All bow before your new mod

smashey · 29-10-2010 4:21pm #1

Hi all,

I'll be giving this forum up soon and we have a new mod here as of today.

Clareman has agreed to help out here so please welcome him along and be nice to him.

Clareman · 29-10-2010 4:39pm

Thanks Smashy, more than glad to help out, can't believe all the free beer and money that comes with being a mod, I can't wait to find out what CMod's get, if I was a poster I'd be on my best behaviour always to get the opportunity to be a mod

I'll pretend I'm in work and give a bit of an introduction. GAA has always been important to me and I was brought up with it, 1 of the pictures of me is of me in a Clare knitted outfit to mark Clare's appearance in another league final (work out my age from there). 1 of the best days ever was watching the Clare footballers win the Munster Cup in '92 and see them run out in Croke Park, back then it was amazing to see Clare in Croke Park, the madness of the mid to late 90s, to the decline in the noughties to the resurgence of under-age now.

I like almost all sports, rugby would be my forth favourite sport, handball imvho is widely under promoted within GAA circles, I had the luck to be present for a number of All Ireland finals in Croke Park.

Anyway, that's enough about me, it's Friday evening, county championships are nearly coming to an end so we'll have club championship to look forward to, oh yeah not to mention the International Rules

soccymonster · 29-10-2010 5:19pm

I don't post too much lately but sure...... Hey Clareman! o/

:P

eroo · 29-10-2010 5:36pm

Great to see a fellow Clareman step up!

Diabhal Beag · 29-10-2010 5:37pm

Best of luck Clareman. Hopefully you won't have to deal with a Louth/Meath style thread where hundreds of non-GAA fans have opinions.

Flukey · 29-10-2010 6:22pm

Congratulations Clareman. A baptism of fire thread, like one about that infamous goal, might be a good way of getting you up to speed.

Fortunately at this time of year things tend to be quieter, and it is mostly the real GAA folk around. So unless some controversy comes from the match tomorrow night in Croke Park, you should have an easy start. You've plenty of time to get settled before the hot and heavy stuff starts. So enjoy the calm of the coming months.

Smashey, sorry to see you go. I see that the baton has gone down the west coast, bypassing Connacht. It hasn't been their year.

Clare really pushed us Dubs in the 1992 semi-final, and we could have had a very novel Clare v Donegal football final. As that didn't happen, relations are good between Donegal and Clare people. Wishing you both well again.

Clareman · 29-10-2010 6:39pm

Everyone knows that Clare had a perfectly good goal disallowed and the Dubs had a goal allowed when it shouldn't, really we won by 2 points, back then moral victories was about all we had, we don't even have those anymore

Kristopherus · 29-10-2010 9:54pm

Congrats, Clareman, from another Bannerman, currently granted asylum a little further North of you. Can't see too many great days for us in Thurles in 2011 to be honest, but then back in the day, we did'nt expect anything great in 1995 either:)

thegen · 29-10-2010 9:56pm

Best of luck Clareman, thanks Smashey.

Ian_K · 29-10-2010 10:10pm

*adds to list of enemies*

Orizio · 29-10-2010 10:24pm

Ian_K wrote: »

*adds to list of enemies*

Put him down twice for me...

An Citeog · 29-10-2010 10:30pm

Congrats and welcome Clareman. You've timed it well anyway!:p

I'd just like to say a big thank you to smashey aswell for everything he's done to keep this forum running smoothly. Hopefully you'll stick around as a poster anyway.

Daysha · 30-10-2010 12:00am

That worked out fair nice for ya didn't it Clareman, no Championship matches to worry about for 7 months :P

Nah seriously though, thanks for helping out

smashey · 30-10-2010 9:16am

Flukey wrote: »

relations are good between Donegal and Clare people.

Especially since we beat them last year in the qualifiers. :cool:

KevIRL · 30-10-2010 9:26am

All the best Smashey. You and the other mods (past and present) have helped make this one of the most readable forums on Boards. Thanks for everything.

Clareman - good luck in the new role. Try not to make snap decisions, talk to people and dont always resort to the mod tools first and you will be fine.