are tyrone the worst thing to have ever hit the gaa?

[D4S]

He's a wee city boy from Belfast.  Had a look at his recent posts and he talks a load of crap about bonfires and politics mostly...

[Doire abú]

they are known all over ireland for their diving and overacting to win free kicks and get players booked and sent off.the so called great peter canavan always dived easy to win frees and penalties and tried to get two kerry defenders sent off in 2003 before he went off himself after hurting himself diving. brian mc guigan got dan gordon from down sent off in the ulster final in the same year and did a great dive in the all ireland final to earn an easy free.sean cavanagh likes flopping about the field and got a derry man sent off that year too.if he had took that afl contract with brisbane he wouldnt last five minutes.philip jordan got away with the best dive of all time against marsden and also dives about.brian dooher is a disgrace of a captain who recently got two westmeath players sent off.well done brian.

Your comments about the diving of messrs Dooher, Canavan, Cavanagh, Jordan and McGuigan certainly have some truth to them. Dooher in particular is the biggest diver in the GAA, most Tyrone people won't argue with that. Having said that he's also a terrific player. If you were new to the game and someone told you thats a 32 (33 next week) year old running around the field from full back line to full forward line and his had a couple of career threatening injuried in his time, you wouldn't believe them. Also in fairness to McGuigan, the 2003 Ulster final was the only time I've witnessed him diving, he's a hell of a footballer and a great fella of the field.

ricey mc menamin and conor gormley are two of the most skilless players to ever win an all ireland medal.gormley pulled off a fluke block in 2003 that hides how he tries to just bully and foul the players he marks.how he didnt get sent off against mayo on saturday i do not know.ricey is someone who even a dublin player would not do the things he does.if it isnt trying to break a players neck by sticking his knee in or biting the hands of a kerry forward hes always telling players on the other team how great there mums are in bed or racing up the field to injured players and roaring in their face cheered on by thousands of muck savages in red and white in omagh.pascal mc connell is another idiot who almost caused a riot on hill 16 in 2005 and poked the eyes out of gooch cooper in the all ireland final that year.

Gormley should've got sent off on Sunday no doubt, but to say he's skilless is farcical. I can't thing of many skilless two-time All Stars. And he could/should have picked up another last year. Also how exactly do you fluke a block?

McMenamin is a hateful wee ****, seriously there's no way you could like the man. I wish Derry had a few hateful boys like him.

then you have mickey harte,the most arrogant man to ever take a team to all ireland glory who feels he can tell the rest of ireland how to win all irelands just because at the time he won one.like wenger he sees nothing wrong with what any of his players do on the field no matter how bad it is and tells the tyrone county board not to suspend dooher after he picked up a red card in a club game this year.he brought in the blanket defence which has killed football as a spectator sport.he encourages his players to surround the referee if he blows up anything against tyrone as well as getting them to waste time in holding the ball.in fact i believe too many referees are scared and intimidated of the tyrone players and their fans who think they invented football in 2003.

Say what you want about the blanket defence, but it brought the team two All-Irelands didn't it? Tyrone's habits of surrounding the ref on every decision (espec Dooher) given against them is ugly to look at I'll admit.

You seem to have a hard-on for Dublin as well. Its quite possible you are a Tyrone or Dublin man, not too sure.

I'm a Derry man, half a mile from the Tyrone border, so I've no business sticking up for Tyrone, I'm just saying it as I see it.

[smcafee]

it doesnt matter where im from.why should it matter?

avoiding the issue again.

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=8779.45

Oh the irony  

im taking care of that. 

[Big Mickey]

this has to be the most ridiculous post iv read in a long time

going back 3,4,5 years and picking out about a couple of incidents is total rubbish and completely unresonable.you could build a case against any team or player in the country doing that,for example daragh o'se,ciaran whealen,that doesnt mean they arent great players and a credit to the gaa into the bargin.show me a player who hasnt made a mistake or maybe bent the rules slightly and il show you a someone whos lying.

and onto the personal insults to the players.yes,peter canavan won frees,so what??he was the best forward of his generation and alot of defenders couldnt do anything but foul him.its not his fault.anyway theres is very thin line between diving and buying a free,it just depends which dugout your in!as regards dooher,that man takes so much abuse and punishment on the field and you rarely see him lie down for long.against westmeath,the first fella nearly took his head off and rightly got a second yellow for it,it didnt matter if dooher was down or not,that lad was walkin.and the second player deserved that red for bn soo stupid in the first place to strike a man right in front of the referee!

personally i absolutley despise ricey,because all that talking and slabbering crap isnt my style and dont condone it for a second,but i still have to admit that he's a skillful player,especially for a cornerback.any1 who thinks different comes from a different planet.gormely on the other hand i love,a great player with a great never say die attitude and gives it aswell as takes it.i would go as far to say that he's a role model for any young defender to be.....and to be fair,uv criticised ricey for slabbering (correctly however) and gormely for bn a hard hitting player,so what do you want??a defender to sit and just shadow man round the field.ud be happy then cos that would mean tyrone get beat

so what im really trying to say is.....u talk an unbeleivable amount of crap

ps id love to see how you conduct urself on the field.....thats if u even bother playin......

[upthehoops]

Think this ridiculous thread is set up to see hoe many stupid posts this eejit can muster in as short a time as possible.
Absolute load of crap and don't see why even bigger eejits like myself bother replying.

[RadioGAAGAA]

There are some points there worthy of discussion.


Same as Armagh, I really do not like Tyrone's style of play.


re the blanket defence - you have to admire them for doing what it takes to win.

re the diving - cheating f**kers, but then every county has had someone do it in recent years, unfortunately it does seem to be more prevalent in a Tyrone match though.

[An Fear Rua]

it doesnt matter where im from.why should it matter?

avoiding the issue again.

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=8779.45

Oh the irony  

im taking care of that. 

By avoiding answering questions posed to you?

[smcafee]

you talk a lot of sense..except when you criticize kerry. Thats when you show what a dumb c**t you are.

Other than that, keep up the good work.

kerry arent above criticism.like tyrone their players and supporters like to think they do no wrong.but tyrone are in their own league above everyone else.

[smcafee]

If Frank McGuigan, Eugene McKenna, Jody O'Neill, Iggy Jones, Peter Canavan, Stephen O'Neill etc are the worst thing to ever hit the GAA then I would'nt like to see the worst. Cynical fouling was introduced in  1946 to stop a free flowing Antrim team by those paragons of virtue KERRY. Bringing men behind the ball ala Ger Power and Pat Spillane who took diving to an art form re 1980 AIF, yep that was kerry again. Raising fitness levels and ignoring footballs in training, Dublin and Kerry in the 1970's. We are by no means innocent and there are certain things about this tyrone team that I would not subscrbe to but they are by no means the only county involved. Remember imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!!! I recall watching Tyrone and Derry in 95 when Derry scored 9 out of 10 scores from frees.

the first four names you mention are spinning in their graves seeing the way the tyrone team of the past five years now play and the first three are not even dead yet.
this is not about kerry.it is not about dublin.it is about tyrone,the most cyncial football team in the gaa of all time and because they sadly win all irelands get copied by others.

[BennyHarp]

Jealousy is a horrible trait in any young fella! Even worse when they display that jealousy on a public message board. I wonder does this lad really think that people in Tyrone actually give a fcuk what he thinks about our team, he keeps posting that people are avoiding the issue - there isnt an issue as far as i'm concerned - Tyrone have been one of the most high profile teams in the country for 6/7 years and of course they're no angels and do what it takes to win championships. However their incidents just get highlighted more than others as they've played alot of high profile - live on TV -  matches at the time when live coverage was really taking off in the sport and the analysis by pundits has become alot more damning!! Too often tyrone played big championship games in croke park and were cynically turned over by their southern opposition - Dublin on frank mcguigan in 1984, Kerry on mckenna, lynch and donaghy in 1986 and Meath on everyone in 1996. I for one wont be making any apologises for Tyrone becoming a little bit more cynical in their play - we were forced to do it and it paid off with 2 all irelands (to date). As DJ Kane once said "nice guys win fcuk all"

[An Fear Rua]

Jealousy is a horrible trait in any young fella! Even worse when they display that jealousy on a public message board. I wonder does this lad really think that people in Tyrone actually give a fcuk what he thinks about our team, he keeps posting that people are avoiding the issue "

hes more interested in killing the brits!

[ziggysego]

You're making a cod of yourself sir.

[smcafee]

Jealousy is a horrible trait in any young fella! Even worse when they display that jealousy on a public message board. I wonder does this lad really think that people in Tyrone actually give a fcuk what he thinks about our team, he keeps posting that people are avoiding the issue - there isnt an issue as far as i'm concerned - Tyrone have been one of the most high profile teams in the country for 6/7 years and of course they're no angels and do what it takes to win championships. However their incidents just get highlighted more than others as they've played alot of high profile - live on TV -  matches at the time when live coverage was really taking off in the sport and the analysis by pundits has become alot more damning!! Too often tyrone played big championship games in croke park and were cynically turned over by their southern opposition - Dublin on frank mcguigan in 1984, Kerry on mckenna, lynch and donaghy in 1986 and Meath on everyone in 1996. I for one wont be making any apologises for Tyrone becoming a little bit more cynical in their play - we were forced to do it and it paid off with 2 all irelands (to date). As DJ Kane once said "nice guys win fcuk all"

it is obvious tyrone fans dont give a f**k.you could see that when tyrone played westmeath with the nastiest crowd of muck savages ever in one place making a referee fear for his life,cheering mc menamin running 30m to shout at an injured player and dooher practising for bejing.many other teams have copied what tyrone have started and supporters are now sick of it,not turning up to games.last weekend shows how shit football  is now in.you can stick your fingers in your ears and go la la la la la la and pretend nothing is wrong.but it is.

it is not a dublin all ireland the gaa needs,its a galway all ireland that the gaa needs for footballs own good.

[tyrone86]

it is obvious tyrone fans dont give a f**k.you could see that when tyrone played westmeath with the nastiest crowd of muck savages ever in one place making a referee fear for his life,cheering mc menamin running 30m to shout at an injured player and dooher practising for bejing.many other teams have copied what tyrone have started and supporters are now sick of it,not turning up to games.last weekend shows how shit football  is now in.you can stick your fingers in your ears and go la la la la la la and pretend nothing is wrong.but it is.

it is not a dublin all ireland the gaa needs,its a galway all ireland that the gaa needs for footballs own good.

Ah, the hyperbole of the unreformed WUM

[Lazer]

Tyrone are a bad example of football!

Att he match on sunday, a friend of mine said at the start of the match she was supporting Tyrone (for some strange unknown reason)

Within 10 mins she had changed allegiances to Mayo because like any self respecting GAA fan, she could not bring herself to support a team that dives and cheats quites so much. Tyrone should have every player caught diving barred for life!

And sideline ball 2 mins from the end of additional time, linesman says its a mayo ball, Tryone refuse to give them it! Does that sound like a sporting team to anyone? To me it sounds like fear and cowardlyness!

Come on Dublin, do us a favour and get Tyrone out of the All Ireland. Down managed to get them out at stage one, can someone finish the job please!

PS Dublin arent my Favourite team either. Kildare for SAM