Is there any chance you lads can hold off on the pathetic bickering so the rest of us can chat about football?
No? Oh, ok. Grand so.
Is there any chance you lads can hold off on the pathetic bickering so the rest of us can chat about football?
No? Oh, ok. Grand so.
Chat away Johnny.
Who would you like to see come on board, Johnny? Any interest in Hogan now?
I wish I had a teacher in school as demanding as tets. I might have tried harder.
You certainly wouldn't always be doing the nightshift.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
If it was just a joke and there was no serious point behind it, that's fine, but why did you persist with the argument back then and why have you been persisting with it even now if you were only joking? The reason I've taken issue with it - even if you consider it "banal" - is because it's another typical example of how you constantly try and chip away at players of ours who were born outside Ireland. Generally, they're decent, committed lads who are delighted to don the jersey and get in touch with their roots, and your suspicions and aspersions characterise them very unfairly as cartoonishly-cynical mercenaries.
It's a strawman because only you raised the notion of "comparing Irishness". You were the one doing the comparing and contrasting of players born in and outside of Ireland on the basis of them using a particular phrase; not me. My point has simply been that you can't read very much into a player born outside of Ireland using the phrase you pinpointed seeing as the likes of Robbie Keane, Shane Long and David Forde have all used it too. Robbie used it in the exact same manner: "All I did was want to do my best for the country and I think I’ve done that." I can find further examples of Jeff Hendrick, Robbie Brady and Roy Keane all using the phrase "for the country" on Google. Why do you ignore these examples?It's not a strawman. Comparing Pilkington and Keane's Irishness sums up how you completely ignored the context of the quotes when you compared what McClean said to what Pilkington/Arter/O'Dowda said.
On the other nonsense you've posted:
i) I wouldn't press you so much if you weren't so loose with accuracy or facts and just answered a question straight, but if you don't want to discuss things with me, why are you replying to me? Just ignore me completely. Nobody's forcing you to engage.
ii) Stop making things up about me, as it puts me in this rather annoying position where I feel I have to defend myself, which only clogs up the forum with irrelevant nonsense and, no doubt, annoys other users. I haven't tweeted since early October and I wouldn't even know myself how many Twitter users might have me blocked, so I'm not sure how you would know either. Not that that's remotely relevant to anything we've been discussing anyway. And you can hardly pontificate about alleged name-calling and then engage in the very same yourself.
Lads dont start this messing again.
DI are you off work (again) or something :P
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
I see Sean goss looks like signing for qpr from man Utd . I'm sure we have discussed this before that he is eligible for us . Any ideas?
How about the new young Villa right back James Patrick Bree...must be something there???
"We lost because we didn't win"- Ronaldo
Hard to know if you are joking while referring to Brie as in Brie cheese.
Bree Name Meaning Irish (Counties Sligo and Mayo): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Breaghaigh ‘descendant of Breagha’, a byname meaning ‘hill dweller’, from brí ‘hill’, ‘height’, genitive breagh.
"We lost because we didn't win"- Ronaldo
As much as I'd like to get on with my life, I'd also welcome TOWK retracting the accusation when it's pretty obvious he was either mistaken or simply lying his ass off. But whatever.
Brentford are holding out for a £15 million offer for Scott Hogan whilst it looks unlikely he'll feature for Brentford against Chelsea in the FA Cup this weekend, according to the Indo: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-35401289.html
Originally Posted by Tom Rooney
I can't believe the fuss over Hogan and his value based upon a good run at Brentford. I am not talking from an Irish point of view where my motto is sign them up even if they only watched an episode of Father Ted but based upon a season at Rochdale and half a season at Brentford. Is he that special ? The standard in the Championship isn't that high. Look at Jordan Rhodes - can score for fun in that league but can't get in the Boro side in the EPL. The latter lacks pace - perhaps that is what Hogan has. Haven't been monitoring his goals so not so sure what is so special about him.
2010 Woodley Sports 27(21)
2010–2011 FC Halifax Town 14(0)
2010 → Woodley Sports (loan) 0(0)
2011 → Mossley (loan) 4 (1)
2011–2012 Stocksbridge Park Steels 16 (7)
2012–2013 Ashton United 8 (1)
2013 Hyde 11 (3)
2013–2014 Rochdale 33 (17)
2014– Brentford 33 (21)
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