Because if you were a true supporter you would pick your club over your country if the two were playing on the same night. If, in this unlikely scenario you picked your country over your club and still felt you were a true supporter of your club then you would be an idiot. Simple really.Originally Posted by Sumac
Would be country for me - Although I don't know why that makes me an idiot or not a true supporter
The thing is that the two should never play on the same night and believe it or not you can be a true supporter of more than 1 team (Not ones that compete in the same competitions obviously!)
By your reckoning no EL supporters should get tickets for International games - They should be kept for the true supporters of the Irish team - I presume you do not attend International games. You wouldn't want to sit beside us idiots!
Never said you were an idiot, read my post again. No problem with eircom League fans supporting Ireland, actually think they should be given priority for tickets. Question was who would you choose if, in the unlikely scenario, both played on the same night.
Agree with you that it should never happen that both play on the same night. However if you support any two teams and they play the same night, I think its fair to presume that you support the one you choose to go to more than the other one.
The only thing idiotic here is you calling anybody an idiot who would rather watch their country than club on some occasions.
If Ireland were playing in a World Cup final, and Limerick playing on the same night in a meaningless end of season game, I would stay home and watch the World Cup final.
I have no problems saying that, and it makes me no less a supporter than anybody else.
What by your definition makes a "true supporter"?
Last edited by osarusan; 22/03/2007 at 4:24 PM.
Does it make you any less of a supporter than the lads who would go to the Limerick game?
I would never personally go to watch the international team ahead of a Pats match and almost 90% of people here agree with me. I'm actually surprised its not higher.
I mean true as in them over any other football team. There's always going to be circumstances were people can't make games for whatever reason, I just can't grasp the idea of going to watch another team play when you could as easily or more easily watch the club you support week in week out.
Last edited by charliesboots; 22/03/2007 at 3:11 PM.
If Galway Utd are playing a big cup game (or league game) and Ireland are playing a friendly I will go to the Utd game
If Ieland are playing a qualifier and Utd a friendly I will go to the Irish game
I can't see a scenario ever arising where crucial EL games clash with crucial Irish games. Not even the FAI would do such a thing......
No. Maybe it makes him (and you) less of an Ireland fan.
Sorry lads for me it is easy Ireland are #1 everything else is just second best .
Can't see your logic with that.
Maybe so, I presume you mean Ireland as in the international team rather than Irish football!!
Friendlies are rubbish, although I'd still probably go to one over an Ireland game.
Let's not get carried away
Charliesboots.........lets say, for sake of arguement, that I've been to 500 LOI games and you've been to only 400...........does that make me a bigger fan of LOI football than you?
If we have been to 400 each, but this weekend I can't go as my brother is getting married, does that make you a bigger fan than me?
Would you consider me justified if I considered you less of a fan if you missed a game to be present at your child's birth?
Nope, I've already said below
Just don't think missing your clubs match to watch another team play is justifiable. (unless your scouting for your club of course)
Typical fairweather fan!
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All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
As one Hoop said years ago: I'd rather see Rovers win a corner than Ireland win the World Cup. There's no comparison between the two and I'm amazed that any club supporter (even people who support British clubs such as Man U etc) would put Ireland first under any circumstances.
International football's a bit of a laugh and all that, but it's really just a marketing tool for multinationals and something for grannies, little kids and the kind of people who wear leprechaun suits and wave at TV cameras.
Can a moderator go ahead and do this for comparison's sake? Maybe best left for people who haven't voted already here.
Would be enlightening for people to nominate who their club is as well...
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Under any circumstances? By the following statements, I am assuming your answer is yes.Just don't think missing your clubs match to watch another team play is justifiable. (unless your scouting for your club of course
And your definition...........
A fair point.....but I don't see the Irish football team and Limerick in the same way.
Ireland are a national team, when they play, it is an occasion for all the country to support them. It appeals to national pride, and in that regard, winning an international trophy would electrify the nation in a way no other could.
Supporting Limerick is a far more personal feeling, without any sense of national or often even local pride. There is no doubt that Limerick winning the league would mean more to me than Ireland winning a tournament, but when it came to a meaningless end-of-season game against the biggest night in the history of Irish sport, I would choose to support Ireland.
I don't see them as being in competition with each other.......and I disagree with the word "idiot" to describe people such as myself.
I do think it reflects more on how highly I support the national team than anything else.
Shame on meTypical fairweather fan!
Last edited by osarusan; 22/03/2007 at 3:56 PM.
But as you don't really support the national team, then you don't understand the feelings of those who do.
What a great thread, we all get to learn the criteria for being a "true" fan. Is there any online printable version I can get so I can tick all the boxes and set my own head straight. I'd hate to think I was neglecting something important in my "true" fan ambitions.
delusional maybe?
BL, I waved at a TV camera the other week in Dalymount.
I'd bet my house that you would too if they pointed one at you.
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