2010 attendances

Originally Posted by legendz

It's still a good crowd. Sligo are a good club. Be great to see them build on this season. They already are the number one club in their province.

..with Salthill Devon coming in at number 2

Originally Posted by Spudulika

Stu, there were 20-odd UCD fans in the "away" section, .

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"

Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc

Well I guess we have different interpretations on it so.
Basically at the end of the day its down to the person and if he felt that supporting fingal was what he wanted to do because he felt the need to support his local team then i think thats a good thing, you think differently.

As for the dublin thingy, pointless point really. The different areas of Dublin are just that different and people feel affiliated to what ever area they are from hence why there are different clubs for different areas in Dublin and also some of the biggest rivalries in the league. This guy feels more afilliated to the region of fingal so now that there is finally a club there he supports it, simples

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.

Originally Posted by 1st time post

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

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

Originally Posted by fionnsci

Using that logic, I'd still be a massive spurs fan with no interest in the loi.

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!

Originally Posted by Model Club

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Lamper.sffc

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

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.

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!!

Originally Posted by Darkglasses

80 at Athlone-Limerick? That can't be serious.

Probably about double it tbf.

Originally Posted by peadar1987

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.

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!

Originally Posted by 1st time post

it was your original comment about loyalty and it was you who described him as a 'life long' shams fan.

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!!

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.

Originally Posted by Model Club

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!

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.

Originally Posted by peadar1987

The well-known province of "Not Dublin"!

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.

Originally Posted by legendz

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.

Originally Posted by 1st time post

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!

Originally Posted by legendz

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Rasputin

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.

Originally Posted by legendz

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.

Oi, we're champions of Leinster.