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I trained and played with a team in Broome, Western Australia three years ago.  Mind you I was 37 at the time so the auld fitness wasn't as crisp as my youth in Derry.  However, I really enjoyed the training drills.  The games I played in were tough with the hits you take and expected to give a bit harder (!) than what I am used to in Gaelic.  Gaelic Football is by far the more skilful, however footy wins hands down for fitness.  One of the key elements of footy is never to let the ball coming to you bounce if possible.  I agree with the earlier poster if we could get the Davey brothers playing for Derry, we wouldn't need the Bradley brothers.  They are two very, very fast lads.  I'm surprised the Australian Olympic Committee hasn't approached them.

Essendon beat West Coast Eagles last night by a point, the second week in a row they won by that margin, beating the Swans last Saturday.  If Freo win tomorrow then they are only two games behind the Eagles.

I'm over half way through reading "Mother tongues" by Helena Drysdale.  It's an account of an 18-month journey around Europe cataloguing the progress or demise of some of Europe's lesser known languages.  After that I'll be tackling "1688" again.  A great historical account of a year that, more than most, changed dramatically the world.  I've got hold of a great book for a couple of squid in a library sale here in Oz, called "China: Land of invention and discovery".  Damn they were clever buggers those Chinese. 

"lawire sanchez this time last year weas the best international manager in the BRITISH ISELS and that includes brian i dont really kerr"

Wesaysanchez, how did you know Brian Kerr was on holiday in England?

Bring back Phonsey Guyler and Willie Turner.  Or your fella Convery from Glen.    
Not the first time the Derry board have shat on a player due to play against Antrim...speaking from experience...

Let's not even think of the Coleman affair in '94.

Aye, I reckon you messed up there TF.  I was on the St.Pat's Maghera panel that day, and that would have made Lennon about 12 or 13.  And we all know that the youngest ever MacRory finalist/winner(?) was a certain St.Pat's Maghera a few short years before that.

thanks for that Star Spangler.  Even more of a resemblence than I thought.  And O'Neill, kudos to you re. Bradley.  I thought as much myself when I read the reports yesterday.

Rudolf Hess and Sean Martin Lockhart.  Wish I knew how to post the photos.  Can anyone help please.

But EG, you stated you have/would call yourself British/Irish and 6-county statelet-ish if the situation arose...?  I don't have to put myself in that situation-my nation (Ireland) can hold its head up high in the world.  Not so "Mother England"...for anyone to suggest otherwise is blinkered, DUP-esque ignorance.

And like I said, I have chosen to take out Aus. citizenship because of my son, who was granted it by the fact he was born here to an Aus. mum.  'Twas I who had to apply for his Irish citizenship/passport.   Now, I am well aware the Lizzie the hoor is the head of state of Aus. but that is dwindling as the 10 quid poms are starting to fertilize the daisies.  She is head of state of another nation and I have no issue with that...I do have major issues with the fact that she is "head of state" of a part of my country.  You see, Aus. citizenship means one thing and that is a passport.  That's all; my Irish nationality will always supersede all else.

Sammy G???...(I think it was you, if not apols)
"I'd be amazed if a section of Scotland wanted to break-away but if they did they should be allowed to do so, exactly the same as the Free State was allowed to break-away"

Interesting use of "break away"...that implies that it was right that Scotland (Ireland) be annexed by the English in the first place.  Perhaps "become independent again" (although a little wordy) is correct.

"it appears incongruous to me that a proud Irish Republican and Citizen like Aerlik should consider his Irish Nationality inadequate both for himself and his son. Worse still, that he should seek to "augment" their Nationality by applying for nationality of a country which still has Queen Elizabeth as its Head of State. 
Further, I sense Aerlik's use of highly derogatory language for the Queen to be evidence of the self-same embarrassment..."

Fear not EG, my considering my Irish nationality and that of my son are major assets for us.  Not for us the shame of having to admit we're "british".  No, wherever I have gone in the world, my passport has been a massive advantage.  And if you read correctly you'll see that my son was born in Australia therefore entitling him to Aussie citizenship by birth.

And for a person as seemingly articulate and well-read as you are, surely YOU must cringe with embarrassment when you have to change your nationality to save your skin thanks to the antics of the British now and in the past.  The only good things to come from the British Empire are John Harrison and James Hind.

EG, my son wasn't sold into anything but born in Australia to his Australian mother and Irish father.  I have decided to take the option of citizenship to further job prospects and get the right to vote...especially vote for the not too far off Republic Of Australia.

The great position I'm in is that I have chosen to live here, realising Lizzy the hoor is head of state.  The fact that she claims to be head of state (and let's face it, that's all it is) of the British-annexed northeastern 6 counties of Ireland is something that I do have a gripe about.

Not to mention the Presbyterians of the latter centuries

Sammy G I can imagine is busting his breaches at your incredulity. How dare you question the dignity of the official language of Northern Ireland.  Yeah, shite.  No, simply put, the days of the evil empire are ending and I want to have a finger in the pie whe the rest of yiz are chucked out.

My mini-me was born here; either here or Japan. Shou ga nai as the Japs would say

Yes, Lizzy the whore is the Head Of State, but as I said, I am doing it for my son, who already has Irish citizenship.  The Australian Police are, I have been told by very reliable sources, about to drop the requirement to swear the oath to the tr**p too.  EG, next thing you'll be telling us is that there is a clan in New South Wales that conducts all their Post Office documentation in Ulster Scots.
Can't wait for Australia to follow Canada's lead.
Ulster Scots, U/S... unserviceable.

We should only agree if the DUP agree to reunite with the rest of the country.

Re. the flag.  I have been on a bit of a mission doing my bit to "drag the rag from the flag".  I have been discussing at length with the most red-necked of redneck Aussies the sputum in the corner of the current Aussie flag.  Imagine their surprise when I informed them that they did not volunteer at Gallipoli or St.Quentin, or Le Quesnoi, or other tiny unrecognised corners of Europe during WW 1, but were ordered to go over on the threat of being shot by the English (not the Aussie) uberlords.  "but it's part of our heritiage"...yeah right, think long and hard about it...long and hard. 

I don't have to salute the flag thank fcuk.  I am very much in favour of the alternative Australian flag designed by a fella from WA.  If i knew how to post it I would.

And when asked what role the Queen had in most Aussies' lives, it is depressing that so few of them understand the corruption.  Yet so few of them are prepared to take time out to try to understand the oppression suffered by the native population.    I hate racism.