Leinster Senior Schools Cup Rugby - Official Thread

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Belvedere 11 St Mary’s 10

I can’t believe we’ve yet to have an analysis / post-match reaction / game comment thread yet.

The cup went Northside after a thrilling encounter.

TFK private schools correspondent the bhoy is still immersed in the celebrations but he’s text us this brief report:

‘Classic schools cup game. The Mary’s fly-half missed a kick to win it in the last minute too - he’ll live with that forever. Police were called to manage the traffic on O’Connell Street as we carried the cup across the Liffey. One of the best days of my life.’

It simply doesn’t get much bigger than that.

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A whole year and no posts on “the world’s greatest sporting competition” - George Hook.

Wonderful to see the natural order restored this year with 'Rock beating 'Nure in a classic traditional final. You really can’t knock the 'Rock. There can be no more proud moment for a young man in South Dublin than climbing the steps of Lansdowne to receive that famous old trophy from Mummy. Pity it had to be Donnybrook this year but a return to the great stadium is near. And at least the trophy is back on the right side of the Liffey after being stolen away last year. In the meantime I give you a cliched, sub Paul Howard-esque homage to this magnificent competition.

Im proud to come from a life of privilege
Weve got a huge fucking mansion outside Foxrock village
Three beamers and a Merc and a rolls Royce too
I spent all my life laughin at plebs like you
My Dads retired on a massive pension
In school Ive never ever had to do detention
Im arrogant Im a right spoiled pup
Cos Im the hero of the Leinster Schools Cup

OMG Im a legend
OMG Im a star
OMG Im a rugby god
But out of school I wont get too far

I met a girl from Mount Anville
One night beside the Wesley pitch
She played hard to get and she wouldnt come to me so I said you are a fucking bitch
So I scored another bird right in front of her
Showed her I could have my pick
She came crawling right back grovelling to me
And on the centre spot she sucked my fucking dick

Im a schools cup rugby legend
They all want to be on my side
Im a fucking schools rugby cup legend
Every night I get a different ride

I never have to do any homework
All the teachers have to give me straight as
Im the outhalf for the S and I do what I want
Messing with me never pays

All the goys wanna be me, the girls wanna be with me
the teachers wanna please me, the crowds wanna see me

One night I went a drinkin down the Burlo
I was high from snorting lines of creatine
The goys got into a scrap out in the car park
You know we always love to make a scene
I decided I was goin to do some damage
I lined one up and hit him in the head
All that kicking practice came in handy
In ten minutes he was lying down there dead

But I never had to worry bout being arrested
Because my family had bought off all the law
Just shut your fucking mouths and keep a secret
And remember to forget everything you saw
And why would I feel in any way guilty
Sympathy for others is a load of shite
Im the upper class I rule you scum
You and me know well that it is my birthright

Gonna get a job with Anglo-Irish
Even though Ill probably bring down the bank
I failed all my leaving failed every one
Im not the brightest if Im being frank
But my Daddys on the board of directors
Hell set me up doing filing at full pay
Heres a cushy number for you now there son
Just sit around do nothing every day

OMG Im a legend
OMG Im a star
OMG Im a rugby god
But out of school I wont get too far

All the goys wanna be me, the girls wanna be with me
the teachers wanna please me, the crowds wanna see me

Repeat and fade out

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Can’t believe I missed the opportunity to big up my alma mater taking the cup back to Gt Denmark St last year.
This year’s crop weren’t vintage yet they ran Rock very close.

Yet again Rock win a cup steamrolling the opposition- they seem to have taken weight training to a new level. Ah well there’s always next year

WBY

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I’m waiting for the twenty-page Indo supplement, with colour pictures. I cannot wait.

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Pre cup only WTB
Remember AJF is a Belvederian- he’ll inform the editor that there are to be no commerative editions for Rock.

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For all the lampooning of the schools cup final it still attracts more of an attendance than the FAI doleball final.

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& loads more than GGA teams get for league games

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that’s because attendance is compulsory for the students of the school contesting the final so here’s a full SDCC stadium straight away

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Your blue riband event is in the shadow of an Eton Rifles-style schoolboy jolly-up, NCC.

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Ireland vs Italy is the FAI blue ribbon event

rovers league crowds will match most GGA league crowds this season

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No its not Foley

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was for us

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thought you were a turf muncher? didnt realise you went to a homo school?

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went to a mixed boarding school

unlike you who was raped daily in the CBS

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[quote=“north county corncrake”]Ireland vs Italy is the FAI blue ribbon event

rovers league crowds will match most GGA league crowds this season[/quote]

There is no such fixture as Ireland vs Italy, NCC. Anyway the cup final is the marquee event on the calender.

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the cup final was a decent crowd, the international matches are the marquee events

i really dont want to resort to this but…according to the ESRI more people watch football than hurling in ireland

www.esri.ie

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Nonsense, the international game is followed by Brendan O’Carroll types. Joxer goes to Stuttgart but has he ever been to St Mels Park? Has he fcuk.

It gives no barometer of the health of the game nationally.

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[quote=“north county corncrake”]the cup final was a decent crowd, the international matches are the marquee events

www.esri.ie[/quote]

I was at the last two 26 county representaive soccer matches, marquee events they weren’t. The population of the free state must be headin for 5 million and the soccer couldn’t even get40,000 to turn up and watch a world cup qualifier. Wouldn’t happen in the rugby old boy. :wink:

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[quote=“SHANNONSIDER**”]Nonsense, the international game is followed by Brendan O’Carroll types. Joxer goes to Stuttgart but has he ever been to St Mels Park? Has he fcuk.

It gives no barometer of the health of the game nationally.[/quote]

the same could be said about dublin championship fans,

more dubs watch LOI football than GGA league games ,

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so padjo, my good man, as a seasoned attender at ireland games, how many LOI games would you attend

according to the ESRI it should be somewhere between 60-100 per annum