National Hurling League Divisions 1 & 2

Only during Lent .....

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Only during Lent .....

will you take St Patrick's day off from lent???

I might hold off my St Pats debauchery for two days so that I can go mad for the rugby match .....

Who do you think you are puke refering to a team as "scumbaggs", your nothing but a hypocritical fool, sort it out, while your at it sort out your wagers! Some times it takes one to know one and all that so maybe your right?!

As for the catholic church and reports, youd want to watch the brendan smith documentary, wasnt just the church protecting sickos your government too!

Sorry HG back to hurling rather than debating with fools, aye they are slegging up here that its tradition to beat carlow by a point in the league now lol, yous were the better team by far, we brought back sheils whos pace seemed to do yous real damage, he missed a good part of last year through injury but hes back now, also thought Sean Hawes the goal keeper played well, always nice to have him in reserve.

The dubs are on a role big time, ill see how they go v galway and kk before making judgement on their leinster championship credentials but they are showing signs of being genuine contenders for a few years to come.

North Side Gael wrote:Who do you think you are puke refering to a team as "scumbaggs", your nothing but a hypocritical fool, sort it out, while your at it sort out your wagers! Some times it takes one to know one and all that so maybe your right?!

As for the catholic church and reports, youd want to watch the brendan smith documentary, wasnt just the church protecting sickos your government too!

Sorry HG back to hurling rather than debating with fools, aye they are slegging up here that its tradition to beat carlow by a point in the league now lol, yous were the better team by far, we brought back sheils whos pace seemed to do yous real damage, he missed a good part of last year through injury but hes back now, also thought Sean Hawes the goal keeper played well, always nice to have him in reserve.

The dubs are on a role big time, ill see how they go v galway and kk before making judgement on their leinster championship credentials but they are showing signs of being genuine contenders for a few years to come.

Ther Brendan Smyth affair brought down a government though, they paid their price for their role in the scandal....Down went out in Cusack Park for the second year in a row had more interest in verbals and hitting lads late and off the ball, if you act like thugs on the field expect to be branded it.....If it was one player then I would say fair enough but numerous players were at it for teh second year in a row, thankfully clare were well in control and didn't lower themselves to Down's level...Fair enough if they want to be physical but cowardly high and late strokes have no place on a hurling field

Puke, firstly how many ministers went from that government? Are you sure you dont mean it brought down a leader a fall guy?

As for Down, i dont remember clare getting referred top as scum bags when they brought their physical game to the table during the nineties, as dirty a team as ever won an all ireland that bunch, got away with a lot of it too!

Dont refer to hurlers as scumbags, its not nice and i dont expect to hear gaa people calling other gaa people that ever, because at the end of the day we are all members of the one organisation, we are all brothers, we stand as one accross the worl regardless of what are disciplinary background is in the game. Heat of the moment, fair enough, i called meath all the names under the son after leinster last year but apologised on here for some of my comments, as it was rightly said they are just tradesmens, teachers, taxi drivers etc, ordinary decent fellas, i have come across scumbags playing our games they are now expelled from the association im sure none of these down boys are at risk of this.

North Side Gael wrote:Puke, firstly how many ministers went from that government? Are you sure you dont mean it brought down a leader a fall guy?

As for Down, i dont remember clare getting referred top as scum bags when they brought their physical game to the table during the nineties, as dirty a team as ever won an all ireland that bunch, got away with a lot of it too!

Dont refer to hurlers as scumbags, its not nice and i dont expect to hear gaa people calling other gaa people that ever, because at the end of the day we are all members of the one organisation, we are all brothers, we stand as one accross the worl regardless of what are disciplinary background is in the game. Heat of the moment, fair enough, i called meath all the names under the son after leinster last year but apologised on here for some of my comments, as it was rightly said they are just tradesmens, teachers, taxi drivers etc, ordinary decent fellas, i have come across scumbags playing our games they are now expelled from the association im sure none of these down boys are at risk of this.

Clare were a very physical team who played on the edge like all top sides but they were not a dity team, but if you can reference these dirty strokes they got away with please fill me in as I would love to hear them, an ill tempered munster final replay in 1998 aside I can't think of too many more games where they overstepped the mark and this came about due to Waterford's carry on in the first game.....If you consider the clare team of the 90's to be a dirty team then the current Kilkenny side are even worse

The fact of the matter is that respect has to be earned and if you go out on the field and have no intention of playing the game in the spirit it is ment to be played then don't expect to get respect

The Puke wrote:

North Side Gael wrote:Puke, firstly how many ministers went from that government? Are you sure you dont mean it brought down a leader a fall guy?

As for Down, i dont remember clare getting referred top as scum bags when they brought their physical game to the table during the nineties, as dirty a team as ever won an all ireland that bunch, got away with a lot of it too!

Dont refer to hurlers as scumbags, its not nice and i dont expect to hear gaa people calling other gaa people that ever, because at the end of the day we are all members of the one organisation, we are all brothers, we stand as one accross the worl regardless of what are disciplinary background is in the game. Heat of the moment, fair enough, i called meath all the names under the son after leinster last year but apologised on here for some of my comments, as it was rightly said they are just tradesmens, teachers, taxi drivers etc, ordinary decent fellas, i have come across scumbags playing our games they are now expelled from the association im sure none of these down boys are at risk of this.

Clare were a very physical team who played on the edge like all top sides but they were not a dity team, but if you can reference these dirty strokes they got away with please fill me in as I would love to hear them, an ill tempered munster final replay in 1998 aside I can't think of too many more games where they overstepped the mark and this came about due to Waterford's carry on in the first game.....If you consider the clare team of the 90's to be a dirty team then the current Kilkenny side are even worse

The fact of the matter is that respect has to be earned and if you go out on the field and have no intention of playing the game in the spirit it is ment to be played then don't expect to get respect

Puke calling a team scumbags is still too far, by the way i consider the current kk squad one of the dirtiest teams about in world sport.

Im sure the down hurlers have treated the antrim hurlers with a hell of lot more disrespect and physicality, but the antrim hurlers in those games and the clare hurlers yesterday ive no doubt shook hands at the end of it all, i wouldnt shake a scum bags hand would you?

North Side Gael wrote:

The Puke wrote:

North Side Gael wrote:Puke, firstly how many ministers went from that government? Are you sure you dont mean it brought down a leader a fall guy?

As for Down, i dont remember clare getting referred top as scum bags when they brought their physical game to the table during the nineties, as dirty a team as ever won an all ireland that bunch, got away with a lot of it too!

Dont refer to hurlers as scumbags, its not nice and i dont expect to hear gaa people calling other gaa people that ever, because at the end of the day we are all members of the one organisation, we are all brothers, we stand as one accross the worl regardless of what are disciplinary background is in the game. Heat of the moment, fair enough, i called meath all the names under the son after leinster last year but apologised on here for some of my comments, as it was rightly said they are just tradesmens, teachers, taxi drivers etc, ordinary decent fellas, i have come across scumbags playing our games they are now expelled from the association im sure none of these down boys are at risk of this.

Clare were a very physical team who played on the edge like all top sides but they were not a dity team, but if you can reference these dirty strokes they got away with please fill me in as I would love to hear them, an ill tempered munster final replay in 1998 aside I can't think of too many more games where they overstepped the mark and this came about due to Waterford's carry on in the first game.....If you consider the clare team of the 90's to be a dirty team then the current Kilkenny side are even worse

The fact of the matter is that respect has to be earned and if you go out on the field and have no intention of playing the game in the spirit it is ment to be played then don't expect to get respect

Puke calling a team scumbags is still too far, by the way i consider the current kk squad one of the dirtiest teams about in world sport.

Im sure the down hurlers have treated the antrim hurlers with a hell of lot more disrespect and physicality, but the antrim hurlers in those games and the clare hurlers yesterday ive no doubt shook hands at the end of it all, i wouldnt shake a scum bags hand would you?

when the game is over you always shake hands, what happens on the field stays on the field imho, i know plenty of lads who are pure tramps on the field buit that doesn't mean that i think they are the same off it....I stand by my assertion that Down players acted as scumbags on the field the last two times they have come to Cusack Park and until they go out and look to play the game in the spirit it is ment to be played in against Clare I shall stand by it

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I see it was the third game in a row in which Down have had someone sent off

Yes NSG - why can't Down be like the Clare aristocrats of the 90s. A team and management renowned for fair play and skill as distinct from aggression or any sort of psychological chicanery .....

Jayo Cluxton wrote:Yes NSG - why can't Down be like the Clare aristocrats of the 90s. A team and management renowned for fair play and skill as distinct from aggression or any sort of psychological chicanery .....

That was my point, there is no problem with teams playing aggressively or physically, but there is a huge difference between being over physical and being downright cowardly and wreckless

JimWexford wrote:Send me the money instead, Dubs by at least 10

Way out Jim .... it was only 9! Mind you Keaney was missing ....

Coming from a Clare man it definitely is a case of takes one to know one, Down are far from bad lads, they grew up in small rural communities surrounded by loyalist villages hurling was their only and true love in the three down senior hurling clubs and for you to say their scumbags on the field is down right wrong.

Last year i was slated for making such remarks by moderators and posters, i had the drink in me and duely apologised, i understand that these guys wake up on monday and have to go to work, calling people scumbagshas no place in sport, if you feel that strongly about their actions talk to croke park.

North Side Gael wrote:Coming from a Clare man it definitely is a case of takes one to know one, Down are far from bad lads, they grew up in small rural communities surrounded by loyalist villages hurling was their only and true love in the three down senior hurling clubs and for you to say their scumbags on the field is down right wrong.

Last year i was slated for making such remarks by moderators and posters, i had the drink in me and duely apologised, i understand that these guys wake up on monday and have to go to work, calling people scumbagshas no place in sport, if you feel that strongly about their actions talk to croke park.

I shall restate the fact, i am not judging them on one game, they did the excat same thing last year and in their previosu two matches in this years league have also had players sent off for striking and wreckless strokes, where they are from and what they have endured has nothing to do with it, their actions shouldn't be condoned or tolerated because of it, I am calling a spade a spade here and like I said respect is something that has to be earned on a field and given their carry on in their recent two games against Clare that respect has been somewhat diminsihed due to their carry on

We had no forwards except for Mark Brennan and maybe Paudie Kehoe after Eddie Byrne went off injured. The amount of players we're missing we soon won't be able to have any subs. Some change from the team that played ye last year. 7 different players. When you only score you 2 points in the second half you can't win a match simple as. Well done Antrim.

Has clare never had players sent off two games in a row?

The way your getting on, wind your kneck in, respect where respect is due, these down players have three clubs to choose from and still find themselves in the same division as clare, antrim and limerick - i respect that ( not easy for me to say given our rivalry with them)

Puke it was an awful game from both sides, ye just lost the wrong half, conditions poor and we like yourselves tried out a few positional and personnell changes although yours were forced upon ye i suppose, ive no doubt neither team will be playing at that level come the summer.

North Side Gael wrote:Has clare never had players sent off two games in a row?

The way your getting on, wind your kneck in, respect where respect is due, these down players have three clubs to choose from and still find themselves in the same division as clare, antrim and limerick - i respect that ( not easy for me to say given our rivalry with them)

Can't recall the last time clare had players sent off in two consecutive games let alone 3 games like Down

Glass houses!

So with James Mcinerneys sending off v antrim, i can call the entire clare team scum bags? or because down had 4 sent off in a panel of 25 they are scumbags just? what way does your ratio work for players being send off to justify calling an entire squad scum bags?

North Side Gael wrote:So with James Mcinerneys sending off v antrim, i can call the entire clare team scum bags? or because down had 4 sent off in a panel of 25 they are scumbags just? what way does your ratio work for players being send off to justify calling an entire squad scum bags?

James Mc was sent off for two yellow cards for two mistimed tackles not a dirty stroke....If he was sent off for a similar pull to the one Watson was sent off for Down was I would be the first man to condemn him for it as it has no place in the game

Galway manager John McIntyre has started the mind games ahead of Sunday week's Allianz National Hurling League meeting with high-flying Dublin.

The Dubs sit top of the Division 1 standings after wins over Tipperary, Offaly and Wexford and an opening weekend draw in Waterford.

Next week's Parnell Park encounter will be another stiff test for Anthony Daly's side - but McIntyre, with tongue possibly lodged in cheek, believes the Dubs are hot favourites.


He told the Irish Sun, "Dublin are the team of the league. They are overwhelming favourites to beat Galway. I don't even know is there any point in even going up there, to be honest.

"But we will do our best. Anthony Daly and Richard Stakelum and the rest of them up there, they are doing a fantastic job. People are talking about Dublin as potential All-Ireland champions this year.

"That's a fantastic thing to see in the wider hurling climate. But it just shows you the task we have against them. They beat us in the Walsh Cup semi-final, they were too physical for us, they were too strong. It's going to be a massive challenge.

Hard to disagree with McIntyre here

The hurling/football double is very much on for the Dubs......Expect Keaney to return to the football squad after the A/I semi to complete the personal double....

Let me get this right. Down took the field intent on beating the bejaysus out of Clare, which they then did for 70 minutes, and lost 5-22 to 0-6?

You asking me to believe that puke?

Ye could send the McDermott's club side down from Belfast to do that, and if they were intent on beating the bejabbers, well they would do so, and then probably take on the crowd, and then sack Ennis. And that is just a junior club side.

Wouldn't be too difficult, I did it meself in 1977 at the fleadh there. A "famous" banjo player from the region decided to ambush me with his friends in tow. Being highly intelligent i simply shouted "whose a Northern person without parents" and the whole pub jumped up and bate the bejabbers out of the whole town.

So pardon me for not believing you about Down's intent last Sunday.