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Underdogs 2018

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    #122
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Utopia Parkway wrote: »
    Must be remembered that the Underdogs didn't beat anybody during the series. I think they lost all their matches whether it was against club sides, the army or UCD. And I'm sure those teams were not at full strength either.

    O'Cuanaigh looks like a decent player for them but they don't have much possession to work with and what they do have they are kicking long into a full-forward line that isn't winning anything.

    Yeah the Galway lad is their stand out player.

    Didn't they beat St. Brigid's by a point?

    They were really poor in their other games.


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    #123
    Dots1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Dots1982




    They bet moorefield, I’m not sure how.


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    #124
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    CiarraiAbu2 wrote: »
    I still think they would give most teams a fright

    Is the guy from Kilkenny playing


    No he didn't start


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    #125
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,774 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Dots1982 wrote: »


    They bet moorefield, I’m not sure how.

    Surprised at that. I thought they lost all their matches.


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    #126
    passremarkable
    Registered Users Posts: 4,509 ✭✭✭passremarkable


    This an annihilation
    10 & 11 look half decent
    As said before, they should be playing a team a lower division in national league


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    #127
    munster87
    Registered Users Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭munster87


    They lost to, amongst others, the Kerry intermediate champions, without a number of their starting team, by 6 or 7 points. Then they are expected to play against an intercounty team like this. There may have been a flaw in this idea from the start.


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    #128
    Rob Thomas
    Registered Users Posts: 488 ✭✭Rob Thomas


    I don't doubt the effort and commitment of the underdogs throughout the series but the producers have killed the concept by allowing this slaughter.


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    #129
    Dickie9
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    I'd say Kilkenny footballers would beat these crowd


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    #130
    Boom__Boom
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    seligehgit wrote: »
    Their kickpassing is top class.

    Especially when contrasted with the Underdogs's kickpassing - the amount of attempted kickpasses that favoured the Dubs is just mind-boggling.


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    #131
    bucketybuck
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    Getting slaughtered by a county team would be one thing, but getting slaughtered by a team of reserve players that bears no resemblance to that counties real first team?

    From the strange timing of the match to the choice of opponents, if some producer wanted to kill the concept here then he/she has done a damn fine job.


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    #132
    Slattsy
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    Game on !!!


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    #133
    OldMrBrennan83
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    bucketybuck wrote: »
    Getting slaughtered by a county team would be one thing, but getting slaughtered by a team of reserve players that bears no resemblance to that counties real first team?

    From the strange timing of the match to the choice of opponents, if some producer wanted to kill the concept here then he/she has done a damn fine job.

    Probably some know-nothing producer had this vision of the same Dublin team from the All-Ireland final in front of a packed house and a massive occasion. Probably tried to get it on Croke Park initially.


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    #134
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,774 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Richie's head has just got bigger. 😀


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    #135
    Kerrydude1981
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    Change it up next year,be in hurling or football the underdogs should play the Senior Club All Ireland Champions at the end of the series


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    #136
    OldMrBrennan83
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    Why is it 'Áth' and 'Dogs' on the graphic anyway? Surely should be madra :pac:


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    #137
    Boom__Boom
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    bucketybuck wrote: »
    Getting slaughtered by a county team would be one thing, but getting slaughtered by a team of reserve players that bears no resemblance to that counties real first team?

    From the strange timing of the match to the choice of opponents, if some producer wanted to kill the concept here then he/she has done a damn fine job.

    GAA is pretty much the lifeblood of TG4's ratings, so I definitely don't think anyone was trying to kill the concept.


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    #138
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,774 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Kerrydude1981 wrote: »
    Change it up next year,be in hurling or football the underdogs should play the Senior Club All Ireland Champions at the end of the series

    Masochist?


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    #139
    seligehgit
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭seligehgit


    Boom__Boom wrote: »
    GAA is pretty much the lifeblood of TG4's ratings, so I definitely don't think anyone was trying to kill the concept.


    Ah I'd say it was more so inadvertently.

    I doubt they envisaged this scale of slaughter.


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    #140
    munster87
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    Patww79 wrote: »
    Why is it 'Áth' and 'Dogs' on the graphic anyway? Surely should be madra :pac:

    Or Mad to match this matchup


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    #141
    deisedude
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    Disappointing for the Underdog lads. Hopefully a few of them get trials with their counties


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    #142
    benji79
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    The interviews after are serious cringe


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    #143
    Dots1982
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    deisedude wrote: »
    Disappointing for the Underdog lads. Hopefully a few of them get trials with their counties

    Hopefully for their counties they don’t get past a trial.


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    #144
    Dots1982
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    Who does big Richie play for club wise?


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    #145
    Dots1982
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    Who does big Richie play for club wise?


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    #146
    Comic Book Guy
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    Dots1982 wrote: »
    Who does big Richie play for club wise?

    Did he say he is only on the bench at his senior club and is playing junior football?


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    #147
    cms88
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    Without sounding harsh there's probably a good reason these lads haven't played senior. A Div 4 team would have beat them based on tonight. That was probably Dublin's fourth team, and most of them probably wouldn't have played with eachother and they still hammered them. The MOFM even said he was only told on Tuesday he's be playing


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    #148
    cms88
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    Comic Book Guy wrote: »
    Did he say he is only on the bench at his senior club and is playing junior football?

    He did


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    #149
    TrueGael
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭TrueGael


    Let me get this straight a group of players thrown together beat a team selected from all over the country - top club players by almost 30 points!!!!!

    And we are told there is no need to split the Juggernaut!!!!

    As a comparison with a normal county - Kerry lost to the Underdogs as AI Champions in 2004 in front of a bigger and more raucous crowd than tonight


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    #150
    OldMrBrennan83
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    TrueGael wrote: »
    Let me get this straight a group of players thrown together beat a team selected from all over the country - top club players by almost 30 points!!!!!

    And we are told there is no need to split the Juggernaut!!!!

    As a comparison with a normal county - Kerry lost to the Underdogs as AI Champions in 2004 in front of a bigger and more raucous crowd than tonight

    That's some spin, even for you.


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    #151
    TrueGael
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭TrueGael


    Dublin's #1 fan turns up yet again to defend them without being able to debate the facts I listed.............


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