Shamrock Rovers Ultras

[dubnut]

Classy bunch!
Suppose the arent "the Ultras" 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzys_0gunL4

[dublinfella]

Classy bunch!
Suppose the arent "the Ultras" 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzys_0gunL4

will we put up a link to the game in tyrone at the weekend???

glass houses etc

[oakleafgael]

I admired your persistance for a long time dublinfella but really your very far off the mark this time. Your comparing an incident of rioting and street violence with an abandoned game where there was 2/3 punches thrown?

[stephenite]

will we put up a link to the game in tyrone at the weekend???

glass houses etc

Yes please, post that link here and we'll make some comparisons.

[dublinfella]

I admired your persistance for a long time dublinfella but really your very far off the mark this time. Your comparing an incident of rioting and street violence with an abandoned game where there was 2/3 punches thrown?

Im just saying that calling soccer fans 'chavs' and 'knackers' for acting the bollocks is a bit rich from some of the same people who defend a refferee having to run in fear of a pitch.

Anyone Rovers or Bohs identify in that video will get a lifetime ban and their details passed onto the cops. Will the same action be taken by the clubs in Tyrone? Will it f**k.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

[Bensars]

I admired your persistance for a long time dublinfella but really your very far off the mark this time. Your comparing an incident of rioting and street violence with an abandoned game where there was 2/3 punches thrown?

Im just saying that calling soccer fans 'chavs' and 'knackers' for acting the bollocks is a bit rich from some of the same people who defend a refferee having to run in fear of a pitch.

Anyone Rovers or Bohs identify in that video will get a lifetime ban and their details passed onto the cops. Will the same action be taken by the clubs in Tyrone? Will it f**k.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Dudlinfella, your becoming a royal pain in the ass.  What do you know about tyrone club football ?  If you have a problem with it, im sure we could organise to have you share your wealth of information.


Your depriving some village of their idiot !!

[Good Relations]

Roche criticises Thomas Davis letter

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FINALLY...

Irish Times 18.04.07

Roche criticises Thomas Davis letter
Emmet Malone Soccer correspondent

Wed, Apr 18, 2007

Tallaght Stadium controversy:Shamrock Rovers chairman Jonathan Roche has described as "a disgrace" a letter sent earlier this month by his counterpart at Thomas Davis, Christopher O'Donnell, to members of the GAA club in relation to the issue of access to the stadium proposed for Tallaght.

Roche also says that an item of supporting documentation, which accompanied the letter, is "riddled with factual inaccuracies".

In the letter, dated April 7th, O'Donnell encourages members to make an election issue of the club's fight to win access to the stadium and provides detailed instruction to members on how the issue should be raised with politicians during the forthcoming election campaign.

He also suggests they should not support local Fianna Fail TD Conor Lenihan, a Minister for State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, because he has recently signalled to club officials his support for the line taken by John O'Donoghue, that Government funding for the project be conditional upon it being used solely for soccer. O'Donnell says the politician has been informed he will not be welcome at the club until the GAA is accommodated at the stadium.

Lenihan said last night that while he was aware of the letter's content he found it both "surprising and ironic" that he first heard about it last Thursday night while attending a charity fund-raiser at the club. "I was being treated to drinks by senior members of the club and talking to a couple of former players who were special guests at the function when somebody approached me solemnly and presented me with a copy of the letter. Given how welcome I was made to feel on the night, I haven't really bothered to pursue the matter."

While O'Donnell clearly suggests to members in the letter that Thomas Davis and GAA other clubs in the area have been warned their stand on Tallaght might preclude them from receiving funds under the Government's Sports Capital Programme, Lenihan points out that one reason he believes he was made so welcome at the function was the news the club had just been allocated some €200,000 under the scheme.

"There seems to have been a suggestion that they couldn't benefit from Sports Capital Programme funding but as a result of the type of representations made by me, amongst others, the club received €200,000 only last week and I have been instrumental in obtaining over €600,000 in funding for Thomas Davis over the last few years. It is a matter of deep regret that we should have such a deep division between supporters of two sporting codes, and people on both sides of this debate have gone too far in what they have said at times. It would still be a concern of mine, however, that if Thomas Davis are successful in having the stadium opened then it may be the case that other clubs will take cases to have facilities already funded and built opened up too."

Within Rovers, meanwhile, there is disquiet over what the club's officials see as the latest attempt to undermine their attempts to get into the Tallaght development. In O'Donnell's letter he states on a number of occasions that Thomas Davis did not want to do this and that they did not intend either to dispute their neighbour's status as "anchor tenants" at the stadium.

However, Rovers' club secretary Noel Byrne points to a letter written in September 2005 by another Thomas Davis official, David Kennedy, to Dublin County Board chief executive John Costello as evidence that the club's public position cannot be readily taken at face value. In that letter Kennedy notes that in communications with South Dublin County Council, which is to complete the stadium, Thomas Davis have accepted the facility will also be used for soccer. "Tactically," he writes, "I think that has to be right for now. I'm confident (however) that in any bout with Rovers," he concludes, "that the GAA will be the last man standing."

Byrne believes the lack of any attempt by Thomas Davis to build trust between the two clubs in the aftermath of that letter becoming public calls into doubt anything that the GAA outfit might say now. "We continue to take advice on the situation while watching with amazement the activities of Thomas Davis and nothing they have done to date would suggest to us that they want to forge a long-term relationship with Shamrock Rovers" he says.

On this occasion a number of documents are attached to the letter including a circular from Costello to members of the GAA's central council in which a brief synopsis of the Tallaght stadium story to date is provided. Roche says this document is "riddled with factual inaccuracies" and that the overall tone of the new letter is similar to Kennedy's.

"They claim no Shamrock Rovers money went into what has been built so far but that's simply not true," he says. "The 400 club alone provided over €100,000 for the payment of professional fees and other items related to the project.

"Now, setting all of that aside, I have no problem whatsoever with junior gaelic or hockey or any other type of sporting contest being staged at this stadium as long as it doesn't require changes (an enlarged pitch) that substantially impact on and delay its delivery but that is precisely what Thomas Davis appear determined to achieve."


Enough Said...

[dubnut]

"I have no problem whatsoever with junior gaelic or hockey or any other type of sporting contest being staged at this stadium as long as it doesn't require changes (an enlarged pitch)"

I play junior football and have always played on the same size pitch as senior and intermediate football.
Does this guy have a clue???

[Good Relations]

Now if ya had a clue Dubnut you would understand that he means Under Age GAA.Are you telling me that under 8,9,10 and so on play on full size senior GAA pitches. I dont think so

[continuity tug]

its no surprise scumrock rovers think that its their ground
most of their ultras are on the dole,on training schemes or working on a low wage flipping burgers
a new ground in tallaght would be a bonus to the dole cheques they get

[his holiness nb]

"Are you telling me that under 8,9,10 and so on play on full size senior GAA pitches"
Eh, no thats not at all what I'm saying! 


Good vibrations he said junior GAA, which is a lower standard of adult GAA.
If he meant underage he should have said underage or juvenile.

So dont be accusing me of not having a clue for pointing out someones mistake !  

[Good Relations]

Ya know quite well what he meant so dont be trying to justify your ridiculous comment.And again slagging off Rovers fans shows the mentality of some of the people that post here to be very low.I bet ya dont know many Rovers fans at all.

[his holiness nb]

Ya know quite well what he meant so dont be trying to justify your ridiculous comment.And again slagging off Rovers fans shows the mentality of some of the people that post here to be very low.I bet ya dont know many Rovers fans at all.

It wasnt a ridiculous comment it was FACT!

And re slaggin off Rovers fans, I only ever speak of Rovers fans I have personally witnessed.
If they behave badly how does that make my mentality "very low" ?? 

Am I dependant on the behaviour of others around me to define my mentality??
Doesnt add up Good Vibrations.

[tayto]

"They claim no Shamrock Rovers money went into what has been built so far but that's simply not true," he says. "The 400 club alone provided over €100,000 for the payment of professional fees and other items related to the project.

A whole 100k  forgive me if im not blown away by their right to dictate what size or work should be done on this project if thats all they've contributed.

He's open to hockey, that's awfully good of him, there was me thinking he didnt own the place. Serious ownership issues with this lot.

[magickingdom]

Good relations:
"The 400 club alone provided..."

good relations, dublinfella thinks theres about 500 members in the 400 club, the papers a while back said there was about 80. anyway you might know? it would be important to know just how many people now own rovers...