Highs & Lows of a City fan

[pete]

Thought some perspective of recent events is needed.

Anyone want to share their experiences?

(no particular order)

Highs:
2005 Inter Toto
1998 FAI Cup replay
Gala in CL qualiifier in Bishopstown
Beating Milerick/Derry (i think) midweek in Bishopstown in penultimate game of league winning season - it kept our slim hopes alive

Lows:
1990 League decider at the cross
League decider in Inchicore
Gala in CL qualiifier in Bishopstown
The 1 away win season with Gunther

[Fair_play_boy]

. . . 2005 Inter Toto . . . More specifically, the home game against Nijmegen is my personal high point. The 1-4 game at the RSC last season is way up there too. A third was the 3-2 win over Rovers at the Cross in 2003, when Billy Woods scored 2 against his old club. Rovers were within 20 minutes of a famous win over the auld enemy. They were shocked by a 3-goal spree in 9 minutes.

Low point: Ollie Cahill crying outside the ground after playing his first game with Shels against City during which he took shocking abuse. 2002? Can't remember the year.

[harry crumb]

Are you joking that Ollie Cahill was crying?

[thecorner]

lows
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taken 1 point off portadown and going out of the setanta cup

[redgav]

lows
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taken 1 point off portadown and going out of the setanta cup

Lows - Having fans who chant for a ex manager During a game /
scream abuse at the current manager
start 2000 Rico out / sack the board posts after a draw

[patsh]

Highs: City Fans away

Lows: City fans on forums

[redgav]

Highs: City Fans away

Lows: City fans on forums

Spot on biy

[thecorner]

Lows - Having fans who chant for a ex manager During a game /
scream abuse at the current manager
start 2000 Rico out / sack the board posts after a draw

lows
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fans who slate other fans just because they dont agree with their opinion

[leesider]

lows
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fans who slate other fans just because they dont agree with their opinion

so thecorner please inform as to what exactly richardson is doing wrong? how to rectify it?..........and if the board and manager did get the boot where would we go from there?

[JDB]

Highs:
City's League winning season in 1992/93 and beating Shels 3-2 in the RDS to win it! Paul Bannon got the winner if I remember correctly. Great team!!

Coming back to beat Cwymbran Town at the Cross in the UEFA cup.

4-4 at the cross vs Shels back in the 90's.

Dave Barry's rocket vs Bayern Munich at Musgrave Park. [The only bald plumber to score against Bayern Munich!].

1-1 draw away to Galatasary who went on to knock out United in the next round.

3-2 vs Drogheda at the Cross last season.

Lows:
Some of City's so called fans chanting 'What a load of rubbish' after at the Portadown match the other night. [Reminds me of that Dylan song with the line: "You got an awful nerve to say you are my friend, you only want to be on the side that's winning...."] Whatever happened to the Spirit of Deccie Daly "Same time, Same place, next year" [on yet another final day disappointment].

Dolan's Sacking

0-1 to Galatasary in the home leg.

Losing to Dundalk last day of the season when all we needed was a draw to win the League [1990?]

Listening to two City Fans do a good imporession of Statler and Waldorf [The Muppets] berating Dan Murray at the Portadown game every time he touched the ball - with fans like these who needs an Away Enclosure.

[pete]

Jebus. I was trying to get away from the current debates to show that was insignificant given previous times.

:eek:

[redgav]

so thecorner please inform as to what exactly richardson is doing wrong? how to rectify it?..........and if the board and manager did get the boot where would we go from there?

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[rebs23]

Highs
League win 93
Cup win
Last minute victory over Rovers 3-2 a few years back.(what a game)
When City fans supported their team

LOWS
The current rubbish being posted on city forums calling for Rico's sacking.
Unbelievable petty, small minded. We are 3 points behind in the league with the top 2 to play!! Perspective anyone?
City fans getting on the players backs at games recently.
City fans on forums spouting crap about our team & our manager and city fans on other teams forum winding people up and talking nonsense.

[niamh]

Just a few come to mind...

Highs
=FAI Cup win
=beating Nijmegen last season
=seeing John O'Flynn and George O'Callaghan playing for City for the first time :) and realising they were as good as their debuts had promised.

Lows
=the current unrest between fans
=watching Monaghan Utd at the Cross with about 300 other City fans on the last day of the season some years ago...we have come a long way since then.
=FAI Cup defeat to UCD last season high of Euro campaign

[Real ale Madrid]

Highs:

Winning the Cup 98.
Colin T’s last minute equaliser back in 97 to get us into Europe.
Beating Shels on last day of season to get us into Europe. Away in Tolka 00’

Lows:
All throughout my time people in the Donie Ford Stand berate whoever our manager is Dave Barry got it – Dolan used to be lambasted for his lack of subs and now it’s the same with Rico.
Losing title on last Day against Dundalk
Losing Cup Finals
The ugly incidents against Shamrock Rvs last year

[Copa Mundial]

lows
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taken 1 point off portadown and going out of the setanta cup


Every time i log onto this site,I notice that you never have anything positive to say about your club.Are you actually a supporter or do you just log in 'To have a go'?
Get behind your club as every 'real' supporter does.Its not as if your club is languishing in the bottom half of the table and is drifting like a rudderless ship.

Dolan is gone pal,get over it and MOVE ON!! :mad:

[kingcolers]

highs:
beating derry 1-0 in the cup, way back. stuart ashton the hero. huge crowd, three-quarters from derry. that must have been a record city crowd for a good few years...

1-1 draw v bayern.

1-0 v nijmegen

lows:
virtually every home game between 1984 - 1990. dismal crowds, dismal grounds, dismal football....

0-1 decider v dundalk, 1990

[patsh]

Highs:
Rovers 3 - 2 game of a few seasons ago.
Home game against Nijmegen.
Home game against Bohs, Georgie scoring in the last minute for 3 -2.
Bayern game.
Forgot the Cup final of course...

Lows:
Dundalk loss in 1990.
Defeat to Derry in the Cup semi-final, when J O'F missed his penalty few seasons ago.
Losing to Limerick in League Cup quarter final on a sh*tty wet day in front of about 100 people 4 or 5 years ago.
Last few months culminating in last Monday night.
and a Regret: Not being in the RDS the day the league was finally clinched...

[razor]

Highs:
Winning the league in the RDS in 1993
Winning the Cup in 1998.
Glynns late winner against Cwmbran Town
Home game against Nijmegen.
Bayern Munich at Muzzers.

Lows:
Davey Barrys volley coming back off the post in the 89 Cup Final
Dundalk loss in 1991.
Losing the 92 Cup Final to Bohs.
Defeat to Derry in the Cup semi-final 2002
The reaction by some to last Monday night

[Fair_play_boy]

Are you joking that Ollie Cahill was crying?No. It was the parents of a city player who saw it, and they told me. They felt ashamed the abuse from City supporters caused him to get that upset.

[ian]

City hot one min rovers game 3-2 win that was class. As the song went 2-0 down 3-2 up and we F--k the rovers up.


City Cold but for ever a fan
watching them in the munster cup on a freezzzzzing cold morning some years back and there must have been about 10 of us at it I think it was season 2001 2002 v rocmount.

[Troy.McClure]

Since I started:
Good
City 4, Shels 4: My first match, go tme hooked straight away.
Cup Win and the open top bus the next day.
3:1 V Malmo, Profesional club? You're having a laugh!
Beating Shels in Tolka to stop them winning the league on the last day in 2001
Seeing JOF & Georgie beat Shels at the X on their debuts and having the added bonus of Molloy being sent off
Seeing City beat Bray, the only away win of the season and I was there
Improvement in the 'match day experience' since Gunther took charge

bad
Ollie Judas Cahal going to Shels - B@stard :mad:
Dobbs, Kabia, CPOB, Carey's unfulfilled promise
Dolan sticking for too long with Kevin Murray + anyone he brought in on a short term contract
The Leicester & Colin Murphy affair
The drugery of Mountfields time
Seeing City beat Bray, the only away win of the season
UCD games bar one or two
St pats + Osam + Dolan
Succesfully predicting that Derry would score against us in the last minute:o

ugly
Moses & Terry Dunne :p

[tiktok]

High's
The 3-2 Cup win against Rovers
Hartigan's goal into the shed to win the league cup
Malmo, Nantes but especially Nijmegen at home
Malmo and Nijmegen away
Gunthers first league game in charge, not knowing who Flynny and George were
Pat Dolan being announced as manager

Lows
losing at home to Ljepajas Metalurgs playing 451
last minute goal away in Lausanne
losing 1-0 in Inchicore, and losing the league even though we'd won more points than any previous league winning side.
losing Alan Reynolds
the losses at home to Shels last year

[Fair_play_boy]

High's
The 3-2 Cup win against Rovers
Hartigan's goal into the shed to win the league cup
Malmo, Nantes but especially Nijmegen at home
Malmo and Nijmegen away
Gunthers first league game in charge, not knowing who Flynny and George were
Pat Dolan being announced as manager

Lows
losing at home to Ljepajas Metalurgs playing 451
last minute goal away in Lausanne
losing 1-0 in Inchicore, and losing the league even though we'd won more points than any previous league winning side.
losing Alan Reynolds
the losses at home to Shels last yearGood to see TikTok back on the board and in good writing form!

[tiktok]

Good to see TikTok back on the board and in good writing form!

aw shucks :o , but I've been on here all along :confused:

[adamd164]

Highs:
Winning league
Winning FAI Cup
2005 Inter-Toto campaign

Lows:
Dundalk game in 91
Losing cup semi at home to derry
Fans bitching at a manager who's been there a couple of months

[Anto McC]

HIGHS: 1984
LOWS: Ever since


Hope youse like my new signiture.

[adamd164]

It's fab :)

btw, "youse" isn't a word ;)

[Anto McC]

It's fab :)

btw, "youse" isn't a word ;)

Sorry about that it's my Dublin(actual Capital) accent coming through,I do hate bad English,It must have been a proverbial slip of the keyboard. :D
Thank you for correcting me.

[Soko]

No. It was the parents of a city player who saw it, and they told me. They felt ashamed the abuse from City supporters caused him to get that upset.




I'm going to add that to my list of lows - the fact that I didn't see that greedy **** crying. Would you be unhappy to see Reynolds cry? Theres not a huge difference between the 2 IMO.

[Fair_play_boy]

I'm going to add that to my list of lows - the fact that I didn't see that greedy **** crying. Would you be unhappy to see Reynolds cry? Theres not a huge difference between the 2 IMO.I could never see the sense in vilifying Ollie Cahill for accepting a higher paying job with a different club. It is childish, IMHO.
Now, the rodent from Waterford is in a different category altogether. That guy begs to be hated by CCFC supporters.
But even at that, I would be horrified to see Reynolds crying if it was because he got so much abuse from our supporters.

[tiktok]

I could never see the sense in vilifying Ollie Cahill for accepting a higher paying job with a different club. It is childish, IMHO.
Now, the rodent from Waterford is in a different category altogether. That guy begs to be hated by CCFC supporters.
But even at that, I would be horrified to see Reynolds crying if it was because he got so much abuse from our supporters.

I don't know, Ollie was all over the papers in his last season critiscising the fans and the shed, while he was the one player who at the time was adored by us.
He dragged his heels in contract negotiations which in hindsighrt was telling clubs to come and get him, he took the cash and has to put up with the consequences.
Anyway, he might have she a few tears early on, but he's well able to celebrate in front of the shed wearing his Shels jersey at the same time.

I don't dislike the man, but it's part and parcel of the game.

[pete]

I don't dislike the man, but it's part and parcel of the game.

Yeag nothing personal, just fans using it to get an edge for their team.

[Fair_play_boy]

This has to be my high of the season so far:
1. Linfield winning the Setanta Cup. That amount of cash going to an IL club will do far more good than it would do for a wealthy Dub club, IMO.
2. Linfield beating Shelbourne in the final.
3. Linfield beating Shels at Tolka!!!
The season is looking decidedly up. A group of part - timers beats Ireland's "best". Shels are there for the taking lads, and they won't be so flush now. You can bet your granny's false teeth that they had that money factored into their financial plan for the year.
Linfield beats Shelbourne in Setanta Cup Final!!! Awesome!!!

[Soko]

This has to be my high of the season so far:
1. Linfield winning the Setanta Cup. That amount of cash going to an IL club will do far more good than it would do for a wealthy Dub club, IMO.
2. Linfield beating Shelbourne in the final.
3. Linfield beating Shels at Tolka!!!
The season is looking decidedly up. A group of part - timers beats Ireland's "best". Shels are there for the taking lads, and they won't be so flush now. You can bet your granny's false teeth that they had that money factored into their financial plan for the year.
Linfield beats Shelbourne in Setanta Cup Final!!! Awesome!!!



Shels dont get an extra €80,000 so I'm happy but to be this delighted for Linfield is just wrong. I didn't know who to cheer for in the end as I dont know if an extra €80,000 would make as big an impact at Shels as we're making it out to. An IL club beat us and made our league look inferior, a dubious IL club at that. Should we all be doing cartwheels because of this?

[GavinZac]

Highs: first (real, cobh doesnt count) away game, up in dalymount. can barely remember the game or result, but sleeping on the window sill of the train station in mid december will haunt me for the resyt of my days!
Being absolutely bemused by skippys celebration v gotenborg.
"same time, same place, next year" alas, it wasnt to be, decky.
that moment when bray "were" 1-0 up.
city v waterford 2 years ago. we lost, but watching from the saint anns end of all places, it was clear just how superior john o flynn was to everyone else on the pitch.
singing for 90 minutes away to nijmegen and falling asleep after 70 or so waking hours
listening intently to the radio for the other away games last year. FENN!
lennox & dolan in better times, a vehicle of ambition driving us to glory.
everytime the ground is full and over flowing onto the hill.
my friend from school roy making his debut

lows:
missing the cup final replay.
coming so close against nantes
who the fvck are metalurgs liejpas
ollie joins shels
bray werent 1-0 up
liam murphy's reign.
people taking davy barry for granted until he left.
city v celtic, more celtic shirts.
playing well away to CSKA Kiev but running out of steam.
watching john o flynn deteriorate to being below denis behan in the pecking order.
dolan sacked for non-football reasons.
the close minded pig ignorance of some of the fan base recently.
missing the cup final replay

[tiktok]

"same time, same place, next year" alas, it wasnt to be, decky.


That was a good buzz that day alright :)

[Citygirl]

City Cold but for ever a fan
watching them in the munster cup on a freezzzzzing cold morning some years back and there must have been about 10 of us at it I think it was season 2001 2002 v rocmount.


If its the one I'm thinking of it was against Cobh Wanderers..kick off was 11am on a Sunday morning!! i was in the ground at 10 and was the only supporter there until about quarter to eleven..remember at one stage during the warm up it started to hail stone and devine came up to the shed to me and started shoutin abuse at the lads..talk about drawing attention to the loner on her own!!! :o

[Citygirl]

Highs:

- Supporting my local team and feeling proud everytime i see eleven players wearing the city colours run on to a pitch.

- Being away from home and singing louder than the home supporters.

- Singing for 90 minutes in Nijmegen in an unreal stadium and being applauded by the home supporters as they left the ground.

- Players knowing your name and taking the time to speak to you

- The amount of young kids becoming interested in the club.

- The friends I've made through supporting City.

- Seeing the City youths team beat Corbally United in the Munster Youths Cup Final replay in Jackman Park two years ago. City were reduced to nine men and fought hard to win on penalties.

- Winning the U21 league two years in a row. Losing in the final to UCD late last year but capturing the Enda McGuill Cup as a consolation.

- Knowing that we have a structure in the club to be HUGE in years to come. We have fantastic U17, youths and U21 teams.

- Seeing how much the club has improved over the years.

- Kevin Doyle playing in our colours!

- City players playing for Ireland and its only a matter of time before a senior cap is gained..


Lows

- Supporters fighting amongst one another when we all want the same thing.. The club to succeed.

- Not going to my first game til November '98 (v Finn Harps 2-0) and therefore never seeing the City first team win anything major.

- Having to explain to people over and over again why I support my local eircom league team rather than a premiership team.

- falling at the last hurdle.................

[Éanna]

- Seeing the City youths team beat Corbally United in the Munster Youths Cup Final replay in Jackman Park two years ago. City were reduced to nine men and fought hard to win on penalties.
Jeeze yeah, I'd nearly forgotten that game.

[Ruairi]

Highs this season

Drinking out of the munster senior cup, Ireland's oldest soccer trophy

Lows this season

When i woke up the next morning after drinking out of the munster senior cup, Ireland's oldest soccer trophy

[Éanna]

Highs:
- The European Intertoto odyssey.
- The trip to Latvia for the Metalurgs game.
- Lausanne away.
- Winning in Dublin, especially Tolka.
- George O'Callaghan on form- who needs Zidane!
- Doyler- what an absolute gem!
- Winning the League Cup in 98 against Shams, especially O'Dowd being sent off.
- Away matches in Longford.
- 2 magical years under Dolan.
- FourFiveOne. It was a breath of fresh air to City fans in so many senses.
- Having the best programme in the country.
- The progress we've made in the last 3 years.

Lows:
- The result in Latvia for Metalurgs game.
- Infighting among fans.
- The board which left the club stand still and sacked Derek Mountfield
- City fans throwing things at opposition players/fighting with Shams fans.
- The sacking of Dolan- a mess we could all have done without.
- Liam O'Brien.
- The fact that nearly every time we face a "must-win" game, we bottle it.
- Not having won anything for so long.

[kevincronin2000]

Highs

Dave barrys goal v Bayern Munich
Home game v Cwmbran Town
Away game against Athlone in cup semi final
last game of the season away to shels to gain entry to europe and hand title to bohs.
Brian lennox appointing Dolan as manager
Home to NEC and Away to Nantes.


Lows

Pat O'Donavan aka plonk
Cup final result against Bohs at Lansdowne
Loosing 0-3 to Monaghan United in front of 300 fans at a leauge game in Bishipstown. (no monaghan player has scored a hat trick since ian douglas that day )
"fans" throwing lager cans at Patsy Freyne when he played for Cobh.
The club pricing fans out of games versus Bayern Munich and more recently Celtic at turners cross.

[pete]

The club pricing fans out of games versus Bayern Munich and more recently Celtic at turners cross.

I agree with the first part (people should remember the past when think current situation bad) but how can you blame the club for trying to make cash from Celtic Fans escpecially when celtic were charge big money for their appearance.

If City were to play Real madrid in a friendly & charged too much that loyal fans couldn't go i wouldn't lose any sleep over.

[A face]

how can you blame the club for trying to make cash from Celtic Fans escpecially when celtic were charge big money for their appearance.


I say they didn't charge enough for that game ..... and i wouldn't mind, but all the huffin' and puffin' you get out of the celtic fans ... they couldn't even fill the cross, pathetic really when you think of it but then again what can you expect (http://www.thejokefactory.org/JF_pictures/Pictures_by_date/2002/11_Nov_02/Perfect%20bar%20stool.jpg) !!