Boardsies decide: Best sporting moments (nominations closed, knockout ongoing)

Green&Red

I'll try and run this off fairly quickly, entries are open for a week, you can nominate your top five sporting moments of all time (EDIT: By PM) and I'll run them off over the following week in a randomly randed fashion

Will it be one of these

Anyway get your PMs in, voting will be a day time event

Iscreamkone

Packie’s save

/thread

Necro

CLASSSSS

So in for this, nice one GnR!!

quickbeam

Irish related only?

Green&Red

quickbeam wrote: »

Irish related only?

Not at all, I’d imagine it will be Irish dominated

tusk

haven't a clue about sportsball but I'll enjoy following along!

MrKingsley

I’m in. Will have to have a think about this over the weekend

Squall Leonhart

Incredible

Clarabel

Can i nominate that time I didn't watch any sport

NIMAN

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Incredible

Are we allowing drug assisted moments?;)

Riesen_Meal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWdPDofBxl0

For me, the pinnacle, fans of every other football team, not so much

Kolido

The time Necro ran the best tv show ever, that was great sport, does it qualify?

Green&Red

Kolido wrote: »

The time Necro ran the best tv show ever, that was great sport, does it qualify?

Ruled out for doping

partyguinness

Ray Houghton in 88
Ray Houghton in 94
Packie's save and O'Leary peno
Maradona's Goal of the Century
Any AI won by Cork
Usain Bolt
Ireland v Wales 2009 to win GS
Stephen Roche in 1987 winning basically everything

Extra kudos if Jimmy Magee was commentating

Green&Red

partyguinness wrote: »

Ray Houghton in 88
Ray Houghton in 94
Packie's save and O'Leary peno
Maradona's Goal of the Century
Any AI won by Cork
Usain Bolt
Ireland v Wales 2009 to win GS
Stephen Roche in 1987 winning basically everything

Extra kudos if Jimmy Magee was commentating

Jimmy Magees commentary of John Treacy winning silver in 84 is the finest piece of sports broadcasting ever, if you haven't heard it you are missing out

NIMAN

partyguinness wrote: »

Ray Houghton in 88
Ray Houghton in 94
Packie's save and O'Leary peno
Maradona's Goal of the Century
Any AI won by Cork
Usain Bolt
Ireland v Wales 2009 to win GS
Stephen Roche in 1987 winning basically everything

Extra kudos if Jimmy Magee was commentating

Drugs involved in 2 of those definitely, maybe 3.:D

partyguinness

Green&Red wrote: »

Jimmy Magees commentary of John Treacy winning silver in 84 is the finest piece of sports broadcasting ever, if you haven't heard it you are missing out

Oh yes I have heard it. Also his commentary for Maradona's goal is special..."Different claaaaaaaaaass.........." just perfect.

partyguinness

NIMAN wrote: »

Drugs involved in 2 of those definitely, maybe 3.:D

Eff you. I will have nothing said against Cork or Ray Houghton.

Electric Nitwit

Hard to narrow it down to five, but all five will this...

Oasis1974

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Hard to narrow it down to five, but all five will this...

Ya jesus he came back from the dead who could top that.

Spook_ie

No particular order

1 They think it's all over, It is now 1966 WC

2 Dennis Taylor v Steve Davis 1985 Black Ball Final

3 Torville and Dean's perfect score at the 1984 Olympics

4 Penalty shootout against Romania in 1990 World Cup

5 Ireland beating England at Croke Park 2007

callaway92

Crowd with Tiger. Surreal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODGDLQ0TT3M

partyguinness

Spook_ie wrote: »

No particular order

1 They think it's all over, It is now 1966 WC

Say what now?

JeffKenna

Has to be Alan Mcloughlin's goal in 1993 against the North. A partisan crowd singing for fenians to drown in their own blood hushed with a sheer goal of beauty.

Kolido

I think you need to be in the moment for most event, you're not going to get the same buzz watching them now.

An exception Istanbul.

partyguinness

JeffKenna wrote: »

Has to be Alan Mcloughlin's goal in 1993 against the North. A partisan crowd singing for fenians to drown in their own blood hushed with a sheer goal of beauty.

Jaysus that was a very very stressful 90mins all round....buried it deep in my head.

LuasSimon

Seamus Darby

Green&Red

PMs please lads!

Green&Red

Spook_ie wrote: »

No particular order

1 They think it's all over, It is now 1966 WC

2 Dennis Taylor v Steve Davis 1985 Black Ball Final

3 Torville and Dean's perfect score at the 1984 Olympics

4 Penalty shootout against Romania in 1990 World Cup

5 Ireland beating England at Croke Park 2007

I'll accept this but PMs in future please folks

We don't want to give away the big reveal

Electric Nitwit

Green&Red wrote: »

PMs please lads!

Entered.
I tried to give some slightly less obvious (though still fairly obvious) suggestions. I'll be gutted if some of my omissions aren't included by other people!

Necro

Yep, I tried to go for some more variety too, though there was one imo that should win I couldn't ignore.

Looking forward to this GnR, I sent ya on the videos too :P

Bounty Hunter

Is that time I started a “the referee’s a w@nker” chant while playing in a match eligible? :pac:


How I didn’t get sent off in that game I’ll never know

banie01

Cannot believe that there isn't a single Munster moment on the list?

The miracle match?
The 2006 final when the screen in the stadium showed Limerick streets?
ROG's drop goal after 40 odd phases of play with the clock in red to beat Northampton?
Paul Warwick beating Australia on his own with a virtuoso performance against his home nation in 2010.

So many more to choose from that aren't Munster too
The anthems at the England game in Croke park in 07!
Being the 1st team to beat England after they won the RWC...

quickbeam

What's a munster?

quickbeam

Oh, wait, I get you. Something like this?

banie01

quickbeam wrote: »

Oh, wait, I get you. Something like this?

That would actually be a Munster-Munch_en...
Tasty!

Green&Red

banie01 wrote: »

Cannot believe that there isn't a single Munster moment on the list?

The miracle match?
The 2006 final when the screen in the stadium showed Limerick streets?
ROG's drop goal after 40 odd phases of play with the clock in red to beat Northampton?
Paul Warwick beating Australia on his own with a virtuoso performance against his home nation in 2010.

So many more to choose from that aren't Munster too
The anthems at the England game in Croke park in 07!
Being the 1st team to beat England after they won the RWC...

Were only at nomination stage!

Donnielighto

Green&Red wrote: »

Jimmy Magees commentary of John Treacy winning silver in 84 is the finest piece of sports broadcasting ever, if you haven't heard it you are missing out

Roche, maradonna with recreational, who's the third?

Timfy

The wee, baldy legend! Stringers 2006 try against Biarritz

Zaph

quickbeam wrote: »

What's a munster?

MrKingsley

Is every nomination getting a spot Green or does it need 2 to get in?

Green&Red

Everything gets in

quickbeam

I like those odds!!

Green&Red

Jaysus lads nominations are slow, at this rate it'll just be my five greatest Mayo matches

Necro

Green&Red wrote:

Jaysus lads nominations are slow, at this rate it'll just be my five greatest Mayo matches

I can send you another 5 if you like?

Barney92

I'll be entering in the next day or two, so that'll be another five for you.

jr86

Will PM with a few but straightaway the leicester PL win in 2016 comes to mind.

Wouldn't be a massive soccer fan but their story just captured my attention like no other. I honestly don't think I'll ever see a sporting upset like it again in my lifetime, and it has to be the greatest upset ever seen to date. It was just a pure sporting fairytale

The context sometimes gets lost in the intervening years but it would be like the equivalent of Namibia winning the rugby world cup, Waterford winning a football All Ireland, Mayo a hurling one, an amateur winning a golfing major and so on. It just simply should not come close to happening

Green&Red

Any more takers for a nomination?

sKeith

I've only 3 so far. if you are closing shop, i'll submit the 3

Green&Red

sKeith wrote: »

I've only 3 so far. if you are closing shop, i'll submit the 3

I’ll close it this evening, just trying to get folk to get a shimmy on

Green&Red

So I need another 10 to ensure no moment has a bye into the second round, so have it even if you've entered already