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Castle Barracks
25/05/2005, 2:06 PM
Traditionally,who are Lims biggest?Cork?Waterford?Dublin clubs?
joeSoap
25/05/2005, 2:18 PM
I remember when a kid going to the Markets Field, the key games there for rivalry and sometimes the odd 'scuffle' or two between the balla boys and visitors were against Sligo Rovers, Waterford and Shamrock Rovers.....all good fun. :p
Castle Barracks
25/05/2005, 3:37 PM
Who are the balla boys?
joeSoap
25/05/2005, 3:52 PM
Boys from Ballynanty....'Balla' was the tough guy area while Moyross was cutting its teeth back in the late 70's early 80's....you didn't want to mess with the 'balla boys' ;) :D
Castle Barracks
25/05/2005, 4:05 PM
Did yo ever hear of the "Rat-pack"?
fc hammer
26/05/2005, 10:03 AM
the "rat pack" thats a name i did'nt here for years!!!!
SouthCroydon
26/05/2005, 11:11 AM
read an article about a shamrock rovers fan and a supposed cavalry charge outside hogan park inthe 80s.are there any first hand accounts from limerick fans.the article was very amusing.
fc hammer
26/05/2005, 11:25 AM
that was outside the markets field. as far as i can recall..the north bank gave the rovers large
that day alright..
LFC in Exile
26/05/2005, 12:12 PM
read an article about a shamrock rovers fan and a supposed cavalry charge outside hogan park inthe 80s.are there any first hand accounts from limerick fans.the article was very amusing.

I was at that game and the "reporter" was George Byrne. I remember reading the article at the time and it is still a real source of annoyance and if I ever meet that Byrne lad I'll tell him. He was one of those smart-alec college journo types that the Hot Press spawned a few years back. Most of them now 'write' for the Sunday Independent - shows you how bad Byrne is if he can't even get a job there.

The story was a pack of lies. If anything the Rovers fans were really looking for trouble that day - e.g. when John Power went to take a kick-out they flicked theri scarves at him (the fans get very close to the players at Rathbane. There was no 'cavalry charge' - it was around the time Stab City was coined and Byrne thought he was being funny. He's a t it. :ball:
sadloserkid
27/05/2005, 4:59 PM
Cobh Ramblers at this stage I'd say.

That or the LDMC! ;)