Irish Abroad 2011/2012

[Closed Account]

Strange. BBC have 6 subs named (Murphy, Orr, Derry, Buzsaky, Smith, Hewitt) and Sky only have 5. Maybe he failed a fitness test or something.

What's happening with PropAgandhi2

[drummerboy]

Watched the Burnley v Leeds game. McCann and Treacy played for Burnley. Keogh, O'Dea and White for Leeds. Keogh was quiet enough, taken off after. O'Dea done well but went off in last ten with head injury again. White very steady, looks promising.

Treacy had some great touches and passages, could have scored a hattrick, keeper McCarthy made 3 great saves from him. Treacy looks a little lazy, but looks great on the ball.

McCann was the best Irish player on view, a great box to box display, had one brilliant effort just wide, wasted at this level.

[tetsujin1979]

Strange. BBC have 6 subs named (Murphy, Orr, Derry, Buzsaky, Smith, Hewitt) and Sky only have 5. Maybe he failed a fitness test or something.

What's happening with PropAgandhi2

He's on the YBIG board, and usually gives everyone some form of abuse there. Been banned repeatedly and keeps coming back with a new login, for whatever reason, and starts posting the same drivel over and over again. I'd imagine theworm would be familiar with him too.

For whatever reason, he's taken to abusing me on twitter today. To make it clear, I've never posted anything about him on twitter, left him a message on twitter, or any of the football forums I'm involved with. Until today, I didn't even know he had an account on twitter, nor have I ever checked to see if he had one.

for anyone who doesn't know what I'm talking about, this is what's been going on this afternoon
from https://twitter.com/#!/PropAgandhi2/status/137922868423036928

@tetsujin1979 I'll knock you out, you *****.

from https://twitter.com/#!/PropAgandhi2/status/137928559170830336

@tetsujin1979 Yeah retweet it you sad *******. I'll take one of your gay missing flags and shove it up your arse.

One of the recommended methods of dealing with abuse on twitter is not to reply, to retweet the message to your followers, and let your followers deal with it, which is what I did.

from https://twitter.com/#!/PropAgandhi2/status/137935748182708224

@tetsujin1979 My stats bring all the girls to the yard and they say they're better than yours! #35yearoldstaleloser

He started a stats thread last season on YBIG, and got ****ed off when I posted links to my site in it, and corrected his stats, or others he'd missed. For the record I'm 32, not 35.

from https://twitter.com/#!/PropAgandhi2/status/137939916557529088

@tetsujin1979 Rory Delap scared a small girl in the 26th minute and Paddy Kenny picked his nose in the 53rd minute.

The twitter updates for the Irish Abroad site take the form "Player was booked/scored/was sent off in the Xth minute" so I'd imagine this is a dig at those updates

(apologies for the completely off topic nature of this)

[TrapAPony]

That Propaghandi chap seems to be a bit of a weirdo.

[theworm2345]

That Propaghandi chap seems to be a bit of a weirdo.

Can I guess that he is a YBIG member?

[tetsujin1979]

Can I guess that he is a YBIG member?

yep, also posts as The Joker, jokerman, propaghandi and propaghandi2 on the board
And probably several other alternative logins.

[theworm2345]

yep, also posts as The Joker, jokerman, propaghandi and propaghandi2 on the board
And probably several other alternative logins.

None ring any bells, must've joined long after I left but I'm sure he fits in quite well there now. Figured he must be a member here or there and doesn't remind me of any posters here.

[Charlie Darwin]

yep, also posts as The Joker, jokerman, propaghandi and propaghandi2 on the board
And probably several other alternative logins.

Seems like a particularly sound individual. I would very much like to be best friends with him.

[gastric]

Seems like a particularly sound individual. I would very much like to be best friends with him.

Hard to understand why people act this way - makes no sense to me.

[gastric]

Colin Healy's contract terminated by Ipswich.

[TrapAPony]

Mark Noble was on Talksport today :

Noble’s form in the claret and blue of his boyhood club has also reignited speculation he could pledge his allegiance to the Republic of Ireland after hitherto failing to earn his first full England cap
“I think I am eligible as my grandparents are Irish,” he said. “I’ve been asked before and held out. I still have hopes of playing for England and getting back into the Premier League and I still believe I can do that. We will see, you never know what the future holds.”

http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-ne...how-we-get-it?

[Charlie Darwin]

No thanks.

[TrapAPony]

Paul Green back starting for Derby against West Ham which is fantastic news for Ireland no doubt. Mark O'Brien & Jeff Hendrick benched. Joey O'Brien starts for West Ham. Game is on Sky Sports 2.

[SkStu]

Joe Mason scored the only goal for Cardiff today in their win.

[drummerboy]

Owen Garvan started for Palace, first game back since injury.

[liamoo11]

Irish under 19 keeper on bench for watford tonight

[drummerboy]

McCann scored 2 for Burnley tonight

[TrapAPony]

Anthony Gerrard got Cardiff's 2nd goal in their 2-0 Carling Cup quarter final win over Blackburn.

[theworm2345]

Watched all of Birmingham's Europa League match and all of Manchester United vs Crystal Palace and came away with a few things.

Fahey played the full 90 minutes for Birmingham, lineup graphic at the start had him operating on the right but seemed to be playing in the center. Did decently in the midfield and was very good about performing his defensive duties, breaking up a few of their attacks on his own. With that being said he can be very sloppy with the ball at times, giving away possession needlessly at times and passing to no one on a couple of occasions. I've never rated Zigic but he was completely useless tonight while Rooney stayed on the bench (Doyle was also an unused sub). Birmingham will have to win their final match, at home to group strugglers Maribor, to have any chance to go through. Brugge and Braga will play and if they draw (it could well be an arranged draw) they both go through...Brugge had a miraculous come back tonight to win 3-4 after being 3-0 down after 72 minutes. Maribor even hit the post in the dying seconds as they almost equalized.

The other match featured Gibson for United and Scannell and McCarthy for Palace and all three started. One of the Keane brothers who can't keep their allegiances together was an unused sub for United. Gibson did OK tonight, especially compared to the rest of the team, showed his shooting ability and was really the only player they had who looked a threat going forward. Scannell was deployed on the left wing supporting their lone striker Easter with Zaha on the right. Wasn't involved too much (Zaha was controlling the game on the other side) though showed some impetus in attack, went down after about 35 minutes holding the back of his leg, went off and came back on only to go down again 5 minutes later and had to be substituted. Injury didn't look that bad. McCarthy I thought was solid at the back (though to be fair United's attack was pretty feckless), only real mistake he made was pulling Macheda's shirt and hauling him down for the penalty when there really was no need (Macheda was in a decent scoring position, not great, but probably wouldn't have scored as he's pretty useless as well). Boggles the mind that he never got capped considering some defenders who did, especially under Stan. I do think he is prone to giving away penalties as memory serves though. As a side note, Darren Ambrose, who there has been quite a bit of speculation about, came on at the half and scored a beauty...had a few other very nice shots from distance that he went close with as well. Thats what stuck out to me for him (which I already knew), didn't really notice his play otherwise.

[gastric]

Terry Butcher is happy with Aaron Doran's progress after shoulder surgery - I was wondering what was happening with him.
In other news, Alex McLeish has said he will not be getting rid of Stephen Ireland in January - how the mighty have fallen. What has happened to him? He has shown in the past, the potential to be world class.