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I said the team from the next parish, but i meant Roscommon, not Knockmore

Right back at ya! Unless your playing the Dubs in which case i would support yis or the dark lord lucifer himself before the Jackeens.

Roscommons official site is just superb...*cough* www.gaaroscommon.ie  It looks like a FAS web design training course seriously gone wrong.....

Thank God the fans set up their own ones which actually are superb if i do say so. www.stolensheep.proboards59.com and www.sheepstealers.com

Slow Friday afternoon with nothing better for doing so feck it....

1. Why your user name
Nickname from school days

2. Favourite all time game
Roscommon v Mayo Connacht final 2001

3. Favourite all time player from your county
Dermot Early

4. Favourite other poster on gaaboard.com.
Tony Fearon-The voice of moderation, understanding and reason

5. Things you'd like to see change on the site.
Not alot, it's ok as boards go.

6. Player from another county you admire.
Sean Cavanagh

7. Dual players. Should they be allowed do both (why/ why not)
Of course they should. If they are good enough then why stop them?

8. Dublin Hurling, IS there hope? *question for dubs
No!

9. Best Moment of the year?
Roscommon Minor AI win.

10. Worst moment of the year?
Kerrys massacre of Mayo and the comp. rules. Did no good for GAA

11. Breasts or bum?
Bit of both please!

12. Breaking ball or park live?
Breaking ball. Park live (just about alive) is an example of all that is wrong with RTE.

13. (Situation) Cork v Meath (if from Meath Cavan V Dublin) in an All-ireland final. You have to shout for one or your head will explode. What do you do? *question for dubs

14. DJ Or Eoin Kelly
DJ, young Kelly has a long way to go before they can be compared.

15. What  your own county needs to do to win Sam next year?
Jesus H Christ to come down and play midfield for us! Failing that some sort of freak of nature wipes out every GAA squad in the country bar Ros and the Kilkenny squads. In a (very) hard fought game Ros prevail with a highly dubious injury time free kick to win by one point.

16. How do you stop (legally, Meath lads) Kieran Donaghy
Hire "Igor" your friendly Russian agent to go for some sushi.....

17. Hopes for 2007.
That we win a few games and maybe make the Connacht final where we put up a half decent performance.

18. Who will win Sam in 2007.
The Dirty Dubs or an injury free Tyrone.

19. Who will win Liam in 2007.
The Cats

20. Your Gaaboard resolution for 2007.
To get on with all the Mayo lads! (Resolutions are there for breaking right???)

Fockers who hog the overtaking lane

Toyota Yaris drivers

Toyota Yaris cars

Driving in Dublin city. Car jams everywhere! I'm amazed there are not more road rage related death by wheel brace murders.....

Old men & female drivers (Don't get me started)

Manchester United

Manchester City (They have manchester in their name)

That radio ad for Lyons tea thats on at xmas with yer man talking about when he was young lad with a Choo Choo train going in the background.. Aarrrrrrggggghhhhhh

Ruth Scott (Cnut)

Tony Fenton (Bigger balder Cnut)

Tony Fearon (Even bigger.....ah you get the idea)

Having a wedding 3 days after xmas day. More pressies, hotel room, drinking... do they think i'm made of money!!!!

Trick or treaters who call 2 weeks before Halloween

Trick or treaters who just call. Door hinges will never be same again from constant slamming.

Wren boys for same reasons...

Carrol sigers (see above)

Brussel sprouts (Why???)

Insane xmas shoppers who will kill you if you don't get out of their way lest someone gets that woolly knitted jumper with a reindeer on it before them.

That new Rehab song by Aimee whoever. Looking at you i think Rehab would be the best place for ya. Now fock off back to obscurity you tattoo'd minger gee bag nobody.

The 1st of December, now Radio stations feel like it's ok to bombard us with xmas songs. Heard 3 this morning already!! It's not going to be a white xmas, it's going to be a crimson blood red xmas if i hear another xmas song. Now where is my shotgun?

[these are facts:]

I had not planned on getting too involved in this one seeing as, A; I am a Rossie and B; I would have a strong dislike of wee Frankie and therefore be biased but Sean Cnuts view of the "facts" and petty digs have gotten under my skin. So allow me to retort.....

First I am not a St Brigids clubman nor any particular fan of theirs.

I'll admit I'm a Corofin man and was very close to the action the last day, biased though I am these are facts:
1. Bridgets full forward O'Connor, who was already on a yellow poleaxed Gary Sice off the ball, dirty dig in the back of the neck from behind, Sice went down, was seen by the 2 umpires who tried to attract the refs attention, (ref subsequently ignored their advice to issue a 2nd yellow card)

Poleaxed? You mean collided with Sice who not too long before had also "collided" with O'Connor. But O'Connor chose not to roll around and make out that his head had been removed in a vain attempt to get the player sent off. How do you know the umpires advised the ref to issue a card by the way? They may just as well have told him to take no action you don't know.

2. Frankie also seen the slap, realized that O'Connor was heading for the line and went to pull Gary Sice up of the ground, basically trying to infer that Sice was acting,

Trying to infer or actually annoyed by the oscar style dramatics he was seeing in front of him from the mortally wounded Sice.

3. Gary's father(who was acting water carrier and therefore entitled to be on the field) arrived on the seen and told Frankie in no uncertain terms where to go and was then struck in the jaw. How Sice fell is about as relevent to this argument as whether or not a Roscommon club can ever win an All Ireland (They cant by the way, connaughts 4 in a row chance ends here)

Gary's father (who is a head case anyway as you well know if your from Corofin) had no business what so ever going onto the playing area. I did not see once bringing water onto the field to any player during the game if he was an "acting" water carrier.  If he was then he is required to have a bib with water/uisce on it. But he was not, thats just boll*x so that you can justify his being on the pitch, he is a selector on that team who went up to Frankie in a highly threatening manner brought his own fist back as if he was about to lash out at him and got a slap for it. He then went down like the proverbial sack of spuds (not hard to see where his son got it from) after thinking about it for a second or two and when he seen nothing was happening hopped up again.

As for "a Roscommon club winning the AI" well they have more chance of winning it then Corofin or any Galway team have this year you bitter sad pri*k. Not many thought the Minors had much of a chance either.....Obviously the fact that a Roscommon team beat ye is a major issue for you here. Get over it.

4. Jimmy Sice had no bib on, neither had our manager or any of his selectors, its not enforced in Galway although I do realize that it should be, whether or not Jimmy had a bib is a mute point though, Dolan knew he was with us, he wore a Corofin jacket and carried water bottles and was roaming the edge of the park from the off.

"Mute" (moot?) point my arse. He was breaking the rules if he did not have the bib on. How exactly can you claim Dolan knew who he was? Should he have looked at the crest on his jacket first while Sice was bellowing at him like a bull and making out he was about to strike him? Or should he have been watching the Corofin dugout so he knew who was who in case one of them decided to attack him? Sice could have been anyone who got onto the pitch as far as Dolan or any brigids player was concerned.

5. Sice is embarrassed about the whole thing and wish it would blow over, that does not excuse the fact that Dolan struck an official from the opposing camp and should be punished, the boy has form and should be made pay, 6 mth ban minimum.

He bloody well should be embarressed and i bet he will think twice about coming onto a playing pitch again to intimidate a player. 6 month ban for throwing a slap at some twat who should not have been there in the first place? Get a grip on yourself. A month if even that, he was defending himself against a complete stranger who threatened him with violence.

6. Fair play to Bridgets, better team won on the day but that doesn't take away from the fact that O'Connor got away with a dirty slap from behind on Gary Sice, seen by the umpires and within a minute good old Frankie decked his awld lad and deserved a straight red.

Bet it sticks in your throat to admit that Brigids (a Roscommon team) were better then the aristocrats from Galway, huh? It's the only think you have written here that is true or makes sense! O'Connor got away with a dirty slap? How many slaps did the Corofin full back get away with on him or several other Corofin players or would you have us believe that they just stood there and took all this abuse?

7. Heard the ref was on the Mayo selection committee for O'Mahony, one Corofin man sent of after 3 mins and 2 Bridgets players left on when they clearly deserved the line. Coincidence, me thinks not, anti Corofin\Galway bias goes on in Connaught club.

Sometimes you have to wonder were the Rossies brought up on the same planet as the rest of us, as the rest of the world advances they seem to drift further and further back

"Heard the ref was...." I heard that Bigfoot exists, does not make it fact though. Even if it were true are you seriously trying to tell us that the ref was more worried about what JOM might think then enforcing the rules of the game. Corofin player deserved the line and deserves a ban for it too. Sice (father or son) were not split open like the Brigids No.5 but there is no talk of banning the t**ker who struck the elbow back into his face. Go away and put your own house in order before commenting on anyone else's.

"anti Corofin\Galway bias goes on in Connaught club." Jesus wept, where and how exactly? Did not hinder Salthill last year did it? But no your right, it was all a big conspiricy by the Connacht council to get the Galway club knocked out. Not sure what planet you reside with those views...

But my favourite quote though is.....

"Sometimes you have to wonder were the Rossies brought up on the same planet as the rest of us, as the rest of the world advances they seem to drift further and further back"

We certainly were not brought up on the same planet as you thats for sure!! "We drift further and further back"

We have just won a connacht club title the first in 18 years, a Minor connacht title the first in 14 years, a Minor All Ireland title the first in 51 years, beaten by Kerry in an All Ireland Junior final and you call that regression do you???

Just what planet exactly are you on......

never thought i'd be defending a roscommon man but dolan didnt start the hand bags stuff the mentor did. je wasnt even the on involved in the inital tackle.

they are still all sheepstealing cnuts though

ROSnarun!!!! Are you sure your not a confused "closet" rossie with a name like that?  Defending the bould Frankie, next thing you know you will be trying to have Ballagh GAA club returned to Roscommon

The Dolan punch; There was an altercation involving a player called Sice who ended up on the ground, said mentor (who is also called Sice) came onto pitch to "discuss" said altercation with Dolan who obviously did not feel like having a chat!! Whatever about being sent off it was some puch! Yer man might not be so quick to come onto the pitch next time.

But that should not take away from Karl Mannions goal. Holy sh1t! It was a dinger and to be honest the better team won. Corofin got 2 very very soft goals and apart from that they would have been creamed by Brigids.

They will be complete and total underdogs in the semi which i think will be totally fine with them!! The underdog status has suited Roscommon teams fairly well this year

Child porn!?!  You could get a job writing for the Orish sun! Headline, "Will somebody please think of the children..."

It's bloody funny thats what it is. Jeeezz some of ye would want to calm down a wee bit, it's the weekend lads, chill have a laugh. I have seen the e-mail before and it's a long long way from child porn or in my opinion even offensive. Did some of ye ring into Liveline yesterday to complain about Podge & Rodge's foul language too?

[Derek Moran]

If he takes the job, he will have a few of those Ballagh lads on the squad. I think Drake, Kilcullens, Derek Moran, Andy Moran and Barry Regan will all get a shot.

I'm afriad you won't be getting Derek Moran. When he transferred from Western Gaels to Ballagh he was only let do so by the Ros C.B. on the condition that he could be selected for Roscommon and would not be eligable for Mayo. He played for the Roscommon Junior team against Kerry in this years All Ireland final in Ennis. Was on after the Mayo and Kerry Minor play off.

He was kicked out of the Western Gaels club and banned after he attacked his former manager during a senior chamionship game in Roscommon two years ago in Hyde park. While undoubtedly talented he is still a header with a wicked temper.......


On JOM what would be the public's reaction if Mayo were to reach an All Ireland final again and loose? Do you think he would go the same way as Maughan and Moran?? Looking in from the outside Mayo people seem to think that he will be the the final piece to the jigsaw to bring Sam back to ye. I seriously doubt it's as black and white as that and it will be very interesting to see if he is still as popular in 2/3 years time if Sam is not back in Castlebar. There will be huge pressure on him or whoever takes it on to succeed...

I know the Tractor Hanley very well - sound as they come, though that doesn't make it hurt any less when you run into a tackle from him. You're from Western Gaels as well then I take it.....

The tractor!? Very apt name for the big hoor! Hard as nails. I could tell you stories about that lad from back in the day, but it might not be good for my general well being to do so... My ould fella used to train him at W.G. and there was craic had!

Ya we have bounced off each other a couple of times too back in the day when he was playing his GAA on this side of the water for W.G. and i was still playing myself. Lovely guy but i would not get on the wrong side of him, he would go through you for a short cut. I actually met him a few weeks ago when he was in Dublin at the Ros & Meath Minor semi final, got him tickets for it too. Will be having pints with him i'd say over the xmas back in Ros. Tell him big Ryan said hello!

Club:    Ferbane (Home)  Round Towers London (For now)

Do you know a fella called Mick Hanley Lone Shark? He plays for Round Towers in London....

County; Roscommon

Club; Western Gaels

Best GAA moment; The year 2001, we beat Galway in the Connaught semi inTuam and Mayo in the Connaught final in the Hyde with a last minute goal. SWEET!

Not often it happens...... and things have gone (a bit) down hill since!