..with Salthill Devon coming in at number 2Originally Posted by legendz
Nobody knows us, we don't care
Now they may be a bit anal on grammar and spelling, might put up to be know-it-all's but "odd" is such an ugly word.
I'd prefer to label them "dirty smelly student's who support a team with a sh!t fanbase and zero prospects but is remarkably well run in fairness to them"
Ya thats fair enough that he now lives in the area and goes to them. I lived in Drumcondra for 2 years, used to go to Tolka quite a bit watching Shels in the 1st division,found myself clapping their goals and generally getting into the games. However been a life long fan of Sligo Rovers whenever work allowed i got home for their games and went to all the away ones in Dublin and if Rovers played Shels there was never any doubt who i would supporting as my loyalty in this league will always be with Sligo Rovers but i guess you and me just got differing views on loyalty
1349 at Tolka last night including 273 Blues fans (separate turnstile, figure quoted on Shels forum).
PineappleStu, I wasn't at either of the games you've listed as missing, but asked some of the lads last night and they went:
Longford v Blues (2) 200
Monaghan v Blues (2) 350.
You choose your team-You stick with your team.End of story.
If I ever hear the words ,"I used to support..............",I just turn and walk away.
Using that logic, I'd still be a massive spurs fan with no interest in the loi.
"If you don't work harder I'll pull you off at halftime,"
“Crikey, at Manchester City all we get is an orange and a cup of tea,"
I dont know this guy personally and just talked to him once at a fans meeting. I got the impression he is from fingal and supported Rovers. Now who knows why and for what reason he supported Rovers, there could be any number of reasons, but he felt that being from fingal that it was right to support his local team. So its not a case of suddenly moving to an area and supporting that team. He is from the area(fingal) from what I gathered. So its that reason that i think he is being loyal to his community when choosing Fingal. If it was a guy who just moved to fingal then id be very surprised to hear him change allegiances but I dont think that was the case.
Anyway its way off topic so ill leave it there. Good luck in the final.
ps. it was a peno
So you used to be a "massive spurs fan",but now your not.
Some would argue you wern't that "massive" a spurs fan in the first place.
Massive difference between being a childhood barstooler(high-chairer,maybe?),and finding Pats in your later years than being a "lifelong Rovers fan"(he's not dead yet I presume?),and shifting the goal post to support his "Local team".
I live in Cavan now.Should a new local team set up shop in my county area would it be acceptable to forget everything I have put into Rovers to support my new "local team"?
Life-long Rovers fan my arse.Too cheap to pay the m50 toll more like!
There could be any number of valid reasons. For example, I wouldn't have considered it too far out of line for supporters of Cork to switch their allegiance because of the shameful way the club was being run by Tom Coughlan. The mismanagement of Shams during the nomad years could have been enough to justify switching.
Not a hope. You support your club through the good times and the bad, even if the bad times are atrocious and you are easily able to attribute the blame.
Lets redefine what it means to heal
Last thing ill say about this, im not having a go at the guy for going to fingal matches, fair play to him and ye need to keep attracting guys like this from your area to matches, it was your original comment about loyalty and it was you who described him as a 'life long' shams fan.I dont know this guy personally and just talked to him once at a fans meeting. I got the impression he is from fingal and supported Rovers. Now who knows why and for what reason he supported Rovers, there could be any number of reasons, but he felt that being from fingal that it was right to support his local team. So its not a case of suddenly moving to an area and supporting that team. He is from the area(fingal) from what I gathered. So its that reason that i think he is being loyal to his community when choosing Fingal. If it was a guy who just moved to fingal then id be very surprised to hear him change allegiances but I dont think that was the case.
Anyway its way off topic so ill leave it there. Good luck in the final.
ps. it was a peno
p.s cheers though it was never a peno but come Nov 14 it will hopefully be a distant memory when were lifting the cup!!
Probably about double it tbf.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.
Both sets of fans did what I would expect from any fans and to do anything else would be sacreligous and unjustifiable.Theres turning your back on your club which is bad enough,but switching..............No chance!
I said had been, as in past tense and i was talking about loyalty to his community. The fact that with all the good that was going on at tallaght it must have been very difficult to support fingal and I commend him for choosing his Local side. The side that represents where he comes from.
Again I think the point has been missed. Im saying that as far as I know he is from Fingal. With that in mind I dont think its a bad thing that now that the community has a team he chose fingal. He has a sense of pride in the place he is from. You moving to cavan is not the same thing.
Thats my last on it.
Last edited by Lamper.sffc; 31/10/2010 at 3:22 PM.
I think the FAI and Provincial FA's should have a Shield for the best team in each province.
Shamrock Rovers this season would be handed the Leinster Shield, Sligo the Connaught Shield, Derry City the Ulster Shield and Waterford United the Munster Shield. It'd be a small gesture in someways but be some reward and add a bit of spice to being the best side in each province.
Sligo should promote themselves more as being the number one club in Connaught as they are while also promoting representing Connaught as well as Sligo. If Waterford get promoted, they should do something similar in Munster as well and likewise Derry in Ulster.
Im pretty sure Shams are happy with their league title,we are happy with our 3rd place finsh and league cup,Derry with their first division title and Waterford with their playoff place without needing some sort of gimmick to tell us we are top in our province.
I'm pretty sure they are too but in terms of promoting being so, the gimmick could work!
No, we dont represent Connaught at all.
We represent ourselves and have got nothing to do with Mayo or Roscommon or Leitrim or any of that small minded parochial GAA ****e.
It reeks of the same crap from the media about these so called Connaught "derbys" with Galway, its not a derby as far as we are concerned.
Let the love in rasp.
Oi, we're champions of Leinster.
Lets redefine what it means to heal
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