Sacrificing for el games

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26/03/2007, 4:03 PM
Rory H

Sacrificing for el games

slightly in honour of tom whats the biggest sacrifice you made for an el game

i was looking at my timetable for the final college exams and the day of the final exam we play pats away. the exam is 3 hours and starts at 2. id have to leave after 2 hours to make the bus to richmond and its probably what ill have to do.its on my list of goals for this year to go to the place so i have to make the sacrifice?

whats the biggest sacrifice you've made. missed a relatives wedding? ran someone over to be there for the kick off? [etc etc]
26/03/2007, 4:10 PM
ciaraa

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rory H

slightly in honour of tom whats the biggest sacrifice you made for an el game

i was looking at my timetable for the final college exams and the day of the final exam we play pats away. the exam is 3 hours and starts at 2. id have to leave after 2 hours to make the bus to richmond and its probably what ill have to do.its on my list of goals for this year to go to the place so i have to make the sacrifice?

whats the biggest sacrifice you've made. missed a relatives wedding? ran someone over to be there for the kick off? [etc etc]

:( Paying money to watch the Drogs these days is sacrifice enough.
26/03/2007, 4:17 PM
Rory H

its cool,ive pretty much passed that subject already so it'll be grand
26/03/2007, 4:18 PM
half_full

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fried_Chicken

You sir, are an idiot

how is he?

fair play Rory H, if there were more fans like you the eL would be better for it:)
26/03/2007, 4:20 PM
Bald Student

Shelbourne fans could well have sacrificed their club for a few years of success.
26/03/2007, 4:26 PM
Red&White

I was in a quandry last year when I was supposed to be best man at my best friend's wedding on the day Derry played Gretna second leg in UEFA Cup. In the weeks before the first leg I knew I was going to miss one of the biggest European nights in our history and would have to suffer the tension through text messages. The only thing that would make it somewhat better would be if something ridiculous happened like we raked up a big enough score away from home to make the second leg largely meaningless. But that would never happen...

As it was I managed to work a couple of jokes about missing the game into my speech. :rolleyes:
26/03/2007, 4:31 PM
Maynard

Certainly sacrificed the better part of may sanity, in what is a (relatively speaking) short amount of time...

Occassionally felt like it was a deal worth doing...other times, not so much:o
26/03/2007, 4:32 PM
BohsPartisan

Went to a league cup group game against Home Farm when I was dying with a dose. Was off work with a cert and all but braved the cold and wet to see a game I can't remember the score of. There was only a couple of hundred there.
26/03/2007, 4:37 PM
Sam_Heggy

I was at every home Harps game last season. That was penance enough. it seemed like it rained every game, but at the end of the day its a strange feelin if you havnt been to a game at the weekend.
as a few others suggested, we have sacrificed our sanity but, its all worth it.:D
26/03/2007, 4:39 PM
dcfcsteve

I once threw a virgin off the city walls in Derry, in full expectation that we'd win another treble as a result

Unfortunately - I was to later find out that at the same time Ollie Byrne had sold not only his club, the league, his players and his health, but also his soul to the devil so he could savour one last trophy before being reduced to First Division re-election fodder.

Hence my sacrifice was a waste of time (and it had taken me ages to find a virgin form Donegal...!)

Moral of the story - don't go messing with the dark arts people...
26/03/2007, 4:40 PM
BohsPartisan

Of course I should have mentioned that going to watch Bohs last season was a sacrifice in itself.
26/03/2007, 4:41 PM
RonnieB

Watching Longford this year will be an ongoing sacrifice of my fading sanity.
26/03/2007, 4:45 PM
Jaime

Hopped on Bus Eireann to Athlone for the Tuesday night League Cup game last season knowing full well I was going to miss the entire first half of the game; got there during the second half, game was already wrapped up. Managed to get a lift home though so could have been worse.
26/03/2007, 4:53 PM
Lim till i die

I went to Dundalk once
26/03/2007, 4:54 PM
passerrby

spent a night in galway once oh the shame
26/03/2007, 5:03 PM
Dodge

Broke up with a girlfriend. On May 1st 1998 Pats were going for league title in Kilkenny. Girl I was seeing at the time was having a birthday party that same day. I'd like to point out now that her actual Birthday was on the Tuesday, April 28th but her party was being held on the Friday. I was giving the clich� "its them or me" ultimatum...

I had one of the best nights of my life in Kilkenny that night
26/03/2007, 6:51 PM
RonnieB

Football > silly parties.
26/03/2007, 7:28 PM
Ash

I quit a job in Dublin and moved back to Athlone and took up a college
course a few seasons ago cos I couldn't get home in time for a lot of
home games on Friday nights when I was in Dublin.
26/03/2007, 8:15 PM
Risteard

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dodge

Broke up with a girlfriend. On May 1st 1998 Pats were going for league title in Kilkenny. Girl I was seeing at the time was having a birthday party that same day. I'd like to point out now that her actual Birthday was on the Tuesday, April 28th but her party was being held on the Friday. I was giving the clich� "its them or me" ultimatum...

I had one of the best nights of my life in Kilkenny that night

Fair pl�.
Although I'm presuming things were already on the rocks.
Ultimatum me balls.
26/03/2007, 9:05 PM
Anto McC

Sure you're all great aren't you. Pointless thread :rolleyes:

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