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Vikings to seek Hoops sanctions

Roddy Collins
Roddy Collins

Dublin City have asked the eircom League Board of Control to investigate the details surrounding Roddy Collins' controversial move to fellow Premier Division strugglers Shamrock Rovers.

The eircom League will host a meeting on Monday November 8 and Dublin City chief executive Ronan Seery has requested to address the assembly.

He will be recommending that Shamrock Rovers be severely sanctioned for their pursuit of Collins.

The Vikings' chief will make a case to consider the deduction of points or suspending the club as a result of what Seery described as "their attempt to undermine the business workings of a fellow eircom League club."

In a statement released by the club Seery said: "I believe there are solid grounds for this appeal. This approach was timed to have a maximum negative effect on a club that has conducted it's business in a proper and above board manner at all times.

"The integrity of the game must be protected and this can only happen if Shamrock Rovers are dealt with in the strongest possible way. We need to send out the right messages or run the gauntlet of irrevocably undermining the game we are trying to promote."

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