Posting in The Times

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07/02/2007, 12:12 PM
paul_oshea

Posting in The Times

This is quality. has anyone seen it? :D

"Scotland weren't much better than a Guinness Premiership or Magners League team, but you can only beat what is put in front of you, and Saturday represents a very good start. Ireland may well be missing Brian O'Driscoll as well as Shane Horgan and don't have the resources in depth to overcome such losses. However neither will England have the armoured cars and machine guns they had the last time they entered Croke Park!" -Frank Schnittger, Wicklow, Ireland
07/02/2007, 3:00 PM
Jerry The Saint

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

This is quality. has anyone seen it? :D

"Scotland weren't much better than a Guinness Premiership or Magners League team, but you can only beat what is put in front of you, and Saturday represents a very good start. Ireland may well be missing Brian O'Driscoll as well as Shane Horgan and don't have the resources in depth to overcome such losses. However neither will England have the armoured cars and machine guns they had the last time they entered Croke Park!" -Frank Schnittger, Wicklow, Ireland

Actually Tom Humphries made a similar comment in the 6 Nations preview about how times have changed and it will be nice to see the English arrive in a coach rather than a tank :eek:
07/02/2007, 3:05 PM
BohsPartisan

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

However neither will England have the armoured cars and machine guns they had the last time they entered Croke Park!" -Frank Schnittger, Wicklow, Ireland

They didn't have armoured cars the last time. That was heavily dramatised in the Michael Collins movie. I reality afaik the tans came in and opened fire on the crowd.
07/02/2007, 3:22 PM
strangeirish

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Originally Posted by BohsPartisan

They didn't have armoured cars the last time. That was heavily dramatised in the Michael Collins movie. I reality afaik the tans came in and opened fire on the crowd.

They arrived in lorries, but an armoured car was there and was located outside of the grounds. It never entered Croke Park as depicted in the movie.
07/02/2007, 3:25 PM
paul_oshea

does that really matter?

its like when the telegraph said braveheart was not true because they mooned the english before a battle.
07/02/2007, 3:34 PM
strangeirish

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Originally Posted by paul_oshea

does that really matter?
its like when the telegraph said braveheart was not true because they mooned the english before a battle.

It doesn't, but we don't want facts getting in the way of myth now, do we?:p
07/02/2007, 3:36 PM
paul_oshea

no exactly Oh so strange one!!