On the tenth anniversary,remember with pride.
Sept 22nd,2002. All Ireland Final,Armagh 1-12 Kerry 0-14.
At the going down of the sun,and in the morning,we will remember them.
With 2011 the tensest finish to an All-Ireland final I've ever experienced, and I'm not from Armagh, and I wasn't even at it. The greatest, most spine-tingling scenes I've ever seen after a final, and I only watched it in Quinn's.
I suppose the general consensus now among GAA authorities would be that the pitch invasion took away from the occasion. ::)
Was it not Sep 15 Tony?
Quote from: Shamrock Shore on September 22, 2012, 08:55:58 AM
Was it not Sep 15 Tony?
lol, very good. No-one here is going to forget that ! (It might need explained to newer posters, but sure thats alright )
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Was that the year I drove up to Armagh with tickets after we had a big row on the DB that went on for weeks. Simple times back then although not that long ago.
What a day! I'll never forget that feeling at the final whistle when I realised we were AI champions. Hard to believe its 10 years ago.
The great day.
Is it really 10 years ago?
Time certainly does fly by, apart from the birth of my son, this was the greatest moment of my life. Standing on the Hill, ranting and roaring like a lunatic, jumping higher than i ever jumped when i was playing, at the final whistle. If only you could bottle that emotion.
Strangely, in relation to the pitch invasion debate, our win didn't seem real until i set foot upon the hallowed turf...........
I hope i'm alive to see Sam being brought back to the Orchard....................
The ten year anniversary of the birth of gaelic football.
How the time flies.
To think that Thornton could have nipped this all in the bud.
They went with songs to the battle,
they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on September 22, 2012, 11:05:42 PM
They went with songs to the battle,
they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
they were shot in the back by the Taliban and they didn't have the right night vision equipment
That Brit military stuff really sickens me.
Especially when you see how ex soldiers are treated. Any homeless shelter in London is full of them.
The poppies are a joke.
But well done Ormaugh.
A fluke result against one of the best teams ever to play the game.
I agree Canavan should have taken his own score
Long time ago now.
Quote from: ardchieftain on September 22, 2012, 09:37:42 PM
Time certainly does fly by, apart from the birth of my son, this was the greatest moment of my life. Standing on the Hill, ranting and roaring like a lunatic, jumping higher than i ever jumped when i was playing, at the final whistle. If only you could bottle that emotion.
Strangely, in relation to the pitch invasion debate, our win didn't seem real until i set foot upon the hallowed turf...........
I hope i'm alive to see Sam being brought back to the Orchard....................
I struggled to even enter Croke Park that day, it was the most emotional day of my life, I was crying on the road up to Dublin, in the pubs and during and after the game, I thought we were going to win it and then I thought about the generations of people that never got to see Armagh win Sam and I would cry some more.
Driving around Wisconsin for work near a year later I would think about it and I would get euphoric, to this day I watch the game once a month because I will probably never witness us winning Armagh again.
I know that is irrational as it is just football after all but it is what it is and that was the most surreal day of my life.
Quote from: Jinxy on September 22, 2012, 10:01:39 PM
The ten year anniversary of the birth of gaelic football.
How the time flies.
Armagh are like the English...they invent games and then become shite at them.
Quote from: Mike Sheehy on September 24, 2012, 07:53:18 AM
Quote from: Jinxy on September 22, 2012, 10:01:39 PM
The ten year anniversary of the birth of gaelic football.
How the time flies.
Armagh are like the English...they invent games and then become shite at them.
Your post is in exceptionally bad taste, especially straight after Stew's
What sort of a rise were you expecting ?
Lest we forget, hah? As if we'd be let.
Quote from: seafoid on September 24, 2012, 08:42:42 AM
Quote from: Mike Sheehy on September 24, 2012, 07:53:18 AM
Quote from: Jinxy on September 22, 2012, 10:01:39 PM
The ten year anniversary of the birth of gaelic football.
How the time flies.
Armagh are like the English...they invent games and then become shite at them.
Your post is in exceptionally bad taste, especially straight after Stew's
What sort of a rise were you expecting ?
Weak attempt from you there Herr Seafoid. At the end of the day this is just GAA banter unlike the kind of incitement to hatred that lowlifes like you indulge in..you know, the kind that actually has real world consequences.
Quote from: Mike Sheehy on September 25, 2012, 06:00:41 AM
Quote from: seafoid on September 24, 2012, 08:42:42 AM
Quote from: Mike Sheehy on September 24, 2012, 07:53:18 AM
Quote from: Jinxy on September 22, 2012, 10:01:39 PM
The ten year anniversary of the birth of gaelic football.
How the time flies.
Armagh are like the English...they invent games and then become shite at them.
Your post is in exceptionally bad taste, especially straight after Stew's
What sort of a rise were you expecting ?
Weak attempt from you there Herr Seafoid. At the end of the day this is just GAA banter unlike the kind of incitement to hatred that lowlifes like you indulge in..you know, the kind that actually has real world consequences.
You need to talk to a professsional about your problem.
Quote from: T Fearon on September 22, 2012, 12:14:19 AM
On the tenth anniversary,remember with pride.
Sept 22nd,2002. All Ireland Final,Armagh 1-12 Kerry 0-14.
At the going down of the sun,and in the morning,we will remember them.
"Lest we forget"
"tenth anniversary"
You make it sound like a tragedy!
It fupping was.
Tony I was at the 'this is your life' night for Oisin 'The Good but not quite Great' McConville a few weeks ago...550 or so ARmagh folk there to acknowledge his brilliance.
And he was brilliant.
One of the best.
At one point i was lucky enough to get chatting to Tony McEntee who was along with paul McGrane, Stevie mc, Benny Tierney, Geezer, John McEntee, John Toal and their women...as a tyrone fan, i have no bother in saying this, but they were a great team...one of the best, and if you look at their achievement of getting to 2 in a row, albeit only winning the one, you have to say that the run they had for 5 years or so will mark them down as one of the greatest teams ever.
I also look forward to next year - the 10 year anniversary of that Tyrone team who bate the clean dung out of Kerry in the semi final