"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards - checkmate!" Zapp Brannigan
The cat with a blue collar deserved to be lost
Not an overly bad first effort from Mr Quinlan it has to be said.
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards - checkmate!" Zapp Brannigan
Good article, very honest. He's obviously finding it tough adjusting. Still think he's a loss to the game, not just in terms of knowledge and experience that he could pass on in a training/mentoring role, but in terms of his contribution on the field. Yes, I'd noticed in his penultimate season that he hadn't been quite as effective, but from the return to form of his last season it looked to me like the one before had been a temporary blip. I know there's a possibility that I've let myself be caught up in the "just one more season" mentality, but I really believe he had that in him.
I hope he's successful with the media work, as it seems he has something worth bringing to the table. In terms of working in print, hopefully he'll be able to make the transition from writing objectively about himself to writing detailed analyses of games or of teams. I thought he did a fantastic job as a co-commentator for the Castres game, certainly much easier to listen to than a lot of the Sky pundits, and seemed more comfortable in that role than in the studio for the pre-match/half-time/post-match analysis. If nothing else I'd say he has a real future in commentating.
Never mind perception because it isn’t real. It’s only what people think. Go out and make them think something else.
- Alan Quinlan on believing in yourself
He's a good pundit IMHO. Still learning, but he's impressively impartial for someone who's just retired.
Mind you he was shaping before a few of the Ireland games ... I half expected him to drop the mike, take off the coat and tog off.
“Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.”
It took him less than four minutes of play to use the word "unbelievable" during his analysis last Saturday.
Quinnie, my old petunia, try not to use too many superlatives until the end of a match! Especially if Munster is involved.
Ahem, conjecture.
“Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.”
And it's "if Munster are involved".Originally Posted by Old Dog
“Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.”
Ooh snap!
Back to school for the doggie....
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards - checkmate!" Zapp Brannigan
ah sure he got to start somewhere. hope it works out for him. as for the Cat glad he didnt call to my door, be handing back a very thin one.
Unreal
Are you sure?
Funny one this, In Australia, and I am pretty sure NZ and I think US as well. They use the club as a collective noun. So you might hear 'Manchester Utd is leading the Premier league or some such'.
For some reason ourselves and the brits seem to ignore this.
...in what way will you feel more Irish if you force me to give up my feeling of being British? - David Ervine
Good article, nice and honest from Quinnie.
Thought he was impressively impartial in his first game as co-commentator. Wasn't scared to call poor Munster play when it occurred.
Plus there was no "back in my day...." comments that you get from Frankie.
Quinnie >>>>>>>> Frankie
We'll have to uncuff him and "de-dildo" him, obviously... Smash up the furniture like he was chasing you all rapey. Fortunately, he's Italian so that shouldn't be too hard to sell.
Well, it's back to school for someone (or some two), right enough.
I suppose that it all boils down to whether one has a weekly subscription for the Spectator or for the Beano!
He said massive about 400 times too many while co commentating
On the internet, you can be anything you want. It always amazes me why so many people choose to be stupid.
As a long-term student at the Munster Rugby School of Hyperbole - (home of "ligind", "unbeleeeeevable", "miracle", "unreeeeel", "massive", etc. etc.) - Quinnie deserves to be cut some slack. I have no doubt that after undergoing more rehab and de-programming, he'll revert to speaking mainly in positives rather than exclusively in superlatives.
Can't believe you left out "Tremenjuss". Standards are indeed slipping - the question that remains is whether the malaise is due merely to incipient senility or to excessive indulgence in the blissful Hippocrene.
Never mind perception because it isn’t real. It’s only what people think. Go out and make them think something else.
- Alan Quinlan on believing in yourself
Pro rugby must be one of the few "jobs" where guys you live next door to, have known for maybe 15 years, become people you struggle to associate with once you're on the outside. It really seems to be an issue for most of the Irish guys who retire, maybe more than other areas because they really have spent so much time together.
\"A million monkeys with a million crayons would be hard-pressed in a million years to create anything as cretinous as Battlefield Earth.\"
Fair play Quinny. "Lads, ye've let yeer supporters down, ye've let yeer coaches down, but worst of all ye've let yeerselves down!"
Never mind perception because it isn’t real. It’s only what people think. Go out and make them think something else.
- Alan Quinlan on believing in yourself
Well put Quinny.
Yourself and Trev are becoming quite the scribes.....
Excellent summation and well written too - as distinct from to,
Hello friends in Brussels. Baldy here
Two things strike me - firstly, his campaigning on the issue of mens depression is now all the more useful because of the Gary Speed sensation, and Quinnie still has 'street cred'; and secondly, he has the women interviewers eating out of his hand - saw him on TV Player last week, on the Maura Derrane afternoon show. The plastic princess was giggly and flapping her hands - the missus had a great laugh. As for Joanne Cantwell...........
Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch! "Not only is it not right, it's not even wrong!"[Wolfgang Pauli]
There's life in the old dog yet. He's down to play for the Northern Hemisphere v the Southern at 4.30 on Saturday in the Help 4 Heroes Challenge. Tom Gleeson is also down to play at 13.Teams here.http://heroesrugby.org.uk/teams/
It is important to remember that the French have always been
there when they needed us.\" -Alan Kent
why's Wendesday on a Quinnie in BLA BLA?
Excellent article from Quinny there, well-thought out and balanced.
Never mind perception because it isn’t real. It’s only what people think. Go out and make them think something else.
- Alan Quinlan on believing in yourself
Exactly.
That's the important bit.
For the over the hill and the past-it, nothing is impossible.
Ata boy Quinny, keep talking us down.
Sunday could be a very tough game if we go into it thinking Thomond Park will win it for us.
Scarlets will arive with no fear and the crowd is not at its most intimidating on a Sunday morning.
We will have to get fast start, get on top of them and knock the fight out of them early.
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