QuoteWas it an amatuer/LOI international side? You know those league selections they used to do?
i like the fact that soccerc has an actual cap to back it up ! surely someone else must have been at the game he mentions ?? or did no one turn up in protest of Dunphy being appointed manager !!
Was he crazy!! Yeah , in a very special way , an Irishman.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was it an amatuer/LOI international side? You know those league selections they used to do?
Again,Read the posts, surprised at you NG, don't think the FAI award caps fpr hockey though they were awarded when we werehockeyed in CyprusOriginally Posted by Noelys Guitar
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Well, I'm not going to guess it anyway, I wasn't even born when the game was played!
I've been scrawling through the Irish Times archives and can't seem to come up with anything. Put us out of our misery.
Soccerc, I'm sure I've just read a book with the answer to your little teaser in one of the chapters, the book that Dodgykeeper lent me.
I won't spoil it though....
Soccerc - is there a Paddy Mulligan connection to this?
Together with all our hearts.
Another guess from the depths of somewhere.
We played a New Zealand XI back in 1979 I think. no idea of the result. I am still looking for the programme too soccerc if this is right.
Oct 12, Dublin, Richmond Road
League of Ireland 2-1 New Zealand
(Hillary Carlisle, Eamon Greig - Brian Turner)
League of Ireland:
n/a
New Zealand:
Richard Wilson, Tony Sibley [c], Sam Malcolmson, Robert Almond, Adrian Elrick,
Brian Turner, Steve Sumner, Glen Adam, Clive Campbell, Keith Nelson, Johan Verweij.
Coach: John Adshead.
Referee:
J Carpenter (Ireland).
The above was part of a European Tour being undertaken by "The All Whites" in 1979, and followed a previous match up in Belfast, which I attended:
Oct 10, Belfast, The Oval
Irish FA XI 2-0 New Zealand
(C McCurdy, B Quinn)
Irish FA XI:
R McDonald, R McCreery, R Cromie, R Walsh, P Rafferty, M Donaghy, J Sloan,
B Quinn, C McCurdy, T Armstrong (P McCusker), W Feeney.
Coach: n/a
New Zealand:
Richard Wilson, Tony Sibley [c], Glen Adam, Robert Almond, Adrian Elrick,
Chris Turner (John McDermid), Steve Sumner, David Bright, Keith Nelson,
Brian Turner (Sam Malcolmson), Johan Verweij (Shane Rufer).
Coach: John Adshead.
Referee:
O'Donnelly (Nth Ireland).
That NZ team was unquestionably the worst Senior International team I've ever seen. The IFA XI - all Irish League - actually had some good players and how they didn't tonk them by several goals I don't know.
(I also got to see the NZ Rugby team play in Ireland the same year iirc. They were rather better at their code!)
Jesus EG - there were some hallions in that lineout!
They'd have given the NZ Rugby team a good - erm - "workout".
The Englishmen came over in the year 2005
But little did they know that we'd planned a wee surprise
Sir David scored the winner, and Windsor Park went wild
And this is what we sang...
Argentina away under the guise of the League of Ireland? That was 1979 or 1980. However it was Argentina that thought it was official.
This is the cooooooooooooolest footy forum I've ever seen!
that was 1980 in Argentina - we lost 3-1.
Thanks for the New Zealand details EG. Obviously another wrong answer then.
Soccerc was Dunphy non-playing manager or player-manager?
non playing
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Was it a universities team?
NO, think of it
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The same result that the senior team lost at home?
Soccerc, time for more clues or put us out of our misery?
This is the cooooooooooooolest footy forum I've ever seen!
So it wasn't:
Seniors
Olympic
LOI selection/ Amatuer
Underage
Universities
Schoolboy
Someone put me out of my misery and tell me!!
You're taking it very serious Drums.
Why would Dunphy try to claim Soccerc was too young to be at the game if it was 1979.
Are you that young Soccerc?
No, I am that old. I was 17 at the time. Someone has jumped the gun by saying I said it wasn't one of these:
Seniors
Olympic
LOI selection/ Amatuer
Underage
Universities
Schoolboy
I didn't , but it is close to but no quite one of the above
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