FSA "off topic" thread - No discussion relating to FSA or Soccer - please read post 1

PARlance

Ya, it's a good interview, should be still up on the Newstalk site.

He actually had to go back on the coke (a cola) after he went cold turkey as his game went so bad.
I think he said he's down to 2-3 cans a day now.

He's playing better than he has in a few years, hopefully he gets his card back. Seems like a nice bloke.

G1032

PARlance wrote: »

Ya, it's a good interview, should be still up on the Newstalk site.

He actually had to go back on the coke (a cola) after he went cold turkey as his game went so bad.
I think he said he's down to 2-3 cans a day now.

He's playing better than he has in a few years, hopefully he gets his card back. Seems like a nice bloke.

Why is Conor Deegan no longer on the podcast? I think he is badly missed.
I like Joe Molloy and Fionn Davenport. The two of them and Deegan worked very well with each other. Nathan Murphy really annoys me, but not enough yet that I'd stop listening!!
Just bring back Deegan or replace Murphy with Dave McIntyre.

PARlance

G1032 wrote: »

Why is Conor Deegan no longer on the podcast? I think he is badly missed.
I like Joe Molloy and Fionn Davenport. The two of them and Deegan worked very well with each other. Nathan Murphy really annoys me, but not enough yet they I'd so listening!!
Just bring back Deegan or replace Murphy with Dave McIntyre.

Couldn't agree more, the dynamic between Deegan, Molloy and Davenport was class. Like 3 lads having a chat and a bit of craic over a pint. Murphy is just too "polished" or something.

I'm not sure why Deegan left, it did come up in conversation on one of the pods shortly after, I think they put it down to him having too many other commitments.

KevIRL

AB de Villiers carves up the West Indies. Breaking all sorts of records

G1032

G1032 wrote: »

Lawrie has started very well on the Thursday and Fridays this season but has had very poor weekends. Shooting 75's etc on Saturday/Sunday. Even if he could stop the destructive weekend rounds and keep them to level/+1 he'd not be doing too badly.

I'm assuming he'll continue to get a lot of invites this season. He's supposed to be well liked on tour and surely the likes of McIlroy, Harrington, McDowell, Clarke etc can pull a few strings for him to help him continue to get invites. One or two big finishes though and he'll be grand.

He was telling one of the guys from the Golf Weekly podcast that he was addicted to Coke (Coca Cola!!). He was drinking 4 or 5 liters a day or something insane like that???? He knew he had to get off it but when he did eventually quit his game began to suffer initially. He says that's all behind him now so onwards and upwards. Fingers crossed for a good weekend for him

So that hasn't gone according to plan. Missed cut for Lawrie..............

wonski

Worked 9 days in a row without a break.

House of Cards up on Netflix now available.

How convenient, not leaving the sofa until episode 13 is watched:D

Swiper the fox

wonski wrote: »

Worked 9 days in a row without a break.

House of Cards up on Netflix now available.

How convenient, not leaving the sofa until episode 13 is watched:D

You've probably seen True Detective?? I'm going to watch the last episode tonight and I think it may well be the best thing I've ever seen on television, and I've seen everything that appears on the usual lists (except the Soprano's for some reason:o)

wonski

Swiper the fox wrote: »

You've probably seen True Detective?? I'm going to watch the last episode tonight and I think it may well be the best thing I've ever seen on television, and I've seen everything that appears on the usual lists (except the Soprano's for some reason:o)

I have indeed.

True Detective is a class itself.

Tv shows have changed and some of these are better than cinema productions tbh...

G1032

Swiper the fox wrote: »

You've probably seen True Detective?? I'm going to watch the last episode tonight and I think it may well be the best thing I've ever seen on television, and I've seen everything that appears on the usual lists (except the Soprano's for some reason:o)

Wow. Really? I thought True Detective was good but far from the best series I'd have ever seen.

The Sopranos is brilliant and was the best I thought I'd seen until I watched The Wire. I then think Breaking Bad overtook that but it's much of a muchness between Breaking Bad and The Wire.

I really enjoy Game of Thrones. The West Wing was very good too as was The Newsroom.

I don't think I'd put True Detective ahead of anything listed above but I'd say it's far better than Sons of Anarchy (just 5 episodes left to watch and I'm only finishing it because of the time already invested).

House of Cards is class but I won't be able to watch a marathon 13 episodes like wonski. Hopefully I'll get to it in a month or two.

Swiper the fox

Maybe it's just because it is what I am currently watching, I may not be so fulsome in my praise after a bit of time, but I would put it ahead of the Wire and Breaking Bad, both of which I loved. It's only 8 episodes so it may not be a fair comparison but it is truly outstanding, it's even kept me awake a few nights, usually only the thing we aren't allowed to mention on this thread can do that.:P

Lemlin

Any lads heading to GAA matches this weekend? Cavan play Down this evening at 7.

A win would be huge ahead of the grudge match against Kildare next weekend!

Nib

Will pop over to Newbridge tomorrow for a look.

Where's the grudge, Lemlin? Even though Mr. Johnston was absolutely useless, we won't hold it against you Cavan folk.

G1032

More magic from Harrington today. He's 3 ahead at the moment. Come on Paddy

G1032

Bogey Bogey finish

Lemlin

Nib wrote: »

Will pop over to Newbridge tomorrow for a look.

Where's the grudge, Lemlin? Even though Mr. Johnston was absolutely useless, we won't hold it against you Cavan folk.

The whole Johnston debacle plus the hammering ye gave us in Breffni that Summer.

Funny thing is, he's now trying his damndest to get back on the Cavan panel but they want none of him.

PARlance

G1032 wrote: »

More magic from Harrington today. He's 3 ahead at the moment. Come on Paddy

Kevin Phelan tied for the lead in South Africa... Could be a great weekend for Irish golf.

We might even claim Lydia (Ko) Keogh's win too

qwabercd

PARlance wrote: »

Kevin Phelan tied for the lead in South Africa... Could be a great weekend for Irish golf.

We might even claim Lydia (Ko) Keogh's win too

What a stacked leaderboard 22 within 3 of the lead.

Copper_pipe

Anyone see the hurling on TG4 last night, cracking game!

internet_user

Early identity crisis for march

jimmii

internet_user wrote: »

Early identity crisis for march

Where is that! Bit nippy in Dublin but grand with a decent sweater.

KevIRL

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Anyone see the hurling on TG4 last night, cracking game!

Yep was brilliant. Some effort from the WIT lads, even more so when you consider the amount of game time they've had lately

internet_user

jimmii wrote: »

Where is that! Bit nippy in Dublin but grand with a decent sweater.

Longford, its got a lot worse now..I feared the worst would happen, signal gone, no footy for me

Lemlin

Lads, what's a good app that allows me to use my free webtexts easily? I remember hearing of a few that sends your texts as webtexts.

G1032

PARlance wrote: »

Kevin Phelan tied for the lead in South Africa... Could be a great weekend for Irish golf.

We might even claim Lydia (Ko) Keogh's win too

Tied second for Phelan. Super result. Need Padraig to do the business now!

F1ngers

Lemlin wrote: »

Lads, what's a good app that allows me to use my free webtexts easily? I remember hearing of a few that sends your texts as webtexts.

Since I use data and viber, I haven't used this in a while: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cabbagetexter.android.cabbage

PARlance

Com'on Paddy Harrington

Mr.Prodston

PARlance wrote: »

Com'on Paddy Harrington

I'm not going to lie but this is better than if I were to captain Mickey Turner and he got a hat-trick

Biggest Sporting Hero ever for me!

OneColdHand

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

I'm not going to lie but this is better than if I were to captain Mickey Turner and he got a hat-trick

Biggest Sporting Hero ever for me!

7 years since he won - would love to see him do it. He's so close.

PARlance

OneColdHand wrote: »

7 years since he won - would love to see him do it. He's so close.

He won a European Tour event about 7 weeks ago

OneColdHand

PARlance wrote: »

He won a European Tour event about 7 weeks ago

My bad - PGA tour commentary said 7 years! They either meant 7 weeks, or else they are very, very wrong!

PARlance

OneColdHand wrote: »

My bad - PGA tour commentary said 7 years! They either meant 7 weeks, or else they are very, very wrong!

They're just talking about the US Tour I guess.

OneColdHand

PARlance wrote: »

They're just talking about the US Tour I guess.

Yeah that's probably what it was.

Pity about the 17th - still an outside chance.

Mr.Prodston

Massive Putt on 18. Play-off now. Legend whatever happens!

OneColdHand

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Massive Putt on 18. Play-off now. Legend whatever happens!

Yeah even if he loses the play off, at least he played the 18th in style. Wouldn't be good for him to have the 17th as the lasting memory from that round.

OneColdHand

Hopefully experience will count for Harrington here. This is a similar enough situation to his second Open: pretty wobbly coming down the stretch, followed by a playoff.

Berger won't have been in this kind of situation before (I presume!).

Mr.Prodston

Rikand

COME ON HARRO!

KevIRL

Another early start for the cricket. SA win the toss and will bat first. This one could get messy for us.

KevIRL

Early SA wicket taken..

KevIRL

Uh oh looking worrying, this could be well a cricket score

KevIRL

2 wickets in an over but a damage limitation excercise at this stage

KevIRL

Just the 412 to chase then. Any chance of a sudden prolonged rain shower?

Iused2likebusts

KevIRL wrote: »

Just the 412 to chase then. Any chance of a sudden prolonged rain shower?

Wow that's some score

Copper_pipe

RAG Week 1 - 0 Copper_pipe

Copper_pipe

Rag week 2 -0 copper pipe

OneColdHand

Copper_pipe wrote: »

Rag week 2 -0 copper pipe

Haven't seen any of the game, but looks like Rag week is a good bet for the clean sheet this week. Disappointed I took the punt on Copper pipe, - I'll be shipping him out next week.

FHFC

Real football is back!!

LOI Jersey day, Harps shirt on in work.

Bring it on.

Follow the excitement on @GLITW twitterites.

Lemlin

Ah rag week, so good that after I had finished college in 2006, I took a week off work in February 2007 and returned for it! €2 a pint from 10am until 2pm - a Cavan man's dream. Great breakfast to set you up for the day.

Copper_pipe

Back to reality now for me. Studying for the theory test :P

SantryRed

FHFC wrote: »

Real football is back!!

LOI Jersey day, Harps shirt on in work.

Bring it on.

Follow the excitement on @GLITW twitterites.

Boooooooo