Quote from: Rossfan on December 23, 2014, 01:02:08 PMQuote from: moysider on December 22, 2014, 11:48:08 PM+1.
Silly season for the GAA but this is pathetic.
Why not use up the space in the paper with silly qoutes or tweets of the year.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Rossfan on December 23, 2014, 01:02:08 PMQuote from: moysider on December 22, 2014, 11:48:08 PM+1.
Silly season for the GAA but this is pathetic.
Why not use up the space in the paper with silly qoutes or tweets of the year.
Quote from: cockahoop on December 23, 2014, 08:43:10 AMQuote from: nrico2006 on December 23, 2014, 08:23:51 AM
Enda Muldoon (Derry), Paddy Bradley (Derry), Ciaran McDonald (Mayo) should all be on that team. Bradley was/is better than both Brown and Forde and did it consistently year in year out. McDonald would have a strong argument for best 15 of this millenium and Muldoon was class personified. Michael Meehan should be in there too, had a great 5 or 6 seasons. Why no mention of Keith Higgins, another definite starter.
Being a big derry man and fan of paddy bradley i would still have to disagree on paddy being better than declan browne,Declan was a amazing player and if born in kerry would go down as a all time great imo.
Quote from: screenexile on December 22, 2014, 11:56:27 PM
Sorry but someone just said Celtic have a bigger fan base than Utd, Lpool, Chelsea, City... Celtics support comes from the green side of Glasgow, Green side of the North, some Free Staters and a class of weins in Thailand!!
For Celtic to move forward from here they need Rangers back or they need to get into England. Their appeal and fan base will continue to decline unless either of these 2 things happen.
Quote from: tiempo on December 22, 2014, 10:46:34 PMQuote from: thewobbler on December 22, 2014, 10:02:43 PM
It's a nonsense that pervades soccer as well. For Croke Park read the old Wembley. it's partly fuelled by the occasions making players knock their bollocks out and subsequently feel tireder (the majority of games on either have been latter stages of a knockout tourney), but mostly fuelled by the camera angle, which is set at 10-20% higher than any ground and as such makes it feel bigger.
To see the inverse of the second theory, watch BBCNI local soccer. The camera angle at those grounds makes the pitches look tiny and if truth be told, makes the action look weaker.
Definately right about the occasion getting to players and the experience of playing at Croke Park, I know players that have played there for the first time find it deceptive and it probably takes some getting used to. Specific example being a shot from between the 21 and 45 feels like much further out.
BBCNI local soccer is cabbage patch footy. The mind boggles actually that local soccer (amateur) is played on pitches way smaller than at the top level. That said, our inter-county matches are 35mins a side while club footy is 30mins.
Quote from: thebigfella on December 22, 2014, 04:57:23 PMQuote from: lynchbhoy on December 22, 2014, 04:37:11 PM
Celtic are not fecked without the Huns.
Will never be enough money in Scottish soccer again to have Celtic competitive at CL level- with or without the Huns , but Celtic will keep winning and dominating most years.
Celtic park not full as there is a bit of a recession still in Scotland !
Attendance still over 35k each home game afaik
Celtic need to get out of Scotland - they would be more attractive to epl without the violent baggage that the hun hoardes bring!
That said, I can't see the Huns be let die as a club.
They are the establishment
They are not good enough to play league 1 in England let alone premier league. Celtic's problem is the premier league brand is solid enough and they can't bring anything new to the table on their own.
Quote from: 5 Sams on December 22, 2014, 11:25:58 AM
I'd say it's more of an optical illusion given the size of the stadium and the big crowd etc.
Quote from: Mikhailov on December 22, 2014, 09:35:45 AM
think we played well yesterday but the team lacks confidence in themselves and beginning to look like they have lost a bit of confidence in BR as well. This new set up works well but surely it is 100% perfect for Moreno on the LHS and then put Markovic further up the pitch or even on the RHS and swap Hendo for Lucas. Morreno and Markovic have searing pace and that is the first requirement for the wide role. We dominated possession all game apart from a 10 minute spell but couldn't convert which is an ongoing problem which needs rectified next month whether Sturridge returns or not. Sell Borini for 10M, Balotelli for 7M and put a bit more to it and get ourselves a decent proven striker who will score goals and more importantly suit the system. Balotelli and lambert do not suit the style that BR wishes to play so why have them....
team going forward should be;
BJ
Kolo Skertl Sahko
Markovic Hendo Gerrard Moreno
Lallana Coutinho
Sterling
When we lose the ball we have numbers in midfield and when we regain the ball we have plenty of options for going forward with pace out wide and up top.
Easier said than done however.....
Quote from: SHEEDY on December 20, 2014, 05:27:25 PMQuote from: manfromdelmonte on October 27, 2014, 10:27:36 AMthat prediction is looking well of the mark. shocking performance today from manager and players. too many players in the comfort zone. distin, howard and barry need dropped. starting to doubt Martinez, the way things are going he'll be fighting another relegation battle.
Everton will finish in the top four this year.
There, I've said it.
They are very good going forward.
Now that the defence has settled down they look a far better balanced team than the likes of United, Liverpool or Spurs
Quote from: lynchbhoy on December 19, 2014, 06:13:42 PMQuote from: bannside on December 16, 2014, 08:11:16 PM
Put yourselves in their position. Say it's you and all of a sudden you manage to pull off a shock verdict against the bank and suddenly find yourself flush again.
In your conscience you know you screwed over ( by accident or design) some good hard working honest subbies - who were once good friends and neighbours. Because that's the reality here in many individual cases.
Would you take your money and run, or would you attempt at least to make some kind of meaningful financial gesture of the kind that would at least show you had some moral compass?
I know many wouldn't bother to do this - but I'd be heartened at least to know that some of you would/might. That's all.
Despite others saying your notion is daft - I kind of agree with you here.
However I doubt that even if successful the taggarts could find such repayments/gifts.
I'd expect that if they get back in business, they'd try to look after/employ those men/subbies that they didn't pay prev ( poss with an up front payment if they could afford it!)
A lot of the men out of pocket are near neighbours or folk from that hinterland and the taggert family would like to be seen to do right back among their peers
Quote from: laoislad on December 18, 2014, 07:13:43 PMQuote from: JoG2 on December 18, 2014, 07:04:21 PMI thought the same about men using man bags and worse again man scarves.
As a proud beard man (15+ years)...I'm sick of the sight of these feckin hipster fashion beards. This fad has to die out soon surely?
I was in Cafe en Seine on Dawson street last Saturday night and the amount of gimps wearing man scarves indoors was unreal...
Bad enough wearing them outside... but inside..in a bar..all night??