Dublin crew!!!

Heineken Helen

Irish Al wrote:

Helen, were cavan beaten yesterday??

Um, yeh!!! :( In the preliminary round :( but the game was level something like 6 times and it was only with about 12 minutes left that Down actually pulled away from us. We were missing far too many players.

Irish Al

Heineken Helen wrote:

Um, yeh!!! :( In the preliminary round :( but the game was level something like 6 times and it was only with about 12 minutes left that Down actually pulled away from us. We were missing far too many players.

Thought I saw a bit of it last night, you have some young forward who basically scored all your points, he was great. Wasn't too impressed with down!

Louth v Meath next week, our best chance in years to beat the old enemy!

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

See I'm sorry but it's gonna be impossible to do any of the above without exposing yourself ( ) to GAA talk

So good luck

not impossible at all.... you forget that 85% of people going to this gig arent even Irish... so why would we talk about Hurling

also... even if people are talking about it... i can still ignore it... thats the great thing about ignorance... that and the fact the others brits coming couldnt give 2 shits about men with sticks hitting a wee ball... sounds like golf with more mud.. and golf's shit as well

23/8/06 is officially a Pearl Jam day... it has been decreed and so therefore it shall be!!! i've decided on this now so thats enough of this talk

dunkman

honestly start a fucking hurling thread or pM... this is boring!!!

Irish Al

dunkman1974 wrote:

honestly start a fucking hurling thread or pM... this is boring!!!

Me thinks you may be having a "I hate monday day"??

foxymop79

I think everyone needs to get into Touch Base and the Astoria boot thread - get requesting it - if loads do we might just get a yes or no answer!

Heineken Helen

Irish Al wrote:

Thought I saw a bit of it last night, you have some young forward who basically scored all your points, he was great. Wasn't too impressed with down!

Louth v Meath next week, our best chance in years to beat the old enemy!

We beat Meath in a challenge match a few weeks back so you're in with a chance. Yeh, it was Sean Johnston - the only one who seemed alive... spurring the crowd on. He was great.

See dunky, just as you’re free to ignore MY posts, I’M free to ignore your ignorance

I’m sure some people who come here MIGHT want to see a bit of Irish culture – some of them are staying for more than just one night ya know. Croke Park Tour is a pretty big tour on ‘list of things to do in Dublin’ believe it or not and I’m sure some people ARE interested. And yeh, like 99% of the stuff on this thread is relevant???

Heineken Helen

Irish Al wrote:

Me thinks you may be having a "I hate monday day"??

Nah dunky just hates Ireland or any talk of it - it seems to get up his arse - unless PJ are playing here or he's coming here or something

Byrnzie

Heineken Helen wrote:

See I'm sorry but it's gonna be impossible to do any of the above without exposing yourself ( ) to GAA talk

So good luck

To be honest, hurling has to be a tad more amusing to watch than cricket, bowls, or darts. Watching Nutty Irishmen running around wacking a ball with a weird shaped stick would be a great way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon. So do the crowd at these stick vs ball mud fests all tend to get completely rat arsed during the proceedings?

dunkman

Heineken Helen wrote:

Nah dunky just hates Ireland or any talk of it - it seems to get up his arse - unless PJ are playing here or he's coming here or something

no no... not at all... but this thread's last 3 pages are all about hurling... *yawns *

i dont hate Ireland at all... i'm excited as hell about going, and you cant miss the talk of it on here... its a frickin Dublin thread after all ..... but i am coming for the gig.. as i reckon 100% of the uk'ers on this thread are as well.. i'll be doing the Jail tour and the obligatory Guiness tour.. but Croke Park??? its a stadium?? an empty one at that... what do they show on the tour...if its anything like Hampden or Wembley its just rooms of trophies and pictures of either us getting beat or another picture of Nobby Stiles toothless hag of a grin holding the World Cup

at least with all the other crap we discuss on here everyone can join in.... celery up bums, peas, food habits, badges, dave whipping us to type on the Astoria thread, chocolate ed, etc etc etc...

i'm only joking about the hurling... carry on

Byrnzie

Heineken Helen wrote:

Nah dunky just hates Ireland or any talk of it - it seems to get up his arse - unless PJ are playing here or he's coming here or something

Why don't you meet Dunky half way HH? I.e, If he agrees to attend a hurling match then you have to attend a tossing of the caber in Scotland - and I don't wan't Dunky to confuse you over the meaning of 'tossing of the caber'! It's a big bit of wood which some dude launches into the air, and not an act of penal stroking, whether alone or assisted.

newagehippie

Heineken Helen wrote:

The first semi is scheduled for the Sunday before the concert, the second for the Sunday after it.

Are we going?

redrock

Byrnzie wrote:

To be honest, hurling has to be a tad more amusing to watch than cricket, bowls, or darts. Watching Nutty Irishmen running around wacking a ball with a weird shaped stick would be a great way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon. So do the crowd at these stick vs ball mud fests all tend to get completely rat arsed during the proceedings?

Maybe it's because I'm not from this part of the world, but I find all of the above boring (as I find baseball boring!). A longgg time ago a boyfriend took me to this "exceptional opportunity" - 3 day cricket jobby at Lords (i thought it was going to be 3 hours!). Needless to say after Day 1, he wasn't my boyfriend anymore!

dunkman

Byrnzie wrote:

Why don't you meet Dunky half way HH? I.e, If he agrees attends a hurling match then you have to attend a tossing of the caber in Scotland - and I don't wan't Dunky to confuse you over the meaning of 'tossing of the caber'! It's a big bit of wood which some dude launches into the air, and not an act of sexual, or assisted penal stroking.

she wont meet anyone half way... plus i wouldnt attend a hurling match anyway...

would you actually go though Byrnzie? if it was pissing down and you were in a cosy pub and someone asked you to attend a sporting match that you had no idea who was playing, nor the rules... standing in the mud watching men with sticks play golf-like stuff... pub wins every time for me... surely the pubs carry more culture of Ireland than any sport does anyway.. think of the literary giants from Ireland... common denominator? they all liked pubs and loathed hurling

i practice tossing my caber quite often though.... so often in fact that the rough bark around the girth has worn down to a smooth Silver Birch-esque quality...

i must admit i only really love the beautiful game... i dont like many other sports, well to watch at least.. i only watch, play, follow football.. its the PJ of the sporting world, everything else is just Westlife in comparison

dunkman

redrock wrote:

Maybe it's because I'm not from this part of the world, but I find all of the above boring (as I find baseball boring!). A longgg time ago a boyfriend took me to this "exceptional opportunity" - 3 day cricket jobby at Lords (i thought it was going to be 3 hours!). Needless to say after Day 1, he wasn't my boyfriend anymore!

my pal went to Australia to follow a cricket tour... he spent 11 days sitting in a seat watching the most singularly pompous sport (ok maybe golf is as well) known to man... any sport that has as many rules as golf, so many that every player carrys wee books must be shit, or stuck up its own arse.. same with cricket!

well done getting shot of him redrock... :cool:

redrock

dunkman1974 wrote:

my pal went to Australia to follow a cricket tour... he spent 11 days sitting in a seat watching the most singularly pompous sport (ok maybe golf is as well) known to man... any sport that has as many rules as golf, so many that every player carrys wee books must be shit, or stuck up its own arse.. same with cricket!

well done getting shot of him redrock... :cool:

Weeee! We agree on something!

BTW - I love this log throwing thingy whatever it's called (what Byrnzie said). There's also these games I once saw on TV - don't know what they're called - but it's lots of big guys in kilts doing all kinds of things (in a sporting way).

Heineken Helen

Byrnzie wrote:

Why don't you meet Dunky half way HH? I.e, If he agrees to attend a hurling match then you have to attend a tossing of the caber in Scotland - and I don't wan't Dunky to confuse you over the meaning of 'tossing of the caber'! It's a big bit of wood which some dude launches into the air, and not an act of sexual, or assisted penal stroking.

Lol, see the difference is I’m up for ANYTHING . I like to sample the culture of whatever country I’m in.

Newagehippie, I can certainly look into that . Tickets are usually hard to come by so it will depend on who’s playing but 88,000 vanish fairly quickly. If it’s Kerry V Tyrone they might be bored of being at that stage so it might be possible… oh and dunky this is FOOTBALL REAL football

The hurling is on other weeks so unless there are replays taking it into that week newagehippie, you’re gonna be out of luck :(

Byrnzie

dunkman1974 wrote:

she wont meet anyone half way... plus i wouldnt attend a hurling match anyway...

would you actually go though Byrnzie? if it was pissing down and you were in a cosy pub and someone asked you to attend a sporting match that you had no idea who was playing, nor the rules... standing in the mud watching men with sticks play golf-like stuff... pub wins every time for me... surely the pubs carry more culture of Ireland than any sport does anyway.. think of the literary giants from Ireland... common denominator? they all liked pubs and loathed hurling

i practice tossing my caber quite often though.... so often in fact that the rough bark around the girth has worn down to a smooth Silver Birch-esque quality...

i must admit i only really love the beautiful game... i dont like many other sports, well to watch at least.. i only watch, play, follow football.. its the PJ of the sporting world, everything else is just Westlife in comparison

The simple answer is that I'll go anywhere where there's beer. You begin by envisioning me sitting in a cosy pub whilst it's raining outside - you drive a hard bargain Dunkman. If that were the case then I reckon you know that I wouldn't leave the pub even if someone said that Mick Hucknall had been tarred and feathered and was being paraded around outside for the benefit of the local populace, who were being encouraged to pelt him with rotten fruit, sticks and large bit's of rubble. However, if I happened not to be in a cosy pub, and it wasn't raining outside, and there was a power cut, then if someone invited me to a hurling match, I reckon I'd be up for it.

Heineken Helen

redrock wrote:

Weeee! We agree on something!

Lol I think most people agree that cricket and golf are basically unwatchable

But... THREE DAYS????? :eek:

dunkman

redrock wrote:

Weeee! We agree on something!

BTW - I love this log throwing thingy whatever it's called (what Byrnzie said). There's also these games I once saw on TV - don't know what they're called - but it's lots of big guys in kilts doing all kinds of things (in a sporting way).

the Highland Games... usually tossing the caber and the throwing of other heavy things takes place..