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Mika - Big Girls You Are Beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRiXOONqf0

An absolutely shocking effort at a song! As was his first single. How this muppet can top the charts with 2 woeful songs is completely beyond my comprehension!

He says Freddie Mercury was his hero well NEWSFLASH QUeen already have a song about fat bottomed girls and it's in a different f**king league than this tripe!!!!!

Better than that there's a club player in Tyrone Gallagher I think who also plays for Dungannon Swifts has also quit Football becasue of abuse he receives from referees within the County... Not Good but then I wouldn't expect anything else from that Tyrone shower anyway!

Who is this Brennan fella ye are lookin in WHB? As much as I don't like Casey and think he's a tr**p he's game to fire his head anywhere and he brings a bit of steel and aggression to the Dubs defence so I don't think he should be dropped.

What's the craic with Moran playing WHF? He's a defender through and through and I thought that with Goggins finally getting ousted from that LHB slot Moran would have been staraight in there. God knows he'd be better than Cahill in that position (Don't really see what Cahill brings to the team at LHB, or at all really) Are the Dubs freally struggling that badly for natural WHF's.

My own view on the match is that Derry have a much more well rounded team than Dublin. McConnell, Henry, B. Brogan, Vaughan and Bonner haven't really proven themselves at this level whilst the jury is still out as to whether Cahill, Ryan and Moran are playing their natural positions and are effective in these positions for Dublin to push on enough to win that AI that escapes them.

I think Dublin's system and the fact that they have 15 supremely fit lads bursting their hole's for the cause has kind of masked the fact that this Dublin team does not really have the talent or skill level required to win an All Ireland - something we have witnessed with Mayo and a reason why I think the Dubs will keep coming close but ultimately come up short come September...

As for next Saturday's game Dublin are well capable of beating Derry but as Paddy Crozier himself has said... at our best Derry will beat any team in the country whilst at our worst we can get beaten by any team in the country... I'm going for a 4 point win for the Leafers though!

I think this song is amazing and the performance of it definitely makes it for me...

Nirvana Unplugged - Where Did You Sleep Last Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCqQmoHg8s

My Derry Team v Dubs (Wha')

Gillis (Lucky to still be there IMO)
Lockhart
McCloy
McGuckin
McEldowney
O'Kane
McGoldrick (If fit, I would have McBride in if not but I think Hinphey would get the nod from the Mgt)
Doc
Conway
Lynch
Murphy (If Fit, if not I'd have Bradley but I think Diver would be put there)
Gilligan
Muldoon (Roving)
Bradley
Devlin

Can't see Eoin Bradley starting but as one of my mates said it might be an idea to use him as an impact sub and I think he would do well coming in against a Dubs team that usually burns itself out too quickly.

[f**k off]

If your not interested in talking about Dublin V Derry then f**k off . I'm sick to god of these who's a bandwagoner , who's a scumbags posts .If you want to have your childish aren't we great, dubs are gay (snicker)  post go start a new thread .

Sarry bud, I think yisser bleedin' deadly wha'? I tink if ya stick Keano from striker to corner forward and push Whelo from Midfield to Centre half yis will defo have dem wha'?

Relax man! And anyway I'm not saying the Dubs are gay... just Nortsoiders!!

Having played in both Dublin and Derry I can easily say that Club Football in Derry is better supported than club football in Dublin! So this whole bandwagon thing is a bit rich coming from the skangers;)

The bandwagon argument is stupid no matter what teams point of view, of feckin course Derry have more interest now, if Dublin hadnt won a Leinster game in 5 years and were playing Wicklow in the first round they ground wouldnt be half full, its all about success and the interest FROM EVERY COUNTY grows as the championship progresses.
This is the same in every sport too.

Re the "skangers" comments, are you referring to us all there?

There's no way that there has been any more than 15,000 at a Dublin cship final!

We are being accused of not being true gaels and being bandwagon supporters which is a load of crap when club football in Derry is thriving. Yes there is a certain hostility towards the county team by a few but ultimately Derry people love their football and for people to say that we don't deserve at least 10k tickets for this match when we have 2 teams playing and Dublin will have at least 55k supporters is scandellous.

As for our lack of support there is this theory that you can only go to the well so many times. I remember my father and my uncles wouldn't have missed a match for about 10 years between 91 and 2001. It does cost a lot to follow a division 1 team around the country and it's simply not feasible to carry on that type of support forever which has been witnessed in recent times by Tyrone and Armagh support dropping from what it has been previously. Add that to a team that isn't performing consistently and it's going to lead to a drop in attendances for any county.

Screen there have been approx 60k+ at the Dublin matches from the first round..a lot of them will lose out this time...

Just as a point of interest... how many of these 60k have been to a Dublin Club game in the last 10 years?


Having played in both Dublin and Derry I can easily say that Club Football in Derry is better supported than club football in Dublin! So this whole bandwagon thing is a bit rich coming from the skangers

Screen - cause they are taking tickets from people who have been going all championbship...as teh comment in the Irish News today - "Derry fans only come out when there is a sniff of glory"...
I was at the replay and the beautiful day/free entry attracted lots more people but there was no way 17k Derry fans at that match...

I never said there were 17k Derry supporters. You must've misread me but there was 17k total at the match and Derry were by no means outnumbered on the day. I don't see how you can begrudge us 10,000 tickets when there will easily be 50,000 Dubs there and we've 2 teams playing!

Screen

To be honest if you get 10k tickets I think that is a disgrace considering the lack of support you have had in all your other matches especially as people who travel the country to go to games are going to miss out...and having been to lots of Derry matches I know 10k would be an awful lot alright!!!!

Well we had to sit through Derry last year in the hurling and that was of the same standard as what will be on show that weekend...

Feck that if there are 10,000 Derry fans who want to go to the match why shouldn't they??? We do get a lot of people knocking us for our lack of support but to be fair we have had a lot of people turning out this year. THere were 17,000 at the replayed Antrim match, we had a decent enough crowd for the Monaghan game, in fairness nobody went to the Armagh match but since then the support has been good with a massive crowd at Celtic park for Mayo and a decent crowd on Saturday past... long may it continue!!!

Bogball - not sure about 15k at all......sure they had about 700-800 at Clones for the Armagh game and only about 5k tops at Breffni.....though I do know contacts in Derry who are worried they won't get tickets even after going to all teh matches!!!!!

Loup - Will be good for the Derry folk to see some hurling and realise there is more than 1 GAA game...

I'd say we'll get at least 10,00 going to this match next week. That's pretty massive for a Derry support let me tell you!

As for that last comment DFS, give me a game of hurling before the Derry match no problem and I'll be only too happy to watch it but if you are trying to describe this farce between Armagh and Roscommon as a game of hurling you are sadly mistaken. Hurling is what we witnessed on Sunday past, this abomination to be played before the Derry Dublin match wouldn't even be a distant cousin of what we saw at Croker on Sunday past.

I see the mighty Benedict's got put back in their box at the weekend against the Young Irelanders!

I've a few mates playing for Irelands and they said thet Benedict's just don't have the quality or the bottle when it comes to the bigger matches and that Benedict's could beat YI's all year long but when it comes to a bigger game they just can't hack it!

It was supposed to be done and dusted last night. Anyone know what the story is now??

Well carnaross what do you reckon about this one?? I was nearly tempted to go back for it but for other commitments. I've been away for a month now although I've been hearing Peter's are going well but I'm sure JM's are too. I'd say it'll be a good tight match but I still fancy Peter's to shade it by a couple of points.

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