Quote from: maldini on April 30, 2024, 04:40:14 PMWhy do they do the draw for this before the provincial finals?It's a good question. Some teams might now be thinking a loss wouldn't be the end of the world, so it takes the edge off things.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: maldini on April 30, 2024, 04:40:14 PMWhy do they do the draw for this before the provincial finals?It's a good question. Some teams might now be thinking a loss wouldn't be the end of the world, so it takes the edge off things.
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on April 30, 2024, 06:01:30 PMAll teams in that group will expect to beat all teams in that group.Stating the obvious 😉
Quote from: Armagh18 on April 17, 2024, 10:56:17 PMSalary?Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on April 17, 2024, 10:54:30 PMGeezer and Pep have a lot in common!Quote from: armaghniac on April 17, 2024, 10:49:17 PMArmagh could take penalties better than Man City.
Be a few boys on that other thread won't acknowledge this as a Madrid win 😋😀
Quote from: armaghniac on April 17, 2024, 03:14:42 PMHe's willing to go on air and debate, and he can hold his own. Presidents from south of border don't fully understand the ins and outs of what happened in the six counties so it's a one chance in a decade period to see a President explain the GAA in the north from their lived experience. The Neanderthals won't listen, thousands probably thought he sounded fair, and many of us in the GAA will have our own personal gripes that we won't agree with him on about how we are run! At the end of the day he's as well qualified as anyone to represent us.Quote from: Armagh18 on April 17, 2024, 02:29:35 PMQuote from: armaghniac on April 17, 2024, 02:05:17 PMI haven't listened to this yet, but no GAA person should ever entertain any comparison with the OO. Compare with the IRFU, FAI, IFA, basketball etc by all means, but the OO is not a valid comparison.He's after saying the most popular place for work experience for St Pauls students is with the psni. All for trying to be inclusive Jarlath but come on ffs.
I suppose that it is more interesting that work experience in Camlough Car & Tractor Parts!
Quote from: statto on April 16, 2024, 11:18:34 AMDele Ali nailed it. If there was a minute left and they had to score it, they wouldn't have been fighting over the ball.Quote from: Captain Obvious on April 15, 2024, 09:31:19 PMLike children on a schoolyard.The whole Sterling fiasco makes this even worse after him getting the peno and missing.
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Quote from: thebigfullforward on April 08, 2024, 02:18:05 PMFor all the good it did them.Quote from: From the Bunker on April 06, 2024, 09:42:38 AMOne County (Dublin) get to play all their important Championship games at home. Does this happen in any other sport?England 2020 Euro campaign
Quote from: Blowitupref on April 06, 2024, 07:24:50 PMNot if you are a pensioner and never used a card. Turning away the people who probably raised the money to build the ground - I mean think about it.Quote from: Caitlin on April 06, 2024, 07:18:02 PMQuote from: Sportacus on April 06, 2024, 01:33:35 PMWholesome content.Card only at the gate is a positive step forward; unfortunately I know of clubs (and counties) where gate receipts were well short of what they should have been. While some people may not have cards , society in general requires their use more and more, so the GAA is merely reflecting that development.
The GAA was built on principles of volunteerism, humility, amateur status, desire to express our Irishness, community identity and so on.
Obviously it will evolve with the times and great things are still happening everyday such as the All Stars teams which are springing up in clubs across the country and are amazing.
But:
Threatening SuperMacs?
Journeymen coaches scouring the country for their next small club and fifty quid a night?
Card only at the gate?
Banning charity advertising?
Casement Park debacle?
Games behind paywalls?
That's just off the top of my head. Basically there's a lot of corporate thinking has crept into the organisation that's undermining the core principles and that is wrong in my book.
I've been to club and county matches in the last year and seen old folks turned away at the gate when they wanted to pay with cash. To highlight the daftness of it all, once you enter any GAA stadium one can use cash to buy a program or refreshments.
Quote from: marty34 on April 05, 2024, 11:38:24 PMCan only hope Jarlath will knock a few heads together and bring decision making back to the basics - look after your community and cherish the things that are unique about the GAA.Quote from: Sportacus on April 05, 2024, 11:32:10 PMQuote from: armaghniac on April 05, 2024, 11:21:59 PMQuote from: Tubberman on April 05, 2024, 11:16:19 PMQuote from: armaghniac on April 05, 2024, 11:08:36 PMQuote from: Tubberman on April 05, 2024, 10:50:39 PMWill he ask about the embarrassing legal threat to Supermacs over the April Fools joke?
They'll not apologise for clamping down on ambush marketing and rightly so.
They'd want to pick and choose their battles.
Corporate Croke Park against a homegrown company that is a big GAA sponsor isn't likely to win much popular support.
Who is "corporate Croke Park"? There is only one GAA and these people are charged with protecting the brand to raise revenue for all of us. Supermacs should be undermining the brand in this way and would likely be just as protective of anyone using their brand.
It was a bit of craic on April Fools Day from a company long associated with the GAA. Paddy Power is at it every day of the week. Trumped up nonsense from know alls in HQ who have lost the run of themselves. The same muppets who would ban charity advertising on jerseys and are driving the GAAGO paywall.
I think they 'banned' Tipperary from wearing the DQ Foundation jerseys last year iirc.
Bit of common sense would go down well at HQ.