Official Rep of Ireland Supporters Club

**Green Tribe** · 18/10/2007, 12:31 AM

Originally Posted by citizenerased

lads we are at our lowest ebb...

yes indeed, sad night, our group drunk to forget tonight with local and tourists in galway, trying to cheer us up

**citizenerased** · 18/10/2007, 12:34 AM

after seeing that..and thinking of stan being in charge for d world cup qualifiers..joke..the fai are taking the ****s out us fans

**Green Tribe** · 18/10/2007, 12:52 AM

Originally Posted by AidoM

Somebody looking for me

I would need my trusty Babysis and GT before even considering it

he's looking encouragement here!

**razorb** · 18/10/2007, 9:11 AM

Originally Posted by Green Tribe

Don't be encouraging him, he'll have one set up by the end of the week!

God your right. He was even massaging his big flag at half time last night. Lets organise for a LArge bar in town to be the sponsor to it and we can all gather there before games to have a good sing song and develope new chants. (At current rate it might be better to stay in th pub than go to the game). Will join your fan club Aido M and we will all wear hats like yours!

**Green Tribe** · 18/10/2007, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by razorb

God your right. He was even massaging his big flag at half time last night. Lets organise for a LArge bar in town to be the sponsor to it and we can all gather there before games to have a good sing song and develope new chants. (At current rate it might be better to stay in th pub than go to the game). Will join your fan club Aido M and we will all wear hats like yours!

LOL, what hat was he wearing last night, that pointy coloured one?

**Sligo Hornet** · 18/10/2007, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by Green Tribe

LOL, what hat was he wearing last night, that pointy coloured one?

Here he is...hat n' all........well it sure looks like Aido....doesn't it?

**Green Tribe** · 18/10/2007, 1:40 PM

Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet

Here he is...hat n' all........well it sure looks like Aido....doesn't it?

oh he's going to crucify you Sligo H!

**razorb** · 18/10/2007, 2:25 PM

Originally Posted by Green Tribe

LOL, what hat was he wearing last night, that pointy coloured one?

I can't slag him after the leprechaun one i wore in Bratislava and Prague, But is the tri colour santa hat. Ivs seen a lot worse on others, like the jester hats.Think they are ridiculus

**citizenerased** · 18/10/2007, 2:37 PM

if anyone can, aido can...

**Superhoops** · 18/10/2007, 9:36 PM

Originally Posted by scousedub

Although not officially recognised by the FAI the Republic of Ireland Soccer Supporters Club (ROISSC) is as close as you will get. They are an excellent organisation on the go since the early eighties with monthly meetings. Not to be confused with sh** head Alan Hunters group. www.roissc.com

Are you sure they are not officially recognised by the FAI?

The are two Supporters Clubs in the UK. The West Midlands club in Birmingham www.mrissc.com and the London club www.rissc.org. According to their websites both are officially recognised by the FAI and the London Club recently received a 'Services to Football' award from the FAI.

**shamrock17** · 18/10/2007, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by billybunter

I dont know if one exists at the moment, but this could be the forum to get fans on the same page as far as atmosphere at game / organizing the odd "official"protest (when necessary of course!) and generally being a resource for sharing info amongst irish fans. I live in the States, but grew up onthe south Terrace in the glory (and not so glory!) days of mid 80's to early 90's. There used to be some crack and some characters about.We seemed to have a repertoire of songs (one road / boys in green / field of athenrye/ ireland / Molly malone / ooh ahh paul mcgrath etc) - enough to get us through a good 90 mins plus of entertainment. the south terrace used to tease all the corporate sections with chants of access / visa etc, but all in all good banter. And righ nasty shower of characters there to, so if an opposition player took the pi$$ they heard about it. Having been at home for the croker and wales games, it was like being in 5 different crowds at once!

I digress, but everyone seems upset at stan, upset at the wave, upset at the boo-ing this one or that. I personally would pay a 100 euro sub every year to join an official supporters club, or whatever dues were deemed appropriate. The lads at YBIG.IE and Foot.ie all do a tremendous service for fans like us overseas with the sites, and pulications, but a United voice and front is whats needed to move forward. I have never met any characters off here in person (or ybig.ie) but I would have no problem proposing a committee that could being all Irish supporters toghether based on the passion that some of these lads have for the game, and how much supporting ireland means to them. If there already exists such a group, could someone please post a link to it!!!

There are 2 in the UK linked to the FAI www.mrissc.com which is the midland supporters and rissc in london.
We have 100 members who go to the home matches but we get split up
all over the ground so its hard to get the singing/ crowd going because
they seem to only allow us to have at most 10 together.

**geysir** · 19/10/2007, 11:45 AM

It's okay lads and lassies, there is no need to worry about the future re Irish Supporters Club.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishex...708-qqqx=1.asp
He never went away.

**Kingdom** · 19/10/2007, 12:49 PM

two things.

It might be no harm to investigate the setting up of a foot.ie supporters club.
Secondly would it be possible to see if the moniker Hunter is using is copyrighted, as its a joke at this stage that he is seen by the media as being a voice of football fans here.

**onceahoop** · 19/10/2007, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by geysir

It's okay lads and lassies, there is no need to worry about the future re Irish Supporters Club.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/irishex...708-qqqx=1.asp
He never went away.

He should be chucked out with Delaney. Thought he'd disappeared, hadn't heard from him in a while. Joe Duffy must have lost his phone number.

**scousedub** · 20/10/2007, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by Superhoops

Are you sure they are not officially recognised by the FAI?

The are two Supporters Clubs in the UK. The West Midlands club in Birmingham www.mrissc.com and the London club www.rissc.org. According to their websites both are officially recognised by the FAI and the London Club recently received a 'Services to Football' award from the FAI.

They are not officially recognised as such, meaning the FAI would not say they are part of the FAI(probably not a bad thing,though)and provide no funding,etc. Although they do recognise them in certain ways eg: providing block booking tickets for members.

**Kingdom** · 18/04/2008, 5:09 PM

Just thought I'd give this a bump as I was thinking about the new stadium.
Its fairly agreed at this stage that the atmosphere has been moderate at best to brutal at worst in CP the past year, understandable as its only a temp arrangement.
However when we get back to Lansdowne its important that the atmosphere is right.
The FAI seemed open to proposals for a singing section/fans section in CP, but for whatever reason it never came about.
However with 2 years to go before we have a game in Lansdowne there is ample time to have such a group set up and identified so that it can be properly introduced.
A simple letter to the FAI indicating your interest in such an idea would probably suffice, but I suppose what I'm trying to establish here is wpuld there be sufficient interest on foot.ie for such a proposal.

**kingdomkerry** · 18/04/2008, 6:24 PM

I think the FAI should allocate the big terrace behind the goal in the new LR to supporters clubs and LOI distributed tickets. That should get an atmosphere going.

I would deffo pay an annual sub of up to €100 to be part of a good supporters club. The ones in the UK are no good to most of us now are they.

A supporters club for away games would be very attractive also!

**Greenforever** · 22/04/2008, 1:59 PM

Originally Posted by kingdomkerry

I think the FAI should allocate the big terrace behind the goal in the new LR to supporters clubs and LOI distributed tickets. That should get an atmosphere going.

I would deffo pay an annual sub of up to �100 to be part of a good supporters club. The ones in the UK are no good to most of us now are they.

A supporters club for away games would be very attractive also!

Many LOI tickets end up in the hands of casual supporters, for a "Kop" it would need to be made of of primairly supporters who travel to away games, and fans who request "Kop" end tickets

**Ash** · 22/04/2008, 2:03 PM

Plus, even with the old eL Section on the North Bucket, I seem to remember a
Bray supporter repeatedly telling everyone to sit down cos he wanted to watch
the match. Now he may have got his tikets through Brays supporters allocation,
which he has every right to, but he in no way wanted to be part of an eL
singing section.

Just because eL fans get the tickets, dont automaticially expect them all to
turn it into a festival athmosphere

**Mayo_Bhoy** · 24/04/2008, 3:16 AM

Originally Posted by Ash

Plus, even with the old eL Section on the North Bucket, I seem to remember a
Bray supporter repeatedly telling everyone to sit down cos he wanted to watch
the match. Now he may have got his tikets through Brays supporters allocation,
which he has every right to, but he in no way wanted to be part of an eL
singing section.

Just because eL fans get the tickets, dont automaticially expect them all to
turn it into a festival athmosphere

Well at least they go matches every week as a matter of course not like a lot of posters who go across the sea a few times a season (and yes i include myself in thtat group). Most of the lads i go to Ireland matches are mad to join in chants/songs etc if they are started they will. EL fans are the way to start it imo