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The Official Off Topic Thread

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  • #302
    paddy no 11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭paddy no 11


    Hulk Hands wrote: »
    Ah yes the GAA, frequently referred to throughout the year as the Grab all association. The first non profit organisation in history that's only in it for the money apparently


    Load of bull.


  • #303
    jimjamcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭jimjamcos


    Hulk Hands wrote: »
    Ah yes the GAA, frequently referred to throughout the year as the Grab all association. The first non profit organisation in history that's only in it for the money apparently

    99% of the organisation aren't. The 1% at the very top make a tidy living from the 99%'s voluntary work however. That's just life though, no different to politicians in power.


  • #304
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    Hulk Hands wrote: »
    Ah yes the GAA, frequently referred to throughout the year as the Grab all association. The first non profit organisation in history that's only in it for the money apparently

    Yep, because people like ex Kerry managers went to manage teams on the other side of the country purely for the love of the game......


  • #305
    Hulk Hands
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,016 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Yep, because people like ex Kerry managers went to manage teams on the other side of the country purely for the love of the game......

    He's a manager. He didnt work on the board of Wicklow or Laois. What county boards and local business men decide to spend money on is irrelevant.

    It's the suggestion that the GAA are only out to make money when all that money is pumped back into the games is what I find laughable. Whether the actual money itself is spent wisely is whats debatable (like Micko et al and paying employees). They cant get everything right though and 99% of clubs in the country have decent facilities of some sort and underage structures in place so they're not doing too bad in general.


  • #306
    paddy no 11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭paddy no 11


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    Yep, because people like ex Kerry managers went to manage teams on the other side of the country purely for the love of the game......


    Jeez if Mick O Dwyer is a personal hate figure then you must be a very sad individual, could you not have picked a more recent example lets say John Allen or Donal O'Grady crossing the border for Silver?


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  • #307
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    paddy no 11 wrote: »
    Jeez if Mick O Dwyer is a personal hate figure then you must be a very sad individual, could you not have picked a more recent example lets say John Allen or Donal O'Grady crossing the border for Silver?

    He's the first person who came into my head. Include Allen and O'Grady as well. I remember being in Eason's in Cork city one day and Micko was doing a book signing, only he wasn't signing any books because nobody was queuing up to meet him. Seemed as if the people of Cork weren't all that keen on reading his autobiography :pac:


  • #308
    paddy no 11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭paddy no 11


    Harry Angstrom wrote: »
    He's the first person who came into my head. Include Allen and O'Grady as well. I remember being in Eason's in Cork city one day and Micko was doing a book signing, only he wasn't signing any books because nobody was queuing up to meet him. Seemed as if the people of Cork weren't all that keen on reading his autobiography :pac:


    Wow, great story.


  • #309
    ft9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,408 ✭✭✭ft9


    No racing until Thursday ffs!


  • #310
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    Aw lads, Everton are definitely going to win the league

    Never been more certain of anything in my life :pac:


  • #311
    SRFC
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭SRFC


    ft9 wrote: »
    No racing until Thursday ffs!

    The degenerates will be in punting the life out of machines around steepledowns for the next 2 day :pac: the turnover on the bags in romford in the morning will shoot up aswell.


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  • #312
    jimjamcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭jimjamcos


    SRFC wrote: »
    The degenerates will be in punting the life out of machines around steepledowns for the next 2 day :pac: the turnover on the bags in romford in the morning will shoot up aswell.

    Bet ya they won't!! :P


  • #313
    hucklebuck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,173 ✭✭✭hucklebuck


    SRFC wrote: »
    I see Urano failed to win again today ffs bookies favourite horse he is,what a mule.

    He looked like the winner until he clipped heels and came down.


  • #314
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    John Part did himself zero favours there but Wes Newton was very good. Anyone of the seeds in the top half must fancy their chances of making the final now with Taylor out sitting in his caravan of love


  • #315
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    John Henderson

    The epitome of a sports man. Born to drink & eat fried food


  • #316
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    Loaded up ok Carlow Brewing stuff in Dunnes today, 3 for €8.50.

    Although noticed that Leann Follain is now 3.20 outside the offer & Pale Ale 3.05


  • #317
    MyStubbleItches
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭MyStubbleItches


    Going shopping tomorrow for a barrowful of Innis & Gunn to see me through Christmas Day with the future in-laws in Thurles. Yum Yums.


  • #318
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Have to drop the mother to the train at half six in the morning. 12 pubs tomorrow night I think


  • #319
    ste2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭ste2010


    Had Christmas party part 2 on Friday..still dead..never drinking captain Morgan's again or taking shots for that matter..2 days later in a hoop still


  • #320
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    ste2010 wrote: »
    Had Christmas party part 2 on Friday..still dead..never drinking captain Morgan's again or taking shots for that matter..2 days later in a hoop still

    Man all I ever drink these days is beer. Simply not worth the hardship (and bloody beer on its own is bad enough). If I drink any kind of spirits or even more than a glass or two of wine (not really bothered with wine anyhow) I'm a total car wreck the next day, often for 2 days

    Although maybe I'm just getting old!!


  • #321
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    Savage game there. Guessing John Henderson went very short in play


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  • #322
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    ****ing hell, Van Gerwen's quarter is ridiculously hot. He plays Gary Anderson next (if he wins tonight) then Webster or Barney in the quarter

    The reward for getting through that is probably Adrian Lewis in the semi.


  • #323
    ste2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭ste2010


    Colonel Sanders wrote: »
    Man all I ever drink these days is beer. Simply not worth the hardship (and bloody beer on its own is bad enough). If I drink any kind of spirits or even more than a glass or two of wine (not really bothered with wine anyhow) I'm a total car wreck the next day, often for 2 days

    Although maybe I'm just getting old!!

    It all makes sense before I'm out..but then the reigns are off! I think I'm reaching that age where you begin to question the volume of drink you consume versus the days that follow..ill wait until January to consider it seriously ;-)


  • #324
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    Van Gerwen solid 1.06 shot

    Must admit I've never heard of his opponent


  • #325
    SRFC
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭SRFC


    How dya reckon the books will price up Annie Power and Solwhit?


    I presume something like 8/11 Annie Power 7/4 Solwhit? or am I way out.


  • #326
    Hulk Hands
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,016 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    SRFC wrote: »
    How dya reckon the books will price up Annie Power and Solwhit?


    I presume something like 8/11 Annie Power 7/4 Solwhit? or am I way out.

    Solwhit 8/11, 11/8 AP. Idont think they're going to go bigger than 100% those pair unless there's something else quite decent in the race, which is unlikely


  • #327
    SRFC
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭SRFC


    Hulk Hands wrote: »
    Solwhit 8/11, 11/8 AP. Idont think they're going to go bigger than 100% those pair unless there's something else quite decent in the race, which is unlikely


    I'd take the 11/8 AP with her weight allowance,thats why im sure she'll be fav.



    Who will ride Solwhit Russell or Carberry?


  • #328
    jimjamcos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭jimjamcos


    SRFC wrote: »
    I'd take the 11/8 AP with her weight allowance,thats why im sure she'll be fav.



    Who will ride Solwhit Russell or Carberry?

    Has always been Russell's ride barring injury/suspension (even though Carberry probably suits him better)


  • #329
    UrbanSea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Gonna get my hair cut absolutely BUZZING


  • #330
    Colonel Sanders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭Colonel Sanders


    1.83 Man City at home to Liverpool

    I'm guessing that price factors in City's hot home form relative to away (is say it implies they're 8-9 points better over a season without adjustment). Must admit I've no idea if such a correction (if indeed there is one) is valid

    Any ideas?

    Let's hope Everton can give Sunderland a good hiding Stephen's Day


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  • #331
    ft9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,408 ✭✭✭ft9


    Just dropping in to let ye know I'm on my iphone


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