AISF Aug 23rd Tyrone v Cork

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Correct Archie, Row V is 5 rows from the back/top on the Upper Cusack.

[BennyHarp]

I got row M on 707 upper cusack this afternoon on ticketmaster - happy enough with that!

[marym]

www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com (a preview from the Rebels of the Cork v Tyrone match)

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com (a preview from the Rebels of the Cork v Tyrone match)

Har, har, har! Jeez they're a hilarious bunch altogether Mary.

[marym]

Another you might like to read is on page 3 of the same site, even funnier(Cork v Donegal)

[020304 Tir Eoghain]

Another you might like to read is on page 3 of the same site, even funnier(Cork v Donegal)

Nah, the photo with the caption "bringing the Sam Maguire back to the UK" was enough hilarity for me Marym, dunno if i
could suffer any more of that rebel wit!

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Nah, the photo with the caption "bringing the Sam Maguire back to the UK" was enough hilarity for me Marym, dunno if i
could suffer any more of that rebel wit!

More west brit than rebel wit with that particular caption 

[020304 Tir Eoghain]

Nah, the photo with the caption "bringing the Sam Maguire back to the UK" was enough hilarity for me Marym, dunno if i
could suffer any more of that rebel wit!

More west brit than rebel wit with that particual caption 

Yeah true FOSB. Ya Know, after reading that muck, Mike Sheehy isnt a bad 'oul skin after all

[Zulu]

The Cork Senior Football team to play Tyrone on Sunday is as follows:

1.Alan Quirke (Valley Rovers)
2.Ray Carey (Clyda Rovers)
3.Michael Shields (St. Finbarrs)
4.Anthony Lynch (Naomh Aban)
5.Noel O Leary (Cill na Martra)
6.Graham Canty (Bantry Blues) - Capt.
7.John Miskella (Ballincollig)
8.Alan O Connor (St. Colums)
9.Nicholas Murphy (Carrigaline)
10.Paul Kerrigan (Nemo Rangers)
11.Pearse O Neill (Aghada)
12.Paddy Kelly (Ballincollig)
13.Daniel Goulding (Eire Og)
14.Colm O Neill (Ballyclough)
15.Donnacha O Connor (Ballydesmond)

[tyrone86]

www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com (a preview from the Rebels of the Cork v Tyrone match)

That's class. I particularly liked this bit from the guide to Donegal "Is Tánaiste Mary Coughlan's performance in government motivation for Cork?" 

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Yeah true FOSB. Ya Know, after reading that muck, Mike Sheehy isnt a bad 'oul skin after all

Dear, dear Mike! 

[Eastern_Pride]

Tyrone 0-11 Cork 0-9
Hey, Sure why not.

[Mike Sheehy]

Yeah true FOSB. Ya Know, after reading that muck, Mike Sheehy isnt a bad 'oul skin after all

A fine well well balanced piece from what I could see.

[Mike Sheehy]

in fact here it is



Cork V Tyrone Preview


The Tyrone Taliban bringing Sam Maguire back to the UK

With all the talk about this fear we're supposed to have of Tyrone's footballers you'd think Cork's footballers were some junior B backwater outfit slapped together after forty five phone calls at half nine on a damp Sunday morning bank holiday. You know the type of scenario...
Eventually enough 'victims' willing to forego their hangovers are found to put a team out albeit the team has the local priest in goal (after he agreed to cancel 11 O'Clock mass), two altar boys as corner forwards and three shivering forty-four year olds half backs - the big woollen jackets they insist on wearing in the rain being the closest thing to a 'blanket defence' they can muster.

As they wait for their opposition to arrive at the pitch it doesn't offer much consolation that the full back is asking around for a spare fag while the two midfielders are taking turns vomiting (although that's not always seen as a bad thing - RTE panellist Joe Brolly has never been one to condemn Ulster's brand of puke-football).

Not that anyone is entirely sure who is acting as the 'bainisteoir' the team talk usually involves helping the unfortunate volunteers to remember the rules. "No double bouncing now lads - that's a free and make sure you rise the caid and don't pick it up straight off the ground.".



A final message to the troops, as the other team's shining minibus rolls up the lane, mixes practicality with, what could be on another day, mistaken for the wisdom of a sporting philosopher, "lads, laziness is a always free out but stupidity is a free in.".

Trotting from the sanctity of the corrugated shed towards the sodden pitch the team's sense of confusion is almost as big as the fear of the sight of their challengers - or executioners: squad of fit, muscular, pumped-up twenty-something males gunning for action, determined to avenge the enforced sobriety of a Saturday night on their Sunday morning victims.

The insinuation that Cork's footballers will be in a similar state of mind as the All-Ireland Champions run out on to Croke Park on Sunday is an insult. Far from the wincing altar boy corner forwards Cork, for one, have monstrosities of men on their panel.

Seventeen out of a squad of thirty are over six foot three. Michael Cussen is six foot seven and the Cork selectors have to contact air traffic control every time he runs onto a pitch. Nicholas Murphy, just two inches of altitude lower, often has to have his head warmed up at half time to stop mountainous snow building up on his towering noggin.

Centre forward Pearse O'Neill is so large and dangerous that it is no secret he has to be transported to matches in a pallet surrounded by yards of bubble wrap - not to molly-coddle the Cork footballer himself but to protect the public from his deadly frame.

Noel O'Leary is so intimidating that he once cut the long grass in Pairc Úi Rinn by roaring at it from the sideline. Like the turf at Flower Lodge we expect the red hands of Ulster to wilt just as easily under the red feet of Cork's skilful footballers.

Anthony Lynch is so quick and awesome that few forwards can ever find a way around him. In fact most Kerrymen find it easier to get through Macroom's traffic than find a route around the 'Ballyvourney Barricade'.

So the mind boggles as to how Cork are supposed to be in fear of Tyrone when such beastly super humans await Michey Harte's squad.

Of course we, in Cork, respect the Ulstermen and their minor achievements but it's a sort of respect that may only extend to offering a hand to carry the wounded from the pitch when the likes of Miskella, Canty and Kerrigan explode into action.

For those getting carried away with Tyrone's greatness remember that Cork have won Sam Maguire twice as many times as Tyrone. And football is their trump card - we don't need to tell you about Tyrone's hurling accolades because it would fit between the last letter in this sentence and the full stop.

Nobody's saying we haven't been to Croke Park before and had our hopes rained on but this team have been looking more and more like champions all season so we're backing the Rebels this Sunday to win by a significant margin and send the co-architects of Ulster's "puke-football" back to their drawing boards.

[Zapatista]

Cork slam Tyrone football legends?

Legends... to who ??

Tis only a bit of fun Mike.

in fact here it is


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That's the spirit Mike. It's all good fun after all