GAA 2014

The Black Pearl said:
Some feckin' jaysus session above in Portumna on Monday night, I'm still not right after it. The days where I could go on a right session, sleep in some hay shed get up as fresh as a daisy at 6 and thumb a lift to work and are long gone now I'm afraid. Reminds me of the time meself and Tom Poland god give him the bed of heaven decided to thumb a lift to Banagher one early one Sunday morning after Mass and have a few scoops in The Shannon hotel before heading up to Corrigans, 2 o'clock that night and not a taxi to be got we decided we'd cut it cross country and cross the fields back home which was around 13 miles away, 4 hours later and covered in shite from trying to jumping drains and stuff we finally saw telephone poles and heard cars driving along a road, not so fecking bad we said we're home, got an awful land when we jumped over the final ditch only to be met with a Welcome to Banagher please keep our town tidy sign though, we were back where we started. Mighty craic all the same!

Fair play to Portumna though and to any of ye that took my advice to put a few quid on them back in early November. What ya call him scored 10 points, damn all shure.....
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Did you get a wee photo with Canning more like?
 
bazalini said:
Did you get a wee photo with Canning more like?
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Couldn't get near him for one, there was a que and I'd say it must have been a good 10 or 11 mile long of people looking for autographs and photos of him. Shure when the ref blew the final whistle it was for him the Mount Leinster Rangers crowd made a bee line for to get his autograph, nothing at all about their own players. Not the first time I've seen that happening either to be fair. Kilkenny supporters did the same thing in Pearse stadium last year, trampled over Shefflin to get to Canning at the final whistle.

I've to get some gripping tape for the hurl he made for me a few months ago anyways so I might tip up to him Tuesday evening next for a chat, see how he's getting on like, you know yourself.

 
bazalini said:
Fair play to him. He comes across a good lad.

I won't knock him for trying. I'm sure he keeps all the good hurls for himself and his team mates. Pathetic when you think of it.
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All I know is I've a fair few 90 yard frees put over cross bars around the county with the hurl he made for me a while back me so he could be giving some of the good ash he'd have put aside to some of the lads he thinks is sound out as well. Mighty lad for the talking though, meself, himself and Ivan must have gobbled down 2 twin packs of Mikado's along with a gallon of tae the last day I was up there, will you have a mouthful of tae he said to me, jaysus I will I said......
 
bazalini said:
Hearlded as one of the best forwards in the '00's has retired from inter county. A loss to Galway & the game.

http://www.thescore.ie/michael-meehan-galway-2-1375323-Mar2014/
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A big blow to the footballers that alright and it's not as if they weren't in a bad state of affairs already either.

The ankle is deadly once it starts kicking up at all. I've been having awful problems with my left ankle since last August now. I've a right cnut of a dose of achilles tendonitis going on, can't seem to shake it off at all constantly flaring up with an almost constant niggling pain. To make matters worse then I've badly sprained it twice recently. I'd say the tendon could do with being torn altogether in surgery and re joined again, something similar to what Robbie Keane had done there recently but unfortunately I wouldn't have the funds now for such a procedure.

Speaking of Michael Meehan I played against his brother there a few months ago in an aul' astro league in Oranmore. An animal of man.

He played for the Caltra bies, My team is JP's All Stars

Here's the table if ye want to have a gawk at it....

http://www.astroleagues.ie/5-a-side-soccer-leagues/
 
The Black Pearl said:
Speaking of Michael Meehan I played against his brother there a few months ago in an aul' astro league in Oranmore. An animal of man.

He played for the Caltra bies, My team is JP's All Stars

Here's the table if ye want to have a gawk at it....

http://www.astroleagues.ie/5-a-side-soccer-leagues/
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You are some man for dropping names. Sadly can not be as positive for JP's all Stars.

While we are dropping names - I dislocated the shoulder of Spud Murphy the Wednesday he won a Leinster for Meath during a colleges training match. We told no one
 
All those Vinny's pricks were in Flannerys the other night, every one of them walking around with their tops off. Idiots.
 
1A: Kilkenny 4-22 Waterford 0-14; Tipperary 1-19 Dublin 0-19; Clare 0-18 Galway 1-15.
1B: Laois 1-13 Limerick 1-17; Cork 2-24 Wexford 1-20; Offaly 5-27 Antrim 4-9.

Quarters: Clare v Laois; Kilkenny v Wexford; Galway v Limerick; Cork v Tipperary. Relegation play-offs: Dublin v Waterford; Antrim v Offaly.

Cork promoted.
 
feck it. Were up by 5 at ht, but some really poor defending and a point gifted to Limerick gave them 1-1 that won the game for them. Pity, but hope we get a home game v Clare next week.
 
Galway drew with Clare below in Ennis, no complaints from me there. Getting to the quarters without the Portumna lads was fair going it'll be great to have them back for the Limerick match, they'll be needed too no doubt. Judging from what I've seen and heard so far this year the mood in the camp is supposed to be very positive, no feckin' harm either.

When it comes to the All-Ireland it's impossible to call yet but to me anyways so far Kilkenny, Clare and Galway have looked the most impressive out of the lot. Clare are after hitting the ground running big time though maybe even a bit to hard, keeping it up until September will be another thing.
 
Venues for the quarters:

Laois home to Clare
Tipp home to Cork
Wexford home to Kilkenny
Limerick home to Galway
 
So, Laois gets back into the top8 in hurling and I miss this because of a stoopid confirmation. I was trying to convince the young lad to incorporate this into his day. He said "no thanks".
 
Big Papi said:
So, Laois gets back into the top8 in hurling and I miss this because of a stoopid confirmation. I was trying to convince the young lad to incorporate this into his day. He said "no thanks".
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Maybe if you told him you'd bring him to Supermac's and he can ate all he wants after the match or something?

Confirmation, ------> O'Moore park -------> Supermac's

If that doesn't work well then I'm afraid to say it but there's no hope for him.
 
The Black Pearl said:
Maybe if you told him you'd bring him to Supermac's and he can ate all he wants after the match or something?

Confirmation, ------> O'Moore park -------> Supermac's

If that doesn't work well then I'm afraid to say it but there's no hope for him.
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Aye, I've resigned myself to it. #2 is a bit girly too, so all hopes rest on #3!!
 
Tony Kelly, Podge Collins, Conor McGrath etc. >>>>>>> a bit of shitey wine and some stale bread. Tell him to cop himself on.
 
Feeky Magee said:
Tony Kelly, Podge Collins, Conor McGrath etc. >>>>>>> a bit of shitey wine and some stale bread. Tell him to cop himself on.
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I wouldn't mind but our U12s were due to play at HT! He would have been on and I would have been the proudest man there, but no....fecking Catholicism fecks it up for him. We would have converted to Baha'i years ago, but fanticism is banned.
 
My dad was flicking through the channels and we saw none other than Joe Canning on the Discovery Channel. I had a quick tug while watching in honour of TBP.
 
limerickcitykid said:
My dad was flicking through the channels and we saw none other than Joe Canning on the Discovery Channel. I had a quick tug while watching in honour of TBP.
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Good on ya kid. Not surprised he was on the Discovery channel, truth to be told he's the main reason Sky are so hell bent on getting the rights to the GAA coverage as well.

They didn't show this goal on the Discovery channel by any chance though, the one where he was barely out of nappies and he made absolute shite out of some lad Feeky and the rest of the Cork crowd used to call 'The Rock' or something.



Rock me hole.
 
The Black Pearl said:
Good on ya kid. Not surprised he was on the Discovery channel, truth to be told he's the main reason Sky are so hell bent on getting the rights to the GAA coverage as well.

They didn't show this goal on the Discovery channel by any chance though, the one where he was barely out of nappies and he made absolute shite out of some lad Feeky and the rest of the Cork crowd used to call 'The Rock' or something.



Rock me hole.
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Please do not confuse the place where I currently hang my hat with the country where my heart truly belongs. I'd like to see him do the same to Cian Dillon, he'd have to find his way out of Dillon's pocket first.
 
The Black Pearl said:
Good on ya kid. Not surprised he was on the Discovery channel, truth to be told he's the main reason Sky are so hell bent on getting the rights to the GAA coverage as well.

They didn't show this goal on the Discovery channel by any chance though, the one where he was barely out of nappies and he made absolute shite out of some lad Feeky and the rest of the Cork crowd used to call 'The Rock' or something.



Rock me hole.
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I'll leave that to Joe!!
 
He was being rugby tackled, the ref clearly played advantage and rightly so. It was all the one anyways, the ref could have blew for a 21, a penalty or even a sideline cut the sliotar was going to rattle the net the ref only sped things up a bit. You said you were a Cork man as well in that Irish thread in the general, how appropriate your allegiances are with The Banner these days.
 
The Black Pearl said:
He was being rugby tackled, the ref clearly played advantage and rightly so. It was all the one anyways, the ref could have blew for a 21, a penalty or even a sideline cut the sliotar was going to rattle the net the ref only sped things up a bit. You said you were a Cork man as well in that Irish thread in the general, how appropriate your allegiances are with The Banner these days.
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I believe what I said is "technically I'm from Cork". You can be sure I was wishing my allegiances weren't with The Banner when I was in Salthill watching Galway beat seven shades of shite out of them a few years back.
 
Listening to a Newstalk interview with Michael Meehan now. There was talk of his resignation but apparently he has called time on this season with a view to getting fitness back. Great player on his day. Would be a big big loss to Gaelic football should he not get back to it. Hope the summer off can sort him.
 
Lovely weather for the hurling league quarter finals and the relegation play off today.

Clare should make handy enough work of Laois in Portlaoise and Kilkenny should overcome Wexford as well.

The other two quarter finals, Limerick v Galway below in the Gaelic grounds and Tipp v Cork beyont in Thurles is a different story though, hard enough to call them and the relagation play-off between Waterford and Dublin the same.

I'll throw the price of a few pints on wins for Clare, Kilkenny, Galway, Cork and Dublin. And shure listen hey, all going well won't the price of my aul' day out be covered, petrol, snack box and a few saucepans in Linnanes when I get back. Can't complain about that.
 
Anthony Nash struck a 21 from about 11 yards out. He's even better/worse than last year!

Latest:

Tipp 3-9 Cork 3-11
Laois 1-9 Clare 1-13
Wexford 1-12 Kilkenny 2-10
Limerick 0-8 Galway 1-8
Waterford 1-9 Dublin 3-6
 
Tipp 3-25 Cork 4-19
Laois 2-19 Clare 2-23
Wexford 2-16 Kilkenny 4-22
Limerick 1-12 Galway 1-20
Waterford 1-17 Dublin 4-13

Semis:

Tipp v Clare
Kilkenny v Galway

Waterford to 1B.
 
Happy out with that Galway win today and overall their league campaign to date. Getting to the league semi's without the Portumna contingent of Damien Hayes, Andy Smyth and the lad we're supposed to be so reliant on isn't bad going. Cooney has done a fine job in the number 14 jersey in his absence with today probably his best performance totting up 1-9. Chatting a few Limerick lads and they were telling me that they've gone back a lot from what they were like last year which I was surprised enough to hear. They looked like a tidy enough outfit in last years Championship. Early days yet though.

If the head honcho's above in Croke Park has any sense now they'll make the semi's a double header either in Thurlas or the Gaelic grounds. Hard enough to call either of them too in fairness. I'd love to see a Galway v Clare final though, bias aside I think both teams play the nicest brands of hurling in the country. A lot of skillful hurlers on both sides.
 
It big bit fecked off that RTE didn't show Laois v Clare last night, but showed highlights of the fecking relegation playoff?? It's rare enough that I get to see Laois hurlers on tv and you'd imagine that the All Ireland champs would be platform enough for the excuse.

Heard Delaney's red card was harsh. Sure he broke it off your man's head, but heard it was weak ash in the hurl. 11 first-half wides for us and peno turned down for a 21 yd free in the second could've tightened it up even more.

On an aside, our footballers look destined for Div3 football next year unless they pull a big surprise next time out against Down. Division fecking three. Last time we were there, was 1986 (when we won the league).
 
Big Papi said:
It big bit fecked off that RTE didn't show Laois v Clare last night, but showed highlights of the fecking relegation playoff?? It's rare enough that I get to see Laois hurlers on tv and you'd imagine that the All Ireland champs would be platform enough for the excuse.

Heard Delaney's red card was harsh. Sure he broke it off your man's head, but heard it was weak ash in the hurl. 11 first-half wides for us and peno turned down for a 21 yd free in the second could've tightened it up even more.

On an aside, our footballers look destined for Div3 football next year unless they pull a big surprise next time out against Down. Division fecking three. Last time we were there, was 1986 (when we won the league).
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Yeah, 3 out of the 4 games they showed had already been on telly that weekend.

Heard the ref was awful. Some effort by Laois though. Come a long way since Ennis in the qualifiers.
 
Feeky Magee said:
Yeah, 3 out of the 4 games they showed had already been on telly that weekend.

Heard the ref was awful. Some effort by Laois though. Come a long way since Ennis in the qualifiers.
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Heard that alright. It was an exasperated commentator on midlands radio3!

Was surprised that they even had the commentary on it as usually they find some Westmeath U12c camoige relegation playoff to commentate on before looking at Laois, the hoors.
 
Big Papi said:
Heard that alright. It was an exasperated commentator on midlands radio3!

Was surprised that they even had the commentary on it as usually they find some Westmeath U12c camoige relegation playoff to commentate on before looking at Laois, the hoors.
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If you're near a radio or something this evening Wooly and boi's on off the ball are interviewing Seamus Cheddar Plunkett.
 
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