Things I learned today (Part 1)

Rocko · June 7, 2014, 3:27pm

Ours. It was a typo unfortunately.

caoimhaoin · June 7, 2014, 4:04pm

Twice?

carryharry · June 7, 2014, 4:10pm

Ger Redser O’Grady believes the Tipp panel were wrong to go boozing last Monday.

Ger Redser O Grady : They shouldn’t be drinking.full stop ‘’ ala FB ‘’

caoimhaoin · June 7, 2014, 4:15pm

[QUOTE=“carryharry, post: 956814, member: 1517”]Ger Redser O’Grady believes the Tipp panel were wrong to go boozing last Monday.

Ger Redser O Grady : They shouldn’t be drinking.full stop ‘’ ala FB ‘’[/QUOTE]
Would I be correct in suggesting this is a touch hypocritical?

carryharry · June 7, 2014, 4:19pm

caoimhaoin · June 7, 2014, 4:21pm

Thought as much.

Juhniallio · June 8, 2014, 1:28pm

Glasagusban is thick as mince. A shame, really, seemed like a nice bloke.

glasagusban · June 8, 2014, 1:33pm

Mate, I’m in the top 20 most cleverest posters on here.

Juhniallio · June 8, 2014, 1:45pm

Good man, glas. You’re a labrador of a man.

Mark_Renton · June 8, 2014, 1:48pm

Sick bastards.

myboyblue · June 8, 2014, 8:03pm

There’s only 15 posters here though.

carryharry · June 8, 2014, 8:05pm

carryharry · June 8, 2014, 8:58pm

Indo cunts.

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myboyblue · June 8, 2014, 9:00pm

[QUOTE=“carryharry, post: 957829, member: 1517”]Indo cunts.

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I’m quite hungover mate, what am I missing? Aisling is good stock.

carryharry · June 8, 2014, 9:05pm

Read where the report ends.

myboyblue · June 8, 2014, 9:07pm

That seems like a lot of work, but I presume it ended at HT. Fair enough so.

TheUlteriorMotive · June 8, 2014, 9:54pm

Supermacs was voted by Fox as one of the top ten fast food restaurants in the world you must visit.

myboyblue · June 9, 2014, 12:52pm

Bernard Brogan has never played Championship outside of Croke Park

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/gaa-missing-out-with-stay-at-home-dubs-271318.html

Horsebox · June 9, 2014, 1:05pm

[QUOTE=“myboyblue, post: 958371, member: 180”]Bernard Brogan has never played Championship outside of Croke Park

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/gaa-missing-out-with-stay-at-home-dubs-271318.html[/QUOTE]
Link won’t work for me, bro-would you mind pasting the article up here?

myboyblue · June 9, 2014, 1:08pm

[SIZE=6]GAA missing out with stay-at-home Dubs[/SIZE]
http://www.irishexaminer.com/media/images/e/Exam07062014GAA7DublinVLaoisDavidConway_large.jpg

LEINSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL:
Dublin v Laois
Eight years, it’s been.

Eight years since the Dubs ventured westwards to Longford for a Leinster Championship quarter-final. The visit of the GAA poster boys generated all sorts of excitement in Longford in the weeks leading in.

Longford County Board had ponied up €3m on Pearse Park in the run-up. One embankment was spruced up and given a capacity of 1,000 extra souls. On the day, the place would hold 15,213.

“It was a different challenge to come down to Longford,” said Dublin selector Brian Talty at the time. It was a remark echoed earlier in the week by manager Paul Caffrey. That they felt the need to utter it said everything.

Nineteen points separated the sides when they met in Croke Park the year before. 2006 would be different. By the time Joe McQuillan blew his last whistle, only two points separated the sides. A late run of four scores from Longford threatened to cap a most remarkable day with a scoreline for the ages.

It wasn’t to be. Dublin survived to progress to a semi-final with Laois back in Croke Park. Back home.

Jim Gavin would contest that. The Dublin manager stated prior to tomorrow’s latest provincial quarter-final, against Laois, that Parnell Park remains the county’s home. He would say that, but the fact is that Gavin sounds like one of those Irish emigrants you meet in the UK or the US: they may be exiled 40 or 50 years but they still call Ireland rather than Ilford or Idaho home.

That’s touching but ignores the truth. Home is where you lay your hat.

That game in Longford remains Dublin’s last championship date outside of HQ, though they have played 42 times since. Three of those games were qualifiers from 2010 and yet still the authorities resisted the urge to make them move.

Bernard Brogan has been playing ball with Dublin since June of 2007 and yet not once in 30-odd games has he walked out of a tunnel for a championship fixture other than the one in Dublin 3.

There is an obvious issue of fairness here, but it is shot down by the money argument: that Dublin in Croke Park equals big bucks. Yet that isn’t as cut and dried as it is portrayed.

Only 22,000 people paid in to the qualifier against Tipperary four years ago on a day when the hurlers were also on the bill and just 33,000 bothered with another double bill this time last year when Dublin overcame Westmeath and Kildare did for Offaly.

Martin Skelly was Longford chairman in 2006 and painted a vivid picture of what the occasion meant to people in his county.

“This is what the ‘real’ GAA is all about — hosting a major championship game,” he said. “We hear a lot about what big games mean to the business community in places like Thurles and Clones, but it passes us by.”

Underlying it all is the promotional own goal the GAA scores by hothousing the Dubs in their own city. The odds are Laois would lose home or away tomorrow, but think of the worth a full house could have been to them in O’Moore Park.