Euro 2016 Qualifying

[DannyInvincible]

I'd consider your post to have been more insulting, and thought that the silence (message-board silence at least) was interesting.

So you keep saying. What do you perceive it to indicate?

[ArdeeBhoy]

Attention-seeking?

[osarusan]

So you keep saying. What do you perceive it to indicate?

Hypocrisy or double standards perhaps? Or maybe simply an unwillingness to challenge an established and respected poster in that way?

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Except you asked the question...

I asked the question assuming you would have a credible answer as to the reasons for your assumptions/accusations on the majority of members on this forum


Unfortunately my assumption failed to materialise

[SwanVsDalton]

Hypocrisy or double standards perhaps? Or maybe simply an unwillingness to challenge an established and respected poster in that way?

Geysir and GR have an established relationship over hundreds of posts, and both are hearty contributors to the Eligibility Thread. If Geysir goes OTT on GR, then GR can handle himself and vice-versa.

The same can't be said of TOWK who is a relative newbie but who appeared to use the eligibility posts of GR as a stick to beat him, even though his familiarity with the thread is unclear and most likely questionable. That'd be my take on why people were keen to set him straight on GR.

[paul_oshea]

I asked the question assuming you would have a credible answer as to the reasons for your assumptions/accusations on the majority of members on this forum


Unfortunately my assumption failed to materialise

His assumption is probably based on the fact that those on here he never meets at these kind of away games. There literally are only a couple of hundred at most at these types of games and you get to know them all. Now if he tried the same BotNet at say Scotland away i dont think he could identify them all.

You see the same faces and very qiuckly you learn if they are on foot.ie or ybig.ie. I've met a lot of the regular posters on here and most dont go to away games, 1 maybe or at most 2 a campaign. Id say its 9:1 those you would meet off ybig.ie(compared with foot.ie) for example.

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His assumption is probably based on the fact that those on here he never meets at these kind of away games. There literally are only a couple of hundred at most at these types of games and you get to know them all. Now if he tried the same BotNet at say Scotland away i dont think he could identify them all.

You see the same faces and very qiuckly you learn if they are on foot.ie or ybig.ie. I've met a lot of the regular posters on here and most dont go to away games, 1 maybe or at most 2 a campaign. Id say its 9:1 those you would meet off ybig.ie(compared with foot.ie) for example.

With the greatest of respect Paul - I think to assume based on that logic is ridiculous - but thats my opinion


We will agree to disagree on this one

[osarusan]

The same can't be said of TOWK who is a relative newbie but who appeared to use the eligibility posts of GR as a stick to beat him, even though his familiarity with the thread is unclear and most likely questionable. That'd be my take on why people were keen to set him straight on GR.

Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I mean, TOWK's comments prompted quite a few posters to point out GR's respectful posting, lack of sectarianism, lack of wumming, worthwhile contributions, all round top guy in fact. Then GR gets portrayed as the paranoid protector of OWC, but nobody seems bothered. I don't see how they fit.

Anyhow, I've said what I wanted to say. As you commented, GR can handle himself if he chooses to.

Back on topic: the group could have been worse, but it's hard to gauge Ireland in comparison to Scotland or Poland without seeing us play a few more times under O'Neill. We probably have a better idea of what Poland and Scotland are capable of than we do of our own team right now.

[SwanVsDalton]

Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I mean, TOWK's comments prompted quite a few posters to point out GR's respectful posting, lack of sectarianism, lack of wumming, worthwhile contributions, all round top guy in fact. Then GR gets portrayed as the paranoid protector of OWC, but nobody seems bothered. I don't see how they fit.

Possibly they don't - although I guess it wouldn't be the first apparent contradiction in the many, many, many posts written about eligibility, the IFA, FAI, UEFA, FIFA etc etc

[geysir]

I mean, Paul's an established poster, but it certainly wouldn't stop me pulling him up on his bull now and again. Whether or not he's a respected member is another question, mind, I'll grant you that!

I'm glad you mentioned Paul here, because in all the hullabaloo about that rascal Gather Round (attention which he certainly doesn't deserve), it's too easy to hide the concerted campaign of bullying that Paul has had to endure here at the hands of certain cruel hearted posters. And now you Danny have the cheek to imply that Paul's 'deviant' behaviour is at fault here, that he deserves what he gets and that your part in this campaign is an act of generosity merely to rectify his behaviour.