Just heard Dave Billings is part of the Team Europe Entourage now too.
Sad to see a good Celtic man like Paul McGinley getting such abuse off @Bartosz Bereszynskiego and his merry band of arse lickers.
Paul will have the last laugh at the Ryder Cup, as usual.
[QUOTE=“Sandymount Red, post: 1011732, member: 1074”]Sad to see a good Celtic man like Paul McGinley getting such abuse off @Bartosz Bereszynskiego and his merry band of arse lickers.
Paul will have the last laugh at the Ryder Cup, as usual.[/QUOTE]
He’s a West Ham man.
[QUOTE=“Sandymount Red, post: 1011732, member: 1074”]Sad to see a good Celtic man like Paul McGinley getting such abuse off @Bartosz Bereszynskiego and his merry band of arse lickers.
Paul will have the last laugh at the Ryder Cup, as usual.[/QUOTE]
Paul is always laughing. He’s a bit simple. He’s like that laughing priest in Father Ted. But that priest wasn’t appointed Ryder Cup captain.
[QUOTE=“Sandymount Red, post: 1011732, member: 1074”]Sad to see a good Celtic man like Paul McGinley getting such abuse off @Bartosz Bereszynskiego and his merry band of arse lickers.
Paul will have the last laugh at the Ryder Cup, as usual.[/QUOTE]
You’re really lowering the tone bringing a gurrier sport like soccer into a weighty discussion on the Ryder Cup.
Claude Harmon III is a cracking addition to Sky’s golf coverage. Yet another reason to support us in the Ryder Cup.
Captain Paul on the Late Late tonight. Seemingly the crowd will have a huge part to play at Gleneagles. He wants them to be noisy and to sing Ole Ole.
The former world No1 Ian Woosnam is bemused by European Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley’s decision to opt for five vice-captains instead of the usual four and believes it could be a sign of weakness.
McGinley raised a few eyebrows last week when he drafted in 2012 captain José María Olazábal, Padraig Harrington and Miguel Ángel Jimenez to join Sam Torrance and Des Smyth as his deputies for the biennial team event at Gleneagles later this month.
Woosnam said: “I honestly thought he was going to go for four vice-captains. It took me a little bit by surprise when he went for five. I guess he’s trying to get a little bit of advice from everybody but sometimes you can get too much. At the end of the day he’s the one who has got to make the decisions.
“Is it a sign of weakness having that many? It does seem a lot. Maybe he’s trying to get as much experience as he possibly can. He might need a bigger team room, he might as well have 12 vice-captains, one for each player.”
McGinley’s playing record, he has won four times on the European Tour, pales in comparison to United States counterpart Tom Watson who is one of golf’s true greats having collected eight major victories including five British Opens.
However, Woosnam, who was captain when Europe pummelled the US in 2006, believes that the 47-year-old Irishman has got what it takes to deliver Ryder Cup glory.
“Paul may have only won four tournaments but I think he’s going to be well respected by his players. He’s very professional,” said the 56-year-old Welshman. “If you put it in football terms, you don’t always have to be the best player to be the best captain. Not at all.”
McGinley will have four of the world’s top five players in his 12-strong team in Scotland – Rory McIlroy, Sergio García, Henrik Stenson and Justin Rose – but Woosnam said no-one should underestimate a US side led by Watson.
“The American team is very well balanced and with Tom running that team, he’s not going to take any nonsense,” he explained. “If Tom Watson talks, you listen – if you don’t there must be something wrong with you.
“He doesn’t like losing, he’s got a great mind, he’s a very intelligent guy and he’ll be working it all out. This is not going to be the walkover everyone thinks it’s going to be.
“Tom’s going to have more authority in that team room. He’s going to say: ‘I’m the captain and you’ve got to do what I say.’ All the players will have respect for him as captain. He’s going to demand respect.“
On his fellow countryman Jamie Donaldson, who will be making his debut in the event, Woosnam said: “It’s fantastic to have another Welshman in the team. Jamie’s got a great putting stroke, he’s got a lot of bottle and I think he’s going to be a tremendous addition.
“He could play with anyone in the team and I can’t see any faults in his game really. I played with him three or four years ago in an event in Barbados. I didn’t see him as a potential Ryder Cup player back then but he’s come on in leaps and bounds and is now a really solid player.”
Woosie knows the score.
Christ I had forgotten about this cunt of a thing till I saw the thread. The most pointless sport in the world played between usa and europe and marketed as some sort of 21st century battle without the soldiers.
Second only to Munster Rogbee in their fake cuntedness.
I heard it said about The Ryder Cup that it can even make Eurosceptics in golf clubhouses all over Great Britain shout for our wonderful continent. There can be no greater compliment paid to this astonishing competition. It is unquantifiable. It is the Ryder Cup.
The only comparative I can think of in sport is a British Lions tour to the Antipodes.
Some telling comments above from Woosie.
I see mention on twitter of a piece by Paul Kimmage with Paul McGinley in the Sunday Independent.
Does anybody have a link to it or will I have to hope to read it on the off-chance in my parents’ house later?
Interested to see what comes out of two such self-involved/important characters crossing paths.
[QUOTE=“Bartosz Bereszynskiego, post: 1016364, member: 9”]Some telling comments above from Woosie.
I see mention on twitter of a piece by Paul Kimmage with Paul McGinley in the Sunday Independent.
Does anybody have a link to it or will I have to hope to read it on the off-chance in my parents’ house later?
Interested to see what comes out of two such self-involved/important characters crossing paths.[/QUOTE]
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Gammy looking crutches
Huh? Designer Sports Surgery Clinic crutches, pal.
Kimmage asks all the questions in that piece in fairness.
First time anyone’s teased out how Darren Clarke tried to steal in and take the captaincy after earlier privately pledging full support for McGinley.
It wasn’t that he changed his mind and decided to run for it without telling McGinley that upset him; it was the fact that once he knew he didn’t command the support of the players himself, Clarke publicly backed Monty to take the captaincy again.
Their relationship has broken down as a result.
It’s no surprise to learn that McGinley’s father was a member of the British Navy.
The piece ends with a clearly made up anecdote from McGinley about an incident in a lift with an American golf fan. The man is such a bullshitter.
What kind of an attention-seeking tosspot puts a pair of crutches in a picture and calls them “Designer”
This site, once renowned for it’s high quality debate of important issues, is descending into a Facebook for wankers.
That would be me, mate.
Felt obliged to provide you with a speedy reply even though I’m having a cup of tea now.
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We need to set up a general social media-style thread, where forum members can post status updates and photographs of their exciting lives.
[QUOTE=“Bartosz Bereszynskiego, post: 1016388, member: 9”]That would be me, mate.
Felt obliged to provide you with a speedy reply even though I’m having a cup of tea now.
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That’s very weak looking tea pal. Could it be hindering your recovery?