[quote="Mac, post: 862894, member: 109
The fact that lads don’t know the All Black you played with shows how little attention people pay around here.[/quote]
do you think anyone actually gives a shit who some internet poster, albeit a decorated one played rugby with?
Aside from that, the bitterness at being rejected by not being good enough stinks off that post.
The fact that lads don’t know the All Black you played with shows how little attention people pay around here.[/quote]
do you think anyone actually gives a shit who some internet poster, albeit a decorated one played rugby with?
this stuff really gives yourself , puke and runt an online horn as you clatter thru google, facebook and frantically send IMs
Given that @glasagusban asked who it was I think your question might just have been answered Michael.
i have him on ignore
[quote=“Rocko, post: 862865, member: 1”].
I gave it up when I was 20 or 21 - got injured, recovered and was never bothered about going back. There was an awful lot of fake importance attached to it. Training 4 or 5 times a week, playing in provincial academies and crap like that. ?[/quote]
that’s a great point and I think this applies to a lot of sport…GAA especially…there’s good reason a lot of lads don’t buy into this bullshit of spending their life training and missing out on so much for the sake of getting onto a team or being able to say they got on a certain team…yet they are called a waster for having that approach…its total nonsense…
Apology accepted.
Parkinson made mention of it the other night, the fact that 6 professionals could go on the beer and still beat Ireland on Saturday, and then you have GAA managers demanding year long drinks bans. GAA managers have lost the run of themselves entirely, its ridiculous.
In fairness, the lads went on the beer on a Tuesday night ahead of a game on Saturday. Not as if they were out the night before or anything. Were the lads who went drinking in the match day 23? I never bothered checking.
Yes, the lad that made shite of Bowe all day long was one of them and there was at least 2 0r 3 others.
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[quote=“myboyblue, post: 862937, member: 180”]Yes, the lad that made shite of Bowe all day long was one of them and there was at least 2 0r 3 others.
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Fair enough, but a professional sportsman going for beers with 3 days to recover isn’t going to affect their performance all that much. Kev might disagree I’m sure.
My point was more in relation to the ridiculous levels GAA managers have gone to.
the whole thing is a farce… lads having to go training before they go to work and then training again in the evening like dublin did under Gilroy is a fuckin joke…thats not enjoyment, its desperation…
I’m agreeing with you in an argumentative fashion. That when lads bodies are that well conditioned a few beers here and there doesn’t make a blind bit of difference. But you’d have backroom teams decimated then as their theories would go out the window.
Fully agree.
I spent some time working with a county hurler this summer. Watching him day upon day would give you a real insight into the constraints they live in… strict diet, hydrating, morning stretches, dashing out the door at 5pm, not getting home till 11pm, early morning pool sessions. They find out at training on Friday night where they are going to spend most of their weekend… maybe drive 80 miles Saturday morning to a challenge game. The list goes on and on…
Its a young mans game now and a naive enough young man if we are to be totally honest.
there is a myth around drinking bans - players don’t fancy it as not worth hassle of supporters having a go or can’t do it because of the weekend training/games
Quite a few players don’t drink at all and it is nothing to do with being banned by management
[quote=“Kinvara’s Passion, post: 862947, member: 686”]Fully agree.
I spent some time working with a county hurler this summer. Watching him day upon day would give you a real insight into the constraints they live in… strict diet, hydrating, morning stretches, dashing out the door at 5pm, not getting home till 11pm, early morning pool sessions. They find out at training on Friday night where they are going to spend most of their weekend… maybe drive 80 miles Saturday morning to a challenge game. The list goes on and on…
Its a young mans game now and a naive enough young man if we are to be totally honest.[/quote]
tell that to the Clare lads who are knee deep in clunge
Using access to hairy mary Clare clunge as a positive of being a county hurler isn’t exactly a forceful argument
Seriously, When do they get time to rattle the headboard though?? For a few hours on a Saturday night in November?
[quote=“Rocko, post: 862898, member: 1”]Which one though? I mentioned 2 brothers, some talentless professionals, an All Black, a couple of random unathletic pricks and a lad who couldn’t catch the ball. One of those was Mauger, but I’m not saying which one.
That’s a disgusting attack on my character. I was to rugby what Kev is to fitness: peerless.[/quote]
You still couldn’t win a handy little sprint in a shopping mall in Berlin though…
