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it's actually easier just to agree with you, rather than go through all this again.

I predict the sky will fall in, Judgement day is almost upon us

Ignoring the stupidity of limiting this thread to Ulster I would have to go for Maurice Fitz. Every day you see him he astounds you. I still cannot get over some of the thnigs I saw him do the last time I saw him 12 months ago. No-one I've seen comes close to him in terms of natural talent.

Nail on the head

You're not far off their Gaeilgoir re players needed, with regards to Jimmy Nallen, I fear we need a replacement at CHB regardless of whether or not he retires. Fantastic servant and all that and a gentleman to boot but we will not win an All Ireland with him at CHB.

The one hope is that JOM has that uncanny knack that all great managers have, the ability to get top drawer performances from hitherto average footballers ( Ray Silke !! )

'Tis great news altogether, BUT, let's hang onto our hats here ladies.

Around this time least year when the draw was made everyone here ( and everywhere else ) was in agreement that if we could win Connacht then an All Ireland semi final Leinster oppositon was the very least we could hope for '06, it transpired so and after the thriler in Croker against the Dubs we made the final again.

Many people seem to have lost sight of the fact that we were on the ' easier ' side of the draw last year. Moran and Morrison, conducted an indepth audit of what talent we had available in the county for the purposes of senior Inter-county football and came up with possibly two players that may not have otherwise been there.

My point is, that if the draw was different last year, and we had to meet Armagh in the quartes I doubt we would have made it through.

While the announcement of the new management team is very, very welcome, I was wondering what everyone thought of the players at their disposal? The players will now hopefully be, the best prepared and cannot be lacking in motivation, with one of the best and most knowledgeable managers/back room team available.

But do we have the players to take us over the line?

Hope to god we do, but would be interested in the views of others?

And did the report state that it happened in the match, as opposed to say, falling down in drunk in Galway

Seriously though, I can't remember if it was Brown involved but there was a particular challenge by an Irish player in the second test that was over the top in terms of what you would could call hard, but fair play

Reported where Craig, cannot find it anywhere ? As far as I know, he was not the one stretchered off? How come the AFL medical team did not pick up on this??

Shame he'll miss the pre-season but at least his contract will cover his wages for the time he was off, not like poor old Graham, his kids have to go hungry

Jesus H f**king Christ - what is going on here, will the legendary jokes thread ever be the same. Talk about some PC cnut hijacking something unreasonably and turning it into something it isn't
Skyblue - the parents took the photograph and dressed the child in it - now as far as I'm concerned to not dress the child might constitute some form of child abuse, but the harmless titallating message on the front does not however constitute child abuse in any shape or form.

What star do travellers follow?


Joe Dolan

Didn't think that Joyce would have retired.
Donnellan is/was a fantastic footballer, one of the best to come out of Connacht. Mad in the head though, will he write a book I wonder? He might even admit to assaulting match officials

Did geezer and Brolly not play together in Queens?

'Twas very easy for a Johnny come Latley club like Knockmore to hold a record like that in the senior championship, thankfully in the greater scheme of things it didn't last too long, now if you were a club steeped in a long and proud history and as old as ourselves and managed that feat it might have been something. When were ye founded again
? 1975 or something?

I hear the game was rained off, shame, though it might give Ger Cafferkey a chance to get back to his best

Donnelans - Galway
Mortimers - Mayo
Flannagans - Mayo
O'Haplins - Cork
Foleys - Dublin
Reynolds - Meath
Rackards - Wexford

How could anyone forget the Shoe, a true character and gentleman.'

What about the answer to that rugby question groot ?

 

One rag highlights the launch of another

From Irish Indo

THERE may be six months to go before the championship starts - but that hasn't stopped Dublin GAA coming out with a new team jersey just in time for Christmas.

In a move more usually associated with Premiership

soccer clubs such as Manchester United, Dublin GAA is bringing out yet another new shirt - just three years after its last change.

It may be February before any county football resumes, but Arnotts threw open its doors at 8am today to allow in the desperate hordes of diehard Dubs who couldn't survive another minute without the latest geansai.

They've ditched the usual practice of issuing the new kit in April just before the championships kick-off, in a thoughtful gesture which Arnotts said would facilitate those who want to buy new jerseys as Christmas presents.

The move should be greeted with cynicism and smacked of practices more common overseas, said Dublin City Councillor Tom Brabazon (FF).

"This kind of Manchester United commercialism is putting parents and children under financial pressure and it really is unfair of the County Board to do this," he said.

The price of children's jerseys has been increased from between €28 and €37 to between €30 and €40, and the adult version is unchanged at €55.

However, the timing coming up to Christmas is "incidental", and was based more on the fact that several counties were coming out with new kits shortly, and the launches had to be staggered, said sportskit-maker O'Neill's marketing manager Cormac Farrell. "Dublin supporters have been demanding a new shirt."

The decision on a new kit was agreed between the Dublin County Board, the sponsors Arnotts and themselves with each getting a share of the price.

Forgive me Stephenite, but my recolleciton of Tom Moffatt (and I think I may be older than you) was that he couldn't kick shite off a rope.  I don't recall him playing inter-county football, but I do remember him playing bad club football.

That's fair enough Pietas, I wouldn't be old enough to ever recall seeing him play, my comments stem from a story told by my old national school teacher re Tom, the teacher was a Crossmolina man, and Tom's son was in the same class so there may have some embellishment.

I wouldn't be a supporter of Tom per se, nice fella and all but not a supporter.

Glad to see '96 still rackles the stephenites 

Arrah now, the '99 loss to Crossmaglen hurt a hell of a lot more, however the fact that we lost some key players off that team and went away and re-built a new one around some of the younger fellas from '99 to win the All Itreland in'05 more than compensates