Player eligibility row

[geysir]

Surely "forcibly merged" is an interpretation.
Whereas, a 'merging of the two associations' is a proposition.

[ArdeeBhoy]

As ArdeeBhoy/ Adios Andytown has been from both foot.ie and OWC , I've lose count how many times.

Er, you are mistaken. Think I said way up thread, my contacts from Beal-feirste are from The Falls and the Short Strand. Check yer facts please!

[ArdeeBhoy]

Surely "forcibly merged" is an interpretation.
Whereas, a 'merging of the two associations' is a proposition.

Or indicative of the 'P' word.

[third policeman]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Although it might be worth adding that if I'd come on here to suggest that the South's team be forcibly merged/ taken over, as you have for the Northern Ireland side, I imagine I'd be banned pretty quickly. As ArdeeBhoy/ Adios Andytown has been from both foot.ie and OWC , I've lose count how many times.

The idea of a mergerd team implies the abolition of both existing teams, and as far as I can recollect no-one has ever suggested that such a proposition could be achieved through coercion. This forum has tolerated discussion of this idea without anyone being banned or the idea itself being presented as advocating the abolition of the ROI side. However you present this GR, the breadth of tolerance on this site greatly exceeds that demonstrated on OWC. Not only are racists and insulting allusions to the ROI side routinely bandied about, from what I have read, they are never challenged or refuted by more reasonably minded contributors. Its always difficult to separate chickens from eggs, but the siege mentality and erection of intellectual barricades is not just a reaction to the defection of players like Duffy et al, but it is sympomatic of a default mindset that is actually part of the cause for these defections.

[lopez]

Thanks for the vote of confidence. Although it might be worth adding that if I'd come on here to suggest that the South's team be forcibly merged/ taken over, as you have for the Northern Ireland side, I imagine I'd be banned pretty quickly. As ArdeeBhoy/ Adios Andytown has been from both foot.ie and OWC , I've lose count how many times.

Absolute rubbish. Worst things have been said on this site than that, without punishment. Indeed, you are always suggesting that we should merge with England as that is where our players etc. Have you got so much as a yellow card? No.

I can think of just two reasons that this sort of thing is so touchy on Are We a Country?: One is that 'merging' both Irish associations is a serious proposition to the general unionist community. As you have argued before, Northern Ireland fans aren't going to vote their team out of existence, but one poll from the BBC suggests that Northern Ireland's population could. The other is that the people who run it and decide who can post are a bunch of bigoted f*ckwits.

[lopez]

And while I'm at it, what about our dear friend Davros? Banned on here - undoubtedly after continually crossing the line - for using the 'P' word, even though he is from that 'tradition' himself. Unlike our wee minds who use terms such as thieving gypsies to describe us not just in people's posts, whose tolerance are down to selective defence of free speech, but also in the site's own fanzine. If this belief is for the benefit of the children back home, fair enough, but I know you are intelligent enough to know that both sites can't be compared.

[osarusan]

Surely "forcibly merged" is an interpretation.
Whereas, a 'merging of the two associations' is a proposition.

Depends if the word 'forcibly' is used by the person making the proposition.

[DannyInvincible]

No names yet. Though, if there are indeed more 'switches' to come, I imagine we'll be hearing about it quite soon.

Hasn't the OWC set its "name and shame!" campaign in motion yet?

And see you're getting a hard time from 'our friends' in the North, assuming that's you on there?

The unruly little upstart.

[greendeiseboy]

Answers on a postcard as to who is responsible for this (last paragraph):-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Magnay

They're getting desperate now.

[Munster Saint]

Answers on a postcard as to who is responsible for this (last paragraph):-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Magnay

They're getting desperate now.

Somebody with BT as their internet provider in Dumbarton, north-west of Glasgow acccording to their ip address.

[geysir]

After the first alteration by that Dumbite, someone edited it to read
'In March 2010 Magnay revealed that he has opted instead to declare for the Republic of Ireland as in all fairness who would want to play for the North?'

Wiki edit history

[osarusan]

After the first alteration by that Dumbite, someone edited it to read
'In March 2010 Magnay revealed that he has opted instead to declare for the Republic of Ireland as in all fairness who would want to play for the North?'

Wiki edit history

Wow, what kind of sick twisted bigot would go to the trouble of edi...........oh, no, wait, that's probably from a ROI fan. Carry on.

[geysir]

The Dumbarton editor falls under the thread's "beyond question" standards, it is beyond question that he/she is illiterate, as in uncultured and poorly educated.

[Lionel Ritchie]

I think I've seen mention of this lad before. Leeds went to the FA with a complaint that he, along with another lad I believe, had been illegally approached by Chelski.

[ArdeeBhoy]

The Dumbarton editor falls under the thread's "beyond question" standards, it is beyond question that he/she is illiterate, as in uncultured and poorly educated.

Presuming he was a Nordie, perhaps they would have benefited from an Irish education....
Rather than their lame anti-Catholic/Irish agenda in the osc!