GAA books

[5 Sams]

Do yourselves a favour lads...

http://www.obrien.ie/the-bloodied-field

Maybe not totally GAA but a superb book.

[muppet]

Do yourselves a favour lads...

http://www.obrien.ie/the-bloodied-field

Maybe not totally GAA but a superb book.

Nice one.

Will have a look at it.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Do yourselves a favour lads...

http://www.obrien.ie/the-bloodied-field

Maybe not totally GAA but a superb book.

Read that last Christmas. Outstanding book.

[easytiger95]

Read it a couple of weeks back - very good.

[J70]

Finally got Rory Kavanagh's book.

Surprisingly interesting read for someone who wasn't a player with a huge profile.

Focus is mainly on the McGuinness years, although there are some italicized "flashback" type sections here and there on earlier times. Very detailed insight into McGuinness's methods, way more in depth than what Kevin Cassidy revealed. The endless drills, the punishing fitness regime, especially that first year, the near two stone he had to pack on in muscle, the near-perfect tactics and gameplan and prescience of MCGuinness with that second Dublin semi, their failures, attack-wise in the first, the focus on Tyrone all through 2011, and so on. And also, he certainly doesn't contradict the pre-McGuinness perceptions about the partying Donegal team or the attitude of the likes of Tyrone and Armagh towards them back then.

One story concerns the post-2009 quarter finals, where the Dublin lads, who were hammered by Kerry, ended up joining the Donegal lads, who had been hammered by Cork, on the beer. Kavanagh ended up partying and crashing in Bernard Brogan's house in Castleknock. In another, he tells of either Brian McIvor or Mickey Moran  (can't remember which - there were a few such stories!) trying to reach the boys who had gone on the piss in Glenties instead of going training. Their respective phones rang one by one, until one of them eventually answered. Another one from the 2002 Derry game on how he was sat on the subs bench, listening to Ireland v Spain in the World Cup, and hardly noticing what was going on on the pitch in front of him (I remember that game well, as I was one of probably 200 people at the game until the soccer had finished, when the pubs emptied and the  rest of the fans left the Clones pubs and arrived around half-time).

Some interesting accounts of his personal tussles with the likes of Darren Hughes and Michael Dara McAuley and the different approach he would have taken with the likes of Tomas O'Se. He admits, fully, that he was not started in the 2014 Ulster final due to McGuinness not trusting him, worried he would be distracted by personal issues with Hughes, arising partly out of the league final earlier that year when he got the line after an altercation (he lost his boot, and when he came back to retrieve it, Hughes and another Monaghan player were throwing it about and wouldn't return it. Needless to say, he lost the head, and after more verbals, poked Hughes in the balls with the boot).

Well written by Liam Hayes too.

[johnneycool]

Jackie starts the ball rolling;


http://www.the42.ie/jackie-tyrrell-kilkenny-hurling-2-3524338-Aug2017/

He's pretty up front in his punditry so it may be a lot more interesting read on the Kilkenny set ups that Henry's and Brian Cody's versions.

[seafoid]

Jackie starts the ball rolling;


http://www.the42.ie/jackie-tyrrell-kilkenny-hurling-2-3524338-Aug2017/

He's pretty up front in his punditry so it may be a lot more interesting read on the Kilkenny set ups that Henry's and Brian Cody's versions.

Henry is not very interesting. Cody is straight out of mythology and very closed

[AZOffaly]

Jackie has a right cut at Tipp. In fairness he is saying what most of their supporters were saying up until the last few years. Too many shapers, wanting the loose ball. Not enough grafters.

[johnneycool]

Jackie has a right cut at Tipp. In fairness he is saying what most of their supporters were saying up until the last few years. Too many shapers, wanting the loose ball. Not enough grafters.

Well he was hardly going to shift too many copies in Tipp anyway. 

[AZOffaly]

Jackie has a right cut at Tipp. In fairness he is saying what most of their supporters were saying up until the last few years. Too many shapers, wanting the loose ball. Not enough grafters.

Well he was hardly going to shift too many copies in Tipp anyway. 

You'd be surprised. If they fart in Kilkenny, they try to sniff it here first!

[seafoid]

Perhaps you should put them down on paper Tony?

I'd read them. Can just see it now

"Little did I know: The Tony Fearon Story"

Tony does the after dinner cicuit around East anglia when he is not being glamorous in Scotland and other mythologies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCfuZMD3L0

[take_yer_points]

The Pursuit of Perfection: The life, death and legacy of Cormac McAnallen is launched this evening. Written by his brother Donal

[ashman]

The Pursuit of Perfection: The life, death and legacy of Cormac McAnallen is launched this evening. Written by his brother Donal

I heard the interview with DMA there now on Newstalk .  It was strange but fascinating .

[T Fearon]

Amazed the Royal Black Preceptory in Tyrone sent the Mc Anallen family a letter of condolence after the tragic death.

[RedHand88]

You reading the book Tony?