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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭cm2000


    Couldn't care less, though i'm not a fan of either so i shouldn't


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    I'm not in any way shape or form offended by the flag and find its removal to be a belated over-reaction to the wrong thing from the Ibrox authorities. I hope this idiotic decision is over-turned.

    I do however take great offence to the internet hardman routine from the Dublin Loyal, whom if their website were to be believed spend their entire time 'putting timmy in his place', draping Union Flags on nationalist monuments and chasing Rovers casuals round Dublin as opposed to the meeting in secret and keeping their heads well and truely down that they do in the real world.

    Ironic that they actually have finally been noticed and the victim of something from their own, as opposed to the Celtic fans who won't be drawn into giving them the hard time they crave so they can live up to their 'behind enemy lines' moniker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,454 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Well put


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    Well put

    Why thank you.

    It hasnt actually dawned on the Dublin Loyal that Irish Celtic fans care not one jot. If they were going to get turned over, they would have years ago. A group of expats get together to watch their team. Good for them. They even had a little flag made up until it got confiscated. They are getting nothing but sympathy for that on the Huddleboard, it is seen as petty stewarding and Celtic fans can empathise with that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Tauren wrote: »
    from memory, the reason for th einitial complaint was a valid one. Arsenal had to act on it, really. I can understand why all flags are banned, banning one flag would be seen as racist.

    Possibly, but the fact that you can't fly the flag of St George at Arsenal is still mad imo.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭Pal


    the Dublin Loyal drink in The George.

    It says so on their website

    ha ha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    I do however take great offence to the internet hardman routine from the Dublin Loyal, whom if their website were to be believed spend their entire time 'putting timmy in his place', draping Union Flags on nationalist monuments and chasing Rovers casuals round Dublin as opposed to the meeting in secret and keeping their heads well and truely down that they do in the real world.
    .

    I do agree with you here to an extent, but the last time i looked at the dublin loyal website it hadnt been updated for around 4 or 5 years, and dated back to a time when the DID get a hard time and had to keep their metings secret etc.
    I dont see this as being a problem now though and they could do with getting their website sorted out.
    especially considering one of their main guys now is a polish catholic! :D

    Paul: unfortunately we cannot do anything about the smell....its the smell of success! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    Honestly this does offend me:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FaJ2Ijp6Dc

    And for the simple reason that they have been called ''the fighting Irish'', and they have the name Ireland in their name.

    If Northern Ireland is to remain as part of Britian, then they should officialy change the name. This is clearly offensive, and Northern Ireland cry that players like Gibson won't play for them!!! Having God save the queen as the anthem is a sure fire way to segregation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    Honestly this does offend me:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FaJ2Ijp6Dc

    And for the simple reason that they have been called ''the fighting Irish'', and they have the name Ireland in their name.

    If Northern Ireland is to remain as part of Britian, then they should officialy change the name. This is clearly offensive, and Northern Ireland cry that players like Gibson won't play for them!!! Having God save the queen as the anthem is a sure fire way to segregation.

    my speakers aint working is it GSTQ?
    I completely agree with you, but what do you want to change the name of? Northern Ireland? Im confused..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    I think the name of Northern Ireland should be changed.....British newfoundland or something...iits more in jest really, I don't care if their name is Northern Ireland, but I stand by the claims about God save the Queen, I'm happy you agree.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    I think it would be a major step forward for Northern Ireland both culturally and politically to stop singing GSTQ as their "anthem" tbh, i find it bizzare that they still do.
    And as you say, untill they stop it will always be a barrier to any nationalist minded players playing for them


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    Eirebear wrote: »
    I do agree with you here to an extent, but the last time i looked at the dublin loyal website it hadnt been updated for around 4 or 5 years, and dated back to a time when the DID get a hard time and had to keep their metings secret etc.

    The website is far more current than that, there are tales there from last season.

    Dublin Loyal never got a hard time. They desperatly want one, but no-one is biting.
    Eirebear wrote: »
    I dont see this as being a problem now though and they could do with getting their website sorted out.

    Agreed, the tall tales are more likely to get them in trouble than the team they follow.
    Eirebear wrote: »
    especially considering one of their main guys now is a polish catholic! :D

    Some people will do anything for a reaction allright. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭SectionF


    Dublin people supporting British teams? Of course it's offensive. :p


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional North East Moderators Posts: 10,886 Mod ✭✭✭✭PauloMN


    The most bizarre thing about GSTQ is that - lets face it - Her Majesty couldn't give a fiddler's fook about Northern Ireland - or Scotland for that matter.

    GSTQ doesn't offend me I must say. The whole monarchy concept is so out-of-date that to me it's just a harmless old ditty really. I do have a chuckle though at how some NI fans and some Rangers fans can be so fiercly anti-English yet will belt out GSTQ at every opportunity. I mean I don't think there is anything quite more quintessentially English than the Queen, yet I heard a Rangers supporter saying he wasn't going to attend Scotland matches now that Terry Butcher - an Englishman - is part of the Scotland setup.

    As for the Dublin Loyal, a few minutes on their new website is long enough to figure out that their main interest isn't football. If I was a Rangers fan in Dublin, I'd be disappointed that the one and only RSC in the area (that I'm aware of, maybe there's others?) is more a political mouthpiece for seemingly oppressed brethren than a supporters' club. Log on to www.chip-on-shoulder.com for more information.


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