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#1
Antrim / Re: Antrim Hurling
Today at 03:52:41 PM
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on Today at 03:41:05 PMI think the question being asked is "Have Rossa not already won the league?"

I can't see a postponed game from before the split being allowed to go ahead at this stage. Surely there is a cut off? Who knows?
And Rossa beat Dunloy in head to head score difference.

Or am I missing something else?

+ 5 to Rossa in the head to head even if they lose to Ballycastle.

There's no way Dunloy can complain about the missed game vrs Portaferry at this stage in the competition.
#2
Hurling Discussion / Re: Hurling 2025
Today at 03:30:36 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on Today at 11:59:06 AM
Quote from: Premier Emperor on Today at 10:36:17 AM
Quote from: EoinW on Today at 02:47:41 AMA friendly reminder: Tipp went winless in 2018.  They won the All Ireland the next year.  They went winless in 2024.  The next year...

Can't keep a good county down!
I like it.
We've already dumped Clare out on their home patch, sent Waterford packing too, didn't give Galway a sniff of it last day out. We're unbeaten since April.

Now we're facing a county with no All Ireland in 10 YEARS, who got here via a glorified Joe McDonagh provincial competition, still looking to a pensioner in TJ Reid, putting sellotape on Eoin Cody to get him back....and people are starting to think that maybe we have a chance  ;D

When was the last time Tipp got to Croke Park?

Probably their camogs.

#3
Antrim / Re: Antrim Hurling
Today at 03:29:25 PM
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on Today at 01:34:13 PMThe table read like this last week:
                        P  Diff  Pts
St John's        11  14  16

Rossa             10  31  14

Dunloy           10  49  14

Ballycastle      11  21  14



So, it was score difference between those on the same points.

Rossa bagged 2 one point victories since last wednesday and would be in the driving seat to take home an All county title.

Which still begs the question How Ta Fúck did we beat them up on the Shaws Road is beyond belief as we have been really poor ever since.

Ports deducted a point for not fielding against the Dall on Sunday. One of the Sands brothers got married the day before and the teams couldn't agree another time/date.

There used to be a £300 fine as well for not fielding, is that still a thing?
#4
Quote from: Lamps on Today at 09:20:23 AMTaking time keeping away from the ref would have seen Cork win the 2013 All Ireland. Brian Gavin kept playing until Clare equalised.  :o

And if the wee dog hadn't of shít, it would have burst...

#5
Quote from: blewuporstuffed on Today at 08:19:31 AMhttps://www.thejournal.ie/shane-flanagan-garda-6748544-Jun2025/?utm_source=twitter_short




Sick puppy of a man, but I presume nothing actually came off his depravity and the woman work colleague wasn't physically interfered with?

An unblemished police record, yeah, looks like it!!!
#6
Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread
June 30, 2025, 06:50:04 PM
Meanwhile across the Lagan, in the leafy suburbs known as Carryduff they had 7 teams at P4, all with 7 kids on each team and that was in hurling at the last Down primary school blitz.

I'd hate to see what they have at the football...
#7
Hurling Discussion / Re: Rule changes for hurling
June 30, 2025, 02:45:36 PM
5 seconds?
You could run 20 metres in that time and you wouldn't need to be Usain Bolt.
#8
Hurling Discussion / Re: Hurling 2025
June 30, 2025, 02:43:06 PM
No one with a bit of wit would be writing Tipp off, they are in with a serious chance of winning on Sunday, no doubt about that.

Looking back on the quarter final it was shocking the amount of space Jake Morris was afforded by Galway and they paid dearly for it.

For me he's their main attacking threat and Kilkenny will know that.

Whilst Kilkenny didn't have to do anything special to saunter through the Leinster championship they will know Tipp are made of sterner stuff and won't be genuflecting merely at the sight of a black and amber jersey.

I still think the winning of this game is how the Tipp backs deal with the Kilkenny forwards and if Kilkenny have the full compliment of Cody, Keoghan, Mullin and John Donnelly in there I can't see the Tipp defence holding them out.
#9
Hurling Discussion / Re: Rule changes for hurling
June 30, 2025, 02:31:00 PM
Spare arm tackling, steps and throwing the ball all need addressing.

I'd propose that all three issues are linked in some way.

The old ability to dispossess a player with the ball isn't coached anymore as it is negated by overcarrying so defending with the spare arm is deployed.  The spare arm tackling leads to more bunching and rucks where throwing is most prevalent but not exclusively.

I'd relax the shoulder charge rule slightly, and also allow a lad to pull on the ball in the ruck.

That'd speed the game up even further   :D
#10
Antrim / Re: Antrim Hurling
June 25, 2025, 10:40:24 PM
Quote from: johnnycool on June 16, 2025, 03:58:58 PM
Quote from: saffman on June 16, 2025, 10:47:24 AMI belive ballygalget are already safe?

Only 1 up 1 down - no playoff is what I've heard?

In which case ballygalget on 6 cant believe caught by ballycran on 1

Ballycran need to beat both Portaferry and St Endas to stay up

St Endas need to win 1 game to stay up (or balycran failing to win both)

Thats how i see it?

There's three games left for everyone, so we most definitely can be caught.

Ballycran will need to win all theirs starting with Portaferry and with their last game ending in a bit of argy-bargy the Ports may want to be putting down a marker for later in the year.



Crans failed to beat Portaferry tonight so go down which is as well for us as we were pure dung against a much better St Endas team.

The last two rounds of games are meaningless but holy jesus if we continue to be as shit it'll be a dire championship later...
#11
Hurling Discussion / Re: Hurling 2025
June 24, 2025, 02:27:12 PM
Quote from: thejuice on June 23, 2025, 08:50:19 PMSleep in your car in the Obama plaza.

Honestly it's hard to see Dublin do that again but how many times have Cork slipped up over the last two decades. Could go either way.

Kilkenny will cut through Tipp I'd say.

Cork are inclined to slip up in finals rather than semi-finals.

#12
Quote from: giveherlong on June 24, 2025, 01:00:56 PMOne of the landowners Perspective:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1JcEPK152r/?mibextid=UalRPS

I think his point is actually that the bureaucracy is the issue and it doesn't seem he's against the road being built, just the time and money it's taken to get this far.
#13
Quote from: Deerstalker on June 24, 2025, 12:26:28 PM
Quote from: NAG1 on June 24, 2025, 12:01:59 PM
Quote from: johnnycool on June 24, 2025, 11:15:44 AM
Quote from: David McKeown on June 23, 2025, 10:42:41 PM
Quote from: trueblue1234 on June 23, 2025, 09:46:02 PMI would say that this Alternative A5 were through the application with a microscope looking for any avenues to challenge. That's why, I'd be concerned that should they satisfy the Climate controls issues. Would another case be lodged on a different issue. It's a delaying tactic to prevent this happening as long as possible. There should be a limit to the number of appeals that a group can lodge.

Very easy way to avoid that. Do it properly next time.

Exactly this and exactly this with the Casement debacle.

You get the impression with the Shinners and the SDLP they're so desperate to go back to their electorate with a "look what we've done" win that the fúck up the process each and every time.

Lets not kid ourselves, the biggest and best brains in Nationalism aren't exactly queuing up to go into politics.



To be fair to Shinners they would have very very little input into the process that is used and the operational elements of this which would be handled by DFI.

Think it says a lot more about the CS that a political party, though you point about the biggest brains probably applies to the CS as it does to political life.

Every department has a Minister obviously, where was the oversight ? That's quite literally the point of a Minister. 

You can't expect them to be over every jot and tittle.

 ;)
#14
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
June 24, 2025, 12:16:51 PM
A fair bit of negativity on here...

After kicking the 2 2 pointers at the start of the second half, a series of bad wides, some poor decisions to shot from poor angles and one slicing off the lads foot 20 metres out let Galway off the hook.

That was the losing of the game right there.

Other than that Down would have been well worth the win.
#15
Quote from: NAG1 on June 24, 2025, 12:01:59 PM
Quote from: johnnycool on June 24, 2025, 11:15:44 AM
Quote from: David McKeown on June 23, 2025, 10:42:41 PM
Quote from: trueblue1234 on June 23, 2025, 09:46:02 PMI would say that this Alternative A5 were through the application with a microscope looking for any avenues to challenge. That's why, I'd be concerned that should they satisfy the Climate controls issues. Would another case be lodged on a different issue. It's a delaying tactic to prevent this happening as long as possible. There should be a limit to the number of appeals that a group can lodge.

Very easy way to avoid that. Do it properly next time.

Exactly this and exactly this with the Casement debacle.

You get the impression with the Shinners and the SDLP they're so desperate to go back to their electorate with a "look what we've done" win that the fúck up the process each and every time.

Lets not kid ourselves, the biggest and best brains in Nationalism aren't exactly queuing up to go into politics.



To be fair to Shinners they would have very very little input into the process that is used and the operational elements of this which would be handled by DFI.

Think it says a lot more about the CS that a political party, though you point about the biggest brains probably applies to the CS as it does to political life.

When you watch that nut job interview Steko Nolan did the time of the RHI scandal with Jonathan Bell, where a high ranking very Civil Servant more or less believed everything Bell said as he was an evangelical christian like himself..
And the staggering levels of Civil Service incompetence was also very much highlighted during that debacle.

We should not be surprised one bit.