Liam Hayes generally writes articles which leave you scratching your head afterwards wondering what he was on about... eg his piece about Pat Gilroy today which is very hard to understand.

Now and again though he writes very clearly.

BIG SACKS (Tyrone) - Posts: 1681 - 13/06/2010 10:16:30    675375

Hayes sells papers, we are all here talking about him, and some people might even buy the Tribune to see what rubbish he is on about today. His managerial stint in Carlow was the best one in the last ten years, but he did put pressure back on the players with some of his stuff in the papers. Not the managerial guru he was made out to be. Certainly does sell papers though!

getonwithit (Carlow) - Posts: 527 - 13/06/2010 11:07:38    675407

Liam Hayes but his football pedigree is second to none so he knows what he is talking about. He was one of the top players in the country in the 80's and early 90's and has several All Ireland medals in his pocket.

He has two. 87 & 88. Two is not several.
Dont insult peoples intelligance by making Hayes out to be better than he was.
He was a good player but not a top player by any means.

sam57 (Louth) - Posts: 1502 - 13/06/2010 11:20:34    675416

Liam Hayes is a great read on a Sunday.

For the 2,000th time, HE WAS THE ONLY MAN TO TIP TYRONE TO WIN IN 2008, in APRIL.

Yes we all thought it was rubbish at the time, but he was right.

He also predicted the coming of Monaghan and a few other notable musings.

So like EVERYTHING on this planet, not 100% great or right, but not 100% useless or wrong.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 13/06/2010 14:37:45    675534

Made a comment about Dublin today that was startling. Along the lines of Dublin were useless and today would be their only chance of winning a match this year!

derfil1 (Kildare) - Posts: 1612 - 13/06/2010 17:52:02    675703

Sam, Meath were the top team of that period. He came v close to winning 2/3 more All-Ireland medals and was a key player on the team so please do not be underestimating his efforts. Only Kerry Lads have more and I'm guessing he has at least one more than any Louth man still living..............

Also, he got it pretty much spot on again today.

What he doesn't do is conform to the Kerry are wonderful everyone else is crap lazy analysis of the rest of the media - and he gets slated for being a maverick and just seeking to court controversy by all the flat earthers !

PearseBro (Monaghan) - Posts: 459 - 13/06/2010 19:03:23    675796

Pearse Bro I cannot believe your love-in re Hayes. The man is a division 4 version of Eamon Dunphy. He only occasionally writes for the Tribune (thankGod) and his mutterings are attention seeking and getting more and more outlandish as Gaa followers cotton on to him. He doesn,t act like a serious journalist. I will however grant you he probably knows what sells newspapers.

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 13/06/2010 19:24:04    675828

Patrique: just because Liam Hayes predicted Tyrone would win the AI in 2008 doesn't make him a good journalist. What about all the other predictions that he has made that he has got grossly wrong, as outlined in other posts?

Tongo (UK) - Posts: 1795 - 13/06/2010 20:14:22    675937