So far in the DCU Saints 2009 season it's been pretty bad. I got a lot of playing time last season, but I didn't do too well. This season, I've started and finished both our games and been involved in a LOT of special teams. The bad news is... I've still only played in one game we won. I've played in seven games (Rebels Twice, Limerick, Cork, Bulls (the one we won) Rhinos and Knights), so that's pretty annoying.
This season, we drew our first game against the Rhinos and lost our second game to the Knights, leaving us at 0-1-1 and really struggling. The defense is playing brilliantly, but the offense needs to catch up!
However, I think, if the D keeps playing well, the O will catch up and we can take some surprise wins. Personally, I've had two great games. I blocked a PAT (no mean feat for one of the smallest people on the team) and have made about 20 tackles, which may lead the team. I'd say I'm an early contender for most improved player ;)
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Football and work
Wow, what a busy time I've had lately! Along with the new job, we had a coach over from Florida to give us some pointers on the game. He liked me cos we have the same last name ;) But instead of getting up to game speed in a Scrimmage on Mothering Sunday, me and Spence had to go to Edenderry to referee a game. It was my first game refereeing and it was a horrible experience!
The home team's QB was hit blindside on a blitz and had to be taken away in an ambulance. But instead of calling the game off there and then, we hung around for 90 minutes then finished the game. Only fair to the teams, I suppose, except I was nearly 30 minutes late for Mothers Day dinner in the Anvil in Saggart. Whoops!
In other news, my new job is going swimmingly well! I finally got my own duty (albeit only briefly) and, so far, it's pretty handy. When it's raining or cold, I may not enjoy it as much, but so far so good!
The new IAFL season kicks off on Sunday (for DCU anyway) and I'm so looking forward to it. I'm getting my first start (ever!) in a DCU Jersey, so that should be fun! I didn't play our opponents at all last year (Injured for one, away for the other) and we won both, so I'll be disappointed if we lose! We won 4 games last year and made the play-offs. I only played in one game we won, against the Bulls in Belfast, so I'm hoping I can get another win under my belt!
The home team's QB was hit blindside on a blitz and had to be taken away in an ambulance. But instead of calling the game off there and then, we hung around for 90 minutes then finished the game. Only fair to the teams, I suppose, except I was nearly 30 minutes late for Mothers Day dinner in the Anvil in Saggart. Whoops!
In other news, my new job is going swimmingly well! I finally got my own duty (albeit only briefly) and, so far, it's pretty handy. When it's raining or cold, I may not enjoy it as much, but so far so good!
The new IAFL season kicks off on Sunday (for DCU anyway) and I'm so looking forward to it. I'm getting my first start (ever!) in a DCU Jersey, so that should be fun! I didn't play our opponents at all last year (Injured for one, away for the other) and we won both, so I'll be disappointed if we lose! We won 4 games last year and made the play-offs. I only played in one game we won, against the Bulls in Belfast, so I'm hoping I can get another win under my belt!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Busy week
So it's been a few days and, be honest, you were thinking I'd flaked again, right? Wrongo!!!
First off, United won in their Champions League First Knockout Round. So did the other three English clubs in the competition (Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool). This will almost certainly set up at least one game pitting English Clubs against one another. Hopefully United will get to face Liverpool. Those bastards beat us 4-1 today in the league, cutting their deficit to 4 points and setting up a really interesting finish to the league this year. (For the record, the last time Manchester United lost so heavily in the League was before my brother was born. January 1st 1992. Fuck.)
On a more positive note, Ireland won their penultimate Six Nations game against Scotland. it was a tough game, but they ground out a 22-15 victory. Next week they face Wales. If they lose by less then 13 points (or, like, win!) they win the Championship. Should be pretty exciting!
Also, and the best news of all, I got a job! It's nothing too big or clever, really. It's working in the Post Office. It's not too bad. My dad works there and, frankly, he has loads of money! Also, my grand-dad (on my mothers side) worked in the PO for years and he seemed to enjoy it. My only big problem with it is, I went to college for 4 years, for this? I hope I'm not in it forever, but we'll see what happens...
Wish me luck!
First off, United won in their Champions League First Knockout Round. So did the other three English clubs in the competition (Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool). This will almost certainly set up at least one game pitting English Clubs against one another. Hopefully United will get to face Liverpool. Those bastards beat us 4-1 today in the league, cutting their deficit to 4 points and setting up a really interesting finish to the league this year. (For the record, the last time Manchester United lost so heavily in the League was before my brother was born. January 1st 1992. Fuck.)
On a more positive note, Ireland won their penultimate Six Nations game against Scotland. it was a tough game, but they ground out a 22-15 victory. Next week they face Wales. If they lose by less then 13 points (or, like, win!) they win the Championship. Should be pretty exciting!
Also, and the best news of all, I got a job! It's nothing too big or clever, really. It's working in the Post Office. It's not too bad. My dad works there and, frankly, he has loads of money! Also, my grand-dad (on my mothers side) worked in the PO for years and he seemed to enjoy it. My only big problem with it is, I went to college for 4 years, for this? I hope I'm not in it forever, but we'll see what happens...
Wish me luck!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Dole Day!
So it's Dole Day again, the one day of the week where I can actually do something worthwhile! I get up slightly early, buzz out to Rathcoole and hand a card to a woman who gives me €200! Sweet or what!
Every time I collect my money, I hear Jimmy Carr, talking about being unemployed. He says saying "On the Social (Welfare)" is better then saying "Collecting benefits/On the Dole" because "The Social" sounds like it could be fun! "Going down the social! Might be some dancing!"
Today is also Champions League day. No team has retained the Champions League since it was introduced in it's new form in the 1992-93 season, but Man. Utd are trying it this season! We play Inter tonight and it's nil all after the first leg. The complex away goal rule means that if Inter can secure a score draw, they go through. If United win, they go through. If it's nil all again, it goes to extra time and then penalties!
Manchester United beating Fulham in the FA Cup last weekend
Should be a fun day...
Every time I collect my money, I hear Jimmy Carr, talking about being unemployed. He says saying "On the Social (Welfare)" is better then saying "Collecting benefits/On the Dole" because "The Social" sounds like it could be fun! "Going down the social! Might be some dancing!"
Today is also Champions League day. No team has retained the Champions League since it was introduced in it's new form in the 1992-93 season, but Man. Utd are trying it this season! We play Inter tonight and it's nil all after the first leg. The complex away goal rule means that if Inter can secure a score draw, they go through. If United win, they go through. If it's nil all again, it goes to extra time and then penalties!
Should be a fun day...
Monday, March 9, 2009
Getting back into it.
I haven't updated this for a while. I have no excuse. I'm simply lazy.
I'm really pissed off at the moment. Right now, I'm broke, I have no job and no life. I spent 4 years in college to be... here. I know there's a recession on and stuff, but still. All I want is a chance. I've applied for, literally, hundreds of jobs. I've gotten one interview and I didn't get the position. What can I do?
I'm gonna try keep this up now. Even though I have nothing to blog about...
I'm really pissed off at the moment. Right now, I'm broke, I have no job and no life. I spent 4 years in college to be... here. I know there's a recession on and stuff, but still. All I want is a chance. I've applied for, literally, hundreds of jobs. I've gotten one interview and I didn't get the position. What can I do?
I'm gonna try keep this up now. Even though I have nothing to blog about...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
NFL and more Prison Break
The new NFL season kicked off last week. The current Superbowl champions, the New York Giants, defeated the Washington Redskins in the opener and all 32 teams played through Sunday and Monday.
My team is the Seattle Seahawks. Some people ask me why, I say why not? I have no other affiliation with any other NFL team. I've never lived in the US nor do I have any strong ties to any particular state or city, but the year I started following NFL regularly, the Seahawks played really well and made the Superbowl (the Steelers screwed them over on that day, but that's another matter) so I started following them. Why not?
Based on the strength of their showing on Sunday, they won't make another Bowl soon! They lost 34-10 to the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo. Of all teams in the NFL to lose to, that's a disgrace. To be fair to the Bills, they had a really good punt return, a very good special teams trick play and recovered a stupid fumble. But Seattle need to pick themselves up after this.
The third episode of Prison Break season 4 (see below) was actually quite good. I think it will be very like Mission: Impossible this season. Each week they'll have a building to break into, or someone to get to talk, or some really tricky mission like that. Could be promising!!!
My team is the Seattle Seahawks. Some people ask me why, I say why not? I have no other affiliation with any other NFL team. I've never lived in the US nor do I have any strong ties to any particular state or city, but the year I started following NFL regularly, the Seahawks played really well and made the Superbowl (the Steelers screwed them over on that day, but that's another matter) so I started following them. Why not?
Based on the strength of their showing on Sunday, they won't make another Bowl soon! They lost 34-10 to the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo. Of all teams in the NFL to lose to, that's a disgrace. To be fair to the Bills, they had a really good punt return, a very good special teams trick play and recovered a stupid fumble. But Seattle need to pick themselves up after this.
The third episode of Prison Break season 4 (see below) was actually quite good. I think it will be very like Mission: Impossible this season. Each week they'll have a building to break into, or someone to get to talk, or some really tricky mission like that. Could be promising!!!
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Prison Break: Season 4
The new series of Prison Break started over here on Tuesday. Amazingly, the US only shows the episodes on the Monday, not even 24 hours before hand! I remember, not too long ago, when we’d be whole series behind and someone who was smart enough (and rich enough) to be able to download all the episodes was revered as some form of TV God!
The thing is, I’m not as excited about Prison Break as I maybe once was. For those who haven’t been following the escaped of Michael Schofield and Co., the first series was one of the freshest things to hit our TV screens in quite a while. It dispensed with many of our TV conventions and had a very linear plot with a very linear storyline and a defined ending. Schofield got himself arrested and sent to a Maximum Security Prison where, with the aid of a bunch of impressive tattoos, he aimed to break his brother Lincoln, who was on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, out. It sounds a little stupid (and to be honest, it was) but it seemed high concept: A defined end to a show in this day and age? Surely not!
Of course not! Season 2 began with Schofield, his brother and all the people they escaped with on the run from the law. Somehow Schofield had predicted his plan failing and he had a series of new tattoos to guide him to new destinations. Some men lived, some men died (in a nice touch, one guy and his family got away with it scot-free) but Schofield and his brother seemed set to get away with it for good.
No chance. Obviously this TV show was a big money spinner. There were even talks of a spin off set in a women’s prison but it never got off the ground. So, for season 3, they decided to go back to the shows original concept: Breaking out of prison. This time, it was a hard ass prison with no guards deep in Panama. Turns out, the guys who set Lincoln up wanted some guy broken out of this new prison and, because Schofield had broken out of prison once before, they figured he could do it again. In order to persuade Schofield to do this, they killed his girlfriend and dumped her head with Linc. Suitably pissed off, Schofield broke out and the season ended with him in the mood to kick some Company ass.
Season 4 started, however, with the guy they broke out getting shot in the head, the guys they left behind in the Panama prison just suddenly out and Sarah, the decapitated girlfriend, suddenly alive again. “Yeah, we didn’t really kill her” was the explanation we were supposed to just swallow.
At the end of season 3, some of Schofield’s friends had been captured and placed in Sona, the Panamanian prison. This could have led to some interesting developments; especially considering the fact that one of Schofield’s enemies was running the prison now. But no. During the off-season, the prison burnt to the ground in a riot and everyone escaped. Convenient much?
Also, for some inexplicable reason, Schofield got all his tattoos lasered off at the start of season 4, presumably so that Wentworth Miller didn’t have to sit in the make up chair for 3 hours a day getting them applied.
Frankly, I was disappointed with the start of season 4. I nearly turned it off at several points. If the lazy writing doesn’t stop, I’ll have to stop watching it. That will leave me with just 24, Lost, Ugly Betty and Heroes to watch.
And we can’t be having that.
Peace out,
Sexy Irish Leprechaun
The thing is, I’m not as excited about Prison Break as I maybe once was. For those who haven’t been following the escaped of Michael Schofield and Co., the first series was one of the freshest things to hit our TV screens in quite a while. It dispensed with many of our TV conventions and had a very linear plot with a very linear storyline and a defined ending. Schofield got himself arrested and sent to a Maximum Security Prison where, with the aid of a bunch of impressive tattoos, he aimed to break his brother Lincoln, who was on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, out. It sounds a little stupid (and to be honest, it was) but it seemed high concept: A defined end to a show in this day and age? Surely not!
Of course not! Season 2 began with Schofield, his brother and all the people they escaped with on the run from the law. Somehow Schofield had predicted his plan failing and he had a series of new tattoos to guide him to new destinations. Some men lived, some men died (in a nice touch, one guy and his family got away with it scot-free) but Schofield and his brother seemed set to get away with it for good.
No chance. Obviously this TV show was a big money spinner. There were even talks of a spin off set in a women’s prison but it never got off the ground. So, for season 3, they decided to go back to the shows original concept: Breaking out of prison. This time, it was a hard ass prison with no guards deep in Panama. Turns out, the guys who set Lincoln up wanted some guy broken out of this new prison and, because Schofield had broken out of prison once before, they figured he could do it again. In order to persuade Schofield to do this, they killed his girlfriend and dumped her head with Linc. Suitably pissed off, Schofield broke out and the season ended with him in the mood to kick some Company ass.
Season 4 started, however, with the guy they broke out getting shot in the head, the guys they left behind in the Panama prison just suddenly out and Sarah, the decapitated girlfriend, suddenly alive again. “Yeah, we didn’t really kill her” was the explanation we were supposed to just swallow.
At the end of season 3, some of Schofield’s friends had been captured and placed in Sona, the Panamanian prison. This could have led to some interesting developments; especially considering the fact that one of Schofield’s enemies was running the prison now. But no. During the off-season, the prison burnt to the ground in a riot and everyone escaped. Convenient much?
Also, for some inexplicable reason, Schofield got all his tattoos lasered off at the start of season 4, presumably so that Wentworth Miller didn’t have to sit in the make up chair for 3 hours a day getting them applied.
Frankly, I was disappointed with the start of season 4. I nearly turned it off at several points. If the lazy writing doesn’t stop, I’ll have to stop watching it. That will leave me with just 24, Lost, Ugly Betty and Heroes to watch.
And we can’t be having that.
Peace out,
Sexy Irish Leprechaun
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