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  • 06-07-2011 8:10am
    #1
    buckwheat
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUGn3E5quf4

    Best day by far of my GAA supporting life, was only 12 too. Honestly don't know how I would have coped at that age if the dubs had done that to us.

    Absolutely unbelievable saga, I've seen us play in 7 All Ireland finals and the hype never came close to this. Two truely great teams who were hard as nails but could play football too.:cool:


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  • #2
    The_Kew_Tour
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    Jesus I feel old now....

    Remember them well those games were magical.

    You dont have this type of hype to any game anymore which is a pity.

    I remember that year was first time I went to Thurles too as a kid as Cork and Tipp played twice and Tipp came back strong in both games to advance. I still remember the Tipp crowd running onto the field. You be talking about those games for weeks now you know there is the backdoor.

    I am just grateful I witnessed games like that.

    EVENFLOW



  • #3
    aidan24326
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    The goal Meath got to win it would go down as one of the best goals of all time for me. Not for its technical brilliance by any means, but the way they worked the ball from one endline to the other, knowing they had to get a goal, it was remarkable that they could pull that off under such presure.

    Dublin's slightly naieve defending does kinda show how the tactical aspect of the game has changed so much though. If that was now, and Dublin were 3 points up with a minute or two to go, they'd have a massed defence with 13 men in their own half and it would be almost impossible to break down. That Meath team had an unbelievable ability to never give up though, even if you were 6 points up with 5 minutes to go you still couldn't relax.


  • #4
    buckwheat
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    aidan24326 wrote: »
    The goal Meath got to win it would go down as one of the best goals of all time for me. Not for its technical brilliance by any means, but the way they worked the ball from one endline to the other, knowing they had to get a goal, it was remarkable that they could pull that off under such presure.

    Dublin's slightly naieve defending does kinda show how the tactical aspect of the game has changed so much though. If that was now, and Dublin were 3 points up with a minute or two to go, they'd have a massed defence with 13 men in their own half and it would be almost impossible to break down. That Meath team had an unbelievable ability to never give up though, even if you were 6 points up with 5 minutes to go you still couldn't relax.

    That's true, even in the final when we were 11 points down against Down I was convinced it was a matter of time. Only lost by 2 in the end but ran out of time. Pity because it would have been some All Ireland to win. We came back from 5 down with 10 mins to play in the Semi against Roscommon to win by one as well.

    Here's another great one against Louth (no not last year:D) in 2002. 4 points down going into injury time and Richie Kealy gets a goal to give us hope of a draw. Then Geraghty wins it with a goal with the last kick of the game. Never seen pandamonium like it in Navan. TV pics don't do it justice.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g3HrksAdGE

    Lost count of the amount of other occasions when we won / drew games we were dead and buried in. Westmeath are another county who must have really hated us around 01 / 02


  • #5
    penexpers
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    I prefer this version of it

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjy9guThsWU

    Was at all of these matches myself (I was 10 at the time).


  • #6
    premierstone
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    The_Kew_Tour wrote: »
    Jesus I feel old now....

    Remember them well those games were magical.

    You dont have this type of hype to any game anymore which is a pity.

    I remember that year was first time I went to Thurles too as a kid as Cork and Tipp played twice and Tipp came back strong in both games to advance. I still remember the Tipp crowd running onto the field. You be talking about those games for weeks now you know there is the backdoor.

    I am just grateful I witnessed games like that.

    Ah yes them Tipp/Cork games were epic aswell, Aidan Ryans goal at the end is one of those images you never forget, them games combined with the Meath/Dublin saga really made that summer one of the standout for the GAA, it had everything.


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  • #7
    buckwheat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭buckwheat


    penexpers wrote: »
    I prefer this version of it

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjy9guThsWU

    Was at all of these matches myself (I was 10 at the time).

    Yeah quality looks a lot better there alright, has the winning point as well. There's a fairly poor quality video with Michael Muircheartaigh's commentary on it somewhere on youtube, can't look for it as I've no sound at work but it's absolutely deadly. He reckoned it was the greatest finish he had ever seen in any sport.


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