Club nicknames

[GavinZac]

as long as shamrock rovers are in the premier, and probably for a while after, you'll be sligo and they'll be rovers. to everybody except yourselves and maybe galwaymen.

[Da Real Rover]

as long as shamrock rovers are in the premier, and probably for a while after, you'll be sligo and they'll be rovers. to everybody except yourselves and maybe galwaymen.
Dont forget the Athlone lads.

[sligoman]

as long as shamrock rovers are in the premier, and probably for a while after, you'll be sligo and they'll be rovers. to everybody except yourselves and maybe galwaymen.

Ok, so until November they will be known as Rovers?

[GavinZac]

Ok, so until November they will be known as Rovers?

did you just read until that point, feel all excited, and hit the reply button?

[EireBadBoy]

Read Eammon Sweenys 'Only One Read Army' cause it will do ya a world a good and if that doesnt help you can use it to forcefully remove your head from your ass. There is another world outside Dublin.

Just as well, I'm from Derry!! Don't wannae be ANOTHER Dublin suburb!! :D

'The Candystripes' will be all the rage this year what with the remake of Willy Wonka and all - won't it, please say 'Aye'!!

[Da Real Rover]

'The Candystripes' will be all the rage this year what with the remake of Willy Wonka and all - won't it, please say 'Aye'!!
You've really lost me now.

[NY Hoop]

Im not being self-important thinking that we have a bigger right to being called Rovers than shams do.The fact that we are just top of the first division is not my only point so read the rest. there club is a joke and it has been run like a joke for a long time. But if 99.99% of fans call them Rovers before they call them Shams then i'll accept defeat, but until then their shams (in my mind and everyone elses in sligo). That sh!te about us being called bog rovers is typical shams crap, that the only urban center in Ireland is in Dublin. Read Eammon Sweenys 'Only One Read Army' cause it will do ya a world a good and if that doesnt help you can use it to forcefully remove your head from your ass. There is another world outside Dublin.

You're obviously not the brightest or have never travelled. To say people refer to sligo as Rovers is preposterous and delusional. You have no right to call yourself Rovers at all. In fact I would bet that upon the foundation of your club that they decided to call themselves Rovers in our honour. Dont worry other clubs have done this too.

How's our future looking? Not up to speed are you? Our future has never been brighter. For the first time we have people, that is us the fans, who are in charge of the club with no hidden agendas. The club will be run properly for a change.

I seem to remember when your stand was being constructed some locals breaking in and trying to burn it and other incidents like your fans charging into dressing rooms but I dont remember reading that in sweeney's delusional book.

And as for the gypo fan who thinks we went mad when you lot went on about being "The Biggest Club" that is the funniest thing I've read in a while :D

You can do polls til your cows and sheep come home but outside of your town absolutely NOBODY refers to you lot as Rovers.

Sligo the biggest daytripping support ever. Rovers fans are ALWAYS there.

KOH

[Éanna]

Rebel Army struck me as a bit cringe-worthy to start with, but its taken off and its good for chants etc., so I'm happy enough with it. It also prevents us being called Cork, the Rebels (we're not bogballers), the leesiders etc. Personally I just refer to us as City, wouldn't go around saying I follow the Rebel army or anything. Simple fact is, its a good marketing tool/publicity thing, so no complaints.

Bad ones- vikings or thoroughbreads are bad enough IMO, but I don't really care all that much.

[razor]

Must say I detest The Rebel Army, too many bad memories.
The C a w k thing is just Waterford peoples failure to speak or spell properly.
We'll use City as we have 12 months on Derry and they can be Derry. Great.
Our own best chant was "Cups of Tea" chanted to the "Here we go" chant very fast.

[derrymac]

I know i only started following (Derry) City in 1985 due to one or two problems with the IFA, but lets not get into that, but Derry City were founded in 1928 so we have been around a lot longer than Cork City and we were called City in the old days as well but we could always share it with you

[Jerry The Saint]

And as for 'we were unofficially founded 20 years before we were founded, jog on. worst reply ever.

Yeah, do one. Sling yer 'ook, you're 'avin a giraffe, 'int ya?


I don't really see what the fuss is about myself - nicknames are for lazy headline writers. It's simple if everyone sticks to the proper first names of each club (until we get back to a situation where a city/town outside Dublin has two league teams):

i.e.

St. Patrick's
Bray
Cork
Derry
Shamrock
Sligo
Drogheda
etc.

With the option to shorten the name where appropriate ("Pats"; "Bohs"; "Drogs").

Then you don't need to get into any silly arguments over which one is the REAL "City" or "Rovers" or "Wanderers" or whatever. I can't see how anyone would object to that unless they were somehow ashamed of their club's name.