Sorry, I meant this to follow
IRFU shame on you with Logan, Logan. Out. Out. Out. Logan, Logan, Logan. Out. Out out.
I still think 15.000 people wearing Paddy Jackson masks would be the biggest 2 fingers to the IRFU imaginable. Imagine the t,v, impact..... Fuq them
Smear me in chocolate and throw me to the Lesbians.
there needs to be an organised rebellion against the CiC anyone interested PM me... it may be a slow burner but it has started... the fans despise him the players despise him only the press lap him up as they hang on his every word and don't challenge anything that comes out...
Ulster are treated differently from the other provinces. Why? To me it is sectarian and therefore I cannot turn up, SUFTUM have the IRFU smirk at my continued toleration. When was the last time there was an International north of the border? Why was our talisman and national treasure binned when a journeyman like Nacewa was kept and talked about as the second coming? Why is spit roast specialist Connor Murray the BoI brand ambassador?
My stand will make no difference whatsoever but at least, if others are like me, it will show that the majority of fans aren’t sicophant Bellends.
Who knows, I might renew my ticket but there isn’t a chance in hell I will attend on Saturday.
The URSC want us to turn up for Tommy. FFS Tommy played his last meaningful game about two years ago. The players need us? We’ve turned up religiously all season to be served a pile of shyte. What about the players standing up for the fans and team mates?
The only thing I’ll miss is our gay anthem!
I agree with everything you say except the sectarian slant, that's too far IMO.
Not going on Sat, not renewing 2 ST's that we have had for 17 years.
Won't be back until Logan is gone. The players will get over it because they have to. I don't have to so I'm voting with my feet.
I don't post here very often - long time lurker but the events of the last week have galvanised me as (hopefully) one of the silent majority.
I am so utterly disgusted and sickened by the behaviour of Shane Logan (and by extension) UR/IRFU over the last few weeks I find it hard to put into words. I'm glad the website has been playing up over the last few days as if i'd posted how I felt on Saturday morning I'd probably have been banned for life.
I'd don't condone the actions of the 2 players but I definitely think that there was a path to redemption if we all worked at it.
How gutless can you be to post a Q&A session with patsy questions 10 mins after winning a grand slam?
How gutless can you be to not turn up to supporters Q&A sessions THEN try and justify it ?
How gutless can you be to leak the PJ and SO decision to the press an hour after the ground empties on Friday night?
How gutless do you have to be to do press interviews over the past few days and weasel your way out of every answer?
It sickens me.
I've been a season ticket holder for over 15 years and never have I felt Ulster as a club at such a low ebb - even the dark days of the end of the McCall era. Ironically at the end of the game on Friday night I actually felt quite positive about things as I thought the whole debacle had galvanised the players and fans alike as shown in their performances of the last 2 games.
Despite a sparse crowd last Friday night I thought the atmosphere was one of the best all season - as if all us 'proper' fans had circled the wagons and decided to fe'ck the lot of em.
Now I'm the same as most of you. The thought of going to Ravers on Saturday sickens me but the thought of what the players are going though also sickens me and I feel like I should be supporting them somehow - the likes of bestie, hendy, darren cave etc. However I won't be there on Saturday and I know at least 3 of my season ticket holder mates won't be there either. I might watch on BBC but I can't see myself cheering for Ulster.
I know this rant isn't going to help anybody but I have to say it. I also won't be renewing my season ticket til logan is out. I think the worst thing is that just when you think this season can't get any worse, Ulster somehow manage to find a way.
We have to co-ordinate a protest to get Logan out.
Although I posted that I will not be going, I did that when I was displaying anger at UR for their shameful conduct against 2 of Ulster's finest. I have now reached the acceptance stage of the grieving process and as such I am starting to waver, particularly following the reminders that our players are in the same boat as the supporters. Might go, might not. Time will tell.
LOGAN OUT!
When the bottom has fallen out of your world.
Take Enos and let the world fall out of your bottom!
mid ulster maestro wrote:Although I posted that I will not be going, I did that when I was displaying anger at UR for their shameful conduct against 2 of Ulster's finest. I have now reached the acceptance stage of the grieving process and as such I am starting to waver, particularly following the reminders that our players are in the same boat as the supporters. Might go, might not. Time will tell.
LOGAN OUT!
I was wavering on Monday Mum and then I saw Logan's interview on the evening news which made me firmly decide not to go near the smug git.
I will be going, not out of support of Mr Logan or the "UR branch of the IRFU", but of the squad of players who are rightly unhappy to say the least at the treatment of 2 innocent men (putting aside the third who is currently suspended). To see Rob Herring make that statement has been rightly compared to a hostage making a TV statement under the threat of his captors. Rob seems to be an honourable man and I think the unsaid word and his body language spoke volumes.
I abhor and do not condone any misogynistic actions but I find the lack of support for Paddy and Stu, two men found innocent of any crime but having had their lives opened wide for us all to see, by the CEO to be an extremely disappointing lack of backbone let alone a contradiction of the principles of leadership (which he would have been taught before (or if!!) he ever slow marched up the white steps; he will/should know what I mean.
I have been going to Ravenhill for 43 years now. I have supported Ulster home and away, through good times and bad. I will continue to support Ulster. I support Ulster, not Ulster Rugby the brand. I support the players and not the CEO. My father paid my schoolboy entrance to see Ulster play interpros in front to no more than 500 people. I will pay my season ticket to watch Ulster play rugby in spite of the brand which, may I say, sold its soul to the devil some time ago. I am not a dinosaur, I know cash is king but I believe the current franchise has taken the game away from its bedrock and moved it to a faceless and soulless business with the odd rugby match attached; I played rugby, I toured with rugby teams, I entered into "rugby" conversations which were never written down for the legal vultures to feed on... thank goodness. I am sure the same can be said of hockey tours, of netball tours, of Camogie away games.... Will we now see protests outside Aldergrove about the behaviour of Hen Parties?
To Paddy and Stu, I wish them well. They are true Ulstermen who made errors, got carried away with bravado ridden comments (in a private situation which were eventually opened to all, due to an erroneous accusation) and will always be regretful of what happened that evening. They will join the ranks of many good players who had to go elsewhere to ply their trade. How we could do with Steeno at 10 to guide us now, Whitten playing all over the back 5, Annett keeping our other hookers honest, Farrell... well there's another success story...
The CEO needs to go but I am bored with "Ulster Rugby". I will and always have supported Ulster...
Some very passionate words on here which is a good thing.
The only truly 100% innocent victims in all of this are the supporters.
I can't include myself in that - I'm a blow in via marriage to a culchie - but I've watched Ulster play on 21 different grounds, have met some great people and I really enjoy it.
I can broadly empathise though, having watched PNE in the 4th tier in front of a few thousand, face winding up petitions, be asset-stripped, have useless managers, have arsehole managers, have more Daves than you can possibly imagine and seen all our local rivals (even Wigan ffs) sail past us into the top flight.
It gets better though. Eventually. And it makes success feel all the sweeter. We're currently a win away from the play offs in the Championship with an ambitious manager, stable finances and some young players finally coming through. It almost feels like they don't need me anymore - I've watched the fewest matches this season than I have since I started in 86/87 - but I'm Preston till I die.
However low you go, whilst there's still hope, and passion, things will change for the better.
That process will start as soon as Logan goes.........
Rovi Snave wrote:Spoke with one current player this week - they are to a man as drunk off and angry as the rest of us!!!
They want the supporters to stick with the players and support them
Also my understanding.
NEVER MOVE ON. Years on, I cannot ever watch Ireland with anything but indifference, I continue to wish for the imminent death of Donal Spring, the FIRFUC's executioner of Wee Paddy & Wee Stu, and I hate the FIRFUCs with undiminished passion.
Tightheadsdoitbest wrote:I will be going, not out of support of Mr Logan or the "UR branch of the IRFU", but of the squad of players who are rightly unhappy to say the least at the treatment of 2 innocent men (putting aside the third who is currently suspended). To see Rob Herring make that statement has been rightly compared to a hostage making a TV statement under the threat of his captors. Rob seems to be an honourable man and I think the unsaid word and his body language spoke volumes.
I abhor and do not condone any misogynistic actions but I find the lack of support for Paddy and Stu, two men found innocent of any crime but having had their lives opened wide for us all to see, by the CEO to be an extremely disappointing lack of backbone let alone a contradiction of the principles of leadership (which he would have been taught before (or if!!) he ever slow marched up the white steps; he will/should know what I mean.
I have been going to Ravenhill for 43 years now. I have supported Ulster home and away, through good times and bad. I will continue to support Ulster. I support Ulster, not Ulster Rugby the brand. I support the players and not the CEO. My father paid my schoolboy entrance to see Ulster play interpros in front to no more than 500 people. I will pay my season ticket to watch Ulster play rugby in spite of the brand which, may I say, sold its soul to the devil some time ago. I am not a dinosaur, I know cash is king but I believe the current franchise has taken the game away from its bedrock and moved it to a faceless and soulless business with the odd rugby match attached; I played rugby, I toured with rugby teams, I entered into "rugby" conversations which were never written down for the legal vultures to feed on... thank goodness. I am sure the same can be said of hockey tours, of netball tours, of Camogie away games.... Will we now see protests outside Aldergrove about the behaviour of Hen Parties?
To Paddy and Stu, I wish them well. They are true Ulstermen who made errors, got carried away with bravado ridden comments (in a private situation which were eventually opened to all, due to an erroneous accusation) and will always be regretful of what happened that evening. They will join the ranks of many good players who had to go elsewhere to ply their trade. How we could do with Steeno at 10 to guide us now, Whitten playing all over the back 5, Annett keeping our other hookers honest, Farrell... well there's another success story...
The CEO needs to go but I am bored with "Ulster Rugby". I will and always have supported Ulster...
"I am Ulster til I die"....not Ulster Rugby
Just so. I find no fault in any of that.
NEVER MOVE ON. Years on, I cannot ever watch Ireland with anything but indifference, I continue to wish for the imminent death of Donal Spring, the FIRFUC's executioner of Wee Paddy & Wee Stu, and I hate the FIRFUCs with undiminished passion.
