Choose Monaghan. Choose expecting Finty to score a goal. Choose beating Carlow in the Championship but remember losing to them the last time we were there. Choose playing "Hit the Diff" in Crosshaven and the place going buck mad. Choose Buggy bringing toilet roll in the bag for the away games. Choose not being fit to jive but doing it anyway. Choose wondering if the young one at the end of the Tuam Beats video is single. Choose asking a Cavan fan if he's so proud of 1947 could he name the team. Choose him walking away. Choose occasionally playing Sean McCaffrey's commentary on You Tube. Choose eating cakes at wakes. Choose knowing most of the National Anthem. Choose only singing it in the North to piss off the Queen. Choose Gary McKeown and Mickey Duffy doing Duelling Banjos on accordions. Choose considering calling your son Paul. Choose missing shouting "Don't shoot" at Dick Clerkin. Choose Dick shooting anyway and scoring. Choose missing Nudie. Choose chasing girls in Armagh jerseys in the Glen of a Sunday night. Choose having to choose between Declan Loughman and Dermot McDermott for boots and gloves. Choose standing on the hill in Ballybay so you won't get into a row. Choose only going to mass on Championship weekends. Choose silage getting done in hours rather than days. Choose to publically denouncing Sean Cavanagh. Choose to secretly admitting that Dick would have done the same. Choose to not missing to old Magheracloone pitch. Choose laughing at "Last Calls" two hours after closing. Choose saying Malachy Clerkin when you mean Malachy O'Rourke. Choose doing laps of the town with half a hand on the steering wheel. Choose short cuts to Clones. Choose using your kids to get selfies with Monaghan players when you're old enough to know better. Choose a Monaghan part time farmer putting a Carlow full time farmer on the flat of his back. Choose playing air guitar to Thunderstuck. Choose wishing Jack McCaffrey's grandparents had stayed in Monaghan. Choose going to Division One games and expecting to win. Choose 10 cups of tea a day. Choose pretending you know each Monaghan player personally. Choose rumours on match days. Choose Niall Markey singing "The Rattlin Bog". Choose Marty Mone forgetting the words. Choose six players getting sent off in one go in Ballybay v Blayney game in 90's and then having a smoke together. Choose 3 changes to Monaghan team that was selected. Choose going to Ulster Final in 2013 more in hope than confidence. Choose living through the 90's and not even sniffing an Ulster Final. Choose being thankful to be able to witness this gutsy, talented team. Choose being proud to be from Monaghan. Choose Monaghan.

FootblockREF (Monaghan) - Posts: 563 - 02/08/2017 13:21:50    2027857

DannyMcA (Dublin) - Posts: 260 - 02/08/2017 13:34:32    2027865

Eamon McAneaney's point to draw the game with Kerry in 1985?

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 02/08/2017 13:50:09    2027877

But if you play that out to the letter, following the Trainspotting theme, wouldn't the last bit be:

"But I chose not to choose Monaghan. The reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?"

MedwayIrish (Wexford) - Posts: 2324 - 02/08/2017 13:57:48    2027886

I'm starting to think I'd like to see the Dubs do us all a favour on Saturday

benched (Tyrone) - Posts: 534 - 02/08/2017 14:00:47    2027891

No mention of Big Tom....

MURPHB33 (Dublin) - Posts: 166 - 02/08/2017 14:02:48    2027894

:) :) Choose Martin Carney hailing another great score from Ciaran Mc Manus!

RightFull (Monaghan) - Posts: 74 - 02/08/2017 14:17:56    2027903

CHoose to beat Donegal but loose to Tyrone

222 (UK) - Posts: 691 - 02/08/2017 14:37:18    2027917

Choose Paddy Kavanagh whose poem Raghlan Road was sung by the Late and Great Luke Kelly.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 02/08/2017 14:39:10    2027919

FootblockREF (Monaghan) - Posts: 563 - 02/08/2017 14:39:11    2027920

Farney (Monaghan) - Posts: 801 - 02/08/2017 14:56:54    2027930

Monaghan Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 442 - 02/08/2017 15:04:20    2027936

Choose the Dubs -10 with Paddy Power

aidan64 (Kerry) - Posts: 665 - 02/08/2017 15:49:52    2027961

benched (Tyrone) - Posts: 534 - 02/08/2017 16:20:54    2027982

neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 02/08/2017 16:50:42    2027999

Good but the original posted by Eddie the Exile was great
Choose Monaghan. Choose losing Division 4 NFL matches in the rain. Choose to go AWOL for a week after winning Ulster. Choose heartbreak and raw emotion. Choose Sean McCaffrey's commentary. Choose death notices 5 times daily. Choose to remember Fergal O'Hanlon but forget Eoin O'Duffy. Choose a Donaghmoyne lady footballer. Choose to never watch the Kerry 2007 game again. Choose to get lost on the way to B league match in Currin. Choose Nudie there. Chose to lose the plot listening to JP Graham. Choose Harte Peat. Choose Blayney hurlers. Choose the Spinner on a Sunday night. Choose Mona yogurt and Champion Milk. Choose Deccy Mone to keep the score. Choose dinner in Leslie to impress the woman. Choose Gerry's for a real feed on the way home. Choose picking mushrooms and catching turkeys. Choose to write off the Polo Grounds as ancient history. Choose the N2. Choose to park in Iona road. Choose green diesel, washed diesel, choose Derv. Choose to shout for Cross but not Armagh. Choose to give Banty €15 at 2am to get into an empty Fiddler's. Choose Ballybay for weanlings and stripper cows on a Saturday. Choose wrapping bales on a hanging hill with a Ford 7000. Choose an empty Clones over a full Inniskeen any day. Choose a pitchfork on your shoulder, less for use than for devilment. Choose Gerry Murphy's wardrobe. Choose neither Olly Callan nor Mario. Choose to die watching Pip Duffy miss easy frees against Cavan. Choose a spin to the Glen for dancing. Choose a spin to the White Horse for fighting. Choose to go by the back road through Drum and count the flags on match day. Choose Jap's left foot. Choose Ray McCarron's sidestep. Choose to buy Ivomec off Gerry McCarville. Choose Tommy's last point in 2013, the sweetest one. Choose Mark Ward on the goal-line. Choose to make a habit of beating Meath. Choose the isolation of Knockatallon. Choose Packie Willie's for a session. Choose the Latton boys to grind out a win. Choose Vinny at full forward. Choose Vinny at full back. Choose to witness ritual slaughter in Croke Park. Choose to resolve it won't happen again. Choose to come out fighting against hopeless odds. Choose to believe it can happen. Choose to roar them on. Choose Monaghan.

seanie08 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1798 - 02/08/2017 20:21:59    2028076

Choose beating Tyrone in croke park. Choose beating Dublin to get there. Choose keep your powder dry till 2018.

Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3830 - 02/08/2017 20:28:03    2028078

Christ almighty!!

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 02/08/2017 20:38:50    2028085

MedwayIrish (Wexford) - Posts: 2324 - 02/08/2017 21:10:28    2028101

FootblockREF (Monaghan) - Posts: 563 - 03/08/2017 14:07:26    2028425