Originally Posted by harleyleeds
In the following order:
Support
Local junior team (every Sunday)
Local League of ireland team (season ticket holder)
National team (Only the decent matches or bringing some kids from the club)
EPL (sky moth when i get time, been to a load of matches when i worked in London)
Last edited by Hurt Locker; 27/05/2011 at 1:51 PM.
It's the internet - it's not feckin representative of anything let alone the "average LoI fan", who simply doesn't exist. No one I know could give a toss whether someone who goes to games also follows a UK Club. Most couldn't even give a toss about the ones that don't go, but support UK clubs. The only one's that get any real stick are those clueless idiots who slag the league off, like the tool who wrote that article, from a position of zero knowledge and ridiculous logic (again like that tool).
Anyone who takes whats said on a forum to heart is just looking for an excuse - if it wasn't that it'd be some other bs excuse. It's their loss - what they don't realise is that as much as helping the league, if they get into going to live football they'll be helping themselves have a better, more fulfilling life. Unless they go to Athlone.
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
Handball is the actual name of the sport though.Not tragic CD but indicitive of the cretinous attitude of the muppet that wrote it. i would suggest if he wrote that about any bogball sport (GAA stick fighting, womens stickfighting (chicks with .....), handball)it would have disappeared long before publication. many journo's are idiots that think themselves funny, its the editors job to weed out the crap.
The fact that the idiot that penned that joke article puts himself forward as a serious sports journalist says it all.
It's crying out for someone to come up with a witty replacement name like 'bogball' or 'stickfighting'.
I like the ring of 'squash for culchies' myself.
See also 'baseball for culchies' (rounders).
how about BogStick and Fightball?
"Must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing."
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Bogfighting and stickball would probably make more sense.
Stickball is already taken though isn't it? 'Too fast, wheres the ball?' is more apt.
Brawlball?
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Termonbarry Athletic TID!
excellent post.
Just to add my two cents worth. I support both Drogheda united and Everton. I emigrated from Drogheda to Boston about 3 and a half years ago (just after the drogs won the league!). Here in Boston a few of us set up Boston Evertonians. There are about 100 members and about 20 of us watch the games together at stupidly early hours. I have been to see the New England Revolution a few times but it is hard to get into as they are about 20 miles away and the fact that they have a fan base of about 10,000 playing in a 80,000 seater stadium doesn't help. I like catching the ocasional live game. the USA are playing Spain here next week and the Revs are playing LA tomorrow, and I like the craic sitting in a bar early on a Saturday morning watching the toffees loose to West Brom but nothing compares to league of Ireland football, I never realized how much I'd miss it until it was gone. So appreciate what you've got and don't pay any heed to barstool LoI bashers. sure LoI fans are a bit odd and there might be a superiority complex there but thats all part of it, Its like being part of a big family (with that ****** brother from Oriel Park).
LoI haters never really bothered me but the attitude of the press has always gotten to me. I listen to 'off the ball' at work here and Roddy never has anything positive to say about the league and he's their expert. Ken Early, their football supremo, knows sfa about the LoI and cares even less. Surely there must be some sort of way of sponsoring him to pick one club and follow them for a season. His football show lasts an hour four nights a week and them lads would do anything for a few bucks!
Rambling a bit now, Fu*k what the barstoolers think, appreciate what you've got because I wish I had it.
we looked from Montrose to Swords, from swords to Montrose and from Montrose to Swords again but already it was impossible to spot UCDs right winger
It's a shame that elements within the country's mainstream media are so openly hostile and unnecessarily condescending towards their own national league and for what really? What harm has it ever done them or the game they apparently love in general? In that sense, it'd be different from those, say, in the English media who decry the commercialisation of football in England and castigate the Premier League as a symptom of this.
There is a radio station around these parts called LMFM who give sweet fcuk all coverage to the two LOI clubs within their catchment area(Dundalk & Drogs).I dont even think that they had live commentary on the last local derby? But they will cover any(and i mean any) bogball or stick fighting match or event.What chance is there that the mainstream media will pay attention/some respect to LOI when the local crowd dont give a c*ap ?? (and full respect to DundalkFM and the Dundalk Democrat for their top class coverage of DundalkFC games)
Fair play to you DannyInvicible,you certaintly have a strong passion for this subject. Maith Thu.
Ah, I'm not actually a Mancunian if that's what you were getting at, in case the location confused you. I was actually born in Donegal. Back in my pre-adolescent days, I used to frequent Finn Park on a regular basis with a Finn Harps-supporting neighbour who drove me up to Ballybofey for my first dabbles with live football. I also attended the Brandywell on occasion as I lived a lot closer to Derry. In later formative years, I've been known to attend the Brandywell exclusively for Derry games, although I generally keep some of my earlier childhood activities under wraps now for obvious reasons.But I've always lived just outside the city, went to school there and my social life generally centres around it whenever I'm home, after all, so it made and makes sense to me in order to get my fix of local football. Whether others would accept that rationale or not is another matter...
My parents still live on the Donegal-Derry border and, as I said, I'd generally still consider it home.
Last edited by DannyInvincible; 28/05/2011 at 3:00 AM.
Ah, I'm not actually a Mancunian if that's what you were getting at, in case the location confused you. I was actually born in Donegal. Back in my pre-adolescent days, I used to frequent Finn Park on a regular basis with a Finn Harps-supporting neighbour who drove me up to Ballybofey for my first dabbles with live football. I also attended the Brandywell on occasion as I lived a lot closer to Derry. In later formative years, I've been known to attend the Brandywell exclusively for Derry games, although I generally keep some of my earlier childhood activities under wraps now for obvious reasons.
My parents still live on the Donegal-Derry border and, as I said, I'd generally still consider it home.
We don't take kindly to your kinda folk around here ;P
No. Genuine idiot that used to live with me. Don't get me started!
I think we already have.
He's probably on snoos now.
See when people use the term 'bogball' or 'stick fighting' all the while moaning about showing disrespect to our national league, you really make yourself look silly and a bit of a hypocrite.
And just to say maybe why it gets coverage is because it's actually popular, the LOI isn't - so lose the chip on your shoulder. I find the LOI is usually a turn-off for a lot of people. The attitude stinks.
You really don't belong here.
no one ever said it was an aphrodisiac...
The attitude to the GAA from sections of the LOI is, I think, based in no small part on the GAA's historic attitude towards "foreign sports", and specific incidents like the Tallaght saga, and ploughing that football field in Kerry. You don't see the same degree of hostility towards, say, rugby.
Wrong forum buddy. I think Hoganstand is thataway ---> http://www.hoganstand.com/forum/forumpage.aspx
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Termonbarry Athletic TID!
Yeah. But roll on Sunday and 2 from 2 for the mighty Dubs in the Championship in bog ball and stickfighting.
On a barstooling matter to see parents purchase their young children English/Scottish soccer paraphernalia is another aspect which starts Irish lids on the long road down the slippery slope if barstooling.
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