Talking Crystal Balls – Dateline February
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Ladbrokes, the new Oak Leaf shirt sponsors, are offering a range of spread bets on the number of county board meetings there will be in 2009. Ladbrokes also offer a page of specials on things Brian McGilligan might say about Seamus McCloy this season and better again, things McCloy might say about Big Brian.
Best value for Talking Balls is the 10,000-1 offered that noted football fan McCloy will be heard saying: ll the resources of the Derry Co Board will be put fully behind Brian and the hurlers and their quest for success.” The odds-on favourite however at a wallet busting 1-50 is the line ” Any chance of introducing Japanese ash disease so we can get rid of theses effin hurley bats?”
Ger Loughnane makes a shock return to management as manager of the Waterford hurling team following Davy Fitz’s walkout. Fitz was annoyed that yet another player recorded him for YouTube delivering a team talk. This time however it it was in fact a recording of Davy talking to himself in his hotel room during the team holiday. Davy is reinstated as manager after the players refuse to play for Loughnane after he tells Clare FM the Waterford men should be known as the ‘Daisies, not the Deise.’
Meanwhile, in Connacht, John Morrison is spotted with the Leitrim senior football squad in a flotilla of rubber dinghies on the Shannon in sub zero temperatures. Using a loud hailer to shout instructions, Beefy was heard to shout “right lads, the papers said you sank without a trace last year. Pull the plugs out of the floor of the dinghy and swim back to the shore. Last man back is the captain this season.”
A lovestruck Honeymooning couple from Oughterard reveal that Nicky Brennan was brilliant company during their three week cruise of the Caribbean.
