2018 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

[Appendage]

FOAD.

[tazdedub]

The company men all seething here because the suits had to back down.

[kerry1891]

who is this Larry lad from Kildare with a bus?

yeah? The only Larry I know from Kildare got all modes of transport including buses to get out of the place rather than play for Kildare, bus to Dublin , plane to New York and when he got back a bus to cork as quick as he could with his buddy Shay from Kildare to kick ball for Cork and win them a few all Irelands.

30 years on, newbridge has hardly had a lick of paint since, says it all about the Kildare county board really

[Juhniallio]

Spare a thought for all the Mayo fans who’ll have to bedeck a route they barely know with ‘Mayo for Sam’ messages.

[TreatyStones]

@Juhniallio

Spare a thought for all the Mayo fans who’ll have to bedeck a route they barely know with ‘Mayo for Sam’ messages.

This has probably been done already but :

At least they’ll get to see some silverware

[kerry1891]

@Appendage

Ah sure the usual one eyed stuff. Couldn’t see that there was another side to it. I was just saying that if 8-10,000 can’t go because it’s a shit hole then why not consider playing it at a larger stadium less than an hour away, like port laoise or Tullamore.

It didn’t matter apparently because they’ll get to see Kildare in the next round or in the final/semi final.

Portlaoise was the ideal venue for this or perhaps Tullamore with cavan v tyrone in Enniskillen, clones or wherever can hold a bit of a crowd up north. I assume Kildare were given an option of nominating such a venue? if not the CCCC really fucked up, or is it as I gather a newbridge or nowhere scenario for the flour bags

people giving it socks about this being a victory for the grassroots, a fairly hollow one for the Kildare co board leaving 5k of their own grassroots who wanted to attend without an option of attending the game and 5k of the opposition supporters in a similar scenario. not much a victory for the grassroots or anyone

[Cicero_Dandi]

It’s not about their fans. It’s about giving their side the best possible chance of victory.

[kerry1891]

@Cicero_Dandi

It’s not about their fans. It’s about giving their side the best possible chance of victory.

correct I suspect or so they believe

are this Kildare team more likely to win in newbridge in your view? mayo will have as many supporters as them there and if the pitch is tight I am unsure this will suit Kildare’s style

would they have been any worse off in Portlaoise?

[Cicero_Dandi]

Tight pitches certainly don’t suit Mayo.

It’s their home ground, they know it well, they won’t be vastly outnumbered by the opposition support, it’s tight and atmospheric. Mayo look a lot more vulnerable outside of Croke Park than they do in it. Kildare will certainly fancy their chances more than they would have outside there.

[Sidney]

@kerry1891

correct I suspect or so they believe

are this Kildare team more likely to win in newbridge in your view? mayo will have as many supporters as them there and if the pitch is tight I am unsure this will suit Kildare’s style

would they have been any worse off in Portlaoise?

Home advantage is a very well established fact in sport.

[kerry1891]

@Sidney

@kerry1891

correct I suspect or so they believe

are this Kildare team more likely to win in newbridge in your view? mayo will have as many supporters as them there and if the pitch is tight I am unsure this will suit Kildare’s style

would they have been any worse off in Portlaoise?

Home advantage is a very well established fact in sport.

anyways the Kildare team have it now, even if doesn’t bring much space for their fans to attend and enjoy in the same way as the team can.

so be it, they have what they want or think what is best for them

over to the players and management to make this much heralded home advantage count, they surely can, plenty talent in the county and they have an Ireland winning coach in both codes, s & c guru at the helm. all these advantages, they must be near certainties against an injury stricken Mayo team.

no pressure!

[Sidney]

@kerry1891

anyways the Kildare team have it now, even if doesn’t bring much space for their fans to attend and enjoy in the same way as the team can.

so be it, they have what they want or think what is best for them

over to the players and management to make this much heralded home advantage count, they surely can, plenty talent in the county and they have an Ireland winning coach in both codes, s & c guru at the helm. all these advantages, they must be near certainties against an injury stricken Mayo team.

That’s a strange reading of the form. Why do you think Kildare are near certainties?

[Sidney]

I’m listening back to Alan Milton’s interview on Off The Ball now.

Trotting out the Health and Safety line again and how the streets around Newbridge would be “overcrowded” and suposedly dangerous.

What a cunt.

One wonders has he ever been to Clones on Ulster final day or to Thurles for a big match.

45,000 people descending on Thurles is just fine, 33,000 descending on Clones is just fine, but 8,500 in Newbridge is “dangerous”.

The GAA made complete fools of themselves over this.

As have those who said Kildare GAA were creating a very bad situation for themselves.

Kildare have won comprehensively, the GAA have lost comprehensively.

[Sidney]

Milton has clearly been watching Maria Steen’s performances in the referendum debates because he used them wholesale.

Continually talk over your questioner and don’t listen.

[maroonandwhite]

@kerry1891

> Home advantage is a very well established fact in sport.

anyways the Kildare team have it now, even if doesn’t bring much space for their fans to attend and enjoy in the same way as the team can.

so be it, they have what they want or think what is best for them

over to the players and management to make this much heralded home advantage count, they surely can, plenty talent in the county and they have an Ireland winning coach in both codes, s & c guru at the helm. all these advantages, they must be near certainties against an injury stricken Mayo team.

no pressure!

Sunstroke?

[gaillimhmick]

@TreatyStones

It’s an absolute red herring.
The capacity is 8,500 or so. Between car pooling, buses, local supporters, trains etc, you won’t have 2000 cars in Newbridge for the game.

If you discount the racing at the Curragh, but when that’s factored in

[Batigol]

The CCCCCCCCCCCC have deemed this fixture UNSAFE. People are taking their lives into their hands going to the death trap that is Newbridge. I can only pray that the casualties will not number in the thousands after this.

[myboyblue]

Good ol Milton, once an unadulterated cunt, always an unadulterated cunt

[StoneCold]

How the fuck a lad who one time was a GAA Correspondent for the Mirror covering colleges hurling got this role is beyond me

[dodgy_keeper]

@myboyblue

Good ol Milton, once an unadulterated cunt, always an unadulterated cunt

He came across as a bit of a gowl on that interview with Off The Ball.

He knew he was beaten so kept getting ratty and talking over Molloy.