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Green Devil
Robbie Keane Aye Kes, I've pissed me-self again Joined: 06 Oct 2010 Location: Barbados Status: Offline Points: 22173 |
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Expectation might be a factor, given Offaly's pedigree in comparison to that of Laois perhaps? There is super work being in Laois in regard to hurling at the moment, a lot of Gaelic strongholds completely neglected hurling are now entertaining teams in Junior Championships. It feels weird for someone like me who plays senior football, but then plays Junior C hurling but it's great craic like Delighted for Aussie Gleeson btw It would have been nice for Seamie to have won it, but you can't deny the year Gleeson had in every grade and match he played! He was outrageous and seems a lovely humble lad off the field too which is always nice to see.
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"He drives two Ferraris; I think he's a very lucky lad to have 50 caps for Ireland,"
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reddladd
Jack Charlton Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Location: Virgin Islands Status: Offline Points: 6945 |
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Hopefully Eamon Kelly brings something different in that the players buy into. He has Conor Gleeson with him who is very familair with the Laois set up haveing managed Rathdowney back in 2014. According to Kelly it was Gleeson who convinced him to take on the job.
There's no douth that Laois has some great talent and Cheddar brought in a very professional set up which was missing for years. Crowds also started going back to support the hurlers. Kelly seems to have a decent track record even though his year at Offaly was so so. His first task would be to get players like Keenan and Hyland to commit to another year and talk to a couple of the retirees to see if they will come back for one more year to help the younger players. The hurling player of the year in Laois 'retired' from intercounty in 2015. Seems to be a feature in Laois where the players of the year are not with the county which is a pity. All in all, for a county like Laois Kelly is probably as good a manager as they could have got and hopefully he can get the lads motivated and competing well in 1B. It's a dangerous division at the moment with Antrim lurking just below so no team will want to get them in a playoff. |
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I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
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AntrimMan
Jack Charlton YBIG's resident Nordy/London Hipster Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Christmas Island Status: Online Points: 9442 |
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Appreciate the comment but given our performances over the past 2 years, I can't imagine anyone being that bothered about the prospect.
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deise316
Moderator Group Don't ask me about car warranty Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: The Déise Status: Offline Points: 10921 |
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Cody reappointed in KK for the 19th year, to nobody's great surprise. Hearing rumours that McGarry & Mick Dempsey standing down as selectors though (even though they too were ratified by the KK CB tonight).
Great GAA word, 'ratified' . Can't think of another context whatsoever that the word is used as frequently, or even at all. |
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AntrimMan
Jack Charlton YBIG's resident Nordy/London Hipster Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Christmas Island Status: Online Points: 9442 |
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A Great GAA word. Also, Parallelogram. I fear its use is in decline all the same.
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deise316
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Would that be the large parallelogram, or the small parallelogram ??
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AntrimMan
Jack Charlton YBIG's resident Nordy/London Hipster Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Christmas Island Status: Online Points: 9442 |
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It would be the larger of those two geometric shapes for me now. Smaller would be the square in my eyes ( despite obviously not being square) Though maybe the partial demise of the Square ball rule in that other auld game will herald a glorious return for the parallelogram.
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cm79
Liam Brady Cawhil cattle caaaaal Joined: 29 Apr 2012 Location: phibsboro Status: Offline Points: 2471 |
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Nothing like having a bit of a schemozzle in the parallelogram
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reddladd
Jack Charlton Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Location: Virgin Islands Status: Offline Points: 6945 |
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I love hearing lads still shouting 'that's a 70' at games. Hard to beat the yardage!
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I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
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deise316
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Absolutely, and ya still hear how (for example, Joe Canning) ''Canning's best position is on the 40''.
I'm going to try use the word 'ratified' more often though, and see if it can be applied to non GAA stuff without looking out of context in a sentence, wouldn't like to see it die out altogether. Where's Eire32 these days ? Seemingly a bit of a debate about Skin Ryan's , ahem, ratification in Offaly, where some lads proposed an alternative manager. That's rarely a good start, because it means certain factions have the knives out from the off, a few bad results & the campaign to undermine the manager begins. Edited by deise316 - 16 Nov 2016 at 9:14pm |
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reddladd
Jack Charlton Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Location: Virgin Islands Status: Offline Points: 6945 |
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Talking to a Laois Gaa woman in recent days and she doesn't give our new manager much hope.
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I could agree with you but then we'd both be wrong.
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de scientist
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 29 Sep 2016 Status: Offline Points: 159 |
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would that be your brother?
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Robbie Keane Stay Home & watch Lethal Weapon Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Location: Ath Cliath Status: Online Points: 37886 |
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Talk of Galway moving to the Munster Championship in 2018
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Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".
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eire77
Ray Houghton Joined: 08 May 2012 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 2993 |
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Galway should absolutely do this and either way withdraw from Leinster straight away. Not being allowed enter their minor or u21 teams into the Leinster championship is a joke and being a far greater reason than them not getting home games. Being in Leinster (senior team with away games only) hasn't benefitted Galway at all really yet they have immeasurably benefitted Leinster. With Kilkenny, imo, starting to look less invincible in general (I'm reluctant to say starting to wane) Dublin not progressing at all and Offaly and Wexford in perpetual states of mediocracy the Munster Championship looks far more enticing particularly with the Galway - Limerick mororway making travel easier and especially if underage sides are allowed compete. If I were the Galway County board I'd sacrifice having home games again in favour of underage. |
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AntrimMan
Jack Charlton YBIG's resident Nordy/London Hipster Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Christmas Island Status: Online Points: 9442 |
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Agree entirely with this. It should have been a mutually beneficial arrangement but Leinster Council have approached it farcically. Munster should grasp the opportunity here, do what Leinster should have done.
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deise316
Moderator Group Don't ask me about car warranty Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: The Déise Status: Offline Points: 10921 |
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Sabre rattling is all this is (and Galway are fully entitled to do so, and feel aggrieved at their treatment in Leinster) - but beyond the 'Galway for Munster' headlines, have a look at what Paraic Duffy said in this Examiner interview.
Reading between the lines, it looks like Duffy saying if Leinster can't accommodate Galway, the GAA/CP will do it for them. I wouldn't be so sure Munster would be too keen to accept Galway either, it is a hard enough competition to win as it is already, putting another (at least as we speak) top 4 team into it would only make it more difficult. |
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deise316
Moderator Group Don't ask me about car warranty Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Location: The Déise Status: Offline Points: 10921 |
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Yerself, herself & the new manager could have done without Willie Hyland retiring too. Sad to see a fella pack it in at 28 due to injury, very good player for Laois. |
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eire77
Ray Houghton Joined: 08 May 2012 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 2993 |
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Yes I am inclined to agree that Galway need only walk away from Leinster to improve their situation in that the GAA would be compelled to sort it then (I said as much previously in either this or the 2016 thread). Munster is preferable to the current Leinster situation on the assumption the status quo regarding provincial structures remain. |
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