Olympians/Sports stars You Suspect Are Juiced Up

[glasagusban]

@Mark Renton

My point was that he hasn’t performed this championship and there is more to come from him. Overall, yes predominately experience, but he still has a bit more development to do. From what I heard, diet was his biggest enemy.

Don’t think he was a major culprit but there was an effort to get cookery classes for some of the team to improve their diet! Didn’t go ahead though.

[farmerinthecity]

@Mark Renton

I haven’t been following kev and Julio’s spat, what’s all this about genetics and Celts?

Read back on it mate. You’ll be smiling from ear to ear.

[caoimhaoin]

@Mark Renton

We are one of the least diversified races in Europe, if not the wider world. I only read a report on this the other day that I’ll try dig out when I get to a computer.

But diversified none the less.

[Horsebox]

[quote=“chewy louie, post: 803283, member: 1137”]Not really. His skills and his body size are already developed, where exactly do you see him improving?

Maybe experience wise but I wouldn’t say that the likes of Joe Canning and Padraig Maher for arguements sake are superior hurlers now at 24 than they were at 20[/quote]

So you are saying that a hurler does not develop any new skills or show any improvement after the age of 20? That is a bizarre logic.

[Mac]

Chris Froome

[glasagusban]

@Horsebox

So you are saying that a hurler does not develop any new skills or show any improvement after the age of 20? That is a bizarre logic.

Agree.

There is a lot more to come from Hannon but the reason we are not seeing his best is firstly because he is being played out of position, he is a half forward and operates much better out there; and secondly, because we are not getting good ball to him. He’s still hitting a couple of points from play a game and has been prominent towards the end of both games when we have opened up a bit. The system we’re playing is relatively effective but Hannon especially needs to be brought into play more in the final third of the field.

[TreatyStones]

@caoimhaoin

But diversified none the less.

Of course we have some degree of diversification. It’s not North Sentinel.

[Julio_Geordio]

@caoimhaoin

But diversified none the less.

you are making a show of yourself

[Horsebox]

[quote=“glasagusban, post: 803313, member: 1533”]Agree.

There is a lot more to come from Hannon but the reason we are not seeing his best is firstly because he is being played out of position, he is a half forward and operates much better out there; and secondly, because we are not getting good ball to him. He’s still hitting a couple of points from play a game and has been prominent towards the end of both games when we have opened up a bit. The system we’re playing is relatively effective but Hannon especially needs to be brought into play more in the final third of the field.[/quote]

Of course there is potential there for improvement-take a look at Maurice Shanahan for example. Lots of talk at underage level, struggled initially at senior level and has been pretty consistently good for the last 2 years. Experience has a lot to do with it as well as management knowing how best to play the guy and in what position.

[farmerinthecity]

I’m surprised we made it through all that and there was no bump to the People Kev knows thread.

[the_man_himself]

@Horsebox

Of course there is potential there for improvement-take a look at Maurice Shanahan for example. Lots of talk at underage level, struggled initially at senior level and has been pretty consistently good for the last 2 years. Experience has a lot to do with it as well as management knowing how best to play the guy and in what position.

What do you call consistently good? He is consistently good against shite teams like Offaly.

[Julio_Geordio]

@farmerinthecity

I’m surprised we made it through all that and there was no bump to the People Kev knows thread.

People Kev knows: Genetically diversified Irishmen

[Mac]

This is like the time all threads used to descend into talk about Limerick chippers

[Horsebox]

@the man himself

What do you call consistently good? He is consistently good against shite teams like Offaly.

His performances have improved dramatically in the last 2 years from his earlier days when he looked like Bambi on ice and kept running down blind alleys.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Mac

This is like the time all threads used to descend into talk about Limerick chippers

I was in the chicken hut at the weekend, twas only awesome

[Horsebox]

@the man himself

What do you call consistently good? He is consistently good against shite teams like Offaly.

His performances have improved dramatically in the last 2 years from his earlier days when he looked like Bambi on ice and kept running down blind alleys.

[Mac]

@Julio Geordio

I was in the chicken hut at the weekend, twas only awesome

Sidney was in Donkey Fordes too, what a weekend for Limerick chippers

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

@Mac

Sidney was in Donkey Fordes too, what a weekend for Limerick chippers

I wouldnt consider Sidney being in an establishment as a good thing

[Horsebox]

@The Wild Colonial Bhoy

I wouldnt consider Sidney being in an establishment as a good thing

Ha ha you missed one.

[Mark_Renton]

What’s interesting about the below is that it matches the Oral tradition in that the Son’s of Mil were recorded coming from Iberia.

I can’t find the article I read recently, i’ll keep looking.

This is from research done by the head of a UCD team into Irish genetics.

‘Ireland’s geography has had a huge part to play in shaping the nature of our society and our closest family ties. According to Loftus: “The geographic isolation of Ireland over generations would affect the size of the gene pool by limiting the type and number of potential mating partners.”
Major genetic surveys of Ireland and Britain[/URL] have established that the gene pool of both islands is amongst the least diluted in [URL=‘http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Europe’]Europe. The genetic evidence shows that three quarters of the ancestors of the Irish and British people were the pioneering settlers who arrived at the end of the last ice age between 17,000 and 8,000 years ago. The inescapable upshot of this is that the Irish are not Celts, any more than the English are Anglo-Saxons.
In fact, both the Irish and the British are Basques, with the Irish significantly more Basque than our neighbours across the pond, who’ve absorbed more migrations from Europe over the centuries.
Scientists estimate that Ireland’s gene pool has changed remarkably little since the first hunter-gatherers from Iberia followed the retreating ice cap, beachcombing northwards and settling this newly exposed and empty land. The dilution rate for Ireland is estimated at a tiny 12%, against 20% for Wales and Cornwall, 30% for Scotland and 33% for England.
The genetics suggest that, with sea levels low, the Basques simply walked to Ireland, becoming cut off generations later when rising seas created the island we know. Ancient Irish legends say that there were six invasions or migrations from the south many generations before the Celts arrived around 300BC.
The evidence suggests that the Celtic language, fashions and technologies which are supposed to define our Irish heritage, were acquired as cultural accessories in the way that today’s Irish schoolkids flounce about under the impression that they’re gangsta rappers straight out of Compton or Beverly Hills brat-packers.
The Irish and Basques share by far the highest incidence of the R1b gene in Europe, which has a frequency of over 90% in Basque country and almost 100% along parts of Ireland’s western seaboard.’