Piseogs

[kerrygold]

Are ye all still riddled with All-Ireland week piseogs? I think I'm nearly free of them all now. Well, I'm not sure yet if I'll be able to resist parking the car in a particular direction on Sunday week!

[givehimaball]

Zero time for them - superstitious nonsense and a sign of lazy/impaired critical thinking imo.

[Seoirse Ui Duic]

Always wear the same t-shirt under the jersey, a long sleeve one. Unless it's really too hot, which it rarely is.
Also plan the trip and the day long in advance, leaving nothing to chance.
Need to pick up some whiskey this week for the nerves and to celebrate after.
Not a full bottle of course and strictly top shelf stuff.
Laphraoig or a 15 year old Glenfiddich would do.
If we don't win it will help to keep me seduced until I get home.
Don't really like drinking large amounts of beer but would need a wee victory drink if we win.
Small drop of the uisce beatha would do it.
With water charges coming in it might be the most affordable water soon.

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Sept 12, 2014 22:51:32 GMT Seoirse Ui Duic said:

Always wear the same t-shirt under the jersey, a long sleeve one. Unless it's really too hot, which it rarely is.
Also plan the trip and the day long in advance, leaving nothing to chance.
Need to pick up some whiskey this week for the nerves and to celebrate after.
Not a full bottle of course and strictly top shelf stuff.
Laphraoig or a 15 year old Glenfiddich would do.
If we don't win it will help to keep me seduced until I get home.
Don't really like drinking large amounts of beer but would need a wee victory drink if we win.
Small drop of the uisce beatha would do it.
With water charges coming in it might be the most affordable water soon.

I always have to call to the graveyard the day before the match to have a chat with the old man. If  I Dont go we Dont win .

[Annascaultilidie]

Sept 12, 2014 22:02:37 GMT givehimaball said:

Zero time for them - superstitious nonsense and a sign of lazy/impaired critical thinking imo.

I wouldn't be into it either but whatever floats one's boat I suppose.

[fitz]

Yeah, whatever one believes and makes one feel better, seems best. The only piseogs I think that could have any bearing on the game are those if harboured by its players and respective management, affecting their mental state.
I can't imagine I will be able to claim that any potential salutation of a magpie or even magpieii on Sunday week assisted JOD to 2-7. Would I try though?

[Corner Back]

I have to go to Flannery's the night before!

[Corner Back]

“your only a gombeen” The reply from the Kerryman was just a shake of the head and “yerra that is your opinion” The Kerryman knowing that a gombeen shows his hand and a Kerryman keeps his cards close to his chest. He does not want insult – he may want to take money off him at the Listowel Races, Rose of Tralee or in Killarney some Summers evening next year.

To look at the map you could not see a more isolated county. We have just the two neighbours. There are the noisey neighbours to the South and the hurlers to the East. Even Michael Phelps would not find land to the West. Coming out of Pairc Ui Rinn after a 22 point defeat for the U-21 team a few years ago a Corkman declared that Kerry were finished. It was hard to disagree with him the same night. A meeting with the same man at a league game in Tralee earlier this year he declared that “Kerry are finished for evermore” The Kerryman smiled and said nothing. Hoping to himself that Cork had a false sense of security. There was no sign of the same man after the final whistle at Pairc Ui Caoimh. He left early “to avoid the traffic” He lives in Mahon and walks down the old railway line to “the Pairc”

I love going towards Croke Park and observing people. You meet all different types. The tourist wondering what the hell is going on. The confident Dubs. The socially awkard Kerryman. You know the type – the man that would be lost if he went beyond Castleisland on the Fair Day. The man that would be looking around, not talking to anybody but taking it all in. He looks like a fool to the natives but he is anything but. He sold 40 bales out of the rushy field to the man sitting next to him on the bus us. He could have sold more but better hold onto them in case it is a bad Spring (as opposed to a bad year when Kerry don’t win the All Ireland). He stands at the Pedestrian Lights waiting for the green man. The green man appears but he is not first to cross the road in case the traffic lights have not turned red. Let others be the guinea pigs.

“Yiz have nothing in that boghole” declares the Dub. “Yerra sure if that is the case why do ye call down to us every Summer” was the swift reply. They love Killarney and everything it has. Ladies View, The Gap of Dunloe, the jaunting cars, the fresh air. There is no doubt that Kerry punch above their weight. Mick Galway and Siobhan Fleming come from a village that does not have a rugby club, yet they excelled. Killarney does not have the best roads into it. Yet the tourist flock to it. Then there is John B. and Con Houlihan. Did either go to University?

To get the best out of a Kerryman you have to question his character. Tell him he can’t do it or there is better than him. People forget that Mick O’Dwyer and Mick O’Connell were dropped in the 60’s for “the younger brigade” The boys found some needy charity and thought it would be nice to organise a fundraising match. The former soldiers against the younger brigade. The former soldiers won and the two Micko’s were recalled to the Kerry set up. The charity got a few bob but the real beneficiaries were who the lads intended it to be. Themselves. They won two more All Ireland medals. Two of a very select few to win All Irelands in three different decades – the 50’s 60’s and 70’s.

What does it mean to be a Kerryman. It means everything. As the great John B. Keane once said “to be born a Kerryman, in my opinion is the greatest gift that God can bestow on any man” One could not disagree with a man of such stature.

All the best to those in search of tickets. I am sure no stone will be left unturned. Safe travelling to all next weekend.