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Find it hard to warm to Duff, always complaining and begrudging. And never forgave him for comments about GAA being 'f***ing dinasaurs'. A lazy disrespectful comment. Was time soccer wanted Páirc Uí Chaoimh for Liam Miller tribute game.. which they got.
 Probably has no idea of what the GAA brings to communities while I've never seen local soccer clubs out selling tickets and helping themselves or putting on community events other than matches.
Loved him as a player for Ireland though.

Liam Miller played with Duff so the F***ing Dinosaurs comment was understandable (if possibly erratic) considering the emotion of the occasion and the dragging out of the saga the GAA did.

It all ended up well in the end with the GAA reading the room and coming out well in the circumstances.

The GAA have been slow to move with the times in many circumstances and this is not always a negative.
Sometimes it's no harm not to change for some fad or short term agenda.

I don't remember it like the GAA reading the room and changing their mind. They had their own procedures to go through to ratify the match and I think it was always going to be approved. Duff was being a right high and mighty p***k in the media about it instead of just letting the process play out. GAA has a lot of faults but getting their knuckles rapped from some tin pot organisation without a pot to piss in, and with their cap in hand no less, was all a bit much.

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Find it hard to warm to Duff, always complaining and begrudging. And never forgave him for comments about GAA being 'f***ing dinasaurs'. A lazy disrespectful comment. Was time soccer wanted Páirc Uí Chaoimh for Liam Miller tribute game.. which they got.
 Probably has no idea of what the GAA brings to communities while I've never seen local soccer clubs out selling tickets and helping themselves or putting on community events other than matches.
Loved him as a player for Ireland though.

Liam Miller played with Duff so the F***ing Dinosaurs comment was understandable (if possibly erratic) considering the emotion of the occasion and the dragging out of the saga the GAA did.

It all ended up well in the end with the GAA reading the room and coming out well in the circumstances.

The GAA have been slow to move with the times in many circumstances and this is not always a negative.
Sometimes it's no harm not to change for some fad or short term agenda.

I don't remember it like the GAA reading the room and changing their mind. They had their own procedures to go through to ratify the match and I think it was always going to be approved. Duff was being a right high and mighty p***k in the media about it instead of just letting the process play out. GAA has a lot of faults but getting their knuckles rapped from some tin pot organisation without a pot to piss in, and with their cap in hand no less, was all a bit much.

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100%. We don't need lectures from Duff or the FAI on how to run our organisation. For all the GAA's faults it was them came cap in hand again..
He needs to engage his brain before spouting off... this year he was at it again and had to apologise to the FAI for this:
Duff: "I would - how would I word it - raze Abbotstown to the ground because it's the most uninviting, unenthusiastic workplace, not in world football but in the world," he said of the FAI's headquarters.
"So I'd level it and I would probably sack 90% of the workforce."

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Yeah ye are probably right - don't remember a whole load of things about the situation.

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Drogheda Utd looking good..... the Derry City meltdown continues.....

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Atrocious, listless performance from Derry City. Only Drogheda's third cup win so great for them. They play Bray Wanderers in a relegation play-off next week. That's how bad Derry have become under Higgins' management...

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Derry could be looking for 2 managers shortly!!

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Atrocious, listless performance from Derry City. Only Drogheda's third cup win so great for them. They play Bray Wanderers in a relegation play-off next week. That's how bad Derry have become under Higgins' management...

Gutted for all the dad's and lads I know who travelled down, performance was really dire apparently. I'd know the Higgins family well, really decent people, but it's time for a change at the helm

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Atrocious, listless performance from Derry City. Only Drogheda's third cup win so great for them. They play Bray Wanderers in a relegation play-off next week. That's how bad Derry have become under Higgins' management...

Gutted for all the dad's and lads I know who travelled down, performance was really dire apparently. I'd know the Higgins family well, really decent people, but it's time for a change at the helm

Not long back from it. They were dead... not a shot on goal in the second half I don't think. Inexplicable from a team in a cup final. Seemed totally unmotivated and that comes down to management.

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Higgins gone. Had to go. League was a meltdown and cup final offered nothing. Derry need to get a Tyrone manager in! Rodney McAree!

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Tiarnan Lynch in at Derry. CV reads well from Larne but always felt it was more to do with the tools he had.

Obviously Derry have the backers to do similar but are they a bit harder to get around ffp in the Loi?