"it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that what Cox did was actually worse than the Hand of Frog incident"
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"it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that what Cox did was actually worse than the Hand of Frog incident"
I think there is a certain type of individual in this country whom Mr Lowry is probably representative of.
They've no interest in sport in general and yet they claim to love rugby even though they've never played or been a member of a club, nor could they tell you the name of the closest AIL team.
Plus they don't understand the rules.
I was amused by the interview too. The stream i was looking at started with RTE for the pre-match analysis and changed to Sky Sports for the game and after match analysis so I presume you saw the Sky interview or else he was asked the same questions by RTE. I know he was probably buzzing after the result and getting MOTM but it was bilndly obvious that he hadn't really been following the fortunes of the Irish team from a young age when the interviewer started talking/asking about past play-offs all he could think of was the France play off. He's only been on the Irish scene for about 6 months and there is a bit of a plastic about hime but now that he is on board I can see him being very commited and hopefully he will have as many fond memories to look back on like the likes of Townsend and co.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
BTW did Dumpy get it put back at him about Cox getting MOTM after all his pre-match slating of him?
In fairness Dunphy put his hands up and said he got it wrong.
Anybody who's ever played rugby knows that a substantial part of the game is based around who can cheat the most cleverly. There are a lot of honourable things in rugby that soccer can learn from but altrusitically obeying the rules is not one of them.
In fairness to Cox I don't think there are many 14 year olds with one Irish grandparent who would be closely following the Irish team. Also he openly declared in the press aged 22 and had notified Doyle/Hunt of his eligibility beforehand when at his first club Reading. Obviously part of this is that he realised as a pro footballer that his prospects were better with Ireland than with England. All this shows that he doesn't mess about and like you said he appears very committed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irish_Praha
http://eircomsports.eircom.net/News/...simon-cox.aspx
Isn't it wonderful. We are getting under their skin again. I love it. I hope he writes more articles like this. Everyday if need be for self therapy purposes. Lowry and his ilk should band together with the wee chaps. A type of shared misery club. Because it is only going to get worse for them. Wall to wall coverage. What Coxy ate for breakfast 15 years ago. Davy Kehoe presenting Prime time. Extended coverage of 1988. Extended coverage of 1990/1994/2002. Fcuk it. Lets throw in a few qualifiers from down the years as well. Player profiles. Management profiles. Fan profiles. A new song. Fcuk it a whole bunch of new songs. Chat shows, endorsements, billboards. Replica shirts. Sing songs near closing time (ever weekend up to and including June 2012). Cars with flags on. Houses with flags on. People with flags on. Packed pubs. Now lads show some sympathy for Lowry and the wee individuals. Just not too much.
the tickets were free and it wasnt fullQuote:
Originally Posted by Jinxy
didnt read the rest
I knew it wasn't a sell out, but I didn't realise it was free tickets. Pretty much invalidates the rest of the articleQuote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
was 1/3 to half full i heard. tickets were free and i think you could nab up to 16 tickets!Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Great stuff Noely. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Noelys Guitar
This. Amen. Word. And indeed, hear hear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noelys Guitar
All this proves is we should adopt cricket as our national game.
Were it not for the weather...
Like it was before 1884...
was the same for the Australia game, which was on later in the morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
"I was watching rugby with my friend last week, he said 'let's make this interesting', so we put football on instead" -a joke I heard today, i liked it anyway.:D
A friendly game. That the best you can do?Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
against the world champions on a late saturday afternoon, prime sports event attending timeQuote:
Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani
Was it also the game to give them a "big" send off to the RWC??Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
no, but the first international in the new stadiumQuote:
Originally Posted by JGKyne