Kenny Cunningham, Brian Kerr and Richie Sadlier. It's the only way forward.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
In Football Parlance Giles legs have gone.
In Dunphys Case its: He is deceptive ; More mouth than trousers and How successful he has been with it .
Seems to have been handled badly but sure what would you expect with Ryle Nugent at the wheel.
Lets talk about six baby
One could say, Giles was kicked into touch.Originally Posted by KK77
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Sounds more like he was rucked over.
John Giles released.
Giles is at least consistent in his message unlike Eamonn whose opinion can change between half time and full time and Brady is just biased. I would always tune into to what Giles would have to say. Will be giving the rte coverage a complete skip now - might tune into the radio or something before the match.
Correct. The fact he mentioned his contract is up in August says it all. He has been on less I have felt in the last six months hence I had a hunch this was coming. I would prefer him to Brady myself.
Lets talk about six baby
Is this kind of a "PRE" Free Transfer.
I think its time for the old Guard to Go but
Giles should be given a lap of Honour.
Dunphy should be taken out back and disposed of !
my own opinion is that brady is far more honest and without the agendas that some of the others have. he predicted a few years ago that we would struggle given the players we have and the others disagreed with him. I think bradys opinion has since been proved much closer to the truth.
Giles is lazy in his preparation and has been relying on the same old stuff for years now. its gotten very tired I am afraid
Wasnt too honest when Trap was manager, cringing how he kept praising him right upto the end. FAI head on him and all
Definitely Brady isn't/wasn't objective when it comes to Trap and anything Arsenal, it's a lingering sore issue for him but it's a transparent fault, if you know what I mean, we can take or leave what he says when his emotions are up on those subjects.
and how have we done post-trap?
continued in his style of zzzz football
25 years ago today
I must really watch the Green is the Colour series, I have them all on disk but haven't got round to it. Are they any good? Eamon is some man for the waterworks.
Yeah. It's a great series. The fact that it starts at the very very beginning with the IFA is something that I really appreciated.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Yes, I had it for a year and sat down on the Bank Holiday Monday to watch it from start to finish. The early days of football in Ireland is interesting, based mostly in Belfast, the dominance of Belfast Celtic, and of course Dalymount bursting at the seams for some international games with the lads on the shed. Health and safety didn't exist and it was tragedy waiting to happen which luckily didn't happen. I remember being at those games as a kid, being squashed and lifted off my feet but I still look back on them as magical. As a 12 year old I would set off with my mates from Dundrum and make our way to either Dalyer or Tolka (I remember seeing Ireland playing Iceland there).
The series goes through the team being picked by selectors, Mick Meaghan, Giles, Hand etc A goal being ruled out in Bulgaria for no obvious reason and the heartbreak of Israel and Macedonia. Great stuff. Too much of Dunphy of course but that's what the fast forward button on the remote is for.
The series ends on the optimism before the campaign in Poland in 2012. Sad really.
A great watch.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Ireland v Italy in '83. Incredible how nobody injured / killed. Ireland v Holland, same year? Everyone missed Gullit's winner as they were looking at the shed roof following the PA guy begging people to get off the roof.
Ireland v Scotland, Ollie Campbell triple crown decider in Dublin (1982?) was positively dangerous too. I was standing in North Terrace and the crush was terrible.
And spectators these days don't have to tippy tap around the river of urine that used to flow down the South Terrace at half time! Dem were the days.
That was luxurythere was twice the crowd and quarter the turnstiles operating in 1972 v France at Dalymount. There was just a mass of people outside the few open turnstiles on the north end, then it turned into a huge swarm moving hither and thither as one, that the big gates were forced opened. About 10 -15 thousand got in through that gate, added on top of the official attendance. Inside the ground was grand, very tight but grand. I'd say the shared contented feeling was, 'we dodged a bullet out there'.
Here's a memory for you - who remembers the aftermath of the furore and specifically Zig and Zag's send-ups of Giles and Dunphy, where they would play Johnny Styles and Amoan Grumpy and for days on end it always ended with Zig (as Grumpy) chucking a pen across the studio? I think he also used that great Dunphy catchphrase "Ehhh...It was a good game...but it wasn't a great game"
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