North West European Championship 2008

[Rebel Yell]

...AKA Home Five Nations C'ship...

Seeing as all the British and Irish national soccer teams are free next summer, why not???

Along the lines of the Rugby - 2 home games and 2 away

For example - Rep of Ireland V England at Croker...a dream for the Garda commisioner :)

Wales at Croker and Scotland and Norn Iron away...

Fock Europe ...we can have our own tournament and outshine the frogs and the krauts with our physicality and ferocity .....and that's just the hooligans.....

[RonnyB]

And where would our national soccer team play their home games?

[Rebelred]

And where would our national soccer team play their home games?

The cross

[Lamps]

and what the fock is the home 5 nations?

[northmallexile]

and what the fock is the home 5 nations?

Mumha, Connacht, Uladh, Laighin & Corcaigh*.

Five Nations pre-1169 stylee.




* Yes, I know it's supposed to be Meath. I still haven't gotten over the '99 All-Ireland, though.

[Rebel Yell]

and what the fock is the home 5 nations?

Ireland- home of football...we have so many types...soccer, Gaelic, rugby...we are the real Home nation...fock the Europeans...we can play our Celtic cousins and the Anglo saxons in our own British and Irish home nations tournament...

We are our own entity, but we can take on the best the Brits have to offer and bring the trophy on an open top bus tour around Dublin ...celebrating our status as kings of North West European soccer...

El Tel will be hailed our new favourite Englishman and feted throughout the land for his achievement in his first year as manager...

[Rebelred]

Ireland- home of football...we have so many types...soccer, Gaelic, rugby...we are the real Home nation...fock the Europeans...we can play our Celtic cousins and the Anglo saxons in our own British and Irish home nations tournament...

We are our own entity, but we can take on the best the Brits have to offer and bring the trophy on an open top bus tour around Dublin ...celebrating our status as kings of North West European soccer...

El Tel will be hailed our new favourite Englishman and feted throughout the land for his achievement in his first year as manager...

Padraig Pearse is spinning in his grave!

[Rebel Yell]

Have we matured enough to follow the rugby brethern into such parochial contests ???

[POL]

this is likke some load of shit the jocks would dream up of, like the magners league

[Rebel Yell]

this is likke some load of shit the jocks would dream up of, like the magners league

You have not matured...

[northmallexile]

Does anyone else remember a similar 6-a-side contest that was held back in the RDS in the summer of '91, I think it was, or have I dredged that up from the darker recesses of my own febrile imagination?

[homer jay]

this is likke some load of shit the jocks would dream up of, like the magners league

zackly. a mockery of jock proportions.

[POL]

Whats it going to be called? the "we are too shit to qualify for a proper competition" cup

[bundyv1]

Whats it going to be called? the "we are too shit to qualify for a proper competition" cup

It wouldn't fit on the 'trophy' ...

[Rebel Yell]

Whats it going to be called? the "we are too shit to qualify for a proper competition" cup

There'll be no trophy...it will be an intangible sense of achievement...like the 'Triple Crown' before they introduced a plate for it...

I believe we could win this Grand Slam hands down with the ferocity and physicality of the players at our disposal...

[Rebelred]

I think Norway should be invited.

[homer jay]

I think Norway should be invited.

you'd be opening up a can of worms there.

[Rebel Yell]

I think Norway should be invited.

Norway may be too North Central.....

However, if Iceland and the Faroe Islands joined in along with the Norwegians it would be perfect ...8 nations - 2 groups - like the old Euro Final stages... plus they would be potential banana skins for the rest.....

This could be the real attraction of the summer...