Do you really believe that there’s some stored up conflict that exists between us? There is no us. We don’t exist.
WTF?!?
You are mental…
Tickets are close to gone I believe Dunph. Nothing on ticketmaster.
Nothing at all?
I was lucky so!
Now i have decided i will treat this whole thing with apathy after reading this cunt writing bull shit again. He ran away embarrassed and with his tail between his legs, even his own county men embarrassed, and then he comes back with this bull shit. What a fucking fool for bringing it up again, i hope some Aussie cunt decapitates the cunt.
[size=“5”]Kennelly: Croker high tackle reaction ‘really got up my nose’[/size]
By Paul Keane
Friday, October 15, 2010
TADHG KENNELLY has admitted ‘it really got up my nose’ that his heavy hit on Nicholas Murphy in the 2009 All-Ireland final was labelled a pre-meditated, cynical act.
Kennelly has just completed his first season back in Australian Rules football after his 2009 sojourn that saw him complete a single, but highly successful, championship campaign with Kerry. That campaign climaxed with All-Ireland success and, early in the final against Cork, Kennelly infamously put Murphy to the ground with a dangerously high shoulder charge.
His subsequent recollection of events in his autobiography, where he admitted telling team-mate Paul Galvin ‘I’m going to charge in and hit someone at the start’, appeared to confirm it was pre-meditated.
But Kennelly, who was yesterday named in Ireland’s 22-man International Rules panel, says the ghost-written book was misinterpreted and he claimed to be annoyed that anyone would suggest he’d deliberately injure anyone.
“The way it was interpreted was that it was something that I had planned, to go out and hit Nicholas Murphy straight away,” said Kennelly.
"If I tried to plan what happened there is no way in the world I would have been able to do that.
"That was the thing that irritated me the most. Personally, I expected more from people who thought I would go out and do something like that. It really got up my nose. If (the book) was written by an Irish journo it wouldn’t have been as bad.
“It still would have been said that in the first 10 minutes I was going to be physically hard and I have no problem with that. If I hadn’t hit Nicholas I would have wrote the same thing — that I wanted to be tough and let them know we’re in the game.”
Kennelly and 2009 team-mate Tommy Walsh are the only two Kerrymen selected by Tohill as none of the current Kingdom panel are involved.
Kieran Donaghy and Declan O’Sullivan trained but both have club commitments while Paul Galvin, who has competed before, wasn’t considered.
Tohill, in his role as an RTÉ TV pundit, angered many Kerry fans last summer by highlighting an incident between Galvin and Cork’s Eoin Cadogan which led to Galvin being suspended.
“We invited players who we felt were suited to playing the game and wanted to play the game, who had what it took to play the game and were coming off the back off a good season,” said Tohill when questioned about Galvin’s exclusion.
"There were a number of players who possibly could have played but we didn’t want to waste anybody’s time. We wanted to be fair to people.
“He (Galvin) was one of the guys in the category that I described. We felt we wouldn’t be asking Paul. To be fair to him we didn’t want to waste his time and we thought the right thing was to let it go for this season.”
Tohill, along with selectors Eoin Liston, Sean Óg de Paor and Kevin O’Brien, had been expected to confirm a 23-man panel.
But they went with a 22-man squad as Down’s new Allstar forward Benny Coulter will miss the first test with a hamstring injury but will be available for the second.
In Coulter’s absence for the first test at Limerick’s Gaelic Grounds on Saturday week, standby player Niall McNamee appears best-placed to come in. The team will be captained by Armagh veteran Steven McDonnell with Galway defender Finian Hanley his deputy.
In all, just 10 players have previous experience of the hybrid code with Bernard Brogan, James Kavanagh, Michael Murphy and Walsh part of a dozen exciting newcomers.
Tohill has warned his players that if they wish to retain the Cormac McAnallen Cup, which they won in 2008, they must keep their cool when they ship big hits from the Aussies.
“We didn’t react well to being tackled in the past and that’s something we are working on,” said Tohill.
2010 Irish International Rules panel:
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There are still tickets on ticketmaster Dunph for the uncovered stand, but you’d want to be quick about it.
Looks like the terrace and mackey ones are gone.
Tohill is angering the GAA a bit anyway. Insists on 50 new balls for every training session, refuses used ones.
He has also made the GAA shorten the length of the pitch apparently in Croke Park by about 20 yards
This will be a flop and unmitigated disaster, what the fuck were they doing organising this for the same time as the Wexford Opera Festival…the mind boggles 
Odd that, Tohill always struck me as such an agreeable laid back sort. The cunt.
Given how Piles says meh is being interpreted as a no vote this balls of a thing is drawing large apathy from the TFK’ers, and rightly so.
Well if Limerick is almost sold out for it then thats all the level of interest they need for it.
Are you claiming there are more relevant survey selections than the good people of TFK? Controversial Runt.
The vast majority of people i know really like the Comproemise rules, the players love it. The only ones that seem to bitch about it are County managers. If you don’t like the game and don’t want to watch or go to it then don’t. It is that simple.
I daresay MBB will be glued to it.
That’s hardly a ringing endorsement
I wasn’t looking for one, and neither were the Compromise Rules crowd.
Of course he will, sure wasn’t he on here posting about Golf not being a sport and giving out about the Ryder cup yet he couldn’t stop posting about it over the weekend
theres no compromise in international rules kev
Its sport puke, I watch sport. Doesn’t mean its not a load of bollox. Golf isn’t a team sport, in the same way as compromise rules isn’t a sport. Its entertainment but its not really relevant at the end of the day. As I’ve said on numerous occasions in the past I wish the GAA would put as much energy into the interpros as they do this, the players have as much interest if not more and with any sort of effort they could easily be put back to the level they once enjoyed. Its hugely depressing to see how they’re mismanaged in favour of this bastardisation of a game.
What are you basing this on?
The players generally like playing for their country, and the opportunity to do so is not going to be found anywhere else for them. I would suspect thats why pro players like Walsh and Kenneally come back to play it.
I’m basing that on what i hear the players say, i haven’t done a study on it unfortunately.
Evidently they’ve restocked since I last checked… :unsure: