What is the craziest thing you've done for your club

[Philo]

I wonder if anyone has ever flown from Finland to Sweden to watch an eL team, other than their own?

[A face]

Did you give birth two days before?
If not, then the answers no! :p

Yeah ... there is one clear winner so far !! :)

[Peadar]

I wonder if anyone has ever flown from Finland to Sweden to watch an eL team, other than their own?

Give over Philo, I wanted to pick up some Swedish bread and just happened to be in the area.

Nearly went to bloody Tallinn too except for the electrical storm. :(

[Lim till i die]

Did you give birth two days before?
If not, then the answers no! :p

Damn it, foiled by my own anatomy :D

[diamond]

in fairness united park IS just beside the lourdes maternity ward. if she had have gone into labour you can actually see the pitch from the second floor so would not have missed a kick.
seriously though - to watch shels????? fair play

[pineapple stu]

Totally Agree
no facilities no bar sh!t stand how can they justify it
Are you still after the cup of tea you don't drink anyway?:rolleyes:

[babydol]

Thrilled that i'm winning!! Sorry boys but you just can't compete!! Sure it was well worth it. I even had one of the oher fans walk up to me and say "God, you've lost weight". Yes seriously!

Although it has to be said the priest didn't exactly like my choice of christening gown!

[harpskid]

Although it has to be said the priest didn't exactly like my choice of christening gown!

Dundalk fan was he? ;)

[Peadar]

Sorry boys but you just can't compete!!

You should know better than to challenge men!

Lim till i die is up at United Park, trying to push a water melon out his arse as we type. :D

[diamond]

still think tapo should win. flying in from Dubai for semi and final!!
i know its tax free but bloody hell he's some boy

[Raheny Red]

diamond wrote:

still think tapo should win. flying in from Dubai for semi and final!!
i know its tax free but bloody hell he's some boy



Maybe he could have won it if he came from Dubai for a 2nd round tie against..............lets say Rockmount away..................now that's how he would have coming first!!

[ccfcgirl]

was 9 months pregnant with my son - to the day. about 6 o clock told my parents I was off to Drogheda for the match! They were a bit shocked but off i went. that was a friday night.

Eventually had baby the followin tuesday, discharged myself from the hospital on thursday and was sittin in tolka the followin day!! met one of the players in the bar afterwards and he gave me a jersey signed by the whole team for my son. Six weeks later he was christened in it!!Thats some going fair play to you girl...

[hamish]

You should know better than to challenge men!

Lim till i die is up at United Park, trying to push a water melon out his arse as we type.

RFLMAO

Brilliant Peadar!!:D :D :D

How do I go about nominating this for December POTM.

My sides are sore laughing at that quip.

[babydol]

Dundalk fan was he? ;)

Worse ..... A cork fan! (sorry);)

[Lim till i die]

You should know better than to challenge men!

Lim till i die is up at United Park, trying to push a water melon out his arse as we type.

Good Stuff!! :p :D :D

[wakenuppaddy]

3 of us once went from Letterkenny to Cobh and back in the same day for a Div1 league game....in a 2 seater van.

I spend 3/4 of the journey laying in the back on a quilt.

Awwwww, Poor misters T & A :(

Who the heck had to drive the feckin van to Cobh and back????????????

Although that doesn't beat another trip to Cobh I had !
I left college in Co.Meath lunchtime one Friday,got a bus to Dublin and then the bus home to Letterkenny.From there I hit the grill nite club and got up at 2 or 3 the next day(then I went home;) ).
Then I went to Ballybofey that night and finished up in Jacksons (as this was where the Harps bus was departing for Cobh at 4am)
The reason we left at 4am was to try and get there on time for the 12noon kick off.What we didn't bank on was the bus driver getting fluttered in Jacksons ! So he picked out a mad hoor of an ex gard who proceeded to have us sitting in Cork city eating breakfast at 9am!
Out we went to Cobh then at about 10am and had to hang about in the bus for 2 hours.
The less said about the match the better, a bloody 0:0. I think Roy Keane was back on a visit though as he wasn't that long gone from Cobh.
Anyway back on the bus and back home at 8 or 9. Up the next morning and back on the bus to Dublin and finally back out to the college at about 5pm on the Monday:o
I suppose I could have travelled to Cobh from Dublin but sure it was better craic going on the Harps bus.

[hamish]

Awwwww, Poor misters T & A :(

Who the heck had to drive the feckin van to Cobh and back????????????

Although that doesn't beat another trip to Cobh I had !
I left college in Co.Meath lunchtime one Friday,got a bus to Dublin and then the bus home to Letterkenny.From there I hit the grill nite club and got up at 2 or 3 the next day(then I went home;) ).
Then I went to Ballybofey that night and finished up in Jacksons (as this was where the Harps bus was departing for Cobh at 4am)
The reason we left at 4am was to try and get there on time for the 12noon kick off.What we didn't bank on was the bus driver getting fluttered in Jacksons ! So he picked out a mad hoor of an ex gard who proceeded to have us sitting in Cork city eating breakfast at 9am!
Out we went to Cobh then at about 10am and had to hang about in the bus for 2 hours.
The less said about the match the better, a bloody 0:0. I think Roy Keane was back on a visit though as he wasn't that long gone from Cobh.
Anyway back on the bus and back home at 8 or 9. Up the next morning and back on the bus to Dublin and finally back out to the college at about 5pm on the Monday
I suppose I could have travelled to Cobh from Dublin but sure it was better craic going on the Harps bus.

Jaysus, man, fcuk the players, YOU deserve a medal for that.:D

[tiktok]

There was a Cork City fan had flown back from the states for the league decider against Derry, he didn't have a ticket, I think he managed to get in.

There was also a nutter Galway United fan who flew to Prague to support CCFC this year

Personally, I can't compete with any of this I'm afraid :o
Babydol and the Dubai-Drog fan neck in neck IMO.

[harpskid]

Isn't that just a typical away trip for you Daniel ;) :ball:

[Strabane_Harp]

not as extreme as most of them but i got a call on the day of the Harps v Shels cup game in tolka season before last telling me that my then girlfriend had been rushed into hospital with severe stomach pains and was gonna have an op

of course i did the honourable thing and phoned her the minute we got back from Dublin

[harpskid]

And I notice she's yer ex girlfriend :)

But hey, you've still got Harps! :ball:

[Strabane_Harp]

a small price to pay Chris

for the record we lost, in fact we were stuffed :D


still in touch with her and its still a sore point :rolleyes:

[hamish]

not as extreme as most of them but i got a call on the day of the Harps v Shels cup game in tolka season before last telling me that my then girlfriend had been rushed into hospital with severe stomach pains and was gonna have an op

of course i did the honourable thing and phoned her the minute we got back from Dublin

RFLMAO - :D :D :D

I can understand the "then girlfriend" bit.

Another POTM candidate.

[Strabane_Harp]

the stunned silence on the bus when i casually mentioned it was worth it :p i thought they would understand

[hamish]

i thought they would understand


Ah, sure people have no feelings, SH, stop it will ya, you've my sides sore enough laughing at your first comment.:D

[NY Hoop]

There was also a nutter Galway United fan who flew to Prague to support CCFC this year

I know this guy and he enjoys the odd tipple alright:D He's actually from Mayo and is a nutter!

KOH

[Conor H]

He's a legend!I bet he had this flag (http://gust-online.com/gust/content/view/33/64/)...
3rd one down.

[NY Hoop]

He's a legend!I bet he had this flag (http://gust-online.com/gust/content/view/33/64/)...
3rd one down.

Of course. Was at the World Cup with him amongst other legendary trips. Spacer!

KOH

[Mr A]

WakenUpPaddy reminds me of a very similar story about a certain Mr B.

He was living in Dublin, so got the bus home for the weekend on Friday night. On Saturdat morning he got the bus to Kilkenny to watch Harps- and all the way home again! He then got the bus back to Dublin again on the Sunday.

Never mind the fact that the Harps bus skirted around Dublin on the way to and back from Kilkenny and he could easily have intercepted it on the way down and got them to drop him into the city on the way back.

As craziness goes, it has to be up there......

[1 9 2 8]

Would that not fall under Stupidity ? :confused: :p
I was thinking the same thing myself

[Strabane_Harp]

the legendary Mr Men exploits :D pity they all grew up









well some of them :p

[harpskid]

well some of them :p

Aye, poor Mr A. He'll get there yet :)

Mr B could have had these five pages on his own exploits...and then there was Baird :eek:

[exiled_gufc_fan]

League Cup Final on New Years Day a few years back now.

I was working in Supermacs in Galway, and was working the night of New Years Eve - was dropped home after work about 6am. The busses were leaving from McDonalds on the Headford Rd, about 10 mins walk from where I was living at the time.

So - just enough time for breakfast before heading down. I dozed off while eating ... but while it cost me about 15 mins thought I'd be all right as the buses were leaving between 7am and 730. Walking down four buses passed me on the road, and there's me not worried in the slightest, as I assumed the last one left at 730.

Got there to find one other bloke with his 5 or 6 year old son. Everyone else and all the buses were gone.

So we were faced with trying to find our own way to Cork or miss the game. We ended up talking someone into giving us a lift as far as Clarenbridge to try and catch the bus. No chance.

It was the first of 9 different lifts that New Years Day morning. There was one long wait in the middle of nowhere in Co Limerick in the snow showers when we thought we'd not make it ...

The however some Kerry lad stopped, he was home from the US for Christmas, heard the story, went on a major detour of his own journey, and dropped us outside Turners Cross. We'd only missed about 10 minutes of the match. That bloke was a legend.

Oh and we won! The father and son told the story in the Galway Advertiser the following week!

We got a spare seat on the bus back and I did see some sleep eventually after all the celebrations.

Those were the days!

[Strabane_Harp]

Aye, poor Mr A. He'll get there yet :)

Mr B could have had these five pages on his own exploits...and then there was Baird :eek:


memories of bein left with baird in a nightclub in cobh, he enlightened me on his views on the evolution theory and how they relate to fota island


Mr B and Baird must be brought back

[wakenuppaddy]

Although not a crazy thing for the club there is one other tale about Mr B that just sums the man up(you need to know him folks).
Harps were playing down in Dalyer and I went over to Mr B to ask him for a look at his new van . He informed me he had "parked in Castleblaney and got the express as there would be no parking in Dublin" :cool:

[MariborKev]

I would have thought the person in question would have mentioned this by now but as he hasn't, I'll shame him:D

The poster in question was living and working in London at the time. He was flying back and forth for matches and had flown back to London after the final League game, a win against Waterford which secured us a relegation play off against Limerick.

He assured us that there was no way he was coming over. Myself and two others set off in the car from Belfast heading from Limerick at some ridiculous.
One of the others in the car had been talking to the fella on the phone the night before and he was heading out for a staff do

We got to a petrol station outside Limerick and next thing yer man, half cut, is on the phone telling us he came home from the night out and decided to book himself a flight from London to Shannon, didn't bother going to bed and went straight to the airport.

Fair play to him, he was totally focked when we met him in Limerick. He made the match and then flew home. Only problem was that he had to put up with Tom the Gom in the Pike Rovers clubhouse for an hour or two.

There is a part two to the saga as well, which involves driving from Derry to London and then back again

[Strabane_Harp]

derry to london and london to.......................


im sure you can all see where that one was going :p

only messing

[bluemovie]

I was working in Supermacs in Galway, and was working the night of New Years Eve - was dropped home after work about 6am.

That's the craziest thing anyone's said on this thread yet! Supermacs on New Year's Eve. Nasty.

[EireBadBoy]

I would have thought the person in question would have mentioned this by now but as he hasn't, I'll shame him:D

I'm intrigued - was this the same journey as the puking out the window of the car? Mebbe that was Longford. Hard to tell one place from the other right enough.

As for the Harps men, I'd imagine calling yerself a Mr.<insert forename letter> was a bit mad - but then I used to post pictures of B.A Baracus on the eircomleague.net forum thinking that was funny too.....:D

[Mr A]

The whole Mr Man thing was a spectacularly failed attempt to conceal the identities of the main protagonists in a travelogue I wrote about a trip to Waterford 4 or 5 years ago.

I was reading a lot of Joseph Conrad at the time and he commonly used Mr with one initial for characters, so that's where that came from!

[sligoman]

The whole Mr Man thing was a spectacularly failed attempt to conceal the identities of the main protagonists in a travelogue I wrote about a trip to Waterford 4 or 5 years ago.

I was reading a lot of Joseph Conrad at the time and he commonly used Mr with one initial for characters, so that's where that came from!And it this how the Mr.Men on tour flag came about too?:confused:

[harpskid]

And it this how the Mr.Men on tour flag came about too?:confused:

Yeah, Misters D and R made the two Mr Men flags.

[MariborKev]

I'm intrigued - was this the same journey as the puking out the window of the car? Mebbe that was Longford. Hard to tell one place from the other right enough.

Naw, the Longford story is another one for another day:D

That Longford game was the same season right enough. Tuesday night game and we drove from Belfast to the game.

When we arrived we met an Italian fan, who is a mad Derry fan, and he had flown in especially for the game, driven from Dublin and was flying home two days later. His appearance marked our first victory at Flancare!

Whilst not for my club, I suffered a collapsed lung at the Ireland v Albania game due to excessive celebrations when Keane scored in the last few minutes.

[GavinZac]

quit my job, so as not to miss this years title run in.

its going to be a cold cold christmas, but i ahve next summer to look forward to :)

[OneRedArmy]

I would have thought the person in question would have mentioned this by now but as he hasn't, I'll shame him:D

The poster in question was living and working in London at the time. He was flying back and forth for matches and had flown back to London after the final League game, a win against Waterford which secured us a relegation play off against Limerick.

He assured us that there was no way he was coming over. Myself and two others set off in the car from Belfast heading from Limerick at some ridiculous.
One of the others in the car had been talking to the fella on the phone the night before and he was heading out for a staff do

We got to a petrol station outside Limerick and next thing yer man, half cut, is on the phone telling us he came home from the night out and decided to book himself a flight from London to Shannon, didn't bother going to bed and went straight to the airport.

Fair play to him, he was totally focked when we met him in Limerick. He made the match and then flew home. Only problem was that he had to put up with Tom the Gom in the Pike Rovers clubhouse for an hour or two.

There is a part two to the saga as well, which involves driving from Derry to London and then back again
My exploits pale into insignificance compared with many of the above stories.

However, to continue the story above, I returned to London from Limerick on the Weds, having resigned from my job in part due to difficulty in attending matches, flew to Belfast on the Friday, drove to Derry, picked up a borrowed estate car, left Derry at 4am on Sunday, drove non-stop to London arriving 9pm Sunday. Worked Monday to Friday (missing the Harps away leg playoff final midweek). Finished work on the Friday, packed the car up with all my worldly goods, left London at 9pm on the Friday night, drove overnight to Holyhead, delayed ferry to Dun Laoghaire, drove up to Derry arriving around 45 mins before the memorable Derry v Harps 2nd leg playoff final....

Don't regret moving back at all. Getting to see 90% of Derry's matches well worth uprooting career etc etc.
:D

[Dave drummerboy]

Its not the craziest thing said but having to travel to monaghan every week to see dundalk play home games was crazy , the worst won was when we played monaghan at there picth and dundalk were the home team in the home dugout and all .

[Magicme]

Aw but we looked after you well Davey and didnt charge u as much as your fellow Louthers.....

[Mr_T]

Yeah, Misters D and R made the two Mr Men flags.

Actually, both were painted on my kitchen floor under the watchful (and somewhat exasperated) eye of the good Mrs T.

Made the tricolour one for the trip to Basel in 2003.

That travelougue trip of Mr A's is still about the web somewhere and relevant to this thread.

T

[Mr A]

It's actually on the old FBTN site. See http://homepage.eircom.net/~rdcomputing/Pages/Features/DTTR/finnatics.htm

[Gerrit]

I heard that one of the Drogheda fans that was in OZ, flew in from Sydney for the week of the cup final and back again. Fair play to him! I'm sure he isn't regretting it.


I think he's on BigSoccer.com's board and that I have a verbal war with him, just like with all the other Aussies. Let's say they can't stand me f(or being the only to not swallow their arrogant comments on the Pacific teams), and I can't stand them (for giving the comments in the first place). If this lad is who I think he is, we do know each other :o


I haven't done that many crazy things for my teams, but I'm a poor working class dude ;) Craziest was probably back in Belgium when I went to the furthest away game of the year despite having 40 degrees flu, unfortunately the stadium (over 150 miles away) didn't have a roof and it rained cats and dogs :eek: which was a bad coincidence giving the fever I had...