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Reply | Madsen signs
at 16:39 23 Aug 2024
Hopefully he’s going to be the man |
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Reply | What is your second sport.
at 15:48 4 Jun 2024
Hurling, from Kilkenny so plenty of quality club games as well as the inter-county stuff |
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Reply | Luton Match Thread
at 17:16 29 Dec 2022
The 3 subs brought on together the last day hardly did enough to start this evening. I thought all 3 were worse than those taken off. |
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Reply | Matt Le Tissier on Undr the cosh
at 10:12 16 Jul 2022
If I remember correctly, Le Tissier turned down £17k a week from Spurs to stay at Saints who were paying him £1700 a week |
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Reply | West Brom manager gone
at 13:46 3 Feb 2022
It’s amazing how clubs think it’s the manager that’s the problem. Lampard gets a squad with players signed by 7 managers.
How many managers did we go through before it dawned on someone that other factors are often the problem. |
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Reply | Deadline day thread
at 08:53 1 Feb 2022
Hendrick
His name is Hendrick
He’s definitely the next level
Although he hasn’t played much for Newcastle his performance for Ireland have improved recently |
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Reply | Adel
at 22:33 18 Jan 2022
No
It’s 2022 not 2011 |
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Reply | Reading Match Thread
at 14:40 11 Sep 2021
Would normally have this as 1-1
I think we’re due a special day
1-4 to the hoops! |
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Reply | Songs You Hate
at 09:40 14 Jun 2021
Raindrops keep falling on my head…….A harmless ditty from a good film but I hate it. BJ Thomas, who wrote it died recently, so it got played a bit on radio. Still hate it |
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Reply | random
at 11:39 24 May 2021
Bic Runga has a lovely clear quality voice |
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Reply | Joe Walsh
at 21:06 7 Apr 2021
Life in the fast lane |
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Reply | Republic Of Ireland
at 12:26 29 Mar 2021
Ireland is a sport mad country and if soccer was the main sport in the country we would have a great national team. I’m involved with an amateur rural club in Kilkenny which unfortunately is in direct competition with hurling, which in itself is a great game.
When I played in the early 80s the soccer club played in a farmer’s field, like most clubs. Since then we have bought our own land and since I got involved again in the club in the early 00s we have invested over a million euro which wag grant aided by €250k. We got zero from the FAI.
I see good under 12s, 13s 14s but in almost all cases the better players choose hurling at 14/15.
Of course that’s their choice but then you see county players bemoaning the fact they can’t make a career from sport even though they make a lot of sacrifices to stay on the county team.
I’ve heard interviews with Damien Delaney and David Meyler and luckily they kept playing soccer as well as Gaelic football and were in a position to choose at 18. Both played county minor as far as I can remember.
While Gaelic games remain the sport of choice for so many, soccer will always struggle.
Meanwhile “soccer people “ will continue to promote and grow the game. |
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