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Kerry v Dublin was a good read.  Loved the bit about Micko, and him being an auld rogue.  He always went to a match with one football, came home with two 

I must take a stab at Jack O'Connor's book sometime, what with him criticising us Northerners and all.

Ahh, auld Beefer.  He's a breath of fresh air sometimes, with his positive thinking and all that, but man, he talks some shite too 

The best one I heard was a passport belonging to one of the "hijackers" was found on the street below the WTC.  The black boxes of the planes, made of indestructible material, were never found, but a paper passport happened to survive.  Yes, that sounds plausible 

Prizes?

2 tickets to the final for the winner

Hogan or Cusack?

There's a rugby world cup now??

9th of November?  What happened? 

In all seriousness, yanks did it themselves - look at how they have benefited since.   Cnuts

Exactly.

Those who still think that Saudi terrorists are responsbile for 9/11, you need your head examined.

I thought it was incredibly dead looking after the Hurling Final last Sunday.

The GAA is about it's people and the people want to celebrate their club and county and final day. To me, being on the pitch in 2003, 2005 and 2008 after Tyrone won the All-Ireland was a fantastic experience. It unified us and meant we could all share in the celebrations.

As for the comment about you can meet friends and family on club finals, but not in Croker.... believe me, you do meet them.

So I say, do away with the orange mesh and do away with the glass wall around Hill 16. Let the supporters onto the pitch.

Hear hear!!

I'm putting myself forward as the Physio seeing no one else wants to do it.

I'll be sponge man.

They're all in the club.

All the Royal's, British PM's and US Presidents are all related.  Inbred Nuts.

Theres a few Nally stand tickets about.

The Nally Stand is in Carrickmore! 

I hate this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJ5cEmTgdE

Is there a limit to how many times you can enter?

I hope Dublin win this one, sick of Kerry this long and many's a day, well that and I think it would give gaelic football a great boost in Dublin.

Boost me arse.  I hope Kerry stuff them.

Sultans of Ping FC - Where's Me Jumper?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM

[Look at Tyrone]

6 of Dublin's 8 scores came from frees how many would you say were actually fouls?

None (couldn't see the last free decision though).

Barry Cahill should have got red for that challenge on Karl Lacey.

To be honest, the game wasn't as bad as people are making out.  It wasn't the greatest AI semi, but it was intense and tough.  Donegal's amount of hand-passing and their defensive game wasn't any worse than what alot of other teams do.  It worked until the last few minutes, but it was their failure to get quick ball into their forward line that was their downfall in the end. 

Tyrone v Kerry in 2003 was 10 times worse than this game.

Name 1 other team that plays with 14 men behind the ball for the entire match.

Most teams go ultra-defensive at times these days.  Donegal didn't have enough forwards up, thats true, but it wasn't always 14 men behind the ball.  Cork, Dublin, Kerry, Kildare, Mayo, Laois, Armagh, Tyrone, Down have all been known to get numbers behind the ball and hand-pass their way out of trouble.

Donegal will learn from this.  They'll be a better side next year.  Look at Tyrone.  They were super-defensive in 2003 to win Sam, but became a better team afterwards (ouch, that hurt!).

Exactly look at Tyrone. Cavanagh... McGuigan....Canavan... Dooher... Mugsy....O'Neill.....etc
Cynical ..... dour ... divers sometimes but absolutely class attacking footballers.
Where in the name of God has that abomination that was Donegal on Sunday got forwards to match the above?
Even when Tyrone were on the up and ultra defensive where did they ever score so little in a top end championship match in croker?
Where did they ever show such lack of ambition?
In 2003 they didnt just try to stop Kerry they also hammered them on the scoreboard.
NO COMPARISON.

They also only conceded 0-6 v Kerry in 2003.  Wasn't that ultra-defensive? Didn't you see that match? They also only scored 0-12 to win the All Ireland.  When was the last time 0-12 won the AI final?  You'd have to go back a long time.

Donegal do have fantastic forwards, such as McFadden, Murphy, McBrearty, Toye, Hegarty, Molloy, McHugh.  They just didn't use them right.