They wore their colours anyway. All irish fans around me wore black jackets. Away fans always make the most of it though.
Never thought we were ever near the title, but hopefully tonight will debunk the myth.
The Polish fans showed how to support a team.
They wore their colours anyway. All irish fans around me wore black jackets. Away fans always make the most of it though.
I've been to see Poland play at home several times, and if you thought they were loud and colourful tonight.........Originally Posted by kingdomkerry
Great atmosphere at the game tonight...best i have ever came across for a friendly. Pity there wasnt more irish fans out to get behind the team.
I'd love to know what them chants meant!!!
terrific. i have some polish, pretty crap tho but i couldnt get what they were saying either. sorry.
Seemed like a very good atmosphere on TV alright. Constant chanting etc. It sounded like the crowd was much bigger than it was. It would have been great to have the Polish fans on the Hill if possible.
Irish sports fans are a joke and are the laughing stock of the British Isles (let's not get into that debate either).
We don't support teams, we support success, Irish people are whores for events and would sell their own grandmother to make their life a little bit nicer.
Not trying to wind up here, but Irish people, when it comes to supporting teams, are generally crap
Wouldn't you have to actually go to football matches occasionally and have some kind of knowledge of the game to be considered for this accolade in the first place?
A leading authority on League of Ireland football since 2003. You're probably wrong.
61,000 apparently. probably in the top 2 or 3 european attendances last night. id imagine 40,000 + Irish fans which is pretty impressive for a nothing november friendly. thought we did ok at getting behind the team. away fans will always be more enthusiastic
oh dear - are you sure you are not on THAT list
but your point is dead right -i think the only thing irish people do well at all is act the fool and get drunk - are we good at anything else really?
There was no way 2/3 of the attendence last night was Irish. Half and half at best.
I would estimate at 60/40 Irish/Poles which given it s a friendly isnt to bad numbers wise although quality is somewhat lacking rather than quantity.
Irish fans in home game **** atsmosphere SHOCKER - its hardly man bites dog
Are we forgetting the Irish in Paris (to name just one)? Brian Kerr's greatest moment of his Irish reign was the fans at that game. The French commentators couldn't believe the Irish fans.
Now fair enough, the Polish fans are also very loud at their home games but if were judging on away games then we're up there with the very best.
Judging by the Polish in my job they're patriotic people but if we played abroad in a city with 100,000 Irish then almost every last one of them would be getting a ticket.
and btw, they do sing non-stop but there's plenty of them that with their backs to the match for most of the game just to direct the singing. It's a much different culture.
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15 - 20,000 polish quoted by the poles themselves after the game
50566 was put up on the screen. I'd say half and half alright.
I think it's too broad to compare the Polish fans last night and Irish sports fans in general. There's plenty who travel abroad and will create a sea of colour a bit like Poland last night and will keep singing for 90 minutes (games in Stuttgart and Paris come to mind). There's far more who think their club's home ground is their local. The one group shouldn't affect the other's standing.
But thought the Polish were superb alright. Wonder how much the FAI will fine themselves for the flares?
Best away support I can remember ever in Dublin.
The home support was dreadful though. I know it's a friendly we are normally the noisy colourful ones.
Not at home on a workday we're not.
Probably also worth noting that the Irish "Best Fans in the World" tag is in part for general good humour before, during and after games, not necessarily colourful displays, etc. The Polish are too prone to racism, for example, to qualify on those grounds.
But 100% agree that they were excellent last night. And agree that the tag is used by barstoolers to legitimise themselves too.
For all those who made the excuse of Croke Park being blamed for the lack of atmosphere in recent games, well the polish showed exactly what the problem really is : the irish suport.
Last night showed that our home suport is really sh1t (which from the very odd exception in the last 15 years has been the case).
Hundreds of irish "fans" left after the 2nd goal, thousands left from 80mins on. Too many of the irish attendants want to be entertained rather than support their team. Most probably dont know how to!!!
The polish were colourful, noisy, knew how to enjoy it and get behind their team.
And while technically it was an away for them, most of them would have went from work yesterday to the game and back in this morning (similar to home fans and unlike a proper away where the away fans are on the gargle for 1-2 days beforehand).
A dedicated section for like minded irish fans who want to get behind the team is badly needed. Create the noise from there. And get rid of that bloody carlsberg band.
Exactly. The Poles are proper football fans, while the paddies are a bunch of deluded drunks.
You quoted 61,000 attendence. That may have been tickets sold as the ground was nowhere near full on the top tier and the hill was closed. My own estimate was closer to 50k in the ground.
Also, do the Poles have an inherent ability to count better than the Irish?
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