QuoteYes, Conor Bradley would fix all our problemsOriginally Posted by elatedscum
The UEFA match stats for the game look pretty even but reading the FAI match report seems we were on the ropes at the end and fortunate to get the draw.
Yes, Conor Bradley would fix all our problems
He’d fix one problem anyway
If you're prepared to admit your original mistake back in the day and ask to be re-admitted to the IFA - "Original and (George) Best" - we might consider it.
But you'd have to ask nicely.
And prepare to be disappointed.
Nah, but we'd play the odd friendly at Windsor to keep you sweet. Maybe a women's game or two as well. Similar to the IRFU and Ravenhill!
In your dreams.
Anyhow, what is it with you lot? Surely the whole thing about being a supporter [sic] is that you support your team through thick and thin? Or thin and thinner, as is often the case with OWC. Or are you really so fickle that after a few defeats*, you want to scrap your team and follow some other makey-uppy effort?
I mean, with Bohs going through a hard time just now, is anyone suggesting they merge eg with Shams? Or Dundalk with Drogs?
Anyhow, as far as we're concerned, being a fan is summed up by our favourite song: "We're not Brazil we're Northern Ireland, but it's all the same to me!"
* - Funny how we never hear any of this unity talk after you've strung together a few wins. Embarrassing.
" So, you're saying there's a chance "
I preface this by saying its not intended to be as goading as it first reads, but us all coming through an education system which regards the north itself as the makey uppy thing which should not have existed has an influence on that probably.
And it was, y'know, makey uppy ta fcuk. Gerrymandering masterclass.
I have no more interest in your personal politics than you (presumably) have in mine, for to do so would sorely miss the point.
For as I frequently feel forced to point out*, these national football teams do not represent "countries", however you care to define the latter, rather they (former) represent National Associations, in your case the FAI, in mine the IFA.
And as such, I am perfectly happy to carry on supporting my team, whether we win, draw or lose, with no more interest in following an all-Ireland team than an all-UK one.
Now if your education causes you to mix politics and sport (imo unnecessarily and unhelpfully), and so demand an all-Ireland team, then knock yourself out. For not only is it pretty pointless after 103 years(!), but the irony is that due to your government's (if I may say so) idiosyncratic and irridentist take on nationality etc, you are entitled to exploit FIFA's eligibility rules and construct a de facto all-Ireland team anyhow!
So that if our players aren't good enough for your team, then what is the problem? While if they are good enough, but you cannot persuade them to play for you, then that decidedly is your problem, not ours!
Either way, your advocacy of an all-Ireland team would deny the likes of Conor Bradley a choice as to who he represents, whereas I accept and respect his right to choose. So which of us is the "gerrymanderer" there, eh?
* - See eg post #5: https://foot.ie/threads/295930-UEFA-...ualifiers-2024
Isn't there a thread about eligibility that's been ruined by all this nonsense could rhe 17s thread be left to football?
Actually, it's not about eligibility per se, it's about an all-Ireland team.
Which subject was first brought up and perpetuated by some of your fellow ROI fans, who were looking at NI's U-17's and speculating on their possibly representing ROI etc - see posts #11, 13, 15, 16, 22, 23, 25 and 28.
So that if they didn't keep bringing this up after every run of poor results etc, maybe you could just get on with following your team, while I could follow mine?
This thread though is about our under 17s .Some of the players representing the North may represent us in the future and some of ours may represent other international sides in the future also that's the game. The rest of the philosophical nonsense just clogs up the thread and just rehashes what's been discussed previously in the eligibility thread or some similiar thread. Can't you just revive those thread s and post in it for this stuff and leave this thread to the actual football ?
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