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#1
Quote from: seafoid on March 26, 2024, 08:49:38 PM
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on March 26, 2024, 07:57:20 PMPoyet to be the new Ireland manager as Georgia beat Greece on penalties.
Awesome a coach who can't even get Greece to the euros through the back door of dud teams, can't wait. Might as well stick with o'shea
We couldn't beat teams at our level under the previous regime. Poyet knows how to do that !
Losing on penalties ONCE doesn't mean the manager is bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZt6-NJYv6U
O'Shea needs more time anyway. He definitely has talent.


Very little, ochon. Ferguson starting to look more like a kid who had a streaky spell a few months ago than "maybe the best teenager in the world" as one over-excitable commentator described him at the time. Both our vaunted goalies are scarcely world-class either; after that? Very little.
#2
General discussion / Re: The Fine Gael thread
March 21, 2024, 07:51:44 PM
Quote from: Sportacus on March 21, 2024, 12:25:55 PM
Quote from: mouview on March 20, 2024, 12:44:51 PMUndoubtedly, his greatest error as Taoiseach was to give Boris Johnson a compromise deal on Brexit when they met in the Wirral that time. Tories were sinking fast without it and it allowed Johnson put through an agreement he subsequently tried to renege on and never had any intention of upholding.
Are you saying you'd rather he had ignored the opportunity to lock down no hard border so that he could sink the Tories?

Tories were approaching meltdown at the time and falling asunder. They could neither go backwards or forwards. A good chance there may have been another referendum even. As Napoleon said, never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake.
#3
General discussion / Re: The Fine Gael thread
March 20, 2024, 12:44:51 PM
Undoubtedly, his greatest error as Taoiseach was to give Boris Johnson a compromise deal on Brexit when they met in the Wirral that time. Tories were sinking fast without it and it allowed Johnson put through an agreement he subsequently tried to renege on and never had any intention of upholding.
#4
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
March 12, 2024, 12:29:44 PM
Former Waterboys musician Karl Wallinger.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2024/0312/1437368-waterboys-and-world-partys-karl-wallinger-dies-aged-66/

Title track of their album A Pagan Place is an absolute machine, he played keys on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfXGt2MtSs8


#5
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
March 01, 2024, 09:01:00 PM
Brian Mulroney, former Canadian PM. Of Irish immigrant stock, he had some great successes and sharp setbacks during and after his premiership.
#6
Quote from: Hound on February 23, 2024, 08:31:23 AMKenny was on €520,000 but they have upped the salary to €700,000 for the new man. But apparently  still well below championship salaries, albeit surely far less work.

Looks like they are doing their best to secure Carsley and the sticking point is the salaries of his staff. Rumour that if they can't get him, they'll stick in John O'Shea as temp manager with Anthony Barry taking over in the summer when he's finished with Bayern and Portugal.

It's so FAI to throw in more money in the hope of fixing a problem. It only means the new man will fail more expensively. It'll be hard to come up with many of our players who'll be playing *regularly* in the Premier league next season, maybe Ogbene and Ferguson. By international standards we're not even Championship Div. 1 level, more like mid-table Div. 3.
#7
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
February 20, 2024, 08:24:45 PM
Quote from: J70 on February 20, 2024, 01:25:40 PMBrehme on the left just last month at Beckenbauer's funeral.



Does look rather haggard there, hadn't aged well.
#8
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
February 18, 2024, 07:45:45 PM
Quote from: trueblue1234 on February 18, 2024, 05:26:25 PM
Quote from: square_ball on February 18, 2024, 05:20:10 PMAh jaysus lads stop with the Covid All Ireland shite. Tyrone won it fair and square that year. Beating Cavan, Donegal, Monaghan, Kerry and Mayo is worthy of winning any AI any year.

Tyrone may be very average now but give over about being lucky to win an all Ireland ffs.
They were imo. Not lucky with decisions, but lucky that they squeezed it out before that squad started to fade. In a normal year, I'd have tipped Dublin to win it. That's no slight on that Tyrone team, quite the opposite. There's been many a county who would have been at a similar level to that Tyrone team and not got an AI. Take your dinner when it's hot.

Exactly. There was a vacuum there in the sense that Mayo surprised Dublin and Kerry weren't as good as they thought; Tyrone rushed in to fill the vacuum. But their win was the 'Leicester City' of this century.
#9
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
February 06, 2024, 10:45:25 AM
Sad news indeed. Many disagreed with him over it, but showed great maturity and fair-mindedness over the NI question over the years. Was also an assured performer during the Brexit years. His worth was recognised by his appointment for a number of years as EU ambassador to Washington.
#10
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
January 31, 2024, 01:53:44 PM
Former US golf pro Jack Burke (Jr.), 10 days shy of 101st birthday. First Major winner to live to be 100. One of only 20 pros to win more than one Major in a season.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Burke_Jr.
#11
General discussion / Re: snooker world championship
January 17, 2024, 11:43:10 AM
Quote from: Armagh18 on January 17, 2024, 10:05:55 AM
Quote from: ONeill on January 17, 2024, 10:03:52 AMThis Carter/Ronnie stuff seems to have escalated since
Thought it very cringey at the time. Both players missed shots you wouldn't have expected them too.

Whats happened now?

Each accusing the other of having mental difficulties. Very public and unseemly. The WPBSA need to step in and tell them to cool it.
#12
General discussion / Re: snooker world championship
January 15, 2024, 12:20:55 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on January 15, 2024, 11:24:19 AMRonnie is marmite

He does his own thing, he's not going to say all the right things and his snooker is off the chart so he doesn't have to go out of his way for sponsorship and the like, they come to him.

Some one said the best British sportsman, I struggle to put snooker, pool and darts into that category of 'sports'

Like any other sport, it requires talent, dedication, perseverance and mental fortitude to excel at it. It's milieu mightn't always be the most salubrious but the top players put in the endless hours of practise to get ahead.

It's easy to tire of Ronnie and his constant griping about something, but he's undoubtedly one of the greatest of all sportsmen, given his success, ability, longevity and still-primacy in relation to his peers, even now in the later stages of his career.
#13
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
December 18, 2023, 05:23:51 PM
Passing of the woman whose contribution changed the date of D-Day;

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1217/1422527-maureen-sweeney/
#14
General discussion / Re: Brexit.
December 07, 2023, 08:07:32 PM
Next week's immigration bill vote looks like it could be fun. Immigration minister Jenrick resigned because, like the far-right fringe, he believes it doesn't go far enough. Cruella Suella is spreading poison all round. Moderate centrists don't like it because it probably removes them from the ECHR, putting them in company with such as Russia and Belarus. Labour are not going to bail Sunak out - why should they? It's not a problem of their making. The UK Supreme Court says that it's probably illegal anyway.

What's a PM to do? GE early in the new year?
#15
Quote from: weareros on November 22, 2023, 09:38:58 PMDo Irish people really make good soccer players. We rarely produce a player at international level standard that can leave a player dead with skill. Liam Brady and Damien Duff are the only two that come to mind, and Georgie Best who was on another level. A Roy Keane was a great player but very limited skill wise. When it comes to nimbleness and skill, as a race we are great at the fiddle, tin whistle, bodhrán, Uileann pipe, guitar, boxing, plastering and the pen. We seem to have been overly blessed with movement in the elbow, fists and fingers, but useless with the feet. Even Irish dancers look very stiff compared to the Latins and the few lads who venture out onto the floorboards and get too ambitious are in danger of tripping over themselves. Our best chance is immigrants adding to our gene pool. We are seeing that in Athletics and the beginnings of that in soccer. There's hope yet.

I made a similar point to that here some time ago. For some reason, maybe it's just not in our DNA, but we don't produce players with much flair or creativity. We've never played any kind of winning or even 'attractive' soccer, not even in that most overrated era of Irish sport, the time of Big Jack. Maybe Eoin Hand's grossly unlucky 1982 WC qualifying campaign was as good as I remember us getting. All the home nations are variations on a theme; bar 1966, they all get found out sooner or later in tournament football. Maybe it's a Celt/ Anglo-Saxon failing of some sort.

And yes, Keane was a very effective player, but very ordinary skill and ability wise. You wouldn't confuse him with Liam Brady, much less a Messi or Ronaldo.