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    #1352
    crusier
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    the 2001 team could have gone a lot further

    Tobin let them off the leash too much after the Connacht win, and having to face Galway again the second day in Connacht rather than Croke Park was a big let down. Hard enough to beat them once in the year

    2001 was great, Sam came west!


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    #1353
    Lt J.R. Bell
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    crusier wrote: »
    2001 was a great year, Sam came west!

    Ah, at that point, we were sick of the Herron chokers lol


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    #1354
    Comic Book Guy
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    the 2001 team could have gone a lot further

    Tobin let them off the leash too much after the Connacht win, and having to face Galway again the second day in Connacht rather than Croke Park was a big let down. Hard enough to beat them once in the year

    Loved watching that team, the castlebar game aside!

    If ya had a time machine what one player from that side would you bring into the current set up?
    Francie was obviously an all star that year but ya also had lads like Frankie, the Duracell bunny Connelly, Denis Gavin, Stephen Lohan etc.


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    #1355
    Lt J.R. Bell
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    Comic Book Guy wrote: »
    Loved watching that team, the castlebar game aside!

    If ya had a time machine what one player from that side would you bring into the current set up?
    Francie was obviously an all star that year but ya also had lads like Frankie, the Duracell bunny Connelly, Denis Gavin, Stephen Lohan etc.

    A healthy Seamus O'Neill. We could do with another big man in the middle, mixer Ryan in defence.


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    #1356
    Lt J.R. Bell
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    crusier wrote: »
    2001 was great, Sam came west!

    Funny enough, for some reason, TG4 did a decent documentary on Galway v Roscommon clashes covering 1998-2002. That smary ****er Ray Silke, as usual made some disparging remarks about Roscommon. Not a likeable chap, and from what I heard, some of his team mates were not fond of him either


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    #1357
    crusier
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    Lt J.R. Bell wrote: »
    Funny enough, for some reason, TG4 did a decent documentary on Galway v Roscommon clashes covering 1998-2002. That smary ****er Ray Silke, as usual made some disparging remarks about Roscommon. Not a likeable chap, and from what I heard, some of his team mates were not fond of him either

    Easily the worst player to captain an all Ireland winning team!


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    #1358
    Comic Book Guy
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    crusier wrote: »
    Easily the worst player to captain an all Ireland winning team!

    Quite an accolade ha!


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    #1359
    yabadabado
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    Paul Noone was criminally underrated on that team.Real pity he didn't play longer with the county team ,he was excellent in 2001.


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    #1360
    Comic Book Guy
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    yabadabado wrote: »
    Paul Noone was criminally underrated on that team.Real pity he didn't play longer with the county team ,he was excellent in 2001.

    Yeah had a stormer on Donnellan in Tuam that year. Wasn't it him that got winning goal against Dublin in Parnell Park in 2002?


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    #1361
    Strongbow10
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    Comic Book Guy wrote: »
    Loved watching that team, the castlebar game aside!

    If ya had a time machine what one player from that side would you bring into the current set up?
    Francie was obviously an all star that year but ya also had lads like Frankie, the Duracell bunny Connelly, Denis Gavin, Stephen Lohan etc.

    Connelly and Gavin?


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    #1362
    Syferus
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    Lt J.R. Bell wrote: »
    A healthy Seamus O'Neill. We could do with another big man in the middle, mixer Ryan in defence.

    Seamie would have been some player with the disapline of the current squad. What he could do half fit was unreal.

    Oh, and to see Ray Silke cursing the ground after Brigids edged Corofin in Kiltoom in 2011 - priceless. Poor lad mustn't have had any clue what had happened, a club from such a minow of a county beating his club.

    Yeah, I don't think motivation is something we'll lack when Galway come calling to the Hyde looking for survival.


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    #1363
    crusier
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    Syferus wrote: »
    Seamie would have been some player with the disapline of the current squad. What he could do half fit was unreal.

    Oh, and to see Ray Silke cursing the ground after Brigids edged Corofin in Kiltoom in 2011 - priceless. Poor lad mustn't have had any clue what had happened, a club from such a minow of a county beating his club.

    Yeah, I don't think motivation is something we'll lack when Galway come calling to the Hyde looking for survival.

    In fairness that was not won by brigids it was won by the ref


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    #1364
    nice_guy80
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    crusier wrote: »
    In fairness that was not won by brigids it was won by the ref

    you've a serious chip on your shoulder


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    #1365
    crusier
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    you've a serious chip on your shoulder

    Its just the truth and you know it


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    #1366
    yabadabado
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    crusier wrote: »
    In fairness that was not won by brigids it was won by the ref

    That you Ray ?


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    #1367
    yabadabado
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    Syferus wrote: »
    Seamie would have been some player with the disapline of the current squad. What he could do half fit was unreal.
    Seamie could still be playing for the county ,plenty of older county player's around.


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    #1368
    Lt J.R. Bell
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    Syferus wrote: »
    Seamie would have been some player with the disapline of the current squad. What he could do half fit was unreal.

    Oh, and to see Ray Silke cursing the ground after Brigids edged Corofin in Kiltoom in 2011 - priceless. Poor lad mustn't have had any clue what had happened, a club from such a minow of a county beating his club.

    Yeah, I don't think motivation is something we'll lack when Galway come calling to the Hyde looking for survival.

    Well, it should have been de ja vu for Silke and Corofin. Brigids bet them in 2006 as well with a Karl Mannion wonder goal


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    #1369
    SureYWouldntYa
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    Really hope we beat Galway, if there's to be any chance of promotion it needs to be a win. Mullingar will be tough especially with the u21s playing the day before


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    #1370
    nice_guy80
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    Hopefully Westmeath will be relegated by then
    A win against Galway will be a big boost ahead of the Connacht Championship


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    #1371
    yabadabado
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    Great result for Roscommon CBS today.

    Into the "A" All Ireland Final.

    They beat Good Counsel by 2 points .Took them the first ten minutes or so to settle but once they did they were the better team and could have won by 5-6 points.Some very exciting prospects on show for CBS.

    Second semi final is gone into extra time .


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    #1372
    Inspector Coptoor
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    Holders Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne and Roscommon CBS will contest next month’s Hogan Cup final
    http://jrnl.ie/2018540


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    #1373
    Syferus
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    CBS have developed an incredible defensive record in this year's championship - 0-07, 0-07 and 0-08 conceded. The growth in the team since losing the Connacht league final to Summerhill has been remarkable. The first Roscommon college to feature in the Hogan Cup final since Nathys in 1959 (the only success being Nathys in 1957). That puts what they've just done into some perspective. Well done to all.

    The minor team sans the CBS lads have responded well to the four goal rout to Leitrim last weekend, beating Mayo on Tuesday night and Sligo away just a few minutes ago. Hopefully people heading to Tuam for the U21 final get in early (4:15pm) to support the minors against Galway in their next Connacht Minor League fixture.

    A win tomorrow would be the icing on the cake.


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    #1374
    TimRiggins
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    Meath currently beating Down by 2 at half time. If it stays that way a win tomorrow would put us top. More on the line then that tomorrow, I think its vital we put down a marker on Galway that we're back and we're going to be competing for Connaght titles.


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    #1375
    Syferus
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    TimRiggins wrote: »
    Meath currently beating Down by 2 at half time. If it stays that way a win tomorrow would put us top. More on the line then that tomorrow, I think its vital we put down a marker on Galway that we're back and we're going to be competing for Connaght titles.

    You do that against Mayo, not Galway. Galway have struggled more than we have since the turn of the decade. It's a local derby with huge significance for two young teams but markers for Connacht titles won't be set in a game like this. There's only one team you can do that against and it's the four time champions.


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    #1376
    TimRiggins
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    Syferus wrote: »
    You do that against Mayo, not Galway. Galway have struggled more than we have since the turn of the decade. It's a local derby with huge significance for two young teams but markers for Connacht titles won't be set in a game like this. There's only one team you can do that against and it's the four time champions.

    Mayo and Galway and the only other teams with a realistic chance of winning it. Beating one of those in a vital league game would put down a marker.


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    #1377
    crusier
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    I'm not a rossie but CBS being in a hogan cup final is to me a bigger sign of Roscommon's emergence


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    #1378
    nice_guy80
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    Ros have not beaten Galway in the championship in a long time

    the fact that a small school like the CBS can get to a Hogan Cup final is a sign of the quality players that small clubs around Roscommon town are producing.
    The CBS would have a tiny pick compared to most schools.


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    #1379
    Syferus
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    Sure Carlow won a Hogan Cup in 2005. Not much relationship between Hogan Cup and county success but there are some handy players to come into the minor county panel. Gately is already featuring for the U21s. County-wide structures have to be in place to make a real stab at IC football, one or two shinning lights at colleges level are far from enough of even much of an indicator of what the rest of a county is up to, just ask the Summerhill lads and how they've fared for Sligo despite their numerous successes.

    CBS are a college rich in tradition whatever about size, though. Not least of which was their All-Ireland B title four years ago.


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    #1380
    Inspector Coptoor
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    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    Ros have not beaten Galway in the championship in a long time

    the fact that a small school like the CBS can get to a Hogan Cup final is a sign of the quality players that small clubs around Roscommon town are producing.
    The CBS would have a tiny pick compared to most schools.

    I honestly put a lot of it down to the fact that Roscommon cbs have started playing rugby.
    The lads are getting hardier and tougher.
    The Juniors won the Connacht Junior title this year beating the Jes, Galway 36-0, after narrowly losing a junior final last year.

    Roll on April 11th


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    #1381
    megadodge
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    Inspector Coptoor wrote: »
    I honestly put a lot of it down to the fact that Roscommon cbs have started playing rugby.
    The lads are getting hardier and tougher.
    The Juniors won the Connacht Junior title this year beating the Jes, Galway 36-0, after narrowly losing a junior final last year.

    Roll on April 11th

    There are almost no crossover players on both teams, so...


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