Always seemed like an alright sort to me, suffered badly from the nightmare world cup in 07 with arguably Irelandās best squad ever.
He still gets the bkame for shafting Gatland in 01? and blackmailing the irfu
They werenāt there on Wednesday afternoons in the 90s, maybe 300 or so of us to watch Eric destroy the frogs and jocks. Galway is gaa country but the city is a bit of a wasteland. Thereās always been a G4 rugby crowd and a working class rugby population too. The county has produced Ciaran Fitzgerald, noel Mannion, Elwood etc, and galwegians, Corinthians, Monivea, Connemara, and the half of Buccaneers that is ballinasloe have been in the AIL at some stage or still are (creggs?) so thereās a bit of pedigree for a sparsely played game. Thereās a reasonable soccer league but little interest in soccer generally bar the barstoolers and the mighty bites flag that used to go to Ireland games.
There would be zero interest in oireland games in Galway pubs in general. I think in the 2012 pre all Ireland build up thing they did player a questionnaire in the Connacht tribune, your toughest opponent, dream date etc and they asked them whatās your least favourite sport. I remember I counted 11/30 roughly who said soccer was their least favourite sport, not just one they werenāt gone on. Joe canning famously tweeted something along the lines of thank god thatās over #euro2012 #snooze fest and was rounded on by confused west Brits everywhere.
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What a thoroughly fucked up county.
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No more fucked up than mine
Why pal
Eh, read your post again you gombeen fuck. Delighting in the fact that thereās a loyal following for the big, shtrong rugby football men and proudly revealing these same bogtrotters donāt have the good sense and basic cop on to understand and appreciate the beautiful game.
City has always been a decent enough rugby spot, more so than gaa. County not so much.
Fucked up and beautiful. You nailed it buddy
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Galway is one of the best counties in ireland pal, great Gaeltacht area in Connemara, sound people overall and great pubs. Massively into sport, should be winning more in both codes really.
Alright sorts 99% of the time.
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Nah mate. Itās ethereal.
From a gimp whoās west Brit pedophile enclave elects a freak who hates his national games and follows a pussy sport whoās ānationalā team in this country is comprised of junkies and Englishman who curse the fact they arenāt good enough to play for their homeland.
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Youāve lost me there, you loonball.
What the fuck are you on about? They love snooker in Galway!
Where pal?
what part did Galway play in our fight for freedom?
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The big part. Sure didnāt Pearse have a houseen out in Carraroe - HQ you might call it.
They used to. Then the Eglinton snooker hall moved across the road, got rid of most of its tables and rebranded itself as a poker club. Iāve never been back since.
Same as pal. Same as. I spent more lunch breaks in there than I care to remember. It was a great spot.