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Originally Posted by Cymro
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ha before even looking at the second post I could tell from the number of "thanks" it was going to be something horribly offensive to the GAA or those that like the GAA.
Could some of you guys grow up and stop bashing other sports and the people that support it? :(
It's much in the same way that any thread on this site about why the public aren't watching the LOI will inevitably result in the words "barstoolers" and "RTE" popping up at some point.
I get it Foot.ie, you don't like the GAA, RTE, people who follow foreign leagues or other sports in general. Can't we all just accept these facts and not continue dragging them up day after day? :confused:
And that's just being downright childish. That's just picking one, I know there's a lot of other nasty replies there because I don't follow your line of thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drumcondra 69er
Some people need to learn how to debate an issue like this properly without throwing their toys out of the pram at me. :(
Shock horror people on an Irish football fans forum like Irish football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Sure did, great to see that kind of passion in the modern day with a grown man holding back the tears in joy and pride that they won. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by longfordjames
There's a difference between liking soccer and being a jackass about it through undermining every other sport.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
Pity he did not hold back on nearly breaking the cork players jaw. Absolute thug and if you did that in any other walk of life you would be arrested but sure GAA and Rugby allows thugs like this get away with and nearly glorify it. It was a cowardly act to hit a man in the face while he is vunerable. Nothing joyful or proud about that act in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Well did GAA not ban people from actually playing football and rugby and also playing GAA. Football has never done that and had that ban. In addition GAA banned those games from their grounds up until recently and in general still have that ban except for their HQ. GAA also banned people from a particular job from playing their game. GAA has openly tried to block Shamrock Rovers trying to have their own ground in Tallaght. Sof you are going to call people jackass for undermining sports they dont like, you should take a good look at the GAA before you pontificate about this. Do your homework first before you post on these issues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Welcome to the 21st century pops.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
Get over yourself and stop dragging up that crap from the past. The notion of you being either soccer or GAA hasn't been relevant in decades, time to move on.
Eh the ban is still there on "foreign sports" with the exception of Croke Park and that is only temp arrangement. The Shamrock Rovers and Thomas Davis was in the last year and is still on going in some ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
:rolleyes: Ah get over yourself, your sense of humour bypass was obviously a massive sucess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
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Originally Posted by Murfinator
I enjoyed my county's victory yesterday, my favourite TV show is just over on RTE (MNS), I also enjoyed Manchester United's win yesterday (they've been my English team since I jumped on the bandwagon in 1983). I really like basketball and (when drunk) Curling.
I would rather Cork City won a match than any if the options given, but Of those given I'd sooner see Ireland qualify for the world cup than see rugby or gaa success. I just don't see how there's even a choice really, the world cup is the biggest single sport event there is, and the world's most played and most popular sport.
I'd rather see Ireland win a World Cup than for Derry (or Donegal, I'm a dual county-er) to win the All-Ireland. That's not to say I wouldn't like Derry or Donegal to win an All-Ireland again.
All this nonsense about foot.ie posters hating everything other than SAWKER is a load of shíte.
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Originally Posted by Murfinator
Some would say coming on to a site like this when you dont have any interest in the LOI or the International team and just post things you know will antagonise genuine supporters is "downright Childish"....but not me of course:)
The only one with any global significance is the football World Cup. Rugby and Gaaaaaa are niche sports at the end of the day.
1.Ireland win the WC
2.Kerry win the All Ireland (for the 37th time)
3.Ireland qualify for the world cup.
Have barstool supporter friends who said they would prefer liverpool to win the epl more than Ireland to win the world cup. Its so pathetic and sad!
It was indeed dangerous, but it was also accidental.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
Physical confrontation is an intrinsic part of the game - that's why you'd be arrested for some of the stuff that happens. Taking things that happen in a sport out of their context is an amusingly silly tactic though, well done. Much the same as saying some F1 driver is an absolute thug for driving at 200mph and accidentally crashing into another car. Or a footballer should be arrested for indecent assault for patting a man in shorts on the bottom.
It happens as part of the cut and thrust of the game, no need to get too worked up.
Well, if they come from Liverpool or have a particularly strong connection with the team, that is fair enough. I am guessing somehow that this is not the case.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingdomkerry
No way was that accidental. He saw the guy there, he figured its the first minute of the final there is no way I am going to get sent off so I will do him, and do him he did. To target another players head for physical violence is not part of the cut and thrust of the game. It was a cowardly act in my view and I could not give a damn who won the game. I would not be one be OTT in this type of thing but sometimes players use the pitch as a way of getting away the violent side to their personality and this is is clearly what the thug Kennelly did there. Even the myopic Pat Spillane said it was a red card.
My thoughts exactly the only thing that would top Ireland winning the real world cup would be GUFC winning the League or FAI Cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
It can deserve a red card without being thuggish though. I said it was dangerous, but I don't agree with the vilification at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
He mistimed his challenge by a fraction. He went in shoulder-to-shoulder, and missed slightly. Yes he caught him in the face, it was a bit reckless, and he may have been sent off if it wasn't the first minute. But you're really overstating things calling him a thug and assuming it was premeditated and that he has a violent side in his personality that he needed to release on the pitch. I think that's a bit OTT to be honest.
I think you are letting your support for Kerry cloud your judgment. The fact it happened in the first minute just ads to the fact it was premeditated. He knew he would not get sent off. In my opinion he meant to do him.
I'd rather Ireland won a corner at the World Cup than watch Bogball or Stick Wars.
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Originally Posted by NeilMcD
It's my support for justice that supersedes everything. :p
No, I don't think I'm being unduly sensitive, I just don't feel the abuse was warranted. No doubt he meant to go in hard with all the pent-up energy from ten years in Oz. But I find it a bit of a stretch to suggest he deliberately went for yer man's head. Especially when the margins are so small between catching him with a great rousing shoulder and in the head. I'd settle for "reckless" - not thug.
Another mad thread. Asking football fans on a football site, if they would prefer a boghockey/ball superbowl win, than win the World Cup.
Obviously, it's the World Cup for me, bogball/boghockey is parochial euphoria in a medieval game. Bit like comparing Dallas to Ros na Run.
As for the egg-chasers, it's a sport played in 14 countries, and is passionate here in South-East Dublin and Limerick. Winning the World Cup in that is insignificant on a global scale.
I'd take more pride in us winning a gold medal in the Olympics than GAA or Rugger.
Welcome your landgrabbing, bogballer buddies down in Castleisland, Co. Kerry to the 21st century and give them that peace, love and harmony schpiel and see how far it gets you. "Crap from the past" my @rse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Extremely minor point, though arguably a reason to get postcodes, the town you're thinking off is Castlemaine Lionel (at the armpit of Dingle Peninsula, mid Kerry).Quote:
Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
The good people of Castleisland are of course already comfortably ensconced in the free-love wonders of the 21st Century: the town supports reasonably strong teams in both football codes and rugby, with, to the best of knowledge, little friction. Indeed star Kerry centre-back Mike McCarthy who took a few years secondment from inter-county play, returning this year, plays for the Castleisland soccer team. While Mick Galwey from out the road in Currow played rugby for Ireland and gaelic for Kerry. Now, Castlemaine on the other hand....
Whatever, it's futile to argue with you guys.
By all means keep shaking your fist angrily at the invisible GAA enemy, it's worked ever so well up until now.
I do think soccer fans in this country are very old fashioned however. The fans need to modern up at some point and stop coming up with lines I'd have expected to see in the 1980's.
And I am a fan of the international team directed at whoever said I wasn't, why on earth would you claim I'm not and why else would I be here? Unless you're another paranoid sort and believe I was sent by the GAA to sabotage foreign games forums. :D
You're right of course. The town in Kerry who's football club are being screwed by the local cultural purification comet-ee is 40 odd miles from where i'd placed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingdom hoop
Yep, reset the missile coordinates. Should still be within range anyhow.
1. Ireland win the WC
2. Ireland win a gold medal at the winter olympics.
3. Whiskey cures AIDS.
You wouldn't know it judging from most of your posts on this site.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
BTW the post you picked out as childish is statistically correct when it comes to rugby. See www.puttingrugbyfirst.com
"According to the International Rugby Board (IRB), there are more than four million registered players worldwide, but more than half are from England and over threequarters (3.3 million) come from the eight Foundation Unions overall. Meanwhile, there are less than a quarter of a million players in the ten most populous nations of the world (China, India, USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Russia, Nigeria, and Japan).
Television audience data for the 2007 World Cup final, between South Africa and England, shows that 97% of the 33 million total viewers came from the Foundation Unions – with just half a million viewers of the final spread amongst all the remaining nations where it was shown live. There are 115 members of the IRB – but rugby is evidently not particularly popular in most of them."
No contest for me - qualifying for and attending 3 world cups were by far the most exciting things that have happened in my life (sad but true). No other Irish sporting achievement, no matter how much I have enjoyed them, even comes remotely close.
Third time this year we've had the same argument so I'm sitting out the rest of this one. Why anyone would try a WU like this on a football site is beyond me.
Most ridiculous post yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crosby87
Everyone knows Whiskey cures AIDS should be first.
1) Bohs qualify for Champions League
2) Ireland wins FIFA World Cup
3) Ireland wins Rugby World Cup
GAA doesnt even register.
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Originally Posted by Murfinator
AHH so you admit you just come on this site to ARGUE and annoy??
Well i would'nt consider you much of a fan of the International team if,as you have stated,you would rather ur county win the respective GAA titles and the Rugby team to win ahead of us Winning the world cup?..hardly the thoughts of a true fan of the team..and also what about ur problems with the "Irishness" of the team?...and the lack of "community"??
as always i look foward to ur response.
oh and to answer your last question I HAVE NO IDEA why you come on here.
Maybe it's because Bohs have relatively recently won 2 doubles and a league that I'd sooner see Ireland win the World Cup although to be honest even pre 2001 I think that Ireland doing well meant more to me. A number of my mates in teh Bohs crowd would have a different take on it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufct
Let's be honest though, had it been Ciaran Whealan yourself and the media would be singing a different tune about it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingdom hoop
I'm delighted for Kenelley by the way but he deserves a ban for that, no question.
Whelan is a dirty player, I think Kennealy is just a guy who got wound up too much and did something stupid that he was lucky to get away with.
Kerry are usually a clean team, it'd be very rare you'd see something like that from a Kerry player, you'd expect it from a team like Dublin.
Define "very rare"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Ha ha ha! Are you for real? Obviously a WUM and this really is the wrong forum but what the hell, I'll bite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Murfinator
Paul Galvin is one of the dirtiest players playing today, he puts Whelan in the shade when it comes to cynicism. The gooch is a great player but he's also a windy little fcuker who goes to ground at the slightest touch and stays there until he recieves treatment. He's up there with Ronaldo. And he's not the only one, Kerry players dive constantly and stay down for treatment to break up the play. They're masters at gamesmanship and it's embarrassing to watch at times. I've seem games where they've had nearly as many trainers, water carriers (hello Kieran Donaghy!) and miscelaneous backroom staff on the field as they've had players! Clean team?! :D
Title of this thread, and to even think about posing such a question is the most ludicrous, nonsensical notion ever.
Ireland winning the World Cup but I'm from Cork and although we're high profile losers at the minute I'd still expect I'll get to witness them winning a few All Ireland's in my lifetime. If I was from Roscommon, Leitrim, Carlow, etc. I'd imagine my decision would be a lot less clear cut. I take great pride from success of my county and country in most sports really. Cork winning a football All Ireland would definitely mean more to me than Ireland just qualifying for the WC. It'd be fantastic to win the Rugby WC also if only to emulate England's achievement. As for Kennelly, I don't think he's a dirty player so I would be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, if it was Galvin or Darragh O'Se I would have been more convinced of their intent.
Are you having a laugh????? No even going to defend that bullsh1te. Its obviously your way of dealing with kerrys 17 point victory over dublin this year. The team are awesome. Some players play on the edge thats as far as it goes and every team needs those players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drumcondra 69er
P.S What did you think of the episode when donaghy came on the field during the kerry dublin match to give some of the players water (dublin and kerry) and your corner back Bastick (spelling?) stamped on donaghys broken foot totally unprovoked. It was the single most dispicable thing ive ever seen in any sport and he should of been banned for life!
KH you are from kerry, so alluding to being from Leitrim etc is a good analogy. There is always a great chance of your county winning it.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingdom hoop
Maybe the original poster needs to include All Ireland Senior Club Championship too ;) Personally my club winning it wouldn't mean the same as Ireland winning the world cup, but thats for as many reasons as anything else.
Its funny though on here, people would say im a GAA man, but the people I know who love hte GAA would call me a soccer man :) I dont care either way, but Ireland winning a soccer world cup, even for this fact alone, the whole country would be in it together, you would be sharing it with 4.6 million people, as opposed to circa 100k, surely that in itself should answer the question, unless of course you are a more selfish person :)
Angel delight for me everytime.