Derry City vs Sligo Rovers Match Thread

[marcoloco]

Brilliant match, great goals, super crowd and we're still in it.

See you at oriel!!

Are they selling tickets for away fans?

On something unrealted - any idea why we wore block last night? To accommodate Sligo's white away top?

[da-gama]

Yes.

This (the strip) annoyed me also. I assume Sligo didn't land with their third strip. Still, we should've made them wear our away strip instead of us

[TenaciousDee]

We had to do the same the last time too. Sligo are the only team we never wore our home shirt against this year.

[eugenio]

Glad someone raised this. I hate this black strip with a passion and wearing it in Brandy is so so obnoxious I think POSs these dreary overpaid refs are responsible for this They must be put in their place now We are red and white stripes at home so stuff the rest . Btw board of directors Black is not the easiest strip to see under the lights so we fans have to be accommodated I remarked atDalymount lately Derry were often difficult to follow under poor lights BOHS sported a white kit at home so do they know the benefits of being seen.


Ban the BLACK LOL

[marcoloco]

I'd say 90% of the people in attendance are wearing dark colours so it can be quite off putting for some.

Sligo play in red (or red/white) they surely know in advance what the issue will be.

Either they dont have a 3rd top, or they should be given special dispensation for this fixture to wear a training top.

Home teams should not be made to change.

Next season will we also be changing to our away tops to allow Shamrock Rovers to wear their new all white 2nd kit?

[marcoloco]

Last question. Promise. Any idea what the attendance v capacity was last night?

[brandyball]

Last question. Promise. Any idea what the attendance v capacity was last night?

Not sure but new capacity Is 3,403.

[BrandywellRedMariner]

Didn't hear the half time draw being announced.

[marcoloco]

Last question. Promise. Any idea what the attendance v capacity was last night?

Not sure but new capacity Is 3,403.

Thanks for this. If we keep improving, which is likely, then we'll be pushing capacity soon especially in the big games.

We could really do with our slice of sub regional stadia funding to get the MF stand competed.

[marcoloco]

Last question. Promise. Any idea what the attendance v capacity was last night?

Not sure but new capacity Is 3,403.

Thanks for this. If we keep improving, which is likely, then we'll be pushing capacity soon especially in the big games.

We could really do with our slice of sub regional stadia funding to get the MF stand competed.

[dcfc_jp_1989]

Next season will we also be changing to our away tops to allow Shamrock Rovers to wear their new all white 2nd kit?

I would think both teams will just play in their home kits like we did this year any time we played against Shamrock Rovers

[pgdcfc]

'' Home teams should not dave to change ''. I agree Marcoloco

However Longford in their first home game this season had to wear their away kit when we played them. This was because our red/white would clash and our black kit would clash with their home jersey of red/black !! Same applies when we play Bohs. !!!
Simple answer is that we shouldn't have a BLACK kit as 2nd strip.

[pgdcfc]

'' Home teams should not dave to change ''. I agree Marcoloco

However Longford in their first home game this season had to wear their away kit when we played them. This was because our red/white would clash and our black kit would clash with their home jersey of red/black !! Same applies when we play Bohs. !!!
Simple answer is that we shouldn't have a BLACK kit as 2nd strip.

[marcoloco]

Next season will we also be changing to our away tops to allow Shamrock Rovers to wear their new all white 2nd kit?

I would think both teams will just play in their home kits like we did this year any time we played against Shamrock Rovers

Fair point.

[dcfc_jp_1989]

Next season will we also be changing to our away tops to allow Shamrock Rovers to wear their new all white 2nd kit?

I would think both teams will just play in their home kits like we did this year any time we played against Shamrock Rovers

Fair point.

On the point of kit clashes I think something needs to be done to try & avoid the regularity of home teams having to change because of a clash. I've seen 1 or 2 comments blaming our black kit for this when on Friday night & the previous home match the problem was Sligo's away kit & our away kit became the alternative. Against the likes of Longford & Bohs the black kit has been the problem for obvious reasons.

[brandyball]

Surely the Onus is on the away teams to have sufficient kit or kits with them that doesn't clash with the home teams colours. Every team should know by now which colours the home teams wear.

In an aside the premiership in England blocked home teams from wearing their away strips and this was for charitable purposes.

[magspat]

I don't care what colours they play in should it be red white and blue as long as the ball is flying in to the net.[youtube][/youtube]

[TenaciousDee]

On another note, in the build up and during the game I thought about Liam Buckley's claim during the last close season when he signed Walter Figueira. He told whomever conducted the interview that we hadn't seen him play with a good team in the league up to that point and we would see him at his best surrounded by a better squad. Having watched him Friday and a few other occasions, I genuinely feel he looked better with us than with the "good team". Am I imagining this, or did he just look like a big fish in a small pond with us?

[eugenio]

On another note, in the build up and during the game I thought about Liam Buckley's claim during the last close season when he signed Walter Figueira. He told whomever conducted the interview that we hadn't seen him play with a good team in the league up to that point and we would see him at his best surrounded by a better squad. Having watched him Friday and a few other occasions, I genuinely feel he looked better with us than with the "good team". Am I imagining this, or did he just look like a big fish in a small pond with us?

I can think of 6 of ours who are nowhere as good as Walter

[dcfc_jp_1989]

Surely the Onus is on the away teams to have sufficient kit or kits with them that doesn't clash with the home teams colours. Every team should know by now which colours the home teams wear.

The only way to do that is to have a 3rd kit & then again it won't be always certain that there still won't be kit clashes.

Aside from the Longford game at start of the season, anytime we've had a kit clash the problem has been the away teams away kit still clashed with the home teams home kit & therefore both teams were required to change