Dressing room stories

.skid

Well lads I was thinking there should be a thread for people to put up old stories they've heard about what goes on at halftime Any fun or interesting stories ye have throw em up there sure Anyone have any idea what Cody does be like? :P

yop

.skid wrote: »

Well lads I was thinking there should be a thread for people to put up old stories they've heard about what goes on at halftime Any fun or interesting stories ye have throw em up there sure Anyone have any idea what Cody does be like? :P

Seriously?

Ok, I heard that Cody eats the players livers with a nice Cianti. From a reliable source.

.skid

yop wrote: »

Seriously?

Ok, I heard that Cody eats the players livers with a nice Cianti. From a reliable source.

hahahahahaha oh good one, instead of saying something interesting or being helpful in anyway you decided to rip the piss out of me. Go back to moderating interior design and decorating there g'man.

yop

.skid wrote: »

hahahahahaha oh good one, instead of saying something interesting or being helpful in anyway you decided to rip the piss out of me. Go back to moderating interior design and decorating there g'man.

You forgot I'm on the Mayo forum too

Helpful... I thought you said it was a "fun" thread.

.skid

yop wrote: »

You forgot I'm on the Mayo forum too

Helpful... I thought you said it was a "fun" thread.

I chose to ignore the Mayo part :P Ya,that's meant to say funny stories. It's a typo ok

yop

.skid wrote: »

I chose to ignore the Mayo part :P Ya,that's meant to say funny stories. It's a typo ok

Do they not teach spelling in the Junior Cert

Are you not going to contribute your own stories to the thread then?

.skid

yop wrote: »

Do they not teach spelling in the Junior Cert

Are you not going to contribute your own stories to the thread then?

Yes i'm sure they touched on it alright Well ok the time Davy Fitz was managing Waterford they were playing Limerick in Semple Stadium,I don't know who won but somehow Davy managed to break 2 tables in the dressing room at half time. And there is the video someone took of him at another match too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXPfqJv2V3o Inspirational

yop

.skid wrote: »

Yes i'm sure they touched on it alright Well ok the time Davy Fitz was managing Waterford they were playing Limerick in Semple Stadium,I don't know who won but somehow Davy managed to break 2 tables in the dressing room at half time. And there is the video someone took of him at another match too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXPfqJv2V3o Inspirational

Ah sure thats standard Junior football manager behavior on a weekly basis. Davey Fitz, were they belonging to a dolls house? They man himself is hardly bigger than the leg of a normal table

.skid

yop wrote: »

Ah sure thats standard Junior football manager behavior on a weekly basis. Davey Fitz, were they belonging to a dolls house? They man himself is hardly bigger than the leg of a normal table

Junior where I come from is taken a lot less serious than it must be in your place :P I suppose we'll never know But for a man as wide as he is tall and with a voice higher than most 8 year old girls to do that is a little bit impressive!

Lemlin

I heard before the Fermanagh game, where the Cavan lads were expecting a good bit of goading, intimidation and sly digs from the opposition, that the Cavan panel lined up in rows of two.

Each duo had to face each other. One player had to stand with his hands by his side and not react while the other player slapped him in the face for a minute. Then vice versa.

It was to teach players not to react and get sent off like Damien Reilly did in the league game earlier in the season.

yop

Lemlin wrote: »

I heard before the Fermanagh game, where the Cavan lads were expecting a good bit of goading, intimidation and sly digs from the opposition, that the Cavan panel lined up in rows of two.

Each duo had to face each other. One player had to stand with his hands by his side and not react while the other player slapped him in the face for a minute. Then vice versa.

It was to teach players not to react and get sent off like Damien Reilly did in the league game earlier in the season.

lol. class

Moneymaker

Lemlin wrote: »

I heard before the Fermanagh game, where the Cavan lads were expecting a good bit of goading, intimidation and sly digs from the opposition, that the Cavan panel lined up in rows of two.

Each duo had to face each other. One player had to stand with his hands by his side and not react while the other player slapped him in the face for a minute. Then vice versa.

It was to teach players not to react and get sent off like Damien Reilly did in the league game earlier in the season.

Jaysus.

InchicoreDude

Lemlin wrote: »

I heard before the Fermanagh game, where the Cavan lads were expecting a good bit of goading, intimidation and sly digs from the opposition, that the Cavan panel lined up in rows of two.

Each duo had to face each other. One player had to stand with his hands by his side and not react while the other player slapped him in the face for a minute. Then vice versa.

It was to teach players not to react and get sent off like Damien Reilly did in the league game earlier in the season.

Interesting tactic. But it could backfire. As it could build up some serious aggression in the players that they release out on the pitch......I guess they got to slap them back so maybe that was the outlet!

.skid

InchicoreDude wrote: »

Interesting tactic. But it could backfire. As it could build up some serious aggression in the players that they release out on the pitch......I guess they got to slap them back so maybe that was the outlet!

I think it was Mickey Joe Hart did something similar with his teams before games. He used to bring in boxing bags and put the other teams jersey on it and let his players tear into it :P another manager, can't remember the name, went for the opposite approach and had the players meditate before going out to calm them and stop silly frees early on!

yop

.skid wrote: »

I think it was Mickey Joe Hart did something similar with his teams before games. He used to bring in boxing bags and put the other teams jersey on it and let his players tear into it :P another manager, can't remember the name, went for the opposite approach and had the players meditate before going out to calm them and stop silly frees early on!

I'd some how doubt he did.

jossnjuice

just lock this thread and be done with it!!

Although, i have to say, i do get a giggle whenever i check up on it..........

The auld Famed Gaa manager, micky Joe harte........................

now everybody, "We've got the World tonight"..................

yop

jossnjuice wrote: »

just lock this thread and be done with it!!

Although, i have to say, i do get a giggle whenever i check up on it..........

The auld Famed Gaa manager, micky Joe harte........................

now everybody, "We've got the World tonight"..................

I have an image of him singing that and the leprachaun Davy Fitz smashing tables as the players are screaming to let them out

batistuta9

the story at the end has Chris O'Dowds' response to a motivational team talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6LRCRM6Dk

Peanut Butter Jelly

At an U-16 game last year at home, when we were playing Achill, after the game the little runts had the cheek to wipe the dirt off themselves onto the pearl white dressing room walls spelling out their names and profanities. Needless to say, the management were fuming and went off on a huge rant to their managers who replied "boys will be boys" at which point our manager was foaming at the mouth.

Lets just say, when we played them later on in the year, there was more than dirt on the walls, aswell as 2 lovely piles of Fr. Ted's Caviar on the ground.

audman

For years Donal Òg was said to be known for dropping the soap in the showers in the dressing room after a game. Never heard why he did it or what purpose it served until...

slegs

audman wrote: »

For years Donal Òg was said to be known for dropping the soap in the showers in the dressing room after a game. Never heard why he did it or what purpose it served until...

Yawn, arent you the funny homophobe

audman

slegs wrote: »

Yawn, arent you the funny homophobe

Arah will ya stop. It's only a bit of CRACK I meant nothing by it, relax No need to take it to heart or downthemiddle. My apologies if I offended. I am not a homophobe

shockframe

batistuta9 wrote: »

the story at the end has Chris O'Dowds' response to a motivational team talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6LRCRM6Dk

The problem with Shane Curran in that video is that he tries to walk it in!

Pride Fighter

audman wrote: »

Arah will ya stop. It's only a bit of CRACK I meant nothing by it, relax No need to take it to heart or downthemiddle. My apologies if I offended. I am not a homophobe

That said, you still left such an immature post up and did not delete it, which you could have.

I gave you a warning, next time its a ban.

Mod

the kelt

In the 2001 All Ireland Hurling semi final replay Wexford got 2 men sent off in their match against Tipperary in the first half.

Mitch Jordan was one of those who had been sent off just before half time but when he got back to the dressing room Tony Dempsey the manager focused on him for a couple of minutes telling him he needed to get in front of his man, he kept repeating it not giving the player a chance to respond telling him he needed to get in front of his man, he needed to get in front of his man and finally relented by asking him "can you that for me Mitch?" to which Mitch replied not really Tony, i was sent off just before half time.

Whatever chance Wexford had with 14 against 13 was gone anyway due to the convulsions of laughter in the Wexford dressing room.

phkk

Heard this but how true it is.....!
Tipperary were playing Cork in a Munster Final and were getting well beaten at half-time. Confidence and morale was very low at ht as Cork completely out hurled them in all areas of the field and had built up a considerable lead by ht.
Babs tore strips off the players before building them back up just before sending them out for the second half battle. He turned to afew of his team leaders, prompting them to respond positively in front of all the players:
"Can we win Bobby?". "F**king right we can", replied the great warrior Bobby Ryan. "Are we up for a battle Nicky?". "Sure we are", responded Nicky English. Babs asked afew similar questions to other stalwarts Pat Fox, Noel Sheehy and Cormac Bonner. Then finally, he turned to the character of the group, Joe Hayes and roared at him, "Hayes, WILL we f**king win it?". Now Hayes would be well known for his droll personality and with a bit of a stammer, he sheepishly retorted," ah, ah, ah, to be honest Babs, 'tis not looking too good!"

Dave_Power

.skid wrote: »

Well lads I was thinking there should be a thread for people to put up old stories they've heard about what goes on at halftime Any fun or interesting stories ye have throw em up there sure Anyone have any idea what Cody does be like? :P

i asked a kilkenny player a while back that question
and he said he doesnt say much, its the players that do all the bollockin.

Clareman

A couple of ones that I remember would be a manager giving it loads, really shouting and giving it gusto, at the finish he went "COME ON LADS AND FOLLOW ME", the numpty burst the door open and a few players followed him whooping and hollering, only thing was it was the wrong door and they had to come out of the showers and open the other door.

Another 1 was a guy who was giving it loads again and broke a hurley off the bench, he saw it got a good reaction and picked up another 1 and went "now lads, don't save the timber, we have plenty of it on the sideline for you" and he broke another 1, when he picked up the third 1 of the selectors took it off him saying "ah will you stop, we only have 5 spares".

Had a goalie storm off in the middle of a match cause 1 of the players had shouted "FFS Noel will you puck the ball out to us at some stage", we all thought it was a bit strange but we brought on a sub and the game went on, when we went in after the game there Noel was sheepish waiting for his lift home from the manager, he got some roasting.

Played with a guy who swore by poitin and evergreen (can't remember the name of it), used to have a little bottle of both and rub it into his knees and then drink whatever was left of the poitin, this was at under 16

InchicoreDude

Clareman wrote: »

Another 1 was a guy who was giving it loads again and broke a hurley off the bench, he saw it got a good reaction and picked up another 1 and went "now lads, don't save the timber, we have plenty of it on the sideline for you" and he broke another 1, when he picked up the third 1 of the selectors took it off him saying "ah will you stop, we only have 5 spares".

Thats my favourite one!

Clareman wrote: »

Played with a guy who swore by poitin and evergreen (can't remember the name of it), used to have a little bottle of both and rub it into his knees and then drink whatever was left of the poitin, this was at under 16

And were his performances any good???

Clareman

InchicoreDude wrote: »

And were his performances any good???

The lad was gifted, probably 1 of the best hurlers I've ever played with, deadly accurate from any free from within 65 meters, but he was lost to the game at minor over a bag of chips in Athenry.

He was playing minor for Clare and they had a challenge against Galway, after the match a couple of the lads went of for a bag of chips and the manager wasn't happy, he tore into the chipper and told the lads if they weren't on the bus immediately they were going without them, the other 3 lads turned to go and Kevin goes "I've paid for them and they'll be ready in a second, hold on", the manager made the bus leave without him and stranded a 17 year old in Athenry without a lift home around 9 o'clock on a Tuesday evening, he never played again after that.

InchicoreDude

Clareman wrote: »

The lad was gifted, probably 1 of the best hurlers I've ever played with, deadly accurate from any free from within 65 meters, but he was lost to the game at minor over a bag of chips in Athenry.

He was playing minor for Clare and they had a challenge against Galway, after the match a couple of the lads went of for a bag of chips and the manager wasn't happy, he tore into the chipper and told the lads if they weren't on the bus immediately they were going without them, the other 3 lads turned to go and Kevin goes "I've paid for them and they'll be ready in a second, hold on", the manager made the bus leave without him and stranded a 17 year old in Athenry without a lift home around 9 o'clock on a Tuesday evening, he never played again after that.

That is a funny, but sad story.

yop

Jesus!! Just remembered when you mentioned U16, was a member of the Mayo U16 team and we were playing ted webb cup, on the way home we stopped at a hotel for a big of food, they had us in a function room.
2 of the managers went out, back in the time when a 2 management team was it!
Anyway, 3 or 4 lads lay their heads under the guinness taps and just poured. They must have sucked about 2 pints each. One lad puked on the bus on the way home

Clareman

InchicoreDude wrote: »

That is a funny, but sad story.

To be honest if it wasn't that it would have been something else, he had the skills that made the difference underage but once lads got bigger he wouldn't have been willing to give the commitment and probably would have just drifted away anyway.

Last 1 for the night, sub goalie on the senior team, lad could stop anything from close range, according to legend he caught a penalty shot in 1 match (hurling btw), but have a long range dropping ball, or a ball running along the ground and he was useless, didn't help that he was only 5 foot 2 and couldn't reach the cross bar. 1 match, the normal goalie got a nose bleed with a few minutes to go, Paul (sub) refused to go on but there'd have to be a sub brought on cause of blood, the manager told him "sure we're 8 points up and there's only a couple of minutes to go, you'll be grand", in he went, first ball to come near him bounced on the 14, then again around the middle of the square, then again on the line of the small square and then just over the line, he missed it completely.

He was freaking, mouthing away "I f**king told them, I don't want to be here, f**king this, f**king that", he took the puck out, the opposition won it, hit the ball in for a point and yup, dropped under the cross bar, not only 2 points in it after only about 30 seconds of him being in goal. After that the opposition made an awful mistake, they started going for goals and trying to work the ball in, he made 2 top class saves, 1 he tipped over from point blank from the final puck of the game to win by a point.

Final whistle went and off he storms into the dressing room and he procedes to make a beeline for the normal goalie, he had to be held back cause he was going to kill him for going off. Next night at training the team made a presentation of a fishing net to Paul saying it'd be the only way he'd stop goals.

padd b1975

An earlier post reminded me of this one.

I think it was Kildare who were playing Dublin way back in the 70s.

At half time the kildare manager gave his best fire and brimstone speech to try and get his players back into the game.

He finished up by roaring "who is going to win this fcuking game?!?! "


One lad answered with the line 'jesus, you 'd have to fancy the Dubs at this stage".

padd b1975

Dave_Power wrote: »

i asked a kilkenny player a while back that question
and he said he doesnt say much, its the players that do all the bollockin.

Omerta.

davegrohl48

Seen this one. Manager is giving a talk at training to full squad about how the papers and whole county don't rate us, picks out a piece of newspaper with a negative article. He referred back then to all that we had done throughout the year that was positive.
"Did we start training back in January?" Ya,
"I can't hear ye?" - YES
"Were ye Circuit training twice a week?" YES
"Are we unbeaten this year" - YES
"Will we put our bodies on the line" - YES
"Are they going to Win?"
Big midfielder is at this stage so hyped he isn't even listening to the question and hops forward roaring YES

.skid

yop wrote: »

I'd some how doubt he did.

Yes it mightn't have been. But on a tour of Croke Park one of the guides told us this story and for some reason I thought twas him, although ya he doesn't look like that type so you're probably right.

.skid

Clareman wrote: »

The lad was gifted, probably 1 of the best hurlers I've ever played with, deadly accurate from any free from within 65 meters, but he was lost to the game at minor over a bag of chips in Athenry.

He was playing minor for Clare and they had a challenge against Galway, after the match a couple of the lads went of for a bag of chips and the manager wasn't happy, he tore into the chipper and told the lads if they weren't on the bus immediately they were going without them, the other 3 lads turned to go and Kevin goes "I've paid for them and they'll be ready in a second, hold on", the manager made the bus leave without him and stranded a 17 year old in Athenry without a lift home around 9 o'clock on a Tuesday evening, he never played again after that.

Did he not even play club or anything?

.skid

Have a cousin on the Tipp minors there and coming upto a big game they get the jersey of who they're playing and lets say you said something stupid or pulled out of a tackle,as a punishment you had to wear this jersey that isn't allowed be washed. Now we've all smelt a sweaty jersey but these guys train 3 or 4 times a week and in the weather we've had it smelt cruel. By the time a saw it it and turned hard on the outside and and felt rough to touch. Wound up spraying dettol on it!

yop

.skid wrote: »

Yes it mightn't have been. But on a tour of Croke Park one of the guides told us this story and for some reason I thought twas him, although ya he doesn't look like that type so you're probably right.

It could have been Mickey Harte!

grenache

.skid wrote: »

Yes it mightn't have been. But on a tour of Croke Park one of the guides told us this story and for some reason I thought twas him, although ya he doesn't look like that type so you're probably right.

I don't think you get the joke.

.skid

grenache wrote: »

I don't think you get the joke.

I do. And I wish I could say that was a one time slip up but I honestly thought that was his name. I deserve all the abuse I get for mixing them up. :P