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saints will now have the best attack with pa quinn and rafter to go with their obvious best defence in the league. might not be good for the league as a whole but i cant see anyone getting near them this year, they could even win every single game they play in tippQuote:
Originally Posted by Unitedno20
I actually think Saints will finally win the league this year but i think it will be very tight,Town seem to be back on track and for me its still a case of Saints having a better defence and Town having superior attackers,i think Martin Tynan,Barry Ryan,David Mcgrath and Jimmy Hynes provides a greater attacking threat than any other side but Saints are just so solid and have such a compact system i think this year they will see it through,only just though
with respect to the town players named, i know tynan has won an fai and young mcgrath is back from loi football but i dont think that saints would swap either rafter or quinn for any of those players. think it could be final piece of the jigsaw for saintsQuote:
Originally Posted by stelling
Wombat - who did tynan win fai with ?
Stelling I can't comment on either tynan/ Hynes as I haven't seen them play but on reports they seem to be decent players as for young McGrath he is quality but why didn't you mention Tony Scully ( no disrespect to Barry ryan ) but everything town do in an attacking sense goes through Tony who is top quality ?
As for saints everyone goes on about our defense and rightly so but
sometimes to the detriment of our attackers ( Quinn ryan baggery, Connery Egan and copper ) which i think is as good as anything around and there is jimmy carr !
Anyway it is way too early to say who will win league but it will be tight
tynan won fai with waterford crystal 5 or 6 years ago and played abit of league of ireland aswell. him and hynes will get plenty of goals this season. tony scully, david mcgrath and barry ryan add plenty of firepower to that attack also. any word on anymore tsdl transfers before deadline end of september.is rafter to saints done and dusted??
Yea, met the Borris manager today and he confirmed Rafter is gone, tranfer forms were signed tues night.
borris maybe should have rested him against saints scoring that hat trick in 8-3 has resulted in him leaving :)
saints squad looking much stronger now with rafter confirmed. foggy and shane guerin were big losses from last seasons mjc winning squad but in rafter and tony egan they have 2 able replacements for this seasons assault on silverware
former saint michaels player ,shane mcgrath signed with cahir parkQuote:
Originally Posted by balls
Celic 4-0 Cahir
peake villa 4-4 wildies.Good game but you would be expecting villa to win.
Few games into all the Divisions what do people think now of who will win and get promoted in each Division???
any word on oscar traynor squad. ill go with
1 d breen
2 c higgins
3 m power
4 p breen
5 j walsh
6 j carr
7 c bargary
8 k waters
9 T Scully
10 M Rafter
11 r Ryan
12 J Hynes
13 P Quinn
14 r maher
15 d loughnane
16 s o hara
1 d breen
2 c higgins
3 d loughnane
4 p breen
5 j walsh
6 j carr
7 g doyle
8 k waters
9 T Scully
10 J hynes
11 r Ryan
12 p shanahan
13 P Quinn
14 t o'connor
15 a cosgrove
16 s o hara
some interesting ties in the munster junior this weekend. saints away to peake villa is an interesting 1 michaels have rarely gotten a result up there down the years in lge games and peake are definetely a bogey team for them remember them beating saints in fai in cooke park also a few years back. could be very interesting game.
yes it could be interesting but remember they were very different peake teams to what they have now so i would have to fancy saints.
on the oscars i think the time has come to drop james walsh. he has been brilliant but i saw him vs borris recently and his legs are just gone. i think that chris higgins should be beside paul at saints and for the oscars. even alan leahy of peake deserves a shot. again this is not a go at james its just time moves on and i think he has also had a huge influence on who gets picked for these squads which isnt fair either.
Oooh the saints won't like that,Quote:
Originally Posted by the wombat
Wombat in relation to James Walsh in borris game I suppose any of us would be leggy if we had just arrived back into dublin from 2 weeks honeymoon only 3/4hrs earlier he did saints a huge favour by togging out ad saints were short at the back that day , but your Right saints conceded 3 very unusual not just down to chalkie . Anyway for my money ( I know I'm biased ) still the best centre half in country only my opionion not a club statement or anything
im on this forum 8 years and the annual chalkie bashing gets boring. class act down through the years and still a top player.
whats boring is the fact that you cant give an opinion on here of a saints player without being accused of player bashing or whatever. saints supporters have to accept that not everybody thinks their players are so great and god forbid we disagree with themQuote:
Originally Posted by balls
and in relation to james in the borris game i hadnt realised his situation and your correct rightboy anybody would have to be excused heavy legs in that case. i also think that jimmy hynes and seanie o hara have done more to deserve a place on the oscars than rafter so far, again this is just my opinion
wombat it has been proven year after year that the interest is not there in the oscar panel no one wants to play at least chalkie encourages the saints players to play as i know most of them cudnt be bothered with it otherwise. how can you say hynes and o hara deserve to be on the panel before rafter??? thats a crazy statement rafter was playin professional football last year and im not sayin the lads mentioned are bad players.