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    Quote Originally Posted by Poor Student View Post
    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.
    I think/suspect most on here also frequent a club site of choice, to moan, slag off rivals etc in the comfort of their own fans and use Foot.ie for more neutral or non club specific "debate".

    Probobly a better option than having any club(s) fans use this as main site in my opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bennocelt View Post
    Maybe I'm getting older but when good serious informed posters are getting kicked off and the college kids take over its getting boring and turning into a frat boy site! But I still check in every day!
    Sounds like someone is missing the Sligo fans and their gay porn

    Anyway it could be worse, it could become what YBIG has
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    Am looking for old Irish matches on VHS, PM me if you have some and I'll upload them here

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    Hadn't been on YBIG in a while so went for a nosey. Got a chuckle from MariborKev for this post about the Derry/Shams match:

    On the weekend of the 100th anniversay of the sinking of the Titanic they staged a tremendous reconstruction, as their hopes sank in under 90 minutes. Fair play to Rovers for joining the spirit of the weekend. And fair play to the 3,000 Rovers fans, who abandoned ship before it even started.

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