Is it time for a LOI arguement again? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Oink
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Is it time for a LOI arguement again? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Oink
I noticed there was an Irish flag last night with the words "Dublin Rams" written across it and a picture of a ram below those words.
Made me scratch the head a little bit. Derby County ffs.
Why not Derby? They're just as British as Manchester United, Liverpool or Celtic.Quote:
Originally Posted by ifk101
i saw "Dublin Brigade" and "Oranmore" on polish flags. very little to do with Poland but some polish fans obviosly feel some sort of allegance to these places. doubt their other fans have a problem with itQuote:
Originally Posted by ifk101
I saw Wexord on a Polish flag as well. Maybe they live there. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
You can be guarenteed if a Polish flag with Man Utd came up a lot of them would have a problem with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
In the words of Peter Griffin from Family Guy, "wow, you're right, that is EXACTLY the same thing"......Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
thanksQuote:
Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
One thing struck me watching the fanatical Polish fans last night.........how the hell were they allowed to bring so many flares into the Stadium?:eek:
Was Stevie Wonder in charge of security last night?:confused:
Cobh Exiles :pQuote:
Originally Posted by ifk101
They didn't bring them in a big bag marked "FLARES IN HERE!" Flares are tiny and easily hideableQuote:
Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet
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Originally Posted by Dodge
Oh.....so that's where I've been going wrong at our Away games!;)
50566 (I think) was put up on the screen in the second half.Quote:
Originally Posted by weldoninhio
In fairness, you don't know how many they did find and confiscated!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet
The Russia game has a recorded 45k attendance. The rest of that campaign went belly up after 2 away defeats.Quote:
Originally Posted by EastTerracer
Nevertheless, the competitive games against Belgium and Scotland were packed. Friendlies don't really count, 18k against those 2 teams would be considered very high by any standard at that time in Europe.Quote:
Even when Jack took over, the first two games against Wales and Uruguay drew about 18,000 each. Then after we had qualified for Euro 88 none of our 3 home warm-up games managed a crowd above 20,000.
In all campaigns from Giles time onwards the public came out and gave the team huge support in the big games until interest in qual had all but gone, then crowds would drop. There is no denial about that.
The so called bandwagon was always there waiting to happen, just never did until 1988. The qual campaign for wc 1982 certainly gripped public interest.
there are loads of them out in oranmore, mates know loads of them infiltrated the place is. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
What about a german team?! Would that be a bigger problem ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
yes, quite, up the anus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
I go to the odd LOI (Pats mostly) game but the closest team in proximity to me are Shels and I dont even live in Dublin :D. So I don't have a LOI home team and dont feel particularly drawn to any club, I chose my EPL team based on players I looked up to and tried to emulate when I was younger....... Tony Cascarino :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
i hope thats looked up to and not look :p
When I was walking in a guard was there searching a polish guy in front of me. Then the guard saw his bag and asked the Polish guy Whats in the bag? He goes Cans and the guard lets him through. Could have been anything in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
they're not supposed to let you through with cans either!
There was another white and red flag down at the Cusack corner flag, with the popular Polish town of... Waterford. :confused::rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Security was a joke last night, I hate stands of mixed support, the Poles should have been allocated the Hill 16 side, and the 2 sides up to the halfway line as an overflow area. Yes I know they live here, but it was our home game. That still doesn't stop proper segregation. What will we do when the Italians come next year? :confused:
Had another bottle-throwing incident from the premium boxes again, near me just after half time. The coppers were on the scene soon afterwards, but little appeared to have been done.
Attendance released by SS after the game as 61,000
I'd rather hear the polish people singing and cheering then nobody cheering at all as is the case in lots of matches only a small irish crowd having the balls to sing,are people afraid they willl be judged if they sing to loudly,i also noted that the mexican wave kept stopping right after it left the polish section.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
Home fans don't sing in this part of the world. Irish fans always sing at away games.
Im all for stands of mixed support, the atmosphere last night would have been nothing without the polish. We could take alot from how they supported their team.Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
I think we're just looking at different sources on this. Have a look at Donal Cullen's excellent book "Ireland - On The Ball". It details the team lineups and attendances for every Ireland game up to 1993 including match reports.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Some of the numbers and the photos surprised me - the first game of the 1982 campaign, at home to Holland, only drew 30,000 (there's a picture with loads of empty seats in the old East Stand) but when we won that game the interest did increase and the subsequent game against France was the all-time record crowd for an Ireland game until the first game in Croke Park. In reality, our support has always been consistent - when things are going well, especially against big name teams, we will get big home support but when interest wains, support historically always declined to a more modest number. In the 70s and 80s this meant a crowd of 15000- 20000 at a friendly but in the last twenty years we've reached the stage where 35,000 would be a poor crowd. How can we say the team is losing support?
I'm not saying anything about the passion of that support, just the absolute numbers.
The population of Ireland is about 4.1 million. Of that, how many do you think are sports fans? Not just soccer, but rugby, gaelic, hurling, snooker, formula 1, etc?
I've a good mate who's a massive Kilkenny fan, and used to go to every game at Lansdowne. Now he simply can't afford to attend everything, so he's stopped going to rugby and soccer.
People need to remember - it's not just about the quality of the team, or the passion of the fans (or the lack thereof, on both counts). There are bigger factors in play in the country at the moment.
Great turnout and atmosphere at the Polish game. The highest turnout at any game in Europe. It was the Poles of course who led the way on the pitch and in the stands!
Hopefully Trappatoni cops on to himself and makes the changes NEEDED.
I can't see myself paying a premium for tickets to watch this disorganised uninspiring incompetence much longer and many are of the same opinion.
I thought that Stan's reign ending had put an end to the look of a disorganised incoherent mess.
I dare say that if Andy Reid was in the side, and other changes were made, increased attendence would be assured.
Stephen Ireland returning would seal the deal. An event beyond the fans or Trappatoni's power. The only way I think to get Ireland back is for Richard Dunne to have a word with Robihno etc. and have them subtely let Irealnd know how much they are looking forward to SA 2010!
How much more interesting would an Ireland team be with Reid and S. Ireland involved.
Berlin and Paris had better crowds at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scram
The atmosphere was awful btw. The Polish fans put on a good show but the whole atmosphere wasn't a patch on the RDS yesterday.