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Was up in Coleraine today, and there is some buzz about the town.
The 3 men have done very well, and congratulations to them. Tough sport, and they excelled.
There will be some homecoming for them no doubt.

Did the curfew bell ring in your time there?

Coleraine has more medal winners than Sweden, Spain and India!

Yes, well done big Al.

Such nonsense posted.anway about the game not feeling as confident about this one donegal seem to be some serious outfit.I expect a real tight low scoring match.safe trip to all

Reckon it will be tight and low scoring also. Reckon also Donegal may have gone easy in the league game earlier this year (may have been disqualified had it been badminton) and I reckon Gallagher is at the mind games about a high scoring affair.

Reminds me an awful lot of Tyrone in 03. I think it was Kieran Shannon who wrote that Kerry prepared for a shoot out and found themselves in a dog fight.

Hopefully right will prevail, but I fear Donegal will win.

Saffron,is it not obvious by my post that i refute your ramblings,ok,ok, apart from your assertion about galvin of which i should have inserted in my last post but i was generalising.

Corkman or is that a misnomer,is there a correlation between lack of humour and tool or is it a cork thing.you have a varied vocab i see,gobshite and tool, soooooooo impresive,me soooooo hurt    .

Wasn't obvious no, but you're getting more coherent, which is nice.

I would prefer that Kerry see off Donegal, but I am not at all confident. A thoroughly intriguing game, I might even head down.

The link below is much better than any Kerry song I've ever heard.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KZEoIMy5rQY

I reckon that he is eligible, but that's a guess. Certainly would be had he not played for FAI, but as tommy says independent competitions.

Where's Sammy G when you need eligible spelt wrongly?

Disappointed with how this thread has turned out.

But not surprised.

Not in the slightest, but I feel linking both Claudy and Buskhill was appropriate.

And how does that help when it comes to championship?

Ten years ago such a match would have been a foregone conclusion; all a Kerry man had to do was shout "Remember Drumboe" and that stirring call to arms would have been enough to raise sufficient fire in the belly to prevail.

Now games are won and lost neither by fire in the belly nor by having better players. They are won by those on the line and because of that (as with 03, 05 and 08) Kerry will come up short. Donegal are better prepared and have a better system than Kerry. I have yet to hear anyone asking what Donegal will have to do to beat Kerry; it is the Kingdom who have to change to be successful.

Look to at the recent records: Donegal have beaten (an admittedly mediocre) Tyrone in successive championship matches and celebrated as if someone had knocked down and killed the family cat; Kerry have never to my knowledge managed this feat and celebrate a facile single win as if it was their biggest ever win. Which, in a way, it was.

Look too at the flaws in the Kerry team; the O Ses and O'Mahony don't have the legs, Enright or O'Donoghue the experience, Young the form, Brosnan the confidence of his manager, the midfield neither mobility nor Darragh, Galvin and Donaghy the discipline, Gooch will choke. Which really only leaves Declan O'Sullivan and that won't be enough.

Donegal will win and cover the handicap.

Daly, Enright and Sullivan deserve a more peaceful rest.

What a piece of unmitigated garbage from surprise,surprise a NORDIE and imagine one of those nordies from a multi winning all-ireland county LOL,    ,As for the kerrygold add above,i'm still laughing,posted by a mayo poster and its first riposte by a langer,hillarious stuff,you couldn't write it, from the two biggest chokers in the game.

Is that it?

Apart the obligatory free dig at Gooch, I would stand over everything in my post. Where is the garbage?

"Is that it?"

What a patronising cretin.

"Obligatory free dig at gooch"

What a bigoted cretin.

Can I take it that you are either not, or incapable of, debating the merits of the current Kerry team?

Kevin Murray scooped cheating.

I think most others would have done the same, myself excepted.

Makes him look like a right eejit though.

Disappointed with how this thread has turned out.

[Is James McClean eligible to play for team GB's soccer team?]

Congratulations to the Chambers boys, but they got me thinking.

Could NI compete as an Olympic "country"?

Is James McClean eligible to play for team GB's soccer team?

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This is obviously tongue in cheek- he could never go back to Creggan again.

Not tongue in cheek, more hypothetical. Is he eligible or not?

Could NI compete as an Olympic "country"?

Nah, you need to be a proper country to enter a team.

Apparently you don't, hence the question.

A very random post there Keane.

Rule 2. Always quote the post you're referring to.

Nice to give people a chance to correct their errors.

Makes it pretty obvious when the post directly above yours has an edit in it regardless, I imagine most suspect something fairly dumb must have been said to warrant such a move.

Most on here know I have no interest in gambling and therefore limited knowledge of correct terminology. Not a major fcuk up, but thanks for the opportunity to correct it.

Ten years ago such a match would have been a foregone conclusion; all a Kerry man had to do was shout "Remember Drumboe" and that stirring call to arms would have been enough to raise sufficient fire in the belly to prevail.

Now games are won and lost neither by fire in the belly nor by having better players. They are won by those on the line and because of that (as with 03, 05 and 08) Kerry will come up short. Donegal are better prepared and have a better system than Kerry. I have yet to hear anyone asking what Donegal will have to do to beat Kerry; it is the Kingdom who have to change to be successful.

Look to at the recent records: Donegal have beaten (an admittedly mediocre) Tyrone in successive championship matches and celebrated as if someone had knocked down and killed the family cat; Kerry have never to my knowledge managed this feat and celebrate a facile single win as if it was their biggest ever win. Which, in a way, it was.

Look too at the flaws in the Kerry team; the O Ses and O'Mahony don't have the legs, Enright or O'Donoghue the experience, Young the form, Brosnan the confidence of his manager, the midfield neither mobility nor Darragh, Galvin and Donaghy the discipline, Gooch will choke. Which really only leaves Declan O'Sullivan and that won't be enough.

Donegal will win and cover the handicap.

Daly, Enright and Sullivan deserve a more peaceful rest.

What a piece of unmitigated garbage from surprise,surprise a NORDIE and imagine one of those nordies from a multi winning all-ireland county LOL,    ,As for the kerrygold add above,i'm still laughing,posted by a mayo poster and its first riposte by a langer,hillarious stuff,you couldn't write it, from the two biggest chokers in the game.

Is that it?

Apart the obligatory free dig at Gooch, I would stand over everything in my post. Where is the garbage?

Now games are won and lost neither by fire in the belly nor by having better players.

The only reason Kerry are contenders this year is because the pain of last year's AIF is so fresh in the minds. That is where the motivation is coming from. If on the other hand Kerry won last year they would not have enough "fire in the belly" to win on Sunday. I'm expecting a massive display from Kerry, hope it's good enough.

Fair enough point and 04, 06 and 09 would back it up. But I think things have moved on even since then with Donegal taking preparation to a new level and motivation alone is not enough.