How Ironic...

[Poor Student]

Cork has one proper club, Dublin has 4 proper clubs.

I know Rovers have been having it tough recently, but surely that doesn't warrant not considering them a proper club.

[chippie0001]

This thread is hilarious

Must agree and the best part is Cork fans calling other people fickle. How many clubs in Cork have gone out of business due to lack of interest by the local population down there. It is 3/4 maybe. On the other hand clubs like Bohs and Shels with their small crowds have managed to survive 100 years without going bang. Also for all teh abuse Bohs fans get I doubt any club and I inculde Rovers in this have put as much money into their own club as Bohs members have in recent years. As for Dalymount I agree it is not the nicest, but at least its ours. Another few years and hurling will be played at the cross.

[Stevo Da Gull]

Are you f ucking blind?? It was Dunne who pushed Gregg, hence sending off

So you saw nothing wrong with Matt Gregg running out of his goal to confront Dunne and push him. Yes Dunne pushed Gregg but only after Gregg raised his hands first, the way I see it (taking into mind that I also had a good view of the incident when it happened) is that Gregg had his arms out to push Dunne but Dunne reacted by pushing him back but unfortunately for Robbie he raised his hands higher than Greggs and pushed more forcefully= a combination of the height that Dunne's hands were raised and that agreesiveness of the push earned him his marching orders. But still Gregg should have been booked for his roll in it all IMO.

Vitruvian Man, surely if the ref was a 12th man to us he would have given us a penalty when the ball hit Kevin Hunt's raised arm's? (I never mentioned it before but after seeing it on EL Weekly it lloked a good claim for a pen )

[Réiteoir]

Must agree and the best part is Cork fans calling other people fickle. How many clubs in Cork have gone out of business due to lack of interest by the local population down there. It is 3/4 maybe. On the other hand clubs like Bohs and Shels with their small crowds have managed to survive 100 years without going bang. Also for all teh abuse Bohs fans get I doubt any club and I inculde Rovers in this have put as much money into their own club as Bohs members have in recent years. As for Dalymount I agree it is not the nicest, but at least its ours. Another few years and hurling will be played at the cross.

Cork's one senior soccer club - more name changes than Continuity Home Farm

[Vitruvian Man]

Stevo
I won't deny that there was a clear handball - which I didn't see from the other end of the ground.

But I think Stokes gave Bray every 50/50. He gave a free out when it was a corner to Bohs - twice. He booked joxer for diving when the replays show the lad just slipped. Your keeper should have been sent off for bringing down Tony Grant for our peno - he was the last man and it's the rules. He sent James Keddy off for winning the ball cleanly and accidently clipping your player. The boos were for the ref not the poor lad who got the bang on the head. I know from your angle it might have looked like Keddy led with his elbow but I was only three yards away from the incident and he won the ball fair and square. It was the Bray players freaking out that got him sent off. And as for the player you had sent off, EL weekly clearly showed that the ref had the yellow card out but he got himself a straight red for freaking out and pushing two players - he's an idiot as well for crashing into another player like that only minutes after somebody else had been sent off.

It was pure Bray frustration in the players but you can't blame us. We were ****e, you should have won, the ref gave you every help he could but its not our fault if you can't take your chances.

[Stevo Da Gull]

Stevo
I won't deny that there was a clear handball - which I didn't see from the other end of the ground.

But I think Stokes gave Bray every 50/50. He gave a free out when it was a corner to Bohs - twice. He booked joxer for diving when the replays show the lad just slipped. Your keeper should have been sent off for bringing down Tony Grant for our peno - he was the last man and it's the rules. He sent James Keddy off for winning the ball cleanly and accidently clipping your player. The boos were for the ref not the poor lad who got the bang on the head. I know from your angle it might have looked like Keddy led with his elbow but I was only three yards away from the incident and he won the ball fair and square. It was the Bray players freaking out that got him sent off. And as for the player you had sent off, EL weekly clearly showed that the ref had the yellow card out but he got himself a straight red for freaking out and pushing two players - he's an idiot as well for crashing into another player like that only minutes after somebody else had been sent off.

It was pure Bray frustration in the players but you can't blame us. We were ****e, you should have won, the ref gave you every help he could but its not our fault if you can't take your chances.

Fair enough, there are some things we are'nt going to agree on but I respect you're opinion

[Vitruvian Man]

Stevo you are a gentleman and a scholar.
I know Bohs fans don't like Pat Devlin because of his Rovers connection and I know there was a bit of unacceptable carry-on with the pitch invasions this season but I'd hate to think there was bad blood developing between Bohs and Bray fans.

I love the Bray away trip, it's one I never miss. Some of my favourite Bohs moments were in the Carlisle ground.

Dinner in the Porterhouse
A few sups of ale
Getting the skin lacerated off my body by the sea breeze.
Watching a giant Seagul take penalties.

Heaven.

[Battery Rover]

Getting the skin lacerated off my body by the sea breeze.

I even remember that.

[superfrank]

Finally they admit it.

Shelbourne, Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers, UCD, St. Patrick's Athletic and Dublin City. There's your six for you!

[superfrank]

Watching a giant Seagul take penalties.

Heaven.

He's getting better ....

[Breifne]

Shelbourne, Bohemians, Shamrock Rovers, UCD, St. Patrick's Athletic and Dublin City. There's your six for you!

I think what Schumi was getting at, is that you said that Boh's had to compete with six teams.
Schumi was trying to insinuate that you meant, the five named above and Bray Wanderers.

[superfrank]

Ok. Well there's also St. James Gate, Cherry Orchard, Belgrove, Drumcondra.............I could go on all day!

[NY Hoop]

EVERYBODY can slag big pub fans.

You lot, for the most part, are the most fickle, up your own h*le shower of tossers around. You CONSTANTLY slag Rovers about violence, yet have some sort of semi-official "casuals" yourself, who whinge and moan about having thier flag taken. If you lot could stop blubbering for a while there, we might even lend you a flag to shut you up.

The "most famous ground in the country", i.e. the 2 1/2 sided sh*thole known to everyone as Dalymoan, would be like a reading library only for visiting fans.
On EVERY SINGLE occasion that Rovers, Derry, Cork City, and even Drogheda lately, play at the dump, you are outsung and generally get to see what real fans look like. FFS, Continuity home Farm outplayed and outsang you last season...

You RARELY support your own team, preferring for the most part to abuse them, and you just try to act like hard men and "try" to wind the opposition up, but rarely succeed.

You are a small to medium sized, badly run club who have the odd glory day now and again.

The big pub and their delusions are the running joke of the eL.

Just spotted this now. Absolutely brilliantly put patsh

KOH

[John83]

Never got grief up there.
You sometimes get kids messing but the stewards are quick to sort it out.
Always found the stewards to be some of the best in the league.
Probably because they're all actually Bohs fans and understand what's going on.
I expect the result is making your experience seem worse than what it was.

Exactly my experience. Speaking of ****ty stewarding, the Shels stewards stood back on Monday as their fans invaded the pitch (again), ran up to the UCD fans and shouted abuse at them (are these people too thick to just support their own team?) and chucked two bottles and a can at us (all of which missed).

[Schumi]

chucked two bottles and a can at us (all of which missed).

In fairness, their puny 8 year old arms were never going to be able to throw anything that far up the stand.

[John83]

In fairness, their puny 8 year old arms were never going to be able to throw anything that far up the stand.

When Gannon pegged it back to 1-1, about ten of them gathered behind and to one side of us, doing nothing but shout abuse at us. FFS, if that kind of $hit€ is just ignored by stewards, why would normal people let their kids go to games? Wow, my kid can get threatened by a gang of illiterate scumbags or, just maybe, if he's sufficiently thick, become a member of a gang of illitereate scumbags. If the eircom League is going to be marketed to the general public, that kind of thing has to be dealt with properly.

[Jerry The Saint]

chucked two bottles and a can at us (all of which missed).

To be fair, it's always a difficult shot when you're aiming at a small target.

[Bald Student]

To be fair, it's always a difficult shot when you're aiming at a small target.

I'll presume you've never met John so.

[John83]

I'll presume you've never met John so.

Or Aberdonian Stu for that matter.

The stewards who should be dealing with this sort of thing, by the way, were busy over on the other side of the ground, preventing the hordes of away fans from invading the riverside stand.

[Schumi]

I'll presume you've never met John so.

More broken glasshouses I fear!