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Is pillar taking the piss with that team?

personally i look for their stories of the arena. competition at the highest level. what motivates them, how theoy focus, how they react to pressure, how it effects them in normal life, etc. there is nothing more intriguing thanthe human reaction to elite competition or battle.

the "rest of the public" don't have those stories to tell.



EDIT - should have added - way to argue just for the sake of arguing....

Seriously now lads, are we saying that donal should have avoided the subject of his homosexuality? When he decided to tell his story in a book (as so many sports stars of various codes do) he had to deal with this subject or give no credability to the book.

For those of you pretending to be offended on behalf of his father, you are advocating writing a watered down story. the best autobiographys (cascarino, adams, etc) are good because they are brutally honest - no matter how poor a light it shows the author in.

Personally, if i'm reading a sporting autobiography i want to read warts and all or i will stop reading immediately.

at we can't get good biogs about. personally i'd love to read "real" autobiographies on cody, o'grady, harte, kernan, McGeeney, o'rourke, etc.

I know of only two other gay irish sports "stars", and neither are "out". a leinster footballer and a munster rugby player.

we're doen subsevients now - we only play under them!

Delighted to see Murtagh involved. As he said himself he knows armagh football so that at least is progress from what we were looking at. I'm not sure how hands on he'll be around training so i'm assuming there'll be someone added from that point of view.

Take the hint dowling.

Noone wants to listen to your shit on this thread

I'm laughing to myself here reading.

They'll make a balls of this too. I don't know how but they'll find some way

Am i the only one who thinks there's a maths issue here?

McGurn has a good rep and i'm glad to see someone like him coming in to add a bit of professionalism to the circus.

I'm wondering what happens in a year's time when someone else comes in at senior level and wants their own fitness trainer?

We would have been safer with Mary O'Rourke FFS. What is going on here? If we had to have an outside manager could we at least not have opted for someone with a track record?

Aidan O'Rourke obviously didnt want it -  Tony get that convertible out next summer and follow Paddy and armagh to the promised land

whats aidan o'rourke got to do with anything?

How did we get here. what a joke.

Lads, can we move on from the aidan o'rourke thing. he already has a management job for next year.

Cork

mom - Pearse O'Neill

All the best to the young bucks on sunday. If they continue with the confidence and panache of the semi final second half we could have a long oerdue new set of all ireland medals up the road.

Mayo are a formidable outfit though and i hate to see opponents scraping through semis when we come through in style.

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