Schooligans

[Paddyfield]

What's with all of the teenagers going to matches these days and don't watch the game?

Last weekend at Terryland, there must have been a hundred teenagers at the game who weren't watching the match. They all seem to be smoking, spitting, and snogging (alliteration unintended!). It must be a new social outlet for them?

The lads are all wearing white tracksuit bottoms, stripey jumpers and baseball caps. The girls are usually wearing badly applied make-up and skimpy tops

I noticed similar trends in Sligo a few months ago and also in Cork. What's that all about?

I've heard that the boys are dubbed schooligans. Someone suggested a nickname for the young girls which I found quite amusing but I won't mention it here in fear that I get banned and/or offend anyone.

[Woody]

Ah come on, tell us what the girls are called.

[blue til i die]

its the exact same in waterford,they come out to the match, dont even watch it and just stand around talking to each other,smoking etc, but if the club is getting money from it,i'm not too bothered!
and go on,ya might as well tell us wat the girls are called?

[feo123]

with us, there between 13-15/16 and just go to the games instead of going to the cinema or whatever on a saturday evening, they never watch the match just walk around and chat, suppose there doing no harm really and money is money

[Kildare Lad]

Someone suggested a nickname for the young girls which I found quite amusing but I won't mention it here in fear that I get banned and/or offend anyone.

Haha go on...

[SligoBrewer]

tell us..

or even pm me paddyfield

[Woody]

There mustn't be enough hang out spots in the shoping centers. Ah well looks like we'll just have to wade through the spittle and like someone said as long as they're paying. Maybe one out of ten of them might get into the football.

[NavanBohs]

I thought "schooligans" are the ones who cause trouble? are these people just skangers who hang around LOI grounds or do they cause trouble before/after games?

[pineapple stu]

the temptation to stick a foot out and solve the problem will get the better of me some day

Got the better of me in Drogheda one time (that epic Cup replay, I think it was). Random irritating kid had been annoying me most of the match and then Drogs scored, so he started jumping up and down in front of me, and I whacked him on the head with the pole of the flag I had. He went off whining to the steward, who asked me if I had indeed thumped him. I said all that happened was that the kid's excessive celebrations saw him leap up into the flag pole which I was casually holding at the time. Steward told the kid to f*** off.

Great thing about being older than people is that you get believed first.

[FarmHoop]

Got the better of me in Drogheda one time (that epic Cup replay, I think it was). Random irritating kid had been annoying me most of the match and then Drogs scored, so he started jumping up and down in front of me, and I whacked him on the head with the pole of the flag I had. He went off whining to the steward, who asked me if I had indeed thumped him. I said all that happened was that the kid's excessive celebrations saw him leap up into the flag pole which I was casually holding at the time. Steward told the kid to f*** off.

Great thing about being older than people is that you get believed first.

I love it bring it in to shops too

[Raheny Red]

Got the better of me in Drogheda one time (that epic Cup replay, I think it was). Random irritating kid had been annoying me most of the match and then Drogs scored, so he started jumping up and down in front of me, and I whacked him on the head with the pole of the flag I had. He went off whining to the steward, who asked me if I had indeed thumped him. I said all that happened was that the kid's excessive celebrations saw him leap up into the flag pole which I was casually holding at the time. Steward told the kid to f*** off.

Great thing about being older than people is that you get believed first.

What age was this kid? Just because some spotty kid was dancing in front of you (I understand how irritating that can be), you decide to hit him? Should have told him to **** off

[Lim till i die]

What age was this kid? Just because some spotty kid was dancing in front of you (I understand how irritating that can be), you decide to hit him? Should have told him to **** off

You'd have a pain in your hand from swatting kids at $hels games

Schooligans are the (LOL) young "troublemakers" at games

What Paddyfield refers to should more correctly be termed knackers with their womenfolk being known as dellas

Luckily, in Limerick, we have a problem with neither

[Dodge]

Nothing wrong with skimpily dressed young tramps at games. In fact if marketed correctly could bring in a whole new older male crowd too

[Lionel Ritchie]

Nothing wrong with skimpily dressed young tramps at games. In fact if marketed correctly could bring in a whole new older male crowd too

One for the tuck shops and merch stalls...
Jerseys: €40
Scarves: €10
Soft Drinks: €1.10
Soups: €1.50
Topless hand-shandy: €20

[Macy]

Nothing wrong with skimpily dressed young tramps at games.

Add it to list of benefits of Summer Football?

[The Dynamo]

What your referring to paddyfield is just plain out knackers with high hormone levels. The stripy jumpers is the scum symbol of ireland thesedays.

A skooligan however, are the bebo warriors of the league. They like to think they are casuals and hooligans arranging fights over bebo. We have them in Cork City where you see them going around in their Sundays finest with the likes of Stone Island, Burberry etc... I think the Dublin clubs are the only others to have these parasites.

[Conor H]

Looks like sombody did not get a snog on Friday night but their mate did !!!!

Hillarious.

GUFC hasn't a schooligan problem as such but in the last 2 or 3 games(since school started back) become a social outlet for 14-15 year olds.no interest in the match but if they're not causing trouble it's no hamr providing they're paying.
Unfortunately that's not the case as all of them are getting in for free cause they're "U-12"

[Lim till i die]

GUFC hasn't a schooligan problem as such but in the last 2 or 3 games(since school started back) become a social outlet for 14-15 year olds.no interest in the match but if they're not causing trouble it's no hamr providing they're paying.
Unfortunately that's not the case as all of them are getting in for free cause they're "U-12"

I'd rather not have young ones in the ground paying or not unless they're interested in the football

Turns away all your adult customers and young people who are interested

Nothing more annoying than a ground full of little cnuts

[Conor H]

Unless your Conor H and the boys in section ? trying to get a snog !

Well there is a fair amount of chicks up there!

[Maroon 7]

What's with all of the teenagers going to matches these days and don't watch the game?

Last weekend at Terryland, there must have been a hundred teenagers at the game who weren't watching the match. They all seem to be smoking, spitting, and snogging (alliteration unintended!). It must be a new social outlet for them?

The lads are all wearing white tracksuit bottoms, stripey jumpers and baseball caps. The girls are usually wearing badly applied make-up and skimpy tops

I noticed similar trends in Sligo a few months ago and also in Cork. What's that all about?

I've heard that the boys are dubbed schooligans. Someone suggested a nickname for the young girls which I found quite amusing but I won't mention it here in fear that I get banned and/or offend anyone.

I was sitting behind a few hormonal teenagers up in the new stand at Terryland last weekend. I thought they were going to start riding each other at one point but they just about managed to restrain themselves to vigerous snogging. This is all very well for a sophisticated man of the world like myself but there was an elderly gentleman beside them who looked distinctly uncomfortble with all the teenage fumblings going on around him.

Many of them seem to have moved into the new stand and given up doing countless laps of the pitch while chasing after each other. Still a gang of pimply youths that hang around down by the chip vans though.