Armagh hard men

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Eamon Toye was one of the hardest feckers I ever had the displeasure to be marked by The great thing about him though was you could bate the shite out of each other all day and then it was staright into the club house for pints with him after. Nothing left the field. Collie Bynre from Mullaghbawn and Kevin Burns from the Bridge were 2 hardy feckers and my own old team mates the Cassidys were able to give the odd hit.

You're right corn, I don't remember any hard men from Dromintee either

Because I retired early!

The Cassidys? Not ringing a bell, when did they play?

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Because I retired early!

The Cassidys? Not ringing a bell, when did they play?

Thank God you did and never rattled my bones

Thomas and Benny played from the late 70's though to when I was playing in the mid 90's. Can't believe you don't know Thhomas, he was full back on the Armagh team for years. Shows how much you know, but maybe you're one of those who was part of the invention of football in 1999?

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Shows how much you know, but maybe you're one of those who was part of the invention of football in 1999?

2002 actually.

I'm showing my age...and showing yours in the process as well. As I was saying to Rufus yesterday, my earliest GAA memory is 1993 and involved a riot between the Harps and Cross!

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2002 actually.

I'm showing my age...and showing yours in the process as well. As I was saying to Rufus yesterday, my earliest GAA memory is 1993 and involved a riot between the Harps and Cross!

I thought it was when they won the Ulster in 1999.

That game of 1993 was memorable for a few things, the Grimley's showing their hardness, as did the Monkey for Cross and also for one of Hugh Daly's sweetest points ever from the second half throw up, unfortunately it was over his own crossbar

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I thought it was when they won the Ulster in 1999.

That game of 1993 was memorable for a few things, the Grimley's showing their hardness, as did the Monkey for Cross and also for one of Hugh Daly's sweetest points ever from the second half throw up, unfortunately it was over his own crossbar

Nope, us fairweather fans only count Sams as starting points!

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Thank God you did and never rattled my bones

Thomas and Benny played from the late 70's though to when I was playing in the mid 90's. Can't believe you don't know Thhomas, he was full back on the Armagh team for years. Shows how much you know, but maybe you're one of those who was part of the invention of football in 1999?

The Cassidys were hard and would have dealt a few slaps in the mouth - possibly even in the vicinity of the ball - to mark the territory so to speak.

However many of the lads on our team were happy to take that slap, as there was also room on offer. When it comes to the defenders that the forwards on our team wanted to avoid, it tended to be the Tony Gallerys of this world - i.e. run all day, many times in support of the attack!!

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I'll second that about Paul Grimley! Remember Armagh V Tyrone Omagh 1989? (McGeeney and C O'rourke were minors that day) Armagh were 7/8 points up at half time it looked as if Tyrone weren't coming out for the second half. it turned out they werent going to because Paul Grimley split John Lynch at half time...Lynch couldn't take his place for the second half. Tyrone ended up winning by a point.

The following year Armagh played Tyrone in a 'friendly' in what came to be known as the 'Battle of Blaney' as the Tyrone bus pulled in Paul Grimley stopped it, Got on and asked for John Lynch the Tyrone players looked at each other and said that he wasn't there (he wasn't luckily for him). The game was never finished because the players knocked the shite out other.

John Grimley 'chased Finbarr McConnell around blayney that night' im reliably informed by someone who played that night.

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I'll second that about Paul Grimley! Remember Armagh V Tyrone Omagh 1989? (McGeeney and C O'rourke were minors that day) Armagh were 7/8 points up at half time it looked as if Tyrone weren't coming out for the second half. it turned out they werent going to because Paul Grimley split John Lynch at half time...Lynch couldn't take his place for the second half. Tyrone ended up winning by a point.

The following year Armagh played Tyrone in a 'friendly' in what came to be known as the 'Battle of Blaney' as the Tyrone bus pulled in Paul Grimley stopped it, Got on and asked for John Lynch the Tyrone players looked at each other and said that he wasn't there (he wasn't luckily for him). The game was never finished because the players knocked the shite out other.

John Grimley 'chased Finbarr McConnell around blayney that night' im reliably informed by someone who played that night.

A match that has went down in folklore but, at the same time, details are very thin on the ground.

**** imagine Grimbo coming onto a bus looking for you!

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Corn, pm sent.

Jack Bratten, I know I never saw him play as he played in the fifties and sixties but by all accounts he was as hard as nails.

Hardest Armagh man I saw was John Grimley, an absolute beast of a man and a harps man at that.

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Thank God you did and never rattled my bones

Thomas and Benny played from the late 70's though to when I was playing in the mid 90's. Can't believe you don't know Thhomas, he was full back on the Armagh team for years. Shows how much you know, but maybe you're one of those who was part of the invention of football in 1999?

Thomas was a collossus, one tough bastard.