Fair enough.

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 17/03/2012 19:02:39    1131392

Listened to Marian finucane today on RTE, they talked about St Patricks day and how important day it is, rugby, soccer and hockey. Not a mention of Croke park yesterday.

Louth Gael (Louth) - Posts: 1227 - 18/03/2012 13:45:23    1131541

Dear Hogan Stand

I'll try and make this point again, hopefully I'll not be censored this time.

The following match report [http://hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=164481] refers to Loughgiel Shamrocks as northern raiders.

Why is this turn of phrase towards Ulster teams acceptable, would western peasants or southern hoors be acceptable to describe Galway or Kerry teams?

Just asking like

SBH1983 (UK) - Posts: 79 - 18/03/2012 16:01:11    1131594

Peasants and hoors are insults,while raiders is not (not in a sporting context anyway).When galway next win an all ireland I guarantee youll hear things like "the wests awake".

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 18/03/2012 16:23:25    1131620

rugby is the heartbeat of our nation

shermaninator (USA) - Posts: 285 - 18/03/2012 16:47:21    1131641

Rugby didn't have much of a heart beat yesterday

updwell (Limerick) - Posts: 899 - 18/03/2012 18:03:28    1131720

shermaninator
County: USA
Posts: 89

1131641
rugby is the heartbeat of our nation

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We better get out the defibalator then!

witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 18/03/2012 18:05:14    1131727

i cried with disappointment

shermaninator (USA) - Posts: 285 - 18/03/2012 18:10:46    1131733

18/03/2012 18:10:46
shermaninator
County: USA
Posts: 92

1131733 i cried with disappointment

Do you comment on anything other than abusing rugby. Grow up, we have been very successful in europe the past few years
Why so bitter against rugby?

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 18/03/2012 18:20:56    1131749

well i like rugby but i support the all blacks as they are the most exciting and are the ones that got me into rugby...i also like munster and clermont in club

shermaninator (USA) - Posts: 285 - 18/03/2012 18:47:21    1131774

Succesful in Europe?Only 5 other countries are interested in the game

updwell (Limerick) - Posts: 899 - 18/03/2012 20:11:05    1131861

I wouldnt say we have been very successful Ormond.France,Wales and England have all won more grand slams/championships than us (and there are only Italy and Scotland left)

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 18/03/2012 20:18:33    1131868

ah theroad..we have won triple crowns ;)

shermaninator (USA) - Posts: 285 - 18/03/2012 20:49:03    1131914

18/03/2012 20:18:33
TheRoad
County: Galway
Posts: 1069

1131868 I wouldnt say we have been very successful Ormond.France,Wales and England have all won more grand slams/championships than us (and there are only Italy and Scotland left)

When talking about being successful in europe i was also talking about the provinces, since 06 weve 4 heineken cups out of the last 6 and we may win another this year.

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 18/03/2012 21:03:43    1131934

18/03/2012 20:49:03
shermaninator
County: USA
Posts: 112

1131914 ah theroad..we have won triple crowns ;)

Dont bother comment on rugby if your posts are not going to be constructive and lead to good debate(hint hint stop wumming)

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 18/03/2012 21:07:29    1131935

im merely stating that triple crowns should not count as success as france and italy cant win them

shermaninator (USA) - Posts: 285 - 18/03/2012 21:18:47    1131945

you cant offer good debate on rugby because you have such bias that you cant see anything wrong with it or the way it is portrayed in ireland

shermaninator (USA) - Posts: 285 - 18/03/2012 21:19:35    1131946

18/03/2012 21:19:35
shermaninator
County: USA
Posts: 114

1131946 you cant offer good debate on rugby because you have such bias that you cant see anything wrong with it or the way it is portrayed in ireland

Yes i can. There is plenty wrong with rugby, we only have 4 pro sides yet the IRFU have refused to give 1 of them the same opportunities as the others for the entire period we have been pro up until now.
Schools rugby gets too much attention, and the clubs underage system(youths rugby) gets nowhere near the coverage it deserves
There is plenty of other problems but im way too tired, hungover and sick to even try discuss them

ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 18/03/2012 21:37:30    1131966

Interesting to see the difference in treatment of 2 Sports stories on this evenings RTE 6 o'Clock news. The statement by the Monaghan county board that they were not going to appeal the decision to lose home advantage in game v Galway was accompanied by video footage of the trouble from the Feb 12th game against Kildare while the citing of an English rugby player for biting Stephen Ferris last saturday merited just a mention but with no video footage. Strange that a game which was exhaustively covered by RTE with many cameras and they couldn't get a shot of the alleged incident or failing that a video of a biting incident from another rugby game. (Which is what they did in on another occasion in relation to a GAA match).

mod (Mayo) - Posts: 859 - 22/03/2012 20:39:39    1135195

There was no footage of the bite because they were probably in the middle of a scrum or something where a camera couldnt have caught it.The bite has received plenty of coverage in the media in fairness.

TheRoad (Galway) - Posts: 1339 - 22/03/2012 20:45:06    1135201