QuoteEr, you are mistaken. Think I said way up thread, my contacts from Beal-feirste are from The Falls and the Short Strand. Check yer facts please!Originally Posted by Gather round
Surely "forcibly merged" is an interpretation.
Whereas, a 'merging of the two associations' is a proposition.
Er, you are mistaken. Think I said way up thread, my contacts from Beal-feirste are from The Falls and the Short Strand. Check yer facts please!
Or indicative of the 'P' word.
The idea of a mergerd team implies the abolition of both existing teams, and as far as I can recollect no-one has ever suggested that such a proposition could be achieved through coercion. This forum has tolerated discussion of this idea without anyone being banned or the idea itself being presented as advocating the abolition of the ROI side. However you present this GR, the breadth of tolerance on this site greatly exceeds that demonstrated on OWC. Not only are racists and insulting allusions to the ROI side routinely bandied about, from what I have read, they are never challenged or refuted by more reasonably minded contributors. Its always difficult to separate chickens from eggs, but the siege mentality and erection of intellectual barricades is not just a reaction to the defection of players like Duffy et al, but it is sympomatic of a default mindset that is actually part of the cause for these defections.
Last edited by third policeman; 16/03/2010 at 9:55 AM. Reason: typo
Absolute rubbish. Worst things have been said on this site than that, without punishment. Indeed, you are always suggesting that we should merge with England as that is where our players etc. Have you got so much as a yellow card? No.
I can think of just two reasons that this sort of thing is so touchy on Are We a Country?: One is that 'merging' both Irish associations is a serious proposition to the general unionist community. As you have argued before, Northern Ireland fans aren't going to vote their team out of existence, but one poll from the BBC suggests that Northern Ireland's population could. The other is that the people who run it and decide who can post are a bunch of bigoted f*ckwits.
This is the cooooooooooooolest footy forum I've ever seen!
And while I'm at it, what about our dear friend Davros? Banned on here - undoubtedly after continually crossing the line - for using the 'P' word, even though he is from that 'tradition' himself. Unlike our wee minds who use terms such as thieving gypsies to describe us not just in people's posts, whose tolerance are down to selective defence of free speech, but also in the site's own fanzine. If this belief is for the benefit of the children back home, fair enough, but I know you are intelligent enough to know that both sites can't be compared.
This is the cooooooooooooolest footy forum I've ever seen!
Depends if the word 'forcibly' is used by the person making the proposition.
Hasn't the OWC set its "name and shame!" campaign in motion yet?
The unruly little upstart.
Answers on a postcard as to who is responsible for this (last paragraph):-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Magnay
They're getting desperate now.
I have a head only Snow White would love
Somebody with BT as their internet provider in Dumbarton, north-west of Glasgow acccording to their ip address.
After the first alteration by that Dumbite, someone edited it to read
'In March 2010 Magnay revealed that he has opted instead to declare for the Republic of Ireland as in all fairness who would want to play for the North?'
Wiki edit history
Wow, what kind of sick twisted bigot would go to the trouble of edi...........oh, no, wait, that's probably from a ROI fan. Carry on.
The Dumbarton editor falls under the thread's "beyond question" standards, it is beyond question that he/she is illiterate, as in uncultured and poorly educated.
I think I've seen mention of this lad before. Leeds went to the FA with a complaint that he, along with another lad I believe, had been illegally approached by Chelski.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Presuming he was a Nordie, perhaps they would have benefited from an Irish education....The Dumbarton editor falls under the thread's "beyond question" standards, it is beyond question that he/she is illiterate, as in uncultured and poorly educated.
Rather than their lame anti-Catholic/Irish agenda in the osc!
Last edited by ArdeeBhoy; 18/03/2010 at 2:13 PM. Reason: Post Paddy's Day typo. Doh!
That Carl Magnay guy turned down NI because he wants to play for England not Ireland.
That's what he told the IFA anyways. I personally think he is just looking to make a career in professional football for himself and whatever international side he plays for is ultimately irrelevant. His international prospects are far greater with the North than with us so it's either a brave or foolish career decision on his part to choose us. Time will tell if he made the right decision but I can't say I'm overly excited about his promotion from our feeder team.
Can we not get a ransom for him?
The IFA can't afford to pay a ransom what with;
payoffs to former employees,
commitments to bankrolling Linfield,
the costs of glamour football festivals in Albania,
the costs of their football for all programme (apparently that costs lots and lots of money), and
the costs of constant whinging and begging to FIFA, CAS and the like to get the goal posts moved.
The IFA is so broke that they can't even afford the ink and paper required to sign contracts with their managers. To save expense, verbal agreements or so called gentleman agreements are being used. Will they ever learn .....
Last edited by ifk101; 19/03/2010 at 7:58 AM.
Terrible turn of events.
Good luck to him, regardless of where his international allegiance lies.
http://www.cfcnet.co.uk/2010/03/18/m...-about-career/
Last edited by The Fly; 19/03/2010 at 2:50 PM.
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