Here's an interesting thread.
Soccerc is usually fairly on the ball in these kind of issues.
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Here's an interesting thread.
Soccerc is usually fairly on the ball in these kind of issues.
I fcuking well STARTED a football team when I was in college ...never mind just played for one. I should be capped, given Stans job AND Delaneys job too.
Terry Dixon linked to a loan move to Pats as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
This could be the start of an interesting trend - players get called up to the Ireland squad to give LOI managers a chance to see if they're any good. If they show enough promise for the international team they may earn themselves a trial or a stint in the U-21 league if they're lucky. :)
I'm not sure why Lapira would do such a thing as sign for UCD when he'll probably get drafted into the MLS and play at a higher level.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Not if he's as bad as everyone says he is!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kivlehan
He's on trial at Rangers, according to the link;
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/...565835.0.0.php
Christ, the kid could really do with a haircut.
Is he serious??? The poor lad, i hope someone has a word in his ear.:(Quote:
He's on trial at Rangers, according to the link;
I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mayo_Bhoy
Looks like he's doing everything he can to win over the Ireland fans. What a plank.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mayo_Bhoy
Yes what an idiot going for a trial with a European club like that :rolleyes: If he goes to Rangers and is a success there then good luck to him I sayQuote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
hope he signs for rangers just to pis s off any of the dumbo's who would thing that's a big deal.
rangers are one of the biggest clubs in britain and over the past decade or so, have a history of giving lots of young players first team opportunities. All the best to him
I agree. A right Yank Plastic Paddy plonker. Any spoon can get a cap these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavo
Why is he a plonker?Quote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
Its not so long ago their chairman was caught on camera singing anti-catholic songs and they were bringing out orange kits.
lets not forget that before we get all unbiased on the subject!
No doubt if he had got a trial at Celtic, this thread would be taking a much different tone....
I will feckin love it if he signs for Rangers ...long overdue that one of ours signed for them just to annoy the knuckle-dragger element in our support who'll boo one of their own to express their own uber-gaelism. :D
I'm sure it'll go down a treat all over Glasgow too. Best of luck Joe -you durty soap-dodger-hun-c***!! :eek:
I'm kidding, I'm kidding ...seriously -hope he signs for them and does well ...a winner against Celtic in a cup final would be sweet too. Hee hee!!!
Fair dues to him if a move to Rangers materialised. It would be fantastic news for the guy and could be good news for Ireland in the future.
We wore an orange kit before....does that make us anti Catholic. And so what if their chairman was singing anti Catholic songs, its not like members of celtic havent done similar anti Protestant songs. Lapira is just trying to make the most of his career and religion has absolutly nothing to do with it. People that give out because its Rangers are just small minded bigots that were most likely in the middle of the Love Ulster riotsQuote:
Its not so long ago their chairman was caught on camera singing anti-catholic songs and they were bringing out orange kits.
here here to what carloz said
"Its not so long ago their chairman was caught on camera singing anti-catholic songs and they were bringing out orange kits.
lets not forget that before we get all unbiased on the subject!"
Livehead ur a retard
You use the term like it's an insult. :confused: :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
Would you care to name any of these anti-Protestant songs sung by Celtic members then? I look forward to reading the no-doubt extensive list you have ready for the occasion. Or maybe not, because what you say is a total untruth and tantamount to slander.Quote:
Originally Posted by carloz
For the record, it was Donald Findlay, RFC's vice-chair, who publicly sung of being "up to our knees in Fenian blood". Is your reaction to this still "so what" then?
:ball: PP
So? Is the lad even Catholic :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by livehead1
I personally don't care if he plays for Rangers or not. He's not Irish anyway and he's cr*p so who cares? He probably thinks Dublin is the capital of Massachusetts.Quote:
Originally Posted by ofjames
And for all the usual members of the PC everything is fab brigade out there Rangers as a club hate you and everything you stand for. They would ethnically cleanse you, your entire family and all your friends (if you have any) given half a chance.
Not one mention of Shelbournes match against Rangers in 1998 been moved to Tranmere because of Rangers fans yet numerous mentions of Love Ulster parades.Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
No mention of Rangers anti Catholic signing policy and sectarian vice chairman. No mention of Rangers keeper wearing a black armband in memory of a loyalist murderer. No mention of tricolours been burned in Ibrox in the eighties. No mention of Irish players like Roy keane and John O Shea been booed in Ibrox because they were Irish...
But the Celtic fans. They are real mean.
I for one couldn't give a toss who Lapira plays for because as far I'm concerned, he isn't an international class player who will never make it. But to see some people in here spout their anti Celtic views while ignoring the fact that Rangers FC actually have an anti Irish agenda is laughable.
"And for all the usual members of the PC everything is fab brigade out there Rangers as a club hate you and everything you stand for. They would ethnically cleanse you, your entire family and all your friends (if you have any) given half a chance." by young irish
that is simply the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard. i wont even ask what your reasoning is behind it
As for tornado's points,
celtic have had broadly the same problems with sectarianism amongst their support as rangers have. hence the continuing initiatives by both clubs and the scottish executive to root it out. the argument that celtic fans dont engage in violence with rangers fans, dont/have never burned union jacks, dont sing rebel and sectarian songs doesnt cut the ice im afraid. Both pretty much as bad as each other.
Also, rangers put a halt to that signing policy long ago, and have since had a catholic captain in Lorenzo Amorouso and a catholic manager in Paul le Guen. They obviously no longer have an anti-irish policy either if they've offered an irish international a trial. Alan maybury was on trial with them before he signed terms at leeds as well.
As for the booing, irish fans have booed players from holland, denmark etc who played for rangers, even though they were very unlikely to know any of the political history. So i dont see how we can claim any moral highground on that issue
That vice chairman got the sack as soon as the video came out, he's a moron.
Andy Goram was a schitzophrenic. Who gives a crap what he did?
I prefer the spurious story linking him with a move to UCD to play in our U-21 team. He'd have a better chance of winning the league too.;)
Bound to happen at some stage... Good luck to him!!
I can't decide if you're really intelligent, and on the wind up or just plain stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
The general consensus amongst Celtic fans is they'd love it to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
I noticed this post on a Celtic forum though:
Of course 99.99% of the time you would just ignore a post like that but the guy who posted it definitely does know members of the Ireland squad. This is the same guy.Quote:
He's absolutely Garbage. I know a few lads who have played with and against him and they've all given the same report
This is the evening times report on it: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/...565835.0.0.php
:Dlol just watched it there...why do they have to be the only country to change the analysis of the game ''a physical side''.... ''statistics''...(they love there stats!)Quote:
Originally Posted by ollie
''and just like that its 1 to zero''.....? wtf its one-nil not zero:D
looks its only a team and who here would say they'd rather stay in america then play for a big club??... if i had a choice for rangers or some mickry mouse club id join its a stepping stone!!
Sounds like youngirish :)Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
What would you expect on a celtic board,
best wishes Joe, hope you make it.
In general.
The US u20 squad looked very good at the WC, trashed Poland 6-1 and beat Brazil handy enough. There's even a few college boys on the squad. Time to have a revision about the crap US soccer kids.
There's nothing particularly surprising about students making the underage international teams. UCDD would typically have a few players at that level as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Lets not get personal, why's that?Quote:
Originally Posted by ofjames
with regard to the orange shirt, other teams have indeed worn Orange shirts, yet they weren't banned, which Rangers kit was, so i stand by my argument.
Have to say that isnt my experience at all. Do you actually know any Rangers fans? Because your description is like it comes from some "bizarro world" Punch magazine. The majority support Rangers cause they are their hometown club. If only some of the rabid Irish nationalists on this forum would do the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by youngirish
A certain national team wore an orange kit too in Skopje in 1997.Quote:
Originally Posted by livehead1
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Originally Posted by youngirish[/B
I think it's fairly obvious. He's an idiot. The negative comments regarding this young Irishman's possible move to Rangers here are an embarrassment and quite sickening really. Exactly the same stance which biggotted sections of Northern Ireland's 'supporters' took when Lennon signed for Celtic. Best of luck to Lapira.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Sounds more like Stephen Hunt to me considering he knew the team for one of the previous games before it was announced. Yous are all traitors to the cause btw particularly you new guy with the previous post just before mine who's name I can't be bothered to look up as I'm typing this.Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Would you stop with the rubbish and get on topic.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/...is_studies.php
Quote:
JOSEPH LAPIRA today revealed he couldn't sign for Rangers until January - even if Walter Smith wants to hand him his first pro deal.
The 20-year-old Irish-American striker, US College Player of the Year last season, arrived yesterday at Murray Park for a week's training.
He promptly injured his calf and was back today for treatment.
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Lapira, capped by Republic of Ireland boss Steve Staunton last May against Ecuador as an amateur, will finish a business management degree at Notre Dame before concentrating on his football career.
He said: "I was offered the chance to train with Rangers and jumped at it. I hurt my calf, so I'm not sure how much they will be able to assess me.
"It doesn't matter too much, though, because I was always going to go back home until the end of the year to finish my studies.
"There is no point going this far and not finishing my studies. In saying that, I would like to play in Europe and it was great yesterday.
"I was maybe going to go to Aberdeen, but I am delighted to come to Rangers and see what happens. I have an EU passport through dual nationality, so I might as well use that to get me into European football."
Smith says Lapira has come here highly recommended, and it's likely an arrangement will be made for him to return early in the New Year.
Smith said: "The lad picked up an injury yesterday, and there will be no quick decision. You have to remember he is still an amateur, but we would like to have a longer look at him."
"He promptly injured his calf and was back today for treatment."
20 quid says he fails the rangers medical , signs for celtic , puts on 3 stone , scores in every old firm game and becomes the new john hartson .
Best of luck to him , about time an irish ( a citizen of Ireland , i mean) fella played for rangers.
and i will deffo boo him every kick of the ball in a blue jersey!!
Can you back that up? They have many fans in Northern Ireland, North America and Australia as well as fans from all over Scotland of whom they are not their local club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Billsthoughts
:rolleyes: typical student read about everything - experienced nothing...Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student