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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 24, 2009 20:26:22 GMT
Did you not cry on the day Sully..... Watching the emotion of the team (it was like the 1st All Ireland we had ever won)... Really got to me..... My youngfella had tears in his eyes last year after the final....this year it was my turn to get in touch with my feminine side.
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Post by chrism on Sept 24, 2009 21:11:07 GMT
Would still be hopeful enough for 2010 as our forwards are young and our defence might have another year left. After that I think Cork will take over. A cork friend of mine who I Have huge respect for tells me that Ciaran Sheehan is going to be one of most exciting prospects ever to hit Cork GAA. Worst for us , He is not going to OZ. Also feel when Cork Hurling is down the footballers do very well.
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Post by nicoshea on Sept 24, 2009 21:30:17 GMT
Did you not cry on the day Sully..... Watching the emotion of the team (it was like the 1st All Ireland we had ever won)... Really got to me..... My youngfella had tears in his eyes last year after the final....this year it was my turn to get in touch with my feminine side. I cried last year also......
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2009 21:46:32 GMT
I watched the radio one show with Brian Carthy on the rte website. John O Shea is some ignorant fecker. Declan was p*ssing himself at some of the rubbish being spouted.
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Post by the1theyalllove on Sept 24, 2009 21:53:32 GMT
Just watched that there as well - great to see Declan and the boys in action.....fair play to the boys for giving up some of their time after the win to do a show like this. What struck me most about this year is how the likes of Declan has shown such leadership to think that he is only 26.......
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2009 21:55:26 GMT
Declan is made of good stuff. He has had a phenomenal career and will go down as one of the all time greats.
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Post by sullyschoice on Sept 24, 2009 22:04:30 GMT
I watched the radio one show with Brian Carthy on the rte website. John O Shea is some ignorant fecker. Declan was p*ssing himself at some of the rubbish being spouted. Brian Carthy is one of the worst comentators ever to sit behind a microphone. I watched the recording of the match tonight. Canning was poor, and Carney was shocking, and still they are light years ahead of TV3.
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Post by smiler on Sept 24, 2009 22:08:19 GMT
congrats, but i wonder if a tyrone player had clothes lined an opponent in the final would he have walked or would he have been allowed to carry on. plus there was no spouting from spillane about kerry's cynical fouling aka ''puke football''. enjoy your year we'll be back in 2010.
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Post by mozzy on Sept 25, 2009 3:14:14 GMT
Cupla Ceist - Did anyone else feel that the pitch was still not right in Croke Park - players were still slipping all over the place - especially when they made some tight turns? Did your heart stop when Tadgh threw the shoulder high in the opening seconds? Would another ref have done the worst? Finally a ref took note of the tugging - tearing and routing that Gooch gets each and every year out - hopefully, we will get him next time against Tyrone.... How would it have started if we had started with DW? I still believe he was hard done by - although it worked out for the best and substituting Tadgh was a big question .... however the tactics looked like they were truly well thought out and half time's message was defend as if your life depended on it... Jaysus it's been a fantastic week of just being truly happy after this victory ... wish I could be home for the celebrations...... doesn't matter I carry with it in me every day and know when I get home for Christmas ... we will still be All Ireland Champions... glad I had the Sam at my wedding back in April 08 - asked the wife if she would marry me again....
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Post by chieftain on Sept 25, 2009 6:24:21 GMT
This was a victory dug from the trenches. It was full of authority, confidence and substance. The shutdown of Canty, Miskella and Pierce O Neill was an awesome defensive display. Donnacha Walshs substitution continued to Keep Canty honest and on the back foot despite 80,000 people scratching their head. Management made a decision that Canty was going to deend for 70 minutes. I thought the Cork backs were excellent. Gooch held scoreless. Kerry never looked like getting a goal whereas Cork were more dangerous in front of goal. Both defenses were excellent and we needed a player with something special to separate the sides. Many thought this was going to be Colm Cooper it ended up being Walsh. I thought Kerry failed to press home their advantage in the second half and were very Northern in their posture. It was not nice but Jack brings home the bacon. I think if Johnny Culloty was still around the second half display would have being more positive and kerry would have done it with more style and with a better scoring margin. Still Kerry choked the space and Cork had to kick from distance. Their running game was negated at source and their plan b was kicking from 4o yards plus and it was poor to say the least.
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Post by kerryscoob on Sept 25, 2009 8:52:24 GMT
Lets be honest Kerry played better losing the AI in 2008, than they played winning it last Sunday.
But where is SAM today but in the Kingdom, we played the champagne football in Aug. against the Dubs, last Sunday was not the place for it.
Our second half display was to hold what we have, here in Cork there is a belief that they lost it, poor kicking, poor decision making on the line, but try explain to them we went down when it was down to a single score and kicked 3 points at our ease. I dont think we were put to the pin of our collar.
We did what we had to do.
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Post by frasier on Sept 25, 2009 9:32:58 GMT
Spot on Kerryscoob........... We did what we had to do........ The quality of last years final was way higher and the quality of our play was better but we didnt bring home the bacon..... We played winning football last sunday because that was required as underdogsa nd at the end of the day thats all that matters
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Post by ardfertnarrie on Sept 25, 2009 9:49:22 GMT
Absolutely agree Kerryscoob. Champagne football doesn't always yield the right result. 2002 and 2008 spring to mind. If we had set up a game plan last year like we did this year, and put out our strongest 15, then I believe this would have made 4 in a row!
Put then again if we had won last year, would the hunger have been there this year??
And if your aunt had balls etc etc....
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Post by austinstacksabu on Sept 25, 2009 10:06:23 GMT
A die hard GAA man from Dublin whom I work with, and whom I hadn't seen since before the final, walked up to me today and just said:
"Enjoy the celebrations, they are a super team".
The happiness rolls on and on with this one.
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Post by tottenham on Sept 25, 2009 13:20:56 GMT
Spot on Kerryscoob........... We did what we had to do........ The quality of last years final was way higher and the quality of our play was better but we didnt bring home the bacon..... We played winning football last sunday because that was required as underdogsa nd at the end of the day thats all that matters Lads it wouldnt bother me if Kerry won the last day by 2 pts to 1.All that matters is we won... "The end Justifies the means"
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Post by sambo on Sept 25, 2009 13:35:45 GMT
For me Declan O'Sullivan is the heart beat of the team. You can talk about the gooch, O'Se brothers, Kennelly etc but I believe this team would not have got as far this year without him. He will go down as one of the best of all time.
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Post by misteallaigh abú on Sept 25, 2009 13:56:23 GMT
For me Declan O'Sullivan is the heart beat of the team. You can talk about the gooch, O'Se brothers, Kennelly etc but I believe this team would not have got as far this year without him. He will go down as one of the best of all time. Declan is indeed a fine player and his running on and off the ball is an important part of what makes the rest of them click. As regards the heartbeat of the team, I couldn't look any further than the men from Ard A Bhóthair, imagine, and that day will come soon, a Kerry team without the 3 O Sé brothers? All these guys want to do is play for Kerry and win. My better half is from Laois, and having been at many kerry matches with me, as well as Laois games,she often says that she can see how much it means to Kerry players to play for their county and can see that they have a huge sense of pride, (unlike the men of her native county) especially the O Sé brothers. A wise woman!
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Post by austinstacksabu on Sept 25, 2009 14:12:37 GMT
One week on, sitting at my desk doing up a data analysis request, and all I can see is Marc swooping across the late ball into goal and driving out towards the Cusack with it.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yessssssssssssssss.
A warm winter awaits us Kerry folk.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2009 14:24:45 GMT
This weekend will consist of
Friday - several pints where the match will be reanalysed in detail by me and a few other "experts". Saturday - rewatch the match, Sunday game and radio kerry commentary Sunday - get Sunday papers and read further analysis. Will have another look at the Dublin match.
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Post by Die Hard Kerry Fan on Sept 25, 2009 14:55:58 GMT
Isn't it great being from Kerry.. On a high all week.. YAAAAHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Post by glengael on Sept 25, 2009 15:11:10 GMT
Watched the first half last night. The commentary was surreal, I wondered what game Canning and Carney watched. I thought the body languague of the Kerry players in the parade was interesting, very confident and watching them again I felt that surge of pride the same as it felt on Sunday.
Declan is , as someone said, the heartbeat of the team, that point is worth watching again and again . Did I read somewhere that he played in the Primary Game on the day of the 1995 All Ireland Final ? If so that might explain why he seems so at home in Croke Park..
I will watch the second half tonight or maybe tomorrow night , maybe with the sound turned down a little!
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Post by mafi97 on Sept 25, 2009 16:22:37 GMT
Cupla Ceist - Did anyone else feel that the pitch was still not right in Croke Park - players were still slipping all over the place - especially when they made some tight turns? Did your heart stop when Tadgh threw the shoulder high in the opening seconds? Would another ref have done the worst? Finally a ref took note of the tugging - tearing and routing that Gooch gets each and every year out - hopefully, we will get him next time against Tyrone.... How would it have started if we had started with DW? I still believe he was hard done by - although it worked out for the best and substituting Tadgh was a big question .... however the tactics looked like they were truly well thought out and half time's message was defend as if your life depended on it... Jaysus it's been a fantastic week of just being truly happy after this victory ... wish I could be home for the celebrations...... doesn't matter I carry with it in me every day and know when I get home for Christmas ... we will still be All Ireland Champions... glad I had the Sam at my wedding back in April 08 - asked the wife if she would marry me again.... I agree completely with you about the pitch. TG it was a dry day. One example: Both legs go from Donaghy as he tries to cut in along the endline. Donnacha arrives to retrieve the situation, but as he bends to take possession, both his legs go from under him. Could just as easily have happened to two of our backline in the first half when we would have been defending rather than attacking - along that exact endline. I also agree with your comment (question???) about Donnacha. The amount of ground covered by him was unreal. He was involved in everything. God, I would hate to be supposed to marking him. I dont think one journalist even noted his contribution. He would make a fortune if he ever turned to crime. There would never be any evidence against him. Nobody would ever have seen him. No witnesses. I must look again at team photographs to see if he actually is visible. In the great Spurs side of the early 60's, they had an inside forward called John White. Among the stellar stars of that team, he was never mentioned by the media of the day. His knickname was "The Ghost". But, to this day, his team mates always gave top billing. They knew. Maybe Donnacha should get a bit of PR going - or, at least, learn a bit of an ould jig. Although in Donnacha's case, it would probably be a side-step.
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Post by lorr29 on Sept 25, 2009 16:34:16 GMT
The thing I noticed in the parade walk about was I think it was Tom O'Sullivan jumping some height off the ground while walking around, they just looked so fired up...Sitting here now a weeks work done, the irish papers sent over to me and about to read Mr Cahalane's analysis of it all...will be a sweet weekend.....
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Post by Mickmack on Sept 25, 2009 19:31:16 GMT
Tommy Griffin slipped too which led to the goal.
In the hurling final, the move that led to the penalty involved a slip by the Tipp back. This enabled Comerford to get a clear run on goal before making the handpass.
All Irelands shouldnt be decided by who slip the least.
As regards Donncha he is definately the most improved player of 2009. His footballing brain is top drawer and his ability to pass the ball into the net is exceptional. He has added a bit of steel to his game which was badly needed.
I think though that Jack was correct with the team he picked.
His substitutions are improved things at a crucial time.
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Post by clarinman on Sept 25, 2009 20:15:12 GMT
Lets be honest Kerry played better losing the AI in 2008, than they played winning it last Sunday. But where is SAM today but in the Kingdom, we played the champagne football in Aug. against the Dubs, last Sunday was not the place for it. Our second half display was to hold what we have, here in Cork there is a belief that they lost it, poor kicking, poor decision making on the line, but try explain to them we went down when it was down to a single score and kicked 3 points at our ease. I dont think we were put to the pin of our collar. We did what we had to do. Can't agree with your point that we played better in the final last year. We played good football for 15 minutes against Tyrone and then resorted to hoofing it in high to the full-forward line. In the end the 4 point defeat flattered us - Tyrone like Cork missed alot of scores in the second half. We can kid ourselves and pretend that the save from Declan cost us the game. We were overrun iby Tyrone in the last 20 minutes. Our 2005 performance was alot better against a better Tyrone team. Last Sunday we played super football for 20 minutes after we went 1-3 to 1 down. This was some of the best football I have seen Kerry play in over 30 years going to Croke park. I know that we played negatively in the 2nd half but we never looked like losing. We were always able to go up a gear when Cork got close - alot different to last year.
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Post by falveyb2k on Sept 25, 2009 21:16:45 GMT
We obviously weren't over run in the last twenty minutes because with ten minutes to go we overturned a deficit to go ahead. the problem was we put everything into it to get to that situation and couldn't lift it again in the last few minutes after we missed the goal and resultant 45. If we had the wing forwards we started this year we'd have won(we also had other half forwards on the bench in better form).
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Post by falveyb2k on Sept 25, 2009 21:19:29 GMT
Anyway what's the point in rehashing last year when now all the wrongs have been righted, the natural order of the world has been restored and Sam has returned to his rightful home in the Kingdom.
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Post by Riocht on Sept 25, 2009 21:33:25 GMT
"Agus tá SAM sa bhaile agus ag dul ag dreapadóireacht go barr Cnoc Bhréanain amárach!" ;D Anyone know if he's going to Bóthar Pub to quench his thirst after the climb?
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Post by Deeb on Sept 25, 2009 21:44:05 GMT
After a number of very downable pints in Mulligans after the game we retired to Thunder Road cafe for some food and were standing outside afterwards full of contentedness, drink and food and were looking a bit subdued thinking where we would go next to continue the celebrations. A Cork couple across the road spotted the 3 of us in such a pensive docile stance and shouted across the road "Liven up for Gods sake your just after winning the All Ireland" Without batting an eyelid I roared back "Were sick of winning them, will you leave us alone were saving ourselves for next years final!" ;D
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Post by kerryfanatic on Sept 25, 2009 22:55:27 GMT
Congratulations, to all the Kerry team... they are wonderful, was at the match and they all played fantastically... was so proud all week. Kerry has been knocked so much this year.... I am so glad we proved the critics wrong... who cares about the begrudgers.... we have sam and 36 all irelands.
I am so proud... and emotional, it was a fantastic day and was so happy to be at the match and postmatch celebrations.. I will be celebrating all year and next, am looking forward to a nice warm winter with sam on our doorstep..
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