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GAA Discussion / Re: What do you think of the new championship structure so far ?

« on: June 05, 2023, 09:12:12 AM »

I'd say they would be afraid to open croke pk for it as the attendances have been so poor for groups.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: June 05, 2023, 08:58:18 AM »

Would savage and doran not be worth blooding In the tailteann Cup?

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: June 04, 2023, 07:32:05 PM »

My recollection of the league game v longford was how much better thry took scores. Downs fwds would need to be a lot better than yesterday.

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General discussion / Re: Man Utd Thread:

« on: June 03, 2023, 06:50:33 PM »

My oul boy said Fergie gets 200k or so a week from Utd…that can’t be true is it? What was with the bucket hats?

Unfortunately it's true.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Tailteann Cup 2023 - Rules from GAA Master Fixtures List

« on: June 03, 2023, 06:23:15 PM »

Results in the 1pm games

Meath 1-11  Down 1-9
Tipp 0-17 Waterford 1-13

17 wides for Down, some brutal shooting today. Tight match, Meath finished stronger.

U12s would've done better. Downs forwards are dreadful .

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GAA Discussion / Re: What do you think of the new championship structure so far ?

« on: June 03, 2023, 06:22:12 PM »

Group stages are pointless. 3 out of 4 qualify. No wonder thr crowds are poor. Nowlan pk is empty for dub v kil. Gaa made some balls of it.
 

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General discussion / Re: Man Utd Thread:

« on: June 03, 2023, 05:30:52 PM »

Fergie was sitting beside his buddy glazer. Ferguson isas much to blame as they are for the fiasco that is utd.  His ego and supposed horse ownership

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: June 03, 2023, 05:23:49 PM »

 Down should've won that. The forwards were abysmal. Some of the shots were laughable. Absolutely dreadful. Meath were no better. Laverty has a massive job on his hands. Main one is to unearth forwards that know how to put the ball over the bar.
 

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General discussion / Re: Recommend me a mobile phone

« on: May 27, 2023, 07:14:29 AM »

Have a poke around in the Settings. There may be something in Mobile Data, or Network, settings

Sorted. I turned thr phone off overnight.  Must have reset something and it's now connected to data. I have restarted it turned it off and on before but with no time lag so all good now. Thanks

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General discussion / Re: Recommend me a mobile phone

« on: May 26, 2023, 11:26:35 PM »

Hi. The mobile data isn't working on my phone. Just changed sim to this yesterday. It's a Samsung S20 plus. I can make and receive calls and texts. But mobile data doesn't work. I've took out simple re added it. Turned on and off flight mode and also restarted. But nothing. Anyone experienced this before. Or know how to resolve.? Thanks

I'm on gomo network. My old phone was an a10. Very basic.

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General discussion / Re: Recommend me a mobile phone

« on: May 26, 2023, 11:25:26 PM »

Hi. The mobile data isn't working on my phone. Just changed sim to this yesterday. It's a Samsung S20 plus. I can make and receive calls and texts. But mobile data doesn't work. I've took out simple re added it. Turned on and off flight mode and also restarted. But nothing. Anyone experienced this before. Or know how to resolve.? Thanks

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GAA Discussion / Re: Go Games - Good or bad - discuss...

« on: May 24, 2023, 01:35:38 PM »

Our primary school tournaments are competitive, and we have a competitive league and a non-competitive league that run on the same day. We openly call it our competitive team and our development team. It works very well and every child that wants a game of football in P6 and 7 can go! There has to be some element of competition involved as children love competition from they're no age! They'll even race to the front of the dinner line if it means they win! A middle ground and common-sense approach is the best scenario. For underage games up to maybe u14 I would like a competitive half/quarter/third or whathever, of football and then a half where the score doesn’t count and everyone can get a go!

As someone said earlier, it’s the parents who are the problem 99% of the time! I have friends who turn into different people when it involves their own kids!! Usually becoming the people they once complained about themselves!

This. Parents should be f**king banned from Underage games. I have coached for a few years but as soon as my own kids are out of youth I am done with it and it is solely down to the parents. At U12.5 We had a policy that every player got at least a half. That did mean that better players got more game time as they usually stay on for the whole match. Looking back that might have been unfair as it meant the same players tended to get swapped out for each other  but we decided it would be too difficult to try to give the same game time for everyone and we wanted to avoid the situation where we had 4-5 weaker players coming on en masse near the end, significantly weakening the team and frustrating the rest of the players.

on one memorable evening before the game I had one parent complaining about the lack of game time her u12.5 son was getting   and threatening to take her son to a different club. I wouldnt have minded except she was going to take him to a larger club. To top it off, I went for a pint in the clubrooms afterwards with a couple of mates who have sons in the team and they were griping about us not playing our strongest team. They got a pretty colourful response on it.

I'm lucky and never had this experience with parents to be honest. But I have heard this plenty of times. Again I always made sure I everyone got equal game time. Heard plenty from the young fella about it though. So you can't win.

It's a fine line. Keeping all kids interested and giving them a love for the game. I'm with an U10s and we try to play all the kids. If we have more we maybe give them a kid for each half. Or I we are low we might put a younger sibling in the goal. Kids always want to know who wins but it's getting them active. The best will shine through. But the others get a sense of team and the club. Keeping them involved in gaa is the biggest result be it a fan or club member . I find soccer really tough on kids. My own lad couldn't even get into a club. Rugby I've no experience off.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: May 23, 2023, 09:43:28 PM »

Down game is on GAAGO 

Great. Thanks

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: May 23, 2023, 08:46:27 AM »

Yeah Laois v London is on after us, we didn't get quite as lucky as the last round.

Wont be many hanging around for that. I'm in Spain so won't get to Meath game. Hope its on gaago. Or I might catch it on LMFM. A home qf is a big carrot. Then the semi is in Croke pk

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: May 22, 2023, 10:37:44 PM »

Down v Meath fixed for Parnell park,  Saturday 3rd June at 1pm

Is it a double header with laois and London? Small ground  shite time overcharging will relate to a small crowd.