Ever jumped on a bandwagon?

im invisible

I jumped on the Munster bandwagon there a few years ago when they started winning, im from leinster but i havnt jumped ship, now that they are winning. What does that make me?

Jimoslimos

im invisible wrote: »

I jumped on the Munster bandwagon there a few years ago when they started winning, im from leinster but i havnt jumped ship, now that they are winning. What does that make me?

Like the vast majority of sport fans, and nowt wrong with that. Most people form an attachment given early initial success and some stick with it. Even the most ferverent fan starts as a noob. Leinster will have picked up a few fans that will stay regardless of future downturns. For clubs it's all about converting these people into long-term fans - makes good business sense.

Same for the soccer team in the euros this year, and the Dublin GAA team, female boxing, etc. The attitude of the holier than thou LOI fan stinks though. Why not choose an Irish First division side, or perhaps a club closer to you in a lower league. Double standards much?

jive

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Nobody mentioned Rugby yet?

Jesus over the last few years everybody is expert in rugby, or so they think.

You ask 80% of people who watch it if they know the rules and they have no clue.

Nobody has a fúcking clue what the rules are in rugby, not even the referees. Most people know the basics but when it comes to the knitty-gritty rugby is still a very primitive sport - the commentators often mention the 'ref's interpretation' which basically means that nobody is really sure what should be done so it's up to the ref.

I was at a match in Thomond and nobody in the crowd had a bulls notion what was going on, anyone who says they do are pretenders! Even those who play the game just learn by doing but the learning never ends because the rules keep changing

jive

Nulty wrote: »

But really, bandwagonners support the country in it's finest hours - 4 1/2 hours in June afterwhich the team will go home and that will be that.

It'll be a sweet 4 and a half hours though. Granted I hate watching Ireland play under Trap but if I managed it for the gammy qualifying games I'm sure I'll manage for the finals. I'm actually excited about it though despite the fact I know it'll be anti-climatic due to our bus like approach to football.

Jimoslimos

jive wrote: »

Nobody has a fúcking clue what the rules are in rugby, not even the referees. Most people know the basics but when it comes to the knitty-gritty rugby is still a very primitive sport - the commentators often mention the 'ref's interpretation' which basically means that nobody is really sure what should be done so it's up to the ref.

Lots of sports come down to referees interpetations, every foul, goal-line clearance, penalty appeal comes down to the opinion of the man with the whistle.

Offside rule in soccer is one which more often than not is a guessing game. I think that a study was done that showed it was physically impossible for a linesman to determine the point at which the ball was kicked whilst noting the positions of last defender and attacker simultaneously.

jive

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Lots of sports come down to referees interpetations, every foul, goal-line clearance, penalty appeal comes down to the opinion of the man with the whistle.

Offside rule in soccer is one which more often than not is a guessing game. I think that a study was done that showed it was physically impossible for a linesman to determine the point at which the ball was kicked whilst noting the positions of last defender and attacker simultaneously.

Yeah but certain rules in rugby are open to a wide range of interpretation, referees greatly effect the game. In soccer the rules are applied more consistently. Rugby is particularly awful when it comes to scrums and the ruck, more so the former. It's probably due to the fact a lot of the time the ref can't really see whats going on due to having bodies in the way, in soccer it's more obvious - obviously all sports have rules which are open to interpretation, in rugby they appear to be more ambiguous though.

Joe10000

I jumped on the Irish Cricket bandwagon in 2007, after we won a couple of a games and qualified for the super 8's I took my holidays and jumped on a plane out there, was a great trip.

Sindri

I jumped on the u12's camogie bandwagon. They were doin' fairce well 'til they were disqualified for playing some of the u16 team. One of the girls children used to turn up to watch her play.

J Cheever Loophole

St.Spodo wrote: »

Every Irish football fan who supports an English team has jumped on the band wagon.

Guilty as charged - as a six year old I jumped on the Leeds United bandwagon - Leeds back then were kings of all they surveyed!! :cool: Since then, the wheels have come off big style and the wagon has now been stuck in a ditch for about twenty years.

There's a lesson there!!

Kev_2012

I only started watching soccer 4/5 years ago and Arsenal were the team that I found played the most enjoyable football, and I was called a bandwagon jumper for that (I didn't realize there was a bandwagon for a team that hasn't won anything in years :rolleyes:). But the slagging has stopped since I stuck with them through thick and thin (8-2 vs united, 17th place etc. etc.)

I'm more into rugby and I'll agree with the earlier post about Limerick being full of Munster bandwagon jumpers. But this is the same with any successful team, Leinster is a lot worse for it than Munster now! I was at the H Cup quarter final vs Ulster and some woman said "Oh no, there's only 10 minutes left!!!", the clock read 59 minutes. :rolleyes:

seanbmc

I hate the phrase, people just use it to put newcomers down and make themselves feel important.

A real case of "I was doing this before it was cool".

trollin trollin trollin

How many people here born in the early 90's collected every pokemon sticker,trading card,game or plushie?

southcentralts

What a question to ask in AH.

"Honey, someone started a thread about the relationship between fish fingers and fair city, better put on a pot of coffee."

washman3

krudler wrote: »

I live in Limerick, home of Munster rugby and a an entire city of bandwagon jumpers.

Most definately the Bandwagon capital of Europe.:p

ToddyDoody

Property bandwagon. (just let that fester)

kumate_champ07

IrishAm wrote: »

The Dublin GAA team has the most bangwagoners.

League Final VS Cork. Attendance 35,000.

AI Final VS Kerry. Sold Out. Tickets selling for crazy money.

All Ireland finals always sell out no matter who's playing, as mentioned by another poster the same applies to every county, there are die hard fans that travel to the arseholé of nowhere with there flask and sambos and then theres the 'fans' that come out for the Championship final and whatever happens after that.

kumate_champ07

Bambi wrote: »

Its all bollox if you're old enough to remember the great summer overhype of '90

that wasnt overhype, it was beautiful and just what the country needed during that era

DEFTLEFTHAND

I remember the aul fella and myself would haul are arses up to Lansdowne to watch Ireland be hammered in the rugby, even by the likes of western Samoa on one occasion. Believe me these these pseudo fanatics will take the high road once we return to our place of whipping boys in the rugger world..

Sea Filly

Crooked Jack wrote: »

Seems ridiculously excessive, like some Mod is entertaining themselves rather than actually moderating.

Agreed. I know those phrases are tedious, but to start infracting people for something for which people for however long previously have not been infracted seemed unfair and arbitrary. Imposing WAY too much control over the users, IMO.

Sea Filly

seanbmc wrote: »

I hate the phrase, people just use it to put newcomers down and make themselves feel important.

A real case of "I was doing this before it was cool".

Exactly.

All those people whining about bandwagon jumpers were once new to the sport too.

baltimore sun

Rugby's a real bandwagon sport, feck all used to watch it until Ireland started winning more than 2 matches in a row.

DEFTLEFTHAND

baltimore sun wrote: »

Rugby's a real bandwagon sport, feck all used to watch it until Ireland started winning more than 2 matches in a row.

I remember going to interpros where there would be less than 200 people at Thomond, the club game was stronger then though and its suffered big time since rugby has become every Paddys favourite sport.

baltimore sun

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I remember going to interpros where there would be less than 200 people at Thomond, the club game was stronger then though and its suffered big time since rugby has become every Paddys favourite sport.

I was never the biggest fan meself but I used to head to the odd game, then I worked in a rugby pub near Lansdowne Road and that put me off it forever, give me soccer fans any day of the week over the rugby lot.

wendell borton

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Micky Dolenz

Have zero interest in football but I will enjoy the excitement of the event. It's not like it happens very often.

minidazzler

celticcrash wrote: »

Stop crying like a little girl and be happy that people have seen the light.

Jumping the bandwagon isn't seeing the light, it's supporting it because everyone else does, they don't even actually give a fook, they just learn a few names, spout a few facts they don't understand and buy a jersey. Bandwagon jumpers just like to sound like they give a fook, they mostly don't.

minidazzler

Sea Filly wrote: »

Exactly.

All those people whining about bandwagon jumpers were once new to the sport too.

Yes, but people who were watching for the game itself before the Irish teams started winning all around them aren't band wagon jumpers because they liked it before there was a band wagon.

Band wagon jumpers don't particularily like something, they just need to appear to like to current cool thing.

bnt

Last time I jumped on a bandwagon, it literally was a bandwagon, and I was in the band. Beats walking, I suppose.

(Highland Bagpipes, if you must know. Possibly the worst musical instrument in the world; what passes for "style" is the result of centuries of effort to work around its fundamental musical limitations.)

volvoman480

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Nobody mentioned Rugby yet?

Jesus over the last few years everybody is expert in rugby, or so they think.

You ask 80% of people who watch it if they know the rules and they have no clue.

Rugby doesn't have rules, it has laws.

Yes, I know I'm being pedantic but that's the way it is.

Read the laws, it's quite interesting and can really help your understanding of the game. Also, it's very useful to look at the referee signals section. It really helped me to grasp what was happening on the pitch. If you're going to a attend a match in person, I find it very handy to have reftalk radio. Most of the bigger matches will have this facility. It's a massive ego boost to appear to know what you are talking about and enables you to have an air of smugness and superiority when everyone around you asks you what fcuk is going on......;)




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HalloweenJack

Yeah, I was living in Madrid for the first half of 2010.

First, got caught up in Atletico Madrid's run to the Europa League and Copa del Rey final then got caught up in Spain's performance at the WC.

Still follow Atleti and Spain would be my second favourite international team. Should Ireland go out before them, I'll be cheering them on at the Euros.

mongdesade

Ever jumped on a bandwagon?

No, scutting's bad I tells you