LastKnightoftheproms wrote:I don't know for certain but I was told that he was called Gusher Neilly at school and it has stuck. Was a guy he was at school with told me and he may have been laying it on. Can't say it's ever kept me up at night wondering.
I heard it was from school days too LK, something to do with his fondness of letting go when he should have hit the hold button!
Or maybe it came from his time playing for Kings Scholars and if he got a cut he never stopped bleeding, but hey work away guys
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Russ wrote:I remember mentioning is penchant for school related banter - who went where on here about 4 weeks ago, and he seemed to pipe down about that.
Hope we haven't ruined the man
Can't see it Russ, would take more than a bunch of keyboard warriors to change that man. He must have forgotten his big book of rugby family trees he's had on the go since Jackie Kyle was a nipper
Anybody know if he ever practiced the art of the pugilist?
Russ wrote:I remember mentioning is penchant for school related banter - who went where on here about 4 weeks ago, and he seemed to pipe down about that.
Hope we haven't ruined the man
Can't see it Russ, would take more than a bunch of keyboard warriors to change that man. He must have forgotten his big book of rugby family trees he's had on the go since Jackie Kyle was a nipper
Anybody know if he ever practiced the art of the pugilist?
Was it Thornley or Farrelly who complained about the "abuse" he got on messageboards?
Gusher's the kind of man who would take it on the chin, then reference how Tommy Bowe's brother used to play for Royal School Armagh and Tommy used t go every Saturday morning, rain hail or shine
Russ wrote:I remember mentioning is penchant for school related banter - who went where on here about 4 weeks ago, and he seemed to pipe down about that.
Hope we haven't ruined the man
Can't see it Russ, would take more than a bunch of keyboard warriors to change that man. He must have forgotten his big book of rugby family trees he's had on the go since Jackie Kyle was a nipper
Anybody know if he ever practiced the art of the pugilist?
Was it Thornley or Farrelly who complained about the "abuse" he got on messageboards?
Gusher's the kind of man who would take it on the chin, then reference how Tommy Bowe's brother used to play for Royal School Armagh and Tommy used t go every Saturday morning, rain hail or shine
Indeed Gusher would!
Don't get me wrong, i'm sure they look if they hear on the grapevine they're being bitched about. I just think our Jim is made of sterner stuff than those southern shandy drinking journos and he'd take it on the chin. Thornley was on Sportstalk last night saying ROG had a great game and it was the rest of Munster that didn't show up last weekend. Still can't figure that one out.
Cornerfleg wrote:I heard a distant rumour that Big Hugh is in a bad way after getting a hail of abuse for his attempts at journalism ... sad that ... if true.
I remember reading some massive rant of his in the Indo about keyboard warriors.
