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Post by frankgalvintralee on Nov 18, 2014 14:29:54 GMT
Come on Stacks some performance to be 5 points down and to come back is just the sign of the character of our side Wallace for a Kerry Job in the future without doubt!
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 23, 2014 16:12:32 GMT
If you missed the Munster club hurling final, you should try to watch it on the TG4 player. Kilmallock won it in the end in extra time after the game was level at the end of normal time. An epic game with huge skill level and huge commitment from both sides. The last 5 minutes of normal time was sensational. Kilmallock found it easier to get points and this saw them home in the end.
This was Cratleos 15th game in 15 successive Sundays in both codes. They have now lost two Munster semi finals in successive sundays after extra time. The club final is in 5 months time on 17th March. Having two replays would have been fairer to Cratloe given their commitment to both codes.
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Post by sidelined on Nov 23, 2014 16:29:52 GMT
the last few minutes of normal time was brilliant. kilmallocks strenght under the ball was the deciding factor over the coarse of the game.
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Post by townend on Nov 23, 2014 16:42:01 GMT
i might put a sneak little bet on Rhode to win leinster not a word about them they have a very good forward line and a few county men in the back's.[/quote well my bet is still on they gave moorefield with the o'connor's on board a lesson in football today in tullamore they are still the dark horses for leinster
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Post by westmeathman on Nov 24, 2014 8:10:18 GMT
i might put a sneak little bet on Rhode to win leinster not a word about them they have a very good forward line and a few county men in the back's.[/quote well my bet is still on they gave moorefield with the o'connor's on board a lesson in football today in tullamore they are still the dark horses for leinster
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Post by westmeathman on Nov 24, 2014 8:41:19 GMT
i might put a sneak little bet on Rhode to win leinster not a word about them they have a very good forward line and a few county men in the back's.[/quote well my bet is still on they gave moorefield with the o'connor's on board a lesson in football today in tullamore they are still the dark horses for leinster Our own garrycastle seemed to give vincents a good run today (I wasn't at the game) How rhode keep producing these teams is beyond me. It's a pub and a shop at a crossroads in the middle of the bog
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 24, 2014 22:33:34 GMT
Does anyone remember the "Iron man from Rhode"!
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Post by kerrygold on Nov 24, 2014 22:38:28 GMT
Our own garrycastle seemed to give vincents a good run today (I wasn't at the game) How rhode keep producing these teams is beyond me. It's a pub and a shop at a crossroads in the middle of the bog Moorefield are hardly a barometer, the record of Kildare club football teams in Leinster will bear this out. Vincents to win comfortably.
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Post by veteran on Nov 24, 2014 22:47:06 GMT
Does anyone remember the "Iron man from Rhode"! I remember him well, Mick. A fairly uncouth merchant in the full back line. Of course, he would never get away with that conduct today, with all the cameras etc. The irony is that he lost the sight in one eye when he got a blow in a club match in Offaly. Living by the sword and dying by the sword I suppose.
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Post by townend on Nov 25, 2014 0:52:10 GMT
Our own garrycastle seemed to give vincents a good run today (I wasn't at the game) How rhode keep producing these teams is beyond me. It's a pub and a shop at a crossroads in the middle of the bog i will never forget seamus darbys goal as long as i live he was from Rhode also Johnny Mooney was a skilfull footballer his Niall Mac's uncle
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Post by townend on Nov 25, 2014 0:55:43 GMT
Does anyone remember the "Iron man from Rhode"! I remember him well, Mick. A fairly uncouth merchant in the full back line. Of course, he would never get away with that conduct today, with all the cameras etc. The irony is that he lost the sight in one eye when he got a blow in a club match in Offaly. Living by the sword and dying by the sword I suppose. he lost his sight in his eye in a league match, and the funny thing is it was his own man Martin Furlong who done him as he came for a ball and took fulforward and Mccormack out of it i think it was around 1974 but he was way past his best then, was a hardy *er all the same.
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Post by townend on Nov 25, 2014 0:59:31 GMT
Our own garrycastle seemed to give vincents a good run today (I wasn't at the game) How rhode keep producing these teams is beyond me. It's a pub and a shop at a crossroads in the middle of the bog just back to Rhode village i remember reading in a book that their is 16 all irelands medals in the village which is some doing from 1971,72,82, winning teams
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Post by townend on Nov 25, 2014 1:03:10 GMT
Moorefield are hardly a barometer, the record of Kildare club football teams in Leinster will bear this out. Vincents to win comfortably. yes you would have to fancy vincents to win leinster and all ireland again, but if ever there was a underdog team to upset the odds an offaly team are the masters at it, wouldn't be shocked if they did beat vincents.
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Post by Chinatown on Nov 25, 2014 21:40:53 GMT
Praise for Austin Stacks colourful fans – ‘The supporters are unique, I’ve never seen anything like it’ jrnl.ie/1798286
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Post by westmeathman on Nov 25, 2014 21:57:58 GMT
just back to Rhode village i remember reading in a book that their is 16 all irelands medals in the village which is some doing from 1971,72,82, winning teams Some record alright. Generally when I pass through there I don't even see a person never mind an all Ireland medal lol
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Post by Deise Exile on Nov 25, 2014 22:05:47 GMT
Anyone know why the match is switched to that s*** h**e PUIC?
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 25, 2014 23:03:10 GMT
Going on what was shown on TG4, the standard in Leinster is poor. Vincents sleepwalking to the final so far.
A lot of awful defending and loose marking.
Corofin looked impressive alright.
But Stacks need not fear anyone in my opinion.
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Post by townend on Nov 25, 2014 23:30:35 GMT
in fairness munster has been poor enough the Nire wouldn't get to a leinster final in 100 years the Stacks will win the munster its not that they are great they are the best of a bad bunch in munster.
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Post by townend on Nov 25, 2014 23:46:49 GMT
Going on what was shown on TG4, the standard in Leinster is poor. Vincents sleepwalking to the final so far. A lot of awful defending and loose marking. Corofin looked impressive alright. But Stacks need not fear anyone in my opinion. i wouldn't rule out Omagh up the north if they win up there a few tyrone seniors and a few from tyrone winning underage teams.
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Post by fitz on Nov 26, 2014 10:36:02 GMT
in fairness munster has been poor enough the Nire wouldn't get to a leinster final in 100 years the Stacks will win the munster its not that they are great they are the best of a bad bunch in munster. I wouldn't be dismissing the Nire, the Crokes fell over the line by a point against them in final a couple of years back, and the impression I sensed was Cratloe are half decent. Vincents are like the Dubs, in that 1) they are Dubs 2) are untested and thus exposed to an ambush like their senior county team counterparts
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Post by Jigz84 on Nov 26, 2014 10:42:10 GMT
Praise for Austin Stacks colourful fans – ‘The supporters are unique, I’ve never seen anything like it’ jrnl.ie/1798286Colourful but were outnumbered the last day!
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Post by Deise Exile on Nov 27, 2014 22:29:51 GMT
The cork crowd have scuppered the stacks march to the ground by all accounts
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Post by G_S_J on Nov 28, 2014 18:34:10 GMT
All smoothed over now, they'll be marching from Cork Con Rugby club to the stadium.
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Post by tpo on Nov 29, 2014 11:53:06 GMT
Is it on TG4 live ?
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 29, 2014 12:21:04 GMT
By Michael Moynihan
Austin Stacks need to capitalise on, as much as celebrate, their first Kerry football title in 20 years, believes former Rock Street great Ger O’Keeffe
AIB MUNSTER CLUB SFC FINAL:
Austin Stacks (Kerry) v The Nire (Waterford)
Kerry’s golden years team always had a streak of black and amber to it.
When Mick O’Dwyer’s side rolled over all comers in the 70s and 80s Austin Stacks contributed manpower and expertise: John O’Keeffe, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power and Ger O’Keeffe were cornerstones of the team and brought plenty of All-Ireland medals back to their Rock Street clubhouse. With that kind of backstory, a time-traveller wouldn’t be surprised to hear they line out against The Nire of Waterford in tomorrow’s Munster club final.
He might be taken aback that they’ve just come out of a two-decade drought without a county title, though. Ger O’Keeffe points to various contributing factors, from natural attrition to specific demographics.
“It’s a surprise to be so long without winning the Kerry championship,” says the former Kerry selector.
“We were generating a considerable amount of quality footballers at underage level, but we were losing them from the age of 16, 17, 18 onwards – like a lot of clubs.
“There seems to be a general problem with young fellas once they go to that age where they head to university or get jobs – certainly we lost a pile of players in that way over the years.”
Developments in the North Kerry area didn’t help them. O’Keeffe points to the changing face of Tralee. Where there used to be three clubs, Na Gaeil came into the Oakpark area of Tralee, which was a mainstay of the Stacks teams back in the seventies.
“That made a difference, but it doesn’t just apply to Stacks – St Patrick’s of Blennerville would be taking players from Kerins O’Rahilly’s, while you have the likes of Ballymac drawing players as well.
“There’d be a sense of people moving out of the town of Tralee and of that having a knock-on effect on the main clubs in the town, because their base was not increasing. The amount of area they were drawing from wasn’t getting any bigger either.”
They mined what quality they could and turned up a sparkling gem in the current Kerry full-forward. O’Keeffe agrees that having a prominent county player is a huge asset to a club: “Particularly a player like Kieran (Donaghy), who’s very influential throughout the club.
“When I was playing there were five or six of us on the Kerry team, and that was detrimental in one sense, because when Kerry were so successful the club wasn’t as successful as it might have been.
“We only won one Munster club championship, one All-Ireland club championship – we came up against some fantastic Nemo teams in Munster, and Thomond College tripped us up a couple of times when they were a league of nations team.
Donaghy’s extraordinary late-season renaissance has energised the entire club, says O’Keeffe.
“Nowadays having county players on your club team is a huge benefit, and Kieran is the perfect example of that. As he’s risen, he’s carried the club along with his exuberance and euphoria. If you look at the Munster final in Cork, he didn’t play any part, and in the All-Ireland semi-final, the first day against Mayo the management probably felt they had nothing to lose and threw him on, and suddenly Kerry end up winning an All-Ireland.”
O’Keeffe also points out that the gregarious, outgoing Donaghy is suited to that role of figurehead: “He’s been superb for the club as a role model – he’s brought the young lads along with him and they seem to be rising to the occasion. When he plays well the club plays well.
At present Stacks are fundraising to buy land, so the spotlight is welcome. O’Keeffe says they’re determined to make the most of their success on and off the field: they’ve waited long enough for another county title and they know opportunities have to be seized. There’s a sense they might have achieved more at club level when their big names were visiting Croke Park every September.
“We’re hoping to run a corporate lunch to raise funds early in the new year, while the club is going well we want to strike while the iron is hot and advance matters.
“Look, obviously if you’re successful – if the club were to progress in the All-Ireland series after tomorrow, say – you’d be hoping that parents would think, ‘well, we’ll send our kids down there’.
That’s only natural when a club is going well, it happened to Kerins O’Rahillys when they were going well, the same with John Mitchels.
“The unfortunate thing was when Kerry were successful back in the seventies that there were nearly too many Stacks players on the selection, because you were trying to serve two masters, and the club probably didn’t win as much as it could have.
“That’s different now. The training and preparations are both more structured, and so is the social aspect, by the way. It was very social years ago, particularly at club level. Fellas are certainly entitled to celebrate, of course they are, but when you have momentum as a team it’s important to maintain that.
“Stacks built that momentum with the games coming close together this year in the county championship, the players really saw it as an opportunity and responded accordingly.
“One thing about the break over Christmas before the All-Ireland series is that it seems to have had an effect on a lot of teams, that it breaks their momentum. Certainly Dr Crokes haven’t been as good after Christmas in their All-Ireland campaigns as before Christmas.
“To me running off the club campaigns in the calendar year would make more sense. Hopefully on Sunday we’ll be thinking ahead about that.
Munster Club Championship: Last five champions
2013: Dr Crokes (Kerry)
2012: Dr Crokes (Kerry)
2011: Dr Crokes (Kerry)
2010: Nemo Rangers (Cork)
2009: Kilmurry-Ibrickane (Clare)
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 29, 2014 15:24:31 GMT
Final Score Ardfert 1.12 Valley Rovers 1.10. I couldn't make this game unfortunately so I was very glad of radio Kerrys commentary. With 4 minutes to go to half time Valley Rovers were in control and 4 points up. Suddenly Ardfert got a grip and flashed over 3 points from play. Valley Rovers got a grip again at the start of the second half and went 3 up with 15 to go approx. Ardfert needed a goal and they upped the intensity and got the goal to level. They went for it then and won by two points. A cracking game with brilliant scores played in ideal conditions. Great interview with Ardfert manager Stephen Wallace on radio Kerry here www.radiokerry.ie/sport/live-score-updates-ardfert-v-valley-rovers/
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Post by sidelined on Nov 29, 2014 17:10:01 GMT
massive massive win for ardfert today. to an outsider on paper just a div 3 outfit who punch above their weight, but what heart, what determination, what never say die attitude and back this up with football skill. well done ardfert ye did yere club and kerry proud. quote from wheesie "when the chips were down, their tails were up".
also was there a mention of a 21st in mid kerry
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 30, 2014 12:49:02 GMT
Austin Stacks' footballers have already amassed 89 senior medals, and if you throw in minor, U-21, junior and ladies - plus John Barry's junior hurling one - it rounds up to a neat 200.
Cheering them on in tomorrow's Munster final against The Nire will be their famous '16th Man' supporters' club, providing a tumultuous wave of noise.
Eleven buses of supporters will arrive at Con, grab a bit of grub, and then head off on their now-traditional parade to the ground, complete with band and well-rehearsed chants.
The tradition began around the time of their last Kerry senior title, 20 years ago, a gap they finally bridged this year, and now it's the kids of '94 that lead it, including Billy Sheehan.
He is best known as a Laois footballer but his heritage - his dad Timmy was wing-forward on the famous Rockies team that won the 1977 All-Ireland club title - means that on big-match days Billy is the man with the megaphone, the chief cheerleader of Stacks' fantastically vocal supporters.
His father still marvels at the memories of some of their glory days, like the 1975 Munster final which went to a second replay against Nemo Rangers, all three games played in Limerick.
"One of the most significant things about those games is that 10 All Stars were involved," Timmy Sheehan recalls. "Five for us and five for Nemo!"
The Rock's stellar line-up in the '70s was truly blinding, featuring Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, Ger and John O'Keeffe as well as Cork's All Star midfielder Dinny Long.
Nemo were their nemesis on more than one occasion, packed with their own superstars like Billy Morgan, Dinny Allen, Frank Cogan, Brian Murphy and Jimmy Barrett.
The Cork giants beat them by two points (2-6 to 1-7) in the '74 Munster final and again (by 1-9 to 0-10) at the end of that epic three-game tussle in '75.
A year later, in their third Munster final in a row, Stacks faced another Cork team, St Finbarr's, and Sheehan still recalls the dramatic last moments.
Scored
"We got a penalty and Mikey scored it with the last kick of the game. Everyone was thinking, 'Ah, he'll put it over' for a draw but he went for it, like only he could," he says.
"If he'd missed we wouldn't have won Munster or the All-Ireland, everything hung on that kick."
Sheehan points out what a huge work-load Stacks' '70s superstars had.
"In '76 John O'Keeffe also captained Kerry. They were beaten by Dublin in the All-Ireland final and, a week later, all those players lined out for us in the county final, and we played in the first round of Munster another week later. And people talk about 'burnout' nowadays!" he says.
They went all the way that season. Sheehan provided a vital goal against Portlaoise in the semi-final but they didn't have it all their own way against Derry champions Ballerin in the All-Ireland, winning 1-13 to 2-7.
"We had a marvellous game with Portlaoise and we conceded two goals very early to Ballerin and gave them a seven- or eight-point start," recalls Dinny Long.
Stacks' Cork star, a native of Millstreet, crossed the border because his cousin was vacating a job there and offered it to him.
"He asked me if I'd be interested in going to Tralee and I told him I'd no notion of it but I said I'll give it six months and see how it goes. It's 44 years later and I'm still here," Long chuckles, quipping that to officially qualify as a local he'd still need to "take out a 'country membership' and add another 50 or 60 years to my life."
He'd already played against and alongside (in the Railway Cup) the club's Kerry stars but his first digs in Tralee proved particularly fortuitous, just a few doors away from Sheehy's home, and the pair became firm friends.
"It's quite a small area," he says of the club's heartland. "Even though Tralee is quite a big town you have four clubs playing out of it and Rock Street is a very tight-knit community.
"The players all live quite close to each other and that helps to create that tightness, and the supporters are the same."
His son Darragh is part of this year's glory run.
"After playing 16 or 17 years he finally won his county championship medal this year and I was delighted for him. It would be wonderful if they could do it in Munster too," says Long.
The Rockies won in Kerry in 1979, '86 and '94, so this year's success has been long-awaited.
Timmy Sheehan went on to become one of the great pillars of Tralee Tigers, another club that put the town on the national sporting map. His basketball passion meant the small white ball never appealed to him, but Long, now retired from his electrical business, plays off eight and his regular golfing buddies are often a cast of ex-All Stars.
Tomorrow, he says, is not just for the next generation of standard-bearers like Kieran Donaghy but for all of Rock Street's "unsung heroes, the people who've been looking after the juveniles and keeping the club going in bad times as well as good".
"They have their day out when the team plays in a county final and whenever we produce players who line out for Kerry at any level. That's their reward, to go to Cork tomorrow and see the team play in the Munster final and I hope they have the luck that we had there," says Long.
"There's great camaraderie between all the lads," he adds of his great buddies from the golden team of '77.
"You'll get a phone call from Ger Power or someone asking you to play (golf) tomorrow and we'll head out and that's lovely. Like they say, it's more about the people that you meet than the medals or trophies that you win. They're friends for life."
Irish Independent
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 30, 2014 12:53:11 GMT
I had always thought that Stacks were two points down when Mikey scored that penalty v St Finbarrs with the last kick of the game. He stuck it into the top left hand corner. I will never forget it.
And 10 ALL STARS on the pitch in 1975 and 1975 when they played Nemo. They were awesome games between the two best teams in the country at that time.
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Post by Mickmack on Nov 30, 2014 15:32:23 GMT
I was reading during the week that The Nire draws from the same small pool as a separate hurling club and the population of the village..Ballymacarbery is about 300. The romantic in me wanted them to win today and they were 1.02 up after 5 mins. Then Shane Carroll gets a second yellow and soneone has to stand up for the Stacks or tis curtains. That man was Shane OCallaghan. Not alone is he skillful off both feet but his can fetch a high one over his head and that's a priceless asset as we saw with Paul Geaney in 2014. So I would expect Shane to be "inside in Killarney" sometime in 2015.
This was always going to be tricky after that massive game v Ballincollig. They ground it out and just about deserved it. Conor Gleeson was the lynchpin at CHB for the Waterford minor hurlers last year. Clearly he an even better footballer.
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