Dubs V Mayo - 15 Like(s)
The lack of discipline is embarrassing for Dublin. They could have had 4 red cards, and several more black cards than they did get. Sadly they've tarnished their reputation. You don't do those things by accident, that's true colours showing through.

icehonesty (National) - 14/08/2021 22:12:47

Dublin refusing to do one-on-one broadcast interviews - 12 Like(s)
RTE should refuse to show any advertisements or promotions showcasing Dublin footballers. Hit them boys where it hurts, in the pocket. Not speaking to the national broadcaster, give me a break. Who do they think they are.

icehonesty (National) - 25/06/2017 21:46:23

Donegal's Motion Fails - 7 Like(s)
The Donegal motion was wrong to begin with. As it currently stands, teams in the Super 8 play one home game, one away game, and one Croke Park game. The Donegal motion sought to prevent Dublin from playing their home game in Croke Park. I feel this was completely wrong to be honest and here's why. Croke Park is Dublin's home ground. Dublin jackeens can rattle on all they like about Parnell Park, but Croke Park is Dublin's home. There are Dublin fans I know who've never set foot in Parnell Park. The motion should have sought to challenge the neutrality the GAA brass and Dublin claim Croke Park is. Croke Park is NOT a neutral ground for a team playing Dublin. Motion 39 should have been to allow Dublin play their home games wherever they like: Croke Park, Parnell Park or wherever they want. However, the alleged neutral game for Dublin in the Super 8 should NEVER be in Croke Park. If they are going to play Donegal it should be in Clones, if playing Kerry in Thurles, etc. Not Croke Park. Donegal tried to continue the lie that Croke Park is okay as a neutral ground and then say they shouldn't be able to play at home there. A home team should be allowed play their home game wherever they like (same for Waterford, they should have been allowed play in Nowlan Park or Fraher Field or Walsh Park last year). But a neutral game, a neutral game should always be in a neutral ground roughly halfway between the two teams, and NOT in a ground in one side's home county. And as a side note, I think the idea that if a group had say, Cork, Kerry, Mayo and Galway in it, that those teams should travel to Dublin to play against each other is absolutely stupid. Making fans travel hours to a game in a half empty stadium. Nonsense.

icehonesty (National) - 23/02/2019 21:21:27

GPA Looking For Gate Receipts - 5 Like(s)

icehonesty (National) - 11/08/2019 11:57:51

Do Kerry foul more than everyone else? - 5 Like(s)
Just watching Kerry beat Clare here and really, Kerry must foul more than everyone else. Jersey pulling, hands on the shoulder, pushes in the back. They must have given away dozens of fouls today and that doesn't include the ones the referee turned a blind eye to. I watched Kerry play against Tipperary and again they were unreal in the way they fouled TIpperary any time they looked to threaten. They base their defence on fouling and then getting numbers back. I don't think there is any other team in the country who is as systematic at these fouls which they know while persistent, can't be punished by black cards. Very poor to watch and very cynical.

icehonesty (National) - 31/07/2016 15:35:48

Move To National Forum Only Model - 4 Like(s)
The removal of county forums means Hoganstand has lost this member anyway. Mad decision. Sure the national forum isn't going to have info on lads in or out of county minor teams, manager moves, etc. The national forum is generally wind-up merchants on about Dublin and Kerry, a waste of time. Hope another website fills this huge void.

icehonesty (National) - 04/10/2021 15:54:37

Sean Boylan Vs Jim Gavin - Who Is The Greatest? - 4 Like(s)
Boylan, hands down.

icehonesty (National) - 09/06/2020 21:01:25

Dr Crokes vs S'neil - 4 Like(s)
Dr Crokes tactical, non-stop fouling was brutal to watch. Refereeing was poor in my opinion, allowing foul after foul. Crokes centre-forward must have given away 7 or 8 fouls in the first half alone.

icehonesty (National) - 17/03/2017 19:21:07

Meath v Kildare Semi-final - 4 Like(s)
I was at the match last night, and had been at the Louth match too. I just wanted to say that there was one Meath player who didn't try last night, and as someone who has been going to and supporting Meath since I was a child (even though I'm from Wexford), I just couldn't believe it. He never made a single proper run off the ball, never broke into a sprint in the match at all. He wasn't marked out of the game. He just stood around the 45 and never bothered to get involved in the match. I couldn't believe the management left him out there until finally using their last sub to take him off. On the other hand, O'Sullivan did an unreal amount of work in the game, even winning kickouts for Meath without exactly being the biggest player on the field. He carried, ran hard, and was really the only threat Meath had for most of the game. And yet the things the Meath supporters around me said about him! Far more abuse than the player who wasn't interested in playing. It was really a case of it being better in the eyes of those "supporters" to do nothing than to try and make some mistakes. Most of the time O'Sullivan's problem was that he had noone to give the ball to, nobody making a good run to help him. Other than that, there is actually the bones of a very good Meath team there. I was impressed with the backline last night after they had been porous against Louth, there were very few goal chances last night, and the one Kildare did get was a clear pull on the Meath corner back that should have been a free out. Menton is very good but needs another midfielder with him, one who can catch a kickout. I'd still keep Jones but I'd put him in the half-forward line where O'Coilean should start too. Neither McEntee, Toher or Wallace can be starters in my opinion. The kickouts was where all the trouble started for Meath, and to blame O'Rourke I think would be unfair. Meath literally had only one option, Menton, and he was marked well by the Kildare lads. I think Meath will get a lot better, this is the best Meath team I've seen for a few years and I think they'll improve loads.

icehonesty (Meath) - 18/06/2017 10:13:08

Dublin In Parnell Park Or Croke Park? - 4 Like(s)
No problem if Dublin want to play their Home game at Croke Park. The issue is that Croke Park is not, and never has been, a neutral venue for their neutral game v Donegal. Dublin, or any other county, can pick wherever they like to play a home game. That's their prerogative. But a neutral game in their own place? Come off it. And when they reach semi-finals and finals they'll still be back there. The Donegal-Dublin match, which is supposed to be at a neutral venue, should not be at Croke Park.

icehonesty (National) - 28/06/2018 16:35:36

Meath v Kildare Semi-final - 4 Like(s)
Lads, its not that he played badly or was marked out of it. He simply never ran for a ball. There's a big difference. Anyone can play badly. Anyone can be tightly marked out of a game. But to not bother?

icehonesty (Meath) - 18/06/2017 18:28:18

Mind Guru's - 4 Like(s)
A huge problem in Ireland is that there is little or no regulation. Many working as sport psychologists, performance psychologists or "mental skills coaches" are cowboys with a year's training or less. Some do have a masters from WIT which is better than nothing, and others do short courses. Still. Far too little to know what they are talking about. One year's psychology education training is not enough to qualify or train someone to work with athletes in my opinion. In the UK the name "Sport Psychologist" is legally protected and can only be used by educated, accredited people. Further, in the UK a team cannot use public funding to pay a Sport Psychologist who is not properly educated and accredited. Not so in Ireland. Some of our top people are not accredited with the Psychology Society of Ireland or the Irish Institute of Sport, even some of the best who have travelled to the Olympics with the Ireland team. But in Ireland a team can employ anyone to be a mental skills coach or sport psych- and I mean literally anyone. All you need is to be able to talk yourself into a job. It's particularly sickening for someone like myself who has over 6 years psychology education at top third level universities, along with excellent experience in high level sport, yet are losing out again and again to former players, army guys, social media personalities, former pro boxers, and a plethora of other people who are winning big contracts with top teams in all sports, solely on the back of being able to talk themselves up. It is so so wrong. And now Brolly's article has slated my entire profession, when in reality a good 5-10% of Sport Psychologists, the ones who have properly educated themselves and sought out the right experience, are capable of doing a great job and making real, tangible improvements in players and teams.

icehonesty (National) - 01/11/2016 13:00:33

Meath V Dublin Leinster Final. - 3 Like(s)
Surely it'll be in a neutral ground like Tullamore or Portlaoise. No argument not to have it in a neutral ground this time, no fans.

icehonesty (National) - 15/11/2020 17:35:12

Who Goes Down - Donegal Or Mayo? - 3 Like(s)
Hope to god its Mayo.

icehonesty (National) - 24/03/2018 16:38:43

All Ireland Football Final 2020 - Dublin V Mayo - 3 Like(s)
Coldrick will suit Dublin down to the ground, they'll be delighted with that appointment.

icehonesty (National) - 10/12/2020 22:17:50

Confess Your Really Unpopular View/Opinion - 3 Like(s)
Joe Canning didn't deserve Hurler of the Year and had a poor year, but got it because of his profile. The GPA are only in existence to promote professionalism. They should be scrapped. Aidan O'Shea is the most overrated footballer in the country now that Colm Cooper has retired. Mayo are my least favourite team and I hope they never win the All-Ireland. Mayo people are bitter about the 1996 final, because they started a fight with Meath they weren't man enough to finish. Eoin Kelly from Tipp was a better hurler than Henry Shefflin Declan O'Sullivan is the best footballer Kerry have had since Maurice Fitz. There are way too many inter-county matches. Real GAA people play both hurling and football.

icehonesty (National) - 24/02/2018 16:28:14

Meath v Kildare Semi-final - 3 Like(s)
You can't start GR the next day. You just can't. No way. If McEntee is a serious manager he'll leave him out. There's no way his performance last night can be justified by anyone. Centre forward has to be O'Sullivan.

icehonesty (Meath) - 18/06/2017 14:45:10

Meath v Kildare Semi-final - 3 Like(s)
Sorry Royaldunne, Graham Reilly wasn't marked out of the match. He never bothered going for a single ball all game, never broke into a sprint, literally never broke into a sprint. His man didn't "mark him out of the match", he just stood next to him on the 45 for the whole game.

icehonesty (Meath) - 18/06/2017 15:04:14

Two Different Sets Of Rules - 2 Like(s)
Very different challenges lads. Diarmuid O'Connor saw Conroy coming for about 10 metres and went straight for him with the elbow. A shocking challenge. Has a suspension been handed out? Surely he will miss the rest of the summer? The hurling challenge I felt Conlon turned into it and didn't line up Kearney in the premeditated way O'Connor did. It could still have been a red card, but wasn't the shocker O'Connor's was.

icehonesty (National) - 21/05/2018 09:51:17

GPA/CPA - 2 Like(s)
Merged?? Are you off your rocker? The GPA are responsible for a lot of what's gone wrong for the club player, a lot of what has led to the CPA. The GPA had the opportunity to represent all players when it was set up, but refused to because it is by design elitist. They are now at the stage where they are GAA stooges, more interested in the few quid than player welfare.

icehonesty (National) - 28/02/2017 18:27:35