Hi From Drogheda in Ireland

[Drogster]

Hi Folks

I saw over the weekend that you won 2:0 away to Ankaraspo. Great result, keeps you right in the hunt for the title. . Next up home to Ankaragücü, who seem to having a bad time, so hopefully anonther 3 pts on the board for you folks.

The good news from Drogheda is that we unveiled our new manager yesterday. Alan Matthews. He is one of the better managers around in our league and is a young ambitious character. Listening to him speak during the press conference he had some very encouraging words about his plans for the club.

He has been a manager for Longford, who operated on a very small tight budget, but he put together a good unit of players and won the FAI Cup Back to Back.

He replaces our pervious manager Paul Doolin, who is now the manager of Cork City, the team that Matthews managed last season, but internal differences between main the investors of the club and the committee board, saw him leave and receive compensation.

He has a good reputation as a manger and considering our current situation it is a really good appointment. He confirmed that he has already spoken with a number of players in up a squad for the coming season, which kicks of the 1st week in March.


The licensing committee currently approving the teams applications for the 2009 license and the fixture should be confirmed in next 10days.



Things are looking brighter for the Drogs.



Best of luck & C'mon the Claret & Blue

[Kazım Uzunboy]

İngilizcem yok ama habu Drogster'ı seviyorum yahu.

Galiba ilk paragrafta Ankaraspor'u 2-0 yendiğimiz için bizi tebrik ediyor ve Ankaragücü'nü de yeneceğimizi söylüyor.

Thanks Drogster

C'mon the Claret & Blue.

( Yazdıklarımı çevirebilen çevirsin bir zahmet. )

[melodicforce]

the user "kazim" will that we translate, what he is write there, because he can not good english!

he said to "drogster", he can not english, but he likes you :-)
you all write good thinks, he can not the language, but he know it is a good think what you're saying!

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drogster, tell me when the irish league begins? are you know it? i will like to come this year to ireland and you must me take off... :-) and we go to a drogheda game! okey my friend...
...greats from frankfurt, germany!

[Drogster]

Hi Folks,

Well the new League of Ireland Season is quickly approaching and the FAI released the licenses and Fixtures yesterday, and thankfully the Drogs are alive and kicking and were awarded a Premier league license.

The Season kicks of on March 6th and the Drogs are playing away to Derry City. It will be a tough game as Derry will be second favorites to win the title after Bohs (2008 Champions)

The 2009 Season sees our County Louth Rivals Dundalk play in the top division for the first time in 7 seasons, so the rivalry will be reignited.
There is a downloadable list of the fixtures on RTE Website, in the right hand side column. Click on more and the file should open (Adobe Reader required) see the link below.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/ireland_index.html

Anyway...
I see that Trabzonspor are still flying high with a 2:1 win over Ankaragücü and a 1:1 Draw with Beşiktaş at the weekend.
Great to see you guys at the right end of the table.
The results are going your way, but how's the team performing. The new coach seems to be working his magic also...a bit more attacking football.

Keep it up...C'mon the Claret & Blue

[amour_61]

hi Drogster forza Claret & Blue
click : http://www.trabzonspor.org.tr/defaul...yfa=EngTarihce

[Drogster]

Hi All

I see that you are playing Denizlispor at home over the weekend. Best of luck, and hopefully 3 more point will be going your way.

The Drogs have their 1st friendly tonight against Shels (Dublin). It will be the first time that we, the fans, see the new squad. At the moment we have 16 players signed, with a few more due in before the start of the season. The new Manger has a nice mix of young skilled players and more experienced players. Talking to a number of mates at a new supporters club meeting last night, we are just delighted that we are still able to watch our team in United Park, considering the ordeal that the club has went through, since the end of last season.
Best of luck
C’mon the Claret & Blue

[Mollasalihoğlu]

we hope you'll be champ at the end of the season, like us

[Anıl Caner]

Hi.

Drogster i am reading some rumours about Drogheda. Financial problems are high level on Drogheda United and there are just 2 professional players in squad. Is this right?

I have read that there are players who sigin part-time contracts with club, and they are working in other jobs, then playing for Drogheda matches at the weekend.

If these are right i am not so hopefull about Drogheda this season.

but forever claret and blue army

[Drogster]

Hi.

Drogster i am reading some rumours about Drogheda. Financial problems are high level on Drogheda United and there are just 2 professional players in squad. Is this right?

I have read that there are players who sigin part-time contracts with club, and they are working in other jobs, then playing for Drogheda matches at the weekend.

If these are right i am not so hopefull about Drogheda this season.

but forever claret and blue army

Hi All

I am afraid that what you are reading is right.

The Drogs are working on a part-basis this season. We have only one player on our books that was there last season, following the club going into examinership and the end of last season, where all the creditor, players/staff etc. came to an agreement to prevent the club folding.
The true facts are that a full time professional soccer league in Ireland is unsustainable, due to a number of reasons.

1.The main issue would be the lack of investment into the league from sponsors, grants and FAI contributions. For example the prize money provide by the FAI is €1million this season!!!!!!

2.The number of competing sports such as Gaelic football, hurling, rugby etc.

3.Television coverage by Sky and Satanta of the English and Scottish leagues. It’s too easy for people to watch other leagues, be it, in the pub or at home rather then watch their local team play.

With global developments in the economy of the last 12 month and the impact on the property developer implosion in Ireland, which a number of the bigger clubs are/were funded by and result in majority of the not have the same funds available to pay the escalating player wages.
In fairness the clubs that try to improve the quality of the football in the league of Ireland, a as product, were of the opinion that if you what to improve the quality of the game you must pay to keep the good players in our league. As a result the player’s wages increased, to an unsustainable level.

For the last 4 season our past Directors were basically bankrolling funds for the club, during the period we won a number of Trophies and played in the UEFA Cup and Champions League. Unfortunately the money stopped when a neighbouring Local Authority opposed the clubs plans to build a new 10,000 seater stadium and leisure on the outskirts of the town. The development was planned to be self-sufficient and generate revenue to run the club on a professional basis.

As a result the club went into examinership and fortunately with great work by the supporter managed to save the club. We have appointed a very good manager in Alan Matthews. He had 3 weeks to put a team together. The supporters are under no illusion this season. It is going to be a matter of avoiding relegation and maybe put a bit of a cup run together....figures crossed.

This weekend sees week 4 of the League. The Drogs are playing last year’s double winner side Bohs and the general opinion is to try and keep the score down. They are a good team and have strengthened their squad from last season. We have drawn one game against Bray, a game we could have won and lost 2 games to Derry (who are 2nd favs to win the league) and our local arch rivals Dundalk, who are playing in the top division for the 1st time in 8 seasons!

The team is playing some very nice football on the deck, but we need to get in at least one good striker, maybe in the transfer window. We the fans are just happy to have a team to support and call our know.
I see that Trabzonspor ahev had a mix bag of result the last few games, hopefully the team can get back to winning ways and stay at the top of the table. I want to be able to support a Claret & Blue team in the Champion league next season

Best of Luck & C'mon the Claret & Blue

[Kereşenli]

Hi drogster,

I've read all your messages about Drogheda United and about the financial problems. It's not fine to see a big and succesful club like Drogheda United in troubles. But Drogheda United survived much bigger troubles and I think that they'll survive this problem too.

Drogheda United is a beautiful club, don't give up. Don't forget this: After rain comes sunshine.

[Ömer Akdağ]

Hi Drogster,

I just read your post and took a look at the league table. And I'm really not pleased of what I'm seeing, it really hurts to see Drogheda on the last row with no winnings, two draws and five losses. I hope you will get back on your feet as fast as possible and stay in the premier league because you dont deserve to be at where you are now. GOOD LUCK!

As you know Trabzonspor lost quite a lot points lately, we couldve been first easily but we lost some matches against teams we shouldn't loose to. We won this week though and we're 6 points behind the leader of the league.

I hope both teams get to be where they deserve to be! AT THE TOP!

[alper*]

Drogheda should hire our young players.

[gokmavi]

Drogster,
Shame on me, I have not seen this thread before.
I checked your team's official web site, nice one.

I have worked with couple of Irish colleagues. I would say, Irish people and people from East Black Sea region have a lot of similar behavioral features

Take care.

[MVVmaastricht]

Hi peoplegreat to be here on this trabzonspor site. for some reason i cant make a new topic so please forgive me for posting it in here.

as we all know MVV and Trabzonspor became affiliates wich i think is good for both teams.
today there was a newsitem in the papers about a Turkish man named Mahmut Celaleddin Bilgic. He will give MVV 750.000 euro's and he said he has plans to make MVV even bigger in upcomming years.

I tried to search on the internet finding out who this friendly man could be. I found many Turkish websites about him and i tried to translate it with some porgrams but they don't translate it good. The things i found about him is that he has connections with fenerbache. Can some1 please help me out who Mahmut Celaleddin(or Celalettin) Bilgic is?

already thanks in advance!

[Emre EFENDİOGLU]

Hi peoplegreat to be here on this trabzonspor site. for some reason i cant make a new topic so please forgive me for posting it in here.

as we all know MVV and Trabzonspor became affiliates wich i think is good for both teams.
today there was a newsitem in the papers about a Turkish man named Mahmut Celaleddin Bilgic. He will give MVV 750.000 euro's and he said he has plans to make MVV even bigger in upcomming years.

I tried to search on the internet finding out who this friendly man could be. I found many Turkish websites about him and i tried to translate it with some porgrams but they don't translate it good. The things i found about him is that he has connections with fenerbache. Can some1 please help me out who Mahmut Celaleddin(or Celalettin) Bilgic is?

already thanks in advance!

Honestly, i dont have any idea about who is he. I searched the internet but i found nothing.