Unfortunately, other than the Argies and the Welsh when singing their anthem, I can’t really think of a team who utilise that pugnacious pride of ‘you might bate me rotten but I’ll take your ear with me’
When you try to unring a bell that’s a different bag of hammers
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I know people that played with him when he was with Mungret Regional. He’s remembered as a decent player but not so fondly as a person. The guy leaves a trail of bodies in his wake.
Donal Lenihan had some stories on him. He’s also more than happy to share them.
There was an article on Salanoa that detailed Eddie’s involvement with sourcing players from the USA. Seems to be keeping him busy these days.
I know his business partner mentioned in the article well. Bumped into him on train 5 years back and was saying hev was working with Eddie on this project. Eddie, while as coach if the US team, had identified a pocket in Hawaii where they played rugby.
So got to thinking he would look at bringing them to Europe. Fleshed out some of the details and I asked “so what’s your role?” “Intermediary. Eddie’s a pariah, can’t get people to answer a phone so I act as face of the idea.”
He did say Eddie was a good guy and was being mistreated.
+1. Sport without fans is really bad alright. I’ve watched some Celtic, Ireland and Wexford games out of duty more than anything, but I’ve only caught glimpses of a handful of, say, EPL or Champions League games in almost a year. It’s just shit to be honest.
The GAA championships turned out to be a real damp squib and I don’t think anybody really paid much attention to them or valued them by the end. The players fulfilled the fixtures but nobody really cared, except for a few simpletons with nothing else going on in their lives.
The only really memorable day was when Tipp and Cavan won provincial titles. It was otherwise low key and surreal and I think in hindsight everyone would agree that they shouldn’t have been played. Even more so, when you see us confined to another never ending lockdown after infection rates surged in counties that reached the latter stages. Who are they to ignore restrictions and take risk on our behalf?
To be honest, the whole “it will be something for the country to look forward to” narrative was bullshit. As @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy will point out, the statistics will show much more people had no interest in it and would have preferred exceptions to be made for other things like music and the arts.
All that said, and moving on, those rubby players displaying their pro racism stance in refusing to take the knee yesterday was shocking.
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Scotland players in trouble for not taking the knee
One thing that struck me about Scotland yesterday was that once they got inside the English 22 they seemed to be running straight at England rather than running into gaps. They weren’t really “testing the English shoulders”. And the English very often responded by tackling them upright.
Monaghan v Cavan was very good.
The Tipp county final is being forgotten about
Excellent post. Can’t fault a word of it.
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Inspirational stuff
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You can’t buy tradition .
Michael’s may be new money but tradition talks
There’s a great anecdote by Sir Anthony O’Reilly that he was able to close a business deal as the other business man knew he could trust him due to his rugby football background.
Now I finally get Ireland’s call.
It’s all about the foreign lads getting a phone call from the IRFU to play rugby for Ireland. They answered Irelands call.
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Decent looking Irish team apart from Herring at hooker. Definitely need to start sourcing viable alternatives to Sexton (36 this year) at 10 and Earls (34 this year) on the wing.
That should be a red card