If in Doubt,

You are very naive if you think Mr wenger took time out to send Lacey a letter.
That is what the PR boys are for in the club.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4024 - 04/12/2012 12:28:07    1306261

Lads I haven't read what's being said here apart from the last post, my mate a few years ago was celebrating his 21st he's a massive arsenal fan so his family wrote to the club and he got a similar letter, it's just Pr stuff with Wengers signature at the bottom.

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 04/12/2012 12:39:15    1306270

tomsmith
County: Cavan
Posts: 1715

If you look at it a recent County manager had just won somebit of silverware and he was whisked away to Glasgow , Why I ask.
Would the fact that Rangers were demoted to 3rd Division and fall off in yearly ticket sales in old Donegal have anything to do with it ?

Have Celtic made public the number of season tickets they have sold to Donegal folk over the last few years, or am I missing something here?

tomsmith
County: Cavan
Posts: 1715

If in Doubt,

You are very naive if you think Mr wenger took time out to send Lacey a letter.
That is what the PR boys are for in the club.

That's even if it was the PR boys.

if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3691 - 04/12/2012 12:47:31    1306281

jesus lads did you not forgot soccer is originally a british sport we are one of the few countries with our own game...the epl is supported by lots of countries all over the world not just ireland...answer the question culann do you have a problem with lads following the nba and nfl over their irish counterparts?

ffgg (Longford) - Posts: 2571 - 04/12/2012 15:00:18    1306354

answer the question culann do you have a problem with lads following the nba and nfl over their irish counterparts
ffgg

Is this what is going on? I do not know much about it. However, i'd imagine true Irish basketball followers would support there own clubs/teams. Why are you so eager for me to answer the question? Do you think you have one up on me or something? Do you think it is a good question or something?

Culann (Dublin) - Posts: 2306 - 04/12/2012 15:07:21    1306359

yes what this has to do with the current gaa footballer of the year receiving a letter from a manager he likes is beyond me

ffgg (Longford) - Posts: 2571 - 04/12/2012 15:10:58    1306363

im just asking as a matter of interest as why should it be any different for other sports as it is for soccer...im a fan of the nba as are most basketball fans around the world with the other leagues receiving very little support bar a few in europe

ffgg (Longford) - Posts: 2571 - 04/12/2012 15:46:00    1306373

dont be trying to label me or anything culann..we know how that upsets you so much that you bring it up in every thread!

ffgg (Longford) - Posts: 2571 - 04/12/2012 15:47:32    1306375

yes what this has to do with the current gaa footballer of the year receiving a letter from a manager he likes is beyond me
ffgg , 04/12/2012 at 15:10

Its not beyond you. You helped deviate the discussion from the title. Read back if you do nopt believe me. You have been talking a lot about things not relevent to the title.

Culann (Dublin) - Posts: 2306 - 04/12/2012 15:50:11    1306379

and as for spending my time hyping up the epl im hardly hyping it up im not even that big a fan i discuss a wide variety of topics on this forum as i dont feel the need to waste my time questioning other peoples irishness and some nonsense about our culture dying

ffgg (Longford) - Posts: 2571 - 04/12/2012 15:53:36    1306384

yes but if you look above you will see i merely responded to those bringing it away from its original topic

ffgg (Longford) - Posts: 2571 - 04/12/2012 16:16:37    1306387

if_in_doubt
County: Kildare
Posts: 1369

So what are the Polish and German peoples own sports?
Have they a national sporting equivalent to the GAA?
Other European countries don't do it like Ireland largely because they have professional football leagues of their own. I'd love it if we had the fanbase for the domestic league here to become fully professional and sustainable, but unfortunately most would rather spend their money in the pub roaring abuse at a tv than going to see their local team play.
As far as other European countries go, the Norwegians are mad about the Premiership too, possibly just as much as the Irish, despite having their own professional well run league with teams regularly featuring in European competition. Then again maybe they've all turned their backs on their Viking heritage...
What this has to do with a letter from Wenger to Lacey though I don't know, nice touch by the Frenchman, nice to see that some football clubs aren't as out of touch with fans as they are sometimes portrayed as being, even if the signature does look a little bit off.

i ment sport played in poland and germany in general i never said they had to invent it.
you dont buy a norwegian newspaper and find 20 pages of english soccer and any sport played in norway crammed into two pages like you do here.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 04/12/2012 19:27:02    1306499

ffgg
County: Longford
Posts: 1938

1306354
jesus lads did you not forgot soccer is originally a british sport we are one of the few countries with our own game...the epl is supported by lots of countries all over the world not just ireland...answer the question culann do you have a problem with lads following the nba and nfl over their irish counterparts?

yes but they follow their own soccer leagues ahead of the english soccer it doesnt dominated there pages in the nespaper over their own sport played there.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 04/12/2012 19:28:56    1306500

ffgg
County: Longford
Posts: 1938

1306363
yes what this has to do with the current gaa footballer of the year receiving a letter from a manager he likes is beyond me

you know full well the conversation changed pages back from that so dont play dumb.

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 04/12/2012 19:30:23    1306503

ffgg
County: Longford
Posts: 1938

but we buy irish newspapers to get irish news if we wanted british news we would buy a british newspaper if you cannot see that this is leading to irish culture dying out your very naive

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 04/12/2012 19:32:30    1306507

Do you read a lot of Norwegian newspapers? :)

Have a look online, they all carry English Premier League stories as the headline sports news

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4649 - 04/12/2012 19:38:54    1306511

why have you experience with norwegian papers hill or is that just a guess?..youv shown in the past that you have a struggle with facts.....what do you make yourself hill of lads following the nfl and nba over their irish counterparts?..and padraig harington plays in competitions which are practically all abroad similar to our soccer players so i dont know why you are naming him...our culture is fine certain newspapers have always behaved that way...most countries which have poor quality soccer leagues such as ours look to other nations to both play and support

ffgg (Longford) - Posts: 2571 - 04/12/2012 19:41:33    1306515

we are a very small nation...we are always going to be heavily influenced by globalization

ffgg (Longford) - Posts: 2571 - 04/12/2012 19:43:54    1306521

hill16no1man
County: Dublin
Posts: 3251

but we buy irish newspapers to get irish news if we wanted british news we would buy a british newspaper if you cannot see that this is leading to irish culture dying out your very naive

Well if people know they're going to be full of British news instead of the Irish news the reader is looking for then surely the reader should have copped on by now and stopped buying them? Then again the majority of these papers are only Irish in that they have "The Irish" printed before their name on top of the front page, they're basically all sister papers to their British counterparts are they not?

As long as the papers are selling they aren't going to change the style of content are they?

Maybe GAA players who happen to follow the Premiership should give up their grants too eh..

if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3691 - 04/12/2012 19:48:06    1306526

bad.monkey
County: USA
Posts: 3236

1306511
Do you read a lot of Norwegian newspapers? :)

Have a look online, they all carry English Premier League stories as the headline sports news

they dont dominate their sports pages and cram the sport played there into a couple of pages likee here

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 04/12/2012 20:04:14    1306537