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I've said this on another thread, the money should go to founding/supporting clubs in areas with rapidly increasing population, Rathbourne, Adamstown, or the type of place where the schools are overflowing. The Dept of Education, councils etc haven't always provided for these legions of kids, but if the GAA does we'll have strong new GAA areas in a few years. Some attention might also be given to areas where the GAA has a low proportion of sporting activity in the area.

http://www.omp.ie/projects/urban_design/rathborne/
http://www.adamstown.ie/

When in Rome do as the Romans do......

One observation about Rome is that the market economy is broken, perhaps owing to Mafia or suchlike. if you go to a vendor near a major site you will pay ridiculous amounts for things, €6 for a can of coke or a €8 ice cream. Walk one block away and you get regular prices. This may be true to some extent in other cities, but in Paris or Madrid you pay 25% more outside the museum, in Rome you'll pay 300% more.

www.venere.it is a good site for Italian hotels.

TYP you're a bit hard on Westmeath there, but have the right idea using the gif of the table , the table feature on this board is tricky.

------------	P	W	D	L	F	A	Diff	Pts
Westmeath	2	2	0	0	4-21	2-18	9	4
Kildare	2	1	1	0	1-23	0-24	2	3
Louth	2	1	0	1	2-25	2-22	3	2
Armagh	2	1	0	1	1-19	0-23	-1	2
Laois	2	1	0	1	1-17	1-18	-1	2
Derry	2	1	0	1	1-21	3-17	-2	2
Down	2	0	1	1	1-27	3-25	-4	1
Galway	2	0	0	2	0-14	0-20	-6	0

f you hate smoking stay at home

W**king is also legal and more popular than smoking, but I don't see why it should be allowed in pubs. But then an NI fan, even a fake one, wouldn't be big into other people's rights.

This is a tough group, Donegal and Mayo still have every chance of being in the top 4, most likely with Tyrone and Kerry. The larger urban centres are due for the drop methinks.

Sure there will b televised hulring games from all over the county when the league starts ..

yes, but most of them will be during daylight. Still are the lights at Casement etc not good enough for hurling on TV.

Good joke, but we don't need it twice in a new thread.

Not sure if smoking makes you "look hard", it might suggest you were dense though!

Emigration is hardly new and people will want to travel the world, even if they might play win an AI medal by staying at home. As to meaningful competitions, the fact is that that the majority of clubs do not have anyone on county teams, most of the cancellations of games etc are for other reasons entirely. You can't just say that inter county players should simply play more games than everyone else. Some lateral thinking is needed to allow players of lesser standard get regular games in the good weather, even if these are street leagues etc.

the FAI, the lodger from hell.... it just isn't the same any more!

Kerry, Tyrone, Armagh have all had as many games on the hollow turf of croke as dublin in championship during this period.

Not only have they had more games, but they've played better than Dublin too.

As for letting O'Driscoll, Duff etc etc onto Croke i have no problem with this becuse it was voted for by the members of the GAA (not just Dublin). This may not be the case come the next vote, but for the meantime as a member of the GAA i support the decision taken by congress.

Exactly.

never kickt a ball was right, they do look different and there's no nets!

We're well capable of raising our game to beat one of them, but I'm not convinced we can reach the level needed to beat both.

The draw means that if Donegal do it they will deserve it. Probably they could squeeze through with one great game against Armagh/Tyrone and one flukey win.

Boylesports odds for NFL round 2

                              Home   Draw    Away
Kerry vs Cork                    2/5    8/1    12/5
Tyrone vs Fermanagh      2/9      9/1       4/1
Limerick vs Dublin          7/2    9/1    1/4
Donegal vs Mayo       EVS       7/1       21/20
         
Laois vs Galway       8/15   15/2        15/8
Armagh vs Louth     4/7    15/2      7/4
Down vs Kildare      6/5     13/2      10/11
Derry vs Westmeath    3/10    9/1    3/1
         
Offaly vs Carlow         1/8    10/1    6/1
Clare vs Leitrim          EVS    15/2    EVS
Monaghan vs Longford    4/9    15/2      9/4
London vs Roscommon    14/1    14/1    1/100
         
Antrim vs Meath    2/1    15/2    1/2
Cavan vs Wicklow    4/11    15/2    11/4
Wexford vs Tipperary    2/9    9/1    4/1
Sligo vs Waterford    1/6    9/1    5/1

some scope here for a punt, how about a div 2b treble on Waterford, Tipp and Wicklow?

Good crowd in Newbridge on a ground that will shortly be demolished, perhaps we could buy the stand and put it somewhere in Armagh. Kildare were full of beans and came at Armagh in waves, this often resulted in a free, which Doyle knocked over. Kildare had a couple of half chances for a goal, but McKinney was well positioned. Except for a period towards the end of the first half Armagh couldn't get the ball up to the Kildare 45, having little success with kickouts and not much idea what to do even if they did win the ball. Mackin and Swift swapped places for a while, without much effect and Paul Keenan came on for Dyas (I think). There were some sad give aways of the ball by Armagh and neither side will win awards for accuracy. Big Joe seemed a bit agitated about the whole thing.