He's not good enough Nigel
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He's not good enough Nigel
I'm just taking a moment away from discussing personal terms with Skonto Riga to say that there's speculation again linking Hunt with Blackpool this deadline day.
Good move if it goes ahead.
Deadline day isn't an issue for Hunt - he's a free agent.
A free spirit.
Looks like he'll move to Derby. A very good move if it happens, both for him and the club I would think. The last sentence doesn't make much sense though as Johnny Russell is very much a striker I would have thought.
Derby County now front runners to sign Stephen Hunt
O'Brien, Keogh, Hendrick and Sammon already there also... quite likely there will be 5 Irish in their starting line-up when O'Brien & Hendrick get fit... both have a couple of months to go though I think.
Sounds like a good move for all involved.
Would be teaming up with a few Irish there, Sammon Henderson etc...
Derby would be good. So considering he moves and gets back playing, at 32, what do ye think of him converting into a left back a la Kilbane at this stage? Really not blessed in that area of the field as Wilson seems destined to move in centre half/midfield IMO
Hunt now looks set to train with Ipswich but apparently they can't afford him.
I came across this as well. It's from ages ago so apologies if ye've seen it already or if it was posted here.
Stephen Hunt appeared on Sky’s Soccer AM this morning and revealed all about his Irish team-mates.
The wild haired wing wizard took time out from prepping for last night’s 4-0 annihilation of Estonia to tell them the secrets ofTrap’s squad, and we now know a little too much about some of our heroes.
Best trainer: Paul McShane according to Hunt, calling him “intense” but he does also say he might just stand out because of his hair.
Worst trainer: Keiren Westwood gets this honour from Hunt, saying he just moans all day. As would we if we had to run around, or stand around, in Malahide in November.
Best mate: The Waterford man picks out roommate Andy Keogh.
Joker: McShane gets this one too, and he is apparently quite a mover on the dance floor.
Most skillful: Aiden McGeady gets the nod here. It was never going to be Darren O’Dea now was it.
Most intelligent: Hunt went for his Wolves team-mate Kevin Doyle as he is “always reading the business papers and checking the FTSE”. Shay Given gets some love for his common sense but it seems Kevin Doyle is the brains of the Irish outfit.
Most vain: Interesting stuff here as Hunt refers to the “LV Group”, a bunch of players who went to Las Vegas last year and came back with some bad tattoos. Hunt names just two though, Keogh and Liam Lawrence.
Future manager: John O’Shea is the man most likely to patrol the sidelines when he retires it seems, while Hunt volunteered himself to be his assistant. We can see O’Shea barking out orders. A future Manchester United manager maybe?
Worst dress sense: Hunt picks out Shay Given for a baseball hat he wears which the Donegal man thinks makes him invisible.
Longest in the shower: Stephen Hunt tells us that Liam Lawrence “loves himself” and therefore is the longest in the shower. Make of that what you will.
Anything on Hunt?
mentioned training with Millwall the last time he was doing commentary on NewsTalk, nothing since
About to sign with Ipswich according to various sources. Good to see him back playing, it looked for a while as if it was all over for him!
http://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich-...town_1_2978979
confirmed, short term deal until January: http://www.itfc.co.uk/news/article/h...n-1162362.aspx
Payed really well apparently, and at left back.
I can't decide if that's a typo or a mispelling...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Typo.
Freudian slip?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
deal extended at Ipswich Town until the end of the season: http://www.itfc.co.uk/news/article/h...y-1245447.aspx
Insightful and interesting article about Stephen. It would have been funny to see him turn up looking for a 5 a side game in Rosslare!
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-29929294.html
looking to stay on at Ipswich: http://www.itfc.co.uk/news/article/s...t-1382771.aspx
doing a twitter Q&A tonight - https://twitter.com/stephenhunt1010/
Stephen Hunt's pub in Rosslare is opening this weekend according to his Twitter account.
http://www1.skysports.com/transfer/n...l-with-ipswich
Contract extensions for Stephen Hunt and Mick McCarthy at Ipswich.
In what thread was the Stephen Hunt v Joe Brolly spat discussed?
Anyway, I think Hunt had no case to answer and Brolly made a fool of himself, but in any event Hunt wins the row hands down in this article. Only criticism is that maybe he got too riled by Brolly.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30805040.html
The excellent GAA and Sligo Rovers loving Eamonn Sweeney has a good response too
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gael...-30805047.html
Brolly's been digging a hole for himself ever since his remarks about Kerry not having any players coming through earlier this year. Hunt made himself a target with his original article about GAA players and the commitment shown by footballers to their careers.
Whatever respect I had for Brolly has gone in the last few weeks, after his comments on NewsTalk about Roy Keane, and now engaging with Hunt in a battle of words - and losing. Hunt's acquitted himself well, gave his arguments, explained them, and stood by them. Brolly's swore a lot and shouted remarks from the parapets. The comment about Brian Cody mopping the changing rooms after training was ludicrousOf course Van Gaal isn't going to mop the floor, he's too busy managing the club! If I walked into a changing room and saw the manager mopping the floor, I'd think the place was out of money!Quote:
It just shows you the difference. Do you think Louis van Gaal is going to mop the Old Trafford changing room floors? You gotta be kidding me – unless he’s being paid a huge amount by a mop-making company.
I agree with Tets. Not exactly what one expects when a softly-spoken solicitor from Derry collides with an often incomprehensible Waterford footballer.
I didn't read what Brolly wrote and Hunt's article was in reaction to Brolly, fair enough, but what Sweeney neglects to explain is the context for GAA players whining about Hunt's comments. From what i read the GAA players were mainly doing a version of the Four Yorkshiremen", in reaction to Hunt,saying 'after training i just rest' .. 'rest all the time'. 'have a total rest'. 'I rest between rests and then follow up with another rest'.
The reaction was mainly around the 'rest' bit, 'rest would be luxury, I would love to have a rest now and again but after training I have to go out and work and after work I have to go and train'.
Hunt's first article was a bit all over the place though and left himself (and his fellow soccer players) open to criticism/jokes. It was suicide really because he had the winning of this little battle hands down, if he just put as much care into the first article as he did the more recent one. He got there in the end I suppose.
This was his first article for anybody who missed it.
And Brolly's reply.
The general consensus was that Hunt is a flute and is hardly in a position to be making the comment especially when he was out of contract and is "only" with Ipswich.
Eamonn Sweeneys piece was very good I thought and fair play to him, really enjoy his articles, ye'd know he is from the west. He has a lot of cop on.
I listened to hunts radio interview and i understood clearly what he was getting at, he wasnt as coherent or succint in the original article but it was pretty clear what he was trying to say. Anyone with an agenda though would have ignored that, but for the general public they all thought it was an out of touch Footballer who doesnt know what he is talking about.
In fairness, I love Gaelic Games but some of the pretentious notions amongst it's followers is squirmingly cringing. Same goes for those who don't like it referring to Gaelic Football as bogball, etc. I really don't understand the logic behind sport-wars.
Well a lot of people I spoke did mention that the Dublin footballers, Mayo and to a lesser extent Donegal would be well up there in terms of the training they do. But that's the whole point, he wasn't on about the training and he never said that, he got sidetracked with that a bit on the radio interview as well.
I definitely feel there is more of the anti brigade from GAA circles, its the majority inner city dubs or working class areas and a few in cork that refer to GAA as bogball, but there are a far less number.
There is definitely a trait of inverted snobbery in GAA, but as I have pointed out to many in the past, when the time comes even the most die hard(almost always CD or Tets no doubt will pull out a few exceptions to the rule - or maybe not cos they are coming with a soccer agenda) will follow the money a la hunty, doyle, long and coleman. 2 of the that group would definitely have been involved at some stage at inter county level.
Yeah and we can't forget that there's an internal snobbery civil war going on as well, mostly comprised of 'hurling people' who hate Gaelic Football.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
If the amount of training had little or nothing to do with Hunt's point then he shouldn't have made an expansive meal of the training/rest descriptions in the article
What Sweeney blithely ignored to mention was that most of the GAA players he referred to were mocking Hunt over the training/ rest /training /rest description,
a lifestyle that a serious county player could only dream about for 7 months of the year. And that's where perceptions of Hunt's credibility, fell árseways in that article.
And strangely enough, that seemed a reasonable point of view at the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Quite possibly the most tedious "argument" I've ever come across.
My oranges are much better that your apples.
But have you seen his banana? Woof.
I'm struggling to see much wrong in Hunt' first article. The headline probably wasn't attributable to Hunt.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
The article goes:
Brolly thinks footballers aren't role models
They can be role models though.
Most have clean living, even totally boring lifestyles because they are so focused around training and recovery
Hunt is from GAA country and loves it, so there is no natural disrespect
But full time pro football is very demanding and many fall by the wayside, even if they have the talent, because it is such a tough environment to succeed in
GAA players probably think they could do it too, but knowing both sports Hunt says footy is way tougher than these guys think
I suspect Hunt is fed up with the footballers have it easy jibes. The only mistake I found in Hunt article is the "wouldn't know what hit them" bit which comes across as antagonistic, but I suspect was prompted by Brolly's' digs.
I think Brolly has made a tool of himself here. Hunt comes across as much smarter in his writing (based on his other articles) than as a spoken interviewee. He has gone up in my estimation.
I reckon there are similarities between footballers, actors, singers etc. A tiny proportion get all the big gigs. For the rest it's tough.
The whole thing has got nearly ten thousand views on thescore.ie and the opinion there is quite strongly in favour of Hunt.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
Hardly anybody in the GAA world takes Brolly seriously. For most viewers of the Sunday game, Brolly grates on the nerves, he is disrespectful to footballers, to teams, to managers and to his fellow pundits, he has a rare capacity to wind up everyone. Brolly is a barrister and reenacts that provocative style of argument in the real world, when he should just leave it behind in his workplace.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
I have to say he is one of the worst speakers in the gaa world I've heard especially considering he is a barrister. I've seen many and most of the well known figures. I'd even put dara o'se ahead of him there was something more human about him and you could relate to, I got nothing from brolly in that respect and a lot of waffle.
His poor wife if the tea is cold or the spuds undercooked.
I actually don'r mind Brolly as a pundit. I hate these public provocations. They should be kept for winding up Spillane and only Spillane.