Do you think he should have drove to kildare or laois for free? Itâs quite a long journey
So you can do a list of people who you predict are going to die this year , run a cunt of the year competition but Jaysus donât say anything even slightly negative about a self proclaimed rogue .
Gas bunch .
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The Limericks are very protective of Kerry football.
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A deceased Micko still has the Dubs hopping. A charismatic rogue that the rest of the country loved. The Dubs never had a manager who was revered to the same extent.
Absolutely not. But lads trying to tell us he did it all for the love of the game are talking misty eyed scutter in my opinion
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Iâd say his primary motivation was to be involved at a high level, probably got huge satisfaction out of bringing success to smaller counties, Iâd say nothing could compare with winning 75 and 78 with Kerry, they were mostly a procession after that*
*once they had the second best team in the country out of the way in Mid Summer
Did some put up a link saying he was a tax defaulter?
That wouldnât bother me to be honest,
Iâd have good time for Micko, maybe he was fond of money, I never paid attention to that oul gossip, he was a likeable fella
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The infamous Tuesday night on The Heath. He was ready to leave Laois for Dublin until the dubs shit the pot. 2004
There was truth in that. Heffernan put a stop to it.
Itâs pure truth. Poor Dick Millers heart was broke
I doubt very much Dublin ever went after Micko. Dublin have never paid their football managers and Micko certainly wouldnât be coming for free.
Well seeing as he was still training teams in his late 70s he obviously did love the game. If counties were OK with handing him over loads of money for his commitment well I donât think there was many objections.
Dublin is one of the last bastions of true amateurism in the GAA.
When Dublin beat Laois in the 2005 Leinster final the celebratory pitch invasion was as much about celebrating the victory of amateurism over professionalism as it was about celebrating the victory of Dublin over Laois.
Local grass roots effort beat moneybags mercenaries.
They did
âOn another occasion the couple said they returned home to find someone had broken into their home and placed a Big Tom album on their record player, a Big Tom cassette in their tape deck, and a Big Tom video in their video playerâ
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I never said he didnât love the game. He obviously did. He was a great manager. Some of the commentary since his passing has been a bit revisionist and i just pointed that out.
I take it you are eulogising Micko so if you are crediting him with pioneering transfers because by God , Na Fianna fairly carried on that torch
Na Fianna wouldnt have a Dublin county senior football or hurling title to their name without transfers
McGeeney, Macken, Mick Galvin, Liam Rushe
Anyways you are wrong of course, transfers were happening long before Micko became a manager, St Vincents were hoovering up players from all over Dublin
What are the transfers you associate with Micko to say he pioneered transfers?
In fact I d say he was the victim of pioneering transfers rather than pioneering them. Tompkins and Fahy, Kildare to Cork helped bring down the Kerry golden era and Mickoâs reign in Kerry. This was long before Micko was associated with any transfers
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a great switch though I have a suspicion it may have been the Offaly players themselves made it!
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