Having revecently seen the Royal battle dvd and all the press coverage of that Meath V Dublin 1991 series of matches led me to thinking of what other great rivals have fought out great matches.
One I can remember is Cork v Tipp in 1984 Munster Final when Cork managed to snatch a victory from the jaws of defeat.Tipperary led by 4 points with 6 minutes to go before Cork rallied with Seanie O'Leary scoring a sensational goal and Cork won by a point.
And the same rivals served up another classic in 1991 - som say that was an even better game.
And then more recently football rivals Tyrone v Armagh in 2005 - no room for the faint hearted.
Who can add to the rivals list? Kilkenny Wexford, Galway Mayo, Cork Kerry ???
Knockmore Ballina, Knockmore Crossmolina, Crossmolina Ballina. All great club rivalries in Mayo. There are probably other club rivalries in other parts of the county but I'd say these are the most intense as we all hate to lose to one another. Isn't that right Mayo4Sam, Stephenite and the Cross posters? But seriously, we all are one big happy family! :D
yek I expect there's more rivalry at club level - the true parish v parish where pride and passion and revenge are emotions without equal - Portumna v Loghrea a case in point ! I'm sure the Dublin clubs like Vincents, Na Fianna and Kilmacud Crokes must really love and respect each other !!
In Kildare the big rivals would be Round Towers v Ellistown, Moorefield v Sarsfields, Kilcullen v St Laurances and Allenwood v Carbury..The north Kildare clubs Maynooth, Leixlip, Celbridge all seem to have a loathing for each other as well..
Johnstownbridge and Carbury would have no love loss either, Lynchbhoy might be able to confirm but I think Declan Kerrigan left Carbury to join JTB, war quickly ensued....
On a county level, we've too many neighbours but Laois, Offaly, Meath and the Cheeky Dubs are generally not liked.....
County -Meath
Club - Seniors Skryne but underage - Ratoath
You're right Farrandeelin.....massive rivalry between those three North Mayo Clubs......and three clubs of really high standard to boot. Adds that extra little bit of bite to Championship every year. Know after I've checked our own group out I always check the draw for the other two teams to see where we would possibly meet! Ah we love ye really :-* :-* :-* ;)
I'd say Garrymore, Davitts and Hollymount would have similar rivalry the other end of the county.
Quote from: Farrandeelin on December 14, 2006, 09:50:22 PM
Knockmore Ballina, Knockmore Crossmolina, Crossmolina Ballina. All great club rivalries in Mayo. There are probably other club rivalries in other parts of the county but I'd say these are the most intense as we all hate to lose to one another. Isn't that right Mayo4Sam, Stephenite and the Cross posters? But seriously, we all are one big happy family! :D
All the happier when we've beat them out the gate!
It has a lot to do with ballina being the main town in the area as well, we would all end up there a lot of nites, plenty of friendly rivalry
Dublin V Kerry i know dublin have been off the boil now for a long long :-[ time but how many people where dreaming of a Dublin V Kerry final this year before that game
yea dinny kerrigan left carbury to join d bridge.
in the 80's the farell brothers played on either team and my uncles played for opposite sides.
when jtb started up carbury were very good so some players went to them even as bridge natives, opposite to declan.
jtb pitch is in carbury parish too and sons of players from both sides are playing against their da's old club now.
loads of relatives have also knocked lumps out iof each other in the name when yellow and blue played green, white and blue.
Quote from: Captain Scarlet on December 15, 2006, 12:41:10 PM
yea dinny kerrigan left carbury to join d bridge.
in the 80's the farell brothers played on either team and my uncles played for opposite sides.
when jtb started up carbury were very good so some players went to them even as bridge natives, opposite to declan.
jtb pitch is in carbury parish too and sons of players from both sides are playing against their da's old club now.
loads of relatives have also knocked lumps out iof each other in the name when yellow and blue played green, white and blue.
beat me to it
Yeah the Farrells v Farrells was always a fantastic spectacle
My favourites were Colm and my fave ever Kildare player - Phelim from JTB.
Some fantastic scraps, and the Farrells alone would knock lumps out of each other.
Offaly Westmeath on our side of the County, and up towards Rhode and Tullamore as well. Offaly Laois over towards Portarlington, Offaly Kildare around Edenderry. In hurling, Offaly - Galway is fairly intense around Banagher, and Offaly Tipp is a keen rivalry around Birr/Roscrea.
Quote from: AZOffaly on December 15, 2006, 01:16:30 PM
Offaly Westmeath on our side of the County, and up towards Rhode and Tullamore as well. Offaly Laois over towards Portarlington, Offaly Kildare around Edenderry. In hurling, Offaly - Galway is fairly intense around Banagher, and Offaly Tipp is a keen rivalry around Birr/Roscrea.
Offaly , Kildare and Meath around Edenderry AZ !
Prob Westmeath a bit too
Cork would be our main rivals but with only 6 AI titles you have to have a certain level of sympathy with them, but 'Tis the season of goodwill to all, even the langers, so Happy Christmas and best wishes to Cork Footballers in 07 from the National League and All Ireland double winning champions in 2006.
Ah yeah Lynchbhoy, but the main rivalry would be with Kildare up around there. A lot of the Carbury lads especially would be going to school and playing soccer in Edenderry.
We have a pile of rivalries, and we feel them all over the county, but the one that concentrates your mind most is the bunch that is closest to you. For us in Ferbane, that is the Moate/Athlone factor, so Westmeath.
Don't really think Antrim have a real rivalery,
the club rivalery between dunloy and loughgiel can be intense
Quote from: Kerry Mike on December 15, 2006, 01:25:20 PM
Cork would be our main rivals but with only 6 AI titles you have to have a certain level of sympathy with them, but 'Tis the season of goodwill to all, even the langers, so Happy Christmas and best wishes to Cork Footballers in 07 from the National League and All Ireland double winning champions in 2006.
People from cork would claim they've over 100 Ai titles but lets no split hairs
Locally on the club scene it has been and will always be St. Mary's but we're cultivating a healthy dislike of St. John's presently and especially at underage. Their raison d'etre seems to be to annoy us and eventually that has an effect on you. Losing to them is harder to take than losing to Mary's if you can understand.
County wise its similar for me. Mayo would be the big one but the last 2 years have seen me come to really dislike Leitrim. Their raison d'etre seems to be to annoy us and eventually that has an effect on you. Losing to them is harder to take than losing to Mayo if you can understand.
Hurling -Kilkenny,Offaly
Football - Offaly-Kildare (Dublin but thats a personal issue i have)
Club
The Harps
ps my club is The Harps its inner rivarly im talking about as we are joined with neighbouring parish Cullohill
so what is your no. rivalry nomination ? eire og, crossmaglen, the barrs, screen , crossmolina, or is it kerry in football or kilkenny in hurling ?
In county terms in football it would be Mayo for pure footballing rivalry but a great deal of mutual respect as well.
Roscommon for the fact that they have a chip on both shoulders so at least they are balanced in their bitterness and begrudgery. ;D
In hurling it would have to be Tipp even though we only share a small enough border with them around Portumna. We have a long border with Clare but have never developed a keen rivalry with them.
No one has mentioned Wicklow yet - surely a title contender when it comes to clubs battling it out in the true meaning of the word - hard to rememeber any great matches but there have been plenty of headlines of players and fans getting very 'carried away'. Just a few weeks ago recall a newspaper photographer on the radio telling how he was threatned if he took any pics of an after match car park incident. Not condoning such activity but is it that at county level rivalry can be a mix of dislike and respect at the same time but at club level it's dislike only - the respect is missing ?
Most clubs in South Down hate Mayobridge - can understand where this comes from as I suspect that their arrogance and believing they are so much better than other clubs doesn't help them.
Surely that spectacle of an Ulster Final in '05 should get a mention.
Big Joe's intimidation tactics on the wee man payed off that day but were found out
a few weeks later as I'm sure you'll all recall ;D
for my club(bellaghy) it would be lavey,although they are going through a bad patch at the minute they are our biggest rivals with the two clubs within a stones through of each other
Loup and Ballinderry is known as the "old firm derby". Loup playin in green and white, Ballinderry in bue, but there is alot of mutual respect between 99% of the players.