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Forget about 1996-what about the 1988 semi final. That was complete robbery!

Me on me first trip up to the big Shmoke almost of drinking age, loaded, roaring and shouting. I think I lost my voice for a month

McHale scored a perfectly legit goal and the ref disallowed it for square ball (me arse). I think we would have won if it had stood

(note feeble attempt to distract myself from the pain of 1996)

I just couldnt resist. 99% of Dubs are sound, but I just hate bullies and love to see them get their comeuppance!

Most of the current Mayo team were still in National School (if even) in 1996. Painful as it was/is-it needs to be let go. .  Meath got a couple of unlucky breaks against Dublin-they got a few lucky ones yeatsrday-thats how it goes
We play them next week-its 15 against 15. Form up until now counts for nothing-its all about execution and adaptation on the day.

We had our chance in 1996 and we didnt take it-pure and simple. The best team doesnt always win, the team that plays the most attractive football doesnt always win, the team with the best players doesnt always win-the team with the bigger score on the scoreboard wins!

How you get there-well thats up to you

The Hyde-CF 1985. I was sitting level with Sean Lowry wehen he let fly and put the nail in the coffin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dxxEVtNI6s

Take nothing for ganted--Meath almost beat Dublin and Limerick almost beat Cork.   Complacency is our biggest enemy.  Look at how both Sligo and Antrim put it up to Kerry--it all comes down to what happens on the day-a good (or bad) bounce, a referees decision, a mistake, a missed chance.

The Championship begins now-all previous form counts for nought!

Jimmy Burkes goal vs. the Rossies, 1989 Connaught Final replay


min 6.56

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JseW7Haq9Gc

This match means absolutely nothing!!!!!!!!!!


Look what happened last year:

Dublin hammered Wexford, then got hammered by Tyrone.

Wexford got hammered by Dublin-then almost beat Tyrone.

My dislike of Rossies stems from the 1989 Connaught Final Replay. One of their players (if you want to call him that) almost took Jimmy Browns head off with an elbow. Brown was knocked out cold and while he was getting treatment on the pitch (before being stretchered off) the Rossies all around us were shouting things such as "good enough for the cvnt" "you didn't hit the cvnt half hard enough". It wasn't just kids either-men, women and children were joining in.

Never before or since, have I watched a match surrounded by such Barbarians!

Dubs still on course, hype dead as a door nail, expectations ratcheted down-hmmmmm. Methinks Gilroy may be onto something. 

When Mayo "almost" won the AI in 1996, they were nearly beat by London in the first round!

http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/Mayo/News/ConnTel/96Jun/96Jun05/GAA.htm

What about Wilie Joe vs Cork-AI final 1989?

Does that mean ye'll be able to make change for the pool table............only kidding.


Well done. God be with the bad old days when Mayo arrived in the Hyde expectin a hammering from Earley, Mc Manus, Keegan and co.  A healthy dislike (and respect) of your enemies is what makes this game great.

You remember Nikki Taylor the supermodel....well I never met her, but I used to know her ex boyfriend......the fella who wrapped his car around a telepone pole in Atlanta and nearly killed her.

I also tailgated with Paulie Castellano at a Miami Dolphins game-son of assassinated Mob boss Paul Castellano

Michael Jacksons bodyguard sent me flying with a shoulder when I was a student in Munich back in the early 90's walking down the street minding my own business

Austrailian Prime minister at a function in Dublin Castle (I was working there at the time as a tour guide)

Brendan Grace-he used to drink in a pub in Palm Beach Gardens-sound man

Hey Slogonian....another famous Charlestown man once wrote a book-"No one shouted stop".


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We wont make the same mistake again

When I lived out in Chicago I went to the St. Brendans dinner dance one year-$40 all you could drink.  I think they lost money on every attendee (and beer was only $2 a bottle back then).

The highest average IQ in that list (CT) is just about the general average. The Mississippi one would suggest a very large proportion of the population barely able to put one foot in front of another!

Then it must be right.

I lived in CT for 5 years.  In lower Fairfield Co you have all the Wall St. types living intheir $10 m mansions-who probably have very high iqs. thereby upping the average. The rest of the state is either complete white trash or black ghetto, whose IQ is probably well under 100. Half of the people in Boston cant spell their own name either for that matter

I thought you were talkin about when you used to "inherit" a pair of boots from your brother that were 2 sizes too big. "Wear 2 pairs of socks and a pair of insoles and theyll fit you grand". And they might even have been a pair of Blackthorn boots to boot!!!!!