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thats tough, had a good round. last years he gets lucky (gets the dosh even tho he loses the playoff) and this year the opposite...

Some c**k up by Robert Rock

going tomorrow, why was he dq?

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/rovers-ring-of-confidence-can-test-juve-super-stars-2275748.html

The local Thomas Davis GAA club, who took their grievances to the High Court, weakened their hand by expressing the concern that the youth of Tallaght would be 'restricted to a diet of association football'.

Right now, with another European footballing giant on their doorstep, the diet is tasting pretty damn good.

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Ouch!

tonight rovers play serie A - next week its back to serie Z

Ouch yourself!


id love to see rovers win btw

[Never beat Down in Croker when it mattered.]

Kerry V Down on Saturday!  Down need to beware those Ky lads owe Down big time.  Just look at the records;

1. Never beat Down in Croker when it mattered.
2. Never got to lay hands on them during the 70s and 80s Hay Days (quote from O'Dwyer I think)
3. Only managed one point against Down in the whole of the 2nd half in 91 semi.  Only Pat the puke was capable of scoring a single pt
4. Same game signalled the end of Pat the puke and TV viewers have suffered ever since.
5. Same game included a humiliation of Pat's Bro Tom, a soccer novice turned him over scoring 2goals.

Watch Ky put all that crap to bed on Sat.  Guess all the pressure will be on Down

fancy kerry to fix that on sunday despite no thomas or galvin. we'll need to be wide awake to survive tho and down wont want to lose their record against kerry. on that note a heading from the New York Times in sept 1960 or 61 at the end of the Cuban missile crisis was in our house for years along with a picture of the kerry team. it was 'Khrushchev backs Down' when Nikita Khrushchev soviet premier agreed not to put the missiles in Cuba at the 11th hour thus ending the crisis. My da a longtime new york gael thought it was very funny and loved showing it.

Excellent!

Anyone who thinks that results from 50 years ago will put the current Kerry team under pressure needs to get a reality check.

Just a historical correction here. The Cuban Missile Crisis took place in October of 1962, not September of 1960 or 1961. So if you had a copy of the NY Times, it was a fake. I remember practicing "duck and cover" under our desks in my 3rd grade classroom. Scary time that was for us..Mrs redandblack4ever.

it was a 1962 headline so i wasnt around at the time redandblack - born a few years later than that! it was a framed ny times heading with the kerry and down teams from then. it got many a laugh from visitors to our house

If you are down south and it eircom, then it is on the bottom of  your router, thought it was more than 15 characters

ta, found it...

[Never beat Down in Croker when it mattered.]

Kerry V Down on Saturday!  Down need to beware those Ky lads owe Down big time.  Just look at the records;

1. Never beat Down in Croker when it mattered.
2. Never got to lay hands on them during the 70s and 80s Hay Days (quote from O'Dwyer I think)
3. Only managed one point against Down in the whole of the 2nd half in 91 semi.  Only Pat the puke was capable of scoring a single pt
4. Same game signalled the end of Pat the puke and TV viewers have suffered ever since.
5. Same game included a humiliation of Pat's Bro Tom, a soccer novice turned him over scoring 2goals.

Watch Ky put all that crap to bed on Sat.  Guess all the pressure will be on Down

fancy kerry to fix that on sunday despite no thomas or galvin. we'll need to be wide awake to survive tho and down wont want to lose their record against kerry. on that note a heading from the New York Times in sept 1960 or 61 at the end of the Cuban missile crisis was in our house for years along with a picture of the kerry team. it was 'Khrushchev backs Down' when Nikita Khrushchev soviet premier agreed not to put the missiles in Cuba at the 11th hour thus ending the crisis. My da a longtime new york gael thought it was very funny and loved showing it.

hope i have more luck then you gerry!

i got a new lap top and want to hook up to the net at home where i have wireless broadband. anyone know how i find the security code (about 15 characters) for my own wifi?

killarney is a lovely town very compact with all the pubs/nightclubs in walking distance. check out scotts for the girls and talters jacks for the great gaa pictures. the golf is about 4 miles outside the town and with just one road out that will take a while. muckross house is a good spot to walk off a hangover. a lot of the hotels have great leisure facilities so bring the togs. enjoy

I think this is the perfect draw for us, no disrespect to the Dubs. Tyrones enemy in this game would have been complacency. A packed Croker and the sight of the light blue jerseys will dispell any notion of complacency and should stoke the fire in the belly.

The two Mc Mahons will be deployed to curb B Brogan with Justy shadowing and Joe sweeping.

Only form line available would be Armagh. With the dubs scraping by the Orchard whilst Monaghan destroyed them and ourselves going on to comprehensively beat the Farney. However, this will more than likely be irrelevant come match day.

Already looking forward to this, should be a great day out as it's always a bit special meeting the Dubs on a big championship day.

Packed house? Where exactly? Its going to be a double header from what i'm hearing.

dublin v tyrone will surely be stand alone, its going to pull 65-70k low water, i wouldnt be surprised in the least if it sells out

most kerry supporters didnt want cork, i didnt want down... it'll be all history hype and down coming off a great performance have nothing to lose not to mention that p galvin and thomas are going to be sorely missed. to win sam this year we may have to slay 2 northern giants..

after watching 3 poor games yesterday and 2 the previous weekend whats to be done with gaelic football? the good news is that from now on the standard will be higher as only the better teams are left but what has gone before was mostly dreadful.

imo poor kicking is the root of most of the problems, the number of wides in games is evidence of this and i can think of some shocking wides that youd expect an average player to score. whats the reasons for this and how do you fix it? in weaker counties players just dont put in the time needed, kicking a ball over the bar from 40 yards out is not that hard if you put in the hours practicing, it aint going to happen unless the gaa go professional in a lot of counties. one thing that professionalism would bring is a lot higher standard game. professionalism isnt going to happen so what else can be done to improve scoring? i suggest outer posts like in international rules. 1 point for a behind 2 for a point and 3 or 4 for a goal. it would take pressure off kickers if they knew they would more than likely score something and also give teams struggling some chance with easy scores to get momentum.  at one stage yesterday id say even pat gilroy wanted louth to score to get a game going. A 1 or 2 point lead would lead to exciting finishes thats for sure but mostly the appalling scene of horror miss after horror miss would be camouflaged if nothing else. before the purists start jumping i read somewhere that behind post were in gaa years ago

that was so bad, id love to see cork beaten but i just wanted it to end. limerick got what they deserved, nothing...

Any links lads?

game is on at 7 and is on rte.

limerick are a ridiculous 5/1 today. cork will have to work to win this but id expect they'll survive for another week anyway. a limerick win would be greeted with unbridled joy in kerry

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2010/0723/1224275297852.html

just not jewish enough...

Anybody got the Ulster Bank GAA app? Read something about it in yesterdays paper.

Downloaded it today. Decent job - better than the RTÉ effort. It's called 'The 16th Man'.

dont think its better than rtes one since they started updating it more frequently but its still a decent app. real time scores are one of the keys for me and i dont think the ub one will have that. the ub one has a better fixture list than rtes tho... about time the gaa got one going themselves