Secret All-Ireland league talks at 'advanced' stage

[Réiteoir]

Monaghan fans should not be try and hold the rest of the league back, we are true warriors in the very ancient form. Monaghan will and you will always play the role of the submissive weaker pray and bow to us. Your cessation of existence grows closer as you type my friend.

Is that you Rico?

[Tony_Montana]

Your submissive fantasies should stay off this thread friend ! we are more powerful than you could ever dream and we will walk and stomp all over you as we get our way, a true warrior accepts defeat graciously and bows to the superior specimen.

[monutdfc]

someone is drip feeding this twaddle to the papers ( i wonder who ) in the hope that this will grow legs but when it comes down to it there is no support from the eircom league which by the way is 22 clubs or the irish league ,the FAI or IFA . a number of the so called big clubs are attempting to get there hands on more money at the expense of everybody else, f*"k im

I can see your point but I am not sure I agree passerby. Another way of looking at it is a rising tide that lifts all boats. However, if it excludes clubs or doesn;t have a clear pyramid system in place then I agree.
Also, I agree that it's not the right way to go about it, without the clubs/FAI/IFA

[passerrby]

im willing to bet you collect marvel comics .... super hero

[GavinZac]

Whether some people like to admit it or not, Linfield are regarded as the biggest, most successful, most recognisable club on this island.

your semi-relevant club is only recognisable for its (seemingly, former) association with hardcore unionism and a great propensity for beating a few pub teams in a provincial league.

I think Linfield being part of it would create more razz-matazz than any other single club.

I think the razz-matazz is associated with proper marketing and tv coverage rather than some club Joe Gamble made famous once.

[dcfcsteve]

I think Linfield being part of it would create more razz-matazz than any other single club.

Whether some people like to admit it or not, Linfield are regarded as the biggest, most successful, most recognisable club on this island.

I'm happy with this announcement, But if an AIL still goes forward, good luck, I'll still be watching Linfield dominate Irish League football as per usual.

PS: If Linfield don't agree, neither with Glentoran and visa versa.

That's not like a Linfield fan to think the footballing world revolves around them....!

How has the EL managed to survive all these years without the help of the mighty Linfield, eh......?

Your club is famous for one thing - being the Rangers of Ireland. For that you'd be as much of a hindrance as a help to any all-island league.

How do you know the Glens wouldn't jump at an AIL with or without Linfield ? Perhaps they can see that the Irish League is a hide into nothing.

Interesting that the league without the most glamorous, exciting, biggest penis'ed club in Ireland is the one with the bigger crowds, better media coverage, better European ranking etc etc etc. How the hell did that all happen without the mighty Linfield?!?! Surely some mistake....

[Steve Bruce]

your semi-relevant club is only recognisable for its (seemingly, former) association with hardcore unionism and a great propensity for beating a few pub teams in a provincial league.
I think the razz-matazz is associated with proper marketing and tv coverage rather than some club Joe Gamble made famous once.

I think that is highly offensive and very bigoted view.

If rules would allow it you would be called a few choice names. No doubt you'll be let off for such scandelous remarks.

We have had problems, but they are far better now and we are not known for our bad side.

Fool

[Steve Bruce]

That's not like a Linfield fan to think the footballing world revolves around them....!

How has the EL managed to survive all these years without the help of the mighty Linfield, eh......?

Your club is famous for one thing - being the Rangers of Ireland. For that you'd be as much of a hindrance as a help to any all-island league.

How do you know the Glens wouldn't jump at an AIL with or without Linfield ? Perhaps they can see that the Irish League is a hide into nothing.

Interesting that the league without the most glamorous, exciting, biggest penis'ed club in Ireland is the one with the bigger crowds, better media coverage, better European ranking etc etc etc. How the hell did that all happen without the mighty Linfield?!?! Surely some mistake....

Steve you managed once again to show how much of a **** you are. And how much you dont know.

[Réiteoir]

I think that is highly offensive and very bigoted view.

If rules would allow it you would be called a few choice names. No doubt you'll be let off for such scandelous remarks.

We have had problems, but they are far better now and we are not known for our bad side.

Fool

What do you find so offensive? The remarks about a pub league or the reference to Joe Gamble?

[dcfcsteve]

I think that is highly offensive and very bigoted view.

If rules would allow it you would be called a few choice names. No doubt you'll be let off for such scandelous remarks.

We have had problems, but they are far better now and we are not known for our bad side.

Fool

He said Unionism - not Loyalism. A fellow northerner should know the difference.

It is a fact that Linfield is asscoiated with uncompromising Unionism. That is a core part of your identity.That's why your fans sing GSTQ and other ditties with a political/cultural, rather than footballing theme.

Are you now denying that Linfield has an avowedly Unionist ethos ? If not - what are you crying about.....?

[GavinZac]

I think that is highly offensive and very bigoted view.

If rules would allow it you would be called a few choice names. No doubt you'll be let off for such scandelous remarks.

We have had problems, but they are far better now and we are not known for our bad side.

Fool

though I have no idea how saying your club is percieved as being bigotted would be a biggoted comment to make i said, formerly! i enjoyed the welcome we got in belfast this year, and told it to my astonished workmates. most of them (and from other football fans id have spoken to in the past) would expect bile and bigotry. I'm not claiming that that is still there, but it takes a long time for those sort of stains to clear, especially when linfield dont get that much attention down here.

anyway, can atheists be bigots? interesting topic for another thread.

[dcfcsteve]

Steve you managed once again to show how much of a **** you are. And how much you dont know.

Enlighten us then, oh wise one......

[dancinpants]

Every time......

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[passerrby]

its all your fault for having an all ireland forum then they want an all ireland league what next peace

[Tony_Montana]

Slightly off topic so sorry if it is to far off the mark, but lots of petty arguing on here. Anyway this is one way people can work things out and people can sort out their differences once and for all.

Ok there's this lad who does Judo and is a black belt. hes a Italian lad who works in a chip shop and he's absolutely huge. every time i go into the chip shop he gives me dead eyes. i'm big aswell and so he probably sees me as competition. im 16 stone and 5 foot 11 and he's about 19 stone and 6 foot 2. He's bigger than me but ALL my weight come s from muscle. there is no fat whatsoever on my body but there is on his. I admit he does have muscle aswell but muscle and fat. My abs are clearly deffined wheras his are covered by a layer of fat. His arms and shoulders are very defined though.

Anyway, the dead eyes continue for a while and im just shrug it off thinking he is insecure but one night I see him in the pub drunk and he's staring at me as usual and I stare back and he comes out with "what the **** you looking at". I say "You mate - your looking at me all the time giving me dead eyes whatsd ur ******* problem, mate"?

So we get right up in each others face and I say "look if u want some lets do it outside". We walk outside and he continues to mouth off at me. He claims I was with his ex girlfriend or something. Anyway, we square off and we are both in a sort of boxing stance. I knew he did Judo and body building and his grappling might be pretty good like mine. I throw a few leg kicks and fast jabs but he keeps coming forward.

He swings at me and tries to grab my shirt to go for a collar throw. But I dont let him. I'm used to grappling no gi but he is used to gi. I get double under jhooks around his waist and inside trip him and land on top in his guard. I throw a few hammerfists and aim to pass his guard. His legs are very strong and the guard is secure. He tries to armbar be so I hug him close. He makes a pathetic attempt at a kimura and then switches to a triangle. He fails miserably at the triangle and I pass his guard as he opens his legs and get to side control. I pretend to go for an armbar and switch round to the other side. as he defends the arm by turninga away I take his back and have him in full rear mount. I rain some elbows down on the back of his head and then go for the choke. I secure the Rear Naked Choke and he passes out.

I stand up victorious and look at hjis mates and say "RIGHT WHO ELSE WANTS SOME?" They shuffle about nervously. And so I wait about a bit til the lad wkes up and I ask him why the **** he kicked off? He seems reasonable now and I offer to shake his hand and he accepts and says lets leave it at that. I buy him a pint and tell him I never knew I was with his ex and was sorry. We are mates now and there's no hard feelings


We sorted things out man to man note !!!!!!! ... like warriors and now there are no hard feelings and we train together. Still remember the fight though. I'll never forget it.

[GavinZac]

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what?

[Tony_Montana]

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what?

Illustrates how men can work things out.

[Not Brazil]

both asked me in tones of disgust if I'd like to see Linfield in Dalymount...... I said yes of course, and that i felt I had more in common with Linfield/ Glens fans than Celtic fans from Dublin; this provoked derision. Thing is, both are SF voters

I hope you told them that us big, bad, Linfield fans thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality afforded to us by Bohemian FC in their social club at Dalymont, prior to the Setanta game versus Shelbourne a couple of seasons back.

I think the Bohs fans who came to Windsor last year, in their colours, to watch a Linfield IL game thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality they received also...I heard they were speechless by the time they left.

[Not Brazil]

An AIL without Linfield wouldn't work in the long term - but could in the short term, with the aim of coaxing Linfield into it sooner rather than later.

If the major clubs in the north apart from the Blues left the IL to play in an AIL, Linfield would be left with the crumbs of a league. Especially if the new league was launched with great razz-matazz, TV coverage, decent crowds etc, I wouldn't see it taking long before Linfield got involved.

It would be a difficult start without the Blues, but there shouldn't be any single-club veto on a proposal like this (feckin' Unionists with their vetoes..... )

steve,

The response of Linfield FC today is exactly the same as that given by the late David Crawford (RIP) on behalf of the club when this notion was mooted a couple of years back - I think it was one of the Derry papers that actually was first to run with the news then of "secret talks between IFA and FAI clubs"?

Something being missed is that Glentoran FC are known to be very keen on the idea of an AI League - they were certainly very bullish about it a couple of years ago.

If Glentoran FC bolted to join an AI League, you could bet your bottom dollar that Linfield FC would not be far behind them.