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    Posted: 31 Mar 2015 at 10:50am
There was a fantastic atmosphere last night in the Aviva Stadium. It was great to see some Poles with their Polish gear on but having an Ireland scarf around them and face painted green. I saw one Pole decked out in red and white whereas his two small kids had green on. A notable amount would have bought three tickets with the English and Scottish games included. Any way we can attract our Polish friends to Lansdowne more regularly cheering on the Boys in Green? They're clearly football mad and it would be great to have them along more often.


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Play Poland every week ??
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Play Poland every week ??


I was waiting for that. Can people leave the jokes to Sligo Hornet.
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While it's a nice sentiment there's no chance a load of Poles are gonna attend our games and support us when we're in the same group!
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I think a good few Poles come to watch Ireland when they can. 

I think any of them who are involved in grassroutes here would go but perhaps not too many would commit to buying season tickets. .

Maybe the FAI could start targeting more polish through the media. (advertise in polish papers here, have a polish section on the FAI website, send some Polish tweets?)

Just a few random ideas, but i definitely think we can build on this. 
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Originally posted by ABFC ABFC wrote:

Originally posted by Borussia Borussia wrote:

Play Poland every week ??


I was waiting for that. Can people leave the jokes to Sligo Hornet.


Fair point !

Not sure there is an easy answer to this one : Might be interesting to see if any LOI clubs maybe try and do something on the back of this to try and attract some of these people to their games.
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I think we'd be better off trying to attract more Irish to the games tbh. 
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agreed need to get more Irish  "fans" off their bar stools and couches - fair play to the poles great color and noise.
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Why stop at Poles ? theres a large number of Baltic and Africian immigrants in the country. Why not try and attract them to the games. Maybe we could rename ourselves the UN team and forget about our Irishness altogether.............
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Originally posted by Cabra Hoop Cabra Hoop wrote:

Why stop at Poles ? theres a large number of Baltic and Africian immigrants in the country. Why not try and attract them to the games. Maybe we could rename ourselves the UN team and forget about our Irishness altogether.............


Missing the point here I think - Many of the kids mentioned will have been born in Ireland to Polish parents.
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Hummmmm it's a bit like if you live in England would you be happy to go along to Wembley to see England play ?????Thumbs Down
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Originally posted by Claret Murph Claret Murph wrote:

Hummmmm it's a bit like if you live in England would you be happy to go along to Wembley to see England play ?????Thumbs Down


I know plenty of Irish people over here who are married to English people and have kids who share a sense of belonging to both nations and support both.

Anyways, that's kinda beside the point in that I wish we were selling out our home games and not allowing away teams to take over (fair play to the Poles for their great support).



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Originally posted by Claret Murph Claret Murph wrote:

Hummmmm it's a bit like if you live in England would you be happy to go along to Wembley to see England play ?????Thumbs Down


Well, Phil Jagielka's parents possibly did. We could do with a couple of kids like that coming through. Although the only motivation that people usually need is the promise of a good game with good players and a good atmosphere.

getting more fans to club and international games (no matter what their background) is a must. Play well and they will come.
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Originally posted by Borussia Borussia wrote:

Originally posted by Cabra Hoop Cabra Hoop wrote:

Why stop at Poles ? theres a large number of Baltic and Africian immigrants in the country. Why not try and attract them to the games. Maybe we could rename ourselves the UN team and forget about our Irishness altogether.............


Missing the point here I think - Many of the kids mentioned will have been born in Ireland to Polish parents.


Indeed, there are a lot of kids and teenagers now from Polish and Baltic families walking around with perfect Irish accents. I'd say it's only a matter of time before we see a few such players start to appear in the underage set up.
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Originally posted by Strazdas Strazdas wrote:

Originally posted by Borussia Borussia wrote:

Originally posted by Cabra Hoop Cabra Hoop wrote:

Why stop at Poles ? theres a large number of Baltic and Africian immigrants in the country. Why not try and attract them to the games. Maybe we could rename ourselves the UN team and forget about our Irishness altogether.............


Missing the point here I think - Many of the kids mentioned will have been born in Ireland to Polish parents.


Indeed, there are a lot of kids and teenagers now from Polish and Baltic families walking around with perfect Irish accents. I'd say it's only a matter of time before we see a few such players start to appear in the underage set up.
Only a metter of time before we lose a lot of them to the their parents native country too I'd say
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Originally posted by Strazdas Strazdas wrote:

Originally posted by Borussia Borussia wrote:

Originally posted by Cabra Hoop Cabra Hoop wrote:

Why stop at Poles ? theres a large number of Baltic and Africian immigrants in the country. Why not try and attract them to the games. Maybe we could rename ourselves the UN team and forget about our Irishness altogether.............


Missing the point here I think - Many of the kids mentioned will have been born in Ireland to Polish parents.



Indeed, there are a lot of kids and teenagers now from Polish and Baltic families walking around with perfect Irish accents. I'd say it's only a matter of time before we see a few such players start to appear in the underage set up.


Lots of players in the U17 and U19 age groups already with North African, Romanian and other names. Can't be anything but positive.
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not so sure about that. 

a lot of folks who have moved here have integrated very well and i am sure many of their kids sound irish class themselves as irish of ghanaian/polish/nigerian extraction etc.

i predict many more noe baba's in the next 20 years. 
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