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It was good thought he was very honest,a nice fella by the looks of it,under pressure financially.A top sportsman in any other code apart from the GAA would be well looked after.
i thought he came across as an honest lad.told it as it is.
Thought he was evasive and unconvincing regarding his reasons for taking time out at the start of the year and not going to the homecoming in 2011.Also I read a small piece in the Irish Times during the week about his marking of Tommy Walsh in the semi final which was also unconvincing.
He would have been involved with writing that book during the summer which makes me wonder about his motives for dropping out and making a comeback.I'm sure it will be a best seller in Thurles this Christmas but I'd say there will be very little interest in the rest of Tipp never mind the rest of Ireland.
He would have been involved with writing that book during the summer which makes me wonder about his motives for dropping out and making a comeback.I'm sure it will be a best seller in Thurles this Christmas but I'd say there will be very little interest in the rest of Tipp never mind the rest of Ireland.
poor old larry boy is skint!needs to raise funds pronto
agree with Eddie. Who is going to read this outside of the strong hurling counties? I bet Tubridy knows feck all about hurling and was lookin at notes all the time talking to him
Lar got himself a columnists gig with the Sindo recently and now the book which he seems to have rushed out. He seems dreadfully eager to defend himself over the Kilkenny game and his duels with Jackie Tyrell
bit of an old chip on the shoulder
Lar got himself a columnists gig with the Sindo recently and now the book which he seems to have rushed out. He seems dreadfully eager to defend himself over the Kilkenny game and his duels with Jackie Tyrell
bit of an old chip on the shoulder
someone should've pointed out to him that
'All in my head' is an anagram of
'inhaled Amyl'
'All in my head' is an anagram of
'inhaled Amyl'
If Tipp had beat Kilkenny in this years semi instead of been mauled by the cats and then went on to beat Galway in the final the book would have been in every Tipp fans christmas stocking, in fact I'd say some Tipp fans would've been disappointed, supply and demand and all that.
Fine line, hero to zero, in 2010 the guy had god like status.
Its not Lar where the finger of blame should be pointed but Declan Carr, just like a jockey its the trainer who should shoulder most of the blame because its them who dish out the orders, whether they would have beaten the Cats once they were in that frame of mind is open to huge doubt?, Kilkenny were an unstoppable force that day, and nothing Tipp could have done would have made the outcome any different imo.
I do admire GAA players, be it club or county, its become almost professional yet still supposedly an amateur game?, they train as hard if not harder than English premiership soccer players and probably have more restrictions put on their social lives than the said soccer players, yet people will say its voluntary and you make your bed and lie in it for very little reward apart from a few local promotions.
Unfortunately unlike Rugby which had just enough countries interested and some fantastic promotion from the likes of Sky tv to turn the game professional and become a success.
Rugby was a huge minority sport before that, nobody really gave two sh!ts about it.
The GAA has no such luxury its an Irish game only and nobody from the rest of the world gives two sh!ts about our indigenous games, but yet there are GAA managers getting paid huge amounts of money (in brown envelopes of course), they're infact professional in everything but name, yet its them who inflict almost Army like training regimes on these players who barely have time to consume their dinners when they come in from work (if they even have a job?) before they're grabbing their training bag yet again, come home (maybe have a microwave dinner they hadn't time to eat?), sleep, go to work, come home, grab training bag etc all over again, not to mention you might as well kiss any thoughts of having a social life goodbye once you sign on to their amateur ideals as long as your club or inter county team are successful for little or no reward, yet managers are rewarded handsomely in this so called amateur game?, and the players get sweet f/all apart from a little bit of notoriety within their own county, yet they sacrfice huge portions of their young lives to entertain us.
Why shouldn't the GAA reward them?, or at least put some sort of restrictions on the control a manager has over these players, no need to train anymore than 3 nights a week, and have Monday off after every game to have a few chill out pints with friends and family, those few pints are hardly going to effect their performance the following Sunday now are they?, yet the manager and his mentors probably talk tactics over a few pints?, a GAA player spotted out having a few sneaky social ones and he's instantly demonised?.
The players just go home and wrap themselves up in a straight jacket, and when their season ends, the manager wants them back in training one month later, oh the joys of been a GAA club and county player?, the only thing that keeps them going (for the vast majority anyway) is the faint hope of glory.
Surely the GAA is rich enough to afford, well the Inter County players at least, a pay for play scheme that is actually worth the sacrifice?, and by doing so it might actually encourage talented footballers and hurlers to stay in the game to realise their ambition of playing for their county and know they get at least some reward for their huge sacrifices, instead of that faint hope of glory.
Fine line, hero to zero, in 2010 the guy had god like status.
Its not Lar where the finger of blame should be pointed but Declan Carr, just like a jockey its the trainer who should shoulder most of the blame because its them who dish out the orders, whether they would have beaten the Cats once they were in that frame of mind is open to huge doubt?, Kilkenny were an unstoppable force that day, and nothing Tipp could have done would have made the outcome any different imo.
I do admire GAA players, be it club or county, its become almost professional yet still supposedly an amateur game?, they train as hard if not harder than English premiership soccer players and probably have more restrictions put on their social lives than the said soccer players, yet people will say its voluntary and you make your bed and lie in it for very little reward apart from a few local promotions.
Unfortunately unlike Rugby which had just enough countries interested and some fantastic promotion from the likes of Sky tv to turn the game professional and become a success.
Rugby was a huge minority sport before that, nobody really gave two sh!ts about it.
The GAA has no such luxury its an Irish game only and nobody from the rest of the world gives two sh!ts about our indigenous games, but yet there are GAA managers getting paid huge amounts of money (in brown envelopes of course), they're infact professional in everything but name, yet its them who inflict almost Army like training regimes on these players who barely have time to consume their dinners when they come in from work (if they even have a job?) before they're grabbing their training bag yet again, come home (maybe have a microwave dinner they hadn't time to eat?), sleep, go to work, come home, grab training bag etc all over again, not to mention you might as well kiss any thoughts of having a social life goodbye once you sign on to their amateur ideals as long as your club or inter county team are successful for little or no reward, yet managers are rewarded handsomely in this so called amateur game?, and the players get sweet f/all apart from a little bit of notoriety within their own county, yet they sacrfice huge portions of their young lives to entertain us.
Why shouldn't the GAA reward them?, or at least put some sort of restrictions on the control a manager has over these players, no need to train anymore than 3 nights a week, and have Monday off after every game to have a few chill out pints with friends and family, those few pints are hardly going to effect their performance the following Sunday now are they?, yet the manager and his mentors probably talk tactics over a few pints?, a GAA player spotted out having a few sneaky social ones and he's instantly demonised?.
The players just go home and wrap themselves up in a straight jacket, and when their season ends, the manager wants them back in training one month later, oh the joys of been a GAA club and county player?, the only thing that keeps them going (for the vast majority anyway) is the faint hope of glory.
Surely the GAA is rich enough to afford, well the Inter County players at least, a pay for play scheme that is actually worth the sacrifice?, and by doing so it might actually encourage talented footballers and hurlers to stay in the game to realise their ambition of playing for their county and know they get at least some reward for their huge sacrifices, instead of that faint hope of glory.
jaysus i didnt think declan carr had much influence on the tipp hurlers!!
Well blow me out of the water, is the word you're looking for Ryan?, its a typo get over it!
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