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Cathal Dervan - is there a more slimy journalist in the Irish media, muppet!

Truth Number 4

The FAI are the poorest, worst run Sporting Organisation in Ireland. Where is all the Italian 90, USA 94' Japan 02 money gone, those 12 year years were the glory days of Irish soccer and they have nothing to show for it except debacle after debacle.

enjoy lights, always seems much quicker...

Who won?

There is a Kildare poster Lilywhitealright from Ardclough who goes to all their games, send him a pm maybe.

Hope not it was on in Clane 

Its the fact that the GAA changed its rules to accomodate them Dinny.
It they werent grateful I would accept that, but to be openly ungrateful is another thing.

And also to make money, agree with the whole ungrateful thing but the whole Dundalk saga shows you what a crowd of gobshites the FAI really are..

What Dinny is talking about is a bit of an isolated case

Hmm, do you think? Didn't the Longford footballers use Longford RFC as well or how about Linfield FC allowing camogie players from St Mary's Teacher Training College.  In Kildare also the womens footballers have used Newbridge College, it can go on and on....

Navan is a town of over 20K people, Navan rugby club field 3 adult teams and U/20 and a youths section, hardly a threat to the Gaels now. I have absolutley no interest in junior soccer in Ireland although I have been to Dalymount Park to watch Kildare Town AFC win some final of some sort so maybe soccer is a threat in Navan although generally I find ,as has been touched on here, how getting changed at the side of a pitch with no basics such as showers can appeal to anyone is beyond me...

In fairness there are members of the GAA who love to have a swipe at the FAI and the IRFU likewise there are members of the FAI and the IRFU would love to have a pop at the GAA. Ireland is a small country but our partcipation levels in sport are among the highest in the world therefore these 3 organisations are effectively all competing for the same players particulary in rural Ireland. Personally I don't see rugby as a threat to the GAA, it is very much the little brother, there are more GAA clubs in Cork than there are rugby clubs in the whole of Ireland. Some counties like Louth and Laois have only 2 rugby clubs and if GAA clubs in large towns like Portlaoise, Drogheda or Dundalk suffer from low numbers well then should be looking at themselves and not blaming other sporting organisations.

To be honest I believe a person should be allowed choose the sport that keeps them playing the longest if thats Hurling great if its soccer so what better the kid play something than drowning pints.

Actually I'm sick of people here whinging about the GAA, whiging about the IRFU or the FAI, we should be doing this we should be doing that, ffs the  FAI and the IRFU are paying top dollar to use Croke Park, they're not getting it for free yet they should be grateful for paying for a service, you couldn't make it up.

Anyway playing any sport good, 20 year old fat bastards drinking pints in the pub bad

When have they done ANYTHING for the GAA.

Could prabably list loads of examples but the Kildare Senior Football team do their winter training at Cill Dara RFC's all-weather facilities. The rugby club are even allowing them put Gaelic Posts this year 

In Kildare the big rivals would be Round Towers v Ellistown, Moorefield v Sarsfields, Kilcullen v St Laurances and Allenwood v Carbury..The north Kildare clubs Maynooth, Leixlip, Celbridge all seem to have a loathing for each other as well..

Johnstownbridge and Carbury would have no love loss either, Lynchbhoy might be able to confirm but I think Declan Kerrigan left Carbury to join JTB, war quickly ensued....

On a county level, we've too many neighbours but Laois, Offaly, Meath and the Cheeky Dubs are generally not liked.....

AZ- Monkey = 500

A lot of money for college football

Can someone please tell me for the love of god why Meath football is ranked so high?

Change the name of this thread. I keep forgetting and come in, thinking it's the Goonies Thread. God I love that film!

 

Would to see everyones predictions after I have done my own but excellent otherwise.

Well Towers should have beaten Moorefield in the Semi, we lost by a point and a dubious penalty and Allenwood felt they left it behind them in the final. The Kildare Championship at Senior and Intermediate is very competitive with 4 different clubs winning the senior over the last 6 years. Sarsfields had a Leinster in them as well.

Now if only we had a manager...

good times lie ahead for the county team or is that entirely wishful thinking, I mean Armagh, Galway and Mayo have produced strong club sides in the last few and their county football teams would be in the top 6 in the country....

Congrats to Confey who beat Ciaran McManus's Tubber to claim the Leinster Intermediate, always nice to beat the Biffos......

Moorefield - Leinster Senior Football Champions
Confey - Leinster Intermediate Football Champions
Ardclough - Leinster Intermediate Hurling Champions
Eadestown - Ladies All Ireland Junior Football Champions

I just can't ever remember the club game ever been stronger in Kildare...