I used to care but then I got a life.
Last edited by TrapAPony; 05/11/2011 at 2:15 AM.
"We lost because we didn't win"- Ronaldo
I used to care but then I got a life.
I like high energy football. A little bit rock and roll. Many finishes instead of waiting for the perfect one.
Just beat Shay with a wonderful free kick
My Guarantee
Am looking for old Irish matches on VHS, PM me if you have some and I'll upload them here
great performance again today he has to get a senior call up asap
Murf - don't forget O'Gara. He was born in California....
Frankie Sheahan - Canada
Malcolm O'Kelly & Simon Easterby - England
Brendan Mullin - Jerusalem
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist thinks it will change; the realist adjusts the sails.
Roy Keane - Cork
Denis Irwin - Cork
Paul McGrath - London
David O'Leary - London
Stephen Ireland - Cork
This could go on for ages, and all to no good end and totally meaningless.
More importantly why would we not give a chance to a player currently staring in the Premiership. Must be the strength of depth in our midfield!
Probably because they're not Irish and the team is called Ireland. The clue is in the name.
Ah I see - must go and look for the Post of the Month thread to nominate this insight.
Jesus, Ireland has suffered from emigration for centuries. It means that we have an overseas pool of players who are proud to pull on the green jersey and represent their homeland. Other football teams would kill for such a resource.
I myself have not lived in Ireland since 1986. Probably since before some of the whingers on this thread were born.
Sure, it would be great if we could turn back the clock and undo everything that caused emigration. There'd be 30 million people living in Ireland. We'd have four Richard Dunnes and five Damien Duffs.
Limiting the current Irish team only to those that are born and bred on the island of Ireland is like punishing ourselves twice over for emigration.
And so what if some of them are confused about where their allegiance lies. If they have an English father and an Irish mother then of course they are going to feel torn. It's only natural. It's all a part of being en emigrant. It's why Mark Lawrenson says "we" when talking about either Ireland and England. I never had a problem with that. But some little-Irelanders do.
Last edited by brine3; 07/11/2011 at 11:33 AM.
The issue isn't place of birth. So can we give the emigration rambling a rest?
Pilkington and his club were not aware of his eligibility to represent Ireland prior to his call up for a U21 friendly. Given this and that he subsequently was never selected again for U21s, it calls into question whether he is actually eligible to play for us.
Lol. How about laying off the wild speculation? That post is classic conspiracy theorist stuff.
His wiki says he qualifies through his paternal grandmother (unsourced). Maybe you know better, ifk101?
Other sources state his grandmother is from Dublin.
http://irishnewsreview.wordpress.com...-ireland-call/
I wouldn't put it past a footballer from not knowing the eligiblilty criteria. Tradtionally they are not the smartest bunch.
Was he adopted or something? I can't imagine not knowing where my grandmother is from lol
Supreme/sulvinho got what i was getting at. Japan had 10 or 11 players born abroad I think, rugby is a joke.3 year rule or whatver lo
Court was also born abroad, 3 players from the squad.
Look there has been loads of rugby players, and mercenaries throughout, from australia, nz, south africa etc in the past, people probably have forgotten ones like OCuinneagain.
Gleeson was born in ireland but left at 4.
Mike Mullins
OCuinneagain (English mother god forbid but thats alright cos he has a proper sounding irish name i suppose murf?)
Brendan mullin also born in jeuresalem. And these are just off the top of my head. I'm sure there have been many more.
The difference is the rugby players parents had enough money and were priviliged enough to come home and there kids grew up in ireland, thats the only difference to making them any "more" irish. It doesn't make kilbane any less irish etc.
Here is a nice "watered" down list of the "countries" and the teams(and yes again i meant to "misplace" the words like this) they represent at the RWC 2011 -> http://www.superrugbytips.com/2011/0...orn-other.html
Last edited by paul_oshea; 07/11/2011 at 1:23 PM.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Maybe Pilkington has one of Stephen Ireland's grannies?
What really gets on my nerves as far as mercenaries go are the rich football leagues benefiting from players qualifying for the country through residence. Like Deco for Portugal and Marcos Senna for Spain. Like Spain doesn't have enough of a footballing advantage already.
Maybe we can all chip in and get Cork City to sign some 16 year old Brazilians, who will qualify for permanent Irish residence inf five years from now.
There's a barber shop in Kensal Rise (NW10) called Gee Barber. I joked to my wife that that's where to go to get a Brazilian. She's English, so didn't get it.
Photo of said shop here.
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