Why are you a big dirty glory hunter?

yomtea98

Why do support a team in England, Germany or Spain? Get out and support your local team.

Skylinehead

No.

This'll go well.

Professional Griefer

We all bolieve in our local team.

Lovely Bloke

Lukker-

Life isn't worth living without a little glory every Saturday.

duffman13

Sure the local team are named after a pub. Not the best level of football plus I have to get up @ 10 on Sunday to see them play. I'm good thanks

LuckyLloyd

yomtea98 wrote: »

Why do support a team in England, Germany or Spain? Get out and support your local team.

No thanks. My bar stool is too comfortable. I also admit that I'd be unable to find the ground where my English team of choice plays their games (never been there obv). I'll also be sure to cheer against England in the World Cup and continue to be a proponent of 'magic flight' based selection policies for our own national team.

Eh, I think I've covered most of it there.

Diabhal Beag

I'm not a gloryhunter. My Da's cousins are from Manchester.

LuckyLloyd

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

I'm not a gloryhunter. My Da's cousins are from Manchester.

Damn, missed that one.

Zebra3

Been Man City loyal for most of the last three years.

anncoates

Needs more Keely

MagicIRL

LOI football is terrible to watch and LOI fans come across as the absolute worse kind of people.

Iang87

i'm not a glory hunter. I'm more a hunter, we never seem to find it

Oat23

anncoates wrote: »

Needs more Keely

12 morons.

MonkeyTennis

anncoates wrote: »

Needs more Keely

He 360 years old you know

SEPT 23 1989

intellectual dosser

There was me thinking we had a thread on the glory hunter that plays on every 5 a side team up and down the country, that cnut that would rather take on the whole other team instead of passing to the man with the goal at his mercy.

Disappointed I am.

smileyj1987

I like to watch professional football , it's a great sport .

folan

i almost never shoot. then again, im pretty crap, so any (remote) chance of glory, and im on that like a fly on jam

GLaDOS

Because I enjoy watching good footballers instead of turgid stonage shite and don't see why I should limit myself based on geography when I can enjoy it from the comfort of home instead of standing out in the pissing rain.

Which is why I support Spain over Ireland.

Hammar

I'm from Cavan.
I have no local team.

token56

I mostly stay back and defend so when I get within shooting range of the goals with the ball I need to take whatever chances I get.

MonkeyTennis

my local team is full of Dubs.. ugh

thelad95

The problem with the LOI is most teams are in Dublin and surrounding counties with a few others scattered randomly around the country. Therefore, many people don't have a local team.

If your from Laois for example as a child which is going to appeal to you more. A globally marketed side full of professionals at the peak of their careers in a state of the art stadium... or a bunch of part-timers playing in front of a couple of die hards in a ground that may or may not have public toilets?

I'd love to see the LOI progress. There is no reason our league can't get to at least the standard of countries like Norway and Sweden with further investment. However narrow-mindedness like this thread isn't going to improve anything.

Nuri Sahin

Just to clarify before I properly contribute to this thread, is the OP himself a so called big dirty glory hunter (I'm just quoting the thread title mods)?

Ah screw it, I won't wait for a reply. He's never once commented on local football, other than talking about Ireland, but once they were knocked out, he was rooting for Spain. He's a Man United supporter. He's also a rage quitter on FIFA and shouts a lot of abuse too which is amusing.

Oat23

thelad95 wrote: »

I'd love to see the LOI progress. There is no reason our league can't get to at least the standard of countries like Norway and Sweden with further investment. However narrow-mindedness like this thread isn't going to improve anything.

What investment is there currently? The FAI take money from the league. They keep all the tv money for themselves and have cut the prize money down from 300k to 100k for the winners. If RTE want to show a game live they are supposed to pay clubs a fee to make up for lost gate revenue. The FAI keep that too.

We're never getting to the level of any Scandinavian country.

The Internet

They need to make make it more like gaa and have a team representing each county or something similar to the provinces in rugby.

eagle eye

Get a team in my area and I'll think about it. I live in Roscommon and I'm not going to Longford, Sligo or Galway to watch a game because I don't feel like I belong.

I've said before that the LoI should follow the successful pattern of the GAA. Have a team in each county, and yes you can have more than one where they already exist. That way the whole country will take an interest. At the start they might not go but when they county team(s) are successful they might just get interested. I think the game would be a lot bigger if they made that move.

anncoates

I find that esoteric relegation battlers in the Finnish second tier represent a more hardcore option for me.

Plus I once went to a LOI game and heard somebody swearing. Although I've never been to England, I very much doubt that happens there and games are no doubt conducted in a convivial and tolerant atmosphere redolent with the Corinthian spirit.

My dad once worked with a guy from Rochdale so I support Rochdale AFC Manchester City since 2009.

thelad95

eagle eye wrote: »

Get a team in my area and I'll think about it. I live in Roscommon and I'm not going to Longford, Sligo or Galway to watch a game because I don't feel like I belong.

I've said before that the LoI should follow the successful pattern of the GAA. Have a team in each county, and yes you can have more than one where they already exist. That way the whole country will take an interest. At the start they might not go but when they county team(s) are successful they might just get interested. I think the game would be a lot bigger if they made that move.

Doubtful that would ever happen. Could you honestly see a LOI side surviving in Leitrim? The current established clubs have fanbases going way back. It can be very hard to get people behind a brand new team. Look at Sporting Fingal for example.

Tinie

*insert michael jackson eating popcorn.gif here*

Washington Irving

I identify far more with British culture. God save the Queen.

omega man

yomtea98 wrote: »

Why do support a team in England, Germany or Spain? Get out and support your local team.

Well I'm an arsenal fan and I do. Dublin GAA, both football and hurling passionately. So who do you "support"?

major bill

I once went to Dalymount and was disgusted when people started standing and singing songs MY god i thought, this isn't a concert sit down you peasants!!

Lawrence1895

I support Shels, because they are my local team, and I support Borussia Dortmund, because that's where I was born and brought up :cool:

And I am proud to support these clubs

eagle eye

thelad95 wrote: »

Doubtful that would ever happen. Could you honestly see a LOI side surviving in Leitrim? The current established clubs have fanbases going way back. It can be very hard to get people behind a brand new team. Look at Sporting Fingal for example.

Yes in Carrick-on-Shannon, summer football, great place to spend a weekend.

sabat

Why watch Fair City when True Detective is on the other channel?

miroslavklose

sabat wrote: »

Why watch Fair City when True Detective is on the other channel?

Why watch True Detective when there's real life outside your living room?

major bill

sabat wrote: »

Why watch Fair City when True Detective is on the other channel?

I watch Fair City cos Niamh is a goer

Knex*

The bandwagon stopped at my door, Geoff.

super_furry

I do both. I support Liverpool and have a Shamrock Rovers season ticket.

The two aren't mutually exclusive at all.

sabat

miroslavklose wrote: »

Why watch True Detective when there's real life outside your living room?

Why go to the park and fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?

yomtea98

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

Just to clarify before I properly contribute to this thread, is the OP himself a so called big dirty glory hunter (I'm just quoting the thread title mods)?

Ah screw it, I won't wait for a reply. He's never once commented on local football, other than talking about Ireland, but once they were knocked out, he was rooting for Spain. He's a Man United supporter. He's also a rage quitter on FIFA and shouts a lot of abuse too which is amusing.

What this rage quitter on Fifa about? Funny how whenever I say something you come in with that. I'm a Cork City supporter. Just because I don't post in the LOI thread doesn't I don't go to games or follow them. I also follow United. I shout lots of abuse. Is this when I called you patronising so and so? Why did I do that? Because again you felt the need to come in with "rage quitter on FIFA" as if that has anything to do with this forum.

Nuri Sahin

yomtea98 wrote: »

What this rage quitter on Fifa about? Funny how whenever I say something you come in with that. I'm a Cork City supporter. Just because I don't post in the LOI thread doesn't I don't go to games or follow them. I also follow United. I shout lots of abuse. Is this when I called you patronising so and so? Why did I do that? Because again you felt the need to come in with "rage quitter on FIFA" as if that has anything to do with this forum.

I've said it twice now. Don't try to make it out like I've said it far more than I have. The first and last time being two months ago when you were doing your schtick in the Liverpool thread.

You repeatedly shouting abuse down your headset stands out as one of the more amusing moments in online gaming I've had, then proceeding to rage quit when 3-0 down at half time. Funnier even more considering you are the one who went out of your way to add me for a match. Hard to forget the good laugh I got out of it, tbh :pac:

Sure thing on the Cork City spiel.

Diabhal Beag

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Damn, missed that one.

Felt dirty even making that joke tbh. Stockport4Lyfe

yomtea98

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

I've said it twice now. Don't try to make it out like I've said it far more than I have. The first and last time being two months ago when you were doing your schtick in the Liverpool thread.

You repeatedly shouting abuse down your headset stands out as one of the more amusing moments in online gaming I've had, then proceeding to rage quit when 3-0 down at half time. Funnier even more considering you are the one who went out of your way to add me for a match. Hard to forget the good laugh I got out of it, tbh :pac:

Sure thing on the Cork City spiel.

I don't have a headset, never had. I dunno who you have confused me with there.

Kerrydude1981

Used go Tralee Dynamos games when they were in the A Championship and the FAI Cup,also used attend the Kerry teams games in the League Cup and the U21 League,both are no longer in the LOI,

Now the Dennehy brothers at Cork City and Derek O Brien who is back at Galway once again they are flying the flag for Kerry in the LOI

If Kerry ever again enter a side into the LOI then I would go and support them.

Amirani

These threads are tiresome. What difference does it make to you OP who people support? Just go enjoy watching your local LOI team and let other people do what they want. Try sell live local football for them for sure, but don't just attack them over something stupid.

JoeyJJ

Support the mighty Sligo Rovers since 84 however now living in Dublin I see them at away games prob slightly more than home games. About 20 games a season.

Moneymaker

This forum has gone to the absolute ****ter recently. God.