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Post by glengael on Jul 21, 2015 17:18:30 GMT
I was walking up Lewis Road the last day, it was still dry and relatively pleasant. The group in front of me stopped walking quite suddenly and I almost collided with them. Then I noticed one of them pointing and saying to the children who were about 10 or so. "Do you see that man over there? He's David Moran's father.He played football for Kerry as well".
The little exchange got me thinking. Is it really 40 years since that team exploded into the limelight . 40 years since we won the treble, minor, senior and u-21 with 3 teams sprinkled with greatness. It hasn't been done since.
At the time, I was of an age where we cut pictures and reports of Kerry matches out of the paper and kept them. I was delighted that Kerry won but too young to appreciate the significance of it all. Tis fair to say I've been hooked ever since.
Any thoughts or memories welcome from the few of you old enough to remember better than I as well as those of you who have grown up on stories of 75.
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Post by southward on Jul 21, 2015 17:34:27 GMT
40 years - sh*t, I feel really old now. Bummer.
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Post by Chinatown on Jul 21, 2015 18:46:49 GMT
My most enduring memory is in Austin stacks in '82, remembering that 5 in a row badges on sale, can't remember the ocassion could have been o'dorney in county championship....also the Monday afterwards a gang of us chatting and feeling glum before going into class...That is sport for you
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Post by dano on Jul 21, 2015 19:42:53 GMT
"And the Dublin fans numbed into silence, by the brilliance ,the absoloute brilliance of this young Kerry team"
Michael OHehir, September 1975. A great day, and we've had many since!
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Post by kerrygold on Jul 21, 2015 19:47:02 GMT
"And the Dublin fans numbed into silence, by the brilliance ,the absoloute brilliance of this young Kerry team" Michael OHehir, September 1975. A great day, and we've had many since! A forty year anniversary is almost a justifiable cause for winning an All-Ireland. |
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Post by inforthebreaks on Jul 21, 2015 20:03:02 GMT
"And the Dublin fans numbed into silence, by the brilliance ,the absoloute brilliance of this young Kerry team" Michael OHehir, September 1975. A great day, and we've had many since! A forty year anniversary is almost a justifiable cause for winning an All-Ireland. as far as I know they are having the 40th anniversary party in Waterville this October in the newly refurbished Lodge Hotel. Thats one of my earliest memories of those days.. Going down there to see these heroes.. giants of men in my eyes... going in for a night of celebration in that self same hotel. The always seemed about 8 foot tall back then. |
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Post by southward on Jul 21, 2015 20:27:28 GMT
And we got a half-day off school when the cup came round  |
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Post by G_S_J on Jul 21, 2015 21:35:40 GMT
Arguably the most memorable team photo of them all?  |
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Post by dano on Jul 21, 2015 22:29:35 GMT
I always Thought Mikey looked meek in that picture. In between Paudi and Deenihan. But He was the most lethal assassin of them all. In todays world of team Phsychs and multi numbered backroom teams Kerry's was there in that group picture....Leo Griffin! And you're dead right Kerrygold what a way to celebrate that 40th anniversary and indeed the memories of Tim, Paudi and John, would it be to see Kieran Donaghy making a rousing speech from the steps of the Lower Hogan later on this Fall.
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Post by duchalla on Jul 23, 2015 7:46:10 GMT
If Paudi tidied himself up a bit and gave Mikey a bit of room, he wouldnt look meek at all ;-)
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Post by ballynamona on Jul 23, 2015 18:41:15 GMT
Tipp with Babs Keating at FF gave Kerry a real fright in the very first game of that campaign. Kerry got a couple of goals at the very end which put a gloss on the scoreline.
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Post by sullyschoice on Jul 23, 2015 21:59:11 GMT
I have some old scrapbooks with cuttings from newspapers that I used to make every year. Must rummage around in the attic to see if I can find them. Really hard to believe it was that long ago.
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Post by Chinatown on Jul 24, 2015 12:17:32 GMT
I have some old scrapbooks with cuttings from newspapers that I used to make every year. Must rummage around in the attic to see if I can find them. Really hard to believe it was that long ago. Should boys of our age be rummaging in attic. Was speaking to a buddy at Christmas who works in A&E , the annual xmax fairy light rummage in attic leads to fair share of visits then. bi curamach:p |
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Post by onlykerry on Jul 24, 2015 20:23:10 GMT
The banners and flags is one of my memories of that period - in particular one Dublin banner that went something like 'In 55 we took a dive, but in 75 we are still alive' Michael O Hehir thought is clever - as we learnt that day they took another dive in 75. That game stopped a Dublin 4 in a row as they won 74, 76 & 77.
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Post by MrRasherstoyou on Jul 25, 2015 14:57:25 GMT
I've got the 1975 match program if anyone looking for one
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Post by kerrygold on Jul 26, 2015 13:13:22 GMT
I've got the 1975 match program if anyone looking for one Can you scan it and post some of it up here? |
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Post by Mickmack on Jul 28, 2015 19:35:14 GMT
At the start of 1975, Cork was the problem. Cork looked set fair to keep Kerry down for a decade. Cork has beaten Kerry in 1973 and 1974. That Kerry team had two huge foes in the mid 70s in Dublin and Cork and it wasn't till they put out the Cork fire in 1978 with the arrival of the Bomber that they could turn all guns on Dublin.
Forty years ago! The 1975 Munster Final seems like yesterday.
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Post by kerrygold on Jul 28, 2015 20:17:23 GMT
Billy Morgan also told us 2 or 3 years ago that Cork were going to dominate Kerry for much of this decade.
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Post by Mickmack on Jul 28, 2015 22:08:34 GMT
It has to be acknowledged too that Cork were fighting on both fronts in the mid 70s... the hurlers won the treble in 76.77 and 78 with JBM etc
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Post by glengael on Jul 29, 2015 10:06:30 GMT
And what younger folk need to remember is that it was do or die championship in those days.
One game was all you had to get it right, no qualifier no back door. The best you could hope for was a replay. If you lost then regardless of the quality of the performance,the championship was over for another year.
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