http://uafc.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14728Voodoo wrote:Hello everyone , this is my first effort on the forum after many years of visiting....Go easy on me please. I really enjoy the banter on the board even some of the whingin about "flegs!!!" There was a post from baggy the other day sleggin off some bloke called ultra vires which had me in stitches...quality ...anyway i digress.
i watched the match in the Errigle yesterday , an establishment with advertising at Ravenhill i believe. The place was packed , in fact you couldnt get in upstairs. Obviously we were disappointed with the scoreline but aside from that I was really disappointed with the attitude of some of the bar staff who were cheering on any leinster score. There were 3 or 4 numpties standing behind us cheering too , which is fair enuff , i'll just put it down to them being morons, i certainly didnt detect a linstaa accent. It was only 2 of the barstaff cheering and they werent overly loud , however i just thought it was bad form. I'm sure the bar owner raked in a fortune off the back of people like me attending his premises yesterday and on manys a Friday night and I hope he would offer some "re-training" to his staff (maybe a boot up the h0le would suffice).
I'm not from what some might say is a traditional rugby background but I support my own wherever they come from. I can only think of 2 reasons why anyone would feel this way about their home team , their either WUM's or worse still they're carrying a grudge... (i'll not use the B.[igot] word...oops maybe I just did). I dont expect these guys to support Ulster Rugby , maybe at some point in the future they will, but if I took the p**s outta my customers in work , i can assure you i wouldnt be in business too long.
I will finish by saying there mustve been a thousand people in the place yesterday and 99% were dead on..not that i spoke to them all. Oh, and I hope this doesn't sound too "flegish"..... Mon Ulster!!
I'd say Voodoo has hit the nail on the head for the root cause of what took place.
Bigotry - specifically anti Northern Ireland bigotry.
I have friends who are involved in the gaa, who were clambering over themselves to get to Ireland rugby international matches, however, when it comes to Ulster Rugby, they couldn't give a funkey's muck. I put this solely down to not wanting to support the professional rugby team based in Northern Ireland.