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  • #32
    hunter164
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    Not at all, all due to my dads mate Joe Reynolds (one of Shels best ever defenders I'm told).




    Gav don't lie right we all know the "Tenters" is a magical place.....
























    Nah I'm only buzzing the "Tenters" is real.


  • #33
    DSB
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    invincibleirish wrote: »
    This is what the EL 'Ultras' cant fathom, a lot of Irish people just dont jump a bandwagon, people are influenced by family, friends etc. in following a team or league. Following English clubs isnt a fad, its a long held tradition.

    I don't think anyone was debating whether following English clubs was a new thing.


  • #34
    invincibleirish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭invincibleirish


    DSB wrote: »
    I don't think anyone was debating whether following English clubs was a new thing.

    Nope but the tone of it appears to be debating whether its a bad thing or not (its not)


  • #35
    DSB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    Nah I don't think liking the Premiership is wrong, living the life of a football fan through a TV is a bit detached from reality though.


  • #36
    thusspakeblixa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    DSB wrote: »
    Nah I don't think liking the Premiership is wrong, living the life of a football fan through a TV is a bit detached from reality though.
    Well I mean if you're ''born into it'' and you aren't loaded, you don't really have a choice about watching the club you support on TV or not


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  • #37
    DSB
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    thusspakeblixa wrote: »
    Well I mean if you're ''born into it'' and you aren't loaded, you don't really have a choice about watching the club you support on TV or not

    So in essence you're not actually supporting the club at all?


  • #38
    thusspakeblixa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭thusspakeblixa


    DSB wrote: »
    So in essence you're not actually supporting the club at all?
    Well I mean it feels like you do. I would be of the opinion that watching football on TV is a pale imitation of the live experience too. But realistically I can't be going to Manchester every weekend.


  • #39
    DSB
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    thusspakeblixa wrote: »
    Well I mean it feels like you do. I would be of the opinion that watching football on TV is a pale imitation of the live experience too. But realistically I can't be going to Manchester every weekend.

    Thats pretty much the exact same way I feel to be honest. I mean I like Villa and I watch their games on TV and own the jerseys, but as far as being an actual fan, Shels are my team.


  • #40
    hunter164
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,087 ✭✭✭hunter164


    Well said but you shouldn't buy the jerseys.


  • #41
    thusspakeblixa
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    DSB wrote: »
    Thats pretty much the exact same way I feel to be honest. I mean I like Villa and I watch their games on TV and own the jerseys, but as far as being an actual fan, Shels are my team.
    Thats me there (except haven't been to a match yet). But I mean I watch all the Man U and Stuttgart I can, and I try to go over a fair bit. (it's tough to get other Irish Stuttgart fans to go with :p)


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  • #42
    DSB
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    thusspakeblixa wrote: »
    Thats me there (except haven't been to a match yet). But I mean I watch all the Man U and Stuttgart I can, and I try to go over a fair bit. (it's tough to get other Irish Stuttgart fans to go with :p)

    Why do you support Stuttgart anyway? Or if it was inherited from a family member, why do they?


  • #43
    thusspakeblixa
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    DSB wrote: »
    Why do you support Stuttgart anyway? Or if it was inherited from a family member, why do they?
    Heh, cos we originally came from near Stuttgart (around 1900) so since then it's just been tradition! And plus for a while they were the most unfashionable club in Germany, which I think drew a few back ;)


  • #44
    _blank_
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    Leave early on Friday to get to Tolka.

    Celine Dion is playing in Croker that night.

    Traffic wil be a bleedin' nightmare.


  • #45
    thusspakeblixa
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    DesF wrote: »
    Leave early on Friday to get to Tolka.

    Celine Dion is playing in Croker that night.

    Traffic wil be a bleedin' nightmare.
    I'm getting the bus and then walking with a friend so I'd say it'll be grand.
    Bleedin Celine Dion...


  • #46
    _blank_
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    thusspakeblixa wrote: »
    I'm getting the bus and then walking with a friend so I'd say it'll be grand.
    Bleedin Celine Dion...

    I'm telling you, it won't.

    The busses will be packed.

    Leave early.

    The bus has to get down O'Connell Street then up Dorset Street/Drumcondra Road.

    Nightmare.


  • #47
    bohsman
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    Nothing new or ground breaking and people dont want to be told that they are hypocrites or glory hunters.


  • #48
    DSB
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    bohsman wrote: »
    people dont want to be told that they are hypocrites or glory hunters.

    Kinda stating the obvious there.


  • #49
    invincibleirish
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    bohsman wrote: »
    Nothing new or ground breaking and people dont want to be told that they are hypocrites or glory hunters.

    stop sucking lemons;)

    -yours truly, hypocritical glory hunting Villa fan.


  • #50
    bohsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,881 ✭✭✭bohsman


    "Kinda stating the obvious there."

    Yea but if you read any of the countless glory hunter v holier than thou threads over the years very few seem to realise that.


  • #51
    bohsman
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    invincibleirish wrote: »
    stop sucking lemons;)

    -yours truly, hypocritical glory hunting Villa fan.

    Im saying its a bad article, Ed Leahy is calling Utd and Celtic fans glory hunters, not me.


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  • #52
    DSB
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    bohsman wrote: »
    "Kinda stating the obvious there."

    Yea but if you read any of the countless glory hunter v holier than thou threads over the years very few seem to realise that.

    I'm sure the journalist does realise it but I'm sure he also doesn't want to pander his beliefs to cater for what people want to hear.


  • #53
    Jazzy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    It's in Tolka, don't mine Des he hasn't made many matches this year.:rolleyes:


    thats cos hes a Man Utd fan ;)


  • #54
    OhNoYouDidn't
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    invincibleirish wrote: »
    Nope but the tone of it appears to be debating whether its a bad thing or not (its not)

    Yes it is.


  • #55
    Fratton Fred
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    Yes it sums up Irish football, but ets face it, that article could have been written by a Reading/Brentford/Gillingham fan quite easily., or, for that matter, a Kilmarnock or Stirling Albion fan.

    they talk about getting people to EL games, but what do the clubs do? do they have community liason managers going out and meeting the community? do they have players visiting local schools and giving out free tickets? or do they just sit on their arses moaning that no one comes to watch them?

    My personal view is that Eircom is the wrong sponsor, the league needs a sponsor who is more interested in football, one that gives the impresson of youth and fun, not a boring old giant that most people detest.

    The sponsor should be out there getting Damien Duff or Stephen Doyle in people's faces, talking about their days growing up as a Cork fan, or a Bohs fan and get kids to go along to games.

    When Sunderland are over, why not make the games all ticket, with tickets only available to those who attended the lasy home game, make people work for their ticket rather thanjust turn up to try and catch a glimpse of the "God" that is Roy Keane.

    There's loads of things clubs can, do and maybe they are doing it, but I haven't seen it.


  • #56
    OhNoYouDidn't
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    they talk about getting people to EL games, but what do the clubs do? .

    Every club has a CPO. There have been some innovative schemes, from Rovers getting onto Ticketmaster, letting kids and Taxi drivers in free, giving out easter eggs with a free pass for a game etc.
    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    do they have community liason managers going out and meeting the community? .

    Yes. Every single one of them.

    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    do they have players visiting local schools and giving out free tickets? .

    Yes. Every single one of them.
    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    or do they just sit on their arses moaning that no one comes to watch them?
    .

    No.

    What an appalingly ignorant post.


  • #57
    _blank_
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    Every club doesn't have a CPO.


  • #58
    OhNoYouDidn't
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    DesF wrote: »
    Every club doesn't have a CPO.

    They should have, its a condition of licencing....


  • #59
    _blank_
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    OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »
    They should have, its a condition of licencing....

    No, it isn't.


  • #60
    OhNoYouDidn't
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    DSB wrote: »
    I'm sure the journalist does realise it but I'm sure he also doesn't want to pander his beliefs to cater for what people want to hear.

    Knowing the guy in question, the last thing he will ever do is water down his disdain for barstoolers.


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  • #61
    OhNoYouDidn't
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    DesF wrote: »
    No, it isn't.

    I think you will find it is.


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