With the success of the Setanta Cup on both sides of the border, is an all-ireland league a real possibility in the not too distant future?
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With the success of the Setanta Cup on both sides of the border, is an all-ireland league a real possibility in the not too distant future?
NO as you wont see fai officials or IFA officials voting for same and losing their postitions etc, bit like turkeys voting for xmas and without FAI and IFA approval Euefa won't sanction it.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5ForKeeps
what an original and thought provoking thread , moved
This is where its at !!
If there are any articles/news/opinion published anywhere then you can let them know here.
Crowds are pretty low this season in the Setanta cup so I wouldn't class it as a massive success.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5ForKeeps
But as said above, these threads are covered fairly regular on here.
It's called Christmas not Xmas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenforever
Yanky!
Sorry, call me Mr Picky, but it's a pet hate of mine:Quote:
Originally Posted by harry crumb
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The word "Christ" and its compounds, including "Christmas", have been abbreviated for at least the past 1,000 years, long before the modern "Xmas" was commonly used. "Christ" was often written as "XP" or "Xt"; there are references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as far back as 1021 AD. This X and P arose as the uppercase forms of the Greek letters χ and ρ), used in ancient abbreviations for Χριστος (Greek for "Christ"), and are still widely seen in many Eastern Orthodox icons depicting Jesus Christ. The labarum, an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as ☧, is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian Churches.[2]
Source: Wikipedia (Also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4097755.stm )
The expression is a pet hate of mine.
PC gone mad in America should not have follow suit here.
Do you like your city being called Londonderry?
Mods : the last 5 months of posts on Foot.ie seem to have been inadvertently deleted.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5ForKeeps
Can you help find and restore them ?
Thanks.
i dont see the need for an All-Ireland league. how would it enhance our teams ? plus how would it actually work ? would you say oh galway, bray, sligo or whoever, sorry you have to go into some crappy second division so we can accomodate the northern teams ?? anyway apart from Linfield there all ****. :mad:
In fairness Duggie what do "Galway/Bray/Sligo" bring to the table??....;)
The likes of Linfield, Glentoran, Cliftonville, Portadown, and even Glenavon have more to offer than the teams above you mentioned.....
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Originally Posted by Spoons
how do u make that out ? i just used those teams as an example by the way, it could be any team. My own team is sligo rovers i should state. i just dont see any benefit in the two league's merging, what does it offer ?
But hackneyed tabloidese is fine. In any case, I believe a Yanky [sic], as you put it, would refer to Xmas as 'the Holiday Season', no?Quote:
Originally Posted by harry crumb
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But it isn't. People that think that don't assume it's a shortened version to make it more inclusive when in fact it's been around for centuries and centuries. It's like people thinking the swastika is an evil invention of the Nazis.Quote:
Originally Posted by harry crumb
I think the good ship AIL was torpedoed of the coast of abbotstown a few weeks ago by the pocket battleship delaney supported by that frigate the L.A. gavin, all souls were lost ..thank Fcuk
Althought they say if you listen real hard on a stormy night of the coast of derry or cork you can here the sound of a ship plowing through heavy waters and the sound of jim roddy shouting "thar she blows" but nobody,s listening.
Having seen Portadown and Glenavon in action I seriously doubt that. I even reckon Galway/Bray/Sligo would seriously put it up to Glentoran and Cliftonville.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoons
Yes, yes .... of course they wouldQuote:
Originally Posted by Maroon 7
Yes, yes...they actually would :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lux Interior
Cliftonville were the worst team to come to the cross in a long long time(I realise they had played a lot of games) but I would have bet on any EL team to have beaten themQuote:
Originally Posted by Lux Interior
Bray and Sligo would definitely beat you more times than you beat them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lux Interior
How so, what happened there? AFAIK its still ongoing.Quote:
Originally Posted by passerrby
Just because we are not hearing anything doesn't mean that things are still on going. Its more 'out of sight' out of mind' at the moment but its still ongoing.Quote:
Althought they say if you listen real hard on a stormy night of the coast of derry or cork you can here the sound of a ship plowing through heavy waters and the sound of jim roddy shouting "thar she blows" but nobody,s listening.
sorry face four o clock in the morning with a head full of beer is not the best time to post anyway I await with bated breath any new developments but still feel its a dead duck for the forseeable future anyway
??:confused: ??Quote:
Originally Posted by passerrby
We've tried to paper around the cracks with many different ideas over the years, cup finals at Lansdowne, top 6 bottom 6, summer football, League and FAI merger, more live televised games. For me, the talk of the possibility of an AIL is just another one of these.
I'm using logic here, boyo. If your team of revered galacticos cannot 'stick it up' a scratch Glens side (twice, now), then I'm at a loss how supposedly lesser sides would actually accompany this feat.Quote:
Originally Posted by dancinpants
You reading this too, polly?
How so...? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stato
Well considering that Galway and Sligo have both drawn with derry in recent weeks, and Bray have beaten us (and a few of the other supposedly better teams), it would tend to prove the point that the difference between most teams in the EL premier isnt that vast,Quote:
Originally Posted by Lux Interior
compared to that of the top and bottom team's up north, judging by results