Ah, so that’s why she hasn’t commented yet. ;)

Does it get rotated round all the fans – a week each to put it on the mantelpiece? :)

It should be expected. Should it be rewarded though?

They’re probably in Portrush moaning at people supporting the Irish golfers

Our fans are no different its just our expectations are so much lower. Remember the fans in Cyprus? They rightfully booed and vented their anger at a dismal performance. I think this ultimately serves the team better than cheering on 3 hammerings in a row.

Just what I was thinking. Nice to be in the good books of UEFA while our bid is being considered. Europa league final went well last year and now we know they think well of the Irish people. We may have come away with more from Poland when we realise.

Do you seriously believe our fans being in the “good books” with UEFA makes a blind bit of difference to any bid? Some how I don’t think the consideration of fans ranks too highly on their agenda.

Still think Keane was right-this award is like receiving the hardest tryer award in school!! Fans were great, but if i hear fields of athenry again i will puke.

Would you have preferred if the fans acted like sore losers and wrecked the place? Those fans showed support for their team even when there was no hope. Now toddle off and listen to the fields of athenry

Roy, the traitor who walked out on his country is an embarrassment to this nation. The fans on the other hand, showed our better side to the world.

@Limofax ; Roy didn’t walk on his country, he was sent home. He is most certainly not an embarrassment, he’s the best midfielder this country has ever produced. Everything Roy said was proved correct in the genesis report afterwards. They had no gear, footballs, no proper training pitch. It was an absolute disgrace and he was right as captain to voice his opinion, and he was 100% right in everything he said.

By your logic every tournament we get to will be a success.
There’s no doubting we have brilliant fans, but to say we are on a par with Italy as regards a successful tournament overall is ludicrous.
Maybe Keane didn’t get it wrong in regards what we regard as success after all.

Rommel.. I didnt say we were on par with italy.. I said that our off the pitch contribution was very impresive.. And that we contributed as much to the tournament as anybody else. we were a credit to a sport that is plagued with controversy on and off the pitch in regards to fan behaviour and respect… learn how to read, or maybe stop reading tabloid press and learn how to formulate an opinion in a somewhat appropriate manner.

I’m worried about Paula too, someone should call around to check on her.

In all fairness, when we look at the final tomorrow, we were crap but hadn’t got much of a chance considering the group we were in.

James we saw a lot of you interviewed on sky sports news, cringeworthy is putting it mildly! Take the booze abd the other substances away from the situation and there would have been no fields of athenry after getting thumped 4-0. I speak from experience, i have been in a sober landsdowne to watch us lose to France in a qualifier- could have heard a pin drop. Fair play to the fans at least they tried to get their moneys worth! It was the booze talkin though in all honesty I’m sure you can accept that.n

Yes Rich you are entirely correct, you were there sure. And you no everything. I stand corrected. Off i go into my little hole now.

I wasnt on sky news rich btw, i was too busy conversing with polish and croatian nationals, but sure you knew that already because you were there……

Oh and rich forgot over more thing the stadium was selling non alcoholic, it was pretty sobering being trashed for 90 mins, so we sang anyway to keep everyones spirits up.

I don’t know why you can’t see that over all were a very personable bunch, learn that and get over your gripe.

Just because the FAI have dedicated the award to James Nolan, it doesn’t mean people are no longer entitled to their opinions on the merits of the award.
On the second point I agree.

Fair point. Just pointing out that the crazy level of anger expressed here requires a bit of perspective.

Or you’re still whining because you know everything there is to know about soccer, and you believe that you should have been the goalie, centre back, midfielder, striker and manager, and you would have single handedly won the tournament.
In which case I bow to your superiority, and look forward to you winning the next World Cup for Ireland from behind your computer.

Blah blah economy blah blah

Snore, everything has to do with politics and the economy. ZZZZZzzzzzzzz i think there are other news storys out there for ya lewis.

Give over lads the comment was about the Irish psyche not the economy. the economic medicine was just the prism through which I explained it. I also gave another example and there are countless more.. Queens visit, Obama’s visit anyone.. OMG the president is 1/1600th Irish – we rule!!! We make national institutions out of joke popstars after they make a run at singing contests over in the ‘big time’ of London. It’s in our character to crave approval when in fact it is a sign of our insecurity.

Roy’s right we should demand more of ourselves and be the best we can be, not go looking for the ‘also ran’ award. It’s like in Meet the Fockers where his parents made him up an 8th place award for finishing 8th in a race of 8.

Lewis you failed at the first hurdle, the fans were the best ‘they could be’ i was there. Which is why we are getting an award. THE FANS.

Next…..

I didn’t realise it was a fan contest. Who votes for it, is it like the eurovision where they take a jury vote from around the continent or does Platini decide it all on his own… maybe after John Delaney buys him a half dozen pints.

I’m glad the Irish are so affable I really do but this was a football contest. (never mind what basing our Identity around this kind of stuff does to our drinking habits and rate of alcoholism)

16th out of 16!!! & the joint worst record ever at the euros

All I want to come of this is for us to actually bring some of our young talented players into the squad and to develop a tactical plan B.

oh and I was stood at Bray vs Cork last nigh with the sun in my eyest where’s my award?

rich if you think the tournament it’s just about football it shows how little you know. Tell that to the polish and ukrainians who spent billions promoting their country.

We’ve done the same but with goodwill, and let’s not devolve this into a pissing contest on loi supporters, I don’t feel the need to tell everyone when im watching rovers get mauled. I’ll give you a can of coke if you want

Maybe instead of having to beat Germany and Sweden to qualify for Brazil 2014 they might grant us special qualification through the ‘most imaginative costume’ route or perhaps for the ‘longest unbroken singsong’

Good one lewis as such an avid supporter im sure then you are aware the team is now in transition and will lose good or bad some of the older members in key positions. How about focusing on the next crop and seeking some positives.

Sure by bringing McCarthy, Hoolahan & Coleman into the squad it at least gives us the option to change things up to face different tactical challenges. If the manager shows an openness to considering a player that doesn’t fit his usual mold.

But we need to go deeper than the next squad transition and look long term, we need to teach youngsters to be comfortable with the ball at their feet and to understand the tactical side of the game as they do on the continent.

and we need to realise that now that the Premiership is a global league we are highly unlikely to be guaranteed a handful of Irish players in the league leading teams like the ManU’s and Liverpool’s of old, they go to Africa and S. America for players now not to the ddsl. If Irish players are making it in the premiership less and less.. then i look forward to the day when Rovers has a few Irish internationals again and can actually get a few results at the group stages of European competition. We need to give them an alternative route to the top.

We need sustainability in the Irish game and not just event junkies filling the Aviva now and then making sure all the money goes directly to Delaneys coffers instead of spread out to the grassroots of the game.

But he’s alive, and spewing garbage as usual, and being a crap manager too.

Must admit I never seen any news talk presenters, I also wasn’t tucking into beers at any hour of the morning. Perhaps mr news talk was looking across the breakfast table in his four or five star at john delaney.

Hear hear. We were the only country at the finals without a professional league behind the national team. Thanks a lot for your continued west-britism Oirish fans, you may as well go support England too such is your devotion for the English Premier League.

Em…I think I saw riot police at Dalymount last night. Not sure how well we fare at home with goodwill supporters.

True. You never seen riot police in the glorious EPL though. Rule Britannia.

Nothing worse than comments in the right getting red thumbed out of it. Spot on John and Ultan!

You can continue watching shite football if you so wish

I bet all you League of Ireland Only supporters ever had an opportunity to play for an English premier team you wouldn’t be long changing your allegiance.n

Can’t you do both? I regularly attend league of Ireland games, occasionally premiership games and I was in Poland.
Now that I think about it’s pointless commenting, you’re not for changing. Let’s just say I was proud to be in the stadium in gdansk and proud of all the Irish fans and leave it at that.

dothebow. If you are referring to my comment you should read it again. It said League of Ireland Only. And that excludes you.

That was FIFA, not UEFA.

Is still an absolutely pointless award. Like sports day in school when you got a medal for last place

And you were last by the look of you..

Joseph, are you that langer Roy in disguise???? The boys done us proud, I for one think it’s an apt award for the behavior shown by the thousands who travelled to support the country. Congratulations everyone!! Not you, Roy

I don’t see any reason why exceptional behaviour should not be rewarded. The fans have done us very proud and potentially given better advertising for Ireland than we would ever get from paid marketing.

Will they be getting imf loan with that too

Joseph to say ” the boys done us proud ” is taking the piss . I’m delighted to see us get “the best losers award ” but they certainly did not do us proud . They played like 5 year olds !

I agree with some of what Roy Keane said when it’s actually put in the right context . Yes we have great fans , yes we have great pride , yes we have great ambition but we really need to stop accepting the fact that we are losers and cheering it on . They are meant to be a competitive football team and they are not !

I will say I’m delighted for the fans and they deserve all the awards and congratulations .

Proud to be drunk

Adrian, I hope your feeling better. God bless your poor stomach. Try to avoid all newspapers, TV and online media and with the grace of God you’ll be on the road to recovery in the coming months…. x x x

I understand, because good news can have that effect on people…….

why do you wonder that, none of the Irish team play in that league,

I’m delighted with this award and I attend LOI games. Awkward…..

What has that got to do with anything, they attended the Euro’s in Poland which is a lot harder to get to and more expensive than going to a poxy shed in Richmond park to watch shite football…

So you have to go watch a LOI game to support our national team?n I never realised, do I get a certificate of attendance and do I have to produce it to get a ticket for Lansdowne?nnSame old drivel from LOI fans, if ye concentrated on providing a decent product that would attract more fans ye would be better off, rather than dwelling in bitterness.

@footBall ya we best work harder on our league (the Irish one) and ye stick to the English premier league because after all, it is yer league….no wonder we got no points at the euros, people are happier ‘supporting’ an English side before their local team down the road

Players like Fahey, Ward, Doyle, Long, McClean, Coleman, Houlahan, Forde etc aint product enough but as soon as they go to england they are? You were probebly cheering on England aswell as soon as Ireland were knocked out.

John your comments are so boring and repetitive tbh, i was in poland it was epic we demonstrated exactly what supporters should be like, and we passed that to everyone we met, get over yourself you sad sack.

Btw i sit in the west stand in tallaght if your looking for me.

And dont you dare berate me for watching all sports, il be in croke park for the dubs too SHOCK HORROR!!!

Poor poor James, look you’re probably just in the height of it because you shower of shams have been embarrassed by both your rivals this year. If I were you I’d turn that seat in the west stand around facing away from the pitch, you might get better enjoyment for the remainder of the season. Bottoms up me aul mucker and always remember that Stephen Kenny is a Pats and Bohs legend. You enjoy the dubs game tomorrow although I reckon you were 1 of them who slaughtered Thomas Davis and the GAA. Take care and enjoy that wonderful football in Tallaght for the rest of the season ;-)

Ah good oul sh*te talk john got to love it, i have no qualms about anyone watching any sport. Rovers have been heavily shown up this season. Bad management thats clear. I have no issues with GAA either John.

In fact John, i just enjoy sports. It doesnt matter what type of sport. And i never feel the need to pull out the im better than you school boy card either.

Youve got a hilarious chip on your shoulder and im sure your dying to tell everyone when you bought your first jersey and how you stand in the pissing rain from one end of the season to the other. Its repetitive johnser and doesnt do anything for you.

I suppose you werent even watching the english irish team on the box then ?

lol

I don’t watch league of Ireland football for the same reason I don’t watch Leitrim play hurling. I watch premier football because the level of the game is better. I’d watch serie A oe bundesliga too if it was on my tv and I could understand the commentary.nnWhen the LoI ups it’s game, people will pay attentiom

@John Doyle – what age are you – 6?

I bet you vote Sinn Fein as well John

I often wonder how the bitterness of the John Doyles of this world manifests itself to such a degree! How does one live like this….Answers on a post card please!

Well I go to several League of Ireland games a season, I’ve never been to a Premiership game but have been to an FA Cup and a League One game, I’ve also been to games in other countries such as France and the Czech Republic, I go to Ireland games and as in Poland when we got knocked out I supported them in their final group game, then because I was born in England (through no fault of my own, I might add) I supported England when the Polesa got knocked out.

Am I allowed be delighted with this award John?

All the arm chair fans happy with the ‘Montgomery Burns’ award. It’s the only award you might get near. Look enjoy it and I’m sure we’ll see you all in the Aviva come the start of WC 2014 qualfiers although I won’t hold my breath. Enjoy. Oh and for the clown who asked my age, I’m 9 and a half, 10 in december and I’m expecting a card from you with a GI Joe action figure

Case closed.

Bit personal Fitz. Why not just comment on the subject.

Early in the game against the Italians Buffon gives Dunne a fake bon homme hug and our defender fell for it and was thereafter rendered impotent. Fake or go home. You decide.,

also. gratuitous pandering to the ref.. tactile handling (ordinarily a free).. is very much encouraged.