Anyone else finding it hard to give a damn about the sport since the incident?

**paul_oshea** · 09/12/2009, 6:24 PM

Originally Posted by BYCTWD

But now we are not there, these so called fans will not be clogging up the national media and bars with their inane prattle, so the rest of us can get on with watching the football.

Sure the rest of ye watching football wouldn't have to worry about them as they would be in the bars and well you would be out watching football so paths would never cross.

**Razors left peg** · 09/12/2009, 6:53 PM

Originally Posted by BYCTWD

Not a bother on me. Looking forward to the new season and World Cup already. Barstool free zones both.

Would bar stools not be in use for watching the World Cup??

**SUB of the day** · 10/12/2009, 3:24 PM

[QUOTE=Stuttgart88;1289804]I'd love to be able to be as emotionally detached as you superfrank but I just can't.

It's like your old dog dying. The near-certainty that you'd survive the daft mutt when you got it and the fact that dogs just get old and die all the time doesn't mean that you don't get upset when it happens, and in particularly bad circumstances.

This weekend was a good one for Irish footballers in the UK so some cheer returned.

However, with regard to "switching" to rugby, I still can hardly envisage a situation where rugby can bring the sheer tension, drama and scale of what happened in this play-off. Even the fantastic Grand Slam win didn't touch those heights.
Sums it all up for me, different strokes for different folks.Anyone representing Ireland in any sport, boxing rugby athletics etc, would have my unqualified support, however the litmus test is the level of disappointment when they fall short.The ROI football team is like a series of stage posts in my life, from Glasgow to Gelsenkirchen, Paris to Palermo, young free and single, to Dad of three.I still can't watch the game in St Dennis, the Keane and Duff misses, and of course that incident, hurt.If Ireland lose a six nations game, there will always be another around the corner,before Paris it was eight years since we were in a similiar playoff situation in football.2010 promises much, going home to Lansdowne, Euro draw, but more importantly a renewed belief and connection with our team, that no matter the top two seeds in the group, we can take them on, home and away with realistic expectations to come out on top....England and Sweden for me, bring it on!
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**paul_oshea** · 10/12/2009, 4:40 PM

OH id love england.

**Stuttgart88** · 10/12/2009, 8:55 PM

[QUOTE=SUB of the day;1291660]

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

I'd love to be able to be as emotionally detached as you superfrank but I just can't.

It's like your old dog dying. The near-certainty that you'd survive the daft mutt when you got it and the fact that dogs just get old and die all the time doesn't mean that you don't get upset when it happens, and in particularly bad circumstances.

This weekend was a good one for Irish footballers in the UK so some cheer returned.

However, with regard to "switching" to rugby, I still can hardly envisage a situation where rugby can bring the sheer tension, drama and scale of what happened in this play-off. Even the fantastic Grand Slam win didn't touch those heights.
Sums it all up for me, different strokes for different folks.Anyone representing Ireland in any sport, boxing rugby athletics etc, would have my unqualified support, however the litmus test is the level of disappointment when they fall short.The ROI football team is like a series of stage posts in my life, from Glasgow to Gelsenkirchen, Paris to Palermo, young free and single, to Dad of three.I still can't watch the game in St Dennis, the Keane and Duff misses, and of course that incident, hurt.If Ireland lose a six nations game, there will always be another around the corner,before Paris it was eight years since we were in a similiar playoff situation in football.2010 promises much, going home to Lansdowne, Euro draw, but more importantly a renewed belief and connection with our team, that no matter the top two seeds in the group, we can take them on, home and away with realistic expectations to come out on top....England and Sweden for me, bring it on!
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Not sure what you're trying to say there but of course any Ireland team has my unqualified support. It'ss just that losing in Paris hurt like no loss in rugby or any other sport ever could, and winning in Paris would have hit heights that no other Irish success could have reached in my mind. At the same time I took great comfort in the fact that we're back being competitive again and can realistically expect to give it a good go in qualifying.

**irishultra** · 10/12/2009, 9:43 PM

haha murfinator i see where u were coming from but i never lost the buzz for xmas or my love for wrestling even when i found out both were 'fake' i actually never thought wrestling was real. with that in mind for our people in america watch TNA on spike tv on january 4th

anyway i havent had any interest in any non irish or belgian leagues for years. even champions league has lost the buzz for me this year. i watch english highlights if an irish player has done something noteworthy.