Little things you love about the league

**BonnieShels** · 14/03/2017, 4:18 PM

My favourite thing about the league is that first time you walk into your home* ground at the start of the season.

Oh, and asterisks on league tables and elsewhere.

*NB this may change come our transplantation to Baile Phib.

**patrickccfc** · 14/03/2017, 4:33 PM

Jason Byrne- his desperation to break the goal scoring record.
PA guys badly pronouncing names
The craic with opposition goalkeepers
Roddy Collins.
Shamrock Rovers Cup specialists.
Drogheda's away section.
Cork City's impeccable disciplinary record.
Moses with his "Plastic Chumps" sign.
Moses with his yellow and red cards.
Kenny Shiels.
Last minute winners.
Being annoyed when one of your players joins a team you dislike, giving them abuse, forgetting everything when they re-join you

**joey B** · 15/03/2017, 1:47 AM

A Harps supporters bus or the twilight zone as its sometimes known, the only certainty is something will go wrong the fun part is seeing what it will be!!

Away trips to Sligo
Random conversations with random LOI supporters usually over pints.

The town end terrace at Finn Park the best goal end terrace in the league!

The bar at Cabinteelys ground!
The bar at Dundalk's ground!

Bars at Loi grounds

Watching a match at Inchicore!

**sbgawa** · 15/03/2017, 8:23 AM

The grim nod exchanged between myself and a bohs supporter in my local Tesco most nights of the week, we're keeping our distance but acknowledging each other

**Pablo Escobar** · 15/03/2017, 8:45 AM

Originally Posted by patrickccfc

Moses

The one bit of solace that I take from any slight injustices is glancing to my right across the CSR to see Moses go absolutely mental. It's great craic.

**Philosophizer** · 15/03/2017, 10:05 AM

PA announcers, commentators, analysts, fans, and lots of others saying "Drogheda" when they mean "Dundalk", and vice versa.
Our league being the most unpredictable/volatile in Europe.
The stand/terraces at Inchicore being about a metre from the sideline.
Looking at the old terraces in Dalymount and imagining what it must have been like during those memorable Ireland wins against the USSR etc.
Some Bohs fans taking "stimulants" in the stand and singing "the bohs have no money, all we've got's a bag of pills".

**Sean South** · 15/03/2017, 10:33 AM

The sound of flares cracking off

**vinnie** · 17/03/2017, 12:58 AM

I also think when the Drogheda lads sing, "I can Boogie'" is one of the best things I've ever heard

**Straightstory** · 17/03/2017, 9:11 AM

All good stuff.
One of my favourites is that the PA speaker system is Dalymount is by 'Bose'.

**oriel** · 17/03/2017, 9:49 AM

Originally Posted by seand

Tallaght's colder with the wind coming down off the mountains, imo.

Other little things to love:
sensible squad numbers (very few numbers above low 20s)
the way the Flansiro can look like a proper little football ground if you look at the right angle and squint and ignore the crappy bits
Dundalk FM
the Cat and Cage before a match in Tolka
Harps' new home kit
recategorising the Presidents Cup as a preseason friendly or a crucially important trophy depending on the result
balls going up on the very slightly banked roof in front of the stand in Oriel and rolling off between 5 and 30 seconds later
goal times (the scratch card thing)
half time draws which include breakfast for one in a local café as one of the prizes
Jason Byrne interacting with the crowd
Cork Tom cornering somebody else for a chat
Michael D
Hooperman
the remaining bits of crumbling terrace that hint at what Dalymount must've been 60 years ago
Roddy Collins trailing Roddy Junior around with him

The half time draw for breakfast for one was hilarious, reminded me once when the car radio got stuck on LMFM and I couldn't change it, the prize on the sports news that am was 'a box of USA biscuits' almost certain that line was covered in Fr Ted.

The random meeting of ex players too is great, I often bump into Martin Lawlor in Dublin and you can hardly get away from him as he wants to know all about DFC. I was walking in central Sydney years ago and guy spotted me at traffic lights the other side, came over and asked me was I a Dundalk fan, it was Joe Hanrahan.
Another great story, a mate worked in London in the 80's, and thought he recognised a guy from Dlk every evening at London Euston train station, so one night he is on the opposite platform, and amidst hundreds of commuters all packed on the platform, he shouts over 'come on the town', the other guy smiles and gives him the thumbs up just before getting on his own train.