How do you know they are less likely? This is the best fans in the wuddled and a handful of home games all year. Not games every week like an english club. Braindead comparison.
Says the lad who says the forum would be dead without him 
Everyone is less likely to go to things during the week. Its common sense
Ah common sense… This is gone beyond tedious, you have met facts with heartfelt opinions so enough is enough
Ireland’s best rugby win ever was basically forgotten about by the Wednesday because the soccer team sacked their manager
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Tim has brought up irrelevant facts throughout the argument and you’ve followed him in like a little puppy
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There’s far more depth to ordinary people’s knowledge of association football than rugby. Rugby games are essentially social occasions where the majority crowd are there more for the networking opportunities and/or the beer than for the rugby itself.
Irrelevant facts? We’ve proven rugby crowd far outstrip soccer crowds, you have your half baked opinions, comparing a national soccer team that plays a handful of times a year to an englisg soccer club. Bizzare hopeless comparison
Yes irrelevant facts. He’s comparing rugby matches played on Saturday evenings to football matches played on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
You still don’t seem to have grasped that people are more likely to go to things on weekends
Some thread boys . Serious diligent and persistent INTERNETTING.
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Have you anything to back this up? This is a few games a year and we are talking about the best fans in the wuddled. The portion that work 9-5,or actually work at all, let a 15 min dart journey put them off?
You also are of course ignoring that the england game was on a Saturday, an nowhere near a sell out
And they say Limerick folk are demented
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Galway lads are peak demented. Especially the ones planted in America. They’d fight inside in a phonebox
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41k at the first Nations League game in Dublin, another 18k supporting the island’s other team in Belfast. So 59k football fans at the first round of games across the island. Presumably its appropriate to consider attendances for both teams as rugby is an all island side.
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No we aren’t. We are talking about the most popular team in the country
A friendly. Soccer friendlies aren’t taken seriously
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The bottom line is that the fortunes of the rugby team don’t affect the national mood in the same way the fortunes of the association football team do. It’s not even close.
People like to see the rugby team do well, but it doesn’t ruin people’s day if they lose and it doesn’t send people wild with delirium if they win, certainly not to anywhere near the same extent as if the association football team do well.
The assocation football team can engage the Irish people like nothing else. The Roy Keane/Mick McCarthy saga proved that once and for all. Italia 90 is essentially the most seminal cultural event in the living memory of most people in Ireland. Part of that is because it’s incredibly hard for a country the size of Ireland to make a genuine mark on the only mass participation sport that is truly a world game, but also because there’s a deep and meaningful mass engagement wiith the game of association football in Ireland, in a way that simply doesn’t exist for rugby.
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