Sunday Tribune Bites Back

[buck02]

As if we didnt need any more proof that lazy GAA journalists dont trawl through various GAA forums for ideas, the Sunday Tribune yesterday took a swipe at this very forum for slagging off Ewan McKennas selection of his Team of the Year (see the thread on Page 3 thats now locked "2007 All Stars" or something like that (& look at their team I posted on page 10 of that thread).

The bauld McKenna, obviously still smarting from Monaghan's failure to win any silverware in their greatest season for 20 years, asks the question of us Kerry Forumites: Do ye watch any other football except the all ireland final?

Well given the 20 odd pages on the Kerry County Championship, the threads on the Intermediate, Junior & Novice Championships, county leagues, and the infamous North Kerry Championship on this forum, the numerous threads on all Kerry games (yes McGrath Cup, National League, even the feckin Underdogs game) since 2003 on the old forum and this, the same said "journalist" may well have a change in mind.

I'm not sure if the Sports Editor of the Tribune wanted somebody there to have a go at us given the (in my opinion foolish) calls to boycott the fine publication in the wake of the Liam (I wanna make a name for myself other than a failed journalist) Hayes controversy. Maybe Shannon still bears a grudge after being on the end of a few harsh words from Jack Connor last year. Maybe they know the paper is walking the plank and they might as well have a bit of craic before they are all out of a job. I'm not sure.

Just to let you know Enda McEvoy & Ewan McKenna, the "messiashs of football" watch more than one game a season.

[madmac999]

Anyone have this article???

[Deleted]

Its not much of an article, more four or five lines.
It criticizes members of the forum for arguing that there should be more than four Kerry players on their team of the year.

Very petty from them and real lazy journalism.
Also they reckon that people on here said that Darragh should get an all-star instead of Whelan.
Without even reading back over the posts I am willing to wager that most people reckon its Nicholas murphy, Darragh shoud get the all star instead of.

Are they surprised that members of a Kerry gaa forum would be biased?

They should look at other county websites for some one-eyed views first.

I'm not sure what their agenda is, but Buck02 above may have hit the nail on the head.

[Mickmack]

Buck .....you forgot the Kerry County Hurling Championship thread ..........

[buck02]

Oh and I forgot to add in that another one of their sports contributors, Dave Hennigan has got a fair ribbing here for his Evening Echo pieces on "Kerry cynicism" too.

[osama]

Before the AI final Liam Hayes ridiculed Kerry people for saying what he wrote was scurillous. He said what is scurillous is the English media calling the McCanns suspects in that infamous case. After the AI which Kerry won, the McCanns were named as suspects, are they rest of us wrong all the time or is it just Mr. Hayes.

[austinstacksabu]

We're famous - yipee :-)

[alonso]

no surprise really from a paper that employs that tool hayes if they were any different i would be even more surprised

[Johnnyb]

I think its high time we stopped mentioning his name. He obviously enjoys the attention he gets in these parts, and this forum presumably, as witnessed in his repeated jibes at this kerry team subsequent to that now infamous article. As one writer put it, as a journalist he was an ok footballer. In other words no-one takes him or his rag seriously. Im sure he, as does his colleagues, peruse this forum regularly, delighting in our indignation. lets not persist in this, admittedly inadvertant, promotion of a would be hack, whose attempts at insightful analysis always boil down mere kerry baiting.

[kerrygold]

god help them at the tribune if there getting their kicks or source of information to write about from us poor auld harmless fools here on the forum!!!!

[Die Hard Kerry Fan]

I have but one question.. Who the hell is Ewen McKenna?? (That's a rhetorical question by the way!!)