This time around the bench strength told. I'm still confused about it not doing so last time tbh.
Worthy winners and a truly great team tbf, can play a few ways and don't rely on one or two individuals.
Next year is our year
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Saturday, 1 October 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
the decision to change the keeper was remarkably bad. i guess rochford will still survive for next year though.
challops warning but, imo aidan o'shea is shit, he never scores, he is terrible at shooting, and for a big guy he actually ends up rolling around on the ground a lot and isn't actually able to batter through people, though he keeps trying. did he even score a point in either of the finals?
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 2 October 2016 08:13 (seven years ago) link
He's shit in this system, I don't think that's a challop. In a system that suited him he was imo the best footballer in the country. Both systems got us to finals but are p much radically different approaches to the game. Hard to say what fine margins could be eked out either way for the sake of argument really. When oshea was great we were the best footballing team in the country and should've won one. The past couple of years feel much more like an incremental gains systemic approach where we are predictable and consistent and as a result made a final this year that we might not have expected to.
Think there's definitely room to introduce more talent and intent in that midfield and not be so reactive, but the system is probably here to stay and that's likely due to gavins success in deploying the same method and attitude with Dublin imo, it's the current benchmark.
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 October 2016 11:44 (seven years ago) link
That Donegal for Sam thanks page has to be a pisstake NN?
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2017 02:52 (seven years ago) link
Fb page
― loudmouth darraghmac ween (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2017 02:53 (seven years ago) link
God help us
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 July 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
What's happened? Do you hate Tyrone when they're playing football or hurling, I can't remember? Or just in general?
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 July 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
I can ignore them most of the time tbh, all the nordie teams are rough showers a bastards tho
Mayo threw away a strong lead against cork then didn't
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Saturday, 22 July 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link
Croí briste avec yon cunts obv
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
sounds like some game, i'm about to head out to watch it
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
stream?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 30 July 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
has there ever been a more overrated gaa player than aidan o'shea?— Ronan Fitzgerald (@rmkf) July 30, 2017
discus
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
It's a combo of being surrounded by shite, being the big player in the team, his own inconsistency and rarely doing it when it counts.
Overrated, yeah, at this stage.
Most ever? Ah now cmon.
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:26 (seven years ago) link
he's just not good! he scored something like two fucking points in the entire championship last year. and he goes to ground a lot. i don't get the hype at all, he's nowhere near the level of a keegan or o'connor.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link
you're definitely going to win this though
rossies so wasteful
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
terrible finishing, jesus lads
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
Fuck ya
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
Like they never saw a fuckin ball.
Cloggers. Shit kickers. A joke.
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
my heart is thumping and i'm not from either county
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
why no extra time
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Cos we suffered enough
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
An awful game and a shameful display of shit football
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
spillane exactly right, it was two teams who looked scared of going and winning it.
xpost agreed. it was exciting but the quality not good.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
It was an exciting game!
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
ah man i fucking love watching gaa on rte - such a wave of nostalgia for ireland
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
It's a brilliant service there's no doubt
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
might get the season pass. it cost fucking 14 euro to watch that. it's 99 for the whole season. caught between a rock and a hard place really.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
That's expensive alright
Here lads the game wasn't as bad as the Kerry one, that was total shite
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link
i was in bed for that one. late night. i still wouldn't write mayo off - they were mostly shite last year until the final.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
I was watching from the pov of wanting one team to string a fucking attack together
When you see gaa teams and they're completely unable to use space or make a decent decision in a move you wonder what the fuck training sessions are for and what they select fellas based on. There isn't ten players in the country with the brain to play lower league soccer in England imo
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
o'rourke/brolly/spillane are fucking gas old codgers xpost
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Roch out!
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 30 July 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
I love the Brolly - Spillane dynamic. Brolly - "Best to stay silent when we see just how static Roscommon are here" - 5 second silence before Spillane squeals in his Kerry tone - "THEY'RE NOT MOOOOVING!"
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Sunday, 30 July 2017 17:25 (seven years ago) link
the bit at the end where o'rourke made some joke and they were all about to lose their shit laughing, great telly.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 July 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
Best for all concerned we end this now
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 7 August 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
Blow it up ref. Underneath those jerseys they're still men for god's sake.
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 7 August 2017 13:45 (seven years ago) link
The Monday Game
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 7 August 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Kept meaning to go down to that rough-as-fuck pub just up the road from me that shows GAA every Sunday, however the Premier League's starting up again so I suppose it'll be fucking Arsenal from now on.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Monday, 7 August 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
wtf happened the rossies? i was in work yesterday so i missed it. mayo are going to give kerry a game aren't they? just don't bother turning up until the semi-finals.
tyrone could trouble dublin too if we're as wasteful as we were on saturday.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 08:45 (seven years ago) link
Think we'll get battered but hey this could be the year seeing as no hype
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 11:54 (seven years ago) link
last year was p similar to this though i guess - same stumbling route through. they must be a bit tired tho. is the kerry game this weekend?
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 11:57 (seven years ago) link
Fortnight. And I in Milton keynes
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
i'll be in nyc. not paying 20 dollars to watch gaa at 10am, even the dubs.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 12:35 (seven years ago) link
aidan o'shea playing at full-back! i don't care that they're 1-1 to zero up - that is fucking madness.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 August 2017 14:39 (seven years ago) link
As I said, I'm only getting scores relayed to me.
What dyou care for Aidan o Shea anyway!
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 August 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
true enough but if he's actually supposed to be a key player then you can't move him to full-back. donaghy isn't even kerry's best forward.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
this game is fucking nuts
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 August 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
knife-edge doesn't even describe this.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 August 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
what a match, fucking hell. thus ends my liveblog.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 August 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link