Hector Goes

iDave

RTE 1 now. Seems like its worth a watch.

Realt Dearg Sec

They haven't sold me on rounders but the interview with dj about handball was good

howiya

Is it the usual cringeworthy stuff from Hector or is it worth a watch? Last time I caught Hector Goes he had some gob****e looking for water sources in his back garden….

Realt Dearg Sec

howiya wrote: »

Is it the usual cringeworthy stuff from Hector or is it worth a watch? Last time I caught Hector Goes he had some gob****e looking for water sources in his back garden….

There's a bit of that ****e but he's kept a lid on it

Cantremember

Hector thinks it's all about Hector.

LeinsterDub

howiya wrote: »

Is it the usual cringeworthy stuff from Hector or is it worth a watch? Last time I caught Hector Goes he had some gob****e looking for water sources in his back garden….

Ruined by himself loving himself

iDave

A bit cringy but good to see nonetheless.

Radio5

Any chance Hector could be sold to Sky as part of the pay per view? That would help sell the deal to me a bit more!!!!

Hesh's Umpire

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

One thing struck me though was the description of St Thomas' as a "small club".

As far as I know St Thomas's covers two parishes.

There's some very small clubs in Laois including my own. Two clubs in a parish is common, three in a parish is not unknown!!

Utopia Parkway

Hesh's Umpire wrote: »

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

One thing struck me though was the description of St Thomas' as a "small club".

As far as I know St Thomas's covers two parishes.

St Thomas's does cover two parishes. Kilchreest and Peterswell. Two very small parishes though. They would be a small club by the standards of the clubs around them. They are sandwiched in between two townie clubs in Loughrea and Gort.

The St.Thomas story isn't so special because of the size of the parishes.

It's more to do with there being so few families involved and in particular the amount of Burkes.
Then you had the Father as manager when they won their AI.

They wouldn't have included them if it wasn't for that aspect, it was even the main talking point in the run up to the final.

Plenty of small area's have made it to the finals over the years, one place I found particularly interesting was Newtownshandrum.
I passed through there a few years back after missing the turn from Limerick heading to Cork.

For somewhere so small and isolated off the main road they had a very good period there for a number of years, albeit backed by the two O'Connors.

Realt Dearg Sec

gilberto_eire wrote: »

The St.Thomas story isn't so special because of the size of the parishes.

It's more to do with there being so few families involved and in particular the amount of Burkes.
Then you had the Father as manager when they won their AI.

They wouldn't have included them if it wasn't for that aspect, it was even the main talking point in the run up to the final.

Plenty of small area's have made it to the finals over the years, one place I found particularly interesting was Newtownshandrum.
I passed through there a few years back after missing the turn from Limerick heading to Cork.

For somewhere so small and isolated off the main road they had a very good period there for a number of years, albeit backed by the two O'Connors.

Yeah that's what makes those places incredible. Same with ballyhale, a tiny place and a team back boned by just a few families like the Reid's, Shefflins and of course the fennellys.

ProudDUB

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Yeah that's what makes those places incredible. Same with ballyhale, a tiny place and a team back boned by just a few families like the Reid's, Shefflins and of course the fennellys.

Sheflins? Sheflins? :eek:

You mean there is more than one of them?

That's just not fair ! :mad:

Realt Dearg Sec

ProudDUB wrote: »

Sheflins? Sheflins? :eek:

You mean there is more than one of them?

That's just not fair ! :mad:

His brother Paul but he was always very much a club hurler, don't worry. His father has always been involved in the club too far as I know

ProudDUB

Ok phew, that's a relief. Fingers crossed Henry only ever has daughters too. :P

Poor_old_gill

The ad just seemed to spout a bunch of well worn cliches about GAA players-stuff thats been the basis of about 5000 articles in the last 10 years.

Also Hector is atrocious and his whole 'Jack the lad' act is as tiresome as it is predictable

jack o shea

hector is some tosser

Stinicker

Radio5 wrote: »

Any chance Hector could be sold to Sky as part of the pay per view? That would help sell the deal to me a bit more!!!!

Better still he might get the gig with the Aussie broadcaster, be great to get him off the Irish airwaves. He is about as an annoying as Gerry Ryan was and anything more than a few second of him and I'd probably have diarrhoea from listening alone. Who in their right mind made that lad into a media personality?

Deskjockey

He can be a bit OTT but in general I like him.

iDave

All those Navan lads are a bit odd

howiya

howiya wrote: »

Is it the usual cringeworthy stuff from Hector or is it worth a watch? Last time I caught Hector Goes he had some gob****e looking for water sources in his back garden….

Rahoo Rahoo Rahoo! Its the water boiling show!

ProudDUB

The Savage Eye does good Hector.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYN1Fvrm7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=024NoCsITGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZMho_sjbKg