QuoteThey lost a playoff to Dundalk.Originally Posted by rovers77
they beat mervue in a behind closed doors playoff
Was he crazy!! Yeah , in a very special way , an Irishman.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
They lost a playoff to Dundalk.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Yes. Not only that but if you live in Fingal you will also be required to mosey along to Morton Sdadium at least twice a year. I wonder if the new bin charges of €110 pa include a season ticket?
Does anyone know how much Fingal Co Co are putting into the team? I read they are developing pitches etc in Donabate to the tune of €10m but I wonder how much if any is going towards the EL team?
"oh my, that was some beer we had last night, I think I feel like getting sick" Effin Eddie
No they didn't, the prize for such a defeat is Premier Division football.
Thanks for the welcome. I'm looking forward to my first season to support the Eircom League properly. It was after the influence of a Bohs fan that i got into the league. Originally i had agreed to become a Bohs fan until i heard of Sporting Fingal and decided to go with them as i live in Swords and wanted the task of supporting a team trying to make their way up through the leagues. Getting out of the A Championship was easy enough anyway hey?!
My choosing of this team means one of two things. The team can be a success and attract fans, or another Dublin club in the league is cutting into potential growth in previously existing teams' followers.
Here's looking forward to the new season!
After the great welcome, I welcome you to check out this small wikipedia article all about Fingal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingal
We spoke our own language until the mid 1800's when it became extinct. It was a mixture of old English and Old Norse with Gaelic influences. Fingal was originally named by the Vikings and was populated by a mix of Norsemen and Irish at the time.
There is an identity out there to be tapped and awakened. It isn't 250,000 as many of that number are migrants and new arrivals, but it's still pretty big.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporting_fingal
You gotta love our history section!
You shall be called "Sheridan 2".
I was more interested in the squad - ye'll be playing an adventurous 3-4-2 I see.
Have ye played any friendlies yet?
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
None. That i know of...
It's hard to hear anything about them. Hopefully this big launch their suppposed to be having Monday night in Corduff will reveal the final squad and a website!
They have begun training though.
UCD in the Amateur League Complex on Sunday 17th at 2pm.
Not only that, but I'm sure there's a quote in a book at home that gives ye a sound claim to be the oldest footballing area in the country, how 'bout that for a bit of history for our newest club?
It's from way back around the Tudor times IIRC and seems to be identifying Fingall (sic) as the only part of the country where football is played. I'll root it out but won't be able to put it up until tomorrow.
Last edited by stann; 07/02/2008 at 12:20 PM.
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You still do....Polish.
who is their manger and do will they have a squad ready for the start of the season?
Liam Buckley is the manager. I think they've got most of their squad already (mainly from Bray Wanderers). They play a friendly against the aforementioned Bray towards the end of the month so they better have the team ready!
thank you
Now, something to add to the wikipedia entry for whoever is doing that, and a chance to lord it over Athlone or Bohs or whoever is claiming senority in Ireland these days, a line that I got from Eoghan Corry's excellent book of Irish soccer quotes.
It's from 1698, not Tudor times (short-term memory is shot to sh!t), but what harm, still the earliest domestic football reference I'm aware of, when a travelling gentleman called John Dunton writes of the Irish:
'They do not play often at football, only in a small territory called Fingal near Dublin where the people use it much, and trip and shoulder very handsomely'.
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I think it survived in Glassmore.
It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi swims with Team Ireland...
There can be only one Sheridan!
And there was that other fella ... with the drum
Larry Be Wyse
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Stann, inspired bit of research there! Can you givez a full reference for that book?
Fingal = The forgotten bit of "County Dublin"
RA: "Tell you what, I know the lad's got a nudge early doors, but big Heskey's gone down like Buddy Holly there."
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