Despite my love of
all things Dundalk I have to say it is great to see other teams challenging
them in the race for this years League title.
Bohs have done fantastically well in the first couple of matches, Keith
Long deserves great credit for his work both last season and this one. His young team are doing him proud.
Rovers currently on top of the League, though with a match
extra played must be giving their fans hope that they can challenge for a
League title this year.
Speaking of Rovers what about the decision of the
Competitions Director to make Finn Harps travel to Tallaght on a Monday evening
after playing at home on the previous Friday.
Finn Harps are a semi-professional team with players having to take time
of work for midweek matches. No consideration
was given to this. It was not Harps
fault that Tallaght will not available in May, nor indeed was it the fault of Rovers. But Rovers have a full time set up. Why could the fixture not have been
swapped? Only the Competition Director
knows..... I am sure he will be
delighted to explain his decision to us all.
I don’t think so!!
I read with interest the comments of Stuey Byrne during the
week and I suppose they are particularly relevant to to-days footballers
seeming to have greater power than the Manager.
Stuey wrote that I cured him of that! In fairness to Stuey I don’t think
he was challenging the authority of the Manager, he just thought he knew better
and he could have been right. But as a
Manager I knew that I had to get results to survive and I always took the view
that if I was going to get sacked I would get myself sacked. This meant that players did as they were told
because in the end I was the one going to get the bullet. For that reason it was my way or the
highway. I do not think this philosophy
would survive in this day and age.
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