13/11/2012
Internaional friendly preview
Today, the team to play Greece was announced.
Their was not too much of a shock as only being a friendly, Trap is of course going to try out a few players. Non more so apparent than Shane Long who is being brought In (finally) by Trap mostly due to the constant pressure being put on him by the Irish management.
As it has been said,
"Shane Long (similar to McClean) is 25 years-old and playing at the peak of his powers. His pace, power, precision and hunger are just what is required to be successful at international level and yet he has been consistently misused – or usually totally ignored – by the Irish management. "
Tomorrow night I would assume that Seamus
Coleman of Everton, a former Sligo rovers player will assume to position of Right back and might have to be the main resistance to Giorgos Samaras the Celtic player who is very prone to drifting I'n and out of games.
I feel that if Sotiris Ninis gets the nod from Fernando Santos a respected Portuguese manager who has had a glittering c.v. Ninis is a player who can have a quick change of pace and a fierce long shot. If Coleman or Ward are not on top form gaps could be made and Ninis will not cease to attack those spaces to feed the ball to Samaras or to take a shot on the goal himself.
Taking recent results into account which Greece have a better recored I'n the past 6 games have shown they've put in good performances only losing to Germany 4-2 and beating reputable teams such as; Russia.
Comparing that to Ireland it is a large contrast, we all know how poor we have preformed I'n the Euros and against Germany, however we did play well against an un-professional team I'n Faroe Islands. And the wins we had apart from the latter have been v Oman. Nough said.
I hope that Trap will play a fresh and flowing type of play tomorrow night to attract the support of the fans who are becoming everyday more distant from Trap and his assistant manager Marco Tardelli.
Please enjoy the game and have a look at the players nentioned if you are watching it at home or In the stadium.
Score prediction. 3-1 Ireland.
@Edkennedygolf
@itstheretobehit
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Monday, 12 November 2012
Does the game justify the money?
Today, 12/11/12
We are in a harsh economic climate and goverments all across the world struggle day in day out for ways to save money and re-use it for bills that have a need for heavier funding, eg. Health care.
Does the game of golf, the game impossible to master, deserve to have millions of funds available for winning week in week out that could be spent in other places for different reasons.
The prize money at the top level of the golfing world is one of the key factors that are attracting thousands of people to take up the game in the hope they could one day take home the prize and live like a king.
However, as we all know most dreams that are made are never fufilled. Man after man crave the top flight but only a few get there, it is a game that is a persons entire salery and is one where you could be in with a million dollar check one week and you could be scrapping you pockets for petty change the next and that is the beauty of it. The lesser tours are coming up recently with respectible prize funds that can be enough to facilitate the saleries for countless men and women over a season.
Can this money, that pays for so many be justified and allowed to keep getting bigger and bigger? I don't know.
The prize funds on the Pga tour range from *$3,000,000 - *$9,500,000. one must ask how can companies who sponsor these tournaments each yea possibly justify paying out these huge sums of money to premote their company across the fan base of the golfing population.
Do they recieve huge gains in profit pre month when their tournament is held and finneshed.
Personnally I enjoy seeing the massive sums of money being won by a person who has worked day in day out for their entire lifes to compete and win at the level they desire.
However i cant see it going on for much longer as the companies supporting it will eventually cease to exist form of recless spending.
I hope in the nearby future we will look into this and form a conclusion to the purses available.
Lé Gra,
Edward Kennedy
@edkennedygolf
@itstheretobehit
We are in a harsh economic climate and goverments all across the world struggle day in day out for ways to save money and re-use it for bills that have a need for heavier funding, eg. Health care.
Does the game of golf, the game impossible to master, deserve to have millions of funds available for winning week in week out that could be spent in other places for different reasons.
The prize money at the top level of the golfing world is one of the key factors that are attracting thousands of people to take up the game in the hope they could one day take home the prize and live like a king.
However, as we all know most dreams that are made are never fufilled. Man after man crave the top flight but only a few get there, it is a game that is a persons entire salery and is one where you could be in with a million dollar check one week and you could be scrapping you pockets for petty change the next and that is the beauty of it. The lesser tours are coming up recently with respectible prize funds that can be enough to facilitate the saleries for countless men and women over a season.
Can this money, that pays for so many be justified and allowed to keep getting bigger and bigger? I don't know.
The prize funds on the Pga tour range from *$3,000,000 - *$9,500,000. one must ask how can companies who sponsor these tournaments each yea possibly justify paying out these huge sums of money to premote their company across the fan base of the golfing population.
Do they recieve huge gains in profit pre month when their tournament is held and finneshed.
Personnally I enjoy seeing the massive sums of money being won by a person who has worked day in day out for their entire lifes to compete and win at the level they desire.
However i cant see it going on for much longer as the companies supporting it will eventually cease to exist form of recless spending.
I hope in the nearby future we will look into this and form a conclusion to the purses available.
Lé Gra,
Edward Kennedy
@edkennedygolf
@itstheretobehit
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