Ireland v North Macedonia - Now a discussion around TAM ratings

[neilld]

If I’m ever allowed back, I’ll be more considerate and bring a hip flask.

[Tim_Riggins]

Made up numbers.

[Tim_Riggins]

@Kyle

Rubby has a fixed calendar and no jeopardy… 6 nations is set and no qualification or relegation needed. They don’t have to qualify for a WC either bar ridiculous standings they’ll never drop below.

Throwing out lines like the above shows a lack of knowledge on your behalf. It’s apples and oranges. The housewives and upwardly mobile aspiring young wans can plan their cultural capital jaunts around the Rubby calendar very easily as it’s such a small game with fixed fixtures. The global game of soccer is far more fluid on multiple levels

You’re a grown adult who supports an English football team because they are relatively successful in England, a cringey bandwagoner. That’s for 8 year olds.

The excuses train doesn’t wash- your bandwagon of extended to the Irish football team. As it does most of the so called “best fans in the world”. Childlike behaviour when it suits.

[Kyle]

You keep trying to get personal with the Liverpool jibes and I’m skitting at your seething-ness . I have you absolutely rattled.

It means more.

[Tim_Riggins]

As I’m hitting the nub of the point.

Football is more popular- far more.

Unfortunately a large chunk are like yourself, with arrested development issues who would rather put their money not some other football project. Lots of chat about the common man and all that, the truth is you all have plenty or cash to throw at Sky subs or trips to England or international tournaments. Enough money to buy tickets and just not turn up, except the bandwagon wasn’t enticing enough on Tuesday.

[gilgamboa]

@Tim_Riggins

Unfortunately a large chunk are like yourself, with arrested development issues who would rather put their money not some other football project. Lots of chat about the common man and all that, the truth is you all have plenty or cash to throw at Sky subs or trips to England or international tournaments. Enough money to buy tickets and just not turn up, except the bandwagon wasn’t enticing enough on Tuesday.

Id say he is gone back under the bed after that one

[Kyle]

Good one… . I supported loi for years since i was 10. I can watch epl like a soap opera on tv and spend no money on it.

I prefer to spend money attending hurling games for the limited few outings i get as a father of 3 young kids these days.

The GAA will always get most irish people’s money over the rest.

[Kyle]

Oh look… it’s the Munster suppoter… the crowd that are going bust from lack of support

[gilgamboa]

@Kyle

Oh look… it’s the Munster suppoter… the crowd that are going bust from lack of support

Go way you eejit the only thing you’d cross the road for is an escape route from the youths in Douglas

[Kyle]

Dont be lashing out because the truth hurts

[Tim_Riggins]

@Kyle

Good one… . I supported loi for years since i was 10. I can watch epl like a soap opera on tv and spend no money on it.

I prefer to spend money attending hurling games for the limited few outings i get as a father of 3 young kids these days.

The GAA will always get most irish people’s money over the rest.

The “Irish”

More cringe attempts at the common man schtick.

The common Irishman has more than enough money to pay for games and not turn up. They’ll be there for the next bandwagon occasion, the exact same as Maureen who loves Andy Farrell and Bundee Aki, just with notions about themselves because they put on a choreographed performance in the stands and outside where the occasion warrants it.

[gilgamboa]

@Tim_Riggins

themselves because they put on a choreographed performance in the stands and outside where the occasion warrants it.

The COYBIG crew with the drums and singalong section

[Tim_Riggins]

And big tifos or whatever they’re called.

It’s literally what 8 year olds do in school.

[Kyle]

Now we’re getting to the crux of it… the common man is your one hatred in life. As an American who was sent to a private school in Ireland you feel aggrieved that the reality of the real Ireland you were shielded from growing up is GAA and soccer. It’s Republican leaning. It caters for Irish language. Irish music. It’s left leaning.

You’ve shown time and time again on here that you loathe two things- working class people and expressions of Irishness. This is why you love rubby so much too because at the heart of it, it’s about the aspirational values of the middle class with a lot of looking down on the working classes…

As always, the truth usually surfaces and ive drawn it out of you wonderfully here.

I’ve always felt sorry for the true club rubby men in Limerick who have had to suffer the likes of you all their lives.

Thank god the GAA and soccer are so insular, Republican and Irish in expression that it wards off the pretentious like yourself and @gilgamboa

[Tim_Riggins]

Going for the American thing…

When you’re the type who likes the NFL and Patriots….because they won some games when you started watching on Sky (sorry I meant when you did your J1).

Your entire being is the exact same as Maureen except they’re self aware. You’re a bandwagon type, with 8 year old sensibilities.

Honestly going for the “Irish” and “Republican” thing when a large portion of your self worth comes from supporting an English football team. FFS.

[Kyle]

I was in north America in 2003/4 with nothing but Boston sports on tv. The Patriots chose me.

[gilgamboa]

@Kyle

and expressions of Irishness

Changing nuns tyres and the likes?

[Spidey]

It’s a bell not a drum

[Kyle]

They rubby boys get giddy over a trumpet

[myboyblue]

@Kyle

They rubby boys get giddy over a trumpet

Maybe the FAI need to play Sweet Caroline when they get a corner?