Brian Mulroney, former Canadian PM. Of Irish immigrant stock, he had some great successes and sharp setbacks during and after his premiership.
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Show posts MenuQuote 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.
Quote from: J70 on February 20, 2024, 01:25:40 PMBrehme on the left just last month at Beckenbauer's funeral.
Quote from: trueblue1234 on February 18, 2024, 05:26:25 PMQuote 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.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.
Tyrone may be very average now but give over about being lucky to win an all Ireland ffs.
Quote from: Armagh18 on January 17, 2024, 10:05:55 AMQuote from: ONeill on January 17, 2024, 10:03:52 AMThis Carter/Ronnie stuff seems to have escalated sinceThought it very cringey at the time. Both players missed shots you wouldn't have expected them too.
Whats happened now?
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'
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.
Quote from: Gold on October 11, 2023, 12:55:56 AMSan Sebastián was heaven. The food, the people, the regatta, Pilota final, 31st August festival, incredible.
Ducked to Bilbao for 2 days and saw them play Betis, atmosphere off the charts. Their Semana Grande was on and it was electric in the City. Did walking tours in both but San was a different level
Stayed the other 5 days in Uncle and Aunt's in San Sebastián, had originally intended to go to Biaritz but couldn't leave.
Uncle works for Real Sociedad, was texting Odegaard re he being in my Fantasy Team etc, my head was gone with it, bizarre! Every player who ever played there seems to fall in love with the place.
Fantastic, fantastic time
Would go back as often as I could, it's that good, but don't want to overstay!
Quote from: Premier Emperor on October 06, 2023, 07:33:58 PMSounds like Stokes has mingled with a bad crowd all his life!
Quote from: Bord na Mona man on September 26, 2023, 02:49:21 PMI suspect that back in Ferguson's day he would have sniffed out and swerved past players who had talent but didn't have the required dedication.
Pogba, Martial, Sancho are soccer's version of the GAA townie in white boots.
Look flash in the good times, but don't roll up their sleeves for any dirty work.
Scouting units can collect a million stats on passes completed, assists, sprints, XGs and all that. It's the other intangibles that can dictate how much a player can achieve.
Certain players kick back and relax once they've gotten the cars and the super models.
Ferguson once said that when Utd were pursuing Stan Collymore, his tendency to be a lad off the pitch put him off.
Collymore ended up at Liverpool where it was white booted, (or white suited) townie central, Redknapp, McManaman, Fowler etc.
All guys who had ability but not the mentality.
Utd are now the ones with the spice boy problem.