Mickey Harte joins the Irish News

[Saffrongael]

Why has he packed it in ?

[yellowcard]

I was another anti Friday Man. His columns were so predictable, repetitive and boring. Anti International rules, pro Railway Cup, leave the rules alone, have a pop at some un-named pundits, rhyme off a load of stats to back up his viewpoint and back some Tyrone club in a sponsored walk. Shuffle and repeat from week to week.

Imagine that!!

Yeah, other than at the very beginning was I able to finish his column completely. I would get bored from reading it a few paragraphs in and it eventually got to the stage where I just looked at the headline, then just stopped buying completely.

[Hardy]

I never thought indifference could be such a strong emotion.

Quote of the week.

[BennyCake]

Mickey's columns were hard work sometimes. But he was an influential figure and continually spewed out stuff against rules that didn't help his teams chances of success.

[the goal was on]

Mickey is joining sky sports by all accounts and therefore had to down tools on column

[Gaffer]

Mickey's columns were hard work sometimes. But he was an influential figure and continually spewed out stuff against rules that didn't help his teams chances of success.

To successfully read and understand Mickey's column you needed.....

1. A dictionary
2. A thesaurus
3  to be sober!

[lenny]

Mickey's columns were hard work sometimes. But he was an influential figure and continually spewed out stuff against rules that didn't help his teams chances of success.

To successfully read and understand Mickey's column you needed.....

1. A dictionary
2. A thesaurus
3  to be sober!

He tried to come across as really intelligent but I was talking to an English teacher about his column and he said the problem was he didn't know how to construct a sentence.

[BennyHarp]

Mickey's columns were hard work sometimes. But he was an influential figure and continually spewed out stuff against rules that didn't help his teams chances of success.

To successfully read and understand Mickey's column you needed.....

1. A dictionary
2. A thesaurus
3  to be sober!

He tried to come across as really intelligent but I was talking to an English teacher about his column and he said the problem was he didn't know how to construct a sentence.

I was talking to an English teacher who said it was fine.

[Kidder81]

Mickey is joining sky sports by all accounts and therefore had to down tools on column

Didn't think a purist like Harte would be chasing the Sky money

[under the bar]

He tried to come across as really intelligent but I was talking to an English teacher about his column and he said the problem was he didn't know how to construct a sentence.

You've certainly got problems if you need an English teacher's opinion to determine if a sentence is constructed properly.   

[lenny]

He tried to come across as really intelligent but I was talking to an English teacher about his column and he said the problem was he didn't know how to construct a sentence.

You've certainly got problems if you need an English teacher's opinion to determine if a sentence is constructed properly.   

I think it's fairly importantly for a written journalist to be able to construct a sentence. Most of the time Harte was completely unintelligible because his sentences were far too long and drawn out. On TV he comes across as intelligent and articulate but his paper columns were generally extremely dull and often incomprehensible.

[shawshank]

Some dushbags on here

[BennyCake]

Lenny, I agree, sentences were far too long winded. The worst columns were his blow by blow accounts of a match the week before. By the end, the paper was usually over my head as I'd fallen asleep.

[red hander]

Hopefully Marie Louise McCrory's column will be next ... Mickey's stuff was like a literary sculpture compared to her unutterable shite

[DuffleKing]

Any non Tyrone people actually enjoy it?

Understandably, the Tyronies feel obliged to 'enjoy' the drivel