Tickets for up-coming Ireland friendlies

The FAI and Soccercentral.ie have announced that there will be an eircom League fans section for the upcoming friendlies against Brazil, Czech Republic and Romania.

Tickets are being made available to Irish Fan Groups like ourselves and will be sold in batches of 3 to cover all matches. The cost is €60. You CANNOT buy tickets for just the Brazil game.

There is also an additional charge of €3 per person, which will go towards a "war chest". This money will be used to buy drums, flags and other display materials. The purpose of the whole initiative is to get as many league fans as possible in one group to generate noise and color!

Genuine City supporters only please! While we will try to give priority to those who've taken tickets before it will be basically first come, first served, but everyone is welcome to put their names down - the more City fans we get at Lansdowne the better.

Contact us by email please.

Cheers,
FFO

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Originally posted by FourFiveOne
There is also an additional charge of €3 per person, which will go towards a "war chest".

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That's a good idea.
€3 per person doesn't seem like a lot of money to play around with.
How many tickets do we get in total?

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Originally posted by FourFiveOne
it will be basically first come, first served, but everyone is welcome to put their names down

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Boll0x! Why didnt I see this yesterday!!! :confused:
I've sent an email.

There's a few spaces left if anyones interested get an email in soon.

Also to those who have already emailed, please reply with a contact number.

Cheers
FFO
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All of our allocation has been accounted for now. No more tickets left.

I will call, text or email everyone between today and tomorrow to arrange payment...

Next Wednesday is the absolute deadline for those we have contacted to lodge the money for tickets.

We hope to have the tickets down to Cork during next weekend and distribute them Sunday evening in a yet to be decided venue in town.

Also, just to clarify to everyone.... the "war chest" is a FAI/soccercentral.ie thing - €3 extra per set of tickets. We have no control over that.

We have a seperate banner fund going.

FFO

All those getting tickets from eircom League 'Fan Groups' like ourselves will get this scarf

This is the first thing to come from the "war chest" (the €3 extra that eL fans are contributing).

(Please note: the "war chest" fund is completely seperate from the FFO banners fund we have going at the moment.)

That's value for money.
Not a bad looking scarf.
€3 well spent in my opinion.

hoipoefully they'll be a sea opf them spinning over the EL section celebrating goals against Brazil.

The plan is to have tickets available for collection on Sunday at 8pm in Cashmans. We'll be there til 9...

Not 100% definite yet so check back here for any changes to this plan.

:D :D
that scarf is the biz...
cheers for clarifying the 'warchest' thing cos i had taken it to be the 451 collection...
will sort out my donation

BTW No receipt. No Ticket!

For those based in Dublin we will make other arrangements...

Give ye a call over the weekend...

enjoy lads, do Cork City Proud :)

remember lads when you are singing and roaring on the international representatinves of our country, remember that theyll never play for us.
which is a sad, sad fact.
and why i will never support them.never.

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Originally posted by piratemousey
remember lads when you are singing and roaring on the international representatinves of our country, remember that theyll never play for us.
which is a sad, sad fact.
and why i will never support them.never.

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Terrible attitude :mad:
I take it by us, you mean Cork City FC.
I'd take the other viewpoint piratemousey, IMO when they pull on an Ireland Shirt, they're already playing for us!!

anyway, the only ex Irish International we've had is Liam O'Brien, if he's anything to go by I don't want them playing for us :D :D

''Terrible attitude ''

i have to disagree there, i just see it as a fact of life.

a fact that will never change.simply put.
a lot probably havnt even heard of us to begin with.
it would be nice if one or two internationals turned up to a game or two in the summer, you know, when their league is finnished.
to try and perhaps make it easier for people to relate to them.

Just think it's no reason not to support the national side.

The Manager himself gained his experience on a completely Irish based path that took him via St.Pats and he's actively supported the EL fans with the South terrace allocation. Glen Crowe has been capped. There are many more links that contradict your view that they don't know we exist.

As for showing up at EL games, by the time the English season finishes, the US tour is out of the way and they're back in preseason training, it's be a bit of a busman's holiday to bring them to a football game.

hes trying to get more eircom leaguers back bacause even he knows that the eircom league fan is comlpleatly disinfranchised with the national representnives of our country which began in the eighties.
thats valiant and all, but please...........
dont try and hoodwink me

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Originally posted by piratemousey
remember lads when you are singing and roaring on the international representatinves of our country, remember that theyll never play for us.
which is a sad, sad fact.
and why i will never support them.never.

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By that logic, people in England who support a team in the second or third division shouldn't support the English national team because the players will probably never play for their club.

You can't adopt that kind of attitude.

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Originally posted by piratemousey
hes trying to get more eircom leaguers back bacause even he knows that the eircom league fan is comlpleatly disinfranchised with the national representnives of our country which began in the eighties.
thats valiant and all, but please...........
dont try and hoodwink me

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I'm not trying to hoodwink, just feel differently on the issue.

Even if the average EL fan is disenfranchised, which could be understood, I believe Kerr's (and Rooney for that matter) attempts to get us back should not be looked at so cynically, especially given their roots within Irish Football.

As it was you that mentioned the eighties, I believe the tactics that the FAI adopted while Charlton was manager were awful, we neglected home grown talent to scour the planet for Irish Wolfhound owners. In the long run however, the success of that team has given us a crop of young Irish players who've pushed themselved harder because a WC or EC finals is no longer a pipe dream.

If you felt disenfranchised then, don't take it out on the current crop of players. We haven't had a team or squad with so many Irish-born players since the Eoin Hand era, and as mentioned in another thread only 3 of the current U21 squad were not born in Ireland.

If the squad isn't made up of EL players, even with the presence of a former EL manager, it's only because those players who ply their trade abroad play at a higher standard, which benefits the national team. If we wany EL players on the national side, it's the EL which has to improve. I don't want any more empty gestures to EL players, I'd sooner they were good enough.

But to use Charlton as an excuse to never support the Irish team, not reason enough. I couldn't stand anything about him, but it didn't stop me supporting the team.

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Originally posted by xtreme rebel
Is "piratemousey" annoying or what! :o

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SuperKev disappears and piratemousey arrives on the scene, surely there can't be that many sh1t stirrers about the place?

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Republic of Ireland manager Brian Kerr has urged Ireland fans to get behind the Boys in Green ahead of his sides' game with World Champions Brazil at Lansdowne Road on Wednesday.

“It’s an attractive fixture and it will be a special night, let’s have an atmosphere for the game,” Kerr said, and he can be assured that the 1000 eircom League club supporters on the North Terrace won't let him down, particularly when it comes to singing and providing atmosphere.

Each member of the eircom League fans army will sport a specially commissioned green and white white scarf with the wording, "Our Clubs - Our Country" emblazoned in upon them.

Kerr added “I hope the fans give us a lot of support. Don’t just come to admire the Brazilians and respect them. That can be done after the game."

“I want the players to do well, to be inspired by the occasion and to go out and win the game. We will not be going out to contain them. I don’t remember an Ireland team ever trying to contain a team in Dublin, the fans wouldn’t put up with it.”

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soccercentral.ie

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Originally posted by xtreme rebel
That has to be the most ridiculous comment I have ever seen in my life. Its not even worth a reply.

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If it wasn't worth a reply then why did you reply???????:p

So how many City fans going to Lansdowne tomorrow?

Many travelling up to de big smoke?

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Originally posted by pete
how many City fans going?

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You (Pete)
Me (Peadar)
Eric
Niamh
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Me!

Well we got an allocation of 100 tickets so there should be 100 city fans there!!!!! If not then we'll be keeping a closer eye on who gets tickets in the future

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Originally posted by xtreme rebel
Whats the name of the City fan

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We don't name names on this forum :D

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Originally posted by xtreme rebel
Whats the name of the City fan who was waving the "1984" flag prior to kick-off tonight?

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that was me

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Originally posted by Éanna
that was me

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Are we naming names again? :D

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Originally posted by Éanna
that was me

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I dunno are you sure?

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Originally posted by Éanna
that was me

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Are you really you or are you an imposter cleverly disgusied as you ?? Well .... are you ?? :)

I dunno was it Eanna, coud have been a force from above???:p