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Our Bull-In-A-China-Shop is Causing Me Problems |
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Written by Knowledgeable Noel
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Sunday, 03 February 2008 |
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Dear Noel, There’s a lad in our club who just won’t stay away from training.He’s 46 now, and he couldn’t make the juniors the best day ever he stood. But he’s a fitness fanatic and strong as an ox.He runs marathons and triathlons and anything else he can get his hands on. The problem is he’s like a bull in a china shop at training. Last year, he milled our tidy corner-forward out of it in a hand-passing game the week before the first round of the championship. Left him with a broken jaw, a punctured lung, and three missing teeth. They were actually playing together in a two-man full-forward line in the hand-passing game at the time. I ran him that night, and a few nights since, but he hovers like a rejected wolf and sneaks back into the nine-a-sides, which will rapidly become six-a-sides if I don’t do something. Should I talk to his mother? His name is Francis. - Tommy, North Tipperary
Noel replies – Only if she’s making her place on the team and commands his respect. Otherwise, you better face up to it yourself. Tell Francis the county manager wants him to go in to county training ‘to put a bit of steel’ into the squad. Put a note in the paper congratulating him on his call-up to the squad. Maybe even make a presentation of a wallet of notes. Let the county manager sort it out then. He’s probably carrying half a dozen lads he barely knows anyway, and it could be a month before he cops on that your bull is running with his heifers. It will give you a bit of breathing space anyway. Tell me, purely out of curiosity, how did the tidy corner-forward play in the championship match after his mishap? Noel won’t see you stuck. Email him on
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Last Updated ( Monday, 14 April 2008 )
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