Stephen Cluxton

I don't understand this thread to be honest.

Do Dublin fans want their players signing autographs, attending functions and photoshoots promoting this and that, advertising crisps on TV, being panelists on sports shows, cutting ribbons on new shops, etc etc or do they want their players spending their free time practising on the training field?

It is no coincidence that Cluxton was called on to take that free. Because he didn't in the past waste his time with all the off field nonsense and hype that many players get caught up in, and they end up living it up, when they should be practising taking frees and the like.

In important games, it's all about the percentages, that extra time you spent on the training ground, often in January and February, paying off. Other counties should take note. In my own county of Mayo, players have gone around for years pretending to be heros, dying the hair, thinking they were Beckham and all the other sh*te, and they had won Sweet FA in AI terms.

I think this thread should be locked myself, as it attracts nit pickers. You can't please some people.

great score!!!

Simular to Peter Canavans against Armagh in the AI Semi Final 2005!

Each to their own and Stephen Cluxton is entitled to celebrate his well deserved victory however he likes! He comes across as a shy guy who prefers to do the talking the pitch! Hats off to him!

Paul Mc Grath/Paul Scholes are examples of other sportspersons who try avoid the spotlight!

Quazzie wrote: »

That's a real quality addition to the thread. You should consider writing a book filled with such contributions.

Hiace. wrote: »

Guess what - It's still none of your fecking business.

Cool the jets or there will be bans and infractions handed out. Same applies to everyone.

Heard an interview with the head teacher from the school where Cluxton teaches. He asked Cluxton early last week if it would be a good idea to put some bunting up. Cluxton asked him if he minded not doing so, as he wanted to concentrate on his teaching duties. He told the keeper that he could take a couple of days off, but the keeper said he would be in as usual on Monday. The head insisted on him staying off till Monday. Just a modest kids of guy, I guess.

I think it´s a disgrace that an amateur player, playing an amateur sport is subjected to this kind of ridicule. I´ve heard him being called "a weirdo", people questioning his mental health and saying it was "bad form" not going on a lap of honour. Cluxton profession is a teacher but just because we see his face in the paper regularly and we know his name, we expect that he´s a PR expert, comfortable doing national interviews and obliged to give a memorable quote for papers to use as headlines. He is under no obligation to put himself in the uncomfortable situation of doing live interviews on National TV. I would hate it, I´m sure many others would too, give the man a break - we shouldn´t even be discussing this. People need to take a look at themselves.

This thread is indicitive of the attitude that many Irish sports fans and observers now have towards those. So if Cluxton is being judged cos he went off the pitch, would those who are judging him prefer if he grabbed the attention of everyone by jumping into post match interviews and blowing kisses to the hill which the players have got criticised for in the past.

It seems to me that Cluxton is the embodiment of his manager on the field. He has been around the scene for years and seen the disappointment and the negative criticism that came with it. Don't forget that the same people who wrote his team off would be the same people who would now be praising them. Maybe he realised that.

I am a Donegal fan but think it's great that Dublin won the All Ireland and no one deserves it more that the likes of Cluxton. People should lay off him and let him celebrate however he wants. He has been slogging away at it for a decade and finally got what he craved.

Lighten up.

Maybe he needed to drop a load after that free, I no I was nearly ****ting myself when he was taking it so I can only imagine how he felt:D

eurokev wrote: »

wouldnt like to get on his bad side

Stephen Cluxton

DOB: 17/12/1981
CLUB: Parnells
OCCUPATION: Secondary School Teacher
FAVOURITE POSITION: Corner Forward
DUBLIN DEBUT: v Longford 2001

Honours won:
Toughest Opponent:
Sporting idol: Manny Pacquiao
Who would you pick in a GAA transfer market?
Favourite film/tv:
Favourite food: Home cooked food
Other hobbies/interest: Soccer
Best advice you ever got: Don’t talk to the media
Ambitions: Winning more stuff

I can't figure if he's crazy or really just insanely passionate about the game or what.

It's a nice change from B. Brogan who is like the Kerri katona of GAA!!

I like the fact that he is not selling out. He has a job and a regular income. He obviously is not on the breadline and doesnt buy into the hype. Look at Kenny Egan for example, he was well regarded by everyone when he won his medal in boxing, but then looked like a sap in Centra ads and having his mug all over the paper.
Im assuming Cluxton has learned from the likes of Egan and the others that start imersing themselves into the public eye for things other than what they are actually good at.

Already a thread on Stephen Cluxton, so I have merged the thread on sponsorship

Well done to clux and the lads last sunday,if you are tuned in here clux take no notice they are all only jealous!!!

Damokc wrote: »

Dunno if anyone has mentioned the photo going around of Tomas O'Se giving him the match ball...which by all accounts he then kicked into the crowd. As a Kerryman I say fair play to him for kicking that point. Pity some of the Dublin fans around the city didn't take a leaf out of his book after the game.

Pity the jeans man from Kerry would not follow Cluxton's example and take a low profile.

No sign of him on the Late Late either!