Mon 24th - Rovers v UCD 17.00 - MNS starts 23.40

**mypost** · 24/10/2011, 4:40 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I'd imagine RTÉ will try and encourage the game to go ahead.

I've never known a UCD home game to be postponed; the pitch is usually in decent nick. That said, the Bowl is in, well, a bowl, and I don't recall such heavy, persistent rain all match-day since we moved. No sign of a let-up either; meteireann.ie suggests it's about to get even heavier.

Edit - yeah, first time for everything it seems. Game off. Dunno when we'll get a chance to play it as the rain seems to be in for the week?

Edit edit - actually, looks like Wednesday's going to be clear; maybe then? Away to Sligo on Friday, so has to be either tomorrow or Wednesday really.

More rain expected tomorrow. Mad to reschedule it tomorrow, just to suit the FAI.

Both clubs should have objected. It should be played next Monday. The league will be won by then.

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 24/10/2011, 4:42 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

More rain expected tomorrow. Mad to reschedule it tomorrow, just to suit the FAI.

Both clubs should have objected. It should be played next Monday. The league will be won by then.

Would UCD need to pay their players for an extra week though if it got rescheduled to beyond the end of the season?

**Buller** · 24/10/2011, 5:04 PM

Latest pics from belfield:

**pineapple stu** · 24/10/2011, 5:15 PM

Are those photos real? The first doesn't look like the Bowl (the background doesn't look correct). The second - if that's what the ground was like, why on earth was there a pitch inspection?

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

Would UCD need to pay their players for an extra week though if it got rescheduled to beyond the end of the season?

Contracts end on the last day of the season. I remember when we were in the Cup semi in 2007, it would have cost us as much to extend the players' contracts as we would have gotten from being in the final in the first place.

If the game were on next Monday though, maybe we could get around it. Rovers are going to beat Galway anyway, so this game isn't really decisive.

**PartySaint** · 24/10/2011, 5:17 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Are those photos real? The first doesn't look like the Bowl (the background doesn't look correct). The second - if that's what the ground was like, why on earth was there a pitch inspection?

He he he

This game doesn't really matter, Rovers are gong to win the league on Friday, may as well just leave it and mark it down as a draw

**Buller** · 24/10/2011, 5:17 PM

:O Wow my photoshopping is better than I thought!

But seriously I put it on my facebook there and about 5 people have commented horrified!! They are genuinely scared to go into college tomorrow...

Ive no idea where the first picture is from I was only kidding :P

**pineapple stu** · 24/10/2011, 5:22 PM

Originally Posted by Buller

:O Wow my photoshopping is better than I thought!

Touché. It's not actually bad, in fairness! I've been down the country all day so wasn't entirely sure what the rain was like (except that Kilmac on the way back up genuinely doesn't look too dissimilar to your photo).

**mypost** · 24/10/2011, 5:36 PM

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

Would UCD need to pay their players for an extra week though if it got rescheduled to beyond the end of the season?

The season ends when the last game is played. In our case it's December.

**Dunny** · 24/10/2011, 6:03 PM

Good to see Tony McD back

**colinf** · 24/10/2011, 6:43 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Are those photos real? The first doesn't look like the Bowl (the background doesn't look correct). The second - if that's what the ground was like, why on earth was there a pitch inspection?

Contracts end on the last day of the season. I remember when we were in the Cup semi in 2007, it would have cost us as much to extend the players' contracts as we would have gotten from being in the final in the first place.

If the game were on next Monday though, maybe we could get around it. Rovers are going to beat Galway anyway, so this game isn't really decisive.

how the hell did you ever get into UCD?

**Red4Eva** · 24/10/2011, 6:51 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Are those photos real? The first doesn't look like the Bowl (the background doesn't look correct). The second - if that's what the ground was like, why on earth was there a pitch inspection?

Are you serious or just fishing?

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 24/10/2011, 7:08 PM

Originally Posted by mypost

The season ends when the last game is played. In our case it's December.

But at the start of the season clubs would budget for the season to end on Friday. If they get to the cup final or the group stages in Europe then the extra wages that they will have to pay for the extra weeks would be covered by the gate receipts / prize money they would receive for reaching the latter stages of these tournaments.

UCD though wouldn't be getting this extra money (indeed if it was moved to Monday they'll get way less people at the game as Shams will already have won the league by beating Galway so would lose out on the double if they had to pay an extra weeks wages)

**Schumi** · 24/10/2011, 7:38 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Are those photos real?

Of course not, the bottom is clearly Tolka Park in 2005.

**bennocelt** · 24/10/2011, 7:52 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

Of course not, the bottom is clearly Tolka Park in 2005.

Where is Bertie?

**athloneman** · 24/10/2011, 7:54 PM

any one else notice that they got the day and date wrong for the last first division fixtures of the season??

**dcfc_1928** · 24/10/2011, 8:05 PM

Yes, the presenter of the show noticed. Con mentioned that the caption was wrong and that the games were due to be played on Saturday.

Originally Posted by athloneman

any one else notice that they got the day and date wrong for the last first division fixtures of the season??

**Schumi** · 24/10/2011, 8:23 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

Where is Bertie?

Facedown?

**placid casual** · 24/10/2011, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by bennocelt

Where is Bertie?

Up to his balls in bibbi baskin ?

the right decision was made on the game tonight.
With better weather tomorrow it should be a decent crowd, and hopefully a decent game.

students ? bag o ****e....

**mypost** · 25/10/2011, 12:20 AM

Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah

But at the start of the season clubs would budget for the season to end on Friday. If they get to the cup final or the group stages in Europe then the extra wages that they will have to pay for the extra weeks would be covered by the gate receipts / prize money they would receive for reaching the latter stages of these tournaments.

UCD though wouldn't be getting this extra money (indeed if it was moved to Monday they'll get way less people at the game as Shams will already have won the league by beating Galway so would lose out on the double if they had to pay an extra weeks wages)

They would have budgeted for the season finishing on Friday, but it's not that simple, and things change. Sligo have to play another week, Galway will have to play another week, we have to play until December, and the game was postponed tonight. Only the league season is scheduled to finish on Friday, there's still lots of football to play after it, and lots of contracts have to be reviewed.

**marinobohs** · 25/10/2011, 9:51 AM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Is it still on TV?

Announced last night on MNS that it would be on "live" if it goes ahead tonight. Given the level of rain this morning and history of bad drainage atTolka I would be wary of possible cancellation for Shels game.