We’re not Brasil we’re Tuaisceart Éireann

Roberto Baggio wrote: Surely if it’s that bad a crime in footballing terms, I mean it probably influenced you to join the forum of a rival team, then age isn’t that big a factor and it’s the principle of it OK for Michael O’Neill to do it, a disgrace when the FAI do it. I get ya.

Garbage

Roberto Baggio wrote: Garbage Says the man who can’t make a post without a mundane copy and paste job from Wikipedia

Ah the auld sectarian card.

O'Neill and the IFA are doing the exactly the same thing as what the FAI are doing.

horsebox wrote: Ah the auld sectarian card.

Its very simple, either the FAI chase up players who will play for them or players make contact with the FAI expressing their intentions.

These people would be Catholic or Nationalist, players from a Unionist wouldn't want to play for the ROI.

I have absolutely no idea what religion any of the players are in the ROI team, it's completely irrelevant.


If a Unionist player did decide to play for the ROI, I'd say he'd get the same treatment as Neil Lennon did.

He wouldn't set foot in his own community again.


Edited by horsebox - 29 Aug 2019 at 6:26pm

Terri, you’re spouting sh*te here. IFA approach FAI players, no problem. FAI approach IFA players, that’s wrong.

Territorial wrote: horsebox wrote: Its very simple, either the FAI chase up players who will play for them or players make contact with the FAI expressing their intentions. These people would be Catholic or Nationalist, players from a Unionist wouldn't want to play for the ROI. Ah right. You decide whether they'd be interested or not, not them. That's like in the old days, the shipyard saying we don't advertise vacancies in Catholic papers because "they probably wouldn't want to work for us". horsebox wrote: I have absolutely no idea what religion any of the players are in the ROI team, it's completely irrelevant. But how do you know which players to approach "who will play for you" (your phrase), if you don't have any prior knowledge of their background? Do FAI scouts  not have access to school details, social media, home addresses or even simple players' names to give an indication? Besides, if they've no way of knowing, and wouldn't be interested anyhow, why not instead approach every young player, and see how they react? Except that that simply doesn't happen. horsebox wrote: If a Unionist player did decide to play for the ROI, I'd say he'd get the same treatment as Neil Lennon did. He wouldn't set foot in his own community again. What, you mean like Bryan Hamilton, for instance? You know, worked for the FAI. Even played in that game vs Brazil in 1973. No fatwa on him returning to NI that I've ever heard of. Or Alan Kernaghan. Yeah, that's the fella, famously played for ROI against NI in Belfast in 1993 - before going on to be a coach at Rangers. Or how do you imagine he  went on to do the job managing Glentoran, a club in the very heart of loyalist East Belfast? By remote control from a secret bunker somewhere? P.S. Have you ever set foot in Northern Ireland?

I simply couldn't be arsed responding to the rest of your drivel.

I do be up the North a few times a year. Twice in the last month.

One thing I noticed, in nearly every Unionist town, they have parachute regiment flags and soldier F flags. How welcoming.





Edited by horsebox - 29 Aug 2019 at 8:18pm

The twisted, argumentative NI guy is so irritating.His shipyard analogy is twisted: Catholics weren't wanted in their big macho yard.Not so macho now.Their big macho riveters     yeah! Nobody left there now to chase Catholics in their pogroms.While that rubbish was busy marching, the Catholics were doing drill   and outbred them!😉