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A few years back Derry had a championship match in Casement (think it was Antrim or Cavan, can't remember).  Anyway, big Geoffrey came on as a sub and wasn't getting too much joy when someone played him an easy ball and he dropped it.  Some smart arse in front of me shouted:-

"F**k sake Geoffrey, If it was a fish supper you wouldn't have dropped it!"

Agreed SS2, he wouldn't get in my team ahead of any of the players you named.  -

Certs for me

McKeever
Scullion
McGeeney
Tohill
Cavanagh
Blaney
McHugh
Linden
Canavan

Slick V.I.C the ghetto V.I.P mess with me and you'll be R.I.P!

That man was a legend as was mad ahmed!

Monaghan team (my prediction)

                     

                        Butsy

Dessie               Vinny          Strimmer

Damien             McQuaid       D Hughes

           Dick               Spindley

Jinxy                 Jap              Manzie

Tommy             Rory             Downey


I dont think JP will start, so Vinny to full back.

What the f**k is this shite???

I don't think Down 91 came out of nowhere but i don't think all the scenarios that have been wheeled out are required to win the thing.
The Down 91 team was a tremendous outfit - I reckon they were in the bookies top 3 before that championship.
Donegals was slightly more of a shock as they weren't a particularly high profile outfit (although bursting with talent).
Derrys victory was not a shock (we were a short price with the bookies from 92 through to 2000 - I don't know why!!)

If anything i found Downs second victory to be the most surprising of the lot.

As for since then, Glaway really shocked me in 98, didn't see it coming at all.  Tyrone last year as well - 30-1 after the down game

Tyronies

Kindly f**k off back to your own county thread.  We're not interested.

Kindest regards

whats your problem tim?
This is not a tyrone thread, it just happens that alot of people from all counties have selected tyrone players in their team.
There have been many posters from differnet counties on here.
if your not interested, f**k off back to your own county thread with out leaving pointless comments

My problem is the attempted hijack of a decent thread.  Back on track now thankfully.  Post HoopedDefenders team on your own thread and slabber away all you want

Tyronies

Kindly f**k off back to your own county thread.  We're not interested.

Kindest regards

[Surely the system needs changed ??]

Tommy is not a dirty player and Sean Marty was giving him plenty of stick - I'm not trying to defend his actions but surely there has to be a consistent approach with regard to all of this video evidence stuff -

Last year Meath and Dublin played in the national league - it was on TG4 - there was a bit of a melee and very, very hefty suspensions were handed down. On the exact same day, Armagh played Cork in the national league in Crossmaglen and there was a melee but no action was taken as it wasn't on TV.


Surely the system needs changed ??

Or alternatively your lads could cut out the shite and behave like civilised human beings perhaps?  That way we wouldn't have to discuss these unsavoury incidents after all your games!!

[Sure that's the inbred capital of Tyrone]

You'd think somewhere like greencastle would be the ideal venue for this...

Sure that's the inbred capital of Tyrone... I wouldn't give Ziggy the satisfaction of playing up there anyway 

Healy Park would do the job!

There'd be a brave few places worthy of that title 

Carrickmore? Ardboe? Aghyaran? Eglish?
All places of dubious genetics

McGuigan - filthy tr**p. Simple as
[/quote what does that make you??? ....d**khead...

I don't give a f**k what that makes me, then sooner your lads realise you can't get away with that kind of thing the better.

I may well be a dickhead, but i've never went near any mans stones

McGuigan - filthy tr**p. Simple as

These shows are always painful viewing, I paricularly hate the beatuty pagent mothers, 7 and 8 year olds plastered in make up being paraded up and down, fake eye lashes and fake smiles. One thing I must say my mother and father never pushed me to do anything, always encouraged but never pushed.
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Were you pushed into these beauty pageants yourself sideline?  I'd say they'd be popular round your part of the world

Lads, Rugby or any other sport should not be viewed as a threat.  I take pleasure in the growth of any sport in the country

I love it when we beat the aussies in the international rules
I loved it when we won the grandslam
I love it when a new irish kid who looks like he's the next big thing breaks through in the premiership
I loved Germany, USA 94 and Japan/South Korea
I loved it when Ireland beat Pakistan in the cricket world cup
I loved it Bernard Dunne became our latest world champion on Saturday night
I loved Harrington taking on the world on the biggest stages for the last two years
I loved watching an Irish sprinter making it to the Olympic semi finals
I loved watching O'Sullivan take on the Africans against all odds
I loved watching Michelle Smith win 3 golds (I now despise her)
I loved watching Lord Clifton Wrottesley III slide down the hill on a tray just because he was wearing green
I loved watching Ulster win the European Cup in 1999

Call me a band wagoner or claim that by supporting these other sports I am supporting the downfall of the GAA.  My God, Croke park has now hosted about 10 'foreign sports' games and we're still alive! (Despite the protestations of the Ulster Council and the rest of the peak cap brigade that are scattered around the country).

Its 2009, the GAA is so intertwined into the culture and mindset of our country that there can never be any threat.  It's simply not possible.  

There are 3 times more people in Australia than there are in Ireland - It is not a particularly highly populated country.  However, they compete at the very highest level in so many sports.  This is what we should aspire to!

Is this actually a serious discussion or have a whole load of wind up merchants got together this morning and decided to peddle this theory to the annoyance of the general population?  Probably the most ridiculous pile of clap trap seen in a thread that is not started by T Fearon/based on Northern political arguments.

Fantastic occasion with a fitting ending.  That will go into the memory bank and will go down as one of the 'Where were you when ...' moments in irish sport.

As for Jones, this guy winds me up! I'm surprised nobody has mentioned who he has propping the scrum in his team.  Personally, I don't rate Flannery as a hooker (never have and never will), but to put him in at prop? Surely this is a misprint??

As for my lions test team, here goes :-

1.  Gethin Jenkins
2.  Ross Ford
3.  Euan Murray
4.  Paul O'Connell (Captain)
5.  Alun Wynn Jones
6.  Ryan Jones
7.  David Wallace
8.  Jamie Heaslip
9.  Dwayne Peel
10. Jonny Wilkinson (if he can play 6-7 club games in a row before the end of the season) If not, Stephen Jones
11. Shane Williams
12. Gavin Henson
13. Superman
14. Luke Fitzgerald
15. Lee Byrne

The people i found difficult to leave out were Phil Vickery, Sheridan (his world cup was tremendous), Rory Best, Ferris, Martyn Williams, Powell, Blair, Roberts, Kearney.  I also think Riki Flutey is quite underrated and could come into the reckoning