The Irish showing love for their greatest athletes

[Iroh]

Olympic rugby isnt proper rugby. Its sevens which is a spin off game that nobody really cares about, kind of like arena football to American football.

Actual rugby is going to have several times the talent pool of most combat sports combined though.

Thanks! That's interesting info. Though "most combat sports" is kind of ambiguous, as it really depends on which combat sports you take. For example MT already has 60K+ pro athletes in Thailand alone.

 

[King Joffery]

Roy keane is far above mc gregor and dont know where u got that he pulled out from mental health shit from? that is something you just made up because you have no clue what your talking about and your not even from ireland.

No pretty sure he had a mental breakdown and had to sent home from a world cup. Thats mentally weak however you try to spin it.

 

[TP4iR]

Karma is a mother fucker

 

[The Bloody Nine]

No pretty sure he had a mental breakdown and had to sent home from a world cup. Thats mentally weak however you try to spin it.

No, he didn't. He correctly called out the ROI brass for their embarrassing preparation. Then told Mick to shove his world cup up his bollocks.

 

[lsa]

Karma is a mother fucker

But whos mother?

 

[Lemmy Caution]

Disrespectful to your nations greatest ever athlete. I dont know who any of those other people are tbh and neither does 99% of people outside Ireland.

r/Ireland. Whoosh.

 

[SlomiGa]

thats cold. even if conman is a parody of himself these days he still brought honor to his people by winning the fw and lw belt

Lol. Fuck belts.

 

[VinceArch]

 

[Lemmy Caution]

Half those sports are only played in ireland so dont really count. Rugby is only taken seriously by about 5 countries so that doesnt really count either. Golf is not a sport and Mcllroy isnt really irish anyway. So that only leaves a few soccer players and the 2 boxers. Ireland never won anything of note in soccer so not sure how you could argue they were better, Roy Keane was the original Biles pulling out when his country needed him due to mental health issues so he certainly isnt the greatest.

The 2 boxers on that list were very good but neither can claim to have dethroned a goat in their prime like Conor did, sure they beat Eubank and Pedroza but both were slightly on the decline when they beat them.

And it wouldn't be fair to say that about Aldo?

 

[King Joffery]

And it wouldn't be fair to say that about Aldo?

Aldo was 28/29 at the time so no, that was prime Aldo and he also won the belt again after that.

 

[Leinster Rugby]

Lol,

That's funny as fook!

 

[Rovert]