Could Limerick use Thomond ?

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

How do you know they would ask this much?

ehhh because we asked

Originally Posted by John83

Indeed. Most recently in a friendly with Liverpool, I think?

I think that was the only time. 25000 or so there. Most to watch us, of course, and not the part-time shower we were up against.

Originally Posted by gael353

ehhh because we asked

I can't believe Limerick 37 actually enquired about the price and availability of a 26,500 capacity stadium.

Originally Posted by gufcfan

I can't believe Limerick 37 actually enquired about the price and availability of a 26,500 capacity stadium.

Friendly games, such as the upcoming Sunderland game

Originally Posted by gael353

ehhh because we asked

Have they asked again since the Celtic Tiger went tits up? The answer might come with a couple of zeros knocked off the end.

Originally Posted by gufcfan

I can't believe Limerick 37 actually enquired about the price and availability of a 26,500 capacity stadium.

If they did good for them. Shows that they are not as narrow foccussed and priest/charity ridden as they have been in the past.

They could pack the place out with Sheeple to see their British TV heros. It is not as far fetched as it sounds.

Originally Posted by gufcfan

I can't believe Limerick 37 actually enquired about the price and availability of a 26,500 capacity stadium.

I can't believe any club would have access to a 26,500 capacity stadium and not at least find out how much it costs

Good to see the links between IRFU and FAI continuing to develop.

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

Twaddle, twaddle, rubbish, blah, blah, wah, wah, look at me, look at me, LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEE!, nonsense, rubbish twaddle, I need attention, wah, wah, and a cuddle, blah, blah.

Yeah, I wish Limerick were run like Bohs.

An example to us all.

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I think that was the only time. 25000 or so there.

Was the UEFA Cup game against Everton in Belfield Park? Or Tolka? Even we'd get a crowd worth renting Lansdowne if we got an English team in the UEFA Cup now. Amazing the draw of the Premiership.

Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good

if one day Limerick had a soccer club not being run out of a parociahal house or a cellar underneath a pub in the Bronx

Will a large house on a 6 Acre site overlooking the City of Limerick do for you then?

Originally Posted by Monkfish

Will a large house on a 6 Acre site overlooking the City of Limerick do for you then?

only if its likerick prison

Originally Posted by Monkfish

Will a large house on a 6 Acre site overlooking the City of Limerick do for you then?

you left out the bit that it was in Co.Clare

Originally Posted by John83

Was the UEFA Cup game against Everton in Belfield Park? Or Tolka? Even we'd get a crowd worth renting Lansdowne if we got an English team in the UEFA Cup now. Amazing the draw of the Premiership.

The ECWC tie v Everton was in Tolka if I recall correctly. 0-0 in Tolka and with Everton winning 1-0 at Goodison late on Joe Hanrahan was cleanthrough on goal but blazed over the bar. Everton won 1-0 on aggregate and went on to win the 1985 ECWC.

My favourite story about that time is the journalists coming over and asking about Ucked's history...

Wasn't it read out that way on the news?

Everton 1, Uck-ed 0

Probably getting the story distorted after 25 years though. Our Cup Final appearance this year! How time flies...

(Home game was in Tolka in front of 9000)

Originally Posted by gspain

The ECWC tie

Oops. Yes, ECWC. I thought 'second tier European competition' and forgot that there ever was a cup winners' cup.

v Everton was in Tolka if I recall correctly. 0-0 in Tolka and with Everton winning 1-0 at Goodison late on Joe Hanrahan was cleanthrough on goal but blazed over the bar.

And was promptly signed by Man Utd, though he never played for their senior team.

Everton won 1-0 on aggregate and went on to win the 1985 ECWC.

And I've heard that one of their players (I forget who) described us as their toughest opponents in the competition. Remarkable performance from our 'ambitionless' little club.

PS: I've heard the Ucked tale too, but not unlikely it was from you.

Originally Posted by oscar

you left out the bit that it was in Co.Clare

and?

Originally Posted by oscar

you left out the bit that it was in Co.Clare

Clare only exists to service Limerick, so it's all the one. We might even get that part of Clare in the upcoming boundary extensions

Originally Posted by Monkfish

and?

and nothing

Originally Posted by John83

And I've heard that one of their players (I forget who) described us as their toughest opponents in the competition. Remarkable performance from our 'ambitionless' little club.

Derek Mountfield, while manager of Cork. Though he was possibly being nice to the league in general, having just taken over. But it was Everton's narrowest win, although Bayern managed to both draw and score against them.

Ultimately, though, don't forget the "remarkable performance" almost bankrupted us in a manner several clubs are emulating right now. Dick Shakespeare said that if we had beaten Everton, it would have been the end of us as we would had to go to Bratislava in the next round - expensive trip with no real income.