Devenney comment in Gaelic Life....

[armaghlad]

Wife bought last weeks Gaelic life for me and browsing it this evening I came across Brendan Devenney's article about the retirement of Darragh O Se. One particular paragraph nearly made me spit my denchers out!

"When you meet up with footballers, 90 percent of them are sound. They're used to operating in groups of fellas and they have to learn to get on with the boys. Even the quiet lads are still sound and then you have your characters. Most of the other 10 percent are from Armagh.

it goes on to say "You had to look and laugh at the uptightness of the likes of Armagh. I know fair enough they beat us in three Ulster finals, but we probably enjoyed ourselves more after losing than they did after winning!"

probably done in a tongue and cheek manner , but the comments beggers belief. Armagh players raised the bar for the rest of the country in terms of fitness professionalism and attitude and maybe Mr Devenney would have one or two more medals at the end of his career if he had taken it a bit more serious!

[mrgaa1]

Jealousy, uptight, and looking for publicity. He's setting the stall out for April 11th when probably Armagh and Donegal are playing for 2nd in the division for promotion.

[Begbie]

Wife bought last weeks Gaelic life for me and browsing it this evening I came across Brendan Devenney's article about the retirement of Darragh O Se. One particular paragraph nearly made me spit my denchers out!

"When you meet up with footballers, 90 percent of them are sound. They're used to operating in groups of fellas and they have to learn to get on with the boys. Even the quiet lads are still sound and then you have your characters. Most of the other 10 percent are from Armagh.

it goes on to say "You had to look and laugh at the uptightness of the likes of Armagh. I know fair enough they beat us in three Ulster finals, but we probably enjoyed ourselves more after losing than they did after winning!"

probably done in a tongue and cheek manner , but the comments beggers belief. Armagh players raised the bar for the rest of the country in terms of fitness professionalism and attitude and maybe Mr Devenney would have one or two more medals at the end of his career if he had taken it a bit more serious!

What a pathetic lad. Is he trying to say he didn't want the success Armagh achieved over the past decade. Sour, bitter, jealous, immature comments from a footballer that many people didn't have alot of time for. He was a good footballer no doubt, but this speaks volumes about the measure of the "man."

It's hard being nearly men. Donegal wre that and that is glorifying them in may ways because quite often they were nowhere near. I think this shows that underneath Devenny is hurt by it all in the extreme and it is something that he will have to live with uncomfortably for the rest of his life.

Sympathy? No.