In any case the way things are shaping up in the North, they may not have a team in a few years in any case.
I did a black taxi tour of Belfast in November, the driver was Republican and said that the border poll will take another generation, but unification will happen.
A taxi driver's never been wrong before I guess.
Northern Ireland Europe's largest open air lunatic asylum.....no thanks
As Derry based and very much a Republican without getting into the intricacies of all that I would largely agree with that. Unification is an inevitability, I think everyone deep down knows that - it has been since partition and the only surprise is the northern state has lasted this long.
There has been a lot of excited talk about unification post Brexit and it has probably brought it forward to a certain degree by opening up the line of conversation that was avoided generally since the GFA but the demographics aren’t quite right for the vote to carry.
They are getting there though.
Anyway not wishing to drag the thread further down that path as it’s about players but just to say I would be largely in agreement with that line of thought.
Last edited by DCWA; 11/01/2022 at 10:09 PM.
Fair enough but the DUP aren’t exactly an attractive option and the current UK Government is hardly a model of good governance. Most of family live in the North and many would have been equivocal about a United Ireland even though they carry Irish passports, support the ROI team and vote SDLP. It’s the NHS, worries about potential loyalist violence and feeling that GFA gives them a sense of recognition within NI. Brexit has changed that view to some extent. There was a poll by Lord Ashcroft’s polling company in December that suggested 66% of people in NI now thought it would happen within 10 years.
1. This is hardly the place to discuss the future constitutional position of the island
2. I find the post by Diggs to be seriously offensive. Whether someone supports a particular party or not, there's no need for insulting someone nor using such an insult. I support SF, and make no apologies about it to anyone. I would never call a supporter of FF or FG the term used about, no matter how vociferously I disagreed with them.
3. On current polling, one in three people will also support SF in the next election, so using such language about those people is out of order also
4. Just to bring the thread back, I would like to see a United Ireland in football terms too, as I think it would only end with a better Irish team than either of the two seperate teams at the moment.
5. As long as its waiting for re-unification, we should look at every potential player for the Republic of Ireland team that we can, and make our team as strong as possible
Moved posts from a discussion in the national team forum to here
Last edited by tetsujin1979; 13/01/2022 at 8:49 AM.
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