This is a rarely discussed topic. We all know that Kildare were a bit like the United Nations back in 1998 with the number of non natives playing for them but what about here and now. Sligo have become known as the Mayo B team for there use of Mayo players. Fair enough these are players that cannot make the Mayo team but it is still not right.

paddyogall (Mayo) - Posts: 5110 - 08/03/2010 16:48:13    582273

Cavan and Leitrim have a couple of Dubs I think?

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13833 - 08/03/2010 17:06:09    582309

cavan have one ex dub gareth smith, thats hardly a couple

FoolsGold (Cavan) - Posts: 2894 - 08/03/2010 17:10:49    582314

Kerry have been stealing our best players for decades now.

JuanVeron (Westmeath) - Posts: 1866 - 08/03/2010 17:25:38    582330

Dublin club must have players from nearly every county.

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 08/03/2010 17:37:01    582338

Wait till the farmer gets in here.

51longago (Mayo) - Posts: 2981 - 08/03/2010 17:52:47    582364

Offaly have signed up a couple of Dubs from Silvesters i think...two brothers as far as I know...

Floops (Dublin) - Posts: 1623 - 08/03/2010 18:02:12    582376

FoolsGold
County: Cavan
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582314 cavan have one ex dub gareth smith, thats hardly a couple
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I was off by a grand total of one!!!!

I meant that there was one in Cavan and one in Liatroim. How is Gareth Smith getting on in anyways?

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13833 - 08/03/2010 18:04:17    582382

yeah I was right....

http://www.hoganstand.com/Offaly/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=124592

Floops (Dublin) - Posts: 1623 - 08/03/2010 18:04:17    582383

Nothing wrong with players wanting to further themselves. Thomas Walsh would testify to that.

sponger (Wicklow) - Posts: 2954 - 08/03/2010 18:31:01    582413

salthill won the ireland with a few outside players and the famous st.jarlaths college tuam won all their all irelands with half a team made up of mayo lads.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11689 - 08/03/2010 18:47:53    582429

Dell's home club Urnai in Tyrone have a young lad Fergal McNulty playing for Donegal, but Derry have been taking Tyrone players like Enda Muldoon, Conleith Gilligan, Niall McCusker, Colin Devlin, Michael McIver and James Conway for years.

mugsys_barber (Tyrone) - Posts: 2160 - 08/03/2010 18:51:50    582439

yes dell we do and players from all over the world to will we ban them also

hipster (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 08/03/2010 18:57:01    582449

smith is getting on grand with cavan. He has been one of the better players so far in the league, sweet left peg.. great passer of the ball. Who is the player from dublin with leitrim?

FoolsGold (Cavan) - Posts: 2894 - 08/03/2010 20:52:03    582676

mugsys_barber
County: Tyrone

He is playing with urney most of his underage career so really he was not poached .

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 08/03/2010 21:04:08    582699

Well any team Micko has managed, had made the most of getting other counties players, by hook or by crook.

The Real 1944 (Carlow) - Posts: 1114 - 08/03/2010 21:23:37    582725

is Tom Parsons a sligo man think he is just on the mayo border but as far as i no he was born and lived in sligo most of his life. Up for correction on this though !!

dubshurling7 (Dublin) - Posts: 1017 - 08/03/2010 21:26:10    582731

Dellboypolecat
County: Tyrone
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582699 mugsys_barber
County: Tyrone

He is playing with urney most of his underage career so really he was not poached .

Ok Dell, he may not have been poached but when I seen him playing against Greencastle in last years championship our big midfielders left him sunny-side-up on more than one occasion........

mugsys_barber (Tyrone) - Posts: 2160 - 08/03/2010 21:50:22    582766

mugsys_barber
County: Tyrone
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Yous have very good midfielders but he is not a bad player to be fair .

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 08/03/2010 21:53:04    582774

Dell, Do you's have many Donegal men playing for Urney? They reckon it was deadly in the 70's and 80's before proper teamsheets were created. You often hear the oul people talking about it round our way....

mugsys_barber (Tyrone) - Posts: 2160 - 08/03/2010 21:58:33    582789