Tim Lane: O'hAilpin raises the standard

camel · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:25 pm

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/tim-la ... 80491.html

Quote:

...O'hAilpin's refusal to yield was manifest: a message to all around him. A man who had not played the game three years ago was stating, in front of nearly 65,000, that defeat wasn't countenanced, let alone conceded...

Great game from the big guy on Saturday and nice to see it acknowledged in the meedyah as well.

Lurker Blue · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:33 pm

Great article.

Makes my heart swell with pride, and brings a tear to my eye to see how much the big Irishman bleeds navy blue.

ScottSaunders · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:38 pm

he is fast, and i mean really fast, becoming my favorite player.

well done santy, if we had 22 players give the same commitment, same desire to win, we are going great guns.

Deano Supremo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:44 pm

Here I am, sitting in an office in the north west of Sydney, with my Blues scarf parading proudly on my desk, resigned to the fact thatI won't get to gloat to any Essendon* supporters this week.

Then all of a sudden our Melbourne warehouse manager wanders past my desk - yep, you guessed it, scum supporter.

I laughed and said 48 points, then laughed again.

He's a shattered man - I mentioned what a flower his Captain is.

He said he was amazed at Setanta in the one on ones.

So I gave it a bit of "well, next year there'll be two of 'em - and the second one's bigger!".

You can't wipe the smile off my face today.

slow_mo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:47 pm

Deano Supremo wrote:

So I gave it a bit of "well, next year there'll be two of 'em - and the second one's bigger!"

Love your work Deano!

TruBlueBrad · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:51 pm

slow_mo wrote:

Deano Supremo wrote:

So I gave it a bit of "well, next year there'll be two of 'em - and the second one's bigger!"

Love your work Deano!

This is what I had been telling people. If Richo wants to rough Setanta up, thats fine, he can look after himself, but in a couple of years there'll be two of them and baby brother has WLF :-D

ScottSaunders · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:51 pm

Deano Supremo wrote:

So I gave it a bit of "well, next year there'll be two of 'em - and the second one's bigger!".

love your work mate, and love the avatar

TruBlueBrad · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:53 pm

Oh, and you can add me to the list of people who have Setanta rocketing up their favourite players list.

Murphy
Walker
Setanta

Deano Supremo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:56 pm

The best part about it is the warehouse manager was thinking "you beauty, I'm in Sydney all week, I won't cop any shit".

Then he saw me :lol:

I'll give him more than he ever would have copped at home :-D

CK95 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 12:56 pm

That is an awesome avatar Deano.

slow_mo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:03 pm

I've already mentioned this in Talking Players, but I love this bit of the article:

Quote:

Early on, with his team losing both the game and its football dignity, he kept the navy blue flag rammed into the turf at one end of the MCG.

I love it that our most inexperienced player is quickly becoming the one that leads the way in never taking a backwards step.

Has massive pride in the jumper does our Santy, and Tim Lane is right... he stood toe-to-toe with Lloyd even when we were getting flogged. Taking a backwards step was never an option.

*goosebumps*

Deano Supremo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:04 pm

CK95 wrote:

That is an awesome avatar Deano.

It's the pic from the above article.

The pic itself is better again, and it's my new wallpaper :lol:

Been trying to find a decent pick of Carlos selling monga some candy, but couldn't find a good one.

ScottSaunders · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:08 pm

there is footage, if you can get it of the game, where santy goes to about 15cm away from llyods face, all the time, eye balling him, and llyods response?

look away, like the wet rat that he is.

a big man kiss for santy. he playes the game how it should be played.

fair, hard and tough

darknavy · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:19 pm

slow_mo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:34 pm

While we're having a Setanta love-in, here's the cover of yesterday's Herald Sun sports section (for all you interstaters):

Keyser Soze · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:36 pm

I hope our Irish mates get a read of that article.

Fantastic stuff.

It's amazing, on MMM they were awarding their "Worst On Ground" and Santy got a mention.

I don't care what MMM says. I know what I saw and I loved it.

Santy, you'll do me.

camel · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 1:53 pm

Thanks for that slow_mo. :mrgreen:

DownUnderChick · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:08 pm

Keyser Soze wrote:

I hope our Irish mates get a read of that article.

Fantastic stuff.

It's amazing, on MMM they were awarding their "Worst On Ground" and Santy got a mention.

I don't care what MMM says. I know what I saw and I loved it.

Santy, you'll do me.

Shows you how flowered they are at Triple M - have no idea anymore.

bondiblue · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:03 pm

It has been said that a picture can be worth a million dollars.

And the one in yesterday's HS sports section is worth all of that and more!!

Optus..the rest of Australia would have seen that photo 100 times each...it's sitting on couches, desks, bedrooms, offices, lunch rooms everywhere..you're baby blues have you on the front page exclusively!!

So Optus, where's the million dollars for the exposure??

Ching ching.

Go Setanta.

Go Deano

Go Blueboys.

Wild Blue Yonder · **Posted:** Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:04 pm

Anyone got youtube vision of that crazy dance Monga did waving his arms at hip level while running toward Carlos?

Looked like thalidomide meets Elaine. I like to see it again. I had tears in my eye laughing at the tool.

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