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Originally posted by Dougs:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by gregory_isaacs:
the FAI is a total ****ing shambles of an organisation. I wish Maxi McAllister burnt down their HQ while he was there.
:thup:
its a disgrace we didnt get up, if the bloody FAI knew we werent getting a place in the league, why bother with letting the play off go ahead?? </BLOCKQUOTE>
was never a Promotion Play-Off game that's why
Was to be used to give an additional number of IAG Points
12-18-2006, 10:45 PM
The Petrol Can Wielding 2007 eircom League of Ireland Thread Post #32
Originally posted by finneys13:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Bello expressed his jubilation at the move, "This is every poverty stricken African's dream to move to a country as rich as somewhere as Ireland."
No thanking God that he is now playing for the team he supported and loved since he was yay high? </BLOCKQUOTE>
I was chatting to Luca last week and he says the lads are extremely excited about playing in Europe, and that they are particularly excited to be rejoining himself once again.
I have high hopes for the lads, especially for Phuist whose description is along the lines of a skilful, Nazi-like mentalcase. :thup:
Anyone here ever meet Mad Tom Symmonds?
12-19-2006, 02:04 PM
The Petrol Can Wielding 2007 eircom League of Ireland Thread Post #33
Never got talking to Mad Tom myself, though seeing him freak out whilst talking to others means I don't really seek to change that. Mad Tom does though make following LoI so much better than the EPL and CL's boring corporate rubbish.
Cathal Dervan in today's Star has a decent enough piece on the nastiness of the GAA:
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It is the time of year to spare a thought for the homeless — so let’s wish the FAI well as the world gangs up against them yet again in their search for a new home for Irish soccer. Let’s face it folks, those of us in the Irish football family are facing into another spell as the nomads of the nation’s sporting community. From the Lansdowne Road residents to the Michael Guiney suits in Drumcondra and on to the Tallaghtban of the West Dublin GAA, no one likes us - but we do care. We care so much that the FAI really should cut their losses, move the Wales game in March to Tolka Park and tell the begrudgers to stick their Fainne badges where the sun don’t shine.
It is time for a reality check and a wake up call as the implications of all those decades when previous FAI regimes brushed the stadium issue under the Merrion Square carpet come home to roost.
Truth Number One - the GAA don’t want us at Croke Park. They’re not brave enough to stand up and admit it in Irish or English, but the Pioneer Pin brigade in Croker would be quite happy if soccer just disappeared off their agenda altogether. They’d rather welcome a 32 county rugby team to their North Dublin headquarters, some of whom won’t sing the national anthem and all of whom will openly stand to attention in February as they play God Save The Queen for their English visitors.
The GAA can’t even let the soccer team train on their patch. They would rather have Donnacha O’Callaghan’s red underpants on the sacred ground than Damien Duff’s silky skills. And they’re not alone.
Truth Number Two - their GAA brethren out in Tallaght want to prolong the suffering of Shamrock Rovers fans everywhere and delay their arrival in the satellite town as long as possible. The Thomas Davis Club are seriously worried that the presence of the Hoops in their catchment area will undermine their attractiveness as an outlet for the youth of Tallaght. Well lads, the behaviour of your GAA bosses in Croke Park towards Tallaght’s finest Robbie Keane and Richard Dunne isn’t doing you much good on that score. And just in case you haven’t noticed, soccer long ago passed gaelic football and hurling as the biggest participation sport for the youth of this country.
Truth Number Three - many of the residents in and around Lansdowne Road aren’t all that keen on the idea of a super stadium literally springing up over their doorsteps as their deliveries at this week’s oral hearings would seem to suggest. The FAI and the IRFU still believe in the Lansdowne Road project. They still believe the GAA’s rent boys will take their money in 2007 and in 2008, even if the price goes up year on year.
Shamrock Rovers and Thomas Davis, if they are truthful, know that the new Glenmalure Park will open as a soccer only ground as soon as the barristers stop earning handsome fees on the back of it.
They all believe in Lansdowne, Croker and Tallaght because they have to. Those of us who don’t subscribe to the manifesto though are allowed think otherwise and we should. Why are we building a new Lansdowne when there are green field sites all over Dublin county that could easily accommodate a national stadium with transport links and car parks that don’t come complete with the clampers? Why does the national stadium have to be built in traffic jam Dublin? Why does everything in this country have to centre on a capital city that is now a nightmare to get in and out of? And why didn’t the FAI solve their own problems when they had the chance to build eircom Park almost a decade ago?
The sad reality here is that Bertie Ahern’s interference stopped eircom Park in its tracks, the same eircom Park that would be up and running now but for the bullying acts of the government of the day. All Bertie succeeded in doing when he stopped eircom Park was splitting the FAI down the middle and leaving us hanging onto this hope of a new Ale Lansdowne when really he wants Irish soccer to move elsewhere.
The amazing reality is that the Bertie Bowl site out in Abbotstown is still untouched by human hand. They are in the process of building all around it but have yet to build anything on it.
I’ll bet they’re waiting for the Lansdowne Road project to collapse and the GAA to finally come clean and admit they don’t want soccer on their Holy Ground though they’re quite happy to accept €3.5m from the soccer-playing tax-payers for their floodlights. When all that falls into place Bertie will tell us he told us so and build his bowl. Five years from now we’ll all be watching the Ireland team in Abbotstown — remember where you read it first.
Amazing that they can get €3.5m for the floodlights so quickly, if that is true. If it's not, you can still imagine the planning problems any soccer club or organisation would have had for them, without the GAA's clout behind them.
AIDS > The GAA
12-19-2006, 10:20 PM
The Petrol Can Wielding 2007 eircom League of Ireland Thread Post #35
Originally posted by Aslan:
GAA > FAI and Rovers and Dervan and Pat Dolan.
Good appointment for Harps. I wanted him at Bohs. :thup:
From IFO, FinnHarps.com, eleven-a-side and all other outlets:
Finn Harps have confirmed on their official website FinnHarps.com that former player Paul Hegarty as their new manager. Hegarty replaces Anthony Gorman who combined the role with that of a player for roughly a season and a half.
Hegarty was until recently assistant manager to Stephen Kenny at Derry City.
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