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Billy O'Toole 
Liam Brady
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 Topic: All Ireland League and Cash
Posted: 01 Jan 2008 at 12:48pm |
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Fintan Drury can go ahead and try to get this going but if you dont get the crowds ur screwed and Im afraid you just wont get the crowds...end of Fintan
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Ybig holy jaysus - 4 points for Gerk & Count
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Robbie Keane
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Posted: 01 Jan 2008 at 3:21pm |
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Quite right Billy, pie in the sky.
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We'll never die, we'll never die, we'll keep the Green Flag flying high......Shamrock Rovers will never die, we'll keep the Green Flag Flying high. 19 Leagues and 25 Cups.....
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RogerMilla
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Posted: 02 Jan 2008 at 4:15am |
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lads why wouldnt you get the crowds ? surely you would get even more interest in these clashes ?
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The first time the Devil made me do it. The second time I did it on my own.
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Robbie Keane
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Posted: 02 Jan 2008 at 7:24am |
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Roger, there just isn't the culture of going to LOI matches anymore in this country. You'll always just have the hardcore of LOI fans and some of the bigger clashes sometimes swell the gates to respectable, but the vast majority of soccer fans in this country just don't rate the LOI as an entertainment and just don't bother. It's sad but it's fact and the Prem League now thanks to Sky has just completely won over most soccer fans in this country. My own attendance at Rovers has improved again the last 18 months/2 years and will even more so with Tallaght finally getting finished, but even though gates have increased (according to Delaney), it will still struggle. Even that wonderful 4 in a Row Hoops team in the 80s couldn't attract the crowds they deserved, they played wonderful football but Irish people stayed away.
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We'll never die, we'll never die, we'll keep the Green Flag flying high......Shamrock Rovers will never die, we'll keep the Green Flag Flying high. 19 Leagues and 25 Cups.....
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RogerMilla
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Posted: 02 Jan 2008 at 7:36am |
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FW in my opinion the only way to get fellas to EL games is to get them playing better in europe consistently , i think an AIL would help this
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The first time the Devil made me do it. The second time I did it on my own.
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The GerK
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Posted: 02 Jan 2008 at 9:20am |
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On the entertainment thing, I was at Anfield about 6 times and bar the Chelsea semi final, the other five, for entertainment, were poor.
I was at many Rovers games last season where there was better entertainmenbt value - and it was only a short drive to get there
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Posted: 02 Jan 2008 at 11:14am |
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Exactly, you'll see entertaining games and sh*t games no matter what league. I think All Ireland league should happen, might generate little more interest from general public and bigger tv deals etc. I do agree with what freewheeler says but dont think we should just give up. In sayin that not one thing is going to improve things, alot more has to be done, especially improving facilites and better stadiums. Its sh*t seeing teams qualifying for europe and then some of them have to play at different grounds, drogheda bein a prime example in recent years, already at a disadvantage havin to travel to dublin to play theyre home ties.
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Posted: 02 Jan 2008 at 11:15am |
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Exactly, you'll see entertaining games and sh*t games no matter what league. I think All Ireland league should happen, might generate little more interest from general public and bigger tv deals etc. I do agree with what freewheeler says but dont think we should just give up. In sayin that not one thing is going to improve things, alot more has to be done, especially improving facilites and better stadiums. Its sh*t seeing teams qualifying for europe and then some of them have to play at different grounds, drogheda bein a prime example in recent years, already at a disadvantage havin to travel to dublin to play theyre home ties.
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Robbie Keane
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Posted: 02 Jan 2008 at 12:47pm |
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Fair points, ever more cynical I'm getting with the ageing process.
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We'll never die, we'll never die, we'll keep the Green Flag flying high......Shamrock Rovers will never die, we'll keep the Green Flag Flying high. 19 Leagues and 25 Cups.....
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Bob Hoskins
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Posted: 18 Jan 2008 at 1:41pm |
doesn't look like this is a goer now, quotes from both associations in the papers are against the idea..pity
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Romario 2016: And the ticket mafia gets caught! Well, four years ago I had already told the government.
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Billy O'Toole
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Posted: 20 Jan 2008 at 6:36am |
 GerKeano wrote:
On the entertainment thing, I was at Anfield about 6 times and bar the Chelsea semi final, the other five, for entertainment, were poor.
I was at many Rovers games last season where there was better entertainmenbt value - and it was only a short drive to get there |
Short drive yeah ok..
Rovers are sh*t and there is no way there was any entertainment value unless there was loads of naked ladies on the pitch for 90mins
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Ybig holy jaysus - 4 points for Gerk & Count
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Billy O'Toole
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Posted: 20 Jan 2008 at 6:38am |
Bob Hoskins wrote:
doesn't look like this is a goer now, quotes from both associations in the papers are against the idea..pity |
Like I said Bob..lads are out of their mind if they thought this would happen and be successful ...sh*t Kilkenny had only 100 people going to their games.. I wouldnt go to see Kilkenny and cant blame the people in Kilkenny either
Edited by Billy O'Toole - 20 Jan 2008 at 6:39am
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Ybig holy jaysus - 4 points for Gerk & Count
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