People who are beginning to give me a pain in the hole

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

@Bandage

I want to negotiate a loan margin of Euribor + 3% minimum. Do not come back to the office saying they won’t go higher than 2.5%. Do not let yourselves and the bank down.

Not much good if your competitors offered 2.5%

[Bandage]

Yes but do you want a golf umbrella?

[Julio_Geordio]

@Bandage

Yes but do you want a golf umbrella?

Branded golf balls or no deal.

[Brimmer_Bradley]

@TreatyStones

@Fagan_ODowd

I was watching that ad in the company of a lady. She said, Fagan, you played a lot of sport in your day, is that what dressing rooms are really like, would a fellow really make a show of himself like that. I said yes, in my day there was always some fucking eejit who took things way too seriously who would go on like that, but some other fellow would puncture his bubble and make a laugh and a skit out of him and your man would be seething by the time he went out on the pitch.

She was amused by this insight in to the world of sport.

Tis different strokes for different teams though. Sometimes fellas need a bit of roaring and shouting to get them to focus. Other times the softly, softly everything positive approach works, the key is knowing when to use it.

It’s easy to spot the astute coaches in this thread. The clever guys with a few medals in their back pockets.

[Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr]

We were in a county minor hurling final back in the day and were “managed” by one of our clubmen who also played and managed successfully at inter-county level.

The pre-match talk consisted of little more than screams of “Are ye gonna die for me?”

We duly went out and obliged…

EDIT - I should add that we won it the following year under the management of a gentleman who was hoodwinked into vacating a barstool.

[TreatyStones]

@Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr

The pre-match talk consisted of little more than screams of “Are ye gonna die for me?”

We duly went out and obliged…

Yikes, I’m surprised this wasn’t bigger news at the time

[backinatracksuit]

@Fagan_ODowd

@gilgamboa

When was the last time you were in a dressing room to put this into practise? Changing in the back of the car before astro doesn’t count

Your approach seems far more commonplace nowawadays. The roaring and shouting is gone out with the wind.

I was watching that ad in the company of a lady. She said, Fagan, you played a lot of sport in your day, is that what dressing rooms are really like, would a fellow really make a show of himself like that. I said yes, in my day there was always some fucking eejit who took things way too seriously who would go on like that, but some other fellow would puncture his bubble and make a laugh and a skit out of him and your man would be seething by the time he went out on the pitch.

She was amused by this insight in to the world of sport.

I don’t want to say that never happened but I’ve never seen anybody make a joke about some mad lad going a bit wild in the dressing room. Those lads are loopers but they’d be ‘our’ loopers. Any cunt who tried to make a laugh of him would be given short shrift. That kind of roaring never made a jot of difference to me out on the pitch but I’d say it works for some lads, especially if you’re playing a load of cunts who wouldn’t come out from under the bed in 1920.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@backinatracksuit

@Fagan_ODowd

@gilgamboa

When was the last time you were in a dressing room to put this into practise? Changing in the back of the car before astro doesn’t count

Your approach seems far more commonplace nowawadays. The roaring and shouting is gone out with the wind.

I was watching that ad in the company of a lady. She said, Fagan, you played a lot of sport in your day, is that what dressing rooms are really like, would a fellow really make a show of himself like that. I said yes, in my day there was always some fucking eejit who took things way too seriously who would go on like that, but some other fellow would puncture his bubble and make a laugh and a skit out of him and your man would be seething by the time he went out on the pitch.

She was amused by this insight in to the world of sport.

I don’t want to say that never happened but I’ve never seen anybody make a joke about some mad lad going a bit wild in the dressing room. Those lads are loopers but they’d be ‘our’ loopers. Any cunt who tried to make a laugh of him would be given short shrift. That kind of roaring never made a jot of difference to me out on the pitch but I’d say it works for some lads, especially if you’re playing a load of cunts who wouldn’t come out from under the bed in 1920.

You are inferring it never happened without quite having the guts to say it outright.

[backinatracksuit]

I wouldn’t be behind the door in calling you out at all pal.
I was inferring that your memory isn’t what it used to be, perhaps it was a dream you had.
Any cunt who made a fool out of one of those lads wouldn’t be very popular.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@backinatracksuit

I wouldn’t be behind the door in calling you out at all pal.
I was inferring that your memory isn’t what it used to be, perhaps it was a dream you had.
Any cunt who made a fool out of one of those lads wouldn’t be very popular.

My memory is fine. You don’t strike me as the sort of a fellow who saw much of the inside of a dressing room, if you don’t mind me saying so.

[Bandage]

I can confirm that the great Larry O’Gorman used to give us pre-county underage final team talks in the 1990s. Having Larry in before the match would give us some boost. He was hurling with the county and you’d see him around the club but to actually have him specifically coming to watch us play and talk to us.

Anyway, his talks were a replica of what he told Alex Auld on The Toughest Trade recently. Defenders: get it away from the danger zone. Get it out to the side. Flick it, kick it, nudge it, whip it. Just get it away from the goal and then worry about what to do next. He’d go through the lines at rapid speed, we’d be thrilled that he’d call us by name and then we’d go out and beat some muldoon fucks. LarryO.

Our inter-county posters should be aware that there are kids who really look up to them and hang on their every word. Be approachable and friendly to the youngsters in the club the way the Hanbury family welcomed that weird family from Diddlesbury into their home.

[anon61956325]

Are there inter-county players posting on this forum, mate?

[Bandage]

Yes, there are. You’ll get posters blowing on about underage county final success or being a backroom member or mentor on some junior A or ladies’ team but we’ve a quiet and modest cabal of county men. You actually wouldn’t know it by the understated way they post and order breakfast rolls.

[anon61956325]

Yeah, just saw it.

[Bandage]

I’ll edit my post.

[anon61956325]

[Fagan_ODowd]

@ChocolateMice

Are there inter-county players posting on this forum, mate?

I played football for Kilkenny.

[iron_mike]

@Fagan_ODowd

@ChocolateMice

Are there inter-county players posting on this forum, mate?

I played football for Kilkenny.

Were you the bus driver?

[BigJoeMac]

Thanks bro

[croppy_boy]

@Fagan_ODowd

I played football for Kilkenny.

That’s a no then.