I still have to find a proper home for the scorers’ lists that I keep (rearranging of those tabs up top is still on the to-do list, along with the post-Christmas recycling and a hundred other things) but, in the meantime, here’s the chart for our short and not very successful FBD campaign. Top of the pops, jointly like, were […]
There are two more match reports from yesterday’s defeat to the Rossies to draw to your attention: this good, in-depth one from my fellow Mayo GAA blogger No one Shouted Stop! and this more pithy offering from the Indo. Neither can help to alter the result, unfortunately, but since when did winning the FBD mean anything? Hang on a minute […]
It was a perfect border raid by the Sheepstealers. They turned up early, grabbed all the best parking spaces, bought up all of the programmes on offer and then made the little stand at the Ballyhaunis GAA ground their own (a bit like Ballaghaderreen in reverse, I suppose they could argue). Then they proceeded to dominate the opening half of […]
They came over the border in numbers, took all the good parking spaces and then made the small stand at the Ballyhaunis GAA ground their own. And then the Sheepstealers went on to beat us, by 1-7 to 1-6, to earn an FBD League final place against Galway. Full report to come later on once I get back to base.
I’m back in one piece from London, where I had quite a pleasant mixture of work and catching up with people I used to know a whole lot better when I lived over there some years back. Since moving back to Dublin well over a decade ago, I’ve always enjoyed going back to London and every time I do so […]
Looking out once again on the wind and the rain and the cold (I know, of that trio you can only see the middle one but you know what I mean), the notion of braving the elements on Sunday for a poxy old FBD match doesn’t sound too appetising. But, it is the Sheepstealers we’ll be playing – for the […]
Two reports on yesterday’s match against Sligo IT to report on: this one from the Indo and this far better one from the redoubtable No one Shouted Stop! You can almost hear the wind howling around your ears and feel the rain trickling down the back of your neck when reading the latter – it sounded like it was a […]
Another Sunday in January, another FBD match to talk about. It’s also another one that I had to follow on Midwest (with Angelina and all her cheesy musical selections), as my fanaticism stops short of driving across the country on a blustery day like today to see 30 minute-a-side pre-season fare. Because of this, I can’t do much more than […]
There’s not much in the papers today about yesterday’s FBD defeat, though the Indo has a match report which contains a quote from Johnno about his frustration at being denied the services of players who will be representing third-level institutions rather than their county all this month. It’s a fair enough point, though it’s the same story for Galway and […]
As we did last year and the year before that as well, we’ve begun the new footballing year with an FBD defeat to a third level institute. Two years ago, we lost to Sligo IT, last year it was to NUIG and it was against the same opponents that we went under today, losing in Dangan by 2-10 to 1-8. […]