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Any ideas when the draws are for championship? usually be done by now I thought

Surely the guy in the back room team throwing pathetic digs at half time will be removed immediately from the set up, embarrassing stuff.

Yeah, anyone that's not involved on the team getting themselves involved with that type of carry on needs removed, embarrassing altogether.

So glad it never happens at club level...

fella threw a dig in the heat of the moment, it happens far more than it should, hopefully he apologised after to the other lad. Take the suspension and move on, if it was a player who threw a dig would we be saying he should never play for us again?

The black box thing is a load of shite. Driving too slow is hazardous as well. Limiting young ones to 1.2 litre would make more sense.

Good idea, Very hard to police though.

I see vans are limited to 50mph. 

Think it be handy enough to police, when getting insurance and your licence issue date is within the last 2 years when the insurer puts the vehicle reg in it gives you the vehicle details. if its engine size is over 1.2 then they cant offer a policy. honestly, the saying speed kills is so true, not saying it'll solve everything but it would certainly cut down on how severe some accidents are.

Is it just me or do a lot of young fellas in Ireland get involved in an unhealthy petrolhead culture? I remember ripping and tearing around the roads with my mates as soon as we could drive, and we had a whole language built around the act of unsafe driving. It's like the part of our brain that dealt with consequences hadn't developed yet. I look back in horror at some of the stuff we used to get up to in motors.

Every time I hear about roads deaths in the wee hours of the morning and "single vehicle collision" I feel like it could have been any of us back in the day.

"Thoughts and prayers" are all well and good, but I think we need to talk about the culture that surrounds driving, as well as the lack of enforcement of traffic laws at night time when the roads turn into racetracks.

Awful deaths.. putting a curfew on lads driving after a certain time? Or insurance incentives to reduce speed?

Should be a control box with speed restrictions..

I genuinely believe a good fix would be you cant drive anything over 1.2 until you have your test 1 or 2 years. one of the main problems is young lads(and girls) with a motor with a lot of power and cant handle it and push it on.

what about division 2 and 3?

Starts 23rd/24th

who are favourites for promotion/relegation

o'Dees will win Div 3 fairly handy I think

Div 2 Lisburn for the drop and Sarsfields should win it

RG is training a Down team by all accounts

Heard he was in the crowd with his kids at the Derry v Dublin game.

Don't see the issue, man should be allowed to get on with his life rather than every time he leaves the house it being reported

its all well and good being able to buy an electric car but if anything goes wrong with them its massive money. also the parts aren't as readily available. Anyone here had an Electric car involved in an accident? was talking to a fella who works in insurance and he said one of the reasons premiums are going up is that any accident involving an electric car is mega money. Def think bio diesel and then eventually some sort of Hydro will be the way we head

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68282329

"Its unfair we have to provide a plan to raise 113m ourselves in order for the British to write off the 550m we owe."

What is her background in finance?

What are any of their backgrounds in what they do? They will pay a consultancy firm an absolute fortune using taxpayers money to tell them what to do.
This is the way.

Thats my point, she hasn't really got a clue what she's talking about, no wonder people have such distain for politics here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68282329

"Its unfair we have to provide a plan to raise 113m ourselves in order for the British to write off the 550m we owe."

What is her background in finance?

[I'd be more keen to hear from the likes of the Louth Captain who was on last night]

Donal Óg gets ten monologues a year written into his contract? It's so painfully set up and the man does not give a flyin' f**k about Ulster Hurling.

He was on one about the split season and then when a Westmeath player said he loved it...there was nothing said. I'd be more keen to hear from the likes of the Louth Captain who was on last night.

But, hurling folk are more precious than rugby people. If you don't scream hurling is the best game ever then they have an issue. Maybe some people don't like it. Maybe kids, even the ones who start young simply do not enjoy it as much as other sports...that's just a thought mind.

he spoke really well last night, GAA really need to help the smaller hurling counties as he said not just pay them lip service

£18 seems a bit much for a National League game at Corrigan is it Croke Park set the prices for league games?

I see there is a motion (that should eventually get over the line) that in Championship, if a game goes into extra time,  if a team has a player sent off, the team won't be able to start the game with 15 in that period, yellow cards which were scrubbed will follow you into extra time also.

Think its a good thing

About time, the 2nd daftest rule in the book 'a new game'. Daftest being the advanced Mark.

agreed, sooner advance mark goes the better, brought in to try and make the game more entertaining (never was gonna happen) it has slowed the game down even more and taken a lot of inside flair out of it

Do you not need some link or is this because there are different rules in hurling?

I think he could be a big success for then.

Pretty sure so called 'weaker' counties are allowed sanctions, not too sure what the rules are for it. but remember reading bout it few years ago.

Was it agreed last night with the divisions or is it still not confirmed? will the 8 div 1b teams all be SFC or will they be able to play IFC if they choose?

And also, I would think most of the people griping about Kerry and the JFC have got things the wrong way around.

I'd suspect that 90% of county SFCs have a deep lining of deadweight teams that have no more chance of winning their county SFC, than they do of winning this year's Super Bowl.

Certainly that's the case in those I'm most familiar with: Down and Armagh.

In such cases, the clubs in question are at senior level by accident rather than design. They should really be playing IFC.

12 teams max per county in their IFC and SFC I suggest.

Your logic has no place around here..

Seriously though, good points. There's no way somebody can tell me there's 16 teams in any county capable of winning SFC.
So barring a county like Cork with enormous numbers of players and clubs it's hard to make an argument for more than 12 teams in SFC.

Also just to reiterate that virtually everybody in Kerry wants to adjust numbers to have 10-12 clubs in SFC. There's 16 in IFC which I don't agree with but anyway. Croke park are the ones blocking the realignment as they are just ignoring the fact that we aren't getting rid of divisional teams.

theres always gonna be no hopers. Say you that then the 23rd or 24th ranked club will have little or no chance of winning the IFC and so on. West Ham are never gonna win the premier league, Louth ain't winning an all ireland, Waterford arent going to win the tailteann cup.

Exactly, im pretty sure most counties have 2/3 teams that have a serious chance of winning their county championship every year it doesnt mean the rest of the clubs shouldn't bother playing. we get caught up in 'winning' championships. For some clubs competing in their championship is enough. it's all about being realistic. for some senior clubs getting to a county semi final will be seen as a great year for others getting out of a group will be a success. Im sure that would be a bigger success for mid table div 1 clubs rather than dropping down and winning a IFC against teams they superior to