Rovers V Liverpool MEGATHRED

Your mans artical as a whole is right, pats are the team to watch there's no questions about that? His fahey thing is just the usual pick the best player as MOTM stuff ya usually see, Fahey hasn't done much since he's came back, he hasn't been terrible either just not his usual self! There's 2 reasons for this IMO 1 his 2 year absence from the game an I can see him getting fitter every week and 2 him playing holding midfielder! He's not a holding midfielder he might have been made more definsivly minded in England but over here his passing ability in the top half of the pitch is unreal, playing him deep encourages his 40 yard passes which can't come off all the time! When he's hanging around the edge for corners an the ball drops to him he's like the old fahey, little passes taking people on, driving into the box but for some reason unknown to me he's not been played there I hope it changes!

He is winding up. Clear as day, big smirk on his face,

It is a cringefest! A LOI highlights programme and the main issue is Liverpool reserves end of season piss up!

I`ve been finding this thread highly interesting and the best post for me so far came from KingswoodRover, when he addressed the central question: "Is there any other country whose domestic league has been so reduced or ridiculed in the minds of their own population?"

Look across Europe at small nations like ourselves and they put our sham patriotism to shame. The Cypriots have a quarter of our population, yet Limassol or Nicosia will regularly qualify for Europa group stages or even the CL, because they`ll get gates of 18K to fund their progress.

The Danes have a similar population to us, but they dont go streaming across the (nearby) border to Germany in order to follow a Bundesliga team. They`re a proud people who believe in their own domestic league and because of fanbase support and resources, Danish clubs regularly compete at the business end of European competition.

It`s the same for Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland and other small nations like ourselves. The fans support their local football product, in the knowledge that support equals revenue equals comparative success in Europe. We dont seem to have grasped that yet...

If our soccer media - those print and broadcast journalists - had attended LOI games from a young age, like me, then they might have an inkling of passion for domestic football. But most of them have prob never been through a LOI turnstile in their lives and just obsess about the EPL and SPL. Bless them :)     

Del-Piero wrote: http://www.independent.ie/s/soccer/league-of-ireland/the-only-surprise-is-that-people-are-still-surprised-30282650.%20 - http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/the-only-surprise-is-that-people-are-still-surprised-30282650.html

he mentions the word 'unpatriotic', the idea that Irish people who cant speak their own language could regard other Irish people who support 'foreign' clubs 'unpatriotic' is laughable and cringy,as if the soccer team people support is a more important aspect of national identity than your own language

roverstillidie wrote: captain slog wrote:   he mentions the word 'unpatriotic', the idea that Irish people who cant speak their own language could regard other Irish people who support 'foreign' clubs 'unpatriotic' is laughable and cringy,as if the soccer team people support is a more important aspect of national identity than your own language There is a valid point when people who follow an arbitrary foreign side on the basis they have some contrived Irish roots, when they actually don't, call the local players "Irish ***ts".

the made up Irish connection is embarassing, it would be like people claiming Shamrock Rovers have a strong English connection