Why support ireland

[NY Hoop]

please expand. do we sign too many foreigners while overlooking the talent coming through the eircom lge?

Comments like that. Some players saying "I could play LOI" when they couldnt.

Watching some games where "coaches" are screaming sh1t they hear from sky sports.

The disproportionate influence they had in the FAI.


KOH

[paul_oshea]

what?

[half_full]

why do these overpaid players deserve us as supporters, the people clapping them after the game should be disgraced, they dont derserve it, robbie keane is a total waste of space, kevin kilbane is a joke (next time, watch him, every time he runs he falls), others to dont pull there weight, is it stan or what, they arent performing and need a good boot up the ass, i dont care if they play bad if there bad, but its a team of premership players, supposedly the best league in the world, we should be hammering teams like slovakia, im sure there is a mental block in irish heads that you cant embarres a team, if you can score 7-8 goals agianst a team you should, never take you foot off the pedal,


if these so called world class players cant perform, just get LOI players at least theyll play with pride, thats whats missing

well said, the current oirish squad is a bunch of overpaid bunch of wasters that have no respect for the jersey

[don ramo]

Bizarrely you berate Kilbane who is the most committed player you will see but want to bring in a LOI players with possibly even less skill for their heart, it really would be a team of Gary Breen's

Robbie Keane is a class player, created a goal on Saturday with a piece of skill which is beyond any of our other players.

kilbane is an example of whats wrong with the team, he is suppose to a top class player, but i dont honestly see it, watch him as i said, and see how much he falls down when hes runing, its a joke, as for robbie keane he can CAN be great when he wants, but when these player play for ireland they dont give 100% and thats there for all to see, sure the EPL is satuarting the airwaves, we all know how good these players are but they dont give there all for the country, and the ones who do are s***e, ireland always luckily have two or three class players who give there all every game, without these player we would be bottom of the group,

i just think some of these players dont deserve the loyalty given to them by the irish fans, who pay hundreds if not thousnads a year following them around the world,

[Dodge]

The same muck over and over again. The demographics in Ireland will not support an Italian, English or Spanish type league. The lack of a decent national league is not related to our recent lack of success as an International team nor was it related to the periods of success we have enjoyed in the recent past.

Scotland are hardly world beaters but have a good league by our standards. The same can be said about the Belgians, Russians, Ukranians, Greeks (bar that freak Euro win last time about), Swiss etc. None have been particularly successful in recent years yet all have better leagues than we could possibly hope to replicate.

I'd consider Belgium, Sweden, Greek, Russia all infinitely more succesful thatn Ireland. And all have far greater leagues than we do.

There's a reason why we're succesful at underage level and then suddenly become ****. its because the players have no where to go.

But believe what you like.

[Dodge]

Out of interest, do those with concerns for 'Chelsea' being embazened across a Tricolour have the same issues with Bart Simpson, "Hello Mammy", or any of the other stuff you see? or is it purely a Chelsea thing?

While Chelsea's fans are particularly anti_Irish (traditionally), I'd be against anything ona tricolour (and that includes LOI clubs)

[don ramo]

defaceing a tricolour is very disrespectfull, what kind of irishman are ya if you throw bart simpson on a tricolour, its an insult to the irish, same with any nation defacing a notional flag isnt on, in some countries theres punishment for doing it,


highly disrespectfull

[rambler14]

Kilbanes only able to play at left-back. Hes reached that stage of his career.
Hes not quick enough to play left mid and not good enough to play centre mid.

[Docboy]

We've through this over and over and over. You can follow Ireland without being an LOI fan, you can do both or only be an LOI fan. All equally plausible and noble choices, but each to his own.

Not to mention the thousands who actually play football every weekend. Oh no, junior football players are just barstoolers who play football as has been said here before.

Personally I think some LOI fans are muppets, many aren't. Some Ireland fans are muppets, many aren't. Some fans of British teams are muppets, many aren't.

Agree with you there mate, finally a bit of perspective.

[Paddy Garcia]

defaceing a tricolour is very disrespectfull, what kind of irishman are ya if you throw bart simpson on a tricolour, its an insult to the irish, same with any nation defacing a notional flag isnt on, in some countries theres punishment for doing it,


highly disrespectfull

Agree, but I'd say Homer would be acceptable though.

[Patrick Dunne]

The irony of the Chelsea tricolour is that the owner can't dsiplay it in Stamford Bridge. It would be torn down within 30 seconds.