Alright-Sort of the year - 2021

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First one is some save

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Those kids are big Hanbury fans, yes?

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Iā€™m not rising to that size 6 hook.
They greatly admire diarmuid byrnes though.

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Sean O Meara is the main man there. An absolute gent. Seamus must be his son. Shamrocks in Offaly is his club.

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John Bishop is some cunt not to give them back.

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Beg your pardon mate, you are absolutely right, itā€™s Sean.
Couldnā€™t recommend him enough.
The championship sliotars are absolutely lovely, and a total bargain.

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He buys them in from Pakistan and rebrands them

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I used do that, buying in by the hundred when I was involved with it over here.
Problems with this are:

  1. Quality is very variable, so you could be a long time finding a good manufacturer, and a lot of money down.
  2. About half of your shipments get stopped by customs, and a few of your sliotars arrive cut in half, and months late.
  3. They are not much cheaper than the dozen I bought of o mearas, which are as nice a sliotar as Iā€™ve ever pucked about with, especially after import duty etc.
    The o meara ones are absolutely lovely , and an absolute bargain.
    A bit of me winced watching the kids lashing them off the wall.
    I have them in a bowl in the downstairs jackā€™s by the front door. I love looking at them.
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Would you not get Cummins sliotars? Theyā€™re from Cark baii!

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Lookit, Martin Cuddy is your only man. If you have the likes of Deccie Hannon and Cianer Lynch coming up for their Hurleyā€™s snd sliothars, then you know youā€™re at nothing going anywhere else.

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Balls from Cark are more likely to have been exposed on the plane.
Canā€™t be too careful in these covid times.

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Do you have a framed photo of the 1980 team above it?

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I have photos of Galway in there alright

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I suppose all those paddy names sound the same to you.

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Pursuant to this oulā€™ codology I borrowed a phone and rang the brother-in-law there under the guise of GAA shout-outs.
Heā€™s a hoor for fannying on about Dublin because his brother played for them in 1958, a statistic weā€™re reminded of when we meet. His hatred of Meath is legendary, he hates ALL Meath, the land, the players, the people and particularly Colm Oā€™Rourke.

I introduced myself as Sean Boylan, prefacing the call with Boxtyeater suggesting that heā€™d be a good man to chat about football with and heā€™d had a long chat with said Boxtyeater yesterday.
" A terrible Leitrim man, a fucking good job they only ever won the one, he never tires of it"
ā€œMy mother was a Leitrim woman so she wasā€ chirps ā€œBoylanā€ā€¦

After a bit of edgy to and froā€™ing Boylan moves onto the BILā€™s best 15 of the past 60 yearsā€¦
Miraculously several Meath men are there or thereabouts, Mick Lyons gets the nod at 3, Oā€™Connell at 7 and the dreaded Colm at 13.

Iā€™m spluttering here to myself with his fucking faux-bonhomie and fawning but the call was cut short when he heard Nanny roaring my name 3/4 times in a rowā€¦

He said I was a fucker for doing it but confessed to being clamped.

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Paul ā€œBoneheadā€ Arthurs

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His tweet and listen alongs in recent weeks have been stellar. A thorough holy alright sort who lived the life, a man who kissed the sky.

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Whatā€™s this thread supposed to be about, could anybody tell me? Did somebody change the title?

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When somebody you have a disagreement with on TFK posts on the COTY thread you counter by putting the same person in here, simple really

Or else you put in John Creedon or Ronan Collins

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Marcus Rashford

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