Who chose the name "Sporting Fingal" ?

[Spudulika]

ask them specifically about the name and see what they say

Are you Glen Crowe in disguise? If so, you used to play for a team that means someone who wanders about with no real ambition or goal, and your nickname is endorsed by Pavee Point - far worse things than being called a Sporting Club to worry about :)

Love how threads like this just meander along!

[A N Mouse]

Can't believe this got this far without anyone bringing up the op's username.

Still seeing the shrink tony? You seem to have a few issues.

[CMcC]

Most people refer to them as Fingal anyway. I work with umpteen bar stoolers who all commmented on what a good result 'Fingal' got in Europe last week. None had a snigger at the 'Sporting' bit. And BTW, lets dismiss the Swiss league as a joke shall we, because of Young Boys or Grasshoppers!!! Come to think of it.....Young Boys Fingal maybe ??

[ped_ped]

PartySaint mentioned one barstooler from last week and Tony Soprano's just whining for the sake of it with nothing to back himself up, so . . .

Spoke to two barstoolers about it, asking specifically what they thought of the name and they said it was a normal name.

Obviously I'm not claiming my specific examples prove anything, nor am I conceited enough to think that my opinion is somehow unquestionably correct - perhaps Tony could follow my lead?

[Riddickcule]

Big question though, who will you support in 3 yeras time when Sporting goes bustage..? ;)
And how are you gonna hide the embarassment when the sporting project actually succeeds?

[SkStu]

if Sporting Fingal had been established 50 years ago, i doubt we'd be having this conversation. Tradition and history would have rendered the name acceptable. Sporting have neither, yet. They can call themselves whatever they like in my opinion and i dont give a toss if barstoolers think its mickey mouse or a joke. The barstoolers are the jokes actually.


The Stereophonics song,(the) "Drugs dont work" and also my own song "how w*ankered am i on crack" spring to mind as i read this thread.
Share that stuff around man!!!..!!

It was The Verve, by the way.

[Martinho II]

does anyone remember the club home farm fingal playing in the lower divisions ten years ago? I think Sporting is a great name for a club instead of eg in Germany 1860 Munich now how crap is that name?

[peadar1987]

In France they regularly name the clubs after the number of the Département, so you gets names like Grenoble Foot 38, and Le Mans Union Club 72.

Fingal's name is fine. The sort of people who'd be turned off the league by the name of one of the clubs, a club the odds are isn't even going to be their local one, are the same sort of people who'd be turned off because they didn't like the left back's haircut.

[Burny89]

Hilarious

[blueblood]

i'm really surprised by this post

you don't find the name sporting fingal embarrassing ? you wouldn't be embarrassed telling people you were a fan of "sporting fingal" ? do you also like the name "Real Salt Lake" in MLS perhaps ?

Fingal is a county, and "Fingal County" would tie in with the fact that the club is supported by Fingal county council as part of their football programme for Fingal county

I think its safe to say there are plenty of barstoolers who snigger at the name - makes me cringe everytime I hear it and I don't even support them, i cringe because its reinforce sterotypes of the LOI as a mickey mouse joke league

Why would you cringe, just because it doesn't sound the same as what the barstooles watch on Sky Sports, sheep like you make me cringe :confused:

[OneForTheFuture]

Why would you cringe, just because it doesn't sound the same as what the barstooles watch on Sky Sports, sheep like you make me cringe :confused:

Sheep alone make me cringe !

[blueblood]

""except it does sound weird. like calling it Athletic Fingal or Racing Fingal would sound weird.

Now he doesn't like ATHLETIC either, whats wrong with Fingal Athletic

[outspoken]

Fingal Athletic sounds cool.

but I asked closet thing to a barstooler for their views on the name and they weren't sure but did agree fingal county would sound stupid

[PartySaint]

Fingal Athletic sounds cool.

but I asked closet thing to a barstooler for their views on the name and they weren't sure but did agree fingal county would sound stupid

Maybe its the Fingal bit that sounds stupid to them Sporting County it should be:)

[Dodge]

In no way should 'barstoolers' be the barometer we measure ourselves against

[The Lep]

for the people who don't realise the problem with this name - over the next few days try to ask some of your barstooler or neutral mates what they think of the name, and come back to this thread and post waht they said

ask them if it reinforces a mickey mouse, amateurish perception of the LOI, or whether they agree with some of the posters on here that the name is fine, "perfect" even.

Why does it bother you so much ? I dont care what you think of it as this was raised 3 years ago so why didnt you mention it then ? SPORT IN FINGAL.

[Tony Soprano]

Fingal Athletic would be perfect

would cover the multisport angle too

as for barstoolers attracting more of them to games is crucial to the league's development. we should be trying to present neutrals and barstoolers with a product that looks professional, credible and well run, not mickey mouse, small time and amateurish. Sponsors like Pat Grace's Famous Fried Chicken and Hunky Dorys and names like Sporting Fingal harm the image of the league

going back to my original post I would be interested if anyone has any info regarding how this name was chosen, what other names (if any) were considered

[Spudulika]

Fingal Athletic would be perfect

would cover the multisport angle too

as for barstoolers attracting more of them to games is crucial to the league's development. we should be trying to present neutrals and barstoolers with a product that looks professional, credible and well run, not mickey mouse, small time and amateurish. 1. Sponsors like Pat Grace's Famous Fried Chicken and Hunky Dorys and names like Sporting Fingal harm the image of the league

2. going back to my original post I would be interested if anyone has any info regarding how this name was chosen, what other names (if any) were considered

1. There are far worse sponsors names in the world - like Beate Uhse, as one Regionalliga Sud team foound out - silly point altogether.
2. Maybe it's that you're wumming so much or it's too late in the evening, but it's already been explained why it was chosen, go back to the 2nd page and please ask your folks to up the dosage of calpol :)

[Charlie Darwin]

Remind me which aspect of sponsorship you consider amateurish? God forbid a club would attempt to develop itself by, I don't know, adopting a distinctive name and attracting sponsorship money.

Your idea of "professional, credible and well run" appears to be slavish imitation of England.

[Dodge]

Sponsors like Pat Grace's Famous Fried Chicken and Hunky Dorys and names like Sporting Fingal harm the image of the league


I understand this is why the English premier League conspired to relegate Leicester and their "awful" walkers arena. Pat Grace hasn't sponsored the league in 25 years, so no new fan could use that excuse

Seriously, your arguments are pathetic

[Charlie Darwin]

Obviously Home Farm should be banned from the league on account of their agricultural imagery - surely not the kind of thing we should be trying to promote in a professional league? St. Patrick's Athletic will need to be dissolved on account of the religious element, however they will be able to continue as "Inchicore Athletic" as that is an approved term. Bohemians will need to make some changes as we don't allow any of that "European" nonsense in our league.

This would be so much easier if the clubs would just embrace the change and name themselves things like Stoke City and Manchester United.

[peadar1987]

This would be so much easier if the clubs would just embrace the change and name themselves things like Stoke City and Manchester United.

Here now, Stoke are the second oldest professional club in the world! The other teams are the cheap imitations, Leicester and Cardiff and the like!

[Charlie Darwin]

The only problem is that we don't have a Stoke in Ireland. Perhaps we could persuade Galway to "rebrand" as Stoke - I mean what tourist is going to take it seriously as a professional city with a name like "Galway"? Best just give a nice snappy name that we know has worked in the past.

[**FrOsTy**]

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Monaghan have it spot on!! Great way to promote the league!! Now what to do with the rest of us!! I suppose we could change to Watford! It looks similar. Cork..hmm York.. etc etc . it's to late to go on taking the **** out of this thread.

[Charlie Darwin]

"Join the winning team"

Does that mean they'll be Chelsea next season?

[Spudulika]

Maybe Pats can find a way around it - Inchicore S.P. Athletic, er, actually, drop the S.P.

[Duggie]

i dont like the name fingal, think thats the problem.....dont see any problem calling the team sporting. maybe FC Sporting Fingal sounds better.

[ndrog]

Fingal Athletic would be perfect

would cover the multisport angle too

as for barstoolers attracting more of them to games is crucial to the league's development. we should be trying to present neutrals and barstoolers with a product that looks professional, credible and well run, not mickey mouse, small time and amateurish. Sponsors like Pat Grace's Famous Fried Chicken and Hunky Dorys and names like Sporting Fingal harm the image of the league

going back to my original post I would be interested if anyone has any info regarding how this name was chosen, what other names (if any) were considered


I agree , DUFC should have told hunky dory to stick there money and all the publicity that came with it .How dare they sponsor a loi club . Good lord the comments on here get more weird by the week .

[mastershake]

Never liked the idea of just startin up a new team in the league of ireland especially in dublin. The name is fine in itself its just that the club has no history to call apon and therefore will never build a large following. It just all seems pointless and a waste of time to be honest. Cant see the club lasting for much longer ala.. dublin city.

If there was a need for a new dublin club (which i would question) why wasn't a team such as drumcondra fc revived? Good history, ready made ground (tolka), and a finacial backer and supporter in bertie.

[The Lep]

After tonight its more popular than Bohemian fc

[Charlie Darwin]

Drumcondra already has a team. North Co. Dublin may not have much in the way of footballing history but it was crying out for a team to represent the area.

[peadar1987]

Never liked the idea of just startin up a new team in the league of ireland especially in dublin. The name is fine in itself its just that the club has no history to call apon and therefore will never build a large following. It just all seems pointless and a waste of time to be honest. Cant see the club lasting for much longer ala.. dublin city.

If there was a need for a new dublin club (which i would question) why wasn't a team such as drumcondra fc revived? Good history, ready made ground (tolka), and a finacial backer and supporter in bertie.


Well, if they can get a good result on Thursday, that's all the history their fans will need. History builds up quickly when you're winning things!

[marinobohs]

What a silly thread. Sporting is a great name for a club. And like others have said, it's different from the usual United's, City's and Rovers.

I also don't understand why people are so hostile towards Sporting Fingal. They are a new club set up in an area that had no LOI representation. They are hardly like Dublin City who set up a new club in an area that already had a LOI club. If Tralee or Carlow manage to get into the Premier, will people have the same attitude?

Or is all this hostility to do with money? Ok, they are being heavily backed financially, which probably gives them a false position, but they are hardly going to win new fans when they are rooted to the bottom of division 1.

I for one, hope they get a decent support base together, and are around for a long time.

Great, great post sullenafc. Many on here bemoan the fact we cant get investment in the LOI but when a new club does get it they are greeted with nothing but begrudery.
Best of luck to Fingal, hope they can show full time football does work. As a football team they are one of the better reasons to watch LOI and that is slightly more important than the name, FFS at the first meeting of Bohs 7 founding members in 1890 they voted on a name- out come, Bohemian 4 ROVERS 3 ! Now that could have been tragic ;)

[drummerboy]

Never liked the idea of just startin up a new team in the league of ireland especially in dublin. The name is fine in itself its just that the club has no history to call apon and therefore will never build a large following. It just all seems pointless and a waste of time to be honest. Cant see the club lasting for much longer ala.. dublin city.

If there was a need for a new dublin club (which i would question) why wasn't a team such as drumcondra fc revived? Good history, ready made ground (tolka), and a finacial backer and supporter in bertie.

Drums still going strong, although after 15 years playing in Morton, they were shafted by both Fingal Co Council and Sporting Fingal a couple of seasons ago. Should have called them Not-so-Sporting Fingal.

[Charlie Darwin]

'Shafting Fingal'

[Onefootednopace]

As we are on the subject of unusual club names, who remembers EMFA who were elected to the LOI during the 80's? Later changed name to Kilkenny City.

[outspoken]

Fingal Athletic would be perfect


Sponsors like Hunky Dorys harm the image of the league



Hunky Doory's sponsor boxing matches on RTE and has been a great asset for the business theres nothing wrong with having them as a sponser i think ur just coming on here looking for arguments with people

[GUFCghost]

I agree. I think most neutrals couldn't care less either. (And by neutrals I mean those who don't follow Sporting Fingal, and don't spend the best part of their day taking petty pot-shots at Sporting Fingal and their fans*)

Personally I think the name is refreshing, better than another F.C., United, Town, City, County . . .

Also, Sporting ______ > ______ United (not to insult fans of Monaghan, Mervue, Waterford, Drogheda . . . even Limerick and Cork, previously, I just thinlk the name SOUNDS better.)



*in before a reference to the number of fans they have / some crack about property developers

So your tying to offend fans of Galway United?

[ped_ped]

Funny that I missed them considering I have a soft spot for them among the Prem clubs :p