London 2012 MegaThread [Part 2]

DEFTLEFTHAND

Schwiiing wrote: »

what the **** is paddy barnes saying?

Nobody knows unfortunately.

el diablo

DB10 wrote: »

silly comment

Ok, maybe I was slightly harsh. If I was in their position I would turn down the offer of appearing on the open-top bus parade though.

It wasn't me!

I already shoot rifle competitively so going to continue following and competing there. As to sports I didn't know enough about before this, sailing would be the main one. I was already au fait with the other sports I'm interested in following.

It wasn't me!

el diablo wrote: »

Ok, maybe I was slightly harsh. If I was in their position I would turn down the offer of appearing on the open-top bus parade though.

If you would, you'd be a disgrace for not facing and acknowledging the support you received for the Games, frankly. Nobody who qualified and went out there has anything to be ashamed of or to apologise for, and they should come home, smile, stand tall and get ready for Rio if that's their next goal.

kfallon

el diablo wrote: »

Ok, maybe I was slightly harsh. If I was in their position I would turn down the offer of appearing on the open-top bus parade though.

Maybe they were a big help to the boxers behind the scenes in training sessions, sparring etc! They may even have helped to keep the others relaxed before fights. I'm not saying they were or they weren't but for all we know those guys could have played a part in the success of the others.

el diablo

It wasn't me! wrote: »

If you would, you'd be a disgrace for not facing and acknowledging the support you received for the Games, frankly. Nobody who qualified and went out there has anything to be ashamed of or to apologise for, and they should come home, smile, stand tall and get ready for Rio if that's their next goal.

Ok true enough. I'll shut up now.

jack presley

Look at the picture on the RTE website at 13:36. Is the stage in Mullingar seriously being made out of pallets?

Kerrydude1981

Where's Enda?

kfallon

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Where's Enda?

Prob over welcoming the German Olympic Team home :pac:

DebDynamite

Larianne wrote: »

Olympic Handball. Played it once or twice in school and I quite liked it.



Whoo! How many do you need for a team??

Is it a young person's sport? Like is it teenagers that play it? Or the, ahem, slightly older lady, say 25-30?

westendgirlie

DebDynamite wrote: »

Is it a young person's sport? Like is it teenagers that play it? Or the, ahem, slightly older lady, say 25-30?

Yeah, when's the, ahem, geriatric olympics ???

SnowY32

sonia sounds like she's going to croke it..... again

Kerrydude1981

Calm down man,your not Michael Collins

Dead Man Walking

Incontinentia Buttocks

p.oconnor

Come on now minister and announce a doubling of the pitty full 11 million euro sport budget.

Kerrydude1981

Is this fella off The Savage Eye

Larianne

DebDynamite wrote: »

Is it a young person's sport? Like is it teenagers that play it? Or the, ahem, slightly older lady, say 25-30?

Dunno. I'm 29. Wouldn't let that stop me.

westendgirlie wrote: »

Yeah, when's the, ahem, geriatric olympics ???

Oi!

SnowY32

Did he just say "money spent on sport is better then money being spent on hospitals" :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

p.oconnor

SnowY32 wrote: »

Did he just say money spent on sport is better then being spent on hospitals :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I think he got a bit carried away...

el diablo

el diablo wrote: »

I wonder will the likes of Darren O'Neill, Adam Nolan and Ciaran Leonard get out the back door of the plane. I would if I was in their position.

When Darren O'Neill and Adam Nolan were eliminated they supported their teammates every punch of the way. Both fantastic young men who have done us proud and together with o'Lionaird im confident they gave it everything over in London. Plenty in this country should hide but not those 3 fantastic athletes who are getting to these games against all the odds.

DebDynamite

I thought the special announcement at the end there was that they were going to get some kind of reward or honour for representing Ireland, or maybe Aer Lingus free flights. But it was only to tell them where to collect their luggage :pac:

murpho999

SnowY32 wrote: »

Did he just say "money spent on sport is better then money being spent on hospitals" :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I think he meant if more people played sport there'd be less people in hospitals which is a fair point.

Rugby 7s and Golf are in the next Olympics. Realistically we should be targeting medals in those and it isn't a case of the Olympic committee having to fund them. Both are profitable enough in this country.

Kerrydude1981

SnowY32 wrote: »

Did he just say "money spent on sport is better then money being spent on hospitals" :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I think Enda and Happy Gilmore will be on the phone to him."You fecking eejit thats the last time your left near a microphone"

jack presley

tipp_Gunner wrote: »

Rugby 7s and Golf are in the next Olympics. Realistically we should be targeting medals in those and it isn't a case of the Olympic committee having to fund them. Both are profitable enough in this country.

McDowell and McIlroy will probably be playing for Team GB so I wouldn't fancy our chances with the golf.

Pudsy33

Deleted User wrote: »

Rugby 7s and Golf are in the next Olympics. Realistically we should be targeting medals in those and it isn't a case of the Olympic committee having to fund them. Both are profitable enough in this country.

We dont have a good 7s team, the IRFU would have to stop funding Connacht to fund one properly.

p.oconnor

Deleted User wrote: »

Rugby 7s and Golf are in the next Olympics. Realistically we should be targeting medals in those and it isn't a case of the Olympic committee having to fund them. Both are profitable enough in this country.

I wonder what we will have to do to convince Rory Mcilroy that he is as Irish as Brown Bread??

Whats that bit of music just played there now?

Pudsy33

jack presley wrote: »

McDowell and McIlroy will probably be playing for Team GB so I wouldn't fancy our chances with the golf.

Its two golfers per nation, and with Poulter, Westwood and Donald around Gmac wouldn't get into the GB team. I reckon he'll represeent us with Harrington.

SnowY32

Deleted User wrote: »

Whats that bit of music just played there now?

Midnight City - M83 , great tune

jack presley

jack presley wrote: »

McDowell and McIlroy will probably be playing for Team GB so I wouldn't fancy our chances with the golf.

They are losses but we still have a few good golfers who are capable of putting in a few good rounds.

DebDynamite

Deleted User wrote: »

They are losses but we still have a few good golfers who are capable of putting in a few good rounds.

Shane Lowry's game might have improved by then. He's only 25 now.

Tox56

McIlroy might well be tempted to represent Ireland based on the fact that if he wins gold, he will become a national hero in Ireland, whereas it would barely register in Britain.

He might also be asked not to represent GB, as he could be taking up the space of Westwood/Donald/Rose etc.

cgpg5

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Its two golfers per nation, and with Poulter, Westwood and Donald around Gmac wouldn't get into the GB team. I reckon he'll represeent us with Harrington.

Two? That's nuts. What about the likes of USA how the hell will they pick just two! How will it work do ya know?

And wrt sevens we wouldn't have a notion. The Pacific islanders and SH heavies would run riot in this

p.oconnor

Didn't McIlroy represent Ireland at under-age level in any case? If so it would be a strange decision to change just for the Olympics.

SnowY32

Tox56 wrote: »

McIlroy might well be tempted to represent Ireland based on the fact that if he wins gold, he will become a national hero in Ireland, whereas it would barely register in Britain.

He might also be asked not to represent GB, as he could be taking up the space of Westwood/Donald/Rose etc.

what if he won gold for Ireland what national anthem would be played i heard he prefers god save the queen.

cricketfan

Tox56 wrote: »

McIlroy might well be tempted to represent Ireland based on the fact that if he wins gold, he will become a national hero in Ireland, whereas it would barely register in Britain.

He might also be asked not to represent GB, as he could be taking up the space of Westwood/Donald/Rose etc.

Hasn't he already said he would want to represent GB.As for hardly registering in Britain, where have you been for the last 2 weeks? Watching RTE?

cgpg5

He was tweetin like a boss for GB in the olympics didn't say anything about any of the Irish. Mightn't mean much but just sayin...

Either way it's 4 years away. Zero guarantee he'd make GB. In fact if it was this year I'd have fancied Donald and Westwood to perhaps get the nod over him

Mysteriouschic

I wonder if more Nothern Irish will choose to represent Ireland over Britain after the Northern Irish that chose to stay representing Ireland.

Wouldn't it be harder to represent Britain too as they have more people to choose from?

Pudsy33

cgpg5 wrote: »

Two? That's nuts. What about the likes of USA how the hell will they pick just two! How will it work do ya know?

And wrt sevens we wouldn't have a notion. The Pacific islanders and SH heavies would run riot in this

I could be wrong, but I seem to have that in my head. Thats how the world cup of golf works, might be a similar story for the Olympics. Apparently the top 15 in the world will qualify, followed by the next 45, as long as there country doesn't already have 2 representatives.

StephenHendry

p.oconnor wrote: »

Didn't McIlroy represent Ireland at under-age level in any case? If so it would be a strange decision to change just for the Olympics.

yeah as padraig harrington said a few weeks ago, if graeme and rory were to represent gb it frees up spaces for say padraig , shane lowry etc. that said four years is a long time, we'll have to wait and see what rory decides to do

Pudsy33

Pudsy33 wrote: »

We dont have a good 7s team, the IRFU would have to stop funding Connacht to fund one properly.

Is money really that tight with the IRFU?

Pacific islanders as some one said look unreal at the 7s alright and it seems to suit their brand of rugby down to a tee. they love to make long runs with the ball at 15 a side let alone 7.

cgpg5

Pudsy33 wrote: »

I could be wrong, but I seem to have that in my head. Thats how the world cup of golf works, might be a similar story for the Olympics. Apparently the top 15 in the world will qualify, followed by the next 45, as long as there country doesn't already have 2 representatives.

Ah alright that makes sense so. Maybe it should be more than top 15 but whatever! Doesn't make sense USA having 2 and someone like India having 2. Would have meant players like Stricker, Choi, Furyk, Bradley, Mickelson, the two Johnson's and Fowler most likely wouldn't have made it had it been this year!

I really don't see it being much of a success in its first year though

Tox56

cricketfan wrote: »

Hasn't he already said he would want to represent GB.As for hardly registering in Britain, where have you been for the last 2 weeks? Watching RTE?

He said that a few years ago, but has since refused to take questions on it, and in the meantime has represented Ireland several times in the golf World Cup. I'm leaning towards him reprsenting GB at the moment, but there a lot of outside factors influencing his decision.

Maybe "hardly registering" is the wrong way to put it, but Katie Taylor recieved far more attentinon in Ireland than, for example, Alastair Brownlee did in Britain.

Golds are obviously far less common Ireland.

p.oconnor

StephenHendry wrote: »

yeah as padraig harrington said a few weeks ago, if graeme and rory were to represent gb it frees up spaces for say padraig , shane lowry etc. that said four years is a long time, we'll have to wait and see what rory decides to do

But there's no certainty that Graeme and Rory would be picked for GB, in any case there will be big golf players left at home whatever happens.

cgpg5

Deleted User wrote: »

Is money really that tight with the IRFU?

Pacific islanders as some one said look unreal at the 7s alright and it seems to suit their brand of rugby down to a tee. they love to make long runs with the ball at 15 a side let alone 7.

Yeahs sevens is all about the running rugby. The islanders are very poor up front and get dominated in scrums etc against the heavier hitters. But when it comes to playing exciting, expansive rugby there's no-one really like them!

jack presley

In 4 years time McIlroy might have married that tennis one and got Danish citizenship so he could represent them

cgpg5

Tox56 wrote: »

He said that a few years ago, but has since refused to take questions on it, and in the meantime has represented Ireland several times in the golf World Cup. I'm leaning towards him reprsenting GB at the moment, but there a lot of outside factors influencing his decision.

Maybe "hardly registering" is the wrong way to put it, but Katie Taylor recieved far more attentinon in Ireland than, for example, Alastair Brownlee did in Britain.

Golds are obviously far less common Ireland.

Being the first golf tournament in the olympics he'd get a good lot of accolades over there if he got gold. Golf is way too unpredictible though. Hard to have a favourite for gold, when at times anyone can come from nowhere and win a major

Id have thought Golf should be both a 4 player team event as well as an individual event.

p.oconnor

Tox56 wrote: »

He said that a few years ago, but has since refused to take questions on it, and in the meantime has represented Ireland several times in the golf World Cup. I'm leaning towards him reprsenting GB at the moment, but there a lot of outside factors influencing his decision.

Maybe "hardly registering" is the wrong way to put it, but Katie Taylor recieved far more attentinon in Ireland than, for example, Alastair Brownlee did in Britain.

Golds are obviously far less common Ireland.

Would not take his place for that decision anyway, whatever he does it will offend one side or the other.