QuoteAye, poor Mr A. He'll get there yetOriginally Posted by Strabane_Harp
well some of them
Mr B could have had these five pages on his own exploits...and then there was Baird
the legendary Mr Men exploitspity they all grew up
well some of them
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Aye, poor Mr A. He'll get there yetwell some of them
Mr B could have had these five pages on his own exploits...and then there was Baird
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League Cup Final on New Years Day a few years back now.
I was working in Supermacs in Galway, and was working the night of New Years Eve - was dropped home after work about 6am. The busses were leaving from McDonalds on the Headford Rd, about 10 mins walk from where I was living at the time.
So - just enough time for breakfast before heading down. I dozed off while eating ... but while it cost me about 15 mins thought I'd be all right as the buses were leaving between 7am and 730. Walking down four buses passed me on the road, and there's me not worried in the slightest, as I assumed the last one left at 730.
Got there to find one other bloke with his 5 or 6 year old son. Everyone else and all the buses were gone.
So we were faced with trying to find our own way to Cork or miss the game. We ended up talking someone into giving us a lift as far as Clarenbridge to try and catch the bus. No chance.
It was the first of 9 different lifts that New Years Day morning. There was one long wait in the middle of nowhere in Co Limerick in the snow showers when we thought we'd not make it ...
The however some Kerry lad stopped, he was home from the US for Christmas, heard the story, went on a major detour of his own journey, and dropped us outside Turners Cross. We'd only missed about 10 minutes of the match. That bloke was a legend.
Oh and we won! The father and son told the story in the Galway Advertiser the following week!
We got a spare seat on the bus back and I did see some sleep eventually after all the celebrations.
Those were the days!
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Aye, poor Mr A. He'll get there yet
Mr B could have had these five pages on his own exploits...and then there was Baird
memories of bein left with baird in a nightclub in cobh, he enlightened me on his views on the evolution theory and how they relate to fota island
Mr B and Baird must be brought back
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Although not a crazy thing for the club there is one other tale about Mr B that just sums the man up(you need to know him folks).
Harps were playing down in Dalyer and I went over to Mr B to ask him for a look at his new van . He informed me he had "parked in Castleblaney and got the express as there would be no parking in Dublin"
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I would have thought the person in question would have mentioned this by now but as he hasn't, I'll shame him
The poster in question was living and working in London at the time. He was flying back and forth for matches and had flown back to London after the final League game, a win against Waterford which secured us a relegation play off against Limerick.
He assured us that there was no way he was coming over. Myself and two others set off in the car from Belfast heading from Limerick at some ridiculous.
One of the others in the car had been talking to the fella on the phone the night before and he was heading out for a staff do
We got to a petrol station outside Limerick and next thing yer man, half cut, is on the phone telling us he came home from the night out and decided to book himself a flight from London to Shannon, didn't bother going to bed and went straight to the airport.
Fair play to him, he was totally focked when we met him in Limerick. He made the match and then flew home. Only problem was that he had to put up with Tom the Gom in the Pike Rovers clubhouse for an hour or two.
There is a part two to the saga as well, which involves driving from Derry to London and then back again
derry to london and london to.......................
im sure you can all see where that one was going
only messing
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That's the craziest thing anyone's said on this thread yet! Supermacs on New Year's Eve. Nasty.
I'm intrigued - was this the same journey as the puking out the window of the car? Mebbe that was Longford. Hard to tell one place from the other right enough.I would have thought the person in question would have mentioned this by now but as he hasn't, I'll shame him
As for the Harps men, I'd imagine calling yerself a Mr.<insert forename letter> was a bit mad - but then I used to post pictures of B.A Baracus on the eircomleague.net forum thinking that was funny too.....
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I'd rather die laughing than trying!
The whole Mr Man thing was a spectacularly failed attempt to conceal the identities of the main protagonists in a travelogue I wrote about a trip to Waterford 4 or 5 years ago.
I was reading a lot of Joseph Conrad at the time and he commonly used Mr with one initial for characters, so that's where that came from!
And it this how the Mr.Men on tour flag came about too?
Life without Rovers, it makes no sense...it's a heartache...nothing but a fools game. S.R.F.C.
Yeah, Misters D and R made the two Mr Men flags.And it this how the Mr.Men on tour flag came about too?
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Naw, the Longford story is another one for another day
That Longford game was the same season right enough. Tuesday night game and we drove from Belfast to the game.
When we arrived we met an Italian fan, who is a mad Derry fan, and he had flown in especially for the game, driven from Dublin and was flying home two days later. His appearance marked our first victory at Flancare!
Whilst not for my club, I suffered a collapsed lung at the Ireland v Albania game due to excessive celebrations when Keane scored in the last few minutes.
quit my job, so as not to miss this years title run in.
its going to be a cold cold christmas, but i ahve next summer to look forward to
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Gavin
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My exploits pale into insignificance compared with many of the above stories.I would have thought the person in question would have mentioned this by now but as he hasn't, I'll shame him
The poster in question was living and working in London at the time. He was flying back and forth for matches and had flown back to London after the final League game, a win against Waterford which secured us a relegation play off against Limerick.
He assured us that there was no way he was coming over. Myself and two others set off in the car from Belfast heading from Limerick at some ridiculous.
One of the others in the car had been talking to the fella on the phone the night before and he was heading out for a staff do
We got to a petrol station outside Limerick and next thing yer man, half cut, is on the phone telling us he came home from the night out and decided to book himself a flight from London to Shannon, didn't bother going to bed and went straight to the airport.
Fair play to him, he was totally focked when we met him in Limerick. He made the match and then flew home. Only problem was that he had to put up with Tom the Gom in the Pike Rovers clubhouse for an hour or two.
There is a part two to the saga as well, which involves driving from Derry to London and then back again
However, to continue the story above, I returned to London from Limerick on the Weds, having resigned from my job in part due to difficulty in attending matches, flew to Belfast on the Friday, drove to Derry, picked up a borrowed estate car, left Derry at 4am on Sunday, drove non-stop to London arriving 9pm Sunday. Worked Monday to Friday (missing the Harps away leg playoff final midweek). Finished work on the Friday, packed the car up with all my worldly goods, left London at 9pm on the Friday night, drove overnight to Holyhead, delayed ferry to Dun Laoghaire, drove up to Derry arriving around 45 mins before the memorable Derry v Harps 2nd leg playoff final....
Don't regret moving back at all. Getting to see 90% of Derry's matches well worth uprooting career etc etc.
Its not the craziest thing said but having to travel to monaghan every week to see dundalk play home games was crazy , the worst won was when we played monaghan at there picth and dundalk were the home team in the home dugout and all .
Aw but we looked after you well Davey and didnt charge u as much as your fellow Louthers.....
Actually, both were painted on my kitchen floor under the watchful (and somewhat exasperated) eye of the good Mrs T.
Made the tricolour one for the trip to Basel in 2003.
That travelougue trip of Mr A's is still about the web somewhere and relevant to this thread.
T
It's actually on the old FBTN site. See http://homepage.eircom.net/~rdcomput.../finnatics.htm
I think he's on BigSoccer.com's board and that I have a verbal war with him, just like with all the other Aussies. Let's say they can't stand me f(or being the only to not swallow their arrogant comments on the Pacific teams), and I can't stand them (for giving the comments in the first place). If this lad is who I think he is, we do know each other
I haven't done that many crazy things for my teams, but I'm a poor working class dudeCraziest was probably back in Belgium when I went to the furthest away game of the year despite having 40 degrees flu, unfortunately the stadium (over 150 miles away) didn't have a roof and it rained cats and dogs
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