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anthonybernard
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s every rugby fan in ireland knows George Hook has a way with words.
>"You can add Thomond Park to Fatima, Knock and Lourdes. The lame will come
>here and walk, they'll be selling water here, because this defies logic."
>-George Hook after Munster beat Gloucester 33-6 in the European Cup.
>"This would be the greatest achievement ever" Rugby pundit George Hook
>tells Tom McGurk ahead of the Grand Slam decider between Ireland and
>England.
>"Why ? " McGurk replies.
>"Because when our lads defeated the English to win it in 1947 at
>Ravenhill the opposition had been at war for six years and were
>unprepared and undernourished. We, on the other hand had been in
>intensive training and were filled with rashers and sausages. It was a
>mismatch"
>"It's in Mrs Beeton's cookery book - recipe, chicken soup. First catch
>your chicken. This team has not caught their chicken since this
>championship started ; today that chicken has come home to roost. That's
>why they're in the manure they're in"
>On Leinster's defeat by French side Perpignon.
>last week when he was asked for his opinion of Brian O'Driscoll playing at
>inside centre 'For crying out loud, you're putting Shergar where you
>wouldn't put Royal
>Tan: over the fences at Aintree. Give him some space to play in.'
>Or his comment 'This lad puts his head where you wouldn't put a
>blacksmith's anvil' "what Popey knows about the Isle of Man is about the
>same as what the Isle of Man knows about Popey"
>"they're using statistics in the same way that a drunk uses a
>lamp-post...to prop himself up"
>not-rugby related but great all the same.
>"a journalist in politics is like a eunuch in a brothel..they see what's
>to be done, they know how to do it, but when the time comes they just
>can't do it"
>Re: Jason Robinson playing at 12 for England Versus Ireland 6th March 2004
>"Putting Robinson in the centre is like putting a ferrari in stephens
>green on a friday evening, with the Luas works going on!!!! ... There's
>just no space!"
>"the trouble with Brent Pope is, he thinks he's Brent Pope"
>'' Using Maggs as a battering ram up the middle is a lot like Popey's
>face. It's not pretty but it gets the job done.''
> after ireland were up by the tryline only to be pushed back half the
>pitch
>- "never since the battle of the Somme has so much effort been wasted in
>getting so few yards"
>"a ball that travels that far should have a stewardess on board"
>George Hook shares his experience of driving the new Ford Focus:
>"I have a large ass and a big back side and when they give you these sport
>seats, they're not meant for fellas with big back sides. It was tight when
>I sat into it
>"You can add Thomond Park to Fatima, Knock and Lourdes. The lame will come
>here and walk, they'll be selling water here, because this defies logic."
>-George Hook after Munster beat Gloucester 33-6 in the European Cup.
>"This would be the greatest achievement ever" Rugby pundit George Hook
>tells Tom McGurk ahead of the Grand Slam decider between Ireland and
>England.
>"Why ? " McGurk replies.
>"Because when our lads defeated the English to win it in 1947 at
>Ravenhill the opposition had been at war for six years and were
>unprepared and undernourished. We, on the other hand had been in
>intensive training and were filled with rashers and sausages. It was a
>mismatch"
>"It's in Mrs Beeton's cookery book - recipe, chicken soup. First catch
>your chicken. This team has not caught their chicken since this
>championship started ; today that chicken has come home to roost. That's
>why they're in the manure they're in"
>On Leinster's defeat by French side Perpignon.
>last week when he was asked for his opinion of Brian O'Driscoll playing at
>inside centre 'For crying out loud, you're putting Shergar where you
>wouldn't put Royal
>Tan: over the fences at Aintree. Give him some space to play in.'
>Or his comment 'This lad puts his head where you wouldn't put a
>blacksmith's anvil' "what Popey knows about the Isle of Man is about the
>same as what the Isle of Man knows about Popey"
>"they're using statistics in the same way that a drunk uses a
>lamp-post...to prop himself up"
>not-rugby related but great all the same.
>"a journalist in politics is like a eunuch in a brothel..they see what's
>to be done, they know how to do it, but when the time comes they just
>can't do it"
>Re: Jason Robinson playing at 12 for England Versus Ireland 6th March 2004
>"Putting Robinson in the centre is like putting a ferrari in stephens
>green on a friday evening, with the Luas works going on!!!! ... There's
>just no space!"
>"the trouble with Brent Pope is, he thinks he's Brent Pope"
>'' Using Maggs as a battering ram up the middle is a lot like Popey's
>face. It's not pretty but it gets the job done.''
> after ireland were up by the tryline only to be pushed back half the
>pitch
>- "never since the battle of the Somme has so much effort been wasted in
>getting so few yards"
>"a ball that travels that far should have a stewardess on board"
>George Hook shares his experience of driving the new Ford Focus:
>"I have a large ass and a big back side and when they give you these sport
>seats, they're not meant for fellas with big back sides. It was tight when
>I sat into it