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The injuries to these 2 guys should give opportunities to other players to step-up to the mark and produce the goods for Derry. Lets pull together and get to and win an Ulster final in 2011. OakGael (Derry) - Posts: 293 - 20/04/2011 16:35:05 915797 Link 0 |
agreed. Its a setback but lets see what we can do minus PB. I think we still might surprise a few! doire abu (Derry) - Posts: 540 - 20/04/2011 19:18:25 915935 Link 0 |
That's a serious loss to Derry. Best wishes to Paddy and James. The Face (Monaghan) - Posts: 890 - 21/04/2011 10:44:23 916114 Link 0 |
Hope Paddy will be back next year, I wish him a quick and speedy recovery. Orlaith (Derry) - Posts: 4282 - 21/04/2011 13:10:16 916245 Link 0 |
I hope its not the last we see of PB in derry colours. What a player, he won many a game on his own and will be missed badly. He was showing great form as well and just a shame this had to happen. A true derry man and has given great service this past decade. The best quote from Paddy has to be, "We had some players on the panel in the past and I know they're only there to say they've played for Derry. They came to training, went through the motions and saved themselves for club matches". That sums up derry football in an nutshell. STAND UP Paddy Bradley the best forward i've seen play for derry! south_derry (Derry) - Posts: 47 - 21/04/2011 15:20:42 916382 Link 0 |
I have no problem saying paddy will go down as derry's best ever forward no doubt (his scoring stats prove it)! but no point looking in the past we have to push on no nonsense no injury excuses we have to get to an ulster final the county, the players past and present and us the fans deserve an ulster final appearance. brolly_4_pres (Derry) - Posts: 356 - 21/04/2011 16:21:45 916434 Link 0 |
I would like to wish Paddy a speedy and Full recovery - a great servant to Doire this past 11 years - we have had terrible bad luck with injuries this year doirebhoy (Derry) - Posts: 344 - 22/04/2011 18:14:55 916948 Link 0 |
plagued by injuries this year.....have you just started to follow derry this year? Over the past three years we have had no luck on the injury front at all. We lost Doherty, Patsy Bradley, C Kielt, Muldoon, Carton, Mc Cusker, Mc Cloy, J Kielt (remember the broken jaw) all to championship football with injuries MickeyMouse (Derry) - Posts: 174 - 23/04/2011 13:27:14 917162 Link 0 |
The difference is Mickey mouse is that Brolly Gormley etc played on a great team, Paddy unfortunately has played on, at best mediocre teams and at worst bloody poor teams and still managed to rack up big scores he has single handedly carried the team for years (the stats dont lie he is not the highest scorer in ulster football history for nothing) I f Paddy had been around in 1993 he would have started before Brolly Seamus Downey and Enda Gormley as far as natural ability none of the 3 of them have a patch on him - End of ..... doirebhoy (Derry) - Posts: 344 - 24/04/2011 20:33:38 917803 Link 0 |
Don't want to brust your bubble, but Gromely played for derry from 86, when our teams were poor and still managed to win a Ulster championship never mind get past an Ulster championship semifinal, 87 and 92 before we made the break through. Also it is widely recognised that Derry had a team from 04 -07 that should have made at least an Ulster final, with player around like Fergal Doherty, Enda Muldoon, Sean lockhart, Johnny Mc Bride, Paul Mc Flynn, Liam Himphey and Gilligan when they were all inthere prime, yet they could not make an Ulster final, why because IMO the main scorer couldn't produce it when it counted, unlike Gromely who just prodeced it time in and time out under pressure, the type of pressure Bradley could only dream of as he never experienced it. But I would agree with you that he MIGHT have got on ahead of Downey, but none of the other two for the very reasons mentioned. You clearly have a different idea of what it takes to play under pressure and produce the goods then me, and as i said before every body is entitled to their opinion. MickeyMouse (Derry) - Posts: 174 - 25/04/2011 17:28:47 918120 Link 0 |
Don,t want to be taken up wrong as p bradley was a legend but i agree with the post about enda gormley a much under rated player i watched him time and time again in clones and ulster the man at times was hardly fit to walk but he popped up time and again with vital scores.he may have played on good and bad derry teams but with him you nearly alway got the same effort and who can forget him stuffing it up cahalane after the box a legend. mickeylinden (Monaghan) - Posts: 587 - 13/05/2011 19:50:18 930335 Link 0 |
Yes no doubt Paddy Bradley has been the best scoring forward Derry has ever produced and hopefully he will be back next year. topcat1 (Derry) - Posts: 25 - 06/06/2011 21:44:16 949227 Link 0 |
Sorry lads but as a Donegal man looking at this topic, ive seen yous many times over the last 25 years and id go for Paddy Bradley as your best forward. Gormley was very good but he had an excellent team around him, something Bradley probably didint have paddy92 (Donegal) - Posts: 141 - 21/06/2011 13:26:45 961842 Link 0 |