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Irishman just scored a century for England

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  • #62
    BillyMitchel
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    irishmover wrote: »
    Just because you don't enjoy something doesn't mean everyone else in the world shouldn't.

    Gob****e. Wher does it say I or the poster I was talking to not to enjoy it?


  • #63
    Yellow121
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    Gyalist wrote: »
    Again? 150 years ago it was the most popular sport.

    LINK

    If you read books like e.g. The History of Cricket in County Kilkenny you'd be amazed at how popular and ingrained the game was. In fact, an argument could be made that the most successful hurling counties are those with a deep cricketing tradition.

    Just over 150 years ago many Irish people were starved to death. I know well of the history of cricket here, it was put back in its place and this kind of story today will keep it there.


  • #64
    Fratton Fred
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    Yellow121 wrote: »
    Just over 150 years ago many Irish people were starved to death. I know well of the history of cricket here, it was put back in its place and this kind of story today will keep it there.

    GAA fan by any chance?

    Cricket is one of the most popular sports on earth. Why shouldn't Ireland play?


  • #65
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,652 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Yellow121 wrote: »
    Just over 150 years ago many Irish people were starved to death.
    Irrelevant to this discussion.
    Yellow121 wrote: »
    ... it was put back in its place and this kind of story today will keep it there.
    Oh, please do go on.


  • #66
    irishmover
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    BillyMitchel wrote: »
    Gob****e. Wher does it say I or the poster I was talking to not to enjoy it?

    I guess I took it the wrong way then? Asking why he's watching cricket before 7am, when it's live at that time in Australia to me seems like you're suggesting he's an idiot for watching a **** sport at a **** hour.

    I was just thinking of the times I get up at 3am to watch football while in Australia and wondered if you'd be saying the same thing to me!


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  • #67
    iDave
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    My main problem with this is how are Ireland going to have any sustained competitiveness at the highest level if any decent player gets poached by England?
    Don't know much about cricket and its politics but on the outside it would seem very difficult to be able to produce a decent team in the long run if our top talent plays elsewhere.
    Wasn't there another lad called Joyce that became English too?


  • #68
    Gyalist
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    GAA fan by any chance?

    Cricket is one of the most popular sports on earth. Why shouldn't Ireland play?

    The reaction that cricket gets from some people in Ireland amuses me. Yet most of the sports invented or codified by Britain (football, rugby, golf, tennis, hockey, squash, badminton, et al) don't attract the same ire.


  • #69
    Sunnyisland
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    Dont follow/watch it myself,do see it being played quite regular in the Phoenix park,when I was in India it was followed fanatacly by all around me,they were baffled that I had no interest in it.


  • #70
    Fratton Fred
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    iDave wrote: »
    My main problem with this is how are Ireland going to have any sustained competitiveness at the highest level if any decent player gets poached by England?
    Don't know much about cricket and its politics but on the outside it would seem very difficult to be able to produce a decent team in the long run if our top talent plays elsewhere.
    Wasn't there another lad called Joyce that became English too?

    If those players had a reason to stay then they would.

    There is quite significant support in England for the development of Irish cricket.


  • #71
    BillyMitchel
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    irishmover wrote: »
    I guess I took it the wrong way then? Asking why he's watching cricket before 7am, when it's live at that time in Australia to me seems like you're suggesting he's an idiot for watching a **** sport at a **** hour.

    I was just thinking of the times I get up at 3am to watch football while in Australia and wondered if you'd be saying the same thing to me!

    Well I'm not a mind reader I don't know of he's in Australia or Nigeria or watching it on sky at home. Ive obviously assumed the home one!

    No I don't think you are an idiot either. I done it myself for long enough in the Far East. Champions league games were a killer!!


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  • #72
    Snickers Man
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    Mahogany Gaspipe wrote: »
    Cricket is surprisingly not too bad to watch, not test cricket but the 20/20 cricket.

    Beats darts or snooker for me anyhow.

    Cricket is a sport; darts and snooker are not.

    Definiiton: "it's not a sport if you don't have to change your shoes"


  • #73
    Yellow121
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    GAA fan by any chance?

    Cricket is one of the most popular sports on earth. Why shouldn't Ireland play?

    Irish people can play if they want but it will never be popular.


  • #74
    Gyalist
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    iDave wrote: »
    My main problem with this is how are Ireland going to have any sustained competitiveness at the highest level if any decent player gets poached by England?
    Don't know much about cricket and its politics but on the outside it would seem very difficult to be able to produce a decent team in the long run if our top talent plays elsewhere.
    Wasn't there another lad called Joyce that became English too?

    That's why a structure for the game to be played professionally in Ireland is being put in place. The current Ireland senior squad are almost all centrally-contracted to Cricket Ireland. The provincial competition started last year and much investment is being made into its development. This will take time.

    Ed Joyce played for England and is back playing for Ireland.


  • #75
    Yellow121
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Irrelevant to this discussion.


    Oh, please do go on.

    Why is that irrelevant? Does it not show who might have been playing cricket at the time?

    What more do I have to say, cricket isn't popular here and stories like this today will not help it gain popularity.


  • #76
    Yellow121
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    Gyalist wrote: »
    The reaction that cricket gets from some people in Ireland amuses me. Yet most of the sports invented or codified by Britain (football, rugby, golf, tennis, hockey, squash, badminton, et al) don't attract the same ire.

    I was just giving my opinion. I don't believe playing for England is the goal for those other sports you listed.


  • #77
    Snickers Man
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    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Both of which are International corporations, not national sports teams, no comparison.

    Cricket doesn't have "national" sports teams. It has test sides. There's no such country as the "West Indies", for example. it is made up of several independent countries all of whom have contributed great players to the test team. Barbados, Antigua, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad etc

    Also "England" in cricket terms is really the UK (and Ireland) Playes from Scotland and Wales have often appeared in the "England" side.

    Tradition, don't ye know.


  • #78
    Fratton Fred
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    Yellow121 wrote: »
    Why is that irrelevant? Does it not show who might have been playing cricket at the time?

    What more do I have to say, cricket isn't popular here and stories like this today will not help it gain popularity.

    Who was playing cricket? The same people that now play football and hurling.


  • #79
    Cantona's Collars
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    I've zero interest in it and find it odd that England are still playing Australia since early December.You can't avoid reports on it on SSN.They lost the Ashes and are still out there playing against the country that beat them.


  • #80
    irishmover
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    Snickers Man wrote: »
    Cricket doesn't have "national" sports teams. It has test sides. There's no such country as the "West Indies", for example. it is made up of several independent countries all of whom have contributed great players to the test team. Barbados, Antigua, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad etc

    Also "England" in cricket terms is really the UK (and Ireland) Playes from Scotland and Wales have often appeared in the "England" side.

    Tradition, don't ye know.

    I guess if it was called the British and Irish Lions it might have been getting a little more exposure from the Irish public.


  • #81
    Gyalist
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    Yellow121 wrote: »
    I was just giving my opinion. I don't believe playing for England is the goal for those other sports you listed.

    The vast majority of people playing cricket in Ireland haven't a hope of ever playing for Ireland, nevermind England. Their goal is just simply playing for the fun of it.


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  • #82
    Fratton Fred
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    Snickers Man wrote: »
    Cricket doesn't have "national" sports teams. It has test sides. There's no such country as the "West Indies", for example. it is made up of several independent countries all of whom have contributed great players to the test team. Barbados, Antigua, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad etc

    Also "England" in cricket terms is really the UK (and Ireland) Playes from Scotland and Wales have often appeared in the "England" side.

    Tradition, don't ye know.

    I think Robert Croft said that for him, representing Glamorgan was akin to representing Wales and England to the UK.


  • #83
    Fratton Fred
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    zerks wrote: »
    I've zero interest in it and find it odd that England are still playing Australia since early December.You can't avoid reports on it on SSN.They lost the Ashes and are still out there playing against the country that beat them.

    They are now playing a one day series.


  • #84
    anncoates
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    Cue rant along the lines of what about 8 centuries.

    Tiocfaidh ár lá etc.


  • #85
    El Weirdo
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    Yellow121 wrote: »
    Why is that irrelevant? Does it not show who might have been playing cricket at the time?
    Who? People like Michael Cusack?


  • #86
    danmanw8
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    Lapin wrote: »
    You make it sound as though the English all have scabies or something.

    Whats the problem here?

    A professional earning his living abroad - no big deal.

    Nobody passes any remarks on an Irishman being head of British Airways.

    The CEO of RyanAir is Irish too I think :-) ....but the CEO of AerLingus is German and no Germans are claiming treason


  • #87
    Gyalist
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    zerks wrote: »
    I've zero interest in it and find it odd that England are still playing Australia since early December.You can't avoid reports on it on SSN.They lost the Ashes and are still out there playing against the country that beat them.

    LOL. England are on tour to Australia just like, say, the Britsh and Irish Lions go on extended tour there. The Ashes are played for in 5 five-day Test matches. That's now over and they are now playing the 50 over version of the game.


  • #88
    OldRio
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    danmanw8 wrote: »
    The CEO of RyanAir is Irish too I think :-) ....but the CEO of AerLingus is German and no Germans are claiming treason

    And who does the German play cricket for?


  • #89
    Yellow121
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    Who was playing cricket? The same people that now play football and hurling.

    Some of those who could, others didn't have the chance.


  • #90
    P_1
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    Fair play to him, a century against those Australian bowlers is no mean feat.

    Would an Irish test team be a good thing? Possibly. At the moment I'd say the Irish cricket team is quite similar to the Samoan rugby team, the 'best of the rest', capable of pulling off the occasional upset against the bigger teams but incapable of competing on a regular basis.

    As for the people who don't like it, a fairly simple solution would be to just ignore it in that case.


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  • #91
    Yellow121
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    Gyalist wrote: »
    The vast majority of people playing cricket in Ireland haven't a hope of ever playing for Ireland, nevermind England. Their goal is just simply playing for the fun of it.

    Yeah, play away lads. It wont become popular though.


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