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Erik Shin

Just heard Tom Petty has died...found unresponsive at his home, taken to hospital and was on life support, no brain activity so life support was switched off....balls

pickarooney

thomond2006 wrote: »

Backup QB is a great job.

This we learned from Blue Mountain State

thomond2006

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Mike Glennon signed for the Bears on a $45m dollar contract, $18.5m guarranteed. 4 games into it he has been dropped. I want to be a 2nd rate NFL quarterback.

Backup QB is a great job.

irishbucsfan

Mike Glennon signed for the Bears on a $45m dollar contract, $18.5m guarranteed. 4 games into it he has been dropped. I want to be a 2nd rate NFL quarterback.

Berty

Finally got paid today. Munster 20% Discount for Lifestyle expired last night.

thomond2006

I was at the NFL in Wembley today.

The Miami offense was baaaaaaad. The entire game wasn't much better.

wp_rathead

Golf is fun today, Dunne doing brilliant

dregin

Pitch was flooded for rugby training one night, so we ended up in the hall playing five a side. Stubbed my big toe on it and the nail came straight off. **** those things to the high heavens.

kuang1

Playing (gaelic) football as a teenager, we'd sometimes have a soccer kick around before the coach would arrive.
Anyone who headed one of those O'Neills footballs was greeted with both groans and winces along with a smidge of admiration.

I still remember the sound of the cracks that eminated from my neck when I attempted it once.

Utah_Saint

Buer wrote: »

Erik Shin wrote:

Irish footballer Kevin Doyle retired tonight due to concussion...says he cant even head the ball anymore without getting headaches...a couple of concessions already this year...quite a few over his career ..very sensible decision

If you've never read the story of Geoff Astle's demise it is both horrifying and fascinating. His brain was severely impacted by a career of being a physical and dominant aerial player with the old leather balls.

It isn't nearly as bad now but there's no way that heading a ball a couple dozen times every day for 30 years won't have some sort of impact no matter how small.

I'm sure we all played when we were younger and even as recently as the 90s some of those footballs were like rocks. As kids nobody wanted to stick their head on the ball on a winter's morning when they were 10 but the manager would roar at someone for letting it bounce.

The last paragraph resonates with me. In the Irish/UK style of coaching - I rem being shouted at many a time for letting it 'bounce', and not going 'first time'. Also been encouraged to head the ball while defending when an opposition player absolutely 'thumps' it straight at you. I def remember feeling dazed after heading the ball the odd time, especially if it was a particularly firm ball.

Buer

Erik Shin wrote:

Irish footballer Kevin Doyle retired tonight due to concussion...says he cant even head the ball anymore without getting headaches...a couple of concessions already this year...quite a few over his career ..very sensible decision

If you've never read the story of Geoff Astle's demise it is both horrifying and fascinating. His brain was severely impacted by a career of being a physical and dominant aerial player with the old leather balls.

It isn't nearly as bad now but there's no way that heading a ball a couple dozen times every day for 30 years won't have some sort of impact no matter how small.

I'm sure we all played when we were younger and even as recently as the 90s some of those footballs were like rocks. As kids nobody wanted to stick their head on the ball on a winter's morning when they were 10 but the manager would roar at someone for letting it bounce.

Erik Shin

Irish footballer Kevin Doyle retired tonight due to concussion...says he cant even head the ball anymore without getting headaches...a couple of concessions already this year...quite a few over his career ..very sensible decision

thomond2006

swiwi_ wrote: »

Adieu (au diable?) Hugh Hefner.

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2017/09/28/were-finally-free-dozens-of-women-released-from-california-mansion/

swiwi_

Adieu (au diable?) Hugh Hefner.

pickarooney

The piece of crap app only has options for TCP or UDP.

Edit: I got a manual configuration working but it's a bit **** to pay for all the options of the app and not be able to use them.

Neil3030

pickarooney wrote: »

I got a subscription to PureVPN for two years. It worked ok for 4 days and now won't connect to the web. Wtf?

I had a similar problem with a VPN, it tends to need different settings depending on what network I connect to - see if you can switch around and try L2TP, TCP, UDP, etc. Hopefully one of those will continue to work.

pickarooney

I got a subscription to PureVPN for two years. It worked ok for 4 days and now won't connect to the web. Wtf?

stephen_n

molloyjh wrote: »

You could always chance your arm in the back row.......no?

Are you suggesting he has lost his gas and added a few too many pounds for centre?

thomond2006

The irony is he's made plenty money from doping...

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I listened to that live yesterday, it was completely bizarre. Considering he got effectively no antagonism from the host or the other guy on the show it was remarkable how worked up he got, just all by himself managed to completely lose his mind.

He started off by complaining about Gavin being hostile to the press. This is Paul fuppin' Kimmage complaining about hostility.

Buer

Just whilst mentioning Heaslip's injury on another thread, it reminded me of Paul Kimmage's foolishness at the time. If anyone hasn't heard it, they could do worse than to listen to Kimmage taking part in the Sunday review of the papers on OTB yesterday for pure entertainment. The bloke became hysterical in his criticism of Jim Gavin for not showing enough emotion following Dublin's win and his dispassionate display in the post match press conference.

It culiminated in Kimmage actually shouting into the microphone "What did the media do to him?!" It was gold. Some of his comments are here: https://www.balls.ie/gaa/paul-kimmage-on-jim-gavin-374263

On a sidenote, Kimmage has lost the plot generally. You could sense the unease of the other guest and the host as he worked himself up into a frenzy. He has the ability to be a great sports journalist but I reckon the Armstrong thing took its toll on him and has left him completely embittered whilst being desperate for his next crusade.

thomond2006

Buer wrote: »

Tooooold you so!

20/1, was worth a go.

Bazzo

molloyjh wrote: »

You could always chance your arm in the back row.......no?

This is basically the Bazzo special. I like to think of myself as a jack of all trades, but according to my team mates it's more of a fat winger/dodgy centre/skinny flanker situation.

Buer

thomond2006 wrote:

****ing Miami Dolphins.

Tooooold you so!

molloyjh

swiwi_ wrote: »

Yeah, I'm not sure. The 2 lads that started midfield are both French - from the South-West and Bordeaux: our good friend yer man "Sullivan" and a guy who runs his own fitness studio...with pecs about the site of my waist. I also play FB, but the 15 is the captain, and actually pretty damn good, he made a scintillating counter-attack today that lead directly to a try. I'm going to need good old "father injury" to give me a helping hand. Or else there seems to be a spot for backup 9.

F*ck it, the Swiss are not supposed to any good at rugby, I was expecting just to flash the NZ passport and be named 10 and captain to an eternally grateful club....

Ah well.

You could always chance your arm in the back row.......no?

Erik Shin

thomond2006 wrote: »

****ing Miami Dolphins.

No wonder dolphins always make that eeek sound!

thomond2006

****ing Miami Dolphins.

swiwi_

pickarooney wrote: »

Nice one, Swiwi! You'll nail a place down by the Christmas break.

Yeah, I'm not sure. The 2 lads that started midfield are both French - from the South-West and Bordeaux: our good friend yer man "Sullivan" and a guy who runs his own fitness studio...with pecs about the site of my waist. I also play FB, but the 15 is the captain, and actually pretty damn good, he made a scintillating counter-attack today that lead directly to a try. I'm going to need good old "father injury" to give me a helping hand. Or else there seems to be a spot for backup 9.

F*ck it, the Swiss are not supposed to any good at rugby, I was expecting just to flash the NZ passport and be named 10 and captain to an eternally grateful club....

Ah well.

pickarooney

Nice one, Swiwi! You'll nail a place down by the Christmas break.

There have been serious tensions between the football and rugby clubs here recently over ground sharing, so in the spirit of reconciliation we played the first (annual?) footby tournament yesterday.

Five hours of alternating between 7 a side soccer and touch rugby and nobody seems to know who won but it was a good laugh. The first game was like seven frantic Johnny Mays desperately trying to manufacture a line break for 15 minutes while we intercepted and ran in tries at will. Then they ran us ragged around the footie pitch for a bit.

swiwi_

swiwi_ wrote: »

So...and with thanks to Teferi for a few words of encouragement...I've started playing rugby again :eek: (well at I've been to a couple of training runs). First I needed to maintain Swiss neutrality, so that meant Leinster shorts and a Munster top.

I felt and no doubt appeared like some sort of uncoordinated retard, all those silky handling skills, no look passes, deft offloads, and amazing jinking runs that marked out my U16 career...gone

The team is half Swiss, half imports (mainly French expats). The colours are black and white, which is a nice touch All the good players wore AB training gear to practice...actually I tell a lie...there was no correlation between the jersey and the skill level. One of the guys introduced himself with what sounded to me like "Salivan". I was like "ça s'écrit comment?", and he was like "Sullivan, comme les Irlandais" :pac:. I was like"Oh, Sullivan" :pac: (I'm not lying, his name IS Sullivan).

Team came up with a really original nickname "Kiwi". I like the deep thought that went into it.

First game in 2.5 weeks - against the deadly rivals from Yverdon, Canton du Vaud. I'm debating throwing my hat in the ring for the trois quarts centre or else arrière...but I'm a lot more rotund and a lot less quick than back in the day. Team mascot is the back-up option. The squad's best player "Max" has really got the Carlos Spencer look going, complete with tank top, cap back to front, and a physique you just know the girls will cat-fight over. Pretty boy 10 - some things never change...

Podge_irl - no excuse lad, Geneva has rugby clubs too

And...we sent those urban protestants packing back to Yverdon...7 tries to 4, 52-23. Even included a sideline conversion and a drop goal. I was seriously surprised at the level...but then we are Swiss league B, which only leaves Swiss league A...and the Senior Men's Swiss team :eek: Got myself 15 to 20 minutes off the bench, at inside centre, missed 1 tackle (from which they scored

) but otherwise t'was grand. The lads were a chanting after the game, it was like being in the South of France. Great craic altogether.