Shamrock Rovers Thread

Who they name on the bench is by and large insignificant,the first eleven are not ķids and you know it.of the young lads trevor clarke would walk onto any team in the league,boyd would make 6 or 7 teams and the rest of your starters are established loi players.however if you fel bradley is a competent manager of shams then fair enough,personally id love to se him stay on ,maybe a 5 year contract.

Finish ahead of us??? Are you mad, your budget is how many multiples of ours?? We are spending the lowest in the league, what's your excuse? Although Anthony buttimer would be fair enough tonight I suppose

Green Devil wrote: Doyler1993 wrote: Green Devil wrote: oldbilly wrote: All nonsense.he has maybe 4 max players who are inexperienced or young at any one time.there are several players there who have played at a "higher" level in england.all are pros.they have a budget in the top 3 in the country.a stadium with minimal rent.a free 1,000,000 hand out from a superfan to fund development and mcfail cronin duff gartland robinson etc as coaches.bullsh*t excuses,they should be top 3 minimum. How so? The Rovers bench had 4 or 5 really young players on it tonight? Do you think football and football results just work like that in an instant???  Every team in the league bar the three i mentioned have benches full of 18/19/20 year olds on a weekly basis.  Derry didn't vs Galway last week. Limerick didn't vs Galway tonight. So you're telling porkies

Edited by Doyler1993 - 21 Apr 2017 at 11:56pm

The average age of the Shamrock team tonight was 25.2, the average age of Cork City was 26.1. Conor Ellis is a 19 year old who has come on in 7 matches, Shane Griffin came on tonight is a 22 year old local lad who was let go at Reading, Kevin O'Connor was signed from Waterford three years ago when he was 18. Seani Maguire himself is only 22. You would swear the likes of Cork and Dundalk were teams full of gnarled veterans and that Shamrock were some club playing the under 18s.

Doyler1993 wrote: I think you might be missing my point though. Every team in the league are promoting an awful lot of young players from within bar maybe cork/dundalk and bray. Its just that rovers are the only ones going on about it every week to try and distract from their horrible start to the season.  And before and cork and dundalk fans start to argue I understand that your squads are of a much higher quality and therefore making it much harder for 19 year olds to break in which is no real fault of the club itself.

Green Devil wrote: Doyler1993 wrote: I think you might be missing my point though. Every team in the league are promoting an awful lot of young players from within bar maybe cork/dundalk and bray. Its just that rovers are the only ones going on about it every week to try and distract from their horrible start to the season.  And before and cork and dundalk fans start to argue I understand that your squads are of a much higher quality and therefore making it much harder for 19 year olds to break in which is no real fault of the club itself.  I'm not missing your point, I get what you're saying! Rovers despite signing a couple of players like Corry/Davy Mc etc seem to be drifting away from signing nomads and players who are past it on big €€€ and turning to youth to an extent instead and it will probably continue to be the case.  Despite the big budget, there are plenty of long term contracts being handed to very young players and it's encouraging.

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Edited by Doyler1993 - 22 Apr 2017 at 12:32am

Green Devil wrote: Doyler1993 wrote: Green Devil wrote: Doyler1993 wrote: Green Devil wrote: Dugs wrote: If i hear this kids malarkey one more time. Playing kids is fine its just the kids shamrock rovers are playing just arent that great. No real stars as far as i can see.     But it's pretty evident that Rovers have stopped signing 30+ year old journeymen and replaced them with young players for the most part? You only have to look at that sh*te Stephen Kenny signed?  How many teams are blooding young players in the LOI at a steady rate outside of Rovers? Kids need time and you cannot ignore that Rovers are at least trying to bridge that gap between youth football and senior ball by blooding players from within. Majority of teams in premier division have very similar and even younger age squads than rovers so using the kids excuse is just a cop out by the fans and management. Harps, Galway, Bohs, Drogheda, Pats, Sligo, Derry and limerick are all blooding u19 and a lot of their starting 11 would be under 25 just theyre not using it as an excuse week in week out when results dont go their way.  The only squads who would have a good bit of experience would be dundalk, cork and bray.  Rovers had a 32, 27, 28, 29 and a 30 year old in the starting 11 tonight. They only had 2 players under the age of 20 in tonight's line up.  Look at how young Rovers bench was though? Take out Davie and Michael O'Connor and what do you have? A bench full of kids.... Name me one other team outside bray/dundalk/cork who have an older squad or more experience than rovers? Pats.....

If that's true there cannot be much in it. Would love to see the averages confirmed. I know when the 2 teams met in Inchicore they were near dead level on starting 11s

skinnymalinx wrote: Twoinarow wrote: This is fantastic reading 😂 hopefully it makes up for the fact that your teams hopes of doing 4 in a row is in tatters.. only great teams do 4 in a row.

More chance of us doing 4 in a row than you qualifying for Europe.