Railway cup returns!

[Zulu]

A. The international teams train more than a few times and we all know both teams genuinely want to win, regardless of other criticisms. Therefore the games are proper contests.

B. The provinces are not at full strength, the munster team isn't even close, and they haven't been for many years. Is anybody, anywhere in the world debating the merits of certain players inclusion, are they ****.

C. To paraphrase Martin Johnson, footballers want to play football, shocker!

[Hardy]

Make it Ulster v. The Rest. It'll sell out quicker than a Springsteen gig. Nobody but Ulster people at it, though.

[ross4life]

A. The international teams train more than a few times and we all know both teams genuinely want to win, regardless of other criticisms. Therefore the games are proper contests.

B. The provinces are not at full strength, the munster team isn't even close, and they haven't been for many years. Is anybody, anywhere in the world debating the merits of certain players inclusion, are they ****.

C. To paraphrase Martin Johnson, footballers want to play football, shocker!

Lack of interest from Kerry again? speaking of Kerry & going off topic how were they allowed to withdraw from the McGrath cup? I heard the excuses of club,college players away but in truth we had more players away during the FBD & have less of pick than Kerry.

[Ciarrai_thuaidh]

A. The international teams train more than a few times and we all know both teams genuinely want to win, regardless of other criticisms. Therefore the games are proper contests.

B. The provinces are not at full strength, the munster team isn't even close, and they haven't been for many years. Is anybody, anywhere in the world debating the merits of certain players inclusion, are they ****.

C. To paraphrase Martin Johnson, footballers want to play football, shocker!

Lack of interest from Kerry again? speaking of Kerry & going off topic how were they allowed to withdraw from the McGrath cup? I heard the excuses of club,college players away but in truth we had more players away during the FBD & have less of pick than Kerry.

There are 4 Kerry lads on the munster team for Sunday..thats not too bad all things considered. Kerry, like a lot of county's have a serious training plan for this break in the league...Tipp haven't released ANY of their players because of it.
On the McGrath cup, it was decided that with all the players missing, plus, up to 17/18 potential players tied in with their college teams it wouldn't be worthwhile scraping together a team.

[ross4life]

A. The international teams train more than a few times and we all know both teams genuinely want to win, regardless of other criticisms. Therefore the games are proper contests.

B. The provinces are not at full strength, the munster team isn't even close, and they haven't been for many years. Is anybody, anywhere in the world debating the merits of certain players inclusion, are they ****.

C. To paraphrase Martin Johnson, footballers want to play football, shocker!

Lack of interest from Kerry again? speaking of Kerry & going off topic how were they allowed to withdraw from the McGrath cup? I heard the excuses of club,college players away but in truth we had more players away during the FBD & have less of pick than Kerry.

There are 4 Kerry lads on the munster team for Sunday..thats not too bad all things considered. Kerry, like a lot of county's have a serious training plan for this break in the league...Tipp haven't released ANY of their players because of it.
On the McGrath cup, it was decided that with all the players missing, plus, up to 17/18 potential players tied in with their college teams it wouldn't be worthwhile scraping together a team.

Many teams have serious training plans in place, Dublin have one of the biggest but it didn't stop them releasing 11 players for the railway cup. Like i said we had just as many if not more players missing for the FBD some games we only had 3 subs but we didn't withdraw from the competition.

[Ciarrai_thuaidh]

A. The international teams train more than a few times and we all know both teams genuinely want to win, regardless of other criticisms. Therefore the games are proper contests.

B. The provinces are not at full strength, the munster team isn't even close, and they haven't been for many years. Is anybody, anywhere in the world debating the merits of certain players inclusion, are they ****.

C. To paraphrase Martin Johnson, footballers want to play football, shocker!

Lack of interest from Kerry again? speaking of Kerry & going off topic how were they allowed to withdraw from the McGrath cup? I heard the excuses of club,college players away but in truth we had more players away during the FBD & have less of pick than Kerry.

There are 4 Kerry lads on the munster team for Sunday..thats not too bad all things considered. Kerry, like a lot of county's have a serious training plan for this break in the league...Tipp haven't released ANY of their players because of it.
On the McGrath cup, it was decided that with all the players missing, plus, up to 17/18 potential players tied in with their college teams it wouldn't be worthwhile scraping together a team.

Many teams have serious training plans in place, Dublin have one of the biggest but it didn't stop them releasing 11 players for the railway cup. Like i said we had just as many if not more players missing for the FBD some games we only had 3 subs but we didn't withdraw from the competition.

Fair enough, Dublin released 11 players but its a lot easier to do that when the game is on their doorstep in parnell park. Between the Gooch, Brosnan (club game) Darran O'Sullivan injured and a few college players, we could have had a few more playing alright, but the scheduling of the competition meant there was never going to be a huge representation.

[BennyCake]

Any coverage of Ulster v Connacht anywhere?

[Jinxy]

Leinster till I die!!!!

[drici]

Football

Connacht 0-03  Ulster 1-03

Peter Harte with the goal.

[drici]

Football

Connacht 0-03  Ulster 1-04

[drici]

Football

Connacht 0-03  Ulster 2-04

M Poland with the second goal.

[mylestheslasher]

Drici - do you have the team that started for ulster ?

[drici]

B Mc Veigh

B Donaghy
N Mc Gee
K Lacey

C McKeever
D Hughes
J Loughrey

D Gordan
R Kavanagh

C Gilligan
M Poland
P Harte

M Penrose
B Coulter
O Mulligan

(That's the guts of it)

[drici]

Football

Connacht 0-03  Ulster 2-06

[drici]

Football

Connacht 0-04  Ulster 2-10