess I didnt have much hope for the season...I certainly didnt think we would be league leaders at this stage..
So whatever happens tonight the players and management team can be poud of what they have done...Its been a great season and I must say i`m proud to be a rambers supporter today...

**4th-div-are-we** · 28/09/2007, 11:54 AM

i think if we get up we will just scrape staying up next year...ramblers have quality players on their team but maybe some areas need strenghtening...?.

**jebus** · 28/09/2007, 12:08 PM

Don't want to be a doomsday merchant, but staying in the Prem next year is gonna be one tough task, what with three teams getting relegated and all. Still if your manager can bring in a few Prem quality players and keep the team spirit going ye'd be in with as good a chance as any

**chimpster** · 28/09/2007, 12:45 PM

If we can see this thing through and get promotion, we won't struggle to find the players we need to stay up. The fringe first-teamers at City will try and jump ship to Cobh before you can say 'Rico looks like a p*rnstar', so we could expect the likes of Darren Murphy, Colin O'Brien and Mark McNulty knocking on the gates of St. Colman's soon enough. If Waterford go down, we would also have the pick of their squad (Dave Warren, Vinny Sullivan, Cathal Lordan?) as well as any Limerick players who may be good enough (not too sure about that one!). Don't think we'll be short of options somehow.

**ramblersnb1** · 28/09/2007, 12:49 PM

ya xaclty as long as ray lally stays away well b fine

**Sam_Heggy** · 28/09/2007, 12:52 PM

dont want to burst your bubble chimpster, but do ye have the funds to bring in this whole new squad of prem quality players?
300 at yer last game doesnt suggest a club that could sustain big wages, thats on the back of 26/27 games unbeaten, imagine what the crowds would be like if ye were struggling (and any team that goes up WILL struggle)
Next season will prove to be the most difficult season for newly promoted clubs, any club going up will have to take a BIG chance and spend big hoping to have good crowds all season (very tough ask)

**Rams-07** · 28/09/2007, 1:39 PM

Good point Sam Heggy...Lets get over the first hurdle tonight and see what happens from there.
As for some of the players mentioned above,they wouldnt get a game with springfield B team (no disrespect there lads)

**depor** · 28/09/2007, 5:14 PM

Originally Posted by adamcarr

Thats brilliant. We may not be great but we are much better than your shower. Rams recored vs City, name one meaningful game that we have played against ye in the last 5 years?

maybe ramblers 14 was a bit harsh by saying city are ****, but he has a point. as regards your comment, it is typical of some city supporters. and b4 you accuse me of being loyal to rams (which i am) and anti city, i have gone to a lot of city games over the years which a lot of 'loyal city' supporters havnt been, how many of ye were in bishopstown when city nearly went under, when i was at some of them games there was less than 80 at um.

and as regards 'meaningful games', they are meaningful when ye win um, for example last year in the cross, city were all up for it b4 the game, and ramblers played them off the park, after the game richardson comes out and says theres no future in the league cup and the fans said they didnt have a full side on, in fact it was one of the few times that season they had a full side, o callaghan was playing, o flynn was playing, joe gamble, the only change to the 1st team was mcnulty for devine. city are the 'shower' in this county.
''we need 40 million to bring it to the next level'', what a shower of money grabbers, why dont these buisness men invest their own money?? why dont city get their own ground??

**depor** · 28/09/2007, 5:20 PM

Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy

dont want to burst your bubble chimpster, but do ye have the funds to bring in this whole new squad of prem quality players?
300 at yer last game doesnt suggest a club that could sustain big wages, thats on the back of 26/27 games unbeaten, imagine what the crowds would be like if ye were struggling (and any team that goes up WILL struggle)
Next season will prove to be the most difficult season for newly promoted clubs, any club going up will have to take a BIG chance and spend big hoping to have good crowds all season (very tough ask)

i agree it will be tough but 300 at the last game is absolute bull, there was way more than that. and i know that if rams go up the crowds will be big. people want to see prem football teams coming down to play.

**The Good Son** · 28/09/2007, 5:46 PM

Originally Posted by depor

i have gone to a lot of city games over the years which a lot of 'loyal city' supporters havnt been, how many of ye were in bishopstown when city nearly went under, when i was at some of them games there was less than 80 at um.

Crowds were bad at Parc De Plonk at times, but if you think that there were games in the league, FAI Cup or even league cup with less than 80 'at um', then Queenstown must have a very different counting system than the rest of the world.