O Garas letter to Indo Editor in reply to Myers Article

[Bord na Mona man]

Was Brendan Mulllin really that good?
Also he fecked off for a few years and came back just to get to the World Cup in South Africa.

[IolarCoisCuain]

Was Brendan Mulllin really that good?
Also he fecked off for a few years and came back just to get to the World Cup in South Africa.

Brendan Mullins really was that good. He was the record try scorer for Ireland in the amateur era. That's over a hundred years of rugby. Not bad.

[muppet]

Was Brendan Mulllin really that good?
Also he fecked off for a few years and came back just to get to the World Cup in South Africa.

Brendan Mullins really was that good. He was the record try scorer for Ireland in the amateur era. That's over a hundred years of rugby. Not bad.

We were always told how great he was and rarely saw it. A bit like David Healy in the Premierleague.

17 tries wasn't bad but he was hardly a great.

[mouview]

Wonder who wrote O'Gara's letter for him though?

[Bord na Mona man]

Was Brendan Mulllin really that good?
Also he fecked off for a few years and came back just to get to the World Cup in South Africa.

Brendan Mullins really was that good. He was the record try scorer for Ireland in the amateur era. That's over a hundred years of rugby. Not bad.

We were always told how great he was and rarely saw it. A bit like David Healy in the Premierleague.

17 tries wasn't bad but he was hardly a great.

17 tries in 56 matches apparently. Presumably most in the 5 nations.
I still don't remember him being as electric as Simon Geoghegan though.

[muppet]

Was Brendan Mulllin really that good?
Also he fecked off for a few years and came back just to get to the World Cup in South Africa.

Brendan Mullins really was that good. He was the record try scorer for Ireland in the amateur era. That's over a hundred years of rugby. Not bad.

We were always told how great he was and rarely saw it. A bit like David Healy in the Premierleague.

17 tries wasn't bad but he was hardly a great.

17 tries in 56 matches apparently. Presumably most in the 5 nations.
I still don't remember him being as electric as Simon Geoghegan though.

Geoghegan's arrival was like going straight from Red Hurley to Liz Hurley without passing go.

[Lar Naparka]

Can anybody tell me if there is a photo of ROG actually meeting the Queen?
ASFAIK, Myers is referring to the well-publicised one of him standing with his hand in his pocket while waiting next in line to be introduced to her. I have seen no evidence so far to suggest that he actually snubbed her when they met face to face. If I were attending yet another of an interminable list of boring, long-winded functions and was waiting to exchange banalities with some dignitary or other, I'd probably do the same or worse.
IMO, he'd be wrong to go about deliberately insulting HM but I've seen no evidence to imply that he did either then or at any other time.
Johnson on the other hand, knew exactly what he was up to. For me, he was and is a lout and the same goes for Myers.

[Hardy]

Myers used to write very funny satire, though and I'll always forgive anybody a lot for that. But he hasn't even got that saving grace now so there's no difficulty at all in disliking him.

Couldn't be having Brendan Mullin with that accent and the American teeth.

[muppet]

Can anybody tell me if there is a photo of ROG actually meeting the Queen?

ROG: Jeeees if this is Snow White the dwarves must be tiny.

Queen: My corgis tackle better than you do, ya langer.

[Jim_Murphy_74]

Can anybody tell me if there is a photo of ROG actually meeting the Queen?
ASFAIK, Myers is referring to the well-publicised one of him standing with his hand in his pocket while waiting next in line to be introduced to her. I have seen no evidence so far to suggest that he actually snubbed her when they met face to face. If I were attending yet another of an interminable list of boring, long-winded functions and was waiting to exchange banalities with some dignitary or other, I'd probably do the same or worse.
IMO, he'd be wrong to go about deliberately insulting HM but I've seen no evidence to imply that he did either then or at any other time.
Johnson on the other hand, knew exactly what he was up to. For me, he was and is a lout and the same goes for Myers.

Lar,

Unfortunately for Myers the Queen herself was quoted after as saying that they chatted about her sons because O'Gara had been friendly with them when they tagged along to the Lion's tour of New Zealand.

Not really the stuff of louts to be honest.  Myers is probaly jealous that they don't number him among their friends and culture police here will now condemn ROG as a West Brit!

You can't win..........

/Jim.

[IolarCoisCuain]

Was Brendan Mulllin really that good?
Also he fecked off for a few years and came back just to get to the World Cup in South Africa.

Brendan Mullins really was that good. He was the record try scorer for Ireland in the amateur era. That's over a hundred years of rugby. Not bad.

We were always told how great he was and rarely saw it. A bit like David Healy in the Premierleague.

17 tries wasn't bad but he was hardly a great.

For the love of God Muppet, he scored more tries that another Irishman in the amateur era! How can he not be a great? Do you not think tries count? I'm baffled here lads. Baffled. 

[Olaf]

Was Brendan Mulllin really that good?
Also he fecked off for a few years and came back just to get to the World Cup in South Africa.

Brendan Mullins really was that good. He was the record try scorer for Ireland in the amateur era. That's over a hundred years of rugby. Not bad.

We were always told how great he was and rarely saw it. A bit like David Healy in the Premierleague.

17 tries wasn't bad but he was hardly a great.

For the love of God Muppet, he scored more tries that another Irishman in the amateur era! How can he not be a great? Do you not think tries count? I'm baffled here lads. Baffled. 

Mullin was a bit of class in a back-line consisting of other good runners such as Dean and Crossan. He was probably the most balanced runner in that back-line  and did an awful lot more than scoring tries. There was and is more to a centre's game than scoring tries.

An Irish rugby great?   Yes - IMHO.

[bingobus]

Was O'Gara's hands not sewn into his pockets to prevent his hands slipping down the "birds" top?

[muppet]

Was Brendan Mulllin really that good?
Also he fecked off for a few years and came back just to get to the World Cup in South Africa.

Brendan Mullins really was that good. He was the record try scorer for Ireland in the amateur era. That's over a hundred years of rugby. Not bad.

We were always told how great he was and rarely saw it. A bit like David Healy in the Premierleague.

17 tries wasn't bad but he was hardly a great.

For the love of God Muppet, he scored more tries that another Irishman in the amateur era! How can he not be a great? Do you not think tries count? I'm baffled here lads. Baffled. 

He made one Lions squad but didn't make the test team. A great? Not for me.

The 'tries for Ireland' record always had a similar total over the years to the 'goals for Ireland' record.By your logic Tony Cascarino must be a 'great'.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Brendan Mullin was definitely a great player for Ireland in a time when we didn't exactly have many quality backs especially during the latter half of his career in the early 90's. To score 17 international tries given some of the talent he had around him was commendable. Had he been around for the past 10 years he would probably have been pushing 30 international tries. Granted he was not in Brian O'Driscoll's class but not many are but he was still a very good player.