The Sunday Game

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As I'm sure you all know the old Sunday Game theme tune has been replaced with a new, utterly crap one. So do something about it:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?sunday04

The BBC would never replace the Match Of The Day theme tune, don't let RTÉ get away with this one.

And should you need any more convincing, read this:
http://www.gaelsport.com/html/club/fullstory.jsp?c=1945&newsID=9455&p=l

[Peadar]

As I'm sure you all know the old Sunday Game theme tune has been replaced with a new, utterly crap one.

Any chance they'd replace Marty Morrissey, Colm O'Rourke, Ger Loughnan and a few other gobshítes on there?

[Bluebeard]

I don't know about replacing Ger Loughnane.

If he didn't have that job, he might attempt to manage a hurling team again - that would be a fierce imposition on the unsuspecting public. At least you can choose not to watch The TV Show Formerly Identifiable as The Sunday Game. If he was managing once again he'd be everywhere.

[corkharps]

Did Marty Morrissey escape from a lab? :confused:

[aidz1]

is marty morriseys head a potato?

[Metrostars]

Is michael lyster still hosting?

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Is michael lyster still hosting?

Yep. Personally, Marty Morrissey can be annoying, but the rest are usually grand. Best of the lot is Joe Brolly (though maybe it's because I'm from Derry), he's refreshing and down to earth.

[Peadar]

Best of the lot is Joe Brolly

Agreed, makes his point without trying to ram his opinion down your throat.
Tomás Mul is grand too.

[A face]

C'mon lads ... out with it ..... you know it to be true ...... It's all shíte !!


Gggggaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh !

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C'mon lads ... out with it ..... you know it to be true ...... It's all shíte !!


Gggggaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh !

Feck off, it's better than 'soccer', well, at least at inter-county level. There's nothing like an All-Ireland Championship Sunday. Whether it's Celtic Park, the 2 hour drive to Clones in the pouring rain (and the 2 hours getting out of the place), or heading down to Croke Park with the sun blazing.
The banter with the other county's fans, the noise just after the end of Amhrán na bhFiann, being 2 points down going into injury time and somehow clawing a replay.
And at the end of the day you're either talking about 'this day fortnight.....' or saying "ah sure, there's always next year". :D

Much as I love the eL, it'll never compare to AIC.

Derry for Sam!

[A face]

Much as I love the eL, it'll never compare to AIC.

Wibble wibble :eek:


Derry for Sam!

wibble wibble ...... *cough* Ahem ..... wibble some more :D

[A face]

the 2 hour drive to Clones in the pouring rain ............. heading down to Croke Park with the sun blazing.
The banter with the other county's fans, the noise just after the end of Amhrán na bhFiann, being 2 points down going into injury time and somehow clawing a replay.
And at the end of the day you're either talking about 'this day fortnight.....' or saying "ah sure, there's always next year".


Chríst, will you come off the stage, it's not a novel you're writing at all. :D

Talk about glorifying it like, sheeze ... steady on there like, there are big crowds go to the circus aswell on a sunny fúckin' day !! :)

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Chríst, will you come off the stage, it's not a novel you're writing at all. :D

Talk about glorifying it like, sheeze ... steady on there like, there are big crowds go to the circus aswell on a sunny fúckin' day !! :)

Sorry, just getting buzzed up for Sunday. :D
You'll be pleased to know, I'm sure, that I'm forgoing the Fermanagh-Mayo game for the Derry-Shels game. Pity, was there last week, cheering on Fermanagh, great buzz, and it'll be a greater buzz when they beat Mayo on Saturday.

Fair enough, write Derry off, suits us grand. :D

Derry-Fermanagh final. Uladh abú! ;)

[A face]

Derry-Fermanagh final. Uladh abú! ;)

:) ........ t'would be good alright i'd say !!

[Peadar]

Feck off, it's better than 'soccer', well, at least at inter-county level.

You've just gone and discredited yourself completely!
Gaelic Football is dire at the best of times!
Since the nordies started to win stuff it's got even worse.
Give me eL over Gaelic any day.
Hurling, now there's a game!

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Since the nordies started to win stuff it's got even worse.

There's no need for the sour grapes now. :p

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There's no need for the sour grapes now. :p
Will I be saying that to you on Monday ;)

Seriously though, the last two football finals have looked more like Olympic Handball than any sport associated with the feet.

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Seriously though, the last two football finals have looked more like Olympic Handball than any sport associated with the feet.

Aye, true. Though Tyrone and Armagh are particularly bad at it. Thing is though, if it wins games, it's hard not to use it. Slowly but surely it seems as though other counties are figuring out how to get round it, keeping the ball moving all the time. Mayo and Fermanagh did this well in the quarter finals. And you couldn't really accuse Fermanagh, or Derry indeed, of using the same blanket defense tactics of Armagh and Tyrone.

[Peadar]

There's no need for the sour grapes now.

Oh dear, what went wrong?
Ah well, there's always next year.
It's the taking part that counts.
Ye just didn't get a rub of the green :D

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Oh dear, what went wrong?
Ah well, there's always next year.
It's the taking part that counts.
Ye just didn't get a rub of the green :D

Sure it's still a young team. Least we got beat by the eventual winners though. And it could be worse sure, we could have been expected to do well, and we could have went out in the qualifying rounds, losing to some wee Ulster county a tenth our size. ;)

[Peadar]

and we could have went out in the qualifying rounds, losing to some wee Ulster county a tenth our size. ;)

I would have been happy if we'd been out after the defeat to Kerry ("eventual winners" ;) ) If we'd made any progress I might have felt some obligation to support the team and that would mean having to feign an interest in the game.

I'll probably be at the Hurling Final on the 12th.
My third All Ireland Hurling Final in six years.
Been to many All Ireland finals to support your county Brendy_éire? :D

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Been to many All Ireland finals to support your county Brendy_éire? :D

Just the one. Who'd we beat that year anyway? ;)