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The players have probably all gone their separate ways as well. Again I can only think back to how I felt and the night that was had by players, fans and directors etc all together in 2003 and I think it's come a bit easy to the Fingal fans. Those posting on here anyway. It's as if it's no more than they should expect. I suppose when you have seen the bad times you learn to appreciate the good all the more.Quote:
Originally Posted by sligofan4ever
Just because you dont know about it doesnt mean that there isnt any ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
What are you trying to say with your " It's as if it's no more than they should expect "
Again that comment is unfounded and dont use the word bitter as you may get an infraction :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Red&White Rover
Is it really amazing though ? The clue is in the fact that a club with next to no support week-in week-out manages to have the likes of Eamon Zayed, Stephen Paisley etc on its books. I wonder how they managed that.....?Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
So no - it's not amazing. It's money. And it's an unsustainable club that bears an uncanny resemblance to the Dublin City experiment. Granted - Fingal are making genuine efforts to tap into their locality, but it takes years to build-up a fan-base for a football team. I doubt Fingal's friendly property backer will continue to throw money at them until they do.
Compare Fingal to Wexford Youths and you'll see the difference between a new club that is genuinely building-up slowly and one that is just using someone else's money to try to fast-track that which can't be expedited. It's difficult to see anything other than a car crash in Fingal's future at some point.
The Lep,
RW comes on here and gives a ****ing honest, considered, gutted response and you go all smug about it. WTF?
Would you have been gutted yourself if you lost today?
I doubt it.
In tears?
Hardly.
Would you celebrate well if you won?
Evidently not.
Please leave us the **** alone and quit talking ****e.
It's not as if they are the only club without juvenile fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
A lecture on how to be a 'real' football fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lep
From the follower of a makey-uppy footballing franchise that's been in existence for barely two years :eek:
For everything else in life there's Mastercard...
Im absolutely gutted here!But would like to say congrats to Fingal really thought this one was ours.But thats football.I have one question Is it true that fingal county council is funding ye?
Also just to point out that even do we didnt win on our european trip this season we were severly capped by the Fai at the start of the season I dont think been beat 2-1agg is disgrace.If had what was our finishing team then I think results would have been different.
Also want to say "That I go to all games in a season and for no other reason then I had kids that were frozen after the game I was not willing to hang round any longer then need be.
Also we had alot of sunshiners there today that will use todays game an excuse not to go week in week out and will turn up just at next big game.
What does it matter, we just won the cup :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Another great post from the man himself :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
You arnt in a position to be talking about makey up now are you :D
No, fcc are not funding the club. They are assisting in other ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shiba
I am probably posting on here longer than your club are in existience. Come back and post when you become wiser.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lep
Gutted ? yesQuote:
Originally Posted by SligoBrewer
In tears? maybe not
There isnt a set law on how and when to celebrate and read a previous post on that subject.
Leave you alone? what are you on about? I could say the same to others on here that constantly have childish digs about fingal. I posted in favour of sligo yet all that comes back is the same all rubbish that has been posted about sporting fingal over and over again and im supposed to agree with it? Am i not like you and your fellow supporters allowed to respond to negative comments about my team that has just won the cup? If you dont like negative comments about your club then please dont post any about others and then play the victim when you dont like the response. Im not here to have a pop at anyone or their club unlike others who seem to enjoy putting us down.
What has the length of your stay on here got to do with anything? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by red bellied
Educate yourself on the facts. And then we might talk.Quote:
Originally Posted by total hoofball
That's what I asked you, is there any celebration, meaning could you not have gone to it instead of coming on here?. Im trying to say that from the posts of fans who were there and from your posts it's coming across that you don't feel the same sense of jubilation and ecstacy that comes with having had to wait and to work for success. That's been a pretty universal feeling I'd reckon when a team wins its first important trophy. Anyhow, that's all I'm going to say on it. Enjoy the win, you don't know how long it could be before your next.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lep
Finally got true all the posts. Im pretty ****ed right now so excuse any spellings. What a great night for our club. It was so important we won tonight for the future of our club. We had a decent suport tonight and it was great to see. Fair play to Sligo, what a good team and great support you have. Hopefully we will get there some day.
Thank you to fingal for giving me my best nigth of football. To all the negative posters:p. Who cares. We won the cup and are promoted. Get over it.
SFFC ARE WE ARE WE ARE WE
If you bothered to read the thread then you would get your own answers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
If you stood next to me at the final whistle then you would know how i felt and that feeling hasnt left me :D. Keep at it, you are doing well.
Correction - you just bought the cup..... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lep
Our club doesn't even exist any more, and yet we still have dramatically more fans than your fabricated franchise..... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by The Lep
Keep teeing them up for me there big man.
Im disappointed you brought me to this. But what was your club trying to buy and failed.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Some LOI fans are the biggest hypochrists iv ever come across.:rolleyes:
Your point being?Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
What I wanted to know and I didn't see anything in this thread about was if the club were having any celebrations or fans getting together anywhere as most clubs would do after winning the FAI cup. You didn't answer that except with a smug "just because you don't know about it.." . I'd have thought a community club such as yerselves would want to celebrate in the midst of the community somehow and thank them for their great support?. Anyhow this is going nowhere so have a good one however you choose to mark the occasion.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lep
You do realise that makes no sense :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
If you posted that first then you would have had a better answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Swords wednesday night. open top bus etc.
Steve, this is ridiculous - do you think Wexford Youths would exist without Mick Wallace, and if he were to go in the morning stil be going? And as for "genuinely building up" Fingal are working in the community with local clubs and making a massive effort to develop a support base, as any new club should do. Plaudits due where they are!Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
The deterioration of this thread is exactly the reason why our league is dying on it's knees, jealousy, small mindedness and fear.
I'll have to stop you there and ask you to stop lying. A good friend of mine from Rush, North County Dublin, rang me on Friday night asking me did i want some free tickets for the cup final, he'd about 30 he was trying to get rid off. Turns out the club bought the allocation and gave the tickets away for free, again. So if YOU paid for your ticket more fool you.Quote:
Originally Posted by boris
I feel sorry for the few Sligo fans who couldn't get their hands on a ticket.
Why do you feel sorry for them? there were at least 300 tickets still on sale an hour and a half before the game in tallaght. And there was no que to get them eitherQuote:
Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie
If they can afford to blow 1000s every week on wages then it no surprise to me that they can afford to pull this stunt. If Fingal couldnt give away tickets for the Cup final, they what hope have they got? People dont value or appreciate anything they get for free. Fingal are only cheapening themselves with stunts like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie
bhs
I don't mean to come across as bitter to Sligo Rovers. I just don't like ye.Quote:
Originally Posted by Red&White Rover
'Hypochrists'!!! Brilliant new word. I'm certainly going to start using that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc
I am the 'Hypochrist'! All bow down before me!
Wonder if we were looking at the same game?!:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by roinuj
First half was poor, but the second half was great end to end stuff. Fair play to both teams who played it on the ground, and Sligo support was magnificent.
remember the conditions were not ideal for football at all
I was in the end with the Fingal support but had a Sligo scarf on. I have to be honest and say I'm impressed with the way Fingal are going about things - trying to build a support especially amongst the young. Dont know why so many are peed with this. And they play really good football. There strikers and midfielders are great going forward.
Thought it was a peno, it looked very clumsy. Maybe a draw was the fairest result, but Fingal never gave up.
I enjoyed it anyway, even if it was bloody cold and wet.:)
Well done Fingal. Hard luck Sligo. It was a decent game, espeically the second half, considering the conditions.
And well done to everybody who has managed to avoid this thread and not come across as a whiny little runt. "Oh, you have no fans, you're not a real team, you don't know what supporting a team is, blah blah blah." Bunch of moaners the lot of you.
Fingal are in the league, and doing well in it. I hope they do well in Europe. "They're just having money thrown at them" - so f**king what? I'd love for somebody to do that at my club. And if they do go bust 5 years down the line, so be it. I'm guessing there might be one or two clubs, pure bastions of football whose countless fans all have heads adorned by halos, who've gone bust before then anyway.
Not true my friend. I was involved in selling them (IN RUSH i might add). The FAI called the tickets back on Friday. I had to bring the remaining tickets back or the club would be charged for every ticket not accounted for. So if we bought all our allocation from the FAI and where giving them away, then why did we have to give them back or risk being charged for them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hairy Bowsie
Can we leave the, I heard it from a bloke I know at the end of a bar stuff off the thread thanks.
Can I ask what club you support?
Not true though. Simply people trying to spread lies about the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackholesun
Was a little drunk when posting, well a lot really:o From what i remember i think i wrote that word about 10 times before going, ah fook it, it will do.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Straightstory
OK, shoot me now but congrats to Fingal on winning the cup ! While I would have preferred Sligo to win ( as previously declared) I have no hesitation in saying well done to SF on a great season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc
Regarding the finanacial set up at Fingal I find it funny that many of those complaining about the investment made at Fingal are the same that lament the lack of investment in the LOI :confused:
SKY+'d the match last night and watched the goals and other main talking points of the match, I was in the North Stand when the penalty was given, and I still stand by what I said, that wasn't a penalty. Fair enough, Zayed was denied a shot on goal in a 1v1 situation, but Kelly had his eyes on the ball and had no intention of bringing Zayed down, by the looks of it Zayed couldn't slow and he fell over Kelly's leg. Very hard decision to give for the referee though, but was surprised he didn't book the keeper either. The team still should have played much better, we were missing O' Grady, but when your facing a team who knocked at Shamrock Rovers' in that very stadium, then you cant just take it easy, we tried to defend a 1-0 lead and never really looked comfortable, Keane bailed us out alot, as did Peers but Fingal just never gave up. On the day they were deserving champions, whatever Rovers threw at them Fingal responded in kind. Good luck next season Fingal, if anything ye'll be even stronger and hopefully have a good run in Europe for the good of the club and the league, it might see some new fans for your club too.
So are you calling me a liar then? Why would i lie, i've no reason to make that up, it's exactly what happened. Now Lamper, i don't know if you are from Rush or not but it's a small enough place and if you are i'd say you'd know the person who offered the ticket to me. He'd be well known in Rush and if you want to PM me, i'll tell you his name. No bloke at the end of the bar crap, as i said i'll name him if you want.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc
Oh and i'm a Shels fan.
Same as myself, Block 1 for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
Was also good to see the players sit with the fans, O'Grady was sitting a few rows down from me.