Albert Bridge Bear
Well-Known Member
Wouldn’t worry about Northern Ireland fans going to Casement Park, highly unlikely Northern Ireland are qualifying for the Euros in 2028 or any major tournament in the next decade anyway.
That’ll be the middle class green wig wankers that has jumped on the band wagon the last decade.If and when the time comes, they - or most of them - will.
Tournament hype tends to attract the event junkies.
A lesser known fact about all this charade is that there’s a significant percentage of Antrim GAA fans that don’t want to play their games at Casement either, they’re happier playing where they are in Antrim.It can't be redeveloped enough due to local residents. Even then a 30k stadium is too big for NI matches and far far too big for Linfield. The new redevelopment is crap enough as it is without making it half empty and completely soulless.
Where do Antrim GAA play at the minute?A lesser known fact about all this charade is that there’s a significant percentage of Antrim GAA fans that don’t want to play their games at Casement either, they’re happier playing where they are in Antrim.
Casement for all but the very biggest games and you can be sure they’ll make sure they send some of them there to justify it, along with concerts, will be even more of a white elephant than any redevelopment of Windsor would have been.
Where Junction One is in Antrim, head out towards the motorway and close to the smaller roundabout with the railway bridge, they have a major place there and a lot of games get played there. They’re also at Loughgiel and there’s some place up further in West Belfast can host games too.Where do Antrim GAA play at the minute?
That’s why there was so many of the cunts on Friday evening when I was heading to the airport. They just abandoned their cars everywhere down that main ballymena road and just walking in the middle of the road in pitch black.Where Junction One is in Antrim, head out towards the motorway and close to the smaller roundabout with the railway bridge, they have a major place there and a lot of games get played there. They’re also at Loughgiel and there’s some place up further in West Belfast can host games too.
The idea that Antrim GAA have thousands of people ready to fill a 30k stadium is farcical. I don’t care about UEFA minimum capacities, that stadium is an absolute white elephant being built because of the appeasement to the Chukkies who have agitated for it because they know damn well the political fallout from it.
Well, believe it. Because even if it did happen, and it’s a long shot…. some things aren’t worth the price you pay in the long run for them. I will reiterate it again…. the IFA suits are way out of whack when it comes to the majority of NI fans wishes on this. And I object to being referred to as a bigot for objecting, which the Chukkies are in full PR gloat mode doing. The fact they’re 100% at it since the announcement should ring a few alarm bells with the ‘keep politics out of sport’ naive mob.I can’t believe any Unionist’s priority here is to try to block the Northern Ireland international team from being able to play games in NI in a European championship with NI as a host nation, more than likely the only time this is ever going to happen.
The NI Office are amongst the ones who have pushed this from day one. No friends of ours, I can assure you.This should be getting pressed at parliament. Why is public money being spent on regenerating an ira hovel? There’s plenty of other stadiums in Britain that could host some matches.
Well, believe it. Because even if it did happen, and it’s a long shot…. some things aren’t worth the price you pay in the long run for them. I will reiterate it again…. the IFA suits are way out of whack when it comes to the majority of NI fans wishes on this. And I object to being referred to as a bigot for objecting, which the Chukkies are in full PR gloat mode doing. The fact they’re 100% at it since the announcement should ring a few alarm bells with the ‘keep politics out of sport’ naive mob.
You’re assuming NI are playing at all, and if they are they could easily go to a different UK based stadium. Considering the GAWA presence in France, that wouldn’t be an issue.So if we remove the option of NI playing in NI, what’s the alternative, play in Dublin?
You’re assuming NI are playing at all, and if they are they could easily go to a different UK based stadium. Considering the GAWA presence in France, that wouldn’t be an issue.
Croke Park is an ultimate Trojan Horse windup job and I’m actually getting incredulous that some folks don’t see it.
90mins of a sniggering match at rubbing them up the wrong road vs a brand new stadium for them to use exclusively from there on for GAA and to prime them as the outdoor concert venue for Belfast.I’m certainly hoping NI will be playing, which will upset the shinners far more than where they are playing, especially with GSTK, Ulster banners and Union Jacks all over in a stadium that is going to built in any case.
After all the parades they’ve had banned from ‘their’ areas, there’s potentially a sweet irony in thousands of NI fans marching into their patch to watch the country republicans have failed to wipe off the map represented in one of the most high profile international sporting events, on what remains British soil.
So transparent ...WindowWould the Joiners on here approve of the Sash at the Casement?
90mins of a sniggering match at rubbing them up the wrong road vs a brand new stadium for them to use exclusively from there on for GAA and to prime them as the outdoor concert venue for Belfast.
What. A. Deal. Not.
It was agreed years ago this stadium would be built when the maze idea was scrapped, it’s going to be built eventually either way.
Well, the Chukkies have played a blinder on it. They’re lording it up big time and so they actually should. Getting far more than the morons in the IFA or Ulster Rugby have ever got. Slow handclaps all round.
That and a lot of typical NI political shenanigans playing the old “peace dividend” load of kackIt’s too big for Linfield whether it’s 18,500 or 30,000, usual short sightedness from the IFA has led to this.
Corrigan Park, Whiterock Rd hosts smaller gamesWhere Junction One is in Antrim, head out towards the motorway and close to the smaller roundabout with the railway bridge, they have a major place there and a lot of games get played there. They’re also at Loughgiel and there’s some place up further in West Belfast can host games too.
The idea that Antrim GAA have thousands of people ready to fill a 30k stadium is farcical. I don’t care about UEFA minimum capacities, that stadium is an absolute white elephant being built because of the appeasement to the Chukkies who have agitated for it because they know damn well the political fallout from it.
The difference is the UK government bit. These bastards despise us and we are bankrolling a nice new stadium for them. Shameful.It was going to be built anyway, and was always going to majority funded by the NI (or maybe now UK govt?). So I don't see what difference it makes.
Uefa, Westminster and Dublin are likely hoping N.I. don't qualify.Wouldn’t worry about Northern Ireland fans going to Casement Park, highly unlikely Northern Ireland are qualifying for the Euros in 2028 or any major tournament in the next decade anyway.
The difference is the UK government bit. These bastards despise us and we are bankrolling a nice new stadium for them. Shameful.
I love my country and have followed NI since I was old enough to go to games in the mid 90s, but yes (and I never thought I’d say this) I’d far rather see NI not qualify than go and watch them in that IRA shrineSo if we remove the option of NI playing in NI, what’s the alternative, play in Dublin?
It does matter what we do they always want more and they will always resent us. Bend over and they want us to lie flat on our back.I get that. But do you give them nothing and they resent you more, never wanting to be a part of NI? People need to look at the big picture, but Unionists never do.
It does matter what we do they always want more and they will always resent us. Bend over and they want us to lie flat on our back.
What is it some unionists don’t understand? Nationalists DO NOT want us to exist, they want rid of the PUL community totally. Doesn’t matter what we do to appease them they do not want us or will ever accept us or our culture and existence
As I said to you earlier in the thread each to their own but it doesn’t sit right with me watching my country play at the home of an IRA shrine in the middle of one of the largest Republican areas you can get.Plenty of catholics want to stay in the Union, you can alienate them more, or you can try to make them feel at home, what's so hard for you to understand about that? Casement is going ahead, it always was at some point, so you need to get over it.
There will always be those who hate us, nothing can be done about that. But there are plenty of catholics not born in republican ghetto's happy with their lot, who like gaa, might go to mass but are happy in the UK. Blocking money that was already promised to Casement would be a massive political own goal, but Unionism has been scoring them for years anyway.
I honestly will not be surprised they will push and push for anew national anthem for NI to be played if we make it to the euros and playing there and I guarantee now that there will be some agreement the ulster flag will not be flown. Rules have been bent before to appease so don’t be surprised there will be more bending over backwards for these bastardsIf they’d have got what the IFA and Ulster Rugby got. A more realistic stadium. But oh no, They’re getting the bells and whistles one, massively oversized for what they actually need - at a pittance for what they say they’re prepared to help pay. £15m for an all singing and dancing 30k stadium? Wow, not bad.
The “most oppressed people ever” have struck another goldmine. They’re quite good at being oppressed and getting money fired at them, all at the same time. The fact it’s a two finger in the eye to the rest of us is just the icing on their cake. No doubt we haven’t heard about the cherry yet.
It is mental that the home nation would most likely be unable to play at their "home" venue.
You can bet your life that this is the plan.I honestly will not be surprised they will push and push for anew national anthem for NI to be played if we make it to the euros and playing there and I guarantee now that there will be some agreement the ulster flag will not be flown. Rules have been bent before to appease so don’t be surprised there will be more bending over backwards for these bastards
Give me the upside to this. Are they all of a sudden going to love the UK. No, so fvck them and the horse the rode in on.I get that. But do you give them nothing and they resent you more, never wanting to be a part of NI? People need to look at the big picture, but Unionists never do.
My money is on 2, saying that scrote Varadkar is already at it.
Btw, if you take a look at the IFA on FB it’s pretty glaringly obvious the Shinnerbots are all over it…. liking posts about the hosting and shouting down as ‘bigots’ any dissent. That’s what they do!
The day and hour that the national anthem is changed to appease others who hate our very existence is the day I Chuck it, and I fear that day is coming very soonThe IFA have broke me with their backing of this. I’m sorry to say I no longer have an international team to support.
I will always support my country mate, and some wee middle class green wig wearing prick would never push me away when I was there during the dark days of the mid 90s onwards.I have stopped following or even caring about the Northern Ireland national team for a long time now. Supporters are now a carbon copy of those who follow Ulster Rugby. They will happily give up the National Anthem.
My own pettiness meant that i struggled to ever follow a team in green anyway!
The only one that would be instead is the Chukkies and you can be your bottom Euro that those tramps will be spend spend spend, especially on that.That’s if him and his party is still there, they’re close to be the first Irish government to be sued as the state by an advocacy group.
SF and a few other parties are hoping to use it to get an election going early.
What you give them should be what was originally agreed. Football £61.4million, Gaelic Games £61.4million and Rugby £14.7million.I get that. But do you give them nothing and they resent you more, never wanting to be a part of NI? People need to look at the big picture, but Unionists never do.
So if we remove the option of NI playing in NI, what’s the alternative, play in Dublin?
Ibrox.
Now that would be something. Our political representatives seem incapable of running a bath these days never mind something universally popular like that.
And just think of the amount of Rangers fans joining in wih the NI fans? Full houses every game.