brogan was an arsehole
that clip of him teaching defoe and pavluchenko how to play bogball is hillarious, they never played bogball before yet you can see they are immeasurable more skillfull than him
Paluychenko scores a fine point there that FOTY Michael Dara MacAualey wouldn’t have scored.
yep, this brief clip of normal sports people playing bogball really highlights how poor the current “stars” of this rural sport really are
Brogan wouldn’t hurl spuds to ducks.
Wonder if Cluxton will call it a day too - he is 34 I think. Might be tempted to hang on as there is another AI in that team next year if they even pretend to defend.
Alan Brogan is NOT retiring.
Delighted to be wrong here
at least the penalty spot in croker was playable 
Whether or not he’s actually played his last game in a Dublin jersey, through choice or otherwise remains to be seen though.
Louth’s Paddy Keenan has called time on his inter county career.
I’m open to correction here but I think Keenan is Louth’s only ever All Star
[QUOTE=“thedancingbaby, post: 1015885, member: 48”]Louth’s Paddy Keenan has called time on his inter county career.
I’m open to correction here but I think Keenan is Louth’s only ever All Star[/QUOTE]
Watch them plunge. He was the tape holding them together.
Yeah they’ve a long way to drop from losing by 15 points to Kildare and 17 points to Tyrone.
They are truly fucked now.
Looks like Donaghy is calling it a day.
"I’m still overwhelmed. I’m blessed and privileged that I’m part of the Kerry thing. There’s 37 All –Ireland’s now.
“I’m minding this number 14 and someone else can have it next year. I’m going to be up in the terraces for the next 30 years looking down at other guys wearing it.”
On the 52nd minute goal that ultimately decided the game, Donaghy thanked Colm Cooper for giving him some useful advice when finishing for goals that he used to aplomb when he seized on Durcan’s error.
“I was surprised when I got it and Gooch has been telling me all year ‘Star when you get in, pass it to the net’. I passed that one to the net for Gooch.”
[QUOTE=“Il Bomber Destro, post: 1020434, member: 2533”]Looks like Donaghy is calling it a day.
"I’m still overwhelmed. I’m blessed and privileged that I’m part of the Kerry thing. There’s 37 All –Ireland’s now.
“I’m minding this number 14 and someone else can have it next year. I’m going to be up in the terraces for the next 30 years looking down at other guys wearing it.”
On the 52nd minute goal that ultimately decided the game, Donaghy thanked Colm Cooper for giving him some useful advice when finishing for goals that he used to aplomb when he seized on Durcan’s error.
“I was surprised when I got it and Gooch has been telling me all year ‘Star when you get in, pass it to the net’. I passed that one to the net for Gooch.”[/QUOTE]
He had a similar-ish goal in '07 when Quirke and possibly Spillane fucked up. A great reader of the game. Nothing too flash but massively impactful.
[QUOTE=“Il Bomber Destro, post: 1020434, member: 2533”]Looks like Donaghy is calling it a day.
"I’m still overwhelmed. I’m blessed and privileged that I’m part of the Kerry thing. There’s 37 All –Ireland’s now.
“I’m minding this number 14 and someone else can have it next year. I’m going to be up in the terraces for the next 30 years looking down at other guys wearing it.”
On the 52nd minute goal that ultimately decided the game, Donaghy thanked Colm Cooper for giving him some useful advice when finishing for goals that he used to aplomb when he seized on Durcan’s error.
“I was surprised when I got it and Gooch has been telling me all year ‘Star when you get in, pass it to the net’. I passed that one to the net for Gooch.”[/QUOTE]
Aidan O Mahoney had all the appearances of a man knocking it on the head yesterday too. Both of them had some turnaround this year, credit to them for that.
You’d swear Durcan was the first goalkeeper to make a mistake in an All Ireland final - Paddy Cullen/Mikey Sheehy in 1978, Padraic Coyne kicking the ball straight to Barney Rock in 1983 and Barney lobbing it over his head for a goal, John Madden allowing Colm Coyle’s long punt to bounce over him for the equalising point in the 1996 draw, Alan Quirke as has been said in 2007.
Yesterday’s mistake unlike any of the others was a direct by-product of Kerry pressure and dominance in a sector of the game. Durcan couldn’t kick long because Donegal were being wiped out in the possession stakes. He was forced into going short. Donaghy was alert to it and it was a brilliant piece of opportunism.
[QUOTE=“Manuel Zelaya, post: 1020739, member: 377”]You’d swear Durcan was the first goalkeeper to make a mistake in an All Ireland final - Paddy Cullen/Mikey Sheehy in 1978, Padraic Coyne kicking the ball straight to Barney Rock in 1983 and Barney lobbing it over his head for a goal, John Madden allowing Colm Coyle’s long punt to bounce over him for the equalising point in the 1996 draw, Alan Quirke as has been said in 2007.
Yesterday’s mistake unlike any of the others was a direct by-product of Kerry pressure and dominance in a sector of the game. Durcan couldn’t kick long because Donegal were being wiped out in the possession stakes. He was forced into going short. Donaghy was alert to it and it was a brilliant piece of opportunism.[/QUOTE]
Durcan was shit all game. He had ample men to find with better kicks. Put Cluxton in that position and it wouldnt have happened. Saying that kicking a ball straight to an unopposed player on the 21 was brilliant opportunism is a bit of a reach too. Donaghy never left the arc around the 21 all game for every kick out. He never picked up a player, he just stayed there to stop any short kicks down the middle, so why Durcan even tried it was unbelievable. And the execution of it was awful too. I dont like keepers taking short 12m kicks like that off the tee anyway, too much scope for mis hitting the ball and slicing it or making other fuck ups with it. Kerry werent dominating the kickouts becuase of 50 50 challenges, they were dominating because Durcan more often than not either hit it to outnumbered players in the middle, or in other case straight to an unmarked Kerry man in the middle.
Durcan was an accident waiting to happen. This approach he had of running up to the ball looking one way and pointing his body the same way before slicing it the other way at last split second was not a strategy that could work 100 times out of 100, and when it went wrong it always had the potential to go drastically wrong as evidenced in yesterday’s incident. The fact it went wrong with about 10mins left in an All-Ireland final is very unfortunate for him personally. As meticulous as McGuinness is to detail and planning, letting this strategy unfold was pretty stupid if you ask me. Had it not happened i think Donegal would have won as Kerry were struggling to tap over points at the time.
+1.
That disguised kick-out technique won’t be good for his right hip in the long run either.