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Post by goram on Feb 3, 2010 22:59:43 GMT
Yes top uda ones from down there ran the club and bankrolled them a few years back not so sure now. Borelands i think they were called nice chaps  At a time glebe wouldnt sign peelers either. i no one that playd, but soon left. d donaghys first time in charge , he wantd 2 sign sean quinn. big no no  when a clubs at that level , u have 2 sign the best, no matter wat they are.  |
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Post by thebeast on Feb 3, 2010 23:07:07 GMT
I mind when we played against Glebe in the good old days when mighty Demense were in the Intermediate league, after we had been beat our usual 6 or 7 nil, it was a scorching day, so a few of the Glebe lads took their tops off walking off pitch when we were shaking hands and I swear to f**k at least 4 of them had UDA tattoo's on their chest. I thought it was a wee bit reilly. I thought they were maybe American exchange students who had went to a dyslexic tattoo artist, but I soon found out they werent from the USA. A Ballymoney player told me Coagh Utd have the same policy. WHEN ANRE GETS OUT HE MITE TAKE GLEBE OVER...  |
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Post by BFP on Feb 4, 2010 0:28:06 GMT
would donegal celtic sign a protestant player? i know very little about DC, but i would imagine there are protestants playing for them, and have been for some time, though i hold my hands up and say i have no idea. Though did rory hamill not play for them? is he not a protestant? again i may be wrong about that too? |
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Post by rightfoot on Feb 4, 2010 9:01:25 GMT
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Post by cocky on Feb 4, 2010 10:20:16 GMT
the welders have this policy aswel. What about abbeyview? ;D yes abbeyview have this but its more to do with the rep it got a good few years ago when they 1st started out. i thik the point they are trying to make is you can get away with it in our league but not when you step up to intermediate standard. im sure there are a few more teams in the bsml who have the same policy were it be protestant or catholic. |
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Post by ratman on Feb 4, 2010 10:30:38 GMT
would donegal celtic sign a protestant player? you angling for a move weedo? |
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Post by pele on Feb 4, 2010 10:36:53 GMT
yes abbeyview have this but its more to do with the rep it got a good few years ago when they 1st started out. i thik the point they are trying to make is you can get away with it in our league but not when you step up to intermediate standard. im sure there are a few more teams in the bsml who have the same policy were it be protestant or catholic. So if a catholic wanted to sign he couldt? I couldt name you another other bsml team that has't played both religions Northend has some protestants and the homers and carniny currently have some catholics. I know if i managed a side and i tried to sign a player that was good the last question i would be asking is what religion he is but not all people have this attitude. |
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Post by barstool on Feb 4, 2010 10:42:42 GMT
likewise....actually suprised at this! but each to their own and all that!
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Post by ratman on Feb 4, 2010 11:03:37 GMT
Who does jeffy play for?
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Post by cocky on Feb 4, 2010 11:06:06 GMT
yes abbeyview have this but its more to do with the rep it got a good few years ago when they 1st started out. i thik the point they are trying to make is you can get away with it in our league but not when you step up to intermediate standard. im sure there are a few more teams in the bsml who have the same policy were it be protestant or catholic. So if a catholic wanted to sign he couldt? I couldt name you another other bsml team that has't played both religions Northend has some protestants and the homers and carniny currently have some catholics. I know if i managed a side and i tried to sign a player that was good the last question i would be asking is what religion he is but not all people have this attitude. as far as im aware there is other teams who have that policy but maybe im wrong and also i think there has been catholics played for abbeyview but not 100% sure. no one is ever turned down from sighing for abbeyview. |
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Post by cocky on Feb 4, 2010 11:06:28 GMT
he doesnt play in the morning league. |
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Post by pele on Feb 4, 2010 11:09:05 GMT
he doesnt play in the morning league. Did he used to do sub keeper for abbeyview? |
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Post by ratman on Feb 4, 2010 11:37:28 GMT
whenever you sign for glebe rangers they measure how wide apart your eyes are then you have to sing the national anthem and if you dont know the words your stuck in the reserves...or the boot of a car...
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Post by cocky on Feb 4, 2010 11:47:00 GMT
he doesnt play in the morning league. Did he used to do sub keeper for abbeyview? he was actually 1st choice for a couple of years but prone to the odd howler lol |
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Post by ratman on Feb 4, 2010 11:49:33 GMT
but prone to the odd howler lol we gathered that much... |
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Post by mrfish on Feb 4, 2010 13:31:56 GMT
......haven't really been on in ages and then this....lol
Right,
I too was of the (non evidential) impression that Linfield, like Rangers, had a non Catholic policy. Personnally I know nothing about Linfield's history so I don't know if that's true or false. What I do know is that it is a very general impression and even Roy Keane, as someone mentioned, once talked about it. There's a big Linfield fan in my work here and he's actually telling me that they didn't sign Catholics and still shouldn't (he's not a bad spud really lol) but he's pure thick so I don't believe him either way!! What I know for fact is, as many have said, David Jeffrey has worked wonders with the club and if, as is the general opinion, such a policy ever existed he has changed things round remarkably. Sure did the Ballymena knuckle draggers (Herbie and co) not sing "just a team of Fenians" at him??? Fair play to him IMO. I think most folk here have heard Linfield once had this policy and as Jeff, and Rat in return to him, suggests, there isn't much evidence about to prove one way or another. Things have changed now (if they had to) and that's all that matters I suppose....
As for Weedo's question, I'm not sure as to the facts of religion but am not aware of any refusal to sign Protestants. I'd be very surprised if there was.
Story about DC. When I was playing for Ballymoney my da and his mate came up to Belfast to watch us play DC at their ground. Before the game started me da and Gerry got talking to one of the men who ran the club and he took them into the club to see the place. When they went in the fella shouted on one of the other DC men and told him to get the flags down and that so's not to disrespect or offend any of the Ballymoney contingent, thinking as I played for Ballymoney me da and Gerry must've been Prods. I always thought that was a very decent gesture!!!
My debut was against Cough as well, down there. I done my usual (offering the smallest of the defenders off the pitch for an auld scrap) only for him to say to me "f**k aff ye Fenian cnut. I was playing for Ballymoney ffs, I just thought, "how'd ye know"!!! LOL. Must've smelt the soap!!! lol, only messing!!!
And as for Cocky's impression that other clubs have a similar policy, I don't know all clubs but any I've been with, especially Northend, have both sides playing without a problem. Rangers tops/shorts etc are not uncommon at Northend or Broadway training (I never liked Specs anyway lol). Not sure about All Saints, they're really all GAA men so not much chance of a Gers GAA man is there?? They too certainly have no policy of that nature. I spent a few weeks (Kenny in disguise) with Waveney and they had both Loyalist and Republican (as opposed to just Catholic and Protestant)players playing together and being friends as such so that's impressive on their part and, in my honest opinion, the way it should be!!
There, that's me done.....lol
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Post by Mitty on Feb 4, 2010 14:01:59 GMT
Its one of our rules that you cant wear any Rangers or Celtic gear to training or a game.
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Post by Jeff on Feb 4, 2010 15:27:38 GMT
Firstly I played for Abbeyview for more than a couple of years cocky. Secondly I was never sub keeper (bar when i was about 16-17). And thirdly I was prone to a lot more than a couple of errors lol but I had more good days than bad  Lastly these impressions that people have on Linfield and this policy are based on a myth. Bfp the chairman stated as early as the 40s and 50s not these two decades exlusively. As I already stated the problem LInfield had in signing Catholics came from within their own community. I am sure there were many years when Linfield had an exclusively Protestant playing staff but I assure you it was not because of any such policy it was because nationalists were afraid to sign for Linfield because of fear from their own community. Thankfully this does not seem to be an issue anymore in football but the tactics remain in other areas as the local policeman found out a few weeks ago, the scum are still here. Its amazing how something is said often enough it becomes fact and I think its disgusting how many people have labelled Linfield on here without one shred of proof. Tbh it says a lot more about them than it does about Linfield. Rat i stuck the list up to let you label the players. You seemed obsessed with sticking a religious label on the players so I thought id let you work away. Me nor Linfield have no desire to know whether a player is Catholic or Protestant. |
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Post by Jeff on Feb 4, 2010 15:28:27 GMT
Ps fish I dont see u telling any of these boys off for bringing politics onto the forum, or you lenny for that matter. Gotta be consistent bhoyeees.
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Post by cocky on Feb 4, 2010 15:42:18 GMT
sorry jeff i was just generalising.
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Post by EricTheKing on Feb 4, 2010 15:51:58 GMT
Jeff, do you honestly believe that the reason Linfield didnt sign any catholics in the 70's or 80's was solely due to fear of reprisals for those catholics in their own community?? Granted this would probably have happened but do you really think that the same element on the other side would have let it happen either? Linfield couldnt guarantee the safety of these players from either side so there was a conscious effort not to sign any catholics. As been said before big DJ has thankfully turned this on its head but I remember talking to Trevor Anderson a few years ago and he was saying that he had to fight with the board to get them to sign Dessie Gorman who according to him was the first catholic Linfield had signed in over 20 years. so lets hear it for Trev the trailblazer! |
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Post by ratman on Feb 4, 2010 17:46:13 GMT
Rat i stuck the list up to let you label the players. You seemed obsessed with sticking a religious label on the players so I thought id let you work away. Me nor Linfield have no desire to know whether a player is Catholic or Protestant. This is actual jibberish jeffy...im just not keen on bigotry... |
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Post by Jeff on Feb 4, 2010 17:46:44 GMT
Im not saying its the only reason. I dont know how many played in the 70s and 80s I dont know the religion of the Linfield players nor would I want to. What I do know is there was never a club policy not to sign catholics thats a fact. Whatever the reason they did or didnt sign it was not down to a club policy as people on here are alleging.
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Post by Jeff on Feb 4, 2010 17:48:40 GMT
Rat i stuck the list up to let you label the players. You seemed obsessed with sticking a religious label on the players so I thought id let you work away. Me nor Linfield have no desire to know whether a player is Catholic or Protestant. This is actual jibberish jeffy...im just not keen on bigotry... well thats not how it would seem you seem quite eager to know the background of the players . |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 17:53:19 GMT
What has all this Linfield crap got to do with Dobbie, Carniny or the Glebe job?
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Post by Jeff on Feb 4, 2010 18:02:43 GMT
What has all this Linfield crap got to do with Dobbie, Carniny or the Glebe job? Think you need to start another thread Jeff I didnt bring Linfield into it so get your facts right. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 18:05:04 GMT
I never said you brought it into it, but you've kept them in it for over 2 pages ;D
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Post by Jeff on Feb 4, 2010 18:13:53 GMT
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Post by LENNY on Feb 4, 2010 18:34:06 GMT
......haven't really been on in ages and then this....lol Right, I too was of the (non evidential) impression that Linfield, like Rangers, had a non Catholic policy. Personnally I know nothing about Linfield's history so I don't know if that's true or false. What I do know is that it is a very general impression and even Roy Keane, as someone mentioned, once talked about it. There's a big Linfield fan in my work here and he's actually telling me that they didn't sign Catholics and still shouldn't (he's not a bad spud really lol) but he's pure thick so I don't believe him either way!! What I know for fact is, as many have said, David Jeffrey has worked wonders with the club and if, as is the general opinion, such a policy ever existed he has changed things round remarkably. Sure did the Ballymena knuckle draggers (Herbie and co) not sing "just a team of Fenians" at him??? Fair play to him IMO. I think most folk here have heard Linfield once had this policy and as Jeff, and Rat in return to him, suggests, there isn't much evidence about to prove one way or another. Things have changed now (if they had to) and that's all that matters I suppose.... As for Weedo's question, I'm not sure as to the facts of religion but am not aware of any refusal to sign Protestants. I'd be very surprised if there was. Story about DC. When I was playing for Ballymoney my da and his mate came up to Belfast to watch us play DC at their ground. Before the game started me da and Gerry got talking to one of the men who ran the club and he took them into the club to see the place. When they went in the fella shouted on one of the other DC men and told him to get the flags down and that so's not to disrespect or offend any of the Ballymoney contingent, thinking as I played for Ballymoney me da and Gerry must've been Prods. I always thought that was a very decent gesture!!! My debut was against Cough as well, down there. I done my usual (offering the smallest of the defenders off the pitch for an auld scrap) only for him to say to me "f**k aff ye Fenian cnut. I was playing for Ballymoney ffs, I just thought, "how'd ye know"!!! LOL. Must've smelt the soap!!! lol, only messing!!! And as for Cocky's impression that other clubs have a similar policy, I don't know all clubs but any I've been with, especially Northend, have both sides playing without a problem. Rangers tops/shorts etc are not uncommon at Northend or Broadway training (I never liked Specs anyway lol). Not sure about All Saints, they're really all GAA men so not much chance of a Gers GAA man is there?? They too certainly have no policy of that nature. I spent a few weeks (Kenny in disguise) with Waveney and they had both Loyalist and Republican (as opposed to just Catholic and Protestant)players playing together and being friends as such so that's impressive on their part and, in my honest opinion, the way it should be!! There, that's me done.....lol Saints would sign anyone, especially a striker if yese know one!! i mind a good few years ago, we had a fella from Harriville, he had to give us up as he said the hassle he was getting wasnt worth it. |
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