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The root of the problems with Irish football

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  • #152
    gustavo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭gustavo


    Melion wrote: »
    I would imagine the covered stands would help with the rain, jackman park doesn't have that. That was my point

    Perhaps you shouldn't have had a covered stand in the photo you posted then , might have made things clearer


  • #153
    Melion
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    gustavo wrote: »
    Perhaps you shouldn't have had a covered stand in the photo you posted then , might have made things clearer

    I trust you've never been in that "stand" then.


  • #154
    yosemite_sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭yosemite_sam


    There are not too many quality Irish players in the EPL, the GAA is the game that is supported. I've seen the fans on the car ferry's many times and good luck to them if that is what they like


  • #155
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,965 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    yosemite_sam wrote: »
    I've seen the fans on the car ferry's many times and good luck to them if that is what they like

    It's all they know...

    Probably spend as much to flight to Germany or Spain and get a better standard of ball tbh.


  • #156
    Melion
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    It's all they know...

    Probably spend as much to flight to Germany or Spain and get a better standard of ball tbh.

    And would that somehow be better than them going to England?


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  • #157
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,591 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Melion wrote: »

    I'm not even going to dignify this absolute rubbish with a response, Jesus ****ing christ.
    You just did.


  • #158
    Melion
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    CSF wrote: »
    You just did.

    Guffaw


  • #159
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,789 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    It's all they know...

    Probably spend as much to flight to Germany or Spain and get a better standard of ball tbh.
    You just have to experience a Dortmund home match at least once don't you know.;)


  • #160
    Jayob10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,787 ✭✭✭Jayob10


    Melion wrote: »
    Comparing people watching football on TV every weekend to people sitting down to watch X Factor just so they have something to talk about at work? What makes the LOI fan more knowledgable than the average joe who watches matches on TV?

    What about people like me who go to Limerick games but still watches every single Liverpool match on TV and who tries to get over to Anfield on a semi-regular basis(havent been to Liverpool since this day last year, oddly enough)?

    Its got nothing to do with being "more knowledgable".

    Its got more to do with actual love of the sport, I know some woeful buffoons who would be stereotypical event junkies, their knowledge of the sport in general at highest level is great.

    They are consumers of sport, but not what I would call your stereotypical football fan, not as I understand it.

    Its not even a criticism, its just an observation.


  • #161
    yosemite_sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭yosemite_sam


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    It's all they know...

    Probably spend as much to flight to Germany or Spain and get a better standard of ball tbh.

    I have to agree that the EPL has a poor standard of football and I am English, there were some great players at school but the only kids who got trials were the big ones who could run fast and could not control the ball. Signs are on the national side, filled with donkeys. England like Ireland have no chance of winning a major tournament.


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