[quote=“The Runt”]Not sure what Gary’s story is.
Conor Sinnott definitely played for limerick.[/quote]
He was at Reading briefly when Doyle first when over didn’t make it for whatever reason - this was pre the formation of Wexford Youths. He played for Limerick briefly and then joined his beloved hometown club on its inception. This is not poaching.
[quote=“tipptops*”]Fenlon has been officially offered the Dundee job.
Who will get the Bohs job lads? The return of Rico?[/quote]
No,
i reckon paul doolin will take over at bowes next season.
i hope Billy fenlon does well at tannadice, i guess he will be once more linking up with sean dillon who left Shels for dundee post shels taking the league title in 2006 under fenlon before they were subsequently relegated for Olly byrne’s criminality off the field.
fenlon has always had the best squad to work with over the last few years, the exception been with london-dire city whom he had a brief and diastrous stint with in 2007, however i feel with his shels and linfield backgrond he was always doomed to failure in that shithole.
i hope he does not bring in a massive amount of LOI players to dundee at the start, so many irish born managers fall into this trap, keane at sundireland for example, steven kenny did this at dunfermline and subsequently turned the local support on him and all things irish when things went ineviatbly bad and got the team relegated.
fenlon’s teams always play good football, a 2-2 draw between cork and shels in tolka in august 2006 when the LOI was going well was one of the best games iver ever seen in this country, alan moore, joey ndo, gary o neil, glen crowe, stuey byrne could really play well when fenlon wanted them.
his european record is good also
in 2004 his shels beat hadjuk split and had a 0/0 with deportivo in lansdowne road, this year his Bohs were very unlucky against salzburg, Sledge can add to thsi list.
i wish him the best
in other news, joey gamble left cork on a free to hartlepool to team up with former CCFC players denis 'the beast " behan and leon macsweeney.
90% of LOI players now out of contract, a terrible shambles of a set up.
sad to see those young men gather together for what was a glorified kickaround/job centre in Dublin yesterday.
how demoralising must that be especially when you realise you now need to find yourself a real job in the real world that doesnt exist after most probably neglecting study and personal development because of the dream of training during the day.
shame on the fai and the clubs for letting this happen.
[quote=“HBV*”]90% of LOI players now out of contract, a terrible shambles of a set up.
sad to see those young men gather together for what was a glorified kickaround/job centre in Dublin yesterday.
how demoralising must that be especially when you realise you now need to find yourself a real job in the real world that doesnt exist after most probably neglecting study and personal development because of the dream of training during the day.
shame on the fai and the clubs for letting this happen.[/QUOTE]
Some of them will get clubs between now and the start of the season, there is well over a month to go still. A lot of them like Fenn and Rogers wouldn’t be short a few bob anyway so don’t worry about them.
Did anyone read Fat Pat Dolan’s column in the Star on Wednesday or Thursday? I didn’t see it but one of the lads mentioned that he was going on about Wexford being the club having licence difficulties. Wallace formally stood down as manager around a month ago and Noel O’Connor was announced as manager but the FAI are apparently insisting that Wallace gets coaching badges or something. Dolan was batting for Wallace as they’re mates. Not sure what the full story is in truth.
Things looking up for City, word is this is an excellent proposal.
[size=“6”]New bid offers fresh hope for City future
[/size]By Liam Mackey
Friday, February 12, 2010
Against all the odds, the prospects of Cork City retaining their Premier Division status appeared to improve dramatically last night, when a local consortium made an eleventh hour bid to take control of the embattled club.
Although he had yet to receive confirmation of the offer – and was therefore not in a position to say if it would be accepted – City owner Tom Coughlan said he “warmly welcomed” news of the development.
“If someone else can pull everything together and drive on the club that would be fantastic,” he said.
Ahead of Monday’s dual deadline of a High Court winding-up hearing over an unpaid tax bill of €130,000 and the issuing of FAI club licenses for the new season, the consortium is understood to be confident of making sufficient inroads into the club’s overall debt of €500,000 to not only secure its future but also retain its place in the League of Ireland top-flight.
Up until yesterday, the very best option for Cork had looked like being a place in the First Division next season.
The new bid, facilitated by Cork-based financial consultants the Quintas Group, brings together businessmen Peter Gray and Michael O’ Connell – who had previously been involved in separate but unsuccessful takeover talks with Tom Coughlan – as well as the supporters’ group FORAS.
Peter Gray is a semi-retired businessman from the UK who now bases himself between London and Kinsale. Previously a sponsor of Millwall FC, his property development company was bought out by a Turkish firm three years ago.
Commenting on the offer to acquire Cork City FC, he said: “I have a genuine love of football and believe that Cork has the potential to be a really successful club.”
Michael O’Connell owns Mocad Golf and was previously Chief Executive of Adidas in Ireland.
According to a statement released last night, the consortium has offered FORAS the opportunity to share in the ownership and management of the club. The supporters’ trust is expected to take a vote on the matter this evening.
John O’Sullivan, Chairman of FORAS, said: “We support this move. This is a really exciting offer made by individuals who have the best interests of the club at heart. We sincerely hope that the bid will succeed and we will put the chance to share in this new opportunity to our membership as soon as possible.”
News of the potential breakthrough came towards the end of a day during which current owner Tom Coughlan had earlier reported that takeover talks had apparently collapsed. “Nothing has transpired and we’re back to square one,” he said during the afternoon.
But it then became clear that separate negotiations had been ongoing between all the key parties who had recently expressed an interest in taking over the club, resulting in last night’s dramatic announcement.
While there was no official reaction from Abbotstown, the FAI are understood to be supportive of the new bid, having made no secret in the recent past of their desire to see Tom Coughlan relinquish control of the club.
While the outcome of expected negotiations today between Coughlan and the new consortium will be eagerly awaited, this afternoon is also due to see a press conference in Cork – scheduled before last night’s news broke – at which the club’s General Manager Liam Meaney, manager Roddy Collins and captain George O’ Callaghan will address the media.
Meanwhile, in related news, Danny Murphy, who left Cork City this week, trained with Shamrock Rovers yesterday and is due to have a medical at the club today.
Salthill Devon playing their home games on a Saturday. Will hopefully get along to a few of them. Best of luck to them. Great accomplishment for the club. Hope they can push on from here.
The first pass of the new season goes straight to an opposition player.
How apt.
Watched this briefly, Sporting look to have a fine young team, willing to play a bit of ball and move it fast. Bohs are so terribly boring.
Do you know Liam Mackey by any chance Kev? I need to get hold of him for something I am working on.
Feature on former Wexford Youths playmaker Conor Sinnott coming up on MNS tonight - he’s at St Patrick’ Athletic now but I think he can play at a high level abroad.
Wexford won away to Mervue United last weekend after opening with a thumping in Waterford and a decent home draw against Shels.
watched rovers and dundalk yesterday and it was a decent game of football.
dundalk seem to have a nice team this year with Fenn and Kudozovic up front and a good manager at the helm.
they way things are going i think themselves, fingal and dare i say it sligo may put up a competitive stand aginst bohs this year.
rovers look weak w/o twigg and baker, no cutting edge at all, Billy Dennehy who played with city last is year not an out an out front player and he was out of his depth on sunday.
that tard whose name escapes me who announced his takeover of galway united in the local supermacs a few months ago is finding out the hard way what life is going to be like with Sean Connor in charge.
Galway and drogs both look an sbsolute mess and are releagtion material i reckon.
in the first divsion itll be shels and waterford i think with limerick challening…
cork are really going to stuggle, there was 4.5k at their first home game against waterford which is a first division record.
however the novelty of running a club will soon dawn on the FORAS lads who are doing this as a passtime effectively and i foresee a long , hard road ahead.
they approached a few leading MSL players who told them they would rather play sunday morning football than LOI on a friday night as the money was better… not good for city…
derry are fucked also.
Took in my first LOI game in a long long time this evening, UCD v Galway. Dull enough game but I was enraptured by having Paul Doolin, Tony McDonnell and former Montreal Castors man Paul McGee sitting close to me.
Best chance of the game fell to Karl Sheppard, who was with Everton up until last year, but he dragged it wide from 5 yards.
Final thoughts: It was better than sitting at home.
What did you make of Ciaran Kilduff up front for UCD Thrawneen?
i was at the UCD / Rovers affair on friday and he impressed me
incidentally, all 4 games ended in draws tonite, the racing Post this morning advised no bet on rovers / fingal as there were irregular betting patterns on the draw, the draw was priced at 11-5 so i couldnt see anything untoward even tho rovers were given a penalty with 3 mins to go and the game ended 1 all.
He looked useful, though he got fuck all service in the first half and not much in the second either. He’s a tall lad but the wind wasn’t allowing any decent aerial deliveries. On the floor the Galway back 4 kept things quite tight. I was impressed by how good the UCD lads were on the ball but some of them are fierce slight and were muscled out of it if they held possession too long and they too often made bad decisions. For about 15 minutes in the second half they played some lovely stuff but when the goal didn’t come the game petered out somewhat for the last 15 or 20.
yeah last friday night against rovers UCD owned the ball for vast periods of the second half without ever really doing anything with it, i agree they all look really comfortable on the ball but once they try in anyway to be adventurous they get easily muscled off it.
Most LOI teams i know play a very rigid 442, the usual attacking methods involve the goalkeeper throwing the ball to the full back who plays a long delivery over the midfield into a channel for a striker or winger to chase, if the defense get there first they kick it into row z for a throw,
The last 20 mins of rovers and ucd followed this pattern exactly on friday where UCD passed the ball really neatly between their box and center midfield for about 2 - 3 minutes, then a FB hoisted it over the top and Kilduff got creamed by Dan Murray and the ball ended up halfway down the Belgard road…
It wasnt very inspiring really
Yeah, there was a lot of that alright. 
The one thing I did find strange though is that when UCD really upped the tempo in the second half, passing and moving quickly (even empolying cheeky flicks), they had Galway there for the taking. But then they just…stopped. And it was back to as you described. Early season yet, I suppose.
Bohs and Pat’s drew 1-1 in a poor enough game last night. Pat’s took the lead after about fifteen minutes and wasted time after. Jason Byrne equalised just after half time and Paddy Madden looked to have given Bohs the lead but was called offside (I thought he was on). Madden then missed from two yards with an open goal.
Pat’s fans seemed delighted to draw with the Big Club and were very excited about being on top of the league despite having played an extra game.
Bohs have yet to get going. The defence is shaky with Heary and Shelley playing well below last year’s standard. Oman’s nothing special either. Powell is still good at least. I’m not impressed with Chris O’Connor in goals either. Apparently Barry Murphy’s injured so I’d imagine he’ll come back in when fit.
I don’t think Keegan and Cronin work well together in midfield. We haven’t replaced Deegan. I thought Madden and Byrne were both decent up front although both were taken off (think Byrne picked up a knock).
Friday’s game with the filth should be interesting. I got myself a home ticket as I knew the Bohs allocation would go to members first. However, it would seem the people have Tallaght have come to their senses and lost interest in Rovers as they sent Bohs an extra batch of tickets so I was able to get an away one as well.
Rovers have yet to score a goal from open play. With just six points from six games they are six behind league leaders Pat’s and five behind Bohs who have a game in hand. Without Gary Twigg they seem lacking up front. Form would suggest a Bohs win but that was also the case for both games in Tallaght last year I think (definitely the first anyway). Both games in Tallaght last year would probably have been fair results if they had finished level but Rovers snuck both of them so maybe there was a ‘Tallaght Factor’. That’s less likely to be the case this year as Rovers ‘fans’ have been booing their team off the pitch recently.
Rovers will hoof the ball around a lot, Bohs will try pass it but will resort to some crappy long ball as well but I reckon class will shine through with Bohs winning 2-1.
Wexford music legends, Cry Before Dawn, providing the musical accompaniment to the goals on MNS tonight with their seminal mid 1980s hit ‘Gone Forever’:
that must rank as one of the easiest wins for Rovers against bohs in awhile.
Nutsy must have let slip to his players before the game that he’s off to dundee in july and now the arse is about to fall out of their season.
ah well, they’ve been quite easily the best team in ireland for the past 2 years but that is all about to change.