Limerick introduce new tactic

[Hardy]

The Bluffer's Bugle and Weekly Advertiser

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Limerick, March 2007.

Football followers have, for years now, scratched their heads in vain for a solution to the appalling diving tendency that has threatened to ruin our game. 

Diving, often seen as a component of the much reviled 'puke football' system, is perhaps most notoriously perpetrated by dual All-Ireland winners Tyrone, though most observers credit Kerryman, Mick O'Dwyer with its invention.

Now, appropriately, another Kerryman, Limerick football manager Mickey Ned O'Sullivan, may have refurbished the county's reputation by coming up with the antidote to this virulent syndrome, with a new tactic introduced at last Sunday's league game against Tyrone. And, like all good ideas, it's simplicity itself.

Rather than try to describe the tactic and the technique behind it, we will allow this picture to illustrate it:
www.geocities.com/hardyarse/401887.jpg

[realredhandfan]

That went over my head quicker than Ugly Betty

[full back]

You and me both RRHF

[lynchbhoy]

That went over my head quicker than Ugly Betty

you
went
down
on
ugly
betty

 

[realredhandfan]

Oof below the belt. 

[bennydorano]

Can't access the picture

[Orior]

Tis a picture of McMenimen burying his head in the stomach of a Limerick forward

[AZOffaly]

Or, more to the point I think, it is a picture of a Limerick lad grabbing a hould of a Tyronie and not allowing him to go down. Kind of like a rugby tackle where the tackler wants to form a maul and get a turnover rather than a ruck.

[Hardy]

Sorry lads - sometimes it just doesn't work. As AZ says, it was meant to be Ricey doing his best to fall and the Limerick lad trying to prevent him. At least that's what it looked like to me and I thought it was funny.

There you go. 

[realredhandfan]

and I get accused of love crimes with Ugly Betty.  Hardy this is worse than the Martin O Connell incidents.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Sorry lads - sometimes it just doesn't work. As AZ says, it was meant to be Ricey doing his best to fall and the Limerick lad trying to prevent him. At least that's what it looked like to me and I thought it was funny.

There you go. 

Flawed premise, false promise... damp squib! 

[Hardy]

Yes - pfhhhttt ....

RRHF - after ten years, its incidentS now! He'll be a serial killer in no time.

[lynchbhoy]

Yes - pfhhhttt ....

RRHF - after ten years, its incidentS now! He'll be a serial killer in no time.

funnily enough - he's a butcher by trade.......

[timmykelleher]

Speaking of diving.... I thought it was interesting at the weekend that the referee gave a free against Mark Kerins for over carrying when he attempted a Klinsmann. I say fair dues to the ref for calling it correctly. Tipp ended up getting a goal from the free.
I hoped in that situation that his manager would hold his hands up and say it was a poor attempt at a dive and tell his player not to be diving (or at least diving that badly), instead Loughnane was complaining that he should have got a free. Dissapointed in that.

[phpearse]

Is it not Niall Gormley.