Are the Ireland team losing support?

[Dodge]

How can anyone feel that for a foreign club team, sure I support and EPL team and follow them religously but they dont truely represent me.

Is it time for a LOI arguement again?

[ifk101]

I noticed there was an Irish flag last night with the words "Dublin Rams" written across it and a picture of a ram below those words.

Made me scratch the head a little bit. Derby County ffs.

[Billy Lord]

I noticed there was an Irish flag last night with the words "Dublin Rams" written across it and a picture of a ram below those words.

Made me scratch the head a little bit. Derby County ffs.

Why not Derby? They're just as British as Manchester United, Liverpool or Celtic.

[jbyrne]

I noticed there was an Irish flag last night with the words "Dublin Rams" written across it and a picture of a ram below those words.

Made me scratch the head a little bit. Derby County ffs.

i saw "Dublin Brigade" and "Oranmore" on polish flags. very little to do with Poland but some polish fans obviosly feel some sort of allegance to these places. doubt their other fans have a problem with it

[ifk101]

i saw "Dublin Brigade" and "Oranmore" on polish flags. very little to do with Poland but some polish fans obviosly feel some sort of allegance to these places. doubt their other fans have a problem with it

I saw Wexord on a Polish flag as well. Maybe they live there.

[Dodge]

i saw "Dublin Brigade" and "Oranmore" on polish flags. very little to do with Poland but some polish fans obviosly feel some sort of allegance to these places. doubt their other fans have a problem with it

You can be guarenteed if a Polish flag with Man Utd came up a lot of them would have a problem with it.

[OneRedArmy]

i saw "Dublin Brigade" and "Oranmore" on polish flags. very little to do with Poland but some polish fans obviosly feel some sort of allegance to these places. doubt their other fans have a problem with it

In the words of Peter Griffin from Family Guy, "wow, you're right, that is EXACTLY the same thing"......

[jbyrne]

In the words of Peter Griffin from Family Guy, "wow, you're right, that is EXACTLY the same thing"......

thanks

[Sligo Hornet]

One thing struck me watching the fanatical Polish fans last night.........how the hell were they allowed to bring so many flares into the Stadium?

Was Stevie Wonder in charge of security last night?

[Ash]

I noticed there was an Irish flag last night with the words "Dublin Rams" written across it and a picture of a ram below those words.

Made me scratch the head a little bit. Derby County ffs.

Cobh Exiles

[Dodge]

One thing struck me watching the fanatical Polish fans last night.........how the hell were they allowed to bring so many flares into the Stadium?

Was Stevie Wonder in charge of security last night?

They didn't bring them in a big bag marked "FLARES IN HERE!" Flares are tiny and easily hideable

[Sligo Hornet]

They didn't bring them in a big bag marked "FLARES IN HERE!" Flares are tiny and easily hideable

Oh.....so that's where I've been going wrong at our Away games!

[pineapple stu]

Whats the official attendence at tonights game?? Have they given it out yet??

50566 (I think) was put up on the screen in the second half.

One thing struck me watching the fanatical Polish fans last night.........how the hell were they allowed to bring so many flares into the Stadium?

Was Stevie Wonder in charge of security last night?

In fairness, you don't know how many they did find and confiscated!

[geysir]

It's obvious now that Lansdowne Road was a bit like the GPO in 1916, there were so many people there.

Allowing for the fact that the FAI routinely made up these numbers the reported attendance at the Russia game in 1984 was 28,000 so nowhere near packed but still a great day (we'll never forget Mickey Walsh).

The Russia game has a recorded 45k attendance. The rest of that campaign went belly up after 2 away defeats.

Even when Jack took over, the first two games against Wales and Uruguay drew about 18,000 each. Then after we had qualified for Euro 88 none of our 3 home warm-up games managed a crowd above 20,000.

Nevertheless, the competitive games against Belgium and Scotland were packed. Friendlies don't really count, 18k against those 2 teams would be considered very high by any standard at that time in Europe.

In all campaigns from Giles time onwards the public came out and gave the team huge support in the big games until interest in qual had all but gone, then crowds would drop. There is no denial about that.
The so called bandwagon was always there waiting to happen, just never did until 1988. The qual campaign for wc 1982 certainly gripped public interest.

[paul_oshea]

i saw "Dublin Brigade" and "Oranmore" on polish flags. very little to do with Poland but some polish fans obviosly feel some sort of allegance to these places. doubt their other fans have a problem with it

there are loads of them out in oranmore, mates know loads of them infiltrated the place is.

[paul_oshea]

You can be guarenteed if a Polish flag with Man Utd came up a lot of them would have a problem with it.

What about a german team?! Would that be a bigger problem

[paul_oshea]

They didn't bring them in a big bag marked "FLARES IN HERE!" Flares are tiny and easily hideable

yes, quite, up the anus.

[Oink]

Is it time for a LOI arguement again?

I go to the odd LOI (Pats mostly) game but the closest team in proximity to me are Shels and I dont even live in Dublin . So I don't have a LOI home team and dont feel particularly drawn to any club, I chose my EPL team based on players I looked up to and tried to emulate when I was younger....... Tony Cascarino

[paul_oshea]

i hope thats looked up to and not look

[viagogo]

They didn't bring them in a big bag marked "FLARES IN HERE!" Flares are tiny and easily hideable

When I was walking in a guard was there searching a polish guy in front of me. Then the guard saw his bag and asked the Polish guy Whats in the bag? He goes Cans and the guard lets him through. Could have been anything in it.