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Italia 90 or 2009 Grand Slam

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  • #152
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    keith16 wrote: »
    I wouldn't even say they are in the top 5. Top 2 in Munster certainly, but not Ireland.



    But it need not be the case. AIL and Provincial set-up could be mutually beneficial to one-another but the powers that be won't make it happen.

    Not so sure about that,especially with the acadamies,it's always been a case of people fighting over territory in the IRFU, believe me,a lot of politics being played behind the scenes.

    The bigger AIL clubs will survive,but the smaller ones really feel the pinch.You wouldn't believe the amount of players that drop out due to a stupid system,whereby bigger clubs can bring in a player from a junior club,bind him with the club,even if he doesn't play with the first team(or seconds) he can't play with his old club.And the whole thing about being seen as a failure plays on these lads mind and end up quitting the game.

    ps, I hate soccer now,but Stuttgart 88,ftw:D


  • #153
    Sunglasses Ron
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    matthew8 wrote: »
    Apart from Indonesia, Japan, China and Madagascar.

    What sports are more dominant there? Japan has a massive baseball following but it co exists with large soccer interest. Their national team is one of the best in Asia. The Chinese league and national team are ****e but watching international tournaments and the premiership are hugely popular there.


  • #154
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    I played senior rugby but 1990 was a defining moment for Irish sport. We deserved the grand slam mainly due to our world class outside centre but 1990 was our first world cup and we were only beaten by the hosts in quarter finals. Magic weeks. Magic memories.


  • #155
    Grand Moff Tarkin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Grand Moff Tarkin


    The country came to a standstill for the Ireland games during Italia 90' something that would and never will happen for Rugby games of any sort. It is a simple fact which might be a bitter truth pill for the D4 set to swallow.


  • #156
    matthew8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭matthew8


    Sunglasses Ron wrote: »
    What sports are more dominant there? Japan has a massive baseball following but it co exists with large soccer interest. Their national team is one of the best in Asia. The Chinese league and national team are ****e but watching international tournaments and the premiership are hugely popular there.

    That's hardly dominating for decades like you said. In truth I have no idea what sports are most popular in these countries, and it's probably a mix, but if China and Indonesia were into football so much you would expect them to have a halfway decent national team, being absolutely massive countries.


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  • #157
    Dostoevsky
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    PTH2009 wrote: »
    which was better ??

    Neither. In football by a long, long shot the four Meath-Dublin games (3 replays) in the 1991 Leinster Championship. Extraordinary games. The pity was that one side had to lose. All heroes. The only thing for me which has come close to that in sport was hurling in the late 90s, especially the rise of Clare. Brilliant, brilliant memories.

    Now, the new underdogs, the new Clare, are the Dublin hurlers. Roll on September and the double for the Dubs! (first double since Teddy McCarthy captained both Cork teams to All-Ireland titles in 1990?)


  • #158
    Sunglasses Ron
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    matthew8 wrote: »
    That's hardly dominating for decades like you said. In truth I have no idea what sports are most popular in these countries, and it's probably a mix, but if China and Indonesia were into football so much you would expect them to have a halfway decent national team, being absolutely massive countries.

    For whatever reason some countries just produce rubbish footballers! Considering the Chinese governments obsession with sporting greatness, where kids are sent away to Olympic training camps for most of their childhoods, I would reckon there must be some sort of intensive soccer programme there, yet they simply cannot produce the goods.


  • #159
    Weevil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭Weevil


    Sunglasses Ron wrote: »
    For whatever reason some countries just produce rubbish footballers! Considering the Chinese governments obsession with sporting greatness, where kids are sent away to Olympic training camps for most of their childhoods, I would reckon there must be some sort of intensive soccer programme there, yet they simply cannot produce the goods.

    I've heard a story of a devoted Chinese football fan be-moaning the state of the national team - "If only we had one decent player for every 100 million people".


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