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Remember the shutter speeds on modern cameras, what looks at that milisecond like Gormley lording over Galvin may actually have been Gormley on his way up to throw the fists in the air.  Would be interesting to see what the following pics taken directly after are like.  

I was actually thinking along these lines myself when I saw the picture in Gaelic Life.  It obviously looks like he's taunting the Kerryman, and if that's the case then it's not on, period. BUT, if the shot was taken right on the final whistle Gormley could be just expressing his delight to himself ... that said, I'd like to see the video of it, if it was goading, as it looks to be, then I would totally condemn it

Mickey did the right thing, ignored his silly comments. Anyone with any sense can see what he was trying to do, rile the GAA community. Best to take the higher ground and laugh off his comments.

Someone said how to idiots like these get elected. Quite silly, feed into the fears of the electorate and giving them scare stories about what 'the other side' will do and what will happen to the Unionist community if they are not elected. Been happening for years in all countries. Tell them what they want and if that doesn't work, scare them into voting for you.

If he wanted to annoy Mickey he should have started talking about the International Rules series, then there would have been fun

What about the guard of honour by the Dubs for Tyrone this time?

As long as Dublin get a call this time, they'll be out.

Tyrone officials were too busy turning off the hot water and locking dressing rooms the last time in Omagh to bother calling Dublin for the guard of honour..

Couldn't get them out ... they were all reading some engrossing book about how brilliant they were...


So they were locking the dressing rooms with the dublin team still in it ?

Red Hander says he felt 'degraded' by Russell's handling of the 1995 All Ireland Final

Anyone see the Irish News report on the match today?  Apparently Pearse Park is in Roscommon, which isn't even in the same province as Longford ... and they have it on three different Francie Mooney bylines ... Tut Tut Tut, thought I was reading the News Letter for a minute...

Jaysus, the jackeens are doing some whining on reservoir dubs about Croker being a NEUTRAL venue and how they want the match at Parnell Park

Could do comedy too ... Slap Shot was one of the best ever movies about sport IMO

Great game ... managed to sneak away from work to watch it ... two excellent teams, but I thought the ref was very dodgy.  Must say, I feel very sorry for the Mayo keeper after his mistake, he was brilliant and made one of the best saves I've ever seen in my life

EG, have you any of your beloved statistics for the number of men, women, children and pet dogs murdered by the benevolent, peace-loving Colombian government? 

Or maybe you could explain why those evil FARC 'terrorists' are rebelling, considering everything is wonderful in Colombia and there's no reason for the peasants to be unhappy with their lot? 

Or is it just the same as what happened here ... i.e it's alright for the state to use terrorism, collusion and murder but it's not alright for the people this is directed against to do so?

so i guessed, was doin a bit of windin up. but u have alot of trouble even admitting that the issue existed! it actually doesnt make sense for me to be arguing about this with u cos im sure u back MH all along, but i personally know people who said he should have went while he was ahead. a minority can still be a hell of alot of people.

u can only be as sure that there werent alot of people calling for his head as i can that there were! unless of course u have done a survey.

I have no trouble admitting the issue existed ... i'd have a lot more trouble fitting a traffic cone into my hole

Did you pay by credit card?  If you did then I think you'll be OK re: getting your money back. It's still a ballix, though

[We feel your pain Tony, We love your pain! Keep hurting! TYRONE ALL IRELAND CHAMPIONS 2003, 2005 & 2008! - Live with it!!]

Bummer what is this fixation with the two Brians? One of them lives beside me and I see him every day and will tell him there is a Tyrone geek who is obsessed with him.

There is no analogy between M Harte and the two Brians. M Harte had won one real All Ireland and one back door All Ireland yet there was practically universal clamour for his removal after the Tyrone defeat by Down this year.

The two Brians won two Ulster Championships and had failed (unluckily) in two All Ireland semi finals, hence the clamour (mainly from S Armagh) for their heads.

As I said no comparison whatsoever

'there was practically universal clamour for his removal after the Tyrone defeat by Down this year'. BULLSHIT   The people calling for Mickey's head were a small minority, the same sort of people who abused his son when he played for the county. The Irish News had a front page plug jumping to its 'off the fence' column at the time (it may even have used the word clamour)... when you turned to read all about this 'clamour' it amounted to TWO phonecall to the IN calling for MH's head  ... TWO!    The vast majority of Tyrone fans backed MH after the Down games, this, afterall, was the man to who had brought us two All-Irelands (now three, which is TWO more than youse have) ...

Or maybe they just printed two.

Well, why hype something up on the front page if you're then going to sell the reader short?  Off the fence has many times in the past dedicated itself to one subject with several  people's views printed, why not then?

My aunt and uncle were a at threshing fair near Mullabawn on Sunday.  At it they had 2 big screens up and described the cheers that went up when Tyrone won.   I've head similar stories about clubs & pubs from other neighbouring counties, in areas where decent Gaels live.  Thankfully the minority bone-idle buckfast swillers from Craigavon / Lurgan don't represent the whole of the county.

We feel your pain Tony, We love your pain!   Keep hurting!     

TYRONE ALL IRELAND CHAMPIONS 2003, 2005 & 2008!   - Live with it!!

i fully supported tyrone on sunday but now im rememberin why i used to take pleasure in them losing. i still admore the team but cant understand why red hander wont admit that there was a large section of "supporters" wanting mickey harte to go. in case u hadnt noticed the irish news can only print so much and im sure they wudnt want to dedicate the entire off the fence to putting down one individual. unless maybe red hander u were one of the non believers after the down game??

SK, this is a forum for the discussion of GAA topics.  I have over 550 posts on this forum.  If I was one of the 'non believers' then surely I'd have given my opinion on this forum. If you can find one post on this forum in which I criticise MH or call for his resignation, I will run naked down Royal Avenue with a traffic cone shoved up my arse.  I will not admit there was a large section of supporters wanting MH to go because it isn't true ... it was a minority of gobshites.

Bullshit. I would give your theory credence Bummer if Tyrone made a final (or even semi final) appearance every year, but they don't. For all Harte's undoubted management skills Tyrone cannot deny their extreme good fortune at crucial times this year, a few examples of which are

Westmeath having two men sent off in 60 in seconds in front of a sparse crowd at Omagh when they could well have dumped Tyrone on their asses in the qualifiers.

Dublin failing to turn up at all in the qtr final

Wexford playing for only one half and missing their best player in the second half in the semis

Kerry taking wrong options which denied them at least two goals last Sunday allied to Tyrone's fluke goal, which would have been cleared by the defender had he not lost his footing.

Sometimes things occur as a result of extreme good fortune rather than any pre set master plan

How does it feel to have 2 less All-Irelands than Tyrone, sweetheart? Star or no star it must be some hurt til ye.

Yeah, and how does it feel to have lost an All-Ireland to Tyrone?

'Also many of us remember hundreds of Tyrone flags greeting every Laois score in the 2003 qtr final with Armagh'
And Armagh fans weren't cheering on Fermanagh for the two minutes they were competitive on that very same day?

Word of warning
A tupee (sp) that isnt from the South...

FFS, I ate there a couple of months ago.

Sure you're still here so you must be all right