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Post by mossie on Oct 10, 2024 22:03:55 GMT
Wed, 09 Oct, 2024 - 13:26 Murt Murphy With the split-season leading to elite players being constantly in action, a break from competitive fare is now on the agenda. So, ironically, the split season, brought in for the benefit of the clubs, has now led to players being pulled from them. serious irony in it alright this is not really a split season matter though - the number of matches within the 2 county football championships has grown |
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Post by hurlingman on Oct 11, 2024 13:49:37 GMT
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Post by horsebox77 on Oct 11, 2024 14:36:02 GMT
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Post by shannonsider on Oct 11, 2024 16:14:45 GMT
I read it this morning (hard copy) and it was hilariously bad I thought. I'll see if I can get it and paste it in here. |
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Post by hurlingman on Oct 11, 2024 17:44:37 GMT
I read it this morning (hard copy) and it was hilariously bad I thought. I'll see if I can get it and paste it in here. Proving that a lot of GAA "journalists" will do anything other than cover club games. Take the hurling team. Both midfielders played in the 30s and 40s. There's probably very few people alive who could say they seen them playing at their peak. You can barely complete players from the 2000s to players now not to minds those who played in the 50s, 60s etc |
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Post by homerj on Oct 15, 2024 10:34:17 GMT
Any idea what Kerry players are expected to tog for Munster on Friday night?
Nobody from Dingle,Stacks or Crokes allowed anyway.
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Post by ciarraimick on Oct 15, 2024 12:08:39 GMT
I see Paraic Joyce has come out and said he wanted Cian O Neill to stay with Galway and was nt happy with the way he left.
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Post by The16thMan on Oct 15, 2024 12:36:50 GMT
I see Paraic Joyce has come out and said he wanted Cian O Neill to stay with Galway and was nt happy with the way he left. Ciano probably got a better offer from Kerry and maybe sees Kerry as more likely to succeed. |
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Post by westgaa on Oct 15, 2024 14:30:33 GMT
Any idea what Kerry players are expected to tog for Munster on Friday night? Nobody from Dingle,Stacks or Crokes allowed anyway. Should any of them play seeing as they are not going to play with their clubs, this would really add insult to injury to the clubs going into the district championships |
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Post by Control8 on Oct 15, 2024 19:53:37 GMT
Any idea what Kerry players are expected to tog for Munster on Friday night? Nobody from Dingle,Stacks or Crokes allowed anyway. Should any of them play seeing as they are not going to play with their clubs, this would really add insult to injury to the clubs going into the district championships
Big difference between an exhibition match and the cut and thrust of a local championship match where the clipping of a county man is a great badge to be worn.
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Post by royalkerryfan on Oct 15, 2024 20:20:00 GMT
Should any of them play seeing as they are not going to play with their clubs, this would really add insult to injury to the clubs going into the district championships
Big difference between an exhibition match and the cut and thrust of a local championship match where the clipping of a county man is a great badge to be worn.
Spot on. |
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Post by topoftown on Oct 15, 2024 20:29:27 GMT
John Evans being heavily linked with the Clare senior job.
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Post by hurlingman on Oct 15, 2024 21:08:05 GMT
John Evans being heavily linked with the Clare senior job. Keeping up his thread of only managing counties who wear Blue and yellow. |
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Post by westgaa on Oct 15, 2024 21:16:00 GMT
Should any of them play seeing as they are not going to play with their clubs, this would really add insult to injury to the clubs going into the district championships
Big difference between an exhibition match and the cut and thrust of a local championship match where the clipping of a county man is a great badge to be worn.
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Post by Ballydonoghoor on Oct 15, 2024 22:56:56 GMT
I happened to be in the vicinity of ASP on Mon and having witnessed such feast of football over the weekend I couldn't resist popping into the scene of the crime. Gosh the surface is awesome as the yank would say, I suppose you could say I had a day to remember and all in about 20 mins, outstanding in my own field if you like, ah we've a lot to be grateful for.
Had me thinking of how far we have come, all the great club pitches in the county, must make those who played a part so proud, leaving things better than you found them, that's what was going through my mind, bitter sweet, some gone before us, gave us so much to build on.
Yip, we are right to take issue with things but we must always keep perspective. I'd appreciate all sports but GAA is ahead of anything I've seen. You can meet a GAA supporter and you are blood brothers instantly, or indeed sisters. In my moment of glory I was thinking of the day I saw O'Connell and Dwyer, maybe sat on my father's knee.
Of the day Prince Ogie was first put on public display, I was less than 10 yrs old but still knew something special was happening, him in Shannon Rangers blue and white, Ned Barry, Timmy Carr, and a few more with my own father, it was like everyone was trying to talk but the words were contradicting each other, trampling on each other before they could form a sentence. There was little conclusive chat as men knew the news was good but maybe trying to imagine how good, dreams, one could only but dream, struggling to say something meaningful when they didn't know the extent of the meaning of what was in their heads. They only knew it was good, it could be anything and would they be right?, needed a drink to calm the intoxication so they would get home safely, probably the rare occasion that two Kerry men ever agreed on anything - the reason was maybe that there was only the one and same feeling, they didn't have the energy to argue anyway, it had been sapped - without motive or opportunity they were guilty of innocence!
Just thought I'd share it here, my own guided tour, the place all to myself once the green keeper slipped away, he has obviously met my type and as it was a Monday he had better things to be getting on with than listening to an old fool reminiscing about what might have been, all the goals I got when sat wedged in body heat of the moments, clad of my new overcoat and small pair gloves!
Seriously, ah, it's great, maybe that I was out of Kerry for a good while was a factor.
Will Dingle choke the Crokes .. here we go again folks!
Thank you Austin Stack & co, for a day in a life, a life in a day maybe, no maybe about it!
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Post by veteran on Oct 16, 2024 10:14:42 GMT
Bally , I write this in good faith.
There are times when you write awful garbage. Perhaps, it is more accurate to say that sometimes you make contributions that I find unintelligible. Now, with your post on your visit to ASP you demonstrate your ability and insightfulness. I regard it as a superb post.
I hope you do not regard this post as impertinence on my part. I write it with sincerity.
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Post by horsebox77 on Oct 16, 2024 14:51:35 GMT
Thought provoking Ballydonoghoor
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Post by kerryexile on Oct 16, 2024 16:12:38 GMT
This inter-provincial thing is a bit of a joke. Players like David Clifford, Shane Walsh, Con O'Callaghan, Cillian O'Connor and others would make any rules look good. The way to see if the rules do "what it says in tin" is to have a 4 way play off between Donegal, Tyrone, Armagh and Derry and give them some incentive to want to win it.
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Post by taibhse on Oct 16, 2024 16:20:34 GMT
Great Post Bally. It's always a relief that we have people of your erudition to set us on the straight and narrow. Anyone can string a sentence together but don't make the mistake of thinking everyone can do it well.
Bally’s regular writings provide clues about the inspirations and influences that link him to the ancient art of storytelling, the vessel that carries a message down through generations - a genre that is culturally endemic in the people of North Kerry. We all inherit the collective memory and history that our predecessors left for us and Bally uses this appropriately and honestly.
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Post by Ballydonoghoor on Oct 16, 2024 18:16:46 GMT
Ah it was just as I said and it isn't so much writing as dreaming - you can learn the former but I suppose the latter is stoked by the memories and we have our GAA Gods to thank and I include the 4 teams at the weekend in that - I was looking at the break marks on the surface and wondering which were David's Moran or Clifford, all sorts of nonsense - the monkeys were out of the cage alright! Any GAA pitch is an enormous field of dreams and the silence was deafening - all I could hear was .. I honestly don't recall hearing anything, time stood still!
I had a few challenges lately, all pleasant of course, and just took the foot of the pedal as the wheels were spinning a bit - in a way I had to let go to get my grip back! It was like I fell in the gate and .. with nobody about I took to the field myself!
When Vet and taibhse both praise, then one gets humbled and so thanks everyone but it wasn't my fault, I was only the messenger, I only told you what I saw, not a word of a lie your honour!
I do research and things can get a bit heavy, and so I do this regularly, I often pop into a church - as often as not to get away from the inner self critic - there is such a thing as 'cellular memory' but forget the big words - just let the auld head wander and it will eventually find things. If you can find yourself you had a great game so Monday was my all time best game in ASP, in any park! John B said Listowel shaped him, the GAA shapes us all - you only have to read some of the threads to know we are all plain starkers and long may that be!
Not getting ahead of ourselves, it is called 'the flow', the only thing that dwarfed James Joyce's literary eloquence was his own ability to get into a state of 'flow' and memories is what drives this, and the GAA has the most memorable moments on this planet which makes it easy, impossible to avoid really - Ulysses was a long if steady flow, he termed it 'stream of consciousness', maybe more stream of unconsciousness, subconsciousness .. the purest unadulterated GAA madness we'd call it!
I have often alluded to the Ógie moment - I can pinpoint where he was and where I was when he caught the ball for the first time in the kick around, a gentle toe to hand and out over Tralee bay she sails - sure his relaxed motion would hypnotise anyone, let alone an impressionable 10 year old buck still in short panse!
Ah Vet nobody ever doubted a word you ever said and sure maybe I'd be up to a bit of 'unintelligible' stuff on occasion - life is just too short not to wind ye up and a winters night would be too long if I didn't! Still in that same vein I always respect people's time, and feelings - and like anyone else on here if I thought I made someone feel better for a single second then one could only be delighted!
If any article I contribute is 'unintelligible', i.e. hard to understand, you should of course ask for clarification; I recall clarifying the JP McManus thing and you appeared happy. That's my field really, outside the white line, pun not intended? The late Eugene Magee was keen on my input but he was inside the line and in contrast to the study sean Jarlath Burns commissioned which focuses on my side. This is addresses the money issue and it will have big impact on the game going forward, hence the study. The problem with research things these days is that it is out of date by the time then ink dries, a bit like the British Prime Minister who didn't last as long as a head of lettuce! Technology will have a sweeping effect on everything and nowhere more than the amateur ethos of the GAA. If the GAA can maintain that culture then the future is bright but it is easier said than done, and easier still said by me because all I have to do is put on my coat, climb a few steps and sit on my arse, then get up and have a few pints and talk sense! Vet, I'd take great pleasure in engaging with you, always, you are one of those who contribute and leave the place better than you found it, a good test, and long may it continue.
As for horsebox77, well my thoughts were also provoked, and I appreciate the sentiment and maybe others will do things like this - don't try too hard, just park it in the auld head and it will work out - I'm waiting to see what Vet will do here - jazus he is some fountain of knowledge?
Of taibhse, our haunted ghost, 'straight and narrow, and honesty' all my middle names for sure, hallelujah - the good Lord has spoken, maybe he was around ASP on Monday, he sure was there helping out a few times previously, a good few times!
I'll be expecting a Nobel nomination now - so don't encourage me! As my noble maths teacher in St Micks, Listowel and Kerry minor, Jimmy Harmon, used to say - 'that will do!'
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2024 13:14:56 GMT
I hope from a Clare point of view that the Peter Keane to Clare rumours are true. Would be a brilliant coup if Peter manages the Banner county in 2025.
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Post by mitchelsontour on Oct 17, 2024 19:03:37 GMT
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Post by horsebox77 on Oct 17, 2024 19:20:22 GMT
I hope from a Clare point of view that the Peter Keane to Clare rumours are true. Would be a brilliant coup if Peter manages the Banner county in 2025. Keane would be a massive coup for Clare. I liked Keane, I though he was very unlucky with Kerry. Covid really threw a spanner in the works for him. |
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Post by hurlingman on Oct 17, 2024 19:24:00 GMT
I hope from a Clare point of view that the Peter Keane to Clare rumours are true. Would be a brilliant coup if Peter manages the Banner county in 2025. Keane would be a massive coup for Clare. I liked Keane, I though he was very unlucky with Kerry. Covid really threw a spanner in the works for him. Apparently Derry were interested in him as well. Agreed he was treated quite badly in the end by the CB. |
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Post by blacksheep21 on Oct 17, 2024 20:20:27 GMT
Clare would be a much better fit for Keane
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Post by The16thMan on Oct 17, 2024 22:14:33 GMT
I hope from a Clare point of view that the Peter Keane to Clare rumours are true. Would be a brilliant coup if Peter manages the Banner county in 2025. Keane would be a massive coup for Clare. I liked Keane, I though he was very unlucky with Kerry. Covid really threw a spanner in the works for him. I agree with this, he had Kerry playing very front foot football, scoring goals and took Kerry from basic All Ireland contenders, to serious challengers, which Jack benefited from the following year. I think Peter will be able to bring this Clare team up a level or 2 if he gets the buy in from players & County board. |
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Post by horsebox77 on Oct 18, 2024 7:08:46 GMT
Keane would be a massive coup for Clare. I liked Keane, I though he was very unlucky with Kerry. Covid really threw a spanner in the works for him. I agree with this, he had Kerry playing very front foot football, scoring goals and took Kerry from basic All Ireland contenders, to serious challengers, which Jack benefited from the following year. I think Peter will be able to bring this Clare team up a level or 2 if he gets the buy in from players & County board. When you actually break down PK's tenure, 2019 All Ireland draw and reply, 2020.. sucker punched by last minute Cork goal, 2021 lost in ET without Clifford - I've always had the opinion he had no luck... but in hindsight no one was bemoaning the style of play we had. |
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Post by jerryewe on Oct 20, 2024 19:16:30 GMT
One of the clickbait sites had a picture of Jarlath Burns addressing both teams in the middle of field after the game last night. Is it just me or is he beginning to get a bit much by inserting himself in the middle of things when really necessary? His speeches at all Ireland finals while great and all had a little bit too much grandstanding for my liking - hand over the trophy and be done with it.
I sat this as someone who admired him and understand that he has done a lot more f great community work outside of the GAA particularly through his school.
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Post by thehermit on Oct 20, 2024 20:01:52 GMT
El Presidente has his sights on higher offices than Jones Road, that's well know - particularly in Ulster. So its no surprise to me he will be where the camera is all the time.
Personally I felt his AI speeches were in poor taste, its not your role to give us your take on what's going on in Ireland -basically today's not about you mate its about the young lad next to you that just lead his team to glory. Have the decency to step aside and let them enjoy their moment.
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Post by hurlingman on Oct 20, 2024 20:17:56 GMT
One of the clickbait sites had a picture of Jarlath Burns addressing both teams in the middle of field after the game last night. Is it just me or is he beginning to get a bit much by inserting himself in the middle of things when really necessary? His speeches at all Ireland finals while great and all had a little bit too much grandstanding for my liking - hand over the trophy and be done with it. I sat this as someone who admired him and understand that he has done a lot more f great community work outside of the GAA particularly through his school. He's a man who now and always has needed to be the centre of attention with everything. |
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