Five good things about Ireland's WC elimination?

Snickers Man

5 Munster/Leinster fans don't have to be reticent about slagging off the international players from each other's teams. [edot] Except on this site of course

4 Replicas of the "New" first team kit can now be put away in the wardrobe of "embarassing fashion fads from the past" along with the baggy trousers, tank tops, corduroy flairs and double-breasted bomber jackets.

3 The whingers who go on about not playing Amhran na bhFiann can bog off back to the GAA

2 Won't have to listen to Ireland's Call (I never said it was a good song!) again until after Christmas.

1 Now they'll have to take that Godawful ad in which Dara O'Briain says it's great to go down the pub to watch "Ireland NOT suck at an international sporting event" off the air.

LostinBlanch

Snickers Man wrote:

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1 Now they'll have to take that Godawful ad in which Dara O'Briain says it's great to go down the pub to watch "Ireland NOT suck at an international sporting event" off the air.

I agree it's all his fault!

zAbbo

The provinces Internationals have had the extended pre-season, and should now be hitting top form (give that the RWC was a month early )

davyjose

Snickers Man wrote:

1 Now they'll have to take that Godawful ad in which Dara O'Briain says it's great to go down the pub to watch "Ireland NOT suck at an international sporting event" off the air.

Lol I was thinking that myself.
But then I heard it the other day

Trojan

The provinces are doing just fine without the Internationals, thank you very much - beating Cardiff away, eh?

tHE vAGGABOND

2 Won't have to listen to Ireland's Call (I never said it was a good song!) again until after Christmas.

Im pretty sure we have the Kiwi's in Croker in November

..it will get rolled out then

marco_polo

tHE vAGGABOND wrote:

Im pretty sure we have the Kiwi's in Croker in November

..it will get rolled out then

Not untill 2008, no autumn internationals this year due to the RWC. Just as well for us really.

Hamo

Hmmm I'm a little taken aback about the comment regarding teh Tank tops, I myself am pretty keen on mine...... 'A fashion guru....'

roight...

jmayo

Snickers Man wrote:

5 Munster/Leinster fans don't have to be reticent about slagging off the international players from each other's teams. [edot] Except on this site of course

4 Replicas of the "New" first team kit can now be put away in the wardrobe of "embarassing fashion fads from the past" along with the baggy trousers, tank tops, corduroy flairs and double-breasted bomber jackets.

3 The whingers who go on about not playing Amhran na bhFiann can bog off back to the GAA

2 Won't have to listen to Ireland's Call (I never said it was a good song!) again until after Christmas.

1 Now they'll have to take that Godawful ad in which Dara O'Briain says it's great to go down the pub to watch "Ireland NOT suck at an international sporting event" off the air.

snickers, as you and your "non GAA fan" friends stride up to Croker next spring, remember that the Irish rugby team would have nowhere to play but for the GAA :rolleyes:

And if the IRFU uses same management principles as those that made great sporting and business decision to award EOS his new 4 year contract before WC, then you better get used to Jones Road

If you want to have a lovely green jersey to wear to matches get a nice Connacht jersey, all help is greatly appreciated.

Have to say I actually agree with you on the rest.
Oh and for the love of God, can we have a blanket ban on all ads featuring O'Gara

Snickers Man

jmayo wrote:

snickers, as you and your "non GAA fan" friends stride up to Croker next spring, remember that the Irish rugby team would have nowhere to play but for the GAA :rolleyes:

Good point and happy to acknowledge that the GAA have not only entered into an agreement with their compatriots who prefer "foreign games" but from what I can see having been at both matches last season, pulled out all the stops to deliver fully on their side of it. Long may such hard-negotiated co-operation continue.

I wasn't slagging off the GAA themselves, just the element who appeared to me to be ignorant of the traditions of the IRFU and wrote a lot of nonsense on the matter and who, I would guess, would be more likely to be followers of GAA games than rugby.

jmayo

Snickers Man wrote:

Good point and happy to acknowledge that the GAA have not only entered into an agreement with their compatriots who prefer "foreign games" but from what I can see having been at both matches last season, pulled out all the stops to deliver fully on their side of it. Long may such hard-negotiated co-operation continue.

I wasn't slagging off the GAA themselves, just the element who appeared to me to be ignorant of the traditions of the IRFU and wrote a lot of nonsense on the matter and who, I would guess, would be more likely to be followers of GAA games than rugby.

As a sports fan rather than just a fan of one code of football, I readily admit that there are those bigots within GAA, just like those IO have come across in the other codes that are very stingent in their views and sadly bare a huge dislike for the other codes.

I believe that all our ball team sports (soccer, gaelic, hurling, rugby) can provide wonderful enjoyment, excitment and entertainment, when played well.
Sadly our rugby team haven't delivered, much like my own county's footballers haven't delivered on a few sad sundays in September.
Now they are a prime example of chokkers, who can deliver until they get within sight of a finishing line and then collapse in spectular fashion :mad:

Speaking of the West, Snickers you never answered if you would sport the Connacht jersey rather than the current Irish top ?
It's much more fashionable you know

Snickers Man

jmayo wrote:

Speaking of the West, Snickers you never answered if you would sport the Connacht jersey rather than the current Irish top ?
It's much more fashionable you know

I still have my venerable old Irish top in a really nice shade of emerald green that goes back to the days before it became an advertising hoarding. Not so much unfashionable as a perennial design classic.

It's getting a bit bally now but I still much prefer it to the slogan-adorned varieties of recent years.

And I don't think the world is ready for what the new figure-hugging style of top will do to my portly frame.

Not so much a statement of fashion as a case study for the "What not to Wear" girls.