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#4186
Armagh / Re: Armagh Club football & hurling
November 30, 2010, 02:43:35 PM
Quote from: illdecide on November 30, 2010, 12:33:05 PM
What crowd was at the boxing last weekend? i doubt there would have been as big a crown there as there was at the Armagh City hotel last year!!!
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#4187
General discussion / Re: La Liga 2010/11 season
November 30, 2010, 02:40:43 PM
Quote from: paco on November 30, 2010, 08:49:35 AM
I would definitely argue that it was one of the biggest games in his career. When you take into consideration the fact that Barcelona's most hated person was coming to the Nou Camp as manager of their most hated team, Mourinho's comments in the days and weeks before, the whole Messi v Ronaldo thing, the meda's build up to the match, and the fact that the 2 clasicos have decided the league for the past 2 seasons, I would say it really is that important. I see Guardiola is his usual modest self this morning, reckons "it's not true that we are much better than Real Madrid."
I don't think Barca give a fcuk about Mourinho, and Ronaldo is no Messi...never wil be....Oh and yes I would be a fan.
#4188
General discussion / Re: La Liga 2010/11 season
November 30, 2010, 02:37:57 PM
Quote from: Rossie11 on November 30, 2010, 01:06:05 PM
QuoteRooney is an over hyped slightly better than average English Club player.
Am no fan of the b*llix but thats a bit off the mark. Surely he is more than slightly better than the likes of Robbie Savage for example!!!
Only if you think he is average!! :D
#4189
General discussion / Re: La Liga 2010/11 season
November 30, 2010, 12:15:39 PM
Quote from: ballinaman on November 29, 2010, 10:51:15 PM
Ramos is a right thug. Would love to be a fly on the wall at the next spanish international call up!
Carvalho isn't far behind him, but if you watch Barca you get used to the sight of Leo getting kicked about the place, no tantrums, no diving he just gets on with it, are you watching Ronaldo!! One thing pisses me of though is Sky commentators continuing to promote the premiership as something for La Liga players and coaches to aspire to. Get Real (no pun intended) the best league in soccer is La Liga at the moment. Rooney like Beckham is an over hyped slightly better than average English Club player.
#4190
Armagh / Re: Your Club Review
November 23, 2010, 10:33:34 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on November 20, 2010, 05:12:44 PM
Armagh Cúchulainns, this would be better served on the other thread!

Club Name:     
Naomh Gall, Antrim

League Division Status:
2 in Division 1 Football
5 in Division 2 Hurling

Championship Run:    
Champions of the Football
Beaten by the Antrim Hurling Champions in the first round.

2010 Review:

Football, won the championship, weren't really pushed went into the Ulster series as Champions but got put on our ass by the Ulster Champions this year ;).

Hurling, after a disastrous first ten minutes against Loughgiel we hurled rightly and due to injuries and boys states side we put in a credible effort. maybe drop do to Intermediate as thats about our standard. nearly relegated in Division two which would have been bad for our hurling promotion. But managed to win 4 out of our last five.

Hopes for 2011:

Football, win the senior football championship and improve on the Cross defeat

Hurling, Win intermediate championship, push for promotion to div 1

Juveniles, we haven't won too many underage titles in a while so we'd need to get our finger out.

Look after the ones coming through the ranks and ensure we keep them.

Oh last but not least, the ladies won the intermediate Antrim and Ulster Championship so they inter the senior Competition next year
One title you won't win is the Intermediate Hurling, as Ulster Champions last Year I think you have to play Senior again next year, going by Keady's situation.
#4191
I hope he is told its not all about himself!
#4192
Going by the logic of some of the posters here the Ulster Council should have played the queen and flown the Union Jack at Casement last Sunday.
#4193
Quote from: deiseach on November 20, 2010, 02:39:04 PM
Quote from: saffron sam2 on November 19, 2010, 08:47:22 AM
There is no logical or justifiable reason why that particular number should be used as the anthem for the IFA's soccer team. You seriously have to question the motives of those who insist that it continues to be used.

In fairness, I think its retention is down to inertia as much as it is an active desire for its continuance. Even when done with the best of intentions changing symbols can be a fraught business so I can understand people involved in NI soccer not wanting to go there. Of course, it'd be nice if the average OWCer would accept that it could be an issue for many people in NI rather than instantly labelling those people as being closet Provos
I know I started this thread, but to be honest I think most Northern Nationalists couldn't give a toss what they play, we just feel betrayed by the likes of McCourt and Maginn particularly since they are Celtic players. By the by just look at the respect Chris Baird got from his supporters.
#4194
Armagh / Re: Armagh Club football & hurling
November 19, 2010, 07:11:22 PM
Quote from: IVEDECIDED on November 18, 2010, 05:48:29 PM
Hes lucky making it onto the Cross squad!
Not a Cross fan then? I have been impressed with some of his displays, maybe a bit inconsistent but as good as anything I've seen from Armagh.
#4195
Quote from: deargdoom on November 18, 2010, 08:11:41 PM
Quote from: Applesisapples on November 18, 2010, 02:49:49 PM
Paddy McCourt and the other taigs

Don't think that really helps. Anyway how is it any different than Stephen Ferris or Rory Best having to stand to Amhrán na bhFiann?
Totally different protocol, Irelands Call is the team anthem, Amhran Na bhFiann is only played in Dublin. Abroad its only Irelands Call, Also the flag of the team is the IRFU flag not the tricolour, which by the way is a legitimate flag unlike the loyalist bastardisation of the cross of St George and the provincial flag of Ulster. All I am saying is if they want to truly give sectarianism the boot then a neutral anthem such as Danny Boy and flag would be used.
#4196
Armagh / Re: Armagh Club football & hurling
November 18, 2010, 04:09:01 PM
Quote from: mackers on November 18, 2010, 03:42:58 PM
Quote from: Applesisapples on November 18, 2010, 02:36:42 PM
Who all is on POR's 10 man Senior Development Squad?
Eugene McVerry and Robbie Tasker are two of them anyway........Grugan, Gavin McParland and Declan McKenna made it onto the senior squad.
What about David McKenna?
#4197
Quote from: lynchbhoy on November 18, 2010, 04:02:22 PM
Quote from: gallsman on November 18, 2010, 03:27:41 PM
Not really any more cringeworthy than watching the likes of Kevin Kilbane or Jason McAteer look lost any time Amhrán na bhFiann was playing.
what a crap comment gallsman.
kilbane was raised as an Irish man from what I recall reading years ago. His folks always told him he was Irish despite being born and schooled in England.
but too many folk think hes jumping on a bandwagon or he's a plastic paddy etc.
never liked that kind of crass belittling of Irish people born abroad.
Hear Hear!! The point I was making was about inclusivity and emblems...We keep getting told about the new shiny NI... But it is the same as the old one except now Nationalists are happily accepting assimilation.
#4198
Switched over last night from Sky Sports 1 to 2 to check if Morocco had scored. The "National Anthem" was playing--- God Save the Queen. Paddy McCourt and the other taigs looked so embarrassed heads down staring at the ground whilst the NI guys belted her out with gusto. So much for inclusivity from the IFA. No wonder Darren Gibson, Marc Wilson et al would prefer 1 cap for Ireland to 100 from Norn Iron. Really illustrates were we are at inclusivity but only on unionist terms!
#4199
Armagh / Re: Armagh Club football & hurling
November 18, 2010, 02:36:42 PM
Who all is on POR's 10 man Senior Development Squad?
#4200
General discussion / Re: Poppy Watch
November 17, 2010, 04:04:04 PM
It's a bit of a stretch to murdering whatever from stoops. I don't know what age you are Gallsman but you don't seem to have an understanding of where the NI state came from or the issues faced by Nationalists, Catholics and Republicans up to the late 1980's early 1990's. I wonder reading your posts are you just winding people up? Your revisionist posts over simply the whole NI question just as much as some of the posts from those you ridicule. Bottomline is the political situation here is not as simple as Margaret Ritchie and her poppy would have you believe, neither is it as clear cut as some republican posters believe. Our enconomy is every bit as dependant on that of the ROI as it is on the UK subvention. It is much more complicated than that but I don't have the time or inclination to go into the detail. To go back to the issue of the poppy and it's symbolism and the whole NI question and where the SDLP are leading us by extension, read Nuala O'Connor's article in yesterdays Irish News.