Tony Keady still bitter over '89

[Premier Emperor]

He got himself suspended sure. He shouldn't have left himself hoping for sympathy from other counties after.
I remember Paul Delaney got suspended around the same time. He took his medicine...unlike Keady.

He's not the only one still bitter by the looks of it.

I'm only pointing out the obvious. The Galway lads are still ripping about it. Tipperary have been blackguarded often enough and we get over it.

[muppet]

He got himself suspended sure. He shouldn't have left himself hoping for sympathy from other counties after.
I remember Paul Delaney got suspended around the same time. He took his medicine...unlike Keady.

He's not the only one still bitter by the looks of it.

I'm only pointing out the obvious. The Galway lads are still ripping about it. Tipperary have been blackguarded often enough and we get over it.

If you are over it why bring it up?

[Premier Emperor]

He got himself suspended sure. He shouldn't have left himself hoping for sympathy from other counties after.
I remember Paul Delaney got suspended around the same time. He took his medicine...unlike Keady.

He's not the only one still bitter by the looks of it.

I'm only pointing out the obvious. The Galway lads are still ripping about it. Tipperary have been blackguarded often enough and we get over it.

If you are over it why bring it up?

It was plastered all over the paper. I'm not Vincent Hogan btw.

[ormondeboy3]

It doesn't take much manliness to jump into a lad who is completely open after clearing a ball and prone. Great example of Sylvie and Phelim's manliness when Big Bonnar approaches them after English was hit. It would be up there with Waterford's manliness of the same year.

It was the same kind of Glaway manliness that finished Eanna Ryan's career.

[muppet]

It doesn't take much manliness to jump into a lad who is completely open after clearing a ball and prone. Great example of Sylvie and Phelim's manliness when Big Bonnar approaches them after English was hit. It would be up there with Waterford's manliness of the same year.

It was the same kind of Glaway manliness that finished Eanna Ryan's career.

And all this Tipp bitterness posted on a thread giving out about Galway bitterness.

[seafoid]

"Tipperary have been blackguarded often enough and we get over it."

Except online. And in pubs.

How is it that Kilkenny fans don't have this insecurity?   Would any Kilkenny fan ever call himself "Emperor", for example? 

[seafoid]

Does the GAA still have fuball wallahs judging hurling infringements? If it was Mayo that put him down maybe the all-Ireland curse didn't come out of nowhere 

[GaillimhIarthair]

He got himself suspended sure. He shouldn't have left himself hoping for sympathy from other counties after.
I remember Paul Delaney got suspended around the same time. He took his medicine...unlike Keady.

Paul Delaney was left out of the starting team in the 89 final by the Tipp management because there was doubts about his legality to play. 

[spectator]

Thanks for posting that.

I think Keady summed it up well himself there - if it was left to the real hurling counties, he would have gained a reprieve.

As it transpired, every incident over the hundred odd years of the GAA, wider GAA politics, horse-trading etc probably went into the mix in deciding the votes of the non-hurling county delegates.

Must have been really enraging for him to be judged by comma-tea 'politicians' from non-hurling counties who probably didn't give a sugar about either him or hurling, one way or another.

There'll never be any shortage of politics, brinkmanship and controversies in the GAA, that's one thing we can say for sure.
It'd sicken you to see a great player like Tony Keady being treated like that though, whatever about the technicalities. 

I think we can safely say that fairness is still reasonably important to most ordinary GAA folk, whatever about the committeee men...

[Asal Mor]

You're just bitter.
I don't like this Irish thing of calling people bitter. It's thrown around in every debate. You can't criticise or argue in this country without being accused of being bitter. If Keady felt he was wrongly suspended and denied a chance at a 3 in a row it's natural enough that he'd still feel that way. It doesn't mean he dwells on it and lets it consume him - sounds like he has a happy, busy life to me.

[ross matt]

You're just bitter.
I don't like this Irish thing of calling people bitter. It's thrown around in every debate. You can't criticise or argue in this country without being accused of being bitter. If Keady felt he was wrongly suspended and denied a chance at a 3 in a row it's natural enough that he'd still feel that way. It doesn't mean he dwells on it and lets it consume him - sounds like he has a happy, busy life to me.

Definitely one of the most intelligent posts I've read Asal. Constructive intelligent disagreement with a view point is often unfairly termed "negativity" or "bitterness" these days.

[Ash Smoker]

The 1989 semi final.
Great hit by Leahy in the first few seconds of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOI3L7_amfY&NR=1

[johnneycool]

The 1989 semi final.
Great hit by Leahy in the first few seconds of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOI3L7_amfY&NR=1

cheap shot you mean, Finnerty continued on regardless unlike St Nicky..

[seafoid]

Back in 89 a good few people thought Finnerty would replace Conor Hayes as the full back but he had a nightmare in 1991 and that was the end of it. Where did all go wrong? 

[johnneycool]

Back in 89 a good few people thought Finnerty would replace Conor Hayes as the full back but he had a nightmare in 1991 and that was the end of it. Where did all go wrong?

There's a total different mentality required for fullback and not one that all good hurlers make, in fact you could say that hurling wise JJ Delaney would shite out Noel Hickey, but when it comes to manning the edge of the square there's only one winner and JJ was far from the worst at it.