Time For Kildare Fans To Be Counted

Nice also that Brennan signed off with a threat - wittering on like some old turkey about future sanctions and what not.

Jesus thanks for the bit of solidarity Nicky! Stay classy etc.

God knows Joe Brolly comes out with some howlers but f**k me he is right about the back-scratching nod and wink culture of GAA officialdom at the top level. The whole thing is rotten and this saga has exposed it.

I'll be giving out about him some Sunday evening in near future no doubt but well said Joe, fair play to you...

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Just in case we think that the Mayo support is with it then this is an example of some of the stuff on their blog. The guy that deals with the admin on the blog seems to dislike us also as was previous shown with his message. The comment below by one of their posters is a disgrace. There is many more like that.

Re, Marty Morrissy on the RTE SixOne news… He was interviewing a business leader in Newbridge.. They are apparently entitled to a big pay day, because Kildare were drawn out first… Is the Irish Derby not enough for them? .. Seriously nobody is going to feel any sympathy for business people in Kildare, the richest County in Ireland.. Maybe Sheikh Momhammod who is reportedly worth €19, 000,000,000..yeah that’s 19 Billion and his nearby Kildangan Stud are not spending enough in the Town.. Mind you the Sheik got €300,000 in the single farm payment last year.. So he can well afford it… And Maybe the people of Kildare might concern themselves with matters of real importance regarding the injustice in the countries of those millionaires and billionaires Monarch’s who own horses and property in Kildare. EG stoning women to death and cutting people’s heads off in the public square.. Everything is realitive.

There will always be haters.
Seems like a Mexican stand off with Kildare getting a kick out of the championship. Agree totally with the stand but can’t help feeling we would have had a chance to beat Mayo in Newbridge if given the chance.
It is a pity to loose out on that opportunity but it was the correct stance to take.

God know I've slated his defensive set-up and our softness in big games, but I have been very impressed with how Cian O'Neill has handled this.

He is dead right when he says you'd have to worried about what this all says about the the direction of the GAA. If Sean Kelly & Nicky Brennan's contributions are anything to go by, the association has more to worry about than just the Kildare-Mayo match.

If this isn't resolved tonight - not looking likely - I don't see any way how, even if GAA back down, as they enter day three of ticket sales for Croke Park, with Cavan and Tyrone there, with hotels booked, and with Kildare not having printed a ticket yet, this can all be re-arranged in 72 hours. We for a fact are not backing down by look of it and they don't have time to.

Off to court methinks. Donations to begin for high court as whole summer blocked. Thrilled if that happens.

We are 100 percent right not to play this game, end of.

I'm with you Tommy - I honestly found Sean Kelly & Nicky Brennan's condescending attitude today disgusting.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark - and it ain't the Conleths toilets.

A piece of Bull$***t trotted out by Nicky Bully Brennan and other gaa bullies is that this will spur Kildare onto developing Newbridge grounds. What a load of lies and bullshit because even if redeveloped to 25K or 20k or 25k there will always be one game every few years against the dubs or mayo where demand will outstrip supply and we are back to the same situation. The gaa bullies are encouraging all the poorer counties to go into debt building big white elephant stadiums that will be full once every few years.

If there was ever a reason to stick to our guns it was Nicky Brennan on off the ball. What a condescending, small minded, do as we say bureaucrat. He might have as well spent 10 minutes shouting "let them eat cake" down the phone line.
This game ain't going ahead in Croke Park so either the GAA get their collective heads out of their asses and nominate Newbridge or just give Mayo the walkover and let us have a celebration in the old ground Saturday evening in the Sun where the County shows how behind the team and manager and CB we all are.

The level of backlash against the GAA is unprecedented. I really and truly hope we stick to our guns and see this through come what may.

We really have nothing to lose. And the wider GAA community has all to gain. See it through lads, you have universal backing . And the pride that us supporters have for you all will not be forgotten

Ok. Can I be the first to look at this situation from a different direction?.
Just ask, if Kildare had been drawn first against a weaker team from Div 2, would we have made the same stand? And if so would Kildare have had the same support from grass roots supporters from other counties.
What I am really asking is: does this say something about Kildare Minset? If it had been a game we thought we could have won would we have been prepared to conceed the game on a matter of principle?
Don’t get me wrong. I agree totally with the stance but I am just putting the question out there. I think it may very well be the question Kildare are posed when this is either concluded or resolved.

I'll be honest - there are so many strands to what's currently happening that I don't have to time to consider hypotheticals.

Maybe will contemplate in off-season!!

squire wrote:

Ok. Can I be the first to look at this situation from a different direction?.
Just ask, if Kildare had been drawn first against a weaker team from Div 2, would we have made the same stand? And if so would Kildare have had the same support from grass roots supporters from other counties.
What I am really asking is: does this say something about Kildare Minset? If it had been a game we thought we could have won would we have been prepared to conceed the game on a matter of principle?
Don’t get me wrong. I agree totally with the stance but I am just putting  the question out there. I think it may very well be the question Kildare are posed when this is either concluded or resolved.

Pointless whataboutery. If we were drawn against a a weaker team from division 2 the match would have been fixed for Newbridge.

Cilldara_2000 wrote:

squire wrote:

Ok. Can I be the first to look at this situation from a different direction?.
Just ask, if Kildare had been drawn first against a weaker team from Div 2, would we have made the same stand? And if so would Kildare have had the same support from grass roots supporters from other counties.
What I am really asking is: does this say something about Kildare Minset? If it had been a game we thought we could have won would we have been prepared to conceed the game on a matter of principle?
Don’t get me wrong. I agree totally with the stance but I am just putting  the question out there. I think it may very well be the question Kildare are posed when this is either concluded or resolved.

Pointless whataboutery. If we were drawn against a a weaker team from division 2 the match would have been fixed for Newbridge.

would be ok . Mayo have big fan base and brings money in for Men suits in Croke Park

No problem. Hypothetical is right.
Bullshit thought. But I am still disappointed we won’t get a chance to have a great evening against a good team in St Conleth.
I am also not sure we will come out of this smelling of roses even if it is the right thing to do.
Power has a way of crapping all over the small guy and making him smell like shit no matter how many umberellas he has.

Cull Dara 2000

Are you sure? Kildare v ??? Cavan v Tyrone. I am not sure CP could resist as that was always the obvious double header.
But fuck it. Maybe I’m just suspicious.

Can't see this goin ahead at all this week.

Either way we stand firm, this is our most important challenge since 1998, not just Kildare but the entire game as we know it.

Does Paddy Power know something we don't ?

OK lads I am going to say it now. This can't be another #cointoss like the Camogie where it top trended for a week and then when the game was played the Twitter heads were nowhere to be seen.
This has to result in something more tangible and it means that when the game goes ahead we need a show of support on the ground.
Fuck it, get people to hit Newbridge and show numbers. If Kildare county board could harness this in a real way there could be hay to be made.

The players and management will surely be energised by this genuine support from within and outside the county.
We need to be relevant for our football once that ball is thrown in!

That’s way shorter than earlier.

PP doesn't feck around...

If it goes ahead in Newbridge and our ticket allocation is restricted to 2,000, or whatever they are saying it's going to be, what about getting Mongey Communications to drop one of those big screens they use at the races out to Hawkfield and letting the fans with no tickets in to watch the match there instead.

Reading between a lot of lines in the last half hour there has being a deal done and going by Paddy Power might we just get the game in Newbridge after all????

Please please tell me that's the case.