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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2021, 11:39:43 AM »

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Welcome to the forums! Glad to see a football fan who (presumably) likes Mourinho here :laugh:, hope you guys win the Scudetto this year.

I love Mou. I'd have him back in a heartbeat. Sadly I can't see us winning anything with Conte. I'm in two minds whether to even watch the game this evening as I'm expecting it to be far too painful. Do you support a "Mourinho team"?
I think you lot have a really good squad that'll win silverware even if Conte isn't the best manager out there, Lukaku and Martinez are such a dangerous duo up front. And I'm more of a "Mourinho disciple" who follows him wherever he goes - I'm not from Europe or the Americas so I'm not connected to a football club the way that most posters on this forum are.

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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2021, 01:12:38 PM »

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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2021, 02:22:02 PM »

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Welcome mate, hope you like it here! Glad to always have more Irish people around here. My dads family are from Cork & Tipperary, and my girlfriends dad was born and raised in Charleville, so I’m pretty surrounded by Irish culture as far as Australians go.

Hopefully you can give me a few pointers about hurling. Love the highlights, but not sure I quite get it yet...
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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2021, 03:04:37 PM »

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Hey umm, just to let you know. The Celtics aren't always THIS bad. Today was just a bad game and they were due for a letdown I guess lol  :P :laugh:
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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2021, 04:08:23 PM »

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Welcome to the greatest Celtics forums on the internet! My Mom's side of our family is of Welsh decent—her maiden name was Brann, which is probably a variant of Brown/Braun.

If your mother's maiden name was of Welsh heritage, it's probable that it is actually an Anglicisation of brân. It would make sense as the double n would point to the fact that the ending is longer than in the word "bran". The accent over the a in brân serves the purpose of elongating the sound in the Welsh language (a completely different language to English - as different as say Russian to English). From Welsh mythology there is Brân the Blessed, a giant and a king. The word brân is usually translated to mean crow or raven and the feminine version of Brân, Brânwen, would be common enough in Wales particularly among first language Welsh (Cymraeg) families.

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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2021, 04:45:13 PM »

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I will also bid you welcome to the forum.

I'm from Denmark and it is very pleasing to have other Europeans in here and especially from a nice country with some of the nicest and most welcoming people.

By the way I have read several posts debatting if the US should be like the Scandinavian countries and in that perspective I will answer any questions about living here, especially because the reality is both far from how Bernie Sanders describes it but also far away from what Trish Adams describes. It's a great country to live in but not everything is perfect!

Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2021, 06:34:24 PM »

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Welcome to the forums! Glad to see a football fan who (presumably) likes Mourinho here :laugh:, hope you guys win the Scudetto this year.

I love Mou. I'd have him back in a heartbeat. Sadly I can't see us winning anything with Conte. I'm in two minds whether to even watch the game this evening as I'm expecting it to be far too painful. Do you support a "Mourinho team"?

I think you lot have a really good squad that'll win silverware even if Conte isn't the best manager out there, Lukaku and Martinez are such a dangerous duo up front. And I'm more of a "Mourinho disciple" who follows him wherever he goes - I'm not from Europe or the Americas so I'm not connected to a football club the way that most posters on this forum are.

I'm not sure. Tonight was great but there have been some really ropey performances and Lautaro isn't as good as last season. Lukaku has improved a lot though on an already good performance last season.

Where are you from if you don't mind me asking?

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Welcome mate, hope you like it here! Glad to always have more Irish people around here. My dads family are from Cork & Tipperary, and my girlfriends dad was born and raised in Charleville, so I’m pretty surrounded by Irish culture as far as Australians go.

Hopefully you can give me a few pointers about hurling. Love the highlights, but not sure I quite get it yet...

Tipp is Kilkenny's other big rival! Certainly I'd be more than happy to talk about hurling with you. There is nothing going on at the moment (January is pretty much a dead month GAA wise anyway though there should have been some games this year because of a reconstructed calendar but they're off because of covid) but when it's back on I'll let you know and help you with finding links to watch it on etc. In my opinion, someone who likes basketball should be predisposed to enjoying hurling and vice versa as they're very much end-to-end matches and the fact teams can come back (and quite quickly) from improbable scorelines is common to both. We often say in hurling, "a ten point lead is nothing" (because of the fact it can be erased in a few minutes).

Hey umm, just to let you know. The Celtics aren't always THIS bad. Today was just a bad game and they were due for a letdown I guess lol  :P :laugh:

I am aware of that haha! In my opinion, the Celtics players knew I needed a reason to change channel before Inter - Juventus started so they gave me one lol! All teams have an off day, let's hope this was simply that (for Celtics).


Welcome to the greatest Celtics forums on the internet! My Mom's side of our family is of Welsh decent—her maiden name was Brann, which is probably a variant of Brown/Braun.

If your mother's maiden name was of Welsh heritage, it's probable that it is actually an Anglicisation of brân. It would make sense as the double n would point to the fact that the ending is longer than in the word "bran". The accent over the a in brân serves the purpose of elongating the sound in the Welsh language (a completely different language to English - as different as say Russian to English). From Welsh mythology there is Brân the Blessed, a giant and a king. The word brân is usually translated to mean crow or raven and the feminine version of Brân, Brânwen, would be common enough in Wales particularly among first language Welsh (Cymraeg) families.

Very cool info. Thanks!

No worries  :)

I will also bid you welcome to the forum.

I'm from Denmark and it is very pleasing to have other Europeans in here and especially from a nice country with some of the nicest and most welcoming people.

By the way I have read several posts debatting if the US should be like the Scandinavian countries and in that perspective I will answer any questions about living here, especially because the reality is both far from how Bernie Sanders describes it but also far away from what Trish Adams describes. It's a great country to live in but not everything is perfect!

Even here in Ireland there is talk about whether the Scandinavian models should be adopted. In my opinion, there is a bit of "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence". I don't mean any disrespect to any Scandinavian countries but I don't believe there is a "perfect country". Here people talk about Scandinavia as a socialist paradise. They almost always forget however that the "socialist paradise" they're talking about is still rigidly capitalist. I'm not trying to open a debate about left and right, just trying to give a pragmatic view. Also, and you'd be able to confirm this, Sanders in Europe would be seen as centre-left at most. That isn't intended as praise nor as criticism, just again a pragmatic and realistic view. However, I'm certainly not trying to provoke anyone nor to open a debate (certainly not with what is my fifteenth or sixteenth post lol) so I hope I haven't.

I'd love to visit Scandinavia but the difficulty is it is very expensive even by European standards.

Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2021, 02:04:02 AM »

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Welcome to the forums! Glad to see a football fan who (presumably) likes Mourinho here :laugh:, hope you guys win the Scudetto this year.

I love Mou. I'd have him back in a heartbeat. Sadly I can't see us winning anything with Conte. I'm in two minds whether to even watch the game this evening as I'm expecting it to be far too painful. Do you support a "Mourinho team"?

I think you lot have a really good squad that'll win silverware even if Conte isn't the best manager out there, Lukaku and Martinez are such a dangerous duo up front. And I'm more of a "Mourinho disciple" who follows him wherever he goes - I'm not from Europe or the Americas so I'm not connected to a football club the way that most posters on this forum are.

I'm not sure. Tonight was great but there have been some really ropey performances and Lautaro isn't as good as last season. Lukaku has improved a lot though on an already good performance last season.

Where are you from if you don't mind me asking?
To be fair title winning teams win even when their performances are ropey - you guys seem to be doing that enough to be in the mix. And yeah I think Lukaku is the guy who'll power you through, he's just such a good striker who got woefully misused at United after Jose left.

I'm from Hong Kong btw :)
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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2021, 05:31:45 AM »

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Welcome to the Celtic diaspora from another member of the Celt diaspora  ;D

Happy to see the handful of international posters grow. Should make for more interesting conversations during "international hours" :)

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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2021, 07:28:20 AM »

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To be fair title winning teams win even when their performances are ropey - you guys seem to be doing that enough to be in the mix. And yeah I think Lukaku is the guy who'll power you through, he's just such a good striker who got woefully misused at United after Jose left.

I'm from Hong Kong btw :)

Hopefully. Though of course as always with Inter there's something going on to distract from the progress. Apparently Suning are in real trouble and looking to sell.

Welcome to the Celtic diaspora from another member of the Celt diaspora  ;D

Happy to see the handful of international posters grow. Should make for more interesting conversations during "international hours" :)

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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #25 on: January 19, 2021, 07:40:13 AM »

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Hi,

I've just this minute signed up to the forum. I'm a relatively new basketball fan so I apologise in advance if some of the questions I will inevitably ask here are stupid or if my understanding of the game is naive (also excuse my spelling which will inevitably be European English). As pointed out in the thread title, I'm from a "non-basketball" country, Ireland (actually I'm originally from Wales, another Celtic nation - so I still qualify as 100% Celt  ;) - particularly as, and not looking for argument on this or to provoke, but "British" is not something I consider myself to be). My family is pretty much all Irish though including my mother, wife and kid and I've lived in Ireland for years so I can rationally be described as being as much Irish as Welsh. I have watched Christmas Day NBA games on and off over the years because there's no sport here on 25th December but this year the Celtics happened to be on TV which caught my eye and seemed like a natural team for me to follow given my background and from there (albeit only a couple of weeks - that said, when I adopt a team in a new sport it's always for life) I've been pretty hooked.

P.S. My avatar is a bwca, basically the Welsh version of a leprechuan which I thought was fitting (link to image https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mythology/images/e/ea/Knocker.jpg if anyone wants to see it in a bigger size).

Welcome aboard.  I've been to Ireland (Northern too) on business and personal travel a few times, in addition to England, Wales, and Scotland.  I'm lucky to manage a team in Sheffield and Cork, so I've been able to combine some trips.

I'll tell you what, we'll get you up to speed on basketball, you answer questions about Rugby.
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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #26 on: January 19, 2021, 07:50:28 AM »

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To be fair title winning teams win even when their performances are ropey - you guys seem to be doing that enough to be in the mix. And yeah I think Lukaku is the guy who'll power you through, he's just such a good striker who got woefully misused at United after Jose left.

I'm from Hong Kong btw :)

Hopefully. Though of course as always with Inter there's something going on to distract from the progress. Apparently Suning are in real trouble and looking to sell.
I see Suning holding on to Inter in the long run - the reports about them looking to sell the club have them looking to raise funds via equity financing, this is a bit different from selling the club outright. I wouldn't expect the club to spend a ton of money in the transfer market, but I think you lot have enough quality players who're out of favour (eg. Eriksen) to either raise funds or free up wage slots so upgrades can be acquired. The squad is really good as it is even if the team doesn't make any signings though :)
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Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2021, 08:25:45 AM »

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Hi,

I've just this minute signed up to the forum. I'm a relatively new basketball fan so I apologise in advance if some of the questions I will inevitably ask here are stupid or if my understanding of the game is naive (also excuse my spelling which will inevitably be European English). As pointed out in the thread title, I'm from a "non-basketball" country, Ireland (actually I'm originally from Wales, another Celtic nation - so I still qualify as 100% Celt  ;) - particularly as, and not looking for argument on this or to provoke, but "British" is not something I consider myself to be). My family is pretty much all Irish though including my mother, wife and kid and I've lived in Ireland for years so I can rationally be described as being as much Irish as Welsh. I have watched Christmas Day NBA games on and off over the years because there's no sport here on 25th December but this year the Celtics happened to be on TV which caught my eye and seemed like a natural team for me to follow given my background and from there (albeit only a couple of weeks - that said, when I adopt a team in a new sport it's always for life) I've been pretty hooked.

P.S. My avatar is a bwca, basically the Welsh version of a leprechuan which I thought was fitting (link to image https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mythology/images/e/ea/Knocker.jpg if anyone wants to see it in a bigger size).

Welcome aboard.  I've been to Ireland (Northern too) on business and personal travel a few times, in addition to England, Wales, and Scotland.  I'm lucky to manage a team in Sheffield and Cork, so I've been able to combine some trips.

I'll tell you what, we'll get you up to speed on basketball, you answer questions about Rugby.

Who in Cork? Neptune or Ballincollig?

The first thing to know about rugby, which you may already know, is there are two main codes. Union and league and despite both being rugby they are very different. I love both. Sheffield is a league area as is Yorkshire and Lancashire (including areas that were Lancashire such as Merseyside and Greater Manchester). The rugby you find in Cork is almost exclusively union. Broadly speaking league is a working man's game whereas union is of the suited classes though in Wales where union is the national sport (as well as in New Zealand and the south of France) union is very much the game of the ordinary man in the street (I say man but both codes have been putting very respectable efforts into getting the women's game going).

I'll happily talk about and answer any questions on union and league.

Re: Hello From Ireland
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2021, 08:31:10 AM »

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To be fair title winning teams win even when their performances are ropey - you guys seem to be doing that enough to be in the mix. And yeah I think Lukaku is the guy who'll power you through, he's just such a good striker who got woefully misused at United after Jose left.

I'm from Hong Kong btw :)

Hopefully. Though of course as always with Inter there's something going on to distract from the progress. Apparently Suning are in real trouble and looking to sell.
I see Suning holding on to Inter in the long run - the reports about them looking to sell the club have them looking to raise funds via equity financing, this is a bit different from selling the club outright. I wouldn't expect the club to spend a ton of money in the transfer market, but I think you lot have enough quality players who're out of favour (eg. Eriksen) to either raise funds or free up wage slots so upgrades can be acquired. The squad is really good as it is even if the team doesn't make any signings though :)

The reports in Italy are saying they're looking to sell outright. That said, the same reports also say Suning staff are working on marketing projects for Inter at the moment which doesn't sound like a company about to sell up. Personally I think they're being pragmatic (Chinese owned businesses seem to be) and taking the slowly slowly results come to those who are patient approach (another characteristic of Chinese companies). To be honest, if they were investing huge sums in the transfer market at the moment with Covid etc. I'd be concerned and I think those clubs which are spending now will catch a cold (sorry for the pun) later on.

Re: Hello From Ireland
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To be fair title winning teams win even when their performances are ropey - you guys seem to be doing that enough to be in the mix. And yeah I think Lukaku is the guy who'll power you through, he's just such a good striker who got woefully misused at United after Jose left.

I'm from Hong Kong btw :)

Hopefully. Though of course as always with Inter there's something going on to distract from the progress. Apparently Suning are in real trouble and looking to sell.
I see Suning holding on to Inter in the long run - the reports about them looking to sell the club have them looking to raise funds via equity financing, this is a bit different from selling the club outright. I wouldn't expect the club to spend a ton of money in the transfer market, but I think you lot have enough quality players who're out of favour (eg. Eriksen) to either raise funds or free up wage slots so upgrades can be acquired. The squad is really good as it is even if the team doesn't make any signings though :)
The reports in Italy are saying they're looking to sell outright. That said, the same reports also say Suning staff are working on marketing projects for Inter at the moment which doesn't sound like a company about to sell up. Personally I think they're being pragmatic (Chinese owned businesses seem to be) and taking the slowly slowly results come to those who are patient approach (another characteristic of Chinese companies). To be honest, if they were investing huge sums in the transfer market at the moment with Covid etc. I'd be concerned and I think those clubs which are spending now will catch a cold (sorry for the pun) later on.
They're only selling a 40% stake out of the ~66% they have with a buyback option - it's basically equity financing when you consider that they'll continue to manage the club after the sale as a condition for selling the stake.

And yeah Chinese owned businesses have become very pragmatic in the past decade, I think they're looking to hold on to Inter while finding ways to minimise the losses incurred from Covid. Also agree that clubs who're spending big in the transfer market right now will regret it down the road - I think the transfer market will be depressed in the coming few years.
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