Laochra Gael Mick Lyons 22.00 TG4 Tonight

[magpie seanie]

Repeated tonight at 11.10pm on Tg4. Just did the ould Sky+.

[Jinxy]

I missed the bit the first time around where Micks father was talking about how the kids would all be out in the garden in the summer playing hurling or football or tennis!

I'd say Mick and Paraic had some serious rallys.

[orangeman]

There wouldn't have been enough contact in the auld tennis ! 

[orangeman]

That man gets better every time you watch that !

[ONeill]

Not really. I'd rather have the ball-playing FB. Lyons was the last of that breed that Fay and Bellew attempted to maintain. Neanderthal FB play, romanticised but not wished for.

[Zulu]

I thgink your well off the mark there O'Neill, he was a full back of his time and a great one at that. And how I much would I love to see more players take a belt or punch like he did and just get on with it. He was a great player and a credit to the game.

[ONeill]

of his time is correct.

[Zulu]

Yes the game has moved on and no more than a full back 20 years before him would have done in his time a full back now wouldn't survive 20 years from now (probably). But his stand up manly honour is something the modern game could badly do with.

[stephenite]

Not really. I'd rather have the ball-playing FB. Lyons was the last of that breed that Fay and Bellew attempted to maintain. Neanderthal FB play, romanticised but not wished for.

Fay and Bellew are arguably the better full backs of the present era, Fay in my opinion has been the stand out over the last decade.

[bridgegael]

you'd be hard pressed to see a better block than the one he made against cork, just brilliant!!

[rrhf]

A full back that pummels his man into submission ahead of a football playing Moynihan style full back, Now Im a fan of Lyons but Ill not have that.  (I can see this arguement in 15 years over the Laochra Gael Franci Bellew programme.)  Theres too many rosy tainted specs on here.  Lyons was what he was... A BRUTE WHO WOULD HAVE TRAMPED THROUGH THE SMALL TALENTED CORNER FORWARD AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY.  That was what he was, and it was good fun to watch at times, as a neutral, but it must have been shit to play against if say you were a talented footballer.  There was hardly a decent game in the championship from 1987 - 1990.  It was brutal defensive football that for the most part was extremely hard to watch.  I know Id much rather see a talented corner forward weaving his magic than a hack of a back as much as I like Lyons but sigh then again Im from Tyrone. ( To be perfectly honest I seen him as an honest Meathman a man who would hit ye and take the punishment, not one of the class of 96 who would maul ye on the sly,  get away with it and cry at the press afterwards for demonising them)  The obvious question on everyones lips this morning after reading through this thread is "Are we becoming a generation of revisionistic hyperbolarians?"  By Jesus I hope not!  

[lynchbhoy]

as I said, the mans reputation has many fooled , the likes of oneill who cant see past the facade  - it proves what SS2 says when he says you couldnt kick a ball straight yerself!  .

Lyons was a footballer, a full back AHEAD of his time. He used the 'hard man' image to psyche out opponents. like colm oneill who went for him and tried to take him on , and when he threw the punch, what did Mick do, rub his jaw and poor colm got the line!

I cant understand how people see what they hear and dont see what they are watching.
Lyons was no saint, but he has most of you fooled (esp the tyonies it seems)

My first memory of Lyons fighting was the first internatioal no-rules series where he ran the length of the pitch to get stuck in and help defend poor wee 6' 4" Eoin liston from getting a battering.

[ONeill]

No Meath man from 88-96 should feature on thon programme. Ever. Cavemen.

Catch yourself on Lynchboy, this is no place for truths. Keep that to the pub.

[Jinxy]

Tyrone use that many bandages in a game they've had to hire an Egyptian fella full-time.