Re: All Ireland Gold

**patrique** Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:01 pm

bluearmy1 wrote:Also think the sight of Diarmuid Marsden being sent off in the '03 final was one of the saddest I've seen on the pitch. One of the few Armagh players I actually liked, always a gentleman and walked off the pitch gracefully. Terrible pity for a player like that to leave the game in that way.

He deserved all he got.

The blackgurd STOOD still while a Tyrone man ran 30 yards to be attacked by him.

Marsden was the best forward on that Armagh team, as he did the work, but was also the playmaker, and could score as well as 1999 illustrated. Wonderful talent from his minor days in 1992, Sigerson exploits with the mighty QUB, to his halycon days with the county.

I would always debate that if he had been around in 2005 they could have won another sam.

**mullins** Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:52 pm

3inarow08 wrote:
RMDrive wrote:
3inarow08 wrote:
redhandman wrote:Heres a question, everyone commented on how great tipp were a fortnight ago and the intensity they showed in overcoming the might of kilkenny.

what is the difference between tyrone in 2003 v kerry and tipp v kilkenny 2010?

i have never watched the smie of 03 back in full . in fact rarely watch games back in full again. i have been there and enjoyed the tension and atmosphere on the day watchin it back just isnt the same. i'll keep the memories

but i remember vividly the swarm tackling of that day never seen before. unbelivable .

I have different views on the game. Intensity is all well and good, but when you have a man on the ground, trying to rise so that he can pick up the ball, surrounded by at least 4 or 5 players, being pushed, shoved, kicked (or as some might see it "attempted to kick the ball from under the player") and this happens numerous times during the game, well then I don't see it as enjoyable. Swarm tackling as you call it. The very word "swarm" makes me cringe. Obviously that match is/was enjoyable for every Tyrone fan, it's their first ever All Ireland, ye're going to see it in a "can do no wrong" type of light. We've lost something like 20 or so finals, including one where we could have got a 5 in a row bar a debatable goal in the last minute, but 2003 (and also 2002 for me personally) rank up there as the worst. And it's nothing to do with the teams being from the North/Ulster in my mind, as we've lost many of them 20 All Irelands to Northern/Ulster teams before. It's the type of game that was used to beat us that hurts.

I read this as .... I'm still sore that the band of men representing my county were bullied out of it and weren't able to stand toe to toe with the Tyrone lads. What really hurts is that we had no answer to them but I'm going to hide my hurt behind some excuses about footballing styles.

You can read it whatever way you like.

I see it you way 3inarow that game left a bad taste in the mouth of true gaels....