Official Match Thread Season 39 Round 8 - Gold City Royals vs Ophidian Old Boys at The Golden Throne

[Irish BlueBagger]

This you kenneyswarriors ?
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Hmm i heard he was seen looking like that at the King Power Stadium recently enough as well.

 

[sabso]

Hmm i heard he was seen looking like that at the King Power Stadium recently enough
as well.

We don’t let that sort in thank you

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

We don’t let that sort in thank you

That's not a nice comment mate! It's not as if his face was covered with tattoos or something.

The King Power is a nice stadium but a part of me still misses Filbert Street.

 

[sabso]

That's not a nice comment mate! It's not as if his face was covered with tattoos or something.

The King Power is a nice stadium but a part of me still misses Filbert Street.

Got this from the club shop in the Highcross not long ago.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

Got this from the club shop in the Highcross not long ago.
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That is pretty awesome mate. Goodison Park will soon be a distant memory as well sadly.

Although in saying that a new and more modern stadium, was badly needed to help Everton generate the funds to compete with the elite teams.

 

[kenneyswarriors]

It's an excellent morning just stocked up my fridge with the 10 pack of Jack Daniels I bought last night and it's actually a 12 pack

2 bonus , not sure what a double mellowed whiskey is, but I do like me Whisky as well.

I'm going to brave the arseholes and go buy me another 12pack if brekkie is as nice as I'm hoping.

I will be smart Kenney and wait for the mums to finish their school runs thou - that's too scary for me.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

I was saying to myself there that perhaps Everton will win and give me something to cheer, but i forget that it's international week!

Although in the hurling if Cork win against Galway on Saturday night, then they will be playing Tipperary in the National League Final.

The league is more of a pre season competition where teams just try and find their best starting 15 for the championship.

It's still nice to win it though and Cork last won it in 1998. The Munster Championship would be the next biggest competition, although it's importance has been diluted a bit since the GAA abolished the instant knockout championship format.

Then we have the big one the all Ireland championship itself, Cork will be there or thereabouts this year but the football teams league campaign has been mediocre enough.

We're just a midtable Division Two outfit and the teams that regularly compete for all Ireland titles are in Division One.

 

[kenneyswarriors]

I was saying to myself there that perhaps Everton will win and give me something to cheer, but i forget that it's international week!

Although in the hurling if Cork win against Galway on Saturday night, then they will be playing Tipperary in the National League Final.

The league is more of a pre season competition where teams just try and find their best starting 15 for the championship.

It's still nice to win it though and Cork last won it in 1998. The Munster Championship would be the next biggest competition, although it's importance has been diluted a bit since the GAA abolished the instant knockout championship format.

Then we have the big one the all Ireland championship itself, Cork will be there or thereabouts this year but the football teams league campaign has been mediocre enough.

We're just a midtable Division Two outfit and the teams that regularly compete for all Ireland titles are in Division One.

Abso****inglutely I'd talk about anything other than Carlton as well

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

Abso****inglutely I'd talk about anything other than Carlton as well

The players and Vossy really need to get their shit together mate. We better beat the Bulldogs next week!

 

[sabso]

I was saying to myself there that perhaps Everton will win and give me something to cheer, but i forget that it's international week!

Although in the hurling if Cork win against Galway on Saturday night, then they will be playing Tipperary in the National League Final.

The league is more of a pre season competition where teams just try and find their best starting 15 for the championship.

It's still nice to win it though and Cork last won it in 1998. The Munster Championship would be the next biggest competition, although it's importance has been diluted a bit since the GAA abolished the instant knockout championship format.

Then we have the big one the all Ireland championship itself, Cork will be there or thereabouts this year but the football teams league campaign has been mediocre enough.

We're just a midtable Division Two outfit and the teams that regularly compete for all Ireland titles are in Division One.

Love the GAA jerseys, especially the ones that stick to tradition.

 

[kenneyswarriors]

The players and Vossy really need to get their shit together mate. We better beat the Bulldogs next week!

It'll be fine, Vossy mentioned he's pleased with the increased effort or some such guff.

I'm going to send him a memo, pointing out that we just want a win, I'm sure that will help.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

Who was the greatest hurling player of all time, well i was brought up to believe that Corks Christy Ring was the greatest.

Christy Ring - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Others would say it was Limericks Mick Mackey. Mackey is considered to be hurlings first real superstar.

Mick Mackey - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

In more modern times other people say that Kilkennys Henry Shefflin was the greatest.

Henry Shefflin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Those would be the main three people that generally figure in these sort of conversations.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

It'll be fine, Vossy mentioned he's pleased with the increased effort or some such guff.

I'm going to send him a memo, pointing out that we just want a win, I'm sure that will help.

He's starting to sound like Brendon Bolton and his greenshoots now mate.

 

[sabso]

This is everything the BBC considers a sport:

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Sometimes Gaelic games (almost exclusively football) get on the main page and it makes me smile even though I don't understand a bit of it.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

This is everything the BBC considers a sport:

Sports A-Z - BBC Sport

The A-Z of sports covered by the BBC Sport team. Find all the latest live sports coverage, breaking news, results, scores, fixtures, tables, video and analysis on Football, Formula 1, Cricket, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Tennis, Golf and all the main world sports, plus major events like the...

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Sometimes Gaelic games (almost exclusively football) get on the main page and it makes me smile even though I don't understand a bit of it.

It's easy enough mate. A goal is worth three points and if the ball goes over the bar you get one point.

There's a new rule in the Gaelic footy to try and encourage more positive and attacking play, where a long range point is now worth two points.

Hurling at it's best is an awesome sport, and the new rules are making the football an improvement as a spectacle i think.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

If you were going to watch two games that show off hurling at it's best as a spectacle, then i would say go for the 1990 all Ireland hurling final when Cork beat Galway or the 2004 Munster hurling final when Waterford beat Cork.

Waterford last won in an all Ireland back in 1959, so i rate that 2004 Munster final as the high point of their modern hurling history.

They had a strong team in the 00's, but like the Collingwood teams of the late 70's and early 80's they just weren't able to go all the way sadly.

 

[sabso]

It's easy enough mate. A goal is worth three points and if the ball goes over the bar you get one point.

There's a new rule in the Gaelic footy to try and encourage more positive and attacking play, where a long range point is now worth two points.

Hurling at it's best is an awesome sport, and the new rules are making the football an improvement as a spectacle i think.

Tradition probably best mate, the two point long range goal sounds like the nine point long range goal.

Being in jock land I should get into shinty as well.

 

[kenneyswarriors]

It's easy enough mate. A goal is worth three points and if the ball goes over the bar you get one point.

There's a new rule in the Gaelic footy to try and encourage more positive and attacking play, where a long range point is now worth two points.

Hurling at it's best is an awesome sport, and the new rules are making the football an improvement as a spectacle i think.

Oh, I've been following an playing an English sport for years, been really fun the last 15 months watching a 16/17 year old heap the pressure on old farts till they cave.

 

[sabso]

Found this lol

Biggest championship win ever? Wexford score 71 unanswered points past Kilkenny

You’ve got to feel for the Kilkenny players.

www.the42.ie

No wonder Kilkenny don't enter the football anymore.

 

[sabso]

Oh, I've been following an playing an English sport for years, been really fun the last 15 months watching a 16/17 year old heap the pressure on old farts till they cave.

Camel racing isn't an English sport?!

 

[kenneyswarriors]

Camel racing isn't an English sport?!

It's the sport of Kings

But no I was assuming you would have heard about your new world champion-at 17 mind you.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

Found this lol

Biggest championship win ever? Wexford score 71 unanswered points past Kilkenny

You’ve got to feel for the Kilkenny players.

www.the42.ie

No wonder Kilkenny don't enter the football anymore.

Kilkenny are the only county to just give up on and abandon a code.

Even Kerry have won an all Ireland in hurling, and Robertio Tipperary team have won four of them in Gaelic football.

 

[sabso]

It's the sport of Kings

But no I was assuming you would have heard about your new world champion-at 17 mind you.

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Hi Simon

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

There used to be an Irish F1 team called Jordan racing, well Eddie Jordan the owner has sadly passed away. May he RIP.

He was sick for quite some time with cancer. He was the man who gave Michael Schumacher his big break as an F1 driver as well.

 

[sabso]

Kilkenny are the only county to just give up on and abandon a code.

Even Kerry have won an all Ireland in hurling, and Robertio Tipperary team have won four of them in Gaelic football.

Wish I knew whereabouts my Irish ancestry came from, sadly don't know any of their names... oh yes one was called Michael