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Gough was fortunate that Galway won, If they hadn't won, he would've been melted on the spot by the extent of Joyce's ire post game. Considering the 2 shocking decisions when Galway were trying to claw back the 3 point deficit, the two soft frees they did get just balanced things out.
But that's not how a game should be reffed.
Overall I thought Galway were well worth the margin of victory.

Post match interview, Joyce was fulsome in his praise for referee Gough who had a great game (i.e. according to Pádraig)

Aside from the evident upping of the ante, this was the most organised I have seen Celtic play this season and it follows that most every player was comfortable and there were very good performances all around.

Would be happy enough with that draw from a Monaghan perspective, though Meath and Louth probably thinking the same thing.

We  could write off the first game v (probably) Kerry in Killarney, but good to have home ground v (hopefully) Louth and neutral v Meath. There's hope.
Whoever loses the Ulster final will probably wonder why they bothered trying to get there.

I think one time Thomas started by recognising that he had claimed the previous episode to be the most powerful but this one really is the most powerful (on the Niblock scale).

The podcast's greatest achievement was managing to persuade  Francie (Hatchet Man) Bellew to come on and it follows that Thomas' discipline was stretched to the rafters to restrain his compulsion to fill in the many seconds of dead air as we waited for Francie to finally answer  with a yes or no. 

The Tattooist of Auschwitz looks good. Out on Sky Atlantic on Thursday.
Off work for a week or 2 here and need a good series to watch. Rome any use? Only 2 seasons.

How about catching up on some badly needed DIY

Can the PPS back off with the prosecution (eg after 6 months) but reserve the right to take it up again in the future?

That last free, he didn't blow for the 'first' foul, blew for the obvious round the neck free, spoke to linesman, free then given for first free (which you can't do) and thankfully he missed

Three times in the game he over turned frees awarded to Armagh and let's not mention the on the ground he gave with the ball a foot in the air

But he also gave Armagh a few soft ones.

On balance I think Down did better out of his decisions. But the referee wasn't a determinant factor in the score line of this game, not even remotely close.

Definitely Armagh got a few soft ones and very fortunate I thought to get the foul on the left side in the 2nd half but that was one which Rian missed. I think Down lost because they shot themselves in the foot with poor decisions in the latter part of the game, such as the mark a bit to the left where the kicked hadn't a hope in hell of scoring a point.

Seen some tosser making a dick of himself outside the courtroom when Donaldson came out. Some people do anything to post online.

Major c**k up by the police to bring him out and no transport. Saw a photo of that man and he looks exactly like you expect him to. Bryson seems to think he's a republican.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1783121474527580403

I'm almost certain Ben Lowry says good to see you to him and seemed to know where he was from.

Could be a republican but highly unlikely.

The "good to see you" greeting was so low key as to mean the sewer rats I have to associate with in order to get a bit of info.

Baby Reindeer on Netflix is very good.

Unreal. He's a great actor considering he's a comedian. Must be therapeutic playing himself. I never was as uncomfortable watching something and as quiet when over.

Couldn't sit through it.

Me either. Took two goes to make it through the first episode.  Think I'll leave it at that.

How come?  I binge-watched it over the weekend (more or less) and found it fascinating, but never felt I had to turn it off. 
The actress playing Martha was fantastic as well. 

I'm 2 episodes in and am definitely interested in how it all fans out. For a while I wilted but the entrance out of nowhere of the lusciously intelligent Teri got me back on the right track.

How the hell is it a free out when 3 players are kneeing on you. Goldrick is a complete balloon

I'd go get your eyesight checked if I were you. The ref won it for you

He gave Cavan more time than they should have got at the end for them to try and get an equaliser.

He didn't even play enough time to cover the wasting at the last Morgan free lad...

From  when the free  was awarded to Morgan kicking  it  was roughly a minute. Ref played  about 45 seconds  over the 2 minutes , so  technically 15 seconds short.

But aren't players  allowed the 15 seconds to kick a free? So that evens it out

If the ref thought Morgan took too long then he would've cancelled the free, not added on 20 seconds at the end.

Joe hart had an interesting shoot out

I thought his save was brilliant, he got down fast at full stretch (that's a long stretch) to grab the hard hit penalty. However, the pundits commented upon the poorly struck penalty.

Rangers, the miserable shower, failed to get past Benfica therefore allowing Czechia to take the last spot .

According to Bert´s site, Scotland have already secured automatic CL group stage 2024/25  as the 9th strongest league.
The one problem with Scotland high in the rankings  is that they've 5 clubs in Europe, the total coefficient is divided by 5 and usually 2  of those clubs do nothing but lose every game., they water down the average coefficient score.

Mikel Arteta: Arsenal need 'support and love' after Champions League exit

I think it would be a great gesture if we all could rally around and each in their own way send love vibes to the severely wounded Arsenal team. Somehow take part of the burden away from Mikel's rescue process.

Calling trans women perverts in dresses does not help matters whatsoever

It's a blatant bigoted statement.