Printable View
Absolutely correct. Even most LOI players also have a foreign club that they follow. You'll often see their preferences revealed on twitter. Astonishing amount of LOI player Liverpool fans, going by my less than scientific survey...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
I can see you're trying to make a point but you're just being ridiculous now. Nobody says anything like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by mightaswell
Cool, thanks. Public please, just "did you start off supporting a LOI team or an EPL/overseas team?" Something simple like that, just out of curiosity.Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Starting to think he's a WUM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Don't listen to Dodge, I grill every new face I see at the Brandywell, and some of the old ones too. If you're stepping through those turnstiles you better know what colour underwear Liam Coyle was wearing when he scored his 32nd goal for the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
You must be that 5% he goes on about:pQuote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
Irish barstoolers are really going to have up their game with some epic sycophancy at the Dublin Decider if they want to compete internationally: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23341088
To be fair, he'll still be supporting Vietnam. These Asians just don't have the same devotion as the true Irish Gunners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sheridan
Precisely. I've a lot of close friends who block my posts and invites on Facebook because I'm constantly onto them about going to Harps matches...to no avail.Quote:
Originally Posted by peadar1987
Nothing would make me happier than to see all my Man Utd and Liverpool and Celtic friends all regulars at Finn Park. They don't even have to become any sort of 'superfan', but just to see a bit of live football.
This isn't a million miles away from being true... I recall you thinking I was a barstooler when we first met.Quote:
Originally Posted by thischarmingman
Point taken on the latter, not the former.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jofspring
The FAI try to help, but the clubs don't want to know unless it "guarantees" them a benefit. Look at the row over football in Galway. Look at the attempts to restructure the divisions. Nobody can agree, because they want something else.
The problems in the LOI, are often the club's own making.
The sight of grown men jizzing themselves all over Ole and wanting to get a photo with the man, made me physically sick.
I notice today the forum is being blitzed by MUTV ads....conspiracy I tell ya :)
Do they try to help? Popular opinion seems to that they don't but that's easy to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
It's a pity the Aviva only holds 50,000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/v...lone-mcg-video
Fantastic day for Australian football and what a great result for them! Irish football's big day is coming!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Was it billed as the Melbourne decider?
Holy feck, tearing out my hair at the stupidity of a friend of mine, who is absolutely adamant that Harps wouldn't even beat a Donegal League team. That the Donegal League is of a higher standard than the League of Ireland First Division.
The Donegal League....which isn't even anywhere near the best junior league in the country.
Things like that are quite common. I remember reading some journal.ie comments (I know, my own stupidity) when Darren O'Dea signed for Metalurh lamenting him signing for a side in a useless league, "is there not some League of Ireland team that would sign him?" Nevermind that the Ukrainian champions trounced European champions Chelsea in the Champions League last season, to them it's not a league they've heard of so it's useless.
Is that someone who tries to get to as many other grounds as they can, but only if Rovers are playing there?Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
......and only if there is a direct bus from TallaghtQuote:
Originally Posted by stann
It might be popular opinion, that doesn't mean it's correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by legendz
Everyone is aghast at the state of the economy, not accepting that it was partly their fault it is in it's current state. Popular opinion is it's all the fault of Bertie, Cowen, McCreevy, TD's, Drumm, Fitzpatrick, and a select handful of other individuals, rather than the nation as a whole.
I know all that regards popular opinion, reason I said "but that's easy to say." Have you an answer to the question, do the try to help and can you elaborate a bit on that please?Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
I thought a coffin too :) Seriously though. I've read on the next two pages and still nobody has identified the piece of tat they presented Ole. The only man prepared for that photo is Ole. The rest is chaos and quite honestly hilarious. There'll be factions in the group over the state of that picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by Straightstory
So you have to imagine the excitement and enthusiasm that went into this. So Ole Gunnar Solskaer is coming to Sligo. We'll have to present him with something. A sod of turf? A miniature coffin?
Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
I get that a lot, people often tell me (insert Leinster Senior league side) would hammer Pats. Dodge can correct me if I'm wrong but I don't Pats have ever lost to a non league side in a Cup competition
Yeah, yourselves and us are the two main league clubs with that record (not counting clubs who've joined in the past few years).
Whatever about Pat's, when they can't beat us, you know it's nonsense.
I imagine its a common experience everywhere. I've heard Pike Rovers fans insist they're above Limerick FC repeatedly over the years.
Because all of their players are clearly playing for the love of Pike Rovers, when they could be earning money doing the exact same thing for Limerick. It's very noble when you stop and think about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
Capitalism corrupts the soul. The freedom from financial rewards means the Pike players are free to express themselves creatively in a way Messi himself could only dream of.Quote:
Originally Posted by peadar1987
Not in the FAI Cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
Everyone, at every level of football, overestimates how good they are. The lower you go, the higher the over-estimation
Dundalk are proud to hold the record for losses to non-league opposition in the FAI Cup [six if you’re asking].
The Leinster Cup record is even better…minnows (giant-killers?) have clocked up ten victories!!
Beat that!
Pre-season game and........ you have to pay to see it online.
http://www.tv.manutd.com/
What's that have to do with barstoolers?
maybe they prefer to be 'Pikeys' than 'Lims' :DQuote:
Originally Posted by peadar1987
You have to admit though it's great to finally have a home Liverpool game to go to.
I thought Celtic were at home? Or are both we and them at home?
Oh we're both at home. It'll be great to see the two most Irish sides ever finally play in Ireland!
It's basically the same as when AC Milan play Inter Milan. Home vs home. A win win situation for the whole of Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
I think the existence of this thread shows a big problem for the League. When can we get away from the attitude of "No one likes us, we don't care" to recognising that "barstoolers" can range from people who "wouldn't watch that shíte if it was on in my back garden" to the cohort of people who could be encouraged to go to games if the quality of stadia was improved?
The way I see it, true barstoolers are only those in the first category. "Die hard" Man City fans in it for the glory and the association, however tenuous, with success and glamour. The sort who'd never dream of darkening the turnstile at an LOI ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by hedderman
For me, the quality of stadia is a pretty poor excuse anyway.
All a football ground actually needs to be good are enough seats, relatively unobstructed lines of sight, enough clean toilets (okay, the Carlisle is shocking in this respect), reasonable food nearby or in the ground, turnstiles and ticket offices you don't have to queue for an hour to get through, and ideally a roof over enough of the stand for people to shelter when it gets rainy. Many LOI clubs already have most of that, and the ones who have all of it already (Tallaght, Dalyer, the Showgrounds, Turner's Cross, even the Belfield Bowl) are hardly bursting at the seams, in spite of being of just as good a quality as any ground I've been to in England or Scotland, only a bit smaller.
What people mean when they say the grounds aren't good enough is either they live in Drogheda, or that they want a fully-covered, 30,000 seater stadium with big screens, executive suites, fancy advertising everywhere, aeroplane seats in the dugouts, and floodlights stolen from NASA. Things that make little to no practical difference to the average fan's experience of the game they're watching, but things that do add to the glitz and glamour they crave.