Jo90
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Post by Jo90 on Mar 11, 2005 10:36:19 GMT
What's the history behind it and have they ever worn anything else?
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Post by seamus on Mar 11, 2005 10:44:31 GMT
I think its something to do with the fact the Kerry Football Ltd. is actually owned by John Mitchels Gaa club. They insist that Kerry wear green and gold and make up the rules as they go along with regard to county championships. Whenever someone has a problem with their policies they simply start crying at co. board meetings to get their own way and everyone gives in.
Part of the €1m deal with Gaelic Gear ( before it fell through) was that Mitchels would use the cash to invest in a Chelsea like takeover of star players. Moynihan and Dara Se were both offered 6 -figure sums to play at Champers next year.
So Kerry are really just a mouth piece for John Mitchels and thats why they wear green and gold.
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Post by vman on Mar 13, 2005 14:31:06 GMT
eh?
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Post by falveyb2k on Mar 13, 2005 20:25:46 GMT
Kerry used to wear white but when they went to Waterford they needed a change of jerseys and Waterford gave them some green and gold jerseys. On an incidental note, Kerry won an All Ireland against Meath wearing the Dingle colours as they were county champions at the time.
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Post by IH8TYRONE on Mar 14, 2005 16:49:28 GMT
Yep. I think Kerry borrowed a green and gold set off the Kilrossanty (?) club when they went up to play Waterford. Kerry caused an upset by winning and the players decided to adopt the colours afterwards. Thank God they didn't ask Carlow for a lend!
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Post by jerkyturkey on Mar 15, 2005 16:36:08 GMT
thats amazing
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Post by TheCritic on Mar 15, 2005 16:42:46 GMT
Where did Lispole get their Green n Gold from, will somebody tell em to change the design, its the ugliest jersey in the county, if not the country.
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Post by SF on Mar 15, 2005 18:22:28 GMT
On an incidental note, Kerry won an All Ireland against Meath wearing the Dingle colours as they were county champions at the time. Would that have been 1939?
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Post by listry on Mar 17, 2005 22:50:56 GMT
In the formative years all clubs wore a shade of green, sometimes with another colour. Indeed I think Cork won an All-Ireland wearing green and gold. No club wore blue or red and if you don't know why you don't deserve to be at college. In answer to Critic Dingle won a co. championship wearing the Lispole colours and Kerry used them also on one occasion.
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Post by TheCritic on Mar 18, 2005 10:23:56 GMT
In answer to Critic Dingle won a co. championship wearing the Lispole colours and Kerry used them also on one occasion. This may be true but it still doesn't take away from the fact Lispole has an horrible jersey, the colours are grand but the design!!! You wouldn't see anyone wearing the jersey only the actual players.
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Post by listry on Mar 18, 2005 18:55:57 GMT
Don't worry about your neighbours. We will hardly ever see them outside the county bounds.
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Post by Walter Mitty on Nov 29, 2007 15:58:13 GMT
Yeah its always interesting to hear where teams got their colours. one of the all time greats has to be Boca Juniors in Argentina...no not the Gaa club.
They decided at a meeting sometime around 1900 to go down to the docks and adopt the colours of the next ship that came into port. the ship was a Swedish trader and thus the team of the immigrants adopted the swedish colours blue and yellow as their colours... Interesting (I think anyway)
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Post by Todd Unctious on Nov 30, 2007 13:26:50 GMT
Yeah its always interesting to hear where teams got their colours. one of the all time greats has to be Boca Juniors in Argentina...no not the Gaa club. They decided at a meeting sometime around 1900 to go down to the docks and adopt the colours of the next ship that came into port. the ship was a Swedish trader and thus the team of the immigrants adopted the swedish colours blue and yellow as their colours... Interesting (I think anyway) explains st senans too
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Post by austinstacksabu on Dec 14, 2007 2:53:15 GMT
Yeah its always interesting to hear where teams got their colours. one of the all time greats has to be Boca Juniors in Argentina...no not the Gaa club. They decided at a meeting sometime around 1900 to go down to the docks and adopt the colours of the next ship that came into port. the ship was a Swedish trader and thus the team of the immigrants adopted the swedish colours blue and yellow as their colours... Interesting (I think anyway) explains st senans too What.....the lads in St. Senans went out to Dingle one night and the next fishing boat that came in they took the colours? They'd want to be glad a pink salmon fisher didn't come in.
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Post by peig on Sept 18, 2008 9:18:49 GMT
Yep. I think Kerry borrowed a green and gold set off the Kilrossanty (?) club when they went up to play Waterford. Kerry caused an upset by winning and the players decided to adopt the colours afterwards. Thank God they didn't ask Carlow for a lend! Does anyone know what year?
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