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There will be 9000 people (at least a couple of hunderd of these would have otherwise gone to the Ireland match) at the game and thousands more watching on TV. The lure of the City v Shels will prove too hard to resist for most real football fans in Ireland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy
Didnt Eamonn O'Keefe Cork Citys former manager play for Ireland against China ? If i remember correctly!
Except for around a million Dubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy
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The lure of the City v Shels will prove too hard to resist for most real football fans in Ireland.
Colms right. I can forsee huge interest in our first meeting with a Northern team in an All-Ireland Cup down here in Cork. Anyway a crappy friendly against China is nothing to get excited about. They have been already knocked out of the World Cup qualifiers by Kuwait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy
I don't know if that was directed at my post but almost everyone in Dublin has NTL, therefore almost everyone in Dublin has Setanta...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuff Paddy
BTW - I couldn't care if we were playing Cook Islands, I wouldn't miss an Ireland match for the world.
Only the FAI could arrange that! Watch out for the FAI Cup clashing with Ireland V Latvia some time soon :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Colm
Whats going to happen to City's allocation for the international matches when all the City fans decide to watch Cork instead of China? :confused:
Has the match even been announced yet? I can't see there being a clash, Setanta or the FAI will hopefully see sense and move either one of the games a day.
If it comes down to it though I'll record the Ireland match, a friendly against China will bring about the interest the Canada one did so I wouldn't be too suprised of Cork v Shels did quite well in the ratings against it.
LADS.... just wait for the Unity cup to come arround again, sorted ;)
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Originally Posted by Jon'o
Now your talking, I hope this years one has the same passion and huge crowds as last years. ;) I'm already looking forward to it.
Fair play to ya eirebhoy, Ive realised lately that you make more sense than any other member of foot.ie.Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
Like yourself, I couldnt bear to miss an Ireland game. I'll be there to see them play China. It could be like the Canada game where there were about 18,000 fans in Lansdowne. Colm and eoinh can talk all they like about the "real fans", but some so-called Irish supporters need to take a long hard look at themselves. We might have the odd player who doesnt do friendlies, but we also have a lot of "fans" who dont do friendly games. Im a real fan and I know that Id prefer to see my country in action against China. I bet the likes of Colm, eoinh, and every other l@nger who chooses a Setanta Cup game over an international, will all be looking for tickets when the French come to town. As for Cork V Shels having an effect on RTE's ratings for an Irish international, dream on. :rolleyes:
Jaysus, I've never gotten praise like that before, won't be long before you change your mind no doubt. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by TheJamaicanP.M.
I don't see a problem with fans preferring a competitive club game over an international friendly. Colm, etc, would also admit to preferring club over country in football which again, while I find it weird, at the end of the day its their heart that does the choosing. The "real fans" comment was silly though.
Greetings one and all from sunny Melbourne. Twenty-eight degrees at the end of January. I love it. :)
There's being damned with faint praise and then there's being endorsed by JPM... I'm not sure which I'd rather. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by TheJamaicanP.M.
Well PM, you're actually making an awful lot of sense there yourself. Apart from your having a direct pop at some fellow posters (attack the post, not the poster, remember?) I couldn't agree more with your sentiments. Still, each to their own. We're obviously the ones missing out... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by TheJamaicanP.M.
Right, now that I've cooled off, it's back to the sunshine... :D
:D PP
[QUOTE=TheJamaicanP.M.]Fair play to ya eirebhoy, Ive realised lately that you make more sense than any other member of foot.ie.
PM I thought Davros was the one that made most sense on foot.ie. :confused:
PM you are dead wrong on this one, the real football fans in Ireland are the guys who turn up week in week out at EL games and who supported Ireland before success came along. Add to that the regular match goers and volunteers at youth games and the international underage games and they my friend are the real fans not the drunken twits in the leprechaun hats who only attend a soccer game in Ireland if it is in Lansdowne Rd. I will stand up and say "I am not a 'real' Irish football fan" because if I was back in Ireland I would not attend EL games on a regular basis. But I am still a football fan, perhaps a plastic one.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheJamaicanP.M.
As for the China game as with all friendlies it is more about us than who we play. It is a chance for the manager to re-enforce his style and prepartion and to try a few variations with players and positions. Hopefully McGeady and Elliott will benefit.
I see your point Mick, but it's the sanctimony and self-righteousness of those "real" football fans on here that really sticks in my craw. I have a stereotypical view of them as lads in their teens and early twenties with no other commitments than meeting their mates on a weekend and watching their football. No wives, families or mortgages to consider. It's those things, after all, that allow people as they get older to put football and all that goes with it into perspective.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1MickCollins
And, in the light of that, you shouldn't have to devalue or downplay your own commitment to football just to appease the super-supporters round here. You are a real fan, pure and simple; please don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. You care enough to spend time on here debating the game and the team you love, after all. Enough said.
:) PP
Great point PP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plastic Paddy
Im sure Mick Collins is a real fan. Most people on this site are. I know I am. I go to enough games and have a big enough interest. I also know plenty of lads who live in regions where there are no EL teams. Does that mean they are lesser fans? The lads from Cork claimed they were real fans because they would go to see Cork V Shels ahead of Ireland V China. That doesnt mean they are bigger fans than those of us who go to see the China game.
BTW, I am not one of the bandwagon, leprechaun-hat wearing fans. I do take an interest in the underage set-up and attend those games whenever I can.
Whether I am a real fan or not I do acknowledge that the life blood of Irish football is at the underage level in particular and if somebody decided to go to an U-10 game rather than see an international friendly at Lansdowne Rd I salute them. If it wasn't for the unpaid coaches, players and fans at under-age level where would we be?
Irish foorball is like an iceberg - we see the senior international and to a certain extent the EL, but the most important and largest part is unseen almost.
He is an article on that mostly unseen and sad part ( though Stephen Bradley is pretty well know many of the other are not ) :
http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=15938
Personally I hope were playing poorer opposition that the likes of Italy Germany etc. It gives Kerr another chance with the 4-3-3 and give players like Mc Geady, Elliott, Miller etc full games. Playing holland Croatia etc is good but kerr always picks the usual suspects
Don't worry I'll have my tickets when the French come to town alright because I do go to nearly all the home internationals (and the odd away one too) but I'll be damned if I ever got to an Ireland game over ANY City game.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheJamaicanP.M.
great postQuote:
Originally Posted by Colm
thats what u call priorities ;)