After the recent Team Britain thread - What think ye of this?

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Personally....

I'm very much not impressed, I attended Windsor last year at a DCFC match and to be honest I personally and a lot of Derry Fans do not want to return to the feeling of going to a match through the back door and I'm sure Glens, Linfield fans feel the same.

I know a lot of "Southerners" do not like DCFC and their supporters but when we attend match's there is never a fear in the back of my mind that something will kick off.. and that is the feeling which I had when I attended Windsor and when Linfield came to the Brandywell..

Unfortunately in society in the north there are W**kers in all the towns who claim to support football but really are only interested in one thing....

These people will not tolerate people (yet)from the so called other side playing football at their "GROUNDS" even though half their teams are the other side...

Oh yes and the Irish League unlike their superior counterpart do not play footie on a sunday.

No Sport No Craic No Beer! Non!
No Gin No Sun No Fun! Non!


I do not apologise for not bing brave enough to say YES..

But for the time being to coin a phrase...

"Ulster says NO!"

Basically what I'm saying is that for the time being it's not a good idea because if there's one thing us common Northerners know what to do it's make a cracking petrol bomb and unfortunately that is the harsh reallity with most/some of my generation!
 
U What? said:
Personally....

I'm very much not impressed, I attended Windsor last year at a DCFC match and to be honest I personally and a lot of Derry Fans do not want to return to the feeling of going to a match through the back door and I'm sure Glens, Linfield fans feel the same.

I know a lot of "Southerners" do not like DCFC and their supporters but when we attend match's there is never a fear in the back of my mind that something will kick off.. and that is the feeling which I had when I attended Windsor and when Linfield came to the Brandywell..

Unfortunately in society in the north there are W**kers in all the towns who claim to support football but really are only interested in one thing....

These people will not tolerate people (yet)from the so called other side playing football at their "GROUNDS" even though half their teams are the other side...

Oh yes and the Irish League unlike their superior counterpart do not play footie on a sunday.

No Sport No Craic No Beer! Non!
No Gin No Sun No Fun! Non!


I do not apologise for not bing brave enough to say YES..

But for the time being to coin a phrase...

"Ulster says NO!"

Basically what I'm saying is that for the time being it's not a good idea because if there's one thing us common Northerners know what to do it's make a cracking petrol bomb and unfortunately that is the harsh reallity with most/some of my generation!
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Don't think it would ever work myself Paul. They're basing too much on the Setanta Cup, Saints haven't been in it yet, so I don't know first hand what the crowd trouble is like, although I went to Portadown to watch Saints a few months back in a "friendly", and some of the abuse we got during the match wasn't pleasant. One sound Ports fan told us he'd never seen so many UJ's at there matches until teams come up fron the Republic. I just can't see a united Irish team ever working, shame really, I'd take Ivan ahead of McGeady in a shot :thumbgrin


I've no real issues with Derry City in the League of Ireland, they're good for the league, although admittadly for about a month after the cup final, I think I hated you's more than Shels :wink:
 
I've no real issues with Derry City in the League of Ireland, they're good for the league, although admittadly for about a month after the cup final, I think I hated you's more than Shels :wink:[/QUOTE]

To be honest if the situation had of happened the other way about I would have felt the same...

That's why I didn't rub any salt around the wound....:smug:
 
It seems Big Jim Boyce doesn't want to lose the Irish League... He's come out and gave a Paisley type speech "Not on my Watch!!" etc etc etc No other team than Linfield or the Glens would stand a chance in that league..... Obviously I'm inserting my own impression on his speech but that was the basic bullshit....

But being a Cliftonvile man he knows they would never see silver or the airport again.
 
U What? said:
It seems Big Jim Boyce doesn't want to lose the Irish League... He's come out and gave a Paisley type speech "Not on my Watch!!" etc etc etc No other team than Linfield or the Glens would stand a chance in that league..... Obviously I'm inserting my own impression on his speech but that was the basic bullshit....

But being a Cliftonvile man he knows they would never see silver or the airport again.
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The majority of clubs in Irish League would be against it as they end up in lower divisions of an all ireland league.

Been reading a fair bit about this on the various Irish Football Forums. Most for an all ireland league and reckon it WILL happen. But the All Ireland national team will never happen as the Northern Ireland fans don't want any part of a ONE irish team. The idea of it was always a no go. There'd be too much trouble
 
See I fully agree with the fact that there'd be too much trouble..

And to explain what I and assume Mark means to anybody reading this and thinking will we ever grow up...

Too much touble will come, 99% of the time from the twats and bar stoolers who will not pay to see a game in either the League Of Ireland or the Irish League at the moment. These people will come to the "Big Games" against sides who are traditionally from the other side.. and stand/sit amongst the fans who for numerous years have paid their entry and supportered their teams with Loyalty and dignity...
It will also come from the people/kids/youths who will gather outside the grounds waiting for the opposition fans to leave.....

Unfortunatly as a Derry City I have a first hand knowledge of this happening against supporters from Linfield and Glentoran when they visited the Brandywell.. Now these fans where clapped into their seats by the majority of home fans but the trouble hapenned when they left the ground in their buses...

this is the reason that DCFC now play in the Eircom League and in truth I'm glad to be there.

As according to my father he would not want to return to getting the buses stoned when visiting grounds like Coleraine/Ballymena/Linfield/Glentoran/Glenavon/Ballyclare/DistilleryCrusaders... unfortunetly during the 70's trouble was always found at the grounds. Now that's not saying that DCFC followers didn't get involved as Trouble happened in Derry when these teams came to play we were then voted out of the League (Thanks Coleraine) by the other clubs...

Yes the six Northern Counties are in transition but I think an all Ireland league may be a step too far at the moment......

As we've a League to win this year....
 
Rep of Ireland Hibee said:
Problems for Windsor Park

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/irish/6308065.stm


A wooden stand and the IFA allow smoking in it :shock: Whens the new stadium out by the Maze prison gonna be done?
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Wouldn't be Norn Iron without a political view and also the need of Belfast people to think that everything should be built in Belfast...

There was a public meeting last week in Belfast regarding the strategy to get the stadium built in Belfast, Meeting (I Think) was organised by a Norn Iron supporters branch. So of course the meeting was packed out with less than a hundred people....:laff:
 
U What? said:
Wouldn't be Norn Iron without a political view and also the need of Belfast people to think that everything should be built in Belfast...

There was a public meeting last week in Belfast regarding the strategy to get the stadium built in Belfast, Meeting (I Think) was organised by a Norn Iron supporters branch. So of course the meeting was packed out with less than a hundred people....:laff:
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The meeting was held by the Amalgamation of NI Supporters' Clubs in a theatre-style room which doesn't hold many people. And I think it was a 'public meeting' only in name. There's a growing sympathy with Hibs among a small number of the NI support, so I'm not quick to laugh at their plight at the hands of the meddling government.

FWIW, I think the stadium should be build in Belfast since we're meant to be showcasing NI to visiting supporters - not dumping them in the middle of nowhere surrounded by crappy, overpriced Odyssey complex-style bars and restaurants.
 
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