Retiring GAA Stars tribute thread - May cause brain/neck damage

[ProjectX]

@myboyblue

Disgusting to see Doyle cut the Kildare team loose now that the bad times are here and they need him most. He’s a bad 'un that one.

Please MBB, your post is in very bad taste. John Doyle is a superstar of Kildare football.

John knew by now that the engine didn’t have the required horsepower any longer and departed at the betterment of the team.

Anyone with a young family will understand his decision

[caoimhaoin]

[QUOTE=“farmerinthecity, post: 927596, member: 24”]I don’t think Johnny Doyle was ever near a great but he was consistently good for a long time and that is to his credit.

Strange that he should decide to go now though.[/QUOTE]
Ah he was close enough farmer. Kildare had plenty endeavor but lacked top class players but he was a one mans how at times on a team that reached the latter stages regularly. It was obvious that teams put a lot of thought into stopping him and te result when they succeed was big beatings for Kildare, Cork and Dublin Stand out, but everyone was trying it and he beat te special attention more often than not.
A good way to look at it is would he have made the Kerry or Tyrone teams of the mid-2000’s an I think he would have. Both were “great” teams, I think he is close. His major key down for a long time was his finishing which did improve, but I always though he was doing so much he was often fatigued kicking for scores. Kildare were always looking for him, it must have been very draining.

[Fitzy]

Very sorry to see Johnny Doyle retiring, exceptional footballer and by all accounts a decent bloke. Would surely get onto a great players who never won an All Ireland team. Timing is very strange, things seem to be faling apart for Kildare.

[myboyblue]

[QUOTE=“ProjectX, post: 927736, member: 1742”]Please MBB, your post is in very bad taste. John Doyle is a superstar of Kildare football.

John knew by now that the engine didn’t have the required horsepower any longer and departed at the betterment of the team.

Anyone with a young family will understand his decision[/QUOTE]
The family must have come as a shock to him in the past week.

“superstar of Kildare football” Fuxxake

[Mark_Renton]

Richie McCarthy

[Manuel_Zelaya]

@Fitzy

Very sorry to see Johnny Doyle retiring, exceptional footballer and by all accounts a decent bloke. Would surely get onto a great players who never won an All Ireland team. Timing is very strange, things seem to be faling apart for Kildare.

You’re spoofing now. In your antipodean outpost 10,000 miles away, how many times have you actually seen John Doyle play over the years? He was a very good player but wouldn’t be within an asses roar of getting onto a team of great players never to have won an All Ireland. In the last decade or so alone, he wouldn’t have been at the standard of non All Ireland medal winners like Dessie Dolan, Matty Forde, Declan Browne or Benny Coulter.

[Appendage]

@Manuel Zelaya

You’re spoofing now. In your antipodean outpost 10,000 miles away, how many times have you actually seen John Doyle play over the years? He was a very good player but wouldn’t be within an asses roar of getting onto a team of great players never to have won an All Ireland. In the last decade or so alone, he wouldn’t have been at the standard of non All Ireland medal winners like Dessie Dolan, Matty Forde, Declan Browne or Benny Coulter.

You’d need another 11 to go with those 4.

[Appendage]

[QUOTE=“myboyblue, post: 927752, member: 180”]The family must have come as a shock to him in the past week.

“superstar of Kildare football” Fuxxake :D[/QUOTE]

Fool. Go on, tell us you have the inside track but can’t tell us. I’d imagine between the legs being gone and having twins at home he’s doing the right thing. But then again I wouldn’t be as well connected as you.

[Bandage]

@Appendage

Fool. Go on, tell us you have the inside track but can’t tell us. I’d imagine between the legs being gone and having twins at home he’s doing the right thing. But then again I wouldn’t be as well connected as you.

I’d be happier to peddle a falling out with Jason Ryan angle.

[myboyblue]

@Appendage

Fool. Go on, tell us you have the inside track but can’t tell us. I’d imagine between the legs being gone and having twins at home he’s doing the right thing. But then again I wouldn’t be as well connected as you.

WTF are you on about you cunt? All I said were the kids must have come as a shock. As for inside lines Blake has already put that down on the previous page you fucking gobdaw.

@Bandage

I’d be happier to peddle a falling out with Jason Ryan angle.

I’m on for a bit of this.

[Watchyourtoes]

@Manuel Zelaya

You’re spoofing now. In your antipodean outpost 10,000 miles away, how many times have you actually seen John Doyle play over the years? He was a very good player but wouldn’t be within an asses roar of getting onto a team of great players never to have won an All Ireland. In the last decade or so alone, he wouldn’t have been at the standard of non All Ireland medal winners like Dessie Dolan, Matty Forde, Declan Browne or Benny Coulter.

:rolleyes:

[myboyblue]

Oh and Tadhg Fenin was better.

[Manuel_Zelaya]

@Appendage

You’d need another 11 to go with those 4.

Here’s another 11 so and a few more besides.

Brian McAlinden, Harry Keegan, Kevin Kehily, Eamon Heery, Dermot Earley Snr, Tommy Murphy, Jim McKeever, Ciaran Whelan, Kevin O’Brien, Nudie Hughes, Peter McGinnity, Ciaran McDonald, Mickey Kearns, Nudie Hughes, Frank McGuigan

[Appendage]

[QUOTE=“Manuel Zelaya, post: 927806, member: 377”]Here’s another 11 so and a few more besides.

Brian McAlinden, Harry Keegan, Kevin Kehily, Eamon Heery, Dermot Earley Snr, Tommy Murphy, Jim McKeever, Ciaran Whelan, Kevin O’Brien, Nudie Hughes, Peter McGinnity, Ciaran McDonald, Mickey Kearns, Nudie Hughes, Frank McGuigan[/QUOTE]
Slow clap.

[Horsebox]

@Manuel Zelaya

Ciaran Whelan

[cthon]

He was a true leader on a Kildare team when the there was not many others.

[Bandage]

@cthon

He was a true leader on a Kildare team when the there was not many others.

Also notable for having the same haircut throughout his 15-year inter county career.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@cthon

He was a true leader on a Kildare team when the there was not many others.

You can take it as a given that any Kildare team will be lacking in the general guts, cojones, fortitude, leadership area.

[farmerinthecity]

[QUOTE=“Manuel Zelaya, post: 927806, member: 377”]Here’s another 11 so and a few more besides.

Brian McAlinden, Harry Keegan, Kevin Kehily, Eamon Heery, Dermot Earley Snr, Tommy Murphy, Jim McKeever, Ciaran Whelan, Kevin O’Brien, Nudie Hughes, Peter McGinnity, Ciaran McDonald, Mickey Kearns, Nudie Hughes, Frank McGuigan[/QUOTE]

Eamonn Heery surely won one in 1995?

[caoimhaoin]

[QUOTE=“Manuel Zelaya, post: 927806, member: 377”]Here’s another 11 so and a few more besides.

Brian McAlinden, Harry Keegan, Kevin Kehily, Eamon Heery, Dermot Earley Snr, Tommy Murphy, Jim McKeever, Ciaran Whelan, Kevin O’Brien, Nudie Hughes, Peter McGinnity, Ciaran McDonald, Mickey Kearns, Nudie Hughes, Frank McGuigan[/QUOTE]
Ciaran o Sullivan is absolute stand out for this. Easily the best Cork player not to win an AI