"never managed an adult team..."
"never managed an adult team..."
That is proper cringe.
In proper footy, we got dicked in the FA Cup semi last night, 5-1 against fucking Hanoi. Cunts. We were missing our first choice centre-halves, but were still shit. Our 2 new Costa Rican's looked fairly overweight, which bodes well for the rest of the season.
Fergal Time.
Didn’t take long.
Shamrock Rovers champions and Cork City relegated (3 years after a double).
Cork City supporters trust approved the sale of the club to Preston NE’s owners for €1. Not sure how much debt there is though.
What's his boner with Ireland about? They've shipped over a few of your boys to play for them.
Probably just sees some value in it because the players are so cheap.
Too fucking right, the pool is a goldmine waiting to be exploited.
You’ll probably get one championship level player in 20 or so prospects, but when all 20 would combine for under £200,000 then there’s some rewards to be had.
Imagine the rewards if you lock in a Grealish, aided by rise of future % clauses and brexit/COVID.
not a great example. A Coleman or Keane would do.
Athlone did us 4-1 in the quarter final too
Another infiltration job like Drew Harris.
Feels like the season just ended, and we are starting our pre-season this Saturday, at home to our city-rivals, Saigon FC. Season proper starts on 16th January.
We have 3 foreigner slots, Pape Diakite will stay from last season (still on holiday in Senegal, has to fly back and do 2 weeks quarantine), Costa Rican striker Jose Ortiz will also stay from last season - hopefully sans 10 kgs.
We have one spot left, with João Paulo expected to sign the next few days. His Wikipedia suggests I need not get too excited.
We also have a new manager in Mano Pölking (who looks like some stressed-out British comedian), who was previously in Thailand with Army Utd, Suphanburi and Bangkok Utd - picked up a few runners-up positions in the Thai League.
The Preston lot have pulled out of buying Cork City which will mean a fair bit of pain for them in the coming years. Amateur for a while for sure, if they survive.
Kevin Sheedy and Mike Newell have rocked up at Waterford.
The first division here is a club short next year after the owner of one bought another and merged them
Is that the Top Ireland version of moving teams across the country like they do in the USA?
Ah bless you're squeezing every drop out of that one. And you know what, I wouldn't blame you at all champ.
Soccer is back
After Chinese club teams once again sent U23's teams to the Asian Champions League and got battered, it is now seriously affecting their coefficients
I am now watching more Welsh Premier League than I probably should. Turns out they just chuck games out live on youtube in English and Welsh. Airbus UK are one of the worst teams I've seen in a long while, although the standard is pretty bollocks across the board. Rock bottom with 1 point after 9 games and currently being thumped 5-0 by Bala Town.
Make that 6-0.
Also, I'd take Welsh over English commentary any day of the week. Specifically for those moments where Welsh has no equivalent.
"lllwlwffdfdlllwwwd ..The daaerk arts."
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We (Ho Chi Minh City FC) got beat 0-6 at home last night, against our rivals, Hanoi. That leaves them top, and us bottom, with 5 games to go.
We were in the Asian Champions League 2 years ago....
Sorry to see the mediocrity of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (big sp), who lit up the weird Football Asia magazine show on Sky back in the early to mid 2000s by getting consistently rodded by the likes of Jubilo Iwata, Al-Nasr and Suwon Bluewings in the Asian CL group stages.
Jackpot.
Those cunts Hanoi did Tue double last night winning the cup final, including this beaut...
V.League season starts this week.
So far my club have not released new jerseys, sold any season tickets, or even bothered announcing the fixtures.
At the end of last season, we released 80% of our first team players, and have since replaced them with players from the second division.
We are getting relegated.
Looking forward to @Ian's preview in the Feb football thread.
As predicted we, Ho Chi Minh City FC, have been fucking awful this season. Last two games saw us concede a 97th minute goal to lose 4-3 and lose the game prior to that at home 5-3. Currently bottom, and hosting Danang tonight - even though we still have 11 games left (4 in the normal league, then another 7 in the split) defeat tonight and we are truly in the shit.
23 goals conceded in 9 games is quite some effort
And where was the tip on that? Odds must have been obscene.
The fuck?
It's looking all but nailed on that Southend will be wound up tomorrow. The court ruled previously that all debts must be cleared and as of today:
The staff haven't been paid for 4 months now and half the squad have left this summer. We currently have 14 players, half of which are midfielders.
We've been here many times before, but it's never been this bad. 14 hours to go and we can't even afford the waterbill. This feels terminal.
Your confidence would be shattered if nobody else picked you up and you went down with the club.
Where are Jimmy and Jamie when you really need them?
At a time of great crisis, the writer still had to get a pun in. What a cunt.
Rovers losing at home to some Icelandic farmers
That's way too fucked to have been an accident.