not at all mugsy, was joking. yes was in the arena many a time and seen a good few of the current tyrone team there. As far as cider drinking goes on match days, must not have been armagh boys you seen, we stick to the old tonic wine buckfast :)
Come on tyrone

samin10 (Armagh) - Posts: 2434 - 02/09/2008 09:09:12    90363

HokeyPokey:

Tyrone has had one good decade of Gaelic Football..... ever...and you have the neck to start a post like this!!!... Now the aul memory is not what it was...but. Didnt your loyal legion of band wagoners not want Hartes head on a plate not so long ago...A man who has given your county it's only decade of success..shown no loyalty!

Did Tyrone not bottle it against Meath??? what about a very poor Down team this year... Thank heaven for the back door system its a lot easier to bottle it and then get a second chance when your not provincial champions...I'm sure glad we didnt bottle a ceratin september day back in 1995.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 02/09/2008 09:46:30    90398

TEAM:dublin,all the resources in the world and they still cant push through.
PLAYER: dessie dolan-what a miss

Rhodejim (Offaly) - Posts: 2888 - 02/09/2008 09:49:43    90401

Patrique,

"possibly Tyrone. Where were they in 2006 and 2007 with all that talent?"

Simple answer. We werent good enough in these two years because of the litany of injuries to the likes of Mulligan, Mc Guigan, Mc Ginley, O'Neill etc plus the retirement of Canavan. We didnt have the talent to replace these guys. We didnt bottle anything, we were beat by Laois in the qualifiers in 2006 and Meath in the QF in 2007. My definition of bottling it is getting to a an all ireland final or semi final, being good enough to win, but not having the balls and mental attitude to do so.

Rio Bingo (Tyrone) - Posts: 788 - 02/09/2008 09:56:04    90410

ballygowan

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 02/09/2008 22:49:54    91259

Damn dhorse you bet to the punch, although i was goin to say Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 02/09/2008 23:01:01    91268

Your definition, Rio, is good enough. Obviously all the posters saying "Mayo" have a different definition.

Which is why I said "depends on what way you look at things". However Tyrone fans have difficulty in reading my posts.

Incidentally, I would have thought that a team being touted as "team of the decade" would have been good enough most years, like Kerry say.

patrique (Antrim) - Posts: 13709 - 02/09/2008 23:14:20    91278

Donegal! Experts on the bottle!

seanbuncrana (Donegal) - Posts: 36 - 03/09/2008 00:09:45    91316

Well in fairness Tyrone were there and theres about in the nineties most years and lost with "that" paddy russell call in 95 and Tyrone had Kerry beaten in 1986, and we all know what happened after that... and i can categorically say i was not one of those who called for Hartes head, after all he is the harte-beat of Tyrone football.

HokeyPokey (Tyrone) - Posts: 1744 - 03/09/2008 00:30:54    91323

Patrique,

I think there is a reason your posts are read with contempt by Tyrone folk mainly due to the reason that you are always trying to wind us up.

P.S. As mentioned in another post, Tyrone are not touting themselves as the Team of the Decade. That is a label coming from the media.

Rio Bingo (Tyrone) - Posts: 788 - 03/09/2008 09:55:14    91410

I would agree its Dublin, and no i am not messing. They have bottled it year in year out. We are bottlers.

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8170 - 03/09/2008 09:58:44    91414

liam dont be so hard on dublin, i dont think they are bottlers, they are just not good enough

samin10 (Armagh) - Posts: 2434 - 03/09/2008 10:41:39    91443

Mayo, without any doubt!

superfarney (Monaghan) - Posts: 260 - 03/09/2008 11:00:44    91466

I'd have to say the Coca-Cola company. Global stuff.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 03/09/2008 11:28:19    91503

Oh no I should have really read a few more of the above posts....... what was I thinking...oh yeah I'm bored and in work! plays havoc with the sense of humour.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 03/09/2008 11:33:54    91510

biggest botlers i believe is the coca cola factory in ballina, one of the biggest if not the biggest in the world, mayo leading the way again, in football terms its dublin and armagh unquestionably even liam has admitted it

ball-boy (Mayo) - Posts: 4211 - 03/09/2008 11:40:39    91525

the biggest bottlers would be a team of players good enough to win an all-ireland who just crumble under the pressure, in fairness dublin havent had that good a team over the past 10 years so i dont really think they are bottlers. Would probably have to say Armagh and Mayo. Armagh have won so many Ulster championships, which are by far the toughest to win, and have only 1 all-ireland to show. Mayo have had some quality teams over the past decade and yet collapse in every final

bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4663 - 03/09/2008 12:04:22    91585

7up against Mayo...haha get it......

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20763 - 03/09/2008 12:08:21    91596

Would have to agree with Patrique. Mayo weren't bottlers. Quite the opposite - we overachieved and did well to get to 2 finals. Came up against the greatest Kerry team of all time.

Armagh - is it 7 Ulster titles out of 10 and yet only 1 All-Ireland? With those forwards? And a great backline to boot?

Armagh - BOTTLETASTIC.

Keano (Mayo) - Posts: 412 - 03/09/2008 14:26:25    91816

And i;m sure at least one ulster won by armagh was not fully deserved.

HokeyPokey (Tyrone) - Posts: 1744 - 03/09/2008 16:47:09    92018