Shels out on penalties

**OneRedArmy** · 30/08/2004, 1:53 PM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

It would take Derry fans to miss the point so spectacularly. Point the irony out to me (you might want to look it up in a dictionary first, but it's alright, I have all day.)

Jesus, are they putting fatuousness in the water supply up there or something?

Irony: def. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

You are bottom of the League.
The attendance and resulting atmosphere at your home games is a joke.
You have sacked a well-respected manager and appointed Ireland's biggest chancer and self-proclaimed relegation expert.
He has promptly sold most of your squad in a slash and burn exercise and is replacing young potential with overpaid has-been (or never-were?) pundits with zero loyalty or long-term potential who are here for a quick buck to boost their pension. All in a vain attempt to avoid relegation. So what if you don't get relegated? Whats the medium / long-term plan or has Roddy not reached that page of the Football Management for Dummies manual yet?

Yet you have decided that unless a top 2/3 side wins the Cup their prospects won't be good in the UEFA Cup, resulting in a worsening of our UEFA Coefficient.

The irony is that given the former, you have any interest or opinion in the latter, given it has no realistic chance of ever impacting on your club.

**max power** · 30/08/2004, 2:14 PM

i love the way no one has mentioned us, suits us fine.....we'll just plod along nice and quietly to Europe again

thats real Europe of course and not the inter tayto cup.

Sheridan · 30/08/2004, 2:24 PM

Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

The irony is that given the former, you have any interest or opinion in the latter, given it has no realistic chance of ever impacting on your club.

This kind of logic seems to be a uniquely Irish form of stupidity, so I suppose it's too deeply ingrained to be worth my while arguing about.

PS: I just took a terrifying (and extremely brief, for fear of the abyss staring back) glimpse inside your mindset and the following phrase appeared:

Since "our" Roddy has done far more than your Roddy to boost Ireland's coefficient, your opinion is worthless.