Derry City v $h£l$ Match Thread

[eugenio]

There's a lot of truth in what you say Eugene.

It appears if you get Euro football, that is enough to please a lot of fans. But Uefa have structured the competitions now that the likelihood of us ever seeing a good quality team in Europe is next to nil. And they throw money into the competitions so that we get more for winning matches, so the club is happy with 500k or 850k, to hell with the quality of opposition.

But that's modern football. It's all about the money, and points. Entertaining fans isn't a thing any more. Playing attacking football isn't a thing any more, at least not under our manager. 'The result' trumps everything. Even when we aren't getting the results.

This was the season, and I fear we have missed the best chance we might have had to win this league. We had everything working in our favour: a weak Rovers, a drop off in the standard of the league overall, an increase in budget to pay top players to come to us, sell out crowds every week. But the product served up was poor and we are likely going to end up where we deserve to be.
So v true k

[rodgers]

Agree with those posts above. Another factor I think is the players and their agents are more interested in building up their profiles rather than winning things (eg we are told that the players view the European games as the highlight of their seasons or we get told how many European games a player has in their career rather than how many finals or medals).