QuoteMaxi made me.
Brought to games by a parent/older relative
Went to a glamour friendly and ended up supporting the "wrong" team
Wanted to support your local team
Local team came to your school/junior football club/invited your club to a half-time game
Went with friends to a game
Other
My dad was born and raised in Inchicore... Has been going to Pats games for 40 odd years... Obviously dragged the kids along at times so there's 3 out of the 5 of us that are now die hard Saints fans...
Maxi made me.
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My dad is from Inchicore brought me to my first game in 1990, Pats Vs Rovers in the RDS(Rovers first game there) i was only 2 at the time so dont remember it, The first game i remember was 2 years later against Cork in Harolds Cross (still love the Cork jersey from that year always sticks out in my mind) Spent most of the match running around the greyhound track, 20 years later and im still going to games with my Dad, for me its what makes it so special, we have been all over the country and Europe together supporting Pats and i wouldnt change one moment of it (maybe the cup finals), Look forward to the day i have a son and can bring him along with his Dad and Grandad to his first Saints game
Here on a technicality.
Picked up the habit in college as I lived just up behind Turner's Cross. Would see a big crowd about from time to time, and a mate there was sort of into it, so decided to see what the fuss was about one day and got hooked. Used to stay up the odd weekend to go to games against Waterford, or for other big games (Derry especially, their away crowds were massive at the time, late 80s).
When I came home and started working there were another three or four lads of like mind, and we started going in to Kilcohan, me the only one driving at the time. Over the next few years, and the move to the RSC, they dropped away in dribs and drabs, until then there was one!
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I was brought to games by my parents, my first game was when I was only weeks old. Ive ben going for the 19 years since. I went on a run of not missing a game for exactly 2 years which I am very proud of
where is maxi this weather? Hes fairly quiet this weather! I used to do summer football training in Abbeycartron with Zac Hackett,Heysham El Khershi, Leo Devlin and Denis O'Brien for two years in a row.. i thoroughly enjoyed them when I was about to start secondary school and got roped into going to Abbeycartron to see the town play with the same bunch of lads that are now in Section o with me! this would have being around 1989/90.. I have being going regularly for the past ten years home and away and went to a few games each season at home up to that point but still had the interest..Originally Posted by Dunny
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Bad weather down here.
i agree with you there poster..Where is Maxi though?
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
My Dad was a Pat's fan back in the day but he had long since stopped going by the time I came along. Anyway, I was a big Spurs fan when I was young(er) but by the time I was about 13 (unfortunately also about the time they started to get things together!) I realised that I didn't really feel any connection to the club or care how they did. I followed Pat's for a while from a distance before going to a dull 1-0 win....and becoming hooked!
"If you don't work harder I'll pull you off at halftime,"
“Crikey, at Manchester City all we get is an orange and a cup of tea,"
The option to start one at the bottom of the thread seems to have disappeared, probably during the upgrade a while back. If you make a new thread with the poll in it and merge it with this one, it should work.
f) brought to a game at an older age by a friend.Fire ahead with stories alright, but it'd be interesting to break it down between, say -
a) brought to games at a young age by parent/older relative fan
b) went to a glamour friendly
c) wanted to support local team
d) local team coming to your school or junior football club and
e) Other
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Ironically, I reckon there are more culchies living around Inchicore and its environs than Dubs.
Nobody knows us, we don't care
My first game was in the 90s some time, I think I was probably around 8 when my father brought me to the showgies.
It was a game against Derry and I distinctly remember Wes Charles, he was just head and shoulders above the rest in quality.
Marcus Hallows could have been playing then aswell, im not quite sure.
From then I had a connection but didnt continuosly attend games because I had nobody to bring me cause my father didnt really have an interest in Football because of his bog origins.
It wasnt until I was about 13 that I would attend the showgies every other week with friends since I had the money and means to get to games by myself.
I then started going on away trips about 2 years later, the first being to St Mels I think.
Have been hooked and never looked back since, but now its as much a social thing as a love for the club since its the one thing that will bring all the lads togethor every other week since many are scattered all over Ireland now.
He's still about Oriel Marty!
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My brother was well into the Mons when I was a teenager and I would listen to him going on about it but not that interested until I moved to Dublin and then watched out for their results avidly and went to a few games when Mons were playing Dublin teams but not regularly.
Then years later when my hubby and I split up and I moved back to Monaghan and was bringing my sons up on my own, I decided someone had to bring them to football and it wasnt gonna be him. I felt that they should play at their local club and support them too so I brought Dylan then 5 to the mini leagues to play football and started bringing Jake (then 2yrs old) and Dylan to matches. I got sucked in while they pretty much ignored the football and even when they were away visiting their dad I would go to the games on my own or drag a friend or 2 with me.
Ten years on, I now work for the club, plan my holidays around games and will be a Mon til I die. My boys can take it or leave it funnily enough but I hope that when they are older that they appreciate it more and become proper fans in their own rights.
I was just one of the huge bandwagon around the all-conquering Limerick sides of the mid-1990's.
I went to my first ever Blues game on my ninth birthday with my Dad, and my best friend.
My uncle joined us a year or two later, and now 11 years on, we follow The Blues all over
the country. I love it.
Because I'd have been murdered if I dropped *both* my auld lads clubs (I'm never supporting Spurs, sorry dad!).
Option c for me without a doubt.
When we won the league in 2005, i witnessed and experienced a moment that will stay with me forever.
What made it more special was that it was my local club .
All LOI fans could probably say the same thing
No barstoolers could ever feel like that.
Went to a few home games a season up until 2008 and then for the last 2 seasons i've gone to every home game and a load of the away matches aswell .
Five years on and i'm a proud owner of my football club .
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My granda brought me to a few games but I really became hooked around 2006 have been going to home and away games since
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Grew up around Tallaght so never really had a "local" senior team after Rovers left the RDS. Start going along to their games anyway as my mates supported them - used to take two buses down to games in Richer and Dalymount after school and got a bit hooked after that. First Division years were a bitch.
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