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Originally Posted by Dodge

Is the Sligwegian GAA team any use? What kind of crowds do they get?

They got to the All-Ireland quarters a few years ago but I think their stuck in the Tommy Murphy Cup (the one for the really crap teams like New York) at the moment.

Sligwegian........how is it pronounced?

Slig as in "big" or slig as in "slyg"?

Originally Posted by osarusan

Sligwegian........how is it pronounced?

Slig as in "big" or slig as in "slyg"?

I believe its pronounced slig like fig.......e.g. how do you get the slig into the slig roll !!!!!

They got to the All-Ireland quarters a few years ago but I think their stuck in the Tommy Murphy Cup (the one for the really crap teams like New York) at the moment.
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i am certainly not a gaa fan but check your facts before you post.
next sunday - connacht semi final - sligo v roscommon in hyde park

Originally Posted by Red4Eva

at tuesday's meeting the board said lowest crowd was 900 at the UCD game. derry & bohs were our biggest crowds at bout 1400

This would have been the actual paying customers through the gate. Doesnt include season tickets and super reds etc. Add on about 400 and it would be close enough to actual attendance.

Originally Posted by Dodge

Is the Sligwegian GAA team any use? What kind of crowds do they get?

Would their important games not be played in Dublin?

Originally Posted by Schumi

Would their important games not be played in Dublin?

Only if they get to the All-Ireland quarters or end up playing Dublin in the qualifiers.

Originally Posted by sligored

i am certainly not a gaa fan but check your facts before you post.
next sunday - connacht semi final - sligo v roscommon in hyde park

Oooh! The Connacht semi-final! Heady stuff.

You were one point away from being in the Tommy Murphy, as far as I can see (one point from relegation to Division Four, which means entry to the TMCup), so I wouldn't be too dismissive of dmanetc's post. It was wrong, but not by much.

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Oooh! The Connacht semi-final! Heady stuff.

You were one point away from being in the Tommy Murphy, as far as I can see (one point from relegation to Division Four, which means entry to the TMCup), so I wouldn't be too dismissive of dmanetc's post. It was wrong, but not by much.

Closet Sligo GAA fan, alot of the natives wont know that.

Wikipedia.

Originally Posted by Dodge

Is the Sligwegian GAA team any use?

It's nearly always Mayo and Galway in Connacht. They've won a good 80% of all titles between them. Sligo have just taken the two, they're pretty irrelevant GAA wise.

like ucd soccer wise - fairly irrelevant as well

Honours

* First Division League Championships: 1

1994/95

* FAI Cup winners: 1

1984

* FAI Super Cup winners: 1

2000/1

Would it worth promoting the Sligwegian football team at the Sligwegian GAA games? Not at the games but outside or around Sligwegian bars etc?

Doubt it , the GAA fans around here like their football good and British

Originally Posted by gustavo

Doubt it , the GAA fans around here like their football good and British

Post of the month!

500 or 750 is still a poor crowd by Sligwegonian standards. Obviously Big Phat Pat is stating the obvious, but maybe it's because he has absolutley nothing else of any betterment to say this week.

Originally Posted by CharlesThompson

500 or 750 is still a poor crowd by Sligwegonian standards. Obviously Big Phat Pat is stating the obvious, but maybe it's because he has absolutley nothing else of any betterment to say this week.

Spot on. It's a slow week for everyone (as seen by the comments on this site) except the players who had a great time lying around on the beach all weekend.

Can't fault Dolan's comments though - Rovers need to do a better job of promoting their local identity. They should take a leaf out of the Munster rugby book and get supporters to hold up inspirational banners at each game:

MAYO BY BIRTH, SLIGWEGIAN BY THE GRACE OF GOD

that sort of thing...

Originally Posted by gustavo

Doubt it , the GAA fans around here like their football good and British

and the way they talk, as if rovers were a pub team you know..
grrrr... sligo people are so ignorant!

Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge

Only if they get to the All-Ireland quarters or end up playing Dublin in the qualifiers.

I don't know much about gaa but are the provincial finals not played in Croke Park?

Originally Posted by Schumi

I don't know much about gaa but are the provincial finals not played in Croke Park?

The Provincial finals are played in their respective provinces, with the odd exception of Ulster, where GAA greed, sometimes, drags supporters down to Croker.

Judging by the comments on here, it's clear that Sligwegians need to be educated on the merits of supporting their local side. Pat Dolan was right!