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#1
Ordered a Jersey off them in Oct and still not arrived. After trying to get a response off them - I only got them to talk to me by pretending to be a member of public interested in ordering.

Their response to me paying a premium price for postage is that they have no tracking as its just a Royal Mail standard mail - plus the global Pandemic.

Would be interested to hear if anyone had any dealings? Can you PM me please.

www.christmasjerseys.com
#2
Am Fortunate to be involved as a father of a player this year and being hosted by St Feichins of Co. Louth.

Really looking forward to experiencing it.

Any memories folks?
#3
Up for the Match saw the same old faces put out with the same old lines.

Cahill and his special guest for the audience- Yeah after 23 years of the show this is where the Cup is brought out -  we got it back in 1988.  I cringed watching Grainne Seioge waffle out the same line after line after line which she uses every year. When Fanning & Lyng walked on with the McCarthy cup you knew she was going to come out with a line about the 2 Boys looking fit and could be lining out tomorrow. Christ RTE give us something origional instead of the usual Kilkenny & Tipp songs followed by a panel of 3 people, followed by the GAA President, followed by Marty "Indiana Jones" Whelan embarrasing himself.

The Finals coverage was worst. What happened the All Ireland Minor Final and building the sense of a match on? RTE's coverage was no different then any other day at Croke Park, with the usual Vox Pops of supporters on Jones Road followed by clips of them walking to the sound of some token uplifting song of the day.

At this stage an RTE Guy will read this and say - God what else could be done - So here is just 5 simple ideas

1.   A Camera in the Tunnel facing the dressing Rooms showing the players & Managers enter, leave, slap a hurl against a wall, a word from a manager to a player at half time – whatever

2.   Bring Lyster and the Boys down out of their studio onto the pitch – Allow someone like Daly or Farrell be there to focus on key players/managers warming up and saying why they warm up such a way


3.   Buses Coming into a Stadium – Yeah we get this every year since the invention of a Bus bringing players into a stadium – How about being original and put someone on the Bus – If they cannot bring live pictures of the players on the bus - speak to them by phone saying what they did that morning – where they are on the bus, who looks nervous, whose sitting beside each other. Even at the end of a Match put the details of the Bus going back to the Hotel so Kids could go out and see the Players and Trophy on way back to Hotel

4.   Celebrations on Pitch – If Fans ain't going to get on – At least show what is happening on the pitch – get a Camera down there and interview the players on the pitch – winners & Losers

5.   Artane Boys Band – How about a Crazy idea of following a lad from the Band and setting a small camera up on his headgear to show the colours. (Can see a TV company now take that idea for a documentary)


#4
Diggers and groundwork started 2 weeks ago and I hear alot of the pitches (the Rugby, Cricket & Tennis Courts) will be closed for 2 years.

Trying to find info on what they are planning to put in - Anyone got a link to what is planned.
#5
Citigolf are giving away a free night in Citigolf for 5 NI Sports Clubs & 5 NI Businesses (up to 40 people)

All you have to do to win the night is play our Christmas game and be within the top 5 be it for Sports clubs or Businesses come 11.59pm on Christmas eve.

The Leaderboard for the Top 8 Sports & Companies is not real time and well only be updated as the comp goes on. The Full leaderboard is real time.

Link here - http://www.citigolfbelfast.com/christmasgame/

Good Luck folks - Spread the word about between your own Clubs and work if you could.

Barry @ Citigolf
Iarmhi Abu
#6
General discussion / FAO of a Mod
November 23, 2009, 01:22:50 PM
Could a Mod drop me a PM please....

Appreciated.

MH
#7
Big rumour going about on a few knowledgable betting forums that Sea the Starts may be one of the 10 Athletes up for the Phone vote on the night. This is a very strong credible rumour from what I gather from sources inside BBC.

As a result in last few mins Totesport have Sea the stars at 25-1

Interesting then for RTE's Sports personality of the year where O'Driscoll is 1/10 on or 1.11 on BF. Surely a Lay
#8
Here it is folks - The only way Professional GAA will take off in this country. Forget about the GPA - Its time to bring a professional business approach to it. I've done my maths. What do youse think?


Organisation Structure
A Gaelic Football Franchise with 12 franchises spread across Ireland & UK. The 12 separate franchises will be sold for £1 million and profits will be divided evenly between the GFF and the franchise owners


League Structure
12 Teams
1. Dublin Capitals (based in RDS)
2. Drumcondra Massives
3 Cork Rebels
4. Galway Tribes
5. Omagh Gaels
6. Midland Nomadics (Play 2 matches in Navan, Tullamore, Kildare, Portlaoise)
7. The Borders (Based around South Armagh/Dundalk/Newry)
8. Tralee Kingdom
9. London Patriots
10. Glasgow Irish
11. Birmingham Wolfhounds
12. North West Shamrocks (Based around Manchester/Liverpool)

1 Professional League
Home and Away - 22 games. (11 Home, 11 away)
To be played from April to September
One overall winner

Also a Cup Competition

Financials
I've calculated that for these 12 teams to operate they need a collective Financial budget of £71.5 million p/a

All Figures below are based on a yearly turnover

TV rights
Sky/Setanta - £15 million
Associate TV Partner – TV3 / UTV - £5 million

League Sponsor - £5 Million
Associate League sponsors *4 - £4 million
Cup Sponsor - £2 million

Shirt / Club sponsors - £1.2 per team (based on Ice Hockey with numerious Sponsors)

Gate Receipts - £30,250,000 (Calculated at an average of 5k a gate with average £25 a ticket across Corporate / Adult / Children)

Jersey sales / Club Shop - £5,000,000 (based on magic that figure – but if you have 12 franchises selling a jersey at £45 and associate items – I would need 8333 people for every club to spend £50 a year


Image Rights / Player Endorsements - £5,000,000 (The GFL franchise would own the players rights – so if Locusade wanted to endorse its product through a player they would need it to be managed by the GFL franchise)

Associate Money – Any money coming from the Cup competition and associate marketing at Team level may be retained by the franchise.



Overall Figure collected - £71,500,000
Which will give £6 million for the franchise to be operated on


Structure of Players within Franchise
30 players with an average wage bill of £80,000 a year – Total £2.4 million
I'd see a salary cap of £100k. No transfer fees. Maximum 3 year contract. If a player wants out – Let him walk. If a franchise wants to end a contract let them pay the player his full contract.

Management & Organisation wages £500,000

Transportation and management costs - £1m

Relationship with the GAA
None – Maybe a match in October with the professionals playing the Amateurs

If a Players is offered a Professional contract he has the choice of walking away from the Amatuer game and becoming a professional.
Its up to the GAA to decide what they want to do with the Player if he decides to go back to the Amateur code. I don't see a problem with this as the GAA have allowed the Professional footballers of the AFL return without question, while a similar situation arose in the 80's with Rugby league/Union and eventually the RFU allowed its players return to the Union code

Problems
Getting Suitable pitches
Patenting this idea before some edjit takes it off me
#9
General discussion / John O'Donoghue -& his expenses
October 06, 2009, 11:27:02 AM



Made me laugh. There is a facebook group which started this morning trying to get enough members joined to force him to resign.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=146748563594&ref=mf
#10
Was called in to the Essendon side for todays match against Adelaide.

Making a hell of start today in only his 6th ever apperance in AFL. Commentators cann't get enough of him so far.

Stream up on myp2p for anyone interested. Presently end of first period
#11
Someone put one on me near 10 years ago and I still cann't shift it.
#12
General discussion / What is the fastest ball sport?
August 24, 2009, 10:19:58 AM
This came up a few months back when someone said Hurling would be up there.

I saw this youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kp2J8gW1qw and a

golf ball was clocked at 204mph
Jai alai - 188 mph
Tennis - 153 mph
Baseball - 127 mph

Anyone got a figure for Hurling
#13
I was looking up some results on the G'iro D'Italia and I saw that an Irish team is coming second in Super Team Classification.

The Irish team is called - L.P.R. Brakes-Farnese Vini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia said it is based in Ireland and has 18 Italian Riders, 1 Slovenian and I from Ukraine.

One of their Riders - Danilo Di Luca, is leading on Overall Classification as well.

Some achievement as the G'iro is recognised as one of the hardest races on the tour

Anyone know anything about this team?
#15
General discussion / Brian Cowen - Fianna Failures
April 10, 2009, 02:48:07 PM
#16
As we all know it seems alot of our Gaa players are emigrating again. Sad times for us all.

But what is the feedback from places like London or the States about the state of GAA over there. I know Westmeath won the Gaa Championships in New york in the Early part of this decade but the club folded since like many other of the counties there

1. Are they finding it easy getting clubs
2. Any word of the Standard - Set-up
3. Have the Gaa looked at the what to do with all the new players arriving?

#17
Was surprised when I saw it go up and not surprised with the controversy.

What do others think?
#18
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmeath_GAA

All-Ireland Football Championships: 2001,2002,2003,2004.2007.2009 (6)


Even Kerry must be quaking at that record.
#19
I am having this argument on a betting forum and I would be interested in your opinions...

There seems to be a toss up between American Football or Rugby... Am I blind in thinking that a Lighter small Ball in American Football makes it easier, then the Rugby Ball. I wouldn't even have American Football in the Top 3, (Rugby, Gaelic, Hurling)
#20
An excellent piece of writing.....


QuoteMy father once broke his ankle in a West Cork caravan park, following an abortive attempt to show his kids how to perform the Johann Cruyff drag-back. He loved that great Dutch team and for Christmas one year, he gifted my older brother and I an orange football, a Johann Cruyff football. He swore to us that Wim Van Hanegem was one of our distant Dutch cousins, that Germans couldn't be trusted after the great injustice of 1974 (never mind the wars etc..), and that Shoot was better for our sporting education than Roy of the Rovers. He was that kind of Dad.

Every Saturday night s o long ago, he'd carefully lift us from our sleeping beds and place us sitting in front of the embers of the fire just in time for Match of the Day. A few judiciously-located lumps of coal later, the flames would re-ignite and the familiar theme tune, the soundtrack to so many of our childish dreams, kicked into gear. Then he'd slip into the kitchen, and make us sandwiches by cutting delicious slivers from the Sunday roast in the oven. No meat ever tasted quite as good as the contraband cuts consumed on those late-night vigils together. No televised football ever seemed so magical.

On Wednesday evenings in winter, he played darts with us in the small bedroom with the battered PYE radio tuned to the crackling signal of the Eur opean Cup soccer being broadcast on what he still quaintly called "the BBC Light Programme". Between trips to the oche, he'd20sit on the bottom bunk and regale us with a recurring tale of how his own promising arrows career had been stymied by an afternoon spent road bowling before a crucial fixture. Apparently, a few hours throwing the heavy iron ball along the winding back roads out by Cork airport wasn't conducive to a man retaining his crucial feel for lightweight tungsten.

In summer, he hurled with us on the hard, wet sand of every beach we ever visited, beseeching his kids in vain to try to hit off our weaker sides, and always refusing my blasphemous request to substitute a tennis ball for the sliotar. Although there was no evidence he'd ever meaningfully held a hurley himself, a lack of experience never diminished his enthusiasm for any game and didn't stop him serving as a hurling and football selector on several under-age county championship-winning teams with Bishopstown.

According to all available records, he'd never swung a golf club in anger either but, during the brief, annual spell around the British Open when we'd embrace that sport, he'd play putting games with us in the back garden for hours. Whether he played or whatever he played mattered not a jot because he evinced a love of every sport and evangelised about nearly all of them. Over the years, there was nothing funnier than his repeated and forlorn attempts to explain to my American wife the rules and the joys of English cricket, a pastime for which he'd developed a passion sometime after multi-channel television arrived in our house in the late 1980s.

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The comfort of that armchair from where he sat sentry on the sporting universe never diminished his capacity for joining in with his kids though. His participation in our every sporting misadventure was never measured by the clock because he always seemed to have time to give. He was never too busy to attempt to coach or, just in passing, to communicate an enduring love of all things Cork. Blessed with the native's traditional mixture of confidence, expectation and parochialism, his loyalty to the place so trumped everything that in the early nineties, he broke the habit of a lifetime and began rooting for Manchester United. He'd worked as a security guard with Denis Irwin's father Justin back when the peerless full back was still in the youth team at Leeds United, and had religiously tracked his progress through the years. He could hardly cheer against him.