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Don't usually rematch films anymore, but had a notion for a Lucky Number Slevin recently so watched it again. Still unreal.

Unreal show!

14 year old kills 2 teachers and 2 students in a school shooting in Georgia

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/apalachee-high-school-shooting-georgia-09-04-24/index.html

Apparently the kid and his father were interviewed by the Feds last year when he made online threats to shoot up the school. Supposedly they had no probable cause to arrest him, but notified the school of their concerns. The father told the FBI their guns were secure.

So even with advance notice there's not much they can do.

Freedom baby!

I wonder will Georgia go after the parents like that (I think) Michigan case last year? Those parents were convicted and went down for ten years.

Ive bee saying it for years

If your gun is used in a murder, and you didn't have it properly secured, you should bo looking at a minimum 10 year sentence......and probably 20

But where was the good guy with his gun that could have stopped this kid with an AR eh Whitey!

This was a perfect demonstration of why capitalism in it's truest form is a load of bollox and only serves to filter money upwards

How many concerts has the GAA run between the All Ireland final and the true all Ireland Final date? This gouging of music fans may be the most odious aspect of the split season.

Not up to the GAA to legislate how concert tickets are sold.

I would imagine there is a set fee for these concerts to the promoters and that's where the GAA's obligation ends.

It seems that the promoters were aware of this dynamic pricing of tickets in advance despite all their protestations about cancelling tickets available through 3rd party sites.

I see Valencia in La Liga are now using the model.

Any word of a streamed game this week? Saturday evenings two games surely seem intriguing enough to stream one.
County champions going back 7 years to top the group or the first knockout fixture of the year between 2 teams who would consider themselves in the top 4 must surely offer at least one option to show live.

And unfortunately both dead rubbers.

Who would take the risk of streaming it when one or more teams may decide to rest players.

Does the Belfast game not have a knock out element?

Misread thought you were referring to both top group games.

Yeah the Belfast one does have the knock-out element.

Any word of a streamed game this week? Saturday evenings two games surely seem intriguing enough to stream one.
County champions going back 7 years to top the group or the first knockout fixture of the year between 2 teams who would consider themselves in the top 4 must surely offer at least one option to show live.

And unfortunately both dead rubbers.

Who would take the risk of streaming it when one or more teams may decide to rest players.

Whats the story with him?

If he was any good surely he wouldn't be going on loan to Turkey? Although anyone would be an upgrade at the minute.

Huge buyout clause in his Napoli contract. Had been hoping for a Saudi deal

Sounds like the sort of huer United need to be avoiding then

I think his people over estimated his popularity as well and with the market going the way it has a player of that level unproven outside of Italy was always going to be a risk no matter what he has done there.

Thought he would have ended up at Arsenal all that being said.

Whats the story with him?

If he was any good surely he wouldn't be going on loan to Turkey? Although anyone would be an upgrade at the minute.

Huge buyout clause in his Napoli contract. Had been hoping for a Saudi deal

The Toney deal scuppered his move to Saudi, has a massive buy out clause as well.

Always thought Mosside up by Ballymoney just oozed shit hole....

Fixed that for you BC1

But to be fair anything between Ballymoney and the Causeway is staunchly shitholey.

[Mainoo]

A bit late to this but surely Ten Hag's days are numbered after that performance. Liverpool laughed at united, in some aspects it was even worse than the 7-0 hammering. Liverpool had a clear plan to put pressure on united's weak areas, centre backs and Mainoo and Casemiro and made hay.

I'm sure they will improve after the international break but we have had this cycle under him of car crash defeats followed by a recovery period. Cant continue surely.

Was Mainoo not thought of as the next big thing after a couple of games last year and being included in the England squad ?

He's a kid playing in a shit team. Hes the least of Uniteds worries and will have a good future

Also don't forget the English hype machine, he is a good player and probably exceptional for 19 years old. Is he world class? yet to be proven I would say.

But yeah playing with other players around him who are struggling for form definitely ain't going to help him.

In Derry get suspended playing a Senior match but you're free to play reserves, make it make sense

I would imagine Antrim is much the same. I recall somebody telling me you're suspended from that competition so if you get a 1 game suspension from Senior football league then you are free to play Reserve league or Senior championships for example if that match comes before your suspension can be up.

My understanding would be that you can't play reserve if you are graded.
I would imagine any inter county player would be on that grading list.

Surely McTominay should have been kept. Offers more than Casemiro as he can actually run. And probably on much less wages. (Not that McT is much good) but it's not like United are blessed with loads of midfielders.

I don't understand that transfer either. I believe he was only on 60K. Don't see what problem it solved losing him. Solid squad player, solid end product. 10 goals last season? Always gave 100%.

No world beater but maybe its to do with balancing books as others have said. Casemiro could probably still offer something in the right set up but at this stage its a shame to see a player of his quality looking woeful.

Yeah saw those replies after I typed that. Still don't fully get it. He still has to be replaced and it's not as if the new man in will be on less. And just for context, Casemiro going would free up 6 x SMcT contracts.
Top 4 earners at the club are the Brazilian, Rashford, Mount and Sancho. Obscene when you think about it.

Unfortunately I dont think it is as straight forward as that.

The is some sort of formula to be applied to academy players in terms of the transfer fees and salaries etc in PSR.

I dont think there is any United fans that wouldnt have wanted to keep McT and let Casemiro go instead, but don't think that was possible in the current market.

Surely McTominay should have been kept. Offers more than Casemiro as he can actually run. And probably on much less wages. (Not that McT is much good) but it's not like United are blessed with loads of midfielders.

This is the PSR legacy. Pure profit off academy players is more beneficial.

Yeah McT suffered for being 'homegrown' his transfer kept the books correct.

As for Casemiro, had they received any type of decent offer for him they would have taken it.
Even the Saudis wouldn't come close to matching his current salary so why would he move. Legacy of the previous regime unfortunately.

Let's hope Ugarte hits the ground running and can plug this gap.

Sure if MOR doesnt want the job the obvious choice would be Damian McErlain No?

Already been there and didn't set the world alight.

Damian is taking the u20s next year

Makes sense then, I take it there is a bit of succession planning there in place rather than the scramble that is going on currently.

Hard to believe that was a Utd Liverpool "derby" yesterday. Very low intensity fare, you could hear a pin drop in the crowd.
Liverpool played ok if a little profligate. Would have been interesting to see how they'd have reacted if Utd had actually nicked a goal and the crowd had woken up. But overall very very disappointing for the neutral.

Year 3 for project Ten Hag and team in transition still springs to mind. Maybe time to wake up and smell the coffee.

Don't think there is any naivety within the new structure of the club. I would imagine ETH knows that he has certain milestones to hit, he has been given his players in the signings so it is now down to him to deliver.

Notice that they didn't go buying players at 29/30, even is ETH goes at some point the next guy in has a younger squad to work with.

Poor result to the big rivals but hopefully the new signings will bed in and get a fit left back and see how things go then.

Is it just me or are the price of flights end of Sept start of Oct way up on previous years? Even on the popular routes with lots of flight options.