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Originally Posted by Oisin88
This is going magnificently off topic now but:
Why should any other eircom league club be asked to move to tallaght just to fix a mess that rovers started in the 1980s?
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Nobody is being forced to move in with Rovers in fact we'd much rather have Tallaght to ourselves but if Pats or Shels were to ask SDCC could they play there of course SDCC are going to agree. Shels have already sold the lease on Tolka and rumours are doing the rounds that Pats are about to cash in on the value of Richmond Park. Those large apartment blocks already built at the back of Richmond are an ominous sign. If/When either club leave their existing grounds it makes a certain amount of financial sense for one of them to move into an already built soccer stadium rather than go through the tortuous process of identifying an affordable site - planning permission - financing - building.
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Originally Posted by Oisin88
Football clubs, like railway services, are more sustainable when they serve a local community/fanbase. The fact that Rovers don't have a local fanbase anywhere because of their history doesn't mean that other teams should be asked to get rid of theirs.
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I tend to agree with you which is why for the past 10 years Rovers have been building links in the Tallaght area, with 16 schoolboy teams, a womens team, a scholarship scheme with Tallaght IT, a merger with Tallaght basketball team now known as Shamrock Rovers Hoops and initiation of a Football in the Community Scheme. The first team are currently visiting schools in Tallaght parading the first division trophy. The only part of the club not playing football in Tallaght is the senior team.
Bohs are moving to a greenfield site at the back of the airport with little or no surrounding population and zero links to the local community. Right now they are well established in the Phibsboro/Cabra area and I think it will be a mistake for them to leave that area no matter how much money they are getting. Same goes for Pats and Inchicore.