Back at work today for a while. Last week I was at three Springsteen concerts in Limerick / Cork / Belfast - to any posters from these cities - what great cities and people, very welcoming - I will be back.

It was difficult to keep tabs on all the goings on last week but I was delighted for Galway and Monaghan and of course my own team Mayo who won as excepted and will need to improve for the tougher games that lie ahead. Springsteen has a song "Land of Hope and Dreams" which was played each night and had me thinking of my own team and posters on this site. The verse goes:

Well, this train carries saints and sinners
This train carries losers and winners
This train carries whores and gamblers
This train carries lost souls

Those of us left of the train to September are still dreaming and are among the losers and winners...half the fun is the journey there, enjoy the trip and no matter who wins or looses we are forever on that same train.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11553 - 25/07/2013 11:08:03    1441852

You went to all three concert?

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 25/07/2013 12:06:48    1441937

Friends went to the ones Limerick and Cork and said they were amazing nights. 10 hours of amazing music I'd say yew_tree?

Dubsfan28 (Dublin) - Posts: 2509 - 25/07/2013 12:15:36    1441947

Good post YT

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13654 - 25/07/2013 12:20:39    1441950

Sure was Dubsfan28 and yes master I was at all three. Big fan, Ive seen him all over the world. One thing with a concert is everybody goes home happy which makes a change from following my county.

And yes in Belfast up on the big screen flashed a guy with a "Mayo for Sam" sign.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11553 - 25/07/2013 12:21:33    1441952

Could Mayo be driving the train this year!!

DLlegends (Donegal) - Posts: 503 - 25/07/2013 12:23:51    1441956

Was at the one in Belfast Yew. The man is a machine. I think there are a few of the boys in our county team who could do with getting on what ever training programme he is doing. Great shape for a man of 63 and some moving out of him

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 25/07/2013 12:23:58    1441957

TheMaster
County: Mayo
Posts: 7875

1441937 You went to all three concert?

You see there is a world out there, away from your computer and whats happening in Dublin. Go on open that front door , you know you can do it.

good post by the way Yew tree.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 25/07/2013 12:26:46    1441960

DLlegends
County: Donegal
Posts: 237

1441956 Could Mayo be driving the train this year!!

I definitely think so. They have the best team and best manager never mind their hunger for SAM. We'll be seeing 13 MO SAM car registration signs all over the place this next year.

Culann (Dublin) - Posts: 2306 - 25/07/2013 12:32:51    1441969

AthCliath, you are only mad that he didnt put a concert on inside the pale...

Also, saying 'there is a world out there' about someone doing the same thing 3 times in one week is hardly a good fit...

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 25/07/2013 12:40:07    1441979

I saw a bit of the Tour de France a few weeks ago and on Eurosport there was a guy in the crowd at one of the stages displaying a sign with luminous print 'Mayo for SAM' The force is with ye guys.

kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1973 - 25/07/2013 13:51:50    1442083

Was walking along the beach up a dolymount and there was a formation of seaweed that looked like 'Mayo For Sam 2013'. I kid ya not. Destiny lads, pure destiny. Enda Kenny will make James Horan Minister for Mayo next. Its going to be a green and red september.

bluedubstar (Dublin) - Posts: 835 - 25/07/2013 14:06:49    1442097

All the punters in the bars on the Lisburn Road in Belfast and surrounding area could hear the concert clear as day.

Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9817 - 25/07/2013 14:08:12    1442099

i was at the 3 shows to and 2 more this weekend whick will bring times iv seen him to 20 since slane great shows everywhere but god that stadium in cork is some dump cant get in or out of it

Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2968 - 25/07/2013 14:23:24    1442127

Apparently the Nazca lines in the Atacama desert spell out 'Mayo for Sam', another mystery solved!

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 25/07/2013 14:23:34    1442129

I am sitting in a hotel at the moment and the plant in the middle of the table is green and red. Its definitely Maigh Eo's year.

Culann (Dublin) - Posts: 2306 - 25/07/2013 14:44:02    1442153

Yew_tree if your from Westport its one of my favourite spots in Ireland after Carlingford which is heaven on earth.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 25/07/2013 14:44:16    1442154

TheMaster
County: Mayo

Also, saying 'there is a world out there' about someone doing the same thing 3 times in one week is hardly a good fit...

The Boss never does the same show twice....2/thirds of the setlist is different each night. He would but some of the younger so called music stars to shame with his energy. If the All Ireland was a concert...Bruce would take the 5 in a row.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11553 - 25/07/2013 14:46:51    1442160

Stmunnsriver - Good on ya - See ya in Kilkenny. The getting out of Cork as a bit of a disaster - ONE gate open for over 40,000 punters pouring out. In the end they opened a second as it was clear a crush was going to happen. I know now why Hurling fans don't like that stadium. Still they are getting a new one arent they soon.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11553 - 25/07/2013 14:53:37    1442173

Was at the Belfast gig. The guy is incredible. Where has this Mayo for Sam nonsense come from? There's been Mayo 4 Sam signs everywhere... except Mayo, where there's hardly a stitch of Green and Red and the football people are cautiously hopeful but fearful they're being set up for another fall and suspicious at how easy winning Connacht has become.

roundball (Tipperary) - Posts: 2514 - 25/07/2013 15:07:08    1442196