Lads, does anyone know of successful eL supporters clubs being run in colleges and universities in Ireland?
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Ah but how much advertising did she do? how long did they run it for?Originally Posted by Rogue Trader
Also .... seven is a good number to start with. You obviously keep trying to get more.
How did they go about it though? through a guild yeah? What did they have in their proposal?
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
The Derry lads up in Queens have a really successful one going.
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The UCD Soccer Supporters' Society effectively morphed in the UCD Supporters' Club as we found that the needs of our non-Student members wasn't being met by a student only society.
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I'm going to Trinity in a few weeks - does anyone know of any general EL supporters clubs? (Would be too much to expect a Monaghan United Supporters club)
Yeah, the QUBDCFCSC has been going for a few years and organise a bus to all the away games - that is every game... they even organised a bus for the Linfield match at Winsor Park in the Setanta Cup. They raise most of the money by winning the societies pub quiz every week. MariborKev was one of the organisors but keeps saying he is going travelling if Derry's european cup runs ends so hopefully he'll still be there for a while.
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Only about 600 in my college and about 150 is male but a few go to eL games!
Was it Sligo Rovers or Shamrock Rovers ??
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
I go to Trinity and have only ever seen one person in the place (other than me) wearing an eL jersey - a Derry City one. He was wearing it the night of Ireland vs. Switzerland last year and some people thought he was supporting the Swiss!
That was me!! Should probably have thought it through as regards the colour but it was coming up to the end of the title race and I was wearing the shirt around Dublin as much as possible.
Anyway, we're being joined by Leeza this year so there should be a Monaghan jersey around the place now!
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If we manage to stay top of the First Division I think my Dundalk jersies willl be getting a regular rotation back up in Dublin. I might even go for a wee walk around Tallaght to annoy some Rovers fans. Although doing the same in Drogheda once nearly got me killed.
In my 4 years in Maynooth I've only ever come across one Rovers fan, A Longford fan and one of my lecturers was a Drogheda fan. The eircom league would probably be mistaken for some sort of telephone exchange by many of the students out there
There were quite a few eL fans at Maynooth when I was there, but no societies.
I remember the day we did the last exam of our finals and the physics department staff went for a drink with us. I was talking to the head of department when a drunk Bohs fan walked in and shouted 'Oi Harps, S**TE!' at the top of his voice and then left again. I was pretty embarrassed as everyone in the place were in a stunned silence, but the professor just raises his eyebrows and ask 'Does that happen to you often?'
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A face,
As mentioned, we run the Queens University Belfast Derry City Supporters Club.
We have around 60 members, with about forty of those students.
We run buses to nearly every game(as living in Belfast, a home game is an away game).
Its obviously a well established club, been running for a few years now. Just wondering though .... was there any hassle geting it started first day though, were the societies committee reluctant to allow an domestic club start up. The reason i say that is that in the past there have been a few clubs fobbed off because they were ManU or Liverpool etc.
IMO ever eL club should be active in their local uni or institue, its probably the most obvious place to set one up but there doesn't seem to be alot of them.
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
A face, I remember the year before last someone trying to start a Cork City SC in UCC here. He wasn't successful - I understand that the reason was that the Soccer Club was already established and it would be possible to set up Liverpool SC and MUFC supporters clubs (Mancs not Mons). On reflection I think the approach to take was to set up a National League Supporters Society. There are horse racing societies, science fiction society, poker society etc - all minority interests. The eL is a minority interest. Also, by taking it away from the club element it broadens potential membership.
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During my time in UCD there were always plenty about, I suppose it just takes someone with the time and commitment to make the thing appeal to as many as possible. The Soccer Society did a job, but never really intended on being an NLSA-type group, which there probably is a niche for, ar at least there was.
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UCD is a special case though. You could have a general supporters' club in the other colleges but UCD's not going to provide facilities for our rivals' supporters.
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