Ireland v Australia - Who's Going?

Are there many eL supporters going to the Australia game?
The terraces are exactly that, terraces, no bucket seats.
Should be easier to get the party going as we can all group together. €15 for the tickets as far as I know.

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I'm going but got my tickets through the FAI so I'm in the stand somewhere, hopefully there's a good atmosphere friendlys are usually fairly poor for that.

I'm going too. Are people bringing drums and stuff with them?

Im not bringing a drum or anything - just a big boo machine to torture Muscat and Moore with.

Aus fan here, why would you boo muscat and moore?

Cos they play for satan's eleven - rangers

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Originally posted by arpa_y_trebol
Cos they play for satan's eleven - rangers

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Brilliant.

And the fact that UEFA are becoming so hacked off with the Celtic-supporting heroes and their booing that they are sending a delegation to Landsdowne to monitor it won't deter you, I take it?

Wouldn't it be great if we got fined heavily because of the booing? Just what a cash-rich organisation like the FAI needs. Might jack up the seat prices for the Republic of Ireland fans, but as long as the Celtic fans have their fun, that's ok.

I'd boo Muscat, but not because of the club he plays for. Dirty fecker, he ended Cristophe Dugarry's World Cup - in a friendly match.

:confused: Fined for booing????? I think not. Football supporters have been booing their opponents for years - it's just part of the game.

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Originally posted by arpa_y_trebol
:confused: Fined for booing????? I think not. Football supporters have been booing their opponents for years - it's just part of the game.

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Originally posted by arpa_y_trebol
:confused: Fined for booing????? I think not. Football supporters have been booing their opponents for years - it's just part of the game.

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And I take it that UEFA delegations have been despatched to monitor this booing for years too, eh?

Part and parcel of the game maybe, but why would people who claim to support Ireland do something on an ongoing basis which could do serious damage to the game here?

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Originally posted by arpa_y_trebol
Im not bringing a drum or anything - just a big boo machine to torture Muscat and Moore with.

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Pathetic.

Should be back up from de real capital to de big smoke for the game.

Great to see the manager taking the lead on this issue. let's hope the idiots take notice.
from www.unison.ie

Kerr tells boo-boy bigots to lay off Rangers players
DION FANNING

IN a revelation that will stun the increasing number of bigots booing Glasgow Rangers players who appear at Lansdowne Road, Ireland manager Brian Kerr has told of his boyhood support for the Scottish champions.

"As a young fella, in my madness, the Rangers results were always the first ones I looked for," Kerr said last week. "And, yet, I loved Celtic."

Kerr was responding to questions about the booing of Rangers players, such as Shota Arveladze of Georgia, and the concern that it will arise again next week when Australia travel to Dublin with two Rangers players, Craig Moore and Kevin Muscat, in their squad.

The FAI will make moves to curb what they see as racism in the game and UEFA have also expressed their concern.

Following the booing of Arveladze in June, the FAI chief executive Fran Rooney contacted the player - who was recovering in hospital after being stretchered off - and apologised for the behaviour of some Irish supporters.

"That gesture was appreciated by the player and the Georgian FA," an FAI spokesman said.

Kerr is doing his best to make sure it doesn't happen on Tuesday week.

"I hope that stuff fades away - I really do. I'd like there to be none of that. It's something that ****es me off. My father and mother were from Belfast and they would have socialised in a mixed environment."

Kerr's pluralist approach extended to his time as manager of St Pat's when he brought his team to Northern Ireland to play matches against Portadown and Linfield.

"It wasn't very popular to do it but I thought it was important to do so. We should have moved on from that stuff by now. The players coming here next week are from Australia and where they choose to play their club football is irrelevant. They probably don't know of the issues involved. It's ridiculous. People should grow up, support their own team, get behind their own players and abuse the rest equally.

"We're suppose to be the best supporters in the world and, if we are, let's accept the opposition irrespective of who've they've played for. It's a small section of our crowd, but they need to wise up."

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Originally posted by arpa_y_trebol
Im not bringing a drum or anything

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How about you go one better and not bother coming at all?

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Originally posted by arpa_y_trebol
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*****

think you're a hard man cause you support Celtic
more Irish than the rest of us is that want you think

you're a bigot who probably cheered when bombs blew people to bits
****ing *****

I think in a perverse kind of way, the best thing that could happen would be for UEFA to announce that any further booing of ex or current Rangers players by the Celtic heroes at Landsdowne would result in Ireland getting either a heavy fine or being kicked out of the tournament.

If that didn't shut the idiots up directly, the bollocking they'd get from real fans in the stands if they dared to open their mouths would do the trick as effectively.

at this match should be banned from Lansdowne road for good.

Dim witted plebs...

Booing is for idiots.

If I was sitting by some guy who started booing I 'd knock the pr1cks head off.

The Boo boys are not welcome.

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Originally posted by Barna Bee

If I was sitting by some guy who started booing I 'd knock the pr1cks head off.

The Boo boys are not welcome.

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Neither is crowd violence.

but you know what I am getting at .
, of course I am not resoting to violence with these guys , but anything to shut them up ....preferably not let them in , in the first place

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Originally posted by Barna Bee
preferably not let them in , in the first place

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You'd pretty much have to not let anyone in wearing a Celtic shirt. It comes down to the maturity of the individual fans really. They're being asked not to boo players because they play for a certain club. That should be enough. In civilised society we shouldn't have to police such situations to prevent sectarianism.
In the terraces on Tuesady it will be very difficult to isolate the offending individuals.
The only thing we can do really is try to sing louder than the boo boys.

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Originally posted by Peadar
You'd pretty much have to not let anyone in wearing a Celtic shirt.

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Sounds like a plan
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Originally posted by NigeSausagepump
Sounds like a plan
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a tad on the bigoted side wouldn't you say?:D

Stop the stadium announcer from naming the Aussie team, don't attribute numbers to their name in the programme and sparing one of the Gers scoring, the muppets will never know who to boo...

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Originally posted by Junior
a tad on the bigoted side wouldn't you say?:D

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Not at all- we just stop anybody in a Rangers shirt getting in too!

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Originally posted by NigeSausagepump
we just stop anybody in a Rangers shirt getting in too!

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Ireland shirt, Australia shirt or no shirt at all.
Would be interesting but I can't see it happening.
Will stopping people wearing a shirt stop them booing?

will we have to stop booing outside the stadium? there will be some racket at this rate!!!

Celtic shirts should be banned from Lansdowne
Rangers shirts should be banned from Windsor Park

a lot less problems then

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Originally posted by arpa_y_trebol
:confused: Fined for booing????? I think not. Football supporters have been booing their opponents for years - it's just part of the game.

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Are you originally from Belfast/Northern Ireland?

If so you should support the country of your birth

and so should those Donegal Orangeman in Rossknowlagh - I hear some of them support NI when it's the Republic they should be cheering on

Are you originally from Belfast/Northern Ireland?

If so you should support the country of your birth


I am originally from N.Ireland. Come from a strong Loyalist background. Got away from all the sectarianism when I came to England in 1956.

A passionate Irish Rugby follower, I watched my first International in 1948 when Ireland won the Triple Crown.
Never minded if it was a Catholic from the South or a Protestant from the north who scored the winning try. It was McCarthy from Cork who clinched it in 1948 against Wales.

I supported both N.Ireland and also ROI since moving to England.
Was in Windsor Park at the W.C. qualifier in Oct 1993 and ended up hospitalised for being unable to stop myself cheering when McLoughlin scored the equaliser.

I have not been back to Windsor Park since.

I have encountered little sectarianism when following the ROI. I come over to Dublin several times a year. Was there for the Albania and Georgia games, and will be there again for Russia in September.

I detest prejudice and discrimiination in any form. I know that many of those who boo Rangers players at Lansdowne Road do not even consider they are being sectarian.

Okay it is not as serious as for example the attack on Lennon in Glasgow or many other incidents of violence.

BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT IS A STEP ALONG THE WAY.

Our fans enjoy a wonderful reputation, well deserved.

Don't let's throw it away

P.S. I am not and never have been a Rangers (or Linfield) supported

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P.S. I am not and never have been a Rangers (or Linfield) supported

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You can support whatever team you like.
The reason I don't support Rangers, Linfield or Celtic for that matter is because they play in poor leagues which I don't find entertaining. I've watched games from both leagues on occassion so as to keep an open mind but they just don't float my boat.
If someone else supports those teams because they can see something which I can't then fair play to them, they truely are football enthusiasts. Sadly though, many people don't care about the football where Rangers/Celtic or Linfield/Glentoran are concerned. It's about being on one side or the other, wearing a colour to flaunt their allegiance, and cite religion as your difference when actually practising religion is not considered by most. We love to talk about our educated population and pride ourselves on our worldliness while being repulsive in our hatred for a team based purely on the fact that, traditionally, their supporters belonged to a Christian religion not too dissimilar from our own.
The epitome of irony is a Celtic supporter from Ireland being bemused by examples Muslim hatred for predominantly Christian, Western society.

Back to the booing though, it serves no purpose.

nicely written, Peadar

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Originally posted by Peadar
You can support whatever team you like.
The reason I don't support Rangers, Linfield or Celtic for that matter is because they play in poor leagues which I don't find entertaining. I've watched games from both leagues on occassion so as to keep an open mind but they just don't float my boat.
If someone else supports those teams because they can see something which I can't then fair play to them, they truely are football enthusiasts. Sadly though, many people don't care about the football where Rangers/Celtic or Linfield/Glentoran are concerned. It's about being on one side or the other, wearing a colour to flaunt their allegiance, and cite religion as your difference when actually practising religion is not considered by most. We love to talk about our educated population and pride ourselves on our worldliness while being repulsive in our hatred for a team based purely on the fact that, traditionally, their supporters belonged to a Christian religion not too dissimilar from our own.
The epitome of irony is a Celtic supporter from Ireland being bemused by examples Muslim hatred for predominantly Christian, Western society.

Back to the booing though, it serves no purpose.

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Well said that man

now im lookin forward as much to hearin that people got trown out of the game for booin as much as the game itself :)

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Originally posted by Peadar
You can support whatever team you like.
The reason I don't support Rangers, Linfield or Celtic for that matter is because they play in poor leagues which I don't find entertaining. I've watched games from both leagues on occassion so as to keep an open mind but they just don't float my boat.
If someone else supports those teams because they can see something which I can't then fair play to them, they truely are football enthusiasts. Sadly though, many people don't care about the football where Rangers/Celtic or Linfield/Glentoran are concerned.

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You're obv entitled to your opinion, and while I agree that both the scottish and IFA leagues are poor it is also fair to say that the EL is also very poor, so I think it would also take a 'truly football enthusiast' to find anything to float your boat in the EL. your argument doesn't really make any sense therefore, perhaps you don't support them because you just don't care about them or Cork are your local team etc..etc...

I dispute, the fact that many people don't care about foortball where the OF are concerned (don't know too much about IFA supporters), yeah there are a few nutcases on both sides, but there are 53k season ticket holders at Celtic Park roughly 60k fans per home league game (remember we only play Rangers twice a season at home, so thats to watch Motherwell, Dundee, Livi etc..), who go to watch football, and be involved in the family that is Celtic, not for some religious reason.

Have what ever opinion you want, but please don't be selective in what you read/listen to in order to justify your anti Celtic position.

Anyone got a ticket for me? ;-)

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Originally posted by Junior
Have what ever opinion you want, but please don't be selective in what you read/listen to in order to justify your anti Celtic position.

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to be fair Peadar doesn't claim that Celtic's support is all religiously motivated or that they don't have a huge fan base. he just states that many support them for the wrong reasons. a statement i'd find it hard to disagree with.

if you were born a mile from parkhead (or three hundred miles as the case may be) and your family are all celtic fans then the chances are you'll grow up to follow them, you're dead right. but there are people (especially in ireland) who look at Celtic as more than a football club, and do their best to keep finding republican links to the club be it based in their irish/northern catholic links or in the fact that rebel songs are sung on the terraces. it's these fans that Peadar is referring to.