2013 - The year in review

[High School Musical]

This year was mostly dire (a HSM and Billy Joe El collaboration)
Offalyman, Sharp Eye, Lean Times, The Magpie,
Heshs Umpire, Lovelyhurling, Bord na Mona Man.
Fargo Boyle, Round Inside, Westender, SearingDrive,
True Red, White grass, Slieve Bloom Man.

Sarsfields, Loughgiel, Nathan Carter, Wagon wheel,
KK, Winter nights, Lar Corbett caught in lights,
Underdogs, head of steam, Galway's got a new team,
Paddys day, 13 men, Will we ever win again?

This year was mostly dire,
We’ve not advanced at hurling,
We should take up curling,
This year was mostly dire,
Thought we need’nt worry,
But they had McCurry.

Joe Bloggs, Babsandbond, Substandard and Long John
Unrealbanter, Corner back, Ahlethimoutwithit,
Townman, Tipp man, Weisford, Tar Man,
Plain of the Herbs, Truth as I see it.

O’Byrne, Walsh Cup, Offaly football on the up,
Emmett Mac, Ruislip, Yellow-bellies, Clare blip,
Carlow, Topple Tipp, Allianz, Limerick,
Heuston Stop, Short hop, travel on the Luas.

This year was mostly dire,
We’ve not advanced at hurling,
We should take up curling,
This year was mostly dire,
Thought we need’nt worry,
But they had McCurry.

Lone Shark, JohnnyB, Brian Fantana, Kingscounty,
Boomcha, Toxicity, and ThePassionofChristy
Killeighman, White and Blue, Offaly1992,
Old yellar, Stand Back, Themaninred+black, Oh-oh-oh.

Flourbags and Gee-zer, Croker Hawkeye teaser,
Hunky dorys, New low, Qualifier no-show.
Hot day, half-time lead, Frees galore to Kilkenny,
Mullane was Déise Psycho, Now Shanahans on fire though!

This year was mostly dire,
We’ve not advanced at hurling,
We should take up curling,
This year was mostly dire,
Thought we need’nt worry,
But they had McCurry.

Bracknagh Boy, The Veteran, Brownie, Allstar2010,
Leixman, Harps man, Summerindublin,
Rhoderunner and Durra1, Hocker, Class of 81,
Daleamar, Clubman, suckindiesel, Hurlinfan,
County ground? Where to next?, Long season, no effects
Double K, blow Birr away, not much else that I can say!

This year was mostly dire,
We’ve not advanced at hurling,
We should take up curling,
This year was mostly dire,
Thought we need’nt worry,
But they had McCurry.

Llkj, Alltheway, Blinkers, lostinjuniora,
My Left Foot, Tacmot, Over the Black Spot,
Ryot, Timber and Fido, Pheonix, Turk and BUFFALO,
Kevin, Abercrombie Fitch, Fatlad, Hurler on the ditch.

Beirut and Manfromdelmonte, Everybody gets their say,
Rhode don’t sweat, no trouble yet, Reds, Hawks, Others bet,
All knocked out with no back door, Chairman Bolands martial law,
Champs go down without a roar, I can't believe its Tullamores!

We didn't start the fire,
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire,
Our glory days are gone
And our wait goes on, and on, and on, and on.

[High School Musical]

Apologies to:
Allsorts
Aragorn
Archangel
Atomic
AZoffaly
Backofthenet
Ballyduff
Blue biffo
Brosna gaels
clearhead
Club Faithful
DAF
Darknight
Ditchhurler
Dubbiff
emmawalshe
Esb_lad
Fifitrixibelle
Gagaforgaa
Goodsupporter11
Goofy
GreatDayForTheParish
Greenwhiteandgold
Hard2watch
Heman
Hyper
IamTonyMctague
In the Long Grass
Jamserdolan
Jimbob17
John Locke
Keenonsport
Killer B
KillougheyGoBragh
Kinnittyman
M.Dempsey
mrknowitall
Muck Savage
Oceans15 (best avatar)
Offalyguy
Offalyman18
Pot noodle
Puzzled
Redexile
Sadtimes2012
Sam88885a
The Bare Biffo
The Biff
The Bogman
The man
TheBoyWonder
Theman
TheManFromFerbane
Theoneandonly
Uibhfailian fear

and any others who I couldnt include.
Unfortunately all of you have usernames which I found next to impossible to include in this future chart-topper.

[Kevin]

Outstanding!!!

[KillougheyGoBragh]

HSM, seriously, seriously good.... even if you left me out....have you recorded yet?

[bracknaghboy]

Thats genuinely good HSM. How will the Royalties work out when this goes #1

[heman]

class stuff ...good to see your keeping busy

[substandard]

Absolutely brilliant, and chuffed with the mention!!!
HSM for County Board Chairman, Taoiseach, President, the EU President, X Factor Judge, entertainment at the Christmas staff party, presenting medals at the dinner dance, presenter of the Late Late Toy Show...

Chuck Norris and Romelu Lukaku, take a back seat, there's a new Superman in town...

[jimbob17]

Absolutely gutted.... twas bad enough being told i was past it for Junior B football but not making the the team on a 60 man GAA forum team is just gut wrenching..... To be honest, i dont know if ill have the stomach to make any contribution in 2014 after all the long evenings this year, the sore aches, sacrifices, the wife giving out and me gone every second night and all for what?? i dont even get a run at the end. I put a big personal effort in my self this year, a big personal effort.....where do i go from here...... Just want to wish all the players well....and F%*K the management.....
All the best, Jimbob....

[Heshs Umpire]

Absolutely gutted.... twas bad enough being told i was past it for Junior B football but not making the the team on a 60 man GAA forum team is just gut wrenching..... To be honest, i dont know if ill have the stomach to make any contribution in 2014 after all the long evenings this year, the sore aches, sacrifices, the wife giving out and me gone every second night and all for what?? i dont even get a run at the end. I put a big personal effort in my self this year, a big personal effort.....where do i go from here...... Just want to wish all the players well....and F%*K the management.....
All the best, Jimbob....

He even threw in a coupla Leix lads ahead of ya jimbob That's gotta hurt!

[TheManFromFerbane]

Fantastic!! What ever you do, you're wasted in it!

[durra1]

Mighty stuff…

At the risk of stereotyping, I was expecting the collaboration partner would be - shall we say – ethnically compatible with your avatars.. rather than Billy Joel!

How about a HSM / Ice Cube collaboration on ‘Today was a Good Day’ on the OB cup win over Laois or the league win over Tipp?!

.... Using the theme of an out-of-he-blue good day in a seemingly endless streak of gloom and misery!

[onthefence]

Brilliant funny as duck

[Plain of the Herbs]

Brilliant. The word 'legend' is oft misused - so I won't call you that, HSM.

But seriously, I absolutely enjoyed that. Well done.

[Phoenix]

Amazing, HSM. Very funny and great references (the fact that my name was near the end kept me interested!). Cheers

[High School Musical]

Thanks to everyone for such positive feedback.
I genuinely mean that.

Unfortunately I was unable to include everybody, mainly due to a lack of verses, but also due to the fact that some of you have names that just didn't fit into the song as i would have liked. Examples of these include KillougheyGoBragh, TheManFromFerbane and Great Day for the Parish to name just three. I would have liked to include everybody, but I think that would have been next to impossible. I certainly would have liked to include all of you long-time posters, but the only pre-requisite I used in terms of selection was that the username would fit, it had nothing to do with frequency of contribution to the site. It was only a bit of craic at the end of the day, so I hope nobody feels too aggrieved at their exclusion. I also knew I'd forget some users, and I can see that 'onthefence' was one of those. I'm sure there are others too. Jimbob17 seems to have taken it pretty badly. It's nothing personal, pal. If its any consolation, I've just realised that I left myself out too.

Onwards and Upwards lads.
Uibh Fhaili abú!!!