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#1
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#2
GAA Discussion / Re: Standard of Refs
August 06, 2023, 03:52:37 PM
The average supporter knows only about 70% of the rules, knows very few of the technical rules and makes up their own rules to suit their current narrative.
#3
GAA Discussion / Re: AIQF Armagh v Monaghan
July 05, 2023, 12:56:30 PM
Quote from: Derryman forever on July 05, 2023, 11:49:14 AM
I was at a munster final in 1974, and there was a fracas on the hill, and while iI didn't see it myself i was told at least one person  produced a knife.

The crowd scattered to the 4 winds but it was all over in a couple of minutes or less.
Ah lads.
#4
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo v Dubs 2 July
July 04, 2023, 05:13:53 PM
Quote from: From the Bunker on July 04, 2023, 12:55:34 AM
Quote from: restorepride on July 03, 2023, 11:50:01 PM
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on July 03, 2023, 11:46:52 PM
Yip, u been playing Tyrone / Derry in games to get to a final.
Derry would love to be playing Maigh Eo in semi-final!!

As Seafoid would say - Derry would be like Kryptonite to this Mayo team.
So the trailer was driving itself, now things are starting to make sense 😂😂
#5
GAA Discussion / Re: Mayo v Dubs 2 July
July 03, 2023, 07:36:27 PM
Quote from: From the Bunker on July 02, 2023, 09:51:10 PM
It's great that ''The Curse'' can no longer be used as a plausible excuse for results like today. Small mercies.
The bus driver might still be alive.
#6
GAA Discussion / Re: Rossie question
July 03, 2023, 01:32:52 PM
St. Conan's park was a great pitch to play in, a nice surface and not heavy, while the land behind flooded the pitch rarely flooded and was used all year round by both clubs and county. One match I can remember being switched because of flooding was away back in late autumn 1957 when all Ireland champions Louth were visiting for a national football league game, it was played in Kiltoom.
The last championship game played in Colman's was a Connacht semi final between ourselves and that great Galway 3 in a row team in June of 1968, Galway won with a late flurry of scores in a hard fought game.
The first championship game in the "Hyde" was a Connacht semi final v Sligo in June 1971 which Sligo won by a couple of points in a game I have long forgotten.
#7
GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire permutations
June 14, 2023, 07:26:50 PM
12 games next weekend and every post is about this system or that system, surely there will be plenty of time for that in 6 weeks time when it's clear how the current system has worked out and what needs changing etc.,
Some game posts would be brilliant.
#8
Quote from: blanketattack on May 30, 2023, 03:37:35 PM
Roscommon's 6 minute possession is surely the last straw before a rule change at next year's congress.
The most obvious answer is either a shot clock like in basketball or a limited number of possessions like in American Football/Rugby League. For shot clock, some time between 60 and 90 seconds, for possessions ~15.
I'm sure the GAA will come up with an alternative solution that they'll mess up such as a limited number of backward passes or disallow passes into your own half.
For possessions or shot clock, it would need to be tasked with someone else besides the ref to monitor. 2 umpires perhaps?
So the Rossie's get competitive in Croker and now ye want a shot clock😂  not much point taking a shot if your
80 mtrs from the opposition goal and imagine how long it would take for coaches to organise a system to keep the team in possession at bay until the clock runs down. No one was calling for a shot clock when the dubs were playing it over and back on the 45mtr line against Tyrone in the 2017 all Ireland semi or in the final that year against Mayo when they ran down the clock at the end of the game. Game management was the buzz word or was it brilliant game management. Those are just 2 instances of hundreds but when the Rossie's dared to do it then time for a rule change. Our super 8 game against the dubs a few years ago we scored 2-16 but conceded 4-24, we were a laughing stock after that game but now we're wrecking the beautiful game😎 tough s... lads,
We are Ros. 😎😎
#9
Quote from: Captain Scarlet on May 28, 2023, 06:30:41 PM
I've a bad feeling we might take on the Dubs again and get a hammering...that game will blow off a few cobwebs.
Don't see Kildare causing the Rossies too much bother either.
Why would you have that feeling, 10 games now against top teams and competitive in every one, a dubs team in decline, I think you might have damage from historical beatings when the dubs were in their pomp.
That dubs team for 5 years were imo the greatest team that ever played the game.
#10
Well here we go, a nice handy starter for Ros after our warm up games against Galway and the Rhubarbs.
General opinion from neutral people I have spoken to over the last week is that Ros will do well to get out of Croker with a single digit beating. We would hope it would be closer than that and we might give the dubs cage a good rattle. Time will tell.
#11
Gallagher took the Derry team meeting yesterday morning in Owenbeg, I have this from a very reliable source,
So much for stepping aside never mind stepping back. Says it all really.
#12
If this matter had been dealt with by psni or garda surely he would have stated that and if the allegations are not true he would have stated so.
In a family law or custody case the matter is dealt with in camera. There would have been statements taken by social workers and all these statements must remain confidential and cannot be used in a different forum, only the case that the statements were given for.
Mrs. Gallagher's Facebook post said she was breaking her silence and going public so it's pretty obvious reading her statement and Rory's statement that the reverent authorities were the people dealing with the family situation.
Seafoids posts on this whole matter are right on the money and imo this story has only started.
#13
GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire permutations
May 09, 2023, 07:54:29 PM
There were cameras at both those hurling games, could/should have been shown live, this is one PR battle that gaa/Rte will not win.
#14
GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire permutations
May 09, 2023, 10:26:20 AM
Rte say they can't show them all, every game in the women's World Cup will be shown live this summer.
Look at their press release last October 24th. Right at the business end of the hurling and football year.
#15
GAA Discussion / Re: Connacht final 2023
May 09, 2023, 09:14:53 AM
Quote from: seafoid on May 08, 2023, 07:10:19 PM
Quote from: Mano on May 08, 2023, 06:08:49 PM
The game went as expected. We were totally outclassed, Defensively we were clueless, some dreadful individual mistakes. Thankfully Galway had some mercy on us taking 3 fisted points instead if going for goal (Tierney didn't get the memo unfortunately) and taking off some of their better players.  Will the next 3 games be any better - unlikely
Galway are at least a class above the flourbags and the rossies.
A class above the Rossie's; Galway have knocked Mayo off their perch??? Your sounding like David Brady now.