Originally Posted by
Poor Student
It's a funny one. Very few clubs in Ireland, if any, have the critical mass to have fuctioning, active and worthwhile forum by themselves. Foot.ie on the other hand could be all these things if more groups of supporters used this as their main forum or hub of activity as used to happen in years gone by. Football is however by it it's very nature extremely tribal. We prefer to stick to our own cliques and engage in closed minded group think and unfortunately if we go places like foot.ie we can find rational views that challenge or invalidate some of the ideas that our own group holds dear. This can be evidenced by the strongly held belief on the Rovers Ultra and Cork forums that foot.ie is anti their clubs. It seems over the years more and more groups of fans have been convinced of this and hived off into small communities and activity on foot.ie has dropped. This is by no means the only factor but certainly a contributing one.
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