C+H Sports Discussion Thread

Aoibheann

The Tour de France prologue was as awesome as ever today. The top 3 wasn't remotely surprising - Cancellara, Martin, Millar - especially Cancellara in the top spot. What was most interesting though was that first blood in the overall classification battle went to Armstrong. He was 4th in the prologue itself at 22 seconds behind Cancellara, but more importantly, he was 5 seconds ahead of Contador! It's not a huge amount (but you're never going to get much in a ten minute course!), but it'll give him the psychological edge going into the first week. After the more in-depth details of the Landis saga that were released today, it was prettty impressive.

Should be an exciting three weeks with a few nervy stages in Belgium early on. If anyone's interested in taking a look, Stage 3 on Tuesday should be exciting with cobbles sections possibly shaking things up!

EuropeanSon

Can't see Armstrong having much of a chance, he can't have improved much from last year given his age, and Contador seemed to have a few more gears than him last year. The main threat to Contador is Andy Schleck.

Wasn't Cancellera accused of using a motorised bike a while back? Did anything come of that?

Aoibheann

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Can't see Armstrong having much of a chance, he can't have improved much from last year given his age, and Contador seemed to have a few more gears than him last year. The main threat to Contador is Andy Schleck.

Wasn't Cancellera accused of using a motorised bike a while back? Did anything come of that?

Sean Kelly made a very valid point that Armstrong should actually be a better rider this year than last as he'll have over a year's pro-cycling back under his belt, whereas last year he only had a few months. It really does make a difference, despite Armstrong being almost 39! Of course Contador was a stronger rider than someone only back in cycling a few months. I still think Contador will win this year, but if you give Armstrong any psychological edge early on - which he has - I think he can surprise us all. I don't think he'll win (although it's not impossible) as this Tour is very suited to Contador.. All those mountains, he'll be in heaven. But we'll see. I've seen stranger things than a 38 year old Lance Armstrong winning a Tour de France. If there's a split in the peleton in Stage 3, expect him to be on the right side of things. Nothing gets past him!

He was indeed, though I don't think anything came of it. He just must have his own inner motor.. Actually, they now have some scanner set up to check bikes to see if they have motors! It's essentially like the daily drugs-testing afaik in that it's only random bikes selected, as opposed to the entire field!

msbrightside

Sligo are in the Connacht final!!
I'm soaking wet but I'm so happy!

Now, please, please don't lose to Roscommon.

unknown13

A bit annoyed Sligo won since Galway will now be in the qualifiers.

Spain won which was nice.

bluejay14

msbrightside wrote: »

Sligo are in the Connacht final!!
I'm soaking wet but I'm so happy!

Now, please, please don't lose to Roscommon.

Glad they won.:) They would have been so dissapointed if they lost it after losing a 5 point margin in the original game. They were lucky today though, that sideline ball by Galway that they got the goal from changed the game. What was he thinking when he did it?!

msbrightside

bluejaymraz wrote: »

Glad they won.:) They would have been so dissapointed if they lost it after losing a 5 point margin in the original game. They were lucky today though, that sideline ball by Galway that they got the goal from changed the game. What was he thinking when he did it?!

It was worse, we were nine points ahead in that game! I have no idea, awful mistake but hey, I won't complain. I'm not sure if McGee's point at the end was even a point but I suppose it made up for the score Galway got before that because it looked wide from where I was!

Oh, I just realised you meant 5 points ahead when the seventy minutes were up in the original game. Sorry!

bluejay14

msbrightside wrote: »

It was worse, we were nine points ahead in that game! I have no idea, awful mistake but hey, I won't complain. I'm not sure if McGee's point at the end was even a point but I suppose it made up for the score Galway got before that because it looked wide from where I was!

Oh, I just realised you meant 5 points ahead when the seventy minutes were up in the original game. Sorry!

I think ye were just truly meant to win it so.

Mark Brehony used to be one of my brothers teachers in school!

msbrightside

Oh cool!
He played great today actually, heard he won man of the match.

unknown13

bluejaymraz wrote: »

Mark Brehony used to be one of my brothers teachers in school!

Does anyone find that weird that a load of GAA players are teachers.

Bobalicious93

unknown13 wrote: »

Does anyone find that weird that a load of GAA players are teachers.

Galvin is aswell....I think...


>_>...

DylanS09

unknown13 wrote: »

Does anyone find that weird that a load of GAA players are teachers.

And Ian Ryan!

DylanS09

Bobalicious93 wrote: »

Galvin is aswell....I think...


>_>...

He teaches Irish...:/
I'd hate to be one of his students...dusters flying everywhere!:pac:

unknown13

DylanS09 wrote: »

He teaches Irish...:/
I'd hate to be one of his students...dusters flying everywhere!:pac:

Probably uses corporal punishment for all we know judging by the way he acts on the GAA pitch

bluejay14

DylanS09 wrote: »

He teaches Irish...:/
I'd hate to be one of his students...dusters flying everywhere!:pac:

He'd be slapping books out of your hands before you know it.:pac:

DylanS09

bluejaymraz wrote: »

He'd be slapping books out of your hands before you know it.:pac:

Ha! I was gonna say that as well!:D

suitcasepink

There was an incident this year involving Galvin, a student and a duster.. It was brushed over though..

Yerra good few teachers, Brian Codys a priniciple...

And of course the Jacobs of Wexford who were playing today, all related to Gregg Jacob(who used play a few years ago) the porn star

bluejay14

deise_girl wrote: »

There was an incident this year involving Galvin, a student and a duster.. It was brushed over though..

Yerra good few teachers, Brian Codys a priniciple...

And of course the Jacobs of Wexford who were playing today, all related to Gregg Jacob(who used play a few years ago) the porn star

I see what you did there deise.

Dessie Dolan's a primary school teacher.

unknown13

bluejaymraz wrote: »

Dessie Dolan's a primary school teacher.

So is Shane Ryan

suitcasepink

bluejaymraz wrote: »

I see what you did there deise.

Haha I didnt mean that
Gawdd Im brilliant :L :L

I cant think of any interesting jobs that Waterford peeps have
Ones an oil delivery driver? Or the brother is a mobile vegetable shop assistant?
I'll look into this more me thinks...

bluejay14

By the looks of the way our gaelic team are going though all he'll have left soon is teaching. He's just not the player he used to be anymore:(.

unknown13

bluejaymraz wrote: »

By the looks of the way our gaelic team are going though all he'll have left soon is teaching. He's just not the player he used to be anymore:(.

Be honest: Westmeath suck badly. Louth were good last week but they were definitely a team that was beatable.

DylanS09

I heard somewhere that more than half of the Tyrone football team is unemployed and that a fair amount of the Kilkenny hurling team is...

Some GAA players have cool jobs like Brian Murray(former Limerick goalie) drove vans for DHL! :P and Andrew O'Shaughnessy is in the Army!
Hugh Flavin who used to be on the Limerick team teaches woodwork in my school...all the girls are MAD about him...

sock puppet

unknown13 wrote: »

Does anyone find that weird that a load of GAA players are teachers.

Could be that it allows them to work in their own area, whereas someone working in banking for example might have to move up to Dublin.

unknown13

sock puppet wrote: »

Could be that it allows them to work in their own area, whereas someone working in banking for example might have to move up to Dublin.

I think its more for the holidays. They are guaranteed to be off for at least two months during the summer.

msbrightside

sock puppet wrote: »

Could be that it allows them to work in their own area, whereas someone working in banking for example might have to move up to Dublin.

And they do get whole summers off, which means they have free time for training..

bluejay14

deise_girl wrote: »

Haha I didnt mean that
Gawdd Im brilliant :L :L

I cant think of any interesting jobs that Waterford peeps have
Ones an oil delivery driver? Or the brother is a mobile vegetable shop assistant?
I'll look into this more me thinks...

A mobile vegetable shop assistant sounds like a great job.

One of our hurlers is our plumber. He fixed our whole heating system about 2 years ago when no one else could, the legend.

suitcasepink

DylanS09 wrote: »

I heard somewhere that more than half of the Tyrone football team is unemployed and that a fair amount of the Kilkenny hurling team is...

Some GAA players have cool jobs like Brian Murray(former Limerick goalie) drove vans for DHL! :P and Andrew O'Shaughnessy is in the Army!
Hugh Flavin who used to be on the Limerick team teaches woodwork in my school...all the girls are MAD about him...

We've an army lieutenant, Stephen Molumphy forgot bout him.. Eoin Larkin is in the army too.
And tbf Most the decent hurlers anyway would get a lot of money for different advertisements and shizz..

unknown13

deise_girl wrote: »

We've an army lieutenant, Stephen Molumphy forgot bout him.. Eoin Larkin is in the army too.
And tbf Most the decent hurlers anyway would get a lot of money for different advertisements and shizz..

Sean Og is a banker, Diarmuid O Sullivan is a Guard.

bluejay14

unknown13 wrote: »

Be honest: Westmeath suck badly. Louth were good last week but they were definitely a team that was beatable.

I'm not denying that we were terrible. I just wish we were better.:( After winning 2 games in 2 years, I think I'll convert to supporting that hurlers, at least they can win something.