Words fail me..

Ronan|Raven · 22-12-2008 12:01AM #1

This our minister of sport..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0mEv4tPekI

Sweet mother of god.

SantryRed · 22-12-2008 12:05AM

What a gobsh1te.

Heard it earlier.

SantryRed · 22-12-2008 12:13AM

ShoulderChip wrote: »

ah sure it sounds nonsense to me but then so too is the league of Ireland.

would be great for an irish team to try and compete in Premiership.

You are clearly a troll when it comes to anything LOI. Piss off would you?

ShoulderChip · 22-12-2008 12:17AM

no it just pisses me off that I have never met anyone in real life who gave a **** about the league of Ireland, and yet on here it is full of people who refuse to piss off and constantly harp on about it,

and yeah no bother I wont post here again, I dont have the energy,

Ronan|Raven · 22-12-2008 12:19AM

Out of ten thousand sperm isnt it a pisser you were the one who won the race.

Oh JEEZ there I am responding your pathetic attempt at trolling. shame
me

Gavin "shels" · 22-12-2008 12:22AM

ShoulderChip wrote: »

no it just pisses me off that I have never met anyone in real life who gave a **** about the league of Ireland, and yet on here it is full of people who refuse to piss off and constantly harp on about it,

and yeah no bother I wont post here again, I dont have the energy,

Newsflash, the League of Ireland is our national league ofcourse people will talk about it.:rolleyes: Go back to your barstool and watch your Sky Sports and their Supercalifristic Dooper Soccer Sunday or whatever the name of it fecking is.

As for Martin Cullan well he speaks for the majority of Oirish football "fans", but would people do a "I support Man Utd, Sunderland and Celtic" job or just chose to support one team?

God do I hate this supposely soccer country.:rolleyes:

Mikeyt086 · 22-12-2008 12:23AM

So, he wants to see a league like the NFL, but for Euro footy?

LETS GO DUBLIN SHAMROCKS!

Gavin "shels" · 22-12-2008 12:28AM

Mikeyt086 wrote: »

So, he wants to see a league like the NFL, but for Euro footy?

LETS GO DUBLIN SHAMROCKS!

It would be more like "Sporting Torpedo Deportivo Dublin Shamrocks Athletic Football Club of the Republic of Ireland".:pac:

redout · 22-12-2008 12:39AM

Sure it nearly happened before. Wimbledon were in talks to come here in the 90's while in the premiership.

dreamers75 · 22-12-2008 01:00AM

redout wrote: »

Sure it nearly happened before. Wimbledon were in talks to come here in the 90's while in the premiership.

No it never nearly happened, it was never even close.

Actually maybe it was and some people in the know realised that FIFA would throw irelands national team out of everything if it happened.

And will do again, maybe it should happen Sunderland playing out of Dublin (**** their fans i mean if they were real fans they would travel to Dublin via ryanair from Mboro to Dublin for cheap) in the EPL. it would be awesome 4 times a year we would see a decent team in Dublin.

Oh **** Keane is gone from sunderland, wolves? dont have a big a draw being in old division 2. Its the national team in theory who are we to want to see them all play together in international competition, we should be happy they actually getting games in a proper league.

I endorse our minister for sports decision to have a team playing European football out of lansdowne.

As a pats fan i hope to **** if we make 1st round proper of Europa league we use RDS again.

redout · 22-12-2008 01:03AM

dreamers75 wrote: »

No it never nearly happened, it was never even close.

Actually maybe it was and some people in the know realised that FIFA would throw irelands national team out of everything if it happened.

And will do again, maybe it should happen Sunderland playing out of Dublin (**** their fans i mean if they were real fans they would travel to Dublin via ryanair from Mboro to Dublin for cheap) in the EPL. it would be awesome 4 times a year we would see a decent team in Dublin.

Oh **** Keane is gone from sunderland, wolves? dont have a big a draw being in old division 2. Its the national team in theory who are we to want to see them all play together in international competition, we should be happy they actually getting games in a proper league.

I endorse our minister for sports decision to have a team playing European football out of lansdowne.

As a pats fan i hope to **** if we make 1st round proper of Europa league we use RDS again.

They would throw us out but certain welsh sides compete in the english leagues and cups and not their own. I am sure I could find other examples in Europe.

dreamers75 · 22-12-2008 01:08AM

redout wrote: »

They would throw us out but certain welsh sides compete in the english leagues and cups and not their own. I am sure I could find other examples in Europe.

You wont find many other than Cardiff, Swansea and our very own Derry City and some scottish border town and possibly some more welsh and a luxembourg side ?.

All had their chance to go back to whatever league they should be in but decided not to.

What you have with the above is exceptional circumstances (dont get the welshies playing england but it makes them more money).

A team migrating to another country and playing there for financial reasons is a big no no with UEFA and any FA that allows it is banned according to the wimbledon thingie a few years ago. Something to do with franchises in USA or something.

EDIT Cullen has to open Legoland in the spring....lol at that

Jazzy · 22-12-2008 01:22AM

ur so football gav

but more on topic, yeah wat a gobsh1te. doesnt sound like he has a clue into how football works. and we wonder why the fai is so bad?

eirebhoy · 22-12-2008 01:49AM

dreamers75 wrote: »

Oh **** Keane is gone from sunderland, wolves?

Can't believe LOI fans keep going on about this. Roy Keane is an incredibly famous and controversial Irishman. Thousands of Irish people are interested in him and will always keep track of how he's doing. He was the reason for the interest in Sunderland in this country. It doesn't mean half the country are going around in Sunderland jerseys. We're no different to any other country and it would be the exact same in Sweden if Larsson took over an English team.

The foreign countries that show Celtic games all bought the rights to follow just one player. And this is bloody Roy Keane we're talking about. A completely different story to an Artur Boruc or Massimo Donati.

Anyway, I just had to get that off my chest again. There's so many ignorant LOI fans telling us the country is full of Sunderland fans.

There's a reason so many people on here have no sympathy for the state of the league. The fans just spend their time slagging off the people that weren't brought up a LOI fan. And trust me, if you weren't brought up a fan of a LOI club then there's very little chance you'll have any real interest in the league.

redout · 22-12-2008 02:14AM

eirebhoy wrote: »

Can't believe LOI fans keep going on about this. Roy Keane is an incredibly famous and controversial Irishman. Thousands of Irish people are interested in him and will always keep track of how he's doing. He was the reason for the interest in Sunderland in this country. It doesn't mean half the country are going around in Sunderland jerseys. We're no different to any other country and it would be the exact same in Sweden if Larsson took over an English team.

The foreign countries that show Celtic games all bought the rights to follow just one player. And this is bloody Roy Keane we're talking about. A completely different story to an Artur Boruc or Massimo Donati.

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Good point. I can attest to this being through in Spain also. TVE (Spains RTE) bought premiership rights solely because of the Spanish contingent at Liverpool and show the Liverpool game every week.

Mr.Nice Guy · 22-12-2008 03:12AM

More evidence that this government hasn't a f*cking clue.

LuckyLloyd · 22-12-2008 03:32AM

Great post eirebhoy.

eagle eye · 22-12-2008 04:15AM

And to those League of Ireland fans, I was a fan of the League but I'm long gone from it now.

Everyone has a right to air their opinions without being attacked by some League of Ireland nutcase who can't see beyond the Irish Sea.

I too would love to see an Irish based team try and give the Premiership a go if it was possible. It would be a pleasure to have that standard of football on this Island every second week between August and May every year.

Edit to add, I'd be willing to pay to watch that standard of football but I wouldn't give that League of Ireland one cent of my money with all the rubbish that has gone on down the years.

UnitedIrishman · 22-12-2008 04:44AM

That pretty much sums it up eirebhoy.

To be honest, the LoI won't be a success until it reverts back to semi-pro or amateur looking to bring young players though. No club can afford to really survive full-time anymore at the minute without a very good fanbase and good backing.

As for eirebhoy's comment about Keane, I'd agree totally. There also seems to be some sort of jealously or begrudging about him at Sunderland for some reason. It's fúcking ridiculous that the same people that said he carried us for years with Ireland as a player can be so negative towards him when he turns his hand at management.

applehunter · 22-12-2008 06:41AM

An Irish team in an English soccer league being mooted.

It will never happen.

Words fail me.

invincibleirish · 22-12-2008 08:31AM

*puts on political nerd hat*

Can i just add that Martin Cullen is the definition of morally dubious, politically corrupt, incompetent Minister and gombeen king all in one.

Anything he opines on you should take the opposite view because he is always wrong. Always. What an idiot.

Pure Cork · 22-12-2008 09:20AM

eirebhoy wrote: »

There's a reason so many people on here have no sympathy for the state of the league. The fans just spend their time slagging off the people that weren't brought up a LOI fan.

That works both ways.

Ronan|Raven · 22-12-2008 10:06AM

I didnt want this to turn into a LOI vs EPL argument. There is enough of those threads scattered around.

For the record I have no problem with anyone following teams abroad. I watch Liverpool enough for it to make me a hypocrite if I were to suggest such things. What I do find amazing that a Government minister for sport who in theory is meant to have the interests of our national league can come out with such nonsense. He obviously doesnt know that he will have to enter down around the Blue Square level and progress from there. There isnt a magical place awaiting them in the top flight of English league football for a new franchise team here in Ireland.

Maybe if they buy a team ala the MK DONS situation and move it over. As for the european super league maybe some day it will arrive. Whether a new all encompassing team is setup to represent Ireland in it who knows. Where will the money and players suddenly come from?

_blank_ · 22-12-2008 10:08AM

eirebhoy wrote: »

The fans just spend their time slagging off the people that weren't brought up a LOI fan.

But what you always fail to even acknowledge are the people who weren't "brought up" LoI supporters.

My dad, for instance, is a ""Liverpool" "Supporter"".

He's been to see Shels with me twice, one of them was the Big Day Out in Landsdowne Road.

eirebhoy wrote: »

And trust me, if you weren't brought up a fan of a LOI club then there's very little chance you'll have any real interest in the league.

lol

I wouldn't trust you if you are coming up with statements like that.

Ronan|Raven · 22-12-2008 10:26AM

I wasnt brought up a LOI fan persay. My Dad has always been invovled in footie here since we moved over. From playing and managing the local sunday team to managing the County team. He is very much a Liverpool fan but is a season ticket holder in longford now for years.

It was actually him who told me about the piece he heard on the radio, as pointed out if a minister in Germany came out with the likes of that tripe they would be resigning the next day.

herbieflowers · 22-12-2008 10:58AM

jeez, you'd think people would be sick of resurrecting the ol' EPL / LoI debate at this stage, is there any thread it can't affect?

_blank_ · 22-12-2008 11:00AM

herbieflowers wrote: »

jeez, you'd think people would be sick of resurrecting the ol' EPL / LoI debate at this stage, is there any thread it can't affect?

This thread is directly to do with that issue.

Have you any idea how pathetic and, frankly, idiotic people look when they suggest this is a good idea?

That minister should be strung up for suggesting this.

How people keep voting that party into power is beyond me.

herbieflowers · 22-12-2008 11:12AM

I know it is, it just annoys me when the same arguments are dredged up time and again.

_blank_ · 22-12-2008 11:15AM

herbieflowers wrote: »

I know it is, it just annoys me when the same arguments are dredged up time and again.

Same on both sides though.

herbieflowers · 22-12-2008 11:16AM

Oh I agree, the mud-slinging from both sides is tiresome.

Anyway, what a silly idea.

gimmick · 22-12-2008 11:48AM

Des wrote: »

Have you any idea how pathetic and, frankly, idiotic people look when they suggest this is a good idea?

Its the same people who think the 39th game is a good idea ie people who really do not understand the mechanisms of supporting football.

I love how non LOI fans always turn this into name calling. LOI fans merely are showing their grievances with the status quo, and all of a sudden they (we) are wrong for doing so?

Words fail me..

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