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by The Magpie
Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:23 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: New Blog
Replies: 5
Views: 4641

Re: New Blog

Sterling work AZ :)

Any chance of some comment on the NBA Finals? The Sunday Independent had a very good piece on Dirk Nowitzki at the weekend.

Looking forward to more.
by The Magpie
Tue May 31, 2011 9:34 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Team to face Wexford in Leinster Football Championshi
Replies: 92
Views: 57043

Re: Offaly Team to face Wexford in Leinster Football Championshi

I had promised myself that I'd avoid posting on this topic, as I don't really want to write what I think. Anyway, I seldom agree with Long John, but he's on the money here: I personally think there is alot of lads on the county football panel that like the social scene too much. Theres alot of infla...
by The Magpie
Mon May 09, 2011 8:41 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly Senior Football Club Championship 2011
Replies: 259
Views: 172716

Re: Offaly Senior Football Club Championship 2011

Gracefield were full value for their win here. They got off to a great start against a strong wind and I think they led by 0-5 to 0-1 - this was the cushion that was to stand to them later in the game. Clara then dominated a large portion of the game, from about 15 minutes into the first half to aro...
by The Magpie
Tue Apr 12, 2011 11:01 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly vs Westmeath NFL 10/04/2011
Replies: 27
Views: 18407

Re: Offaly vs Westmeath NFL 10/04/2011

Well, I'm probably a lot closer to being on the negative side than the positive. The reason for this - the Management Team. I'm usually very quick to look towards the players, but this is not the first time Tom Cribben and Co. have baffled me - remember the performance against Clare in the qualifier...
by The Magpie
Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:27 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly vs Westmeath NFL 10/04/2011
Replies: 27
Views: 18407

Re: Offaly vs Westmeath NFL 10/04/2011

Plain of the Herbs wrote:I suppose a repeat of 1990/91 is out of the question? Westies 0-1 Offaty 2-25 at Moate. Oh happy days.
I could well be wrong, but I think a spritely Brendan Lowry scored both goals that day and gave the Westmeath backs a torrid time.
by The Magpie
Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:34 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Interview with Jody Gunning
Replies: 21
Views: 15877

Re: Interview with Jody Gunning

So, it's Ok to want to play with the "best" team in the parish - given that there was once a parish rule and even though it no longer exists, that's still Ok. But: the bottom line is that Dublin clubs are poaching the best players. They don't go after the mediocre player they are poaching ...
by The Magpie
Tue Mar 01, 2011 3:07 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: General Election time
Replies: 103
Views: 62638

Re: General Election time

You're clearly a hard man to please though LS :o I'd say when the candidates saw your list of questions coming through the door, they decided there was easier ways of getting a vote! If you're: hugely skeptical of how much the likes of Mick Wallce, Shane Ross, Richard Boyd-Barrett, Joan Collins and ...
by The Magpie
Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:22 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: mcpaddens for clonmore ?
Replies: 47
Views: 29249

Re: mcpaddens for clonmore ?

Right now, there are two separate threads on this site, with pretty much the same themes running through them. In one thread, Kevin Corrigan has expressed the "need" for amalgamating (some might consider, re-uniting) splintered Parish groups, which he believes to be the solution to improvi...
by The Magpie
Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:19 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Brian Cowen's legacy of failure as Taoiseach
Replies: 72
Views: 50496

Re: Brian Cowen's legacy of failure as Taoiseach

Independence worked for the USA and Australia, it didn't for Zimbabwe or indeed most of sub-saharan Africa. So, it worked where small indigenous populations were brutalized, but not anywhere else? Surely that means that independence worked for the masses of incoming people that staked-out a piece o...
by The Magpie
Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:38 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Brian Cowen's legacy of failure as Taoiseach
Replies: 72
Views: 50496

Re: Brian Cowen's legacy of failure as Taoiseach

That's why I'd say it's time for a full time Nanny from across the water, if that turns out to be the case. Obviously a closet Sinn Fein man :lol: All jokes aside, isn't this the same Nanny that also knew what was best for Africa, India, etc? And what was that somebody said about absolute power?
by The Magpie
Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:24 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Rhode V Kilmacud
Replies: 50
Views: 31264

Re: Rhode V Kilmacud

They will lose players in the coming years certainly, but right now their most important footballers are in their prime. Of the three mentioned yesterday, Roy Malone only played a bit part, Alan McNamee had an absolute nightmare of a game and while Paschal was good in the first half and remains eff...
by The Magpie
Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:27 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Brian Cowen's legacy of failure as Taoiseach
Replies: 72
Views: 50496

Re: Brian Cowen's legacy of failure as Taoiseach

Finding it hard to hide your contempt LS :)
Lone Shark wrote:utterly, utterly
Lone Shark wrote:black, black
And must you always sit on the fence?
by The Magpie
Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:08 am
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Rhode V Kilmacud
Replies: 50
Views: 31264

Re: Rhode V Kilmacud

Ultimately, Rhode were well beaten today, but will still look back on this game with regret. Aside from the late penalty (which, if it went in, would've rattled most teams, coming at that stage in the game), they'll look back at the turnovers and scores that they gifted Kilmacud. Too many cheap scor...
by The Magpie
Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:24 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: Offaly PRO
Replies: 13
Views: 7362

Re: Offaly PRO

Hmm. Somebody who's:

a) Good at publishing things
b) Competent with the World Wide Web
c) Experienced at putting together match programmes

There is an obvious candidate around these parts, but I don't know if he has the time :wink:
by The Magpie
Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:48 pm
Forum: Offaly GAA
Topic: offaly footballers of the year???
Replies: 10
Views: 6030

Re: offaly footballers of the year???

Magpie I know you take the hump when I or anybody criticise Reynolds as hes your fellow clubman I think if you trawl back through my posts, you won't see me defending John Reynolds too much. Also, I'm not the only one defending him here, so the suggestion that I'm blindly defending one of my clubme...