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well years ago dundalk hated bohs, but now I would say its rovers, rovers fans marched up through dundalk at 12 on Saturday terrorizing grannies last year singing about how they hated dundalk.

 

not to forget calling us "Free State *" :smiley-laughing002:

They havnt beaten us in a few years aswell :icon_mrgreen:

 

In your own time

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/news/soccer-fan-jailed-for-role-in-battle-34416679.html

 

Rovers have the largest travelling support and are the biggest name in Irish football hence the reputation that follows us when we land throughout the country.

"Terrorizing grannies" , I'm surprised the local orphans and disabled weren't thrown into your above biased rant. Utter rubbish

 

We have many scumbags following us, il not say we don't but the question asked which team is disliked/hated!
If you asked fans from every club in Ireland who they don't like and after there main rivals its Rovers. Partially to do with been the biggest club but you can't say there fans havnt caused bother on a number of instances over the years.

At least we ban our scumbags when they are caught doing anything!

 

As already answered Rovers are the biggest club, most successful and would bring the biggest away support. Like others we have fans who can handle themselves though if others look for trouble.

We ban fans same as the others do. Is the Dundalk fella who tried to torch the FAI HQ banned?

 

Look it up on youtube, a bunch of twats marching through dundalk at 12o clock abusing bemused shoppers and passers by, its there for anyone to see.

 

Paul McGee, 37, was left with horrific injuries after a group of Shamrock Rovers fans attacked him outside a house in Dundalk


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Ciara WilkinsonPaul McGee pictured after he was attacked outside the home of Maura Coleman
A mourner brutally attacked outside a wake by drunken football thugs has told how he feared for his life.

Paul McGee, 37, was left with horrific injuries after a group of Shamrock Rovers fans attacked him outside a house in Dundalk.

Paul was with his wife Dara at the wake of her grandmother Maura Coleman, 77, when he says he was struck in the face with a beer can.

The innocent mourner was left shaken with a broken nose, a fractured eye socket and had to receive six stitches in his face following the cowardly assault.

He was with Eddie Coleman, a son of the deceased, when a group of more than 70 Shamrock Rovers fans walked along the road past Mrs Coleman’s house in Pearse Park in the town on Saturday afternoon before the match between Shamrock Rovers and Dundalk FC.

Paul told the Irish Mirror: “My nose is broken, I have had 6 stitches to my face and the doctors think my eye socket is fractured.

“What happened was disgraceful and unreal. The can was smashed into my face without any warning and it was completely unprovoked.”

Paul said he could not believe it when they set upon him as he had not engaged them at all.

Eddie Coleman (left) and Paul McGee pictured outside the home of Maura Coleman
He said: “They had no regard for anyone or anything. If I had not gone behind a van (parked outside) I think they would have killed me. I didn’t even look at them in fact when I first saw them I thought they were Dundalk fans. ”

Furious Eddie branded the attackers “scum” and said the incident had added to his family’s grief.

He hit out: “We as a family condemn this violence as we waked my mother. They were throwing cans into the garden as they passed by and I said to them ‘would you show a bit of respect, there is a wake here, maybe take your rubbish with you’.

“Then one of the crowd assaulted Paul with the can and when other family members came outside to see what was happening, the crowd verbally abused them calling them ‘sheep sh*****s,’ and ‘**** bag.’

“My mother had 7 children and 28 grand-children and 5 great grand-children so when the children came out they saw this and they were crying. My mother would be horrified at this behaviour. She was one of the nicest people you could meet and we were never ever in any trouble.

“We condemn this behaviour from so-called Shamrock Rover’s fans, I am sure there are decent Shamrock Rover’s fans but these were the scum of the Earth and they weren’t young, they looked to be in their 30’s and 40’s.”

The family wants to know why any football fans were directed into a residential area.

The estate where the incident happened
Eddie added: “We want answers as to how these rowdy drunken hooligans ended up passing by our vicinity.”

The family has made a complaint to the gardai and officers are investigating the violent incident.

A spokesman for Dundalk gardai confirmed: “There was an issue with some Shamrock Rovers supporters who took a wrong turn to the match. We are aware an incident occurred in Pearse Park.

"We were very disappointed to hear something happened at a wake house.”

Mrs Coleman will be buried in Dundalk on Monday morning.

It is understood that a number of Shamrock Rovers fans had already caused a disturbance in the town centre before the brutal attack.

One man, who did not want to be named, said he witnessed elderly people being abused.

He told the Irish Mirror: “They were drinking in a pub in the middle of the town and pretty quickly it got ugly. They ran up the middle of the town.

“They started abusing children and elderly people and banging on cars and all sorts.

“It was absolutely disgraceful. There has been some needle between Dundalk and Rovers fans in the past but this was beyond that.

“I am sure most Rovers fans are decent but these lads were a disgrace to their club.”

 

Elderly people the kids the article says so you are right no grannies, These boys seem to be able to "handle" themselves alright bunch of fannies

 

Feel free to post said link in your own time and then I can comment.

The only time we've been up your way for a Saturday game recently was the League Cup final, which was an evening ko so I'd doubt any Rovers fans were wandering around Dundalk at 12

 

When the full story to the above came out didn't it turn out that lovely chap had threatened to shoot Rovers fans?

Rovers fans have been getting attacked up in Dundalk for years, it only seems to be a problem when the locals get more than they bargained for back at them. Again I refer you to the Dundalk man sentenced the other day for attacking Bohs fans

 

Listen, so what are you saying its okay to go into estates and beat random people up, and walk up the town center abusing normal people going about their business.The game was on in the evening but some of your support went up early on the train to avoid the cops and were drinking up in the bridge/church st street area in the emerald bar,

 

Still no video I notice.

No I am saying there is a bit more to the story than your pal made out which was found out later. If you go around threatening to shoot boozed up people what sort of response would you expect?

I'm sure some went up on the train but I'd doubt they were walking around Dundalk almost 6 hours before ko.

Who's fault was it for the Dundalk native locked up the other day following an incident at a Dundalk Bohs match?

 

There is no video because its been took down, are you denying it happened??

Do you want me to post stuff off loi message boards for you,
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Feel free to share it. A group of fans walking through the town singing songs about Dundalk. Think a couple of people banged on shutters. It was no worse than what goes on in any town in Ireland on a Saturday night.

We were walking the right way before some drunken idiots decided it was the wrong way and started walking the other way. The rest of us caught up with them rather than splitting up the group and some people getting even more lost. The Gards were just following us around instead of actually guiding us in the right direction


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I couldn't tell you anything about the Emerald except that it's a bit of a dive and the service is very slow, but the point is that it was a grand atmosphere and nobody was causing any trouble. It's shameful that some louts went and attacked a law-abiding citizen but it's unfair to use it as a stick to beat us all with. I know there aren't many Rovers fans who post on here anymore but I don't think you'd find any of us defending what happened. My personal experience was that it was a good time had by almost everybody, with some nice rivalry going on between the two sets of fans, and I'm saddened that some people have brought the Rovers support into disrepute and made a sad day worse for some innocent people.

Listen these are rovers fans posting footie.ie

 

Hard to just "look it up on youtube" so.

Am I denying a few football fans sung in the middle of Dundalk before a cup final? Absolutely not, which is whatever your quoted individual below agrees with as well. I would imagine the fella didn't know this "law abiding citizen" was offering to shoot people before he got in a row though.

Who's fault was it for the Dundalk native locked up the other day following an incident at a Dundalk Bohs match?

 

Breakdown of 2016 SSE Airtricity League Prize-Money

Created on Thursday, 03 March 2016 11:25 The prize fund for the SSE Airtricity League Premier and First Divisions will be €475,500 for the 2016 season.
The 12 clubs in the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division will be competing for €371,500 in prize money ranging from €110,000 for the winners to €17,000 for the team finishing bottom of the table.
The breakdown of the Premier Division prize money is as follows:
1 - €110,000
2 - €55,000
3 - €35,000
4 - €25,000
5 - €21,000
6 - €19,500
7 - €18,500
8 - €18,000
9 - €18,000
10 - €17,500
11 - €17,000
12 - €17,000
The eight clubs in the SSE Airtricity League First Division will be competing for a prize fund of €104,000 with the winners receiving €30,000 and the eighth placed team collecting €8,000.
The breakdown of the First Division prize money is as follows:
1 - €30,000
2 - €17,500
3 - €12,000
4 - €10,500
5 - €9,500
6 - €8,500
7 - €8,000
8 - €8,000
The 20 SSE Airtricity League clubs will be competing for a total domestic prize fund of €596,500 when the prize-money in the Irish Daily Mail FAI Cup, the EA SPORTS Cup and the Fair Play competition is added to the SSE Airtricity League prize fund. The four clubs which qualify for the 2017-18 UEFA club competitions will also share a minimum of €1.15m in prize-money with the potential to earn more if they progress in either the Champions League or Europa League.
The breakdown of the minimum UEFA prize money is as follows:
UEFA Champions League €550,000
UEFA Europa League €200,000
UEFA Europa League €200,000
UEFA Europa League €200,000

 

Cork City beat last seasons double winners Dundalk 2-0 in the presidents cup final the League of Ireland's equivalent of a super cup to start the season.

 

Opening night of the season

Cork City v Bohs (Live on RTE)
St. Patrick's Athletic v Galway United
Finn Harps v Derry City
Wexford Youths v Longford Town

Saturdays fixtures

Bray Wanderers v Dundalk
Sligo Rovers v Shamrock Rovers

 

Disappointed to concede 2 very poor goals tonight , but there are still positives to be taken from the game.

Hopefully get a win next week.

 

Shamrock Rovers v Limerick? If you said Shelbourne v Limerick then maybe but that's only down to both clubs contesting the first division in recent time but wouldn't class it as a big rivalry. Limericks main derby game is against Cork in the Munster Derby.

Could even throw in Wexford Youths and Waterford against each other being the only clubs in the south east and Galway v Sligo as Connaught's two LOI clubs plus I'm sure there be some bragging rights up for grabs among the Cork and Cobh.