Love your local team

**BohDiddley** · 21/02/2007, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by Lim till i die

The league champions were relegated and the play-off winners stayed down though

It's all very Eastern European

I think the point is that, even if the administration of eL is a shambles, and most agree that it is, or certainly has been until recently, that isn't a good enough reason to stop supporting football. And certainly not good enough to justify exclusively following non-Irish football.

**Jamjar** · 21/02/2007, 12:25 PM

Jaysus, Am I the only one with taste. If that was a video to encourage me to support my local undertaker I could understand. It was horrible, except for the bit where it said about buying a brick....that reminds me, who are we playing on 23rd March ?

**Lim till i die** · 21/02/2007, 1:10 PM

Originally Posted by BohDiddley

I think the point is that, even if the administration of eL is a shambles, and most agree that it is, or certainly has been until recently, that isn't a good enough reason to stop supporting football. And certainly not good enough to justify exclusively following non-Irish football.

Indeed it is not and I've supported the league for 14 of my 21 years and will continue to do so

However the other side of that coin is just because the footballs local it's no excuse to bury our heads in the sand when it comes to how the league is percieved (with some justification) by the "barstoolers", a breed of people who let's not forget will eventually have to be won over if you hope for the league to grow

**Magicme** · 21/02/2007, 1:23 PM

Originally Posted by Lim till i die

Indeed it is not and I've supported the league for 14 of my 21 years and will continue to do so

However the other side of that coin is just because the footballs local it's no excuse to bury our heads in the sand when it comes to how the league is percieved (with some justification) by the "barstoolers", a breed of people who let's not forget will eventually have to be won over if you hope for the league to grow

Instead of trying to convert the barstoolers I think we should decree that every eL fan reproduce like mad and in 25 years we will have more fans than the GAA.

**Lim till i die** · 21/02/2007, 1:25 PM

Originally Posted by Magicme

Instead of trying to convert the barstoolers I think we should decree that every eL fan reproduce like mad and in 25 years we will have more fans than the GAA.

The GAA has maybe 750,000 fans come chmpionship time........

Nah, I definitely couldn't manage

**The Man Himself** · 21/02/2007, 1:34 PM

i think the fai should grab hold of that video and show it at half time during the champions league matchs on both rte and tv3..
very powerful indeed.

**Lim till i die** · 21/02/2007, 1:36 PM

Originally Posted by The Man Himself

i think the fai should grab hold of that video and show it at half time during the champions league matchs on both rte and tv3..
very powerful indeed.

Now if only the FAI were in charge of rte, tv3 and the Champions League. Then they could show all that Irish League football