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"Hurling referees have been advised to be mindful of players ducking into tackles in an attempt to win frees. Examples of recent league games were provided to officials of decisions going in favour of those who were simulating the fouls.

Across both codes, referees have been given the following checklist to factor in when considering to send off a player for a head-high tackle: if a contact is made to opponent's head, if the opponent has no opportunity to protect himself, if contact/impact is excessive or causes injury, if the elbow/forearm/shoulder is part of the contact, if the player making contact jumps or has been two feet off the ground, if the player making contact had a realistic alternative by way of challenging opponent and to the direction and distance covered by the player who makes contact."

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41375074.html

It's going like rugby that players must have a 'duty of care' to other players in the tackle.

That's a good thing in my opinion. Anything hit around the head is dangerous.

You'll be looking for mitigating circumstances etc etc as well now 

Everton blessed that there is 3 teams worse than them yet again. They will avoid relegation.

They need two more wins and with Forest up next at Goodison I'd suggest that needs to be one of them, but Forest are a better all round team so Everton may well be looking for the other three to keep fúcking up.

And Sean Dyche lucky that Everton have no money to sack him. 1 win in 15 games is atrocious form.

The boardroom is in limbo, so theres no one capable of sacking him due to the new ownership saga which is another mess in itself...

Anybody know why maroon is such a popular colour at club and county level?

Loads of them about but it's not really a popular colour generally.

Two counties with Maroon jerseys, Galway and Westmeath, far more red, red and white, let alone green jerseys out there.

Slow moving drones from far away

Seems symbolic

Allows Iran to show they are fighting back

Allows Israel plenty of time to shot them down

Lack of serious Israeli casualties means they probably won't escalate.

It's easy to work out for everyone, so how will that actually show to their own that they are fighting back?

Israel response will have quicker drones

Israel has to be neutralised.Warmongers have to be stopped.Netanyahu is a fascist.

I'd start with the US as head of the warmongers followed by Russia

Isreal is chicken feed

How many people has each country killed since October ?

The US or Russia?

The 3 of them.

The US can say they haven't killed anyone, but their proxy in Israel has killed thousands of civilians with US weapons, money and unwavering support.


Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Even Ozzy Osbourne knew this 50 years ago.

Also slightly pathetic that he sat and let the wrong man be sent off!

I assume hes in a paid role by Antrim GAA, represeting the team on a professional level. Imagine Andy throwing digs. Embarrassing. Pathetic

Got two with the one punch,   

https://twitter.com/i/status/1779627298146148461

the interprovincial football championships have been rendered meaningless for most counties either because of the round robin AI or the Tailteann Cup.

The GAA do what they do best and this halfway house is the outcome of trying to keep everyone happy.

The provinces still get to lift a bit of gate money, some counties still have little delusions of grandeur that they can "shock" some of the bigger counties on a given day and the really competitive counties can tick along until the serious stuff begins.

freak show in Belgium;



Enough said!

It's f**king depressing. Year after year Petrostate FC sweeping up all around them.

Teams with the most money buy the best players.

When has it ever been any different?

Not in my lifetime.

City have been spending above the budget cap and cooking the books to hide it. Their accounting and law department is bigger than the FA complete administrative organisation.
Would have been nice for another club to win PL but I'm hoping Liverpool can finish second for moral bragging rights if nothing else. On another subject I think Villa are doing a fantastic job this year and making the three above them look silly like Watkins is only one goal off PL top scorer.

The budget cap came in to stymy the likes of City, PSG and now Newcastle as the old guard looked to preserve their dominance, but there's always been rich clubs with more money than others.

If these lads were coming in like the Glazers and leveraging a huge debt on the club that they maybe couldn't service then that needs controlled, but new money not being leveraged onto the club should be fine.

As much as I think Everton have been harshly treated they were living beyond their means and the PL were right to say stop.

Forest allegedly say their new owner is able to pay off their overspends without blinking an eye, so maybe why not?

Ben White was on a yellow, couldn't jump into tackle.

jumping into a tackle is one thing, but to actually pull out entirely is another thing.

Zinchenko might be the worst left back Arsenal have had - give me Andre Santos any day.

Over at right back for the first goal leaving left back open for Bailey to tap in. Brutal

Spotted it in real time, Ben White pulls out of a tackle just before the first goal goes in and was rightly substituted just after that. Paul Merson also commented on it in the post match analysis.
You really can't afford to have lads in the team who're not prepared to throw everything at a game you need to win.

Poor performance from Arsenal with a trip to Munich yet to come.

It's f**king depressing. Year after year Petrostate FC sweeping up all around them.

Teams with the most money buy the best players.

When has it ever been any different?

Not in my lifetime.

[british isles?]

This has bugged  me for a while now , but saw it  again today  and I nearly blew a gasket.

Dates written  Month/Day/Year, like:

February 12th 2024

...instead of the correct way , Day/Month/Year , like:

12th February 2024

Apparently it's  only the Americans who write  it MDY , so why the feck am  I seeing it more and more  in Ireland?

Grrrrr!!!!!

I'm sure you know that American English is more authentic an closer to the original than the English used across the british isles?

Yeah , but surely  you mean  grammatically closer? The numbers/date thing  is a different issue

But that's another  statement that annoys me.  Should be British and Irish  isles, or just Britain & Ireland , or Ireland & Britain.

Work at lot of projects with Canadians, Mexicans and Yanks so we've agreed on the 12-Apr-24 format to avoid any confusion.

Simples

Latest podcast was a bit ott in terms of GAA exceptionalism, GAA has its share of fraud, spivs, spoofers, and wrong'uns - Joe's experience seems akin to Tom Cruise involvement in Scientology

And why so much hate for Micky Harte - referred to as 'that man' in the latest episode, a bit much

I used to find Brolly really interesting, he actually seems to be becoming slightly unhinged.

I can easily see him totally ostracised in the media world and an Ewan MacKenna type character in a few years

His podcasts are very good and popular albeit he is prone to tall tales. A far cry from Ewan McKenna.

Don't know an awful lot about McKenna or his background, but Brolly and him share a similar narcissistic trait, it's all about them and being the centre of attention even if that is offending people.

The Harte thing is Joe being Joe, saying something controversial so that he is "trending" on social media, there must be an adrenaline hit in it for people wired like Joe.

Just a few??

You just make sure Liatroim is in tip top condition for Sundays game(s).

I'll be over for a cup of tea and a bun, any maybe a few egg and onion sandwiches 

Kelleher had a mixed bag of a night to be fair, an absolute wonder save (with his face) to save a certain goal a few minutes before he was slow to get down to the first goal.

His distribution was also poor but I think credit has to be given to Atalanta, they'd worked out the Liverpool restart strategy, didn't allow the first set of passes to get into midfield and when it goes back to Kelleher he tries to lop in just beyond midfield into the spaces behind the press, but they were there for it and physically much stronger in that area.
Atalanta won midfield throughout the game.

Gakpo had one of his better evenings and it seems he's better suited at picking the ball up in deep areas and then driving forward with it, he's not a hold up type centre forward and neither is he a run off the shoulder lad.

Nunez's wastefulness in front of goal and Salah is just dire at the minute is the main reason Liverpool are in this position.

Can't help but think Kelleher getting extra protection on here as he's  Irish if Raya or Onana concede those goals they are getting pelters. The first goal which is a howler then has a massive impact on game.  Don't see how you can proportion more blame on Salah who came on at ht to a team that was clearly not at themselves.

I think I attributed blame for the first goal to Kelleher, the third I think is harsh to blame him on and I've also pointed out he'd a mixed bag, so hardly blind, gushing praise for the lad, Irish or not!

Salah was on for half the game and I can't recollect any real threat from him and he has been poor the two games going into this.