“He is point blank refusing to comment on the GAA targeting Dublin at the expense of others and ruining a once brilliant Leinster championship. All-Ireland to follow.”
Since 2013, Joe Brolly and Colm Parkinson have been going back and forward on various platforms.
On Twitter, on The GAA Hour, on Twitter, on SportsJOE Live and on Twitter, the pair have been disagreeing, joking, slagging, sometimes – very rarely – agreeing and digging up old graves with each other and it’s produced more Michael Jackson popcorn GIFs than a Prince Andrew interview ever could.
Next Thursday night, 28 November, they come face to face for SportsJOE’s Great Debate. For one night only, the Derry and Laois men will look to settle it once and for all in front of a live audience and it won’t be broadcast online.
So get your tickets right here.
For the Wooly v Brolly bout, the debate on the menu is titled: Dublin have an unfair advantage.
Colm Parkinson will be arguing for that idea. Brolly will be arguing against that idea. And, if their Twitter spats are anything to go by, a whole shitload of other discussion points might pop up too.
But they have been back and forward about Dublin’s dominance and apparent advantages a lot.
Wooly thinks Brolly is blinded by his love of the pure game.
Corofin all ireland club champions. Dublin club didn't even get to Leinster final. Last year Dr Crokes won it against Slaughtneil.
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) September 7, 2018
Brolly thinks Dublin’s failures at ‘every other level’ disproves the argument.
The entire point of your fallacious argument is that money has made Dublin an unbeatable powerhouse. The reality is that save for an unusually excellent senior squad and management, they are failing at every other level. Over and out….
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) September 7, 2018
Of course, when you’re ribbing each other for seven years, you’re going to stray.
2013
Joe Brolly comes in with a Parnells barb, unprovoked.
It is unfair to suggest that @woolberto followed the money to Parnells. He & half the Laois panel were drawn there by deep spiritual ties.
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) May 5, 2013
2014
Wooly links to an interview with Joe Brolly, who seems to be referring to Derry’s professional set-up back in the early ’90s, despite giving out about professional set-ups more recently.
Brolly reacts with a ‘my team is better than your team’ comeback.
2015
Wooly enjoys the fact that Derry go ultra defensive.
Brolly tells him to fuck off.
@Woolberto fuck away off and get your own jokes
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) March 28, 2015
2016
Brolly making the case for traditional systems. Wooly brings it back to next Thursday’s discussion point.
https://twitter.com/Woolberto/status/752487180384305152
2017
An argument about professionalism in inter-county GAA takes a Scooby Doo turn.
2018
Who’s the best volunteer?
There’s a lot of stick lying around now to beat each other with.
https://twitter.com/Woolberto/status/1015983848407134208
Charity boxing match? Let’s leave it at the debate, lads.
https://twitter.com/Woolberto/status/1038027908093280256
Brolly starts flexing his work muscles…
If this continues I will get a restraining order against you
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) July 6, 2018
If this continues I will be forced to get a non molestion order
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) December 2, 2018
Common ground they can both agree on.
SKY control his twitter so it's not really Dick's fault
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) July 6, 2018
2019
Get yourself along to The Great Debate in Dublin.
