who are Irelands most famous club?

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26/05/2005, 1:39 PM
Ringo

who are Irelands most famous club?

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Originally Posted by WeAreRovers

Why are people so obsessed about Roddy? It's not about the manager, it's about securing the future of Ireland's most successful and most famous club.KOH

how do you measure this? thought i'd google the club names. Used the same format for each one. Name & football club
Premier Division in order

Results 1 - 10 of about 26,700 for bray wanderers football club. (0.23 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 30,900 for finn harps football club. (0.25 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 50,700 for longford town football club. (0.23 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 51,900 for shamrock rovers football club. (0.14 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 59,400 for shelbourne football club. (0.09 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 89,900 for ucd football club. (0.33 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 93,600 for drogheda united football club. (0.49 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 98,400 for derry city football club. (0.19 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 112,000 for bohemians football club. (0.60 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 137,000 for waterford united football club. (0.75 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 256,000 for cork city football club. (0.26 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 264,000 for st patrick's athletic football club. (0.21 seconds)

Pats would seem to be the winner with Cork city a close second. Rovers way down the bottom.

Dublin City surprised me :eek:

Results 1 - 10 of about 519,000 for dublin city football club. (0.38 seconds) :D
26/05/2005, 1:41 PM
De Town

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Originally Posted by Ringo

Dublin City surprised me :eek:

Results 1 - 10 of about 519,000 for dublin city football club. (0.38 seconds) :D

I presume thats a p�ss take :confused:
26/05/2005, 1:43 PM
Eire06

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Originally Posted by Ringo

how do you measure this? thought i'd google the club names. Used the same format for each one. Name & football club
Premier Division in order
Results 1 - 10 of about 519,000 for dublin city football club. (0.38 seconds) :D

Put quotation marks around the club name to get the exact phrase and its a different story!!

"dublin city football club"
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,250 for "dublin city football club". (0.07 seconds)

Not doin the rest cause couldn't be bothered!! :rolleyes:
26/05/2005, 2:04 PM
Ringo

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Originally Posted by DE TOWN

I presume thats a p�ss take :confused:

Yes :D :D :D
26/05/2005, 2:05 PM
Ringo

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Originally Posted by Eire06

Put quotation marks around the club name to get the exact phrase and its a different story!!

"dublin city football club"
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,250 for "dublin city football club". (0.07 seconds)

Not don't the rest cause couldn't be bothered!! :rolleyes:

Results 1 - 10 of about 163 for "shamrock rovers football club". (0.11 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 989 for "galway united football club". (0.60 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 493 for "cork city football club". (0.06 seconds)

how could we measure this?
26/05/2005, 2:07 PM
De Town

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Originally Posted by Ringo

Results 1 - 10 of about 163 for "shamrock rovers football club". (0.11 seconds)

:eek: :eek: :eek:
26/05/2005, 2:07 PM
Risteard

Eire 06 is right. Sure any article which says a bit about any dublin club is going to use the words dublin & city.
26/05/2005, 2:09 PM
De Town

Results 1 - 10 of about 935 for "longford town football club". (0.31 seconds)
26/05/2005, 2:10 PM
drinkfeckarse

Shamrock Rovers I would have thought to be the most famous. You don't need an internet search for it.
26/05/2005, 2:12 PM
Poor Student

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Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse

Shamrock Rovers I would have thought to be the most famous. You don't need an internet search for it.

Don't be so sure anymore. A lot of foreign people I talk to only know Shelbourne due to their recent European exploits.
26/05/2005, 2:15 PM
Ringo

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Originally Posted by Poor Student

Don't be so sure anymore. A lot of foreign people I talk to only know Shelbourne due to their recent European exploits.

Results 1 - 10 of about 690 for "shelbourne football club". (0.05 seconds) :p
26/05/2005, 2:15 PM
carrickharp

Results 1 - 10 of about 497 for "finn harps football club". (0.06 seconds)
26/05/2005, 2:18 PM
Schumi

Who ever writes "X football club" on a website? "X FC" is much more likely.
26/05/2005, 2:21 PM
Poor Student

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Originally Posted by Ringo

Results 1 - 10 of about 690 for "shelbourne football club". (0.05 seconds) :p

We get the joke already Ringo. ;)
26/05/2005, 2:29 PM
Ringo

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Originally Posted by Poor Student

We get the joke already Ringo. ;)

Results 1 - 10 of about 68 for "ucd football club". (0.05 seconds) ;)
26/05/2005, 2:32 PM
Poor Student

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Originally Posted by Ringo

Results 1 - 10 of about 68 for "ucd football club". (0.05 seconds) ;)

The football club part isn't necessary. Just leave UCD and you'll get the accurate picture.;)
26/05/2005, 2:36 PM
Ringo

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Originally Posted by Poor Student

The football club part isn't necessary. Just leave UCD and you'll get the accurate picture.;)

yeah your right, we'll just leave out city & football club ;)
26/05/2005, 2:47 PM
atfconline

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,070 for "athlone town football club". (0.30 seconds) :D
26/05/2005, 2:48 PM
BohDiddley

Your search Dublin City Football Club did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords (e.g. 'Home', 'Farm', or 'Everton')
- Try more general keywords
- Try following a real club :D

PS:
- Note that there is no such entity as 'Bohemians FC'. Try to keep up!
26/05/2005, 8:06 PM
dcfcsteve

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Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse

Shamrock Rovers I would have thought to be the most famous. You don't need an internet search for it.

I'd disagree.

Firstly - what exactly is "most famous". I'm assuming it's that if you asked people around the world to name an Irish club, it would need to be the first one they said.

Football fans all over Europe pretty much know the names of one or two clubs in every country. This knowledge is mostly gained through those teams appearing in, and doing well in, European competition.

At the moment, I'd say Shels would be by far "the most famous club". Their victory over Split combined with their games against Deportivo and Lille gave them a lot of exposure, and people's memories aren't very long.

The English lads I play football with have only really heard of Shels, though one did say Cork when I asked them about Irish footie (though I reckon that was more of an obvious guess). One lad had also heard of Glentoran through a Uni mate, and most knew Linfield (albeit with a bit of prompting in cases.

I'd say that would be repeated around Europe - particularly in Spain, France and Croatia. I doubt if Rovers would even be the most famous club in Poland, even though they played Odra 3 years ago....
26/05/2005, 9:22 PM
R�iteoir

Results 1 - 10 of about 174,000 for "Celtic FC". (0.23 seconds)
26/05/2005, 10:06 PM
Ringo

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Originally Posted by R�iteoir

Results 1 - 10 of about 174,000 for "Celtic FC". (0.23 seconds)

if you use the same method as the other google's
Results 1 - 10 of about 35,700 for "celtic football club". (0.11 seconds)
but i do wondor what the fcuk that hs to do with the thread :D
26/05/2005, 10:08 PM
dancinpants

Results 1 - 10 of about 531,000 for Glasgow Celtic Football Club. (0.17 seconds...just to keep the sh!te rollin' :D

Results 1 - 10 of about 104,000 for Derry City Football Club. (0.26 seconds)

I tried Dublin City but the result came back as "who?"
27/05/2005, 5:05 AM
Ringo

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,720 for "derry city football club". (0.42 seconds)
27/05/2005, 1:27 PM
Roo69

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,770 for "Bray Wanderers AFC". (0.31 seconds)

Or

Results 1 - 10 of about 57,800 for "Bray Wanderers". (0.09 seconds)
27/05/2005, 1:35 PM
dcfcsteve

This internet search results thing means feck all.

It doesn't make you the most famous Irish football club, merely by coming up on the web a lot !
27/05/2005, 3:40 PM
fbtn

Youse hures couldn't agree on the colour a s h i t e! ;)

What will it be next? Who has the longest serving tae lady?

:D
27/05/2005, 6:48 PM
dancinpants

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Originally Posted by Ringo

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,720 for "derry city football club". (0.42 seconds)

Were ya never taught that names start with CAPITAL letters? ;)
27/05/2005, 7:05 PM
jofyisgod

Pains me to say it, but being in an English school, the most recognised are Shels. Partly due to Harchester matches (Dream Team thing at Tolka), but the Champs League did them no harm last year either.

Rovers also well known thanks to Champ Manager
30/05/2005, 1:17 PM
BobtheDrog

Results 1 - 10 of about 367 for "drogheda united football club". (0.39 seconds)
30/05/2005, 1:22 PM
BobtheDrog

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Originally Posted by Ringo

Results 1 - 10 of about 68 for "ucd football club". (0.05 seconds) ;)

theres more hits for fabio than there are for ucd
Results 1 - 10 of about 70 for "declan fabio o' brien". (0.34 seconds)
30/05/2005, 1:35 PM
anto eile

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Originally Posted by Ringo

how do you measure this? thought i'd google the club names. Used the same format for each one. Name & football club
Premier Division in order

Results 1 - 10 of about 26,700 for bray wanderers football club. (0.23 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 30,900 for finn harps football club. (0.25 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 50,700 for longford town football club. (0.23 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 51,900 for shamrock rovers football club. (0.14 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 59,400 for shelbourne football club. (0.09 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 89,900 for ucd football club. (0.33 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 93,600 for drogheda united football club. (0.49 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 98,400 for derry city football club. (0.19 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 112,000 for bohemians football club. (0.60 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 137,000 for waterford united football club. (0.75 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 256,000 for cork city football club. (0.26 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 264,000 for st patrick's athletic football club. (0.21 seconds)

Pats would seem to be the winner with Cork city a close second. Rovers way down the bottom.

Dublin City surprised me :eek:

Results 1 - 10 of about 519,000 for dublin city football club. (0.38 seconds) :D

totally flawed system. st pats for example will just give everything with saint patrick in the name. dublin city will return anything about the city of dublin in general,same for cork city,google will return anything about the city of cork in general .that system is not accurate at all
30/05/2005, 2:30 PM
Anto McC

Shove your google searches up your ars*s,it has to be Shamrock Rovers
30/05/2005, 2:54 PM
Ringo

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Originally Posted by anto eile

totally flawed system. st pats for example will just give everything with saint patrick in the name. dublin city will return anything about the city of dublin in general,same for cork city,google will return anything about the city of cork in general .that system is not accurate at all

We know that , we were messin. :D We did start putting in quotes.
30/05/2005, 2:55 PM
Ringo

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Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

This internet search results thing means feck all.

It doesn't make you the most famous Irish football club, merely by coming up on the web a lot !

brings me back to my point , how do we measure it?
30/05/2005, 3:03 PM
Mark Breen

I'd have to say Shamrock Rovers as well
30/05/2005, 3:52 PM
dcfcsteve

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Originally Posted by Ringo

brings me back to my point , how do we measure it?

It can only be done anecdotally.

I live in England and have a lot of friends who are very much into their football, and who know that I'm big into my Irish football. For example - the lads I play footie with every Monday night have only really heard of Shels - again mostly because of their run last year. I also go to lectures on football run at the University of London every Wednesday, which attracts a broad spectrum of people from the game (incl one football league chairman, a former board member of ENIC, and a number of staff from various teams). There's always general football chat in the pub afterwards, and again - they've all pretty much heard of Shels, but most could name you at least one other team as well. Therefore - rather than just making a wild guess about who's the most famous, in my experience it's (sadly) Shels. Which stands to reason, given that the main way people know clubs is through their European exploits (how did you ever heard of Rosenborg...?)

At least one other poster based in Engalnd has said the same thing.

This idea that Rovers is the best known Irish club in the world is just a faded notion of self-importance. I'm not having a go, but I'm convinced that's the truth. There's no way that Rovers are better known than Shels in Spain, France or Croatia - 2 of which are amongst the biggest football markets in Europe. Bohs would probably be better known than Rovers in Germany, after their Kaiserslautern exploits, which is Europe's single biggest football market. I'd personally doubt if Rovers would be better known than Shels in Poland or the Czech Republic, which was where Rover's last European games were, primarily because neither of their opponents were big teams and it was the Intertoto cup.

So whilst it's difficult to measure imperiacly, common sense and anecdotal evidnce seems to suggest Shels.
30/05/2005, 4:11 PM
jofyisgod

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Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

It can only be done anecdotally.

I live in England and have a lot of friends who are very much into their football, and who know that I'm big into my Irish football. For example - the lads I play footie with every Monday night have only really heard of Shels - again mostly because of their run last year. I also go to lectures on football run at the University of London every Wednesday, which attracts a broad spectrum of people from the game (incl one football league chairman, a former board member of ENIC, and a number of staff from various teams). There's always general football chat in the pub afterwards, and again - they've all pretty much heard of Shels, but most could name you at least one other team as well. Therefore - rather than just making a wild guess about who's the most famous, in my experience it's (sadly) Shels. Which stands to reason, given that the main way people know clubs is through their European exploits (how did you ever heard of Rosenborg...?)

At least one other poster based in Engalnd has said the same thing.

That was me, agree 100% wiuth this. It's Shels lads, no matter what Google says ;)
30/05/2005, 4:52 PM
Buller

Someone please tell me this thread is a joke!!
30/05/2005, 4:55 PM
WeAreRovers

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Originally Posted by Buller

Someone please tell me this thread is a joke!!

This thread is a joke. ;)

I wouldn't even lower myself to debate who Ireland's most famous club are.

KOH

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