Official All Ireland Senior Football Championship 2011 Thread

Sid my view is heavily based on the gaping holes Cork made into them last year, and other teams have since exposed. They have a few wonderful footballers, but have quite a few passengers.

At least you have balance on Armagh, up and Down team, pardon the pun. No god doing it only against your rivals.

I watched a AFL round up here last week sid where they did a Irish segment (cringe worthy with Setanta & Touhy), but they seem sure he was coming back to Collingwood. Thats all i have really. They openly mock the Irish players on tv here.

Again with the new star player Sid, is he a midfielder or a tight marking back? Cos if heā€™s not then not much will change. The John Clarke thing was probably the most negative thing i think to come out recently and i wonder is wee James only barely keeping it together.

Very disapointed with Armaghs performance today

SAS

Expand a bit on this kev. They loved ā€˜Tadgeā€™ Kennelly when I was there around ten years agoā€¦

Iā€™m not suprised by that at all Kev, Australia is possibly the most xenophobic first world nation on this earth.

They still do, he is a hero in Sydney. Kev sociological observations are once again a bit of the mark.

They were mocking his skills, openly laughing at the Irish guys who failed over here etc. Then they went on to talk about how good Touhy, Hanley & Clarke are/were. Its was like ā€œlook at these stupid Irish men trying to bounce our ballā€. The thing was Touhy had just scored a pretty monster goal, while all the aussies around him were missing from in front of the goals.

I agree with that, even the really stupid, no teeth farmers i have met who are clearly an inferior Human Being to myself :stuck_out_tongue: . Its like ā€œIā€™m Australian, iā€™m better than youā€. Although i did meet a old lady in a store (white Rural Anglo-Aussie type) who asked me about the Queen going to Ireland. She then said something that surprised me, " She should come over here and apologise to the native aboriginals of Australia for the disgusting things they done here".

You see, the only places you seem to have been is Sydney and maybe a few of the reasonably near tourist attractions. I have found though there is an amazing difference, more pronounced than anywhere iā€™ve ever been, between the city & rural folk and how they deal with people, how they look after themselves, their work aptitude & ethic. In Brisbane for instance, you only have to go as far as Ipswich for it to be a completely different world.
I would live in Brisbane in a heart beat, but i wouldnā€™t be living too far out of it.

ā€˜Tadgeā€™ Kennelly loves himself, and its a Sydney thing from what i can see. They barely know who he is elsewhere and only the AFL fans would know him.

I was delighted to see the cunt play absolutely gash at the weekend.

Kev in a barely concealed ā€˜I hate ruralitesā€™ post there.

you dont think there would be unintelligent no teeth farmers in your local area?

Lets put it that you have no idea where in Aus Ive been or anything about me personally bar what has been posted on here. You had it for a good while that I was back living in Ballymagash so its fair to say you havent a clue really.

Keneally is a star to anyone with interest in AFL. Melbourne the home of AFL, they would certainly know who he is. In QLD, AFL wouldnt be all that popular. Same as some no teeth farmer in Cavan might not know much about Ronan Curran. On Kenneally, no doubt he does love himself but for a man who now ā€˜likes what he seesā€™ in his appearance, I thought you would appreciate that bit of his character?

Obviously things are more pronounced in Aus, it is a country of 25m people and a country that is bigger than Europe. Your eureka moment of personalities being different, rural v urban, shouldnt be that surprising.

Have you ever left Ireland before?

The intelligent female he met in a rural shop seems to have shocked him to the core.

Filed under ā€˜sub-humans say the funniest thingsā€™ no doubt.

Iā€™ve spent more or my adult life outside Ireland than in it.

Anyway, people on here know alot more about you other than whats been posted here, just so you know. And you should be careful who you talk to in bars, they seem to know people on here.

The rural Australia i have seen is light years behind rural Ireland i know in so many ways. The USA, which is a far bigger country population wise, certainly didnā€™t have the same wide differences as here.

And i would say most farmers in Cavan would know exactly who Ronan Curran is.

On Kenneally, you repeated my point, people into AFL would know wjo he is, a large majority of people in Melbourne are into it so it would follow they know him. Absolutely nobody in Queensland seems to know who he is. AFL is virtually not played outside the city boundries in QLD.

Anyway, iā€™m talking to the others, who seem to know more what they are talking about than you, even though you live there.

Turenne, what are you basing that on? Its hardly surprising that a country of 22 million people with a history of British colonialism has some portion of its population who are xenophobic, racist, white supremicist cunts, you only have to look at the opposition Liberal party to see that. But the reality is that Australia is a highly successful multi cultural society. Have a walk down any street in any Australian city and youā€™ll see that.

Having lived here for 11 years (so fuck the rest of you, I am the senior authority on all things Australian here) I have seen my fair share of xenophobia in Australia, but Iā€™ve seen far worse in America and other countries, including Ireland.

Kev, you are not seriously going to start this shit again are you?

Iā€™m basing it on very little mate, I just enjoy being insulting and patronising as it makes me feel superior to other people(s). :wink:

Oh shit, sorry Turenne, I must have mixed you up with another forumite :wink:

Fitzy the AFL show review from a week back i think. 3-4 guys standing around talking about the games. It wasnā€™t the ā€œOn the couchā€ show anyway.

Yes there is elements of it everywhere. Ireland got really bad for it during ā€œthose yearsā€. But Oz id the worst i have come across, espceially from complete wasters who have very little to be proud of.

Iā€™m all for loving your own, but i hate the looking down on others. I just find it really funny that these people here donā€™t realise how far behind and small minded they really are.

Hey this tool think he knows me, he knows where iā€™m from, what football i play, my qualifications etc etc. When the truth is he knows very little, and he is far more exposed on here. I just think he needed to know it.