ENOUGHS ENOUGH!
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ENOUGHS ENOUGH!
ENOUGHS ENOUGH FOLKS. THE TIME HAS COME ON NEW YEARS EVE TO DECIDE. FIRSTLY IT WAS CLUB ULSTER, THEN THE URSC.
SECONDLY ULSTERS MB WAS COMPROMISED, THEN THE UAFC CAME ABOUT, NOW WE HAVE THE FRU AND SCOOP!!!!
STANLEY GATE! BLOOMING NONSENSE
BALLPARK GATE v DEADBALL GATE! UTTER TRIPE.
WHOSE MB NAME IS WHO?
TWO AND THREE NAMES ON A FORUM! DOWN RIGHT RIDICULOUS!
IS ANYONE ELSE FED UP?
EVERYONE SUPPORTS ULSTER, BUT EVERYONE IS GETTING MORE AND MORE DIVIDED.
IS THER GOING TO BE ANOTHER SPLIT?
THE 1st ULSTER INDEPENDANT SUPPORTERS CLUB?
WHY NOT?
LATEST NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!
IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED ON THE DARK SIDE THE URSC IS FINISHED!
HAS THE TIME ARRIVED??
A MEETING PLACE/ BAR. A WEEKLY MEETING NOT ON A FRIDAY. WEEKLY SUBS. AWAY TRAVELL SUBSIDES?? POSSIBILITIES ENDLESS?
SECONDLY ULSTERS MB WAS COMPROMISED, THEN THE UAFC CAME ABOUT, NOW WE HAVE THE FRU AND SCOOP!!!!
STANLEY GATE! BLOOMING NONSENSE
BALLPARK GATE v DEADBALL GATE! UTTER TRIPE.
WHOSE MB NAME IS WHO?
TWO AND THREE NAMES ON A FORUM! DOWN RIGHT RIDICULOUS!
IS ANYONE ELSE FED UP?
EVERYONE SUPPORTS ULSTER, BUT EVERYONE IS GETTING MORE AND MORE DIVIDED.
IS THER GOING TO BE ANOTHER SPLIT?
THE 1st ULSTER INDEPENDANT SUPPORTERS CLUB?
WHY NOT?
LATEST NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!
IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED ON THE DARK SIDE THE URSC IS FINISHED!
HAS THE TIME ARRIVED??
A MEETING PLACE/ BAR. A WEEKLY MEETING NOT ON A FRIDAY. WEEKLY SUBS. AWAY TRAVELL SUBSIDES?? POSSIBILITIES ENDLESS?
Re: ENOUGHS ENOUGH!
The title of this thread and the poll isB.Y.O wrote: BALLPARK GATE v DEADBALL GATE! UTTER TRIPE.
IS 2006 GOING TO SEE AN INDEPENDANT SUPPORTERS CLUB .
So what has the above comment re DB got to do with this topic or an independant supporters club??
Think your a tad over emotional as the New Year approaches. Take a deep breath and an even deeper drink and come back when you've got your brain in gear.
Have a Happy New Year.
- baldeagle09
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Is an IndependEnt Supporters Club necessary in the first place?
In my opinion the Supporters Club has been a waste of money. I joined at the Edinburgh match 16/09/05 (Membership No 151). We were promised the following:-
Regular Social Events-
International Draw for tickets-
Away Travel Discounts-
Player of Month Voting-
Merchandise Discount-
Priority Booking for Heineken Cup away matches & knockout rounds (Cloud Cuckoo Land unfortunately this year!)-
Access to URSC pages on ulsterrugby.com
Plus we all get to vote for the Committee of the URSC.
So what exactly have I received for my £10.
Absolutely nothing. Not even an acknowledgement of my membership. Not even a simple email. Not even discount vouchers for merchandise. Absolutely nothing.
Its not as if I am a shrinking violet - I have been to all the home matches and have travelled (independently) to the Leinster game at Donnybrook.
IMHO the role of the Supporters Club should be solely concerned with supporting Ulster Rugby. Too often in the recent past those vocal supporters who post regularly on these boards have ventured into the political domain vis-a-vis the debate re the Maze v Ravenhill. Also the criticism of Coach, Team and indeed Branch has gone beyond the pale and become abusive.
To sum up, the supporters club should get back to what it does best, namely supporting Ulster Rugby (wherever it is played!)
In my opinion the Supporters Club has been a waste of money. I joined at the Edinburgh match 16/09/05 (Membership No 151). We were promised the following:-
Regular Social Events-
International Draw for tickets-
Away Travel Discounts-
Player of Month Voting-
Merchandise Discount-
Priority Booking for Heineken Cup away matches & knockout rounds (Cloud Cuckoo Land unfortunately this year!)-
Access to URSC pages on ulsterrugby.com
Plus we all get to vote for the Committee of the URSC.
So what exactly have I received for my £10.
Absolutely nothing. Not even an acknowledgement of my membership. Not even a simple email. Not even discount vouchers for merchandise. Absolutely nothing.
Its not as if I am a shrinking violet - I have been to all the home matches and have travelled (independently) to the Leinster game at Donnybrook.
IMHO the role of the Supporters Club should be solely concerned with supporting Ulster Rugby. Too often in the recent past those vocal supporters who post regularly on these boards have ventured into the political domain vis-a-vis the debate re the Maze v Ravenhill. Also the criticism of Coach, Team and indeed Branch has gone beyond the pale and become abusive.
To sum up, the supporters club should get back to what it does best, namely supporting Ulster Rugby (wherever it is played!)
- LePaul
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sorry deadball and baldeagle09 - I would disagree with some of your thinking.
A supporters club is generally a group of like minded folk with one common thread. In this case its Ulster and the team and the craic following it and the banter and all that goes along with the supporting from an outside stance. They are not generally brow beaten funders of a regime which doesn’t give a shoit about them individually or collectively as shown by Mr Reid and his goons. Nor are they puppets who speak when their programmer allows them to and they do not spend their entire existence, pitiful or otherwise, saying yes Mr Reid no Mr feckin Reid and isn’t Mark doing a wonderful job doing what he is doing.
Get real guys. A supporters club is a peer group, a pressure group and an influential aspect to the life of the entire entity.
LOOK AT MANCHESTER UNITED RECENTLY WHEN SOME YANKEE DOODLE DANDY WANTED TO TAKE OVER THE CLUB - SUPPORTERS CLUB WENT APE - NO YES MEN THERE
That’s what supporters clubs do. They let the Fat Controllers know what the ground folk really think. If you boys want to be yes men and paying for it - good luck to you. I sure as hell don’t.
As for criticising McCall - its part of the job. Never in my life have I, could I or would I sit back and watch a balloon make a complete bollix of a job without saying something.
Sorry if this offends - it wasn’t meant to - just expressing my annoyance at the failures and so on.
A supporters club is generally a group of like minded folk with one common thread. In this case its Ulster and the team and the craic following it and the banter and all that goes along with the supporting from an outside stance. They are not generally brow beaten funders of a regime which doesn’t give a shoit about them individually or collectively as shown by Mr Reid and his goons. Nor are they puppets who speak when their programmer allows them to and they do not spend their entire existence, pitiful or otherwise, saying yes Mr Reid no Mr feckin Reid and isn’t Mark doing a wonderful job doing what he is doing.
Get real guys. A supporters club is a peer group, a pressure group and an influential aspect to the life of the entire entity.
LOOK AT MANCHESTER UNITED RECENTLY WHEN SOME YANKEE DOODLE DANDY WANTED TO TAKE OVER THE CLUB - SUPPORTERS CLUB WENT APE - NO YES MEN THERE
That’s what supporters clubs do. They let the Fat Controllers know what the ground folk really think. If you boys want to be yes men and paying for it - good luck to you. I sure as hell don’t.
As for criticising McCall - its part of the job. Never in my life have I, could I or would I sit back and watch a balloon make a complete bollix of a job without saying something.
Sorry if this offends - it wasn’t meant to - just expressing my annoyance at the failures and so on.
Rugby thick and full of Ulster passion
Whats wrong with that then FRU ???
Whats wrong with that then FRU ???
- mid ulster maestro
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Well argued LePaul. I'm with you on this one. I must admit I've always had my reservations about the supporters club being influenced by the branch and if the announcement by M Reid on the dark side is to be believed, your vision of a trully independant supporters club is on the cards.
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