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I said it last week after the first game that only a fool would write Madrid off yet we had posters saying it was definitely going to be a Man City v PSG final.
Anyone who knows anything about football could tell you writing off Madrid, 14 times winners, is a foolish thing to do.

You'd imagine that no one would be stupid enough to write Madrid off after the last time they beat City 2 years ago.

And yet there was...

Some result anyway.

Armagh could take penalties better than Man City.

Be a few boys on that other thread won't acknowledge this as a Madrid win 😋😀

Geezer and  Pep have a lot in common!

I said it last week after the first game that only a fool would write Madrid off yet we had posters saying it was definitely going to be a Man City v PSG final.
Anyone who knows anything about football could tell you writing off Madrid, 14 times winners, is a foolish thing to do.

You'd imagine that no one would be stupid enough to write Madrid off after the last time they beat City 2 years ago.

Bellingham trying to get Dias a black card there

Really in a match we didn't lose we shouldn't worry about a soccer penalty shoot out because of the GAA imposing it to free up Croke park for handy money, strange logic.

Look I can't stand them either, said it from the start. But at this stage it is what it is.

In fairness every time we were beat on penalties we should have had the game won so cant complain too much.

You might wanna back that up with evidence Tones or risk being called a fool 😉

I posted the link it was deleted by not me.

Link

Yeah I remember Joyce at the time saying it was no way to lose in fairness.

Just listened to Jarlath Burns on BBC. I like Jarlath and hope he has a great reign but some thoughts (hope he reads the GAA Board lol)

He was very coy about payments being made to managers. His son is on the Armagh panel.They are one of the most "professional" set ups around. McGeeney, Donaghy, Gilligan etc are on tens of thousands of pounds. The Armagh players virtually never play for their clubs and the club leagues in the county are terrible.

This is replicated up and down the country but surely Jarlath must know what's happening on his doorstep.

Because these people are getting paid so well they are placing so many demands on players to justify their existence. This is the problem in the GAA!!!!!


 

Just started listening. Surely he doesn't really believe that the Orange Order is in any way comparable to the GAA?

Also loved how he managed to say that the tournaments etc named after IRA men aren't actually GAA organised. A clued in interviewer would have asked him who Sam Maguire was! Or maybe he was ok because he was in the old IRA.

AOH is the same as the OO.

I hope Burns didn't compare the GAA with the OO.

BBC having this interview on unionist terms as usual. 

He was drawing a lot of parallels with it tbh. Trying to appease unionists.

He's in there to do a job, and the job isn't to f**k off Unionists, the BBC have their radio friendly soundbites, PUL types can react how they like, tomorrow it'll be ancient history as the business of managing the biggest sporting organisation in the country continues, and the business of winning unification proceeds elsewhere

Appeasing Unionists would be about number 10000 on my priority list for a GAA president to be doing tbh.

I 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!

He'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.

Yeah I do like him and think he'll be a super president. He speaks well and is properly passionate.

Without getting into the penalties argument. Still think if Derry were to beat us in normal/extra time it signifies a step back. If Derry have improved so much then why havent we? And if Donegal were to leapfrog us then thats a poor reflection for a team in really the first year of its rebuild.

Just listened to Jarlath Burns on BBC. I like Jarlath and hope he has a great reign but some thoughts (hope he reads the GAA Board lol)

He was very coy about payments being made to managers. His son is on the Armagh panel.They are one of the most "professional" set ups around. McGeeney, Donaghy, Gilligan etc are on tens of thousands of pounds. The Armagh players virtually never play for their clubs and the club leagues in the county are terrible.

This is replicated up and down the country but surely Jarlath must know what's happening on his doorstep.

Because these people are getting paid so well they are placing so many demands on players to justify their existence. This is the problem in the GAA!!!!!


 

Just started listening. Surely he doesn't really believe that the Orange Order is in any way comparable to the GAA?

Also loved how he managed to say that the tournaments etc named after IRA men aren't actually GAA organised. A clued in interviewer would have asked him who Sam Maguire was! Or maybe he was ok because he was in the old IRA.

I 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.

Just listened to Jarlath Burns on BBC. I like Jarlath and hope he has a great reign but some thoughts (hope he reads the GAA Board lol)

He was very coy about payments being made to managers. His son is on the Armagh panel.They are one of the most "professional" set ups around. McGeeney, Donaghy, Gilligan etc are on tens of thousands of pounds. The Armagh players virtually never play for their clubs and the club leagues in the county are terrible.

This is replicated up and down the country but surely Jarlath must know what's happening on his doorstep.

Because these people are getting paid so well they are placing so many demands on players to justify their existence. This is the problem in the GAA!!!!!


 

Just started listening. Surely he doesn't really believe that the Orange Order is in any way comparable to the GAA?

Also loved how he managed to say that the tournaments etc named after IRA men aren't actually GAA organised. A clued in interviewer would have asked him who Sam Maguire was! Or maybe he was ok because he was in the old IRA.

Armagh season imo hinges on some silverware and the only thing left open to them is an Ulster title, should they get beat by Down or lose an Ulster Final but achieve a step further than last few years in the All Ireland - will that be a success?

Would have to be seen as a step backwards wouldnt it?

If we lose to Down its a disaster. Looking at potential final opponents- we beat Cavan last year easily so you'd want to be doing the same, we drew with Derry so losing to them would be a backward step, Donegal were shit last year so questions would need asked if they managed to leapfrog us with a new manager. Wouldnt even want to contemplate losing to Tyrone!

I thought Barca's Gundogen was clipped in the penaalty box before PSG got a goal in the econd half?

The one he got booked after for for arguing? Never for me, he wad going nowhere and looked for it.