I believe he was exaggerating for effect, hope this helps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Town Legend
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I believe he was exaggerating for effect, hope this helps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Town Legend
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Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
Really??? You don't say!!
I'm sorry I said anything about the Wexford bans.
Now this is just a wild guess correct me if I'm wrong, but I reckon you are an absolute joy to be around great craic altogether I imagine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Town Legend
I'm really enjoying this.
Continue onQuote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
All good craic Nigel ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
This is going through my head as I read these posts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsOXOPni0o
What are your feelings on flares Nigel get involved :pQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
if you want to know I do volunteer. I sell the programme- I help out with the lotto in the shopping centre not as much as I would like to. I used to sell town lotto in the pubs. I do the stats for the Longford Town website. I also am researching into the history of the club in my own free time and am considering doing a history of the club when its all done as I have someone that am friendly with that has wrote loads of league of ireland books thats willing to come on board with me.. I write for the match programme. I also go to the programme fair in Dublin and am active in the Irish Programme Club committtee. I used to be secretary of the Longford Town Supporters Clubs . My younger brother also volunteers also and does our website.I help out with the club shop at xmas. all the lads wanted to do was to better improve atmosphere at games! So you are not going to win the argument with me my man!Quote:
Originally Posted by Town Legend
So what you're saying is you are a volunteer board member? If that's the case why didn't you step in and have a word with your fellow board members over the fining and banning of your mates? Why didn't you say for the club to look after the fines this once and you'd talk to your mates and say that letting off flares wasn't on and then everybody would be happy? Did you not stand up for your mates to your fellow board members but then come on here bashing those fellow board members? Look Marty, we go back a long way. Back as far as the start up of section O. We've had many a disagreement over football matters on bus trips to away games. And this is just another one. I'm sure we're both big and bold enough to appreciate each other's points of arguments and move on.
This is is the last time I'm going to post on this thread as its getting beyond a joke. Just so it be known, I have nothing against flares. My problem is that the idiots who let them off and then cry about been fined and banned. I don't mind the fellas who let them off and hold their hand up and pay their fine. Everyday you go through life with rules in place. If you get caught you suffer consequences simple as that. If you get away with it fair play to ya, if not then you're in bother. The same goes with these flares. Now that's my rant over with!
I was never a board member and am not a board member. I dont think it is my place to tell lads to stop flares. I was too busy minding my nephew anyway. The issue was that Dundalk should have checked the fans coming into Oriel. My only involvement is with the Supporters Club but I am based in Dublin a lot now so dont have the time now to go to meetings. Thats why I quit as secretary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Town Legend
Stop, I beg.
Derry now seemingly clamping down on flares now. Leaflets were handed out at the Dundalk game saying how we get fined €750 per game for them.
Now they're threatening lifetime bans. http://www.derrynow.com/soccer/derry...ndywell/103197
Limerick look like the next to be fined, fans setting off flares after Limerick's third this evening. FAI commentators reacting in the driest manner imaginable.
They'll be demoted I'd say.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
Three flares all told. The first looked like it might have been burning a seat at one stage; it was burning away for a while after being dropped anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
Is it Limerick or UCD who get fined for that?
Be a bit weird if they fined UCD. Unless the FAI wants every game to be a security lockdown.
Think it's happened before that the home club has gotten fined for away team flares?
Could be imagining it. Certainly not unlike something the FAI would do.
Home team gets fined as the venue is their responsibility. The away side get fined too. 50/50 I think. 500 for first offence
Whether there are fines depends on whether there were searches coming in. If UCD had these in place they may well be OK. Ultimately if people are determined to get flares in they will find a way.
Pretty solid searches done at the Legia game and there were no shortage of flares in the away section so true that if they want them smuggled in it will be managed somehow.
Disagree with this. I went up to get programmes early and I had a backpack. It was searched. Went to the pub again and when I came back there were loads more people entering. Not one bag was searched in the crowd that I saw and I still had the backpack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
I can't say if people were searched in the away section. There were 700-odd supporters there and loads had flares. I wouldn't necessarily say that they were searched. Sometimes stewards do things either on a safety ground (maybe afraid something would kick off if the Legia ultras were searched) or maybe they just didn't bother searching them.
I was searched, as was everyone that was in the queue I was in. And it was absolutely battering down rain.
I was searched going into the Aviva that night, get searched going into every LOI ground and every game i take 2 cans with me, simply put under belly and stuffed down beside the little man and the only time ive ever had them taken off me was in Windsor Park for the Irish Cup Final!
Do u realise how small a flare is? It would be nearly impossible to get
So thats the reason for that walk with some going round to the shed, I though it was an SSA thing.......
I was searched going into Dalymount last night and so were all the DFC fan in front of me!(i don't do pyro btw)
almost impossible to stop it being brought into matches.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrXqocnWIAAQLVA.jpg
Everyone just shoves it down their jocks. Nothing stewards can do.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
Anyone know why our goons decided that Friday was a good time to bring back flares and smoke bombs? We've had nothing for about a year before that
Maybe they're thinking what's 500 euro when we have 6million??Quote:
Originally Posted by mcgonigle
Didn't do any harm (apart from a few numpties involved that inhaled the smoke) so no big deal. Never agreed with the rule on automatic fines for flares. Definitely where it is a danger but Friday nights incident was harmless and no reason either side should be fined for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcgonigle
Agreed but that would never happen.
They had some new BBFs over from Bansley that they wanted to impress...Quote:
Originally Posted by mcgonigle
Ah yes, saw the banner. Is this some hoolie link up (recall Bohs have one with wrexam and shams have one with Cardiff and/or man city).Quote:
Originally Posted by Sean South
morons united ;)
Shels not happy about the protest last Saturday. They are right, but it won't do them any favours.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2016/...35-shelbourne/
They are not right. They fail to engage with their own supporters and then call them disgusting for protesting about that?Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
I don't disagree with their grievance, but using flares, firing them onto the pitch and setting fire to seats is bang out of order.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
I did find that part mystifying,Quote:
Originally Posted by brendy_éire
"To express our our immense dissatisfaction at the proposed demolition of Tolka Park we are going to destroy a small part of the ground ourselves..."
Whatever about the seat, whoever hit the Waterford keeper (who could have also minded his own business I'll grant you) with one is a dick head.
While the protest wasn't handled well, those Shels fans have some real grievances, and the club are making an absolute mess of this. They will alienate what little support they have left if they continue down this path. If they haven't already.
shels involvement in Dalymount has been a joke from the start. The board agreed fully and then got cold feet when some fans kicked up.The plan B apparently (from the protesting numpties) is that the club should just buy Tolka Park and do it up :confused:. Not a pot to pee in but buy the ground and pump money into doing it up (when DCC and FAI said there would be no grants).Fines for the 'protest' should help the buy Tolka fund no end.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
For some unknown reason, Uefa have not taken note of the incidents involving flares at the Aviva and are taking no disciplinary action against Legia Warsaw.
Flares? What flares?
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps...egiaflares.jpg