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Limerick v Cork (Limerick +6.5) Cork
Galway v Leitrim (Leitrim +8.5) Leitrim
Down v Tyrone (Down +2.5) Tyrone (Bonus)
Cavan v Armagh (Cavan +2.5) Armagh (Bonus)
Kerry v Clare (clare +16.5) Clare

[By the way i think DJs possible extension to his suspension is ridiculous.]

By the way i think DJs possible extension to his suspension is ridiculous.

C'mon! The one thing I was sure of watching the game was that he was gonna get another suspension.
Dunno what the original ban was for, but a blind man couldda seen he didnt obey it. They have to extend it or they'll look even more ridiculous.

I'm a neutral as regards the result of this tie, but I think this suspension is a disgrace. Coles arm was being impeded (not necessarily illegally) and he threw back his arm to shrug off the player. Theres four or five of these incidents in every game, sometimes the arm connects, sometimes not - in this case it connected with hartes face, so depending on interpretation ref could well give a yellow card for it, as he did, end of. Usually theres no penalty. There certainly shouldnt be a ban, it wasnt a deliberate attempt to elbow harte in the face.
And that 'by the letter of the law' stuff is rubbish - it doesn't and can't ever apply to gaelic football. FFS our tackle is a series of 'by the letter of the law' strikes to the opponents body!

Lisbellaw,

now heres an interesting one.

I know that lisbellaw hurling club is infact not in lisbellaw (correct me if im wrong) but i heard that the club is called lisbellaw so that it would piss off the unGAA town called Lisbellaw.

Only what i heard.

Dont know why its called Lisbellaw, its always confused me, and this seems the likeliest reason 
A lot of their hurlers would play football for maguiresbridge (which isn't much greener) as well as the other clubs mentioned. Dont think any of the hurlers would actually say they were from lisbellaw, ballyhaise man is spot on!

Ballinamallard hasnt got a GAA club, wouldnt be much call for one either...

[it took a while. Ended up with 2 points]

Played one game in my life. A west v east st. patrick's day match at university.

I really enjoyed it. I thought being a decent enough soccer/football player I'd pick it up no bother, but it took a while. Ended up with 2 points (and about 10 wides)

jaysus dont be too hard on yourself - a game isnt that long to pick it up 

Play intermediate club (sporadically this few yrs), played macrory (winners medal & runners up medal), co minor & u-21, no medals though.

Would be very surprised if there isnt a couple of AI medals on here, or provincial at least... 

Dont rugby school teams go on tours every few yrs, as in the US and places. What way are those funded - bound to cost more than 60k over the yr.

Remember that night well. The most random assembly of people ever. Everone just stood out in Agincourt as if something was going to happen!

Alex maskey thought he was back in the civil rights era and thought an inspiring speech was what needed to sort the crowd out. Big success that was

To be fair the stuff in the original story is completely exaggerated. But i'll add my belief that the sweeping generalisation that its all Tyrone and Armagh wans who have been dazzled by the bright lights and their mammy's aren't there to tell them off, so just go off the rails!

In saying that our house became the first house ever in the Holylands to be dragged up in front to the Vice chancellor. (case of bad timing, with QUB needing to do something after spotlight and we were first in line!)
Made BBC News online and everything!
(everything was in safe hands with the infamous VP of Club and societies representing us in that meeting

That was in f**king Cadogan Steet too! Hardly the epicentre of craic in the Holylands!

Was there too, but way I rem it was Maskey basically telling the students to fcuk off to bed, and everyone cheering him as though he'd said something great. Said VP should have put the students side across; doesnt he have some ridiculous tagline like 'the man they couldnt silence' for a column? Was quiet enough that night. Was in cadogan for a while too, but had mnanners when I was there. And aye, I reckon its all tyrone and armagh ones too.

Football isn't a static game, if it was it would die out. It evolves like everything else. Theres no such thing as 'puke football' or any other type, its all just football. Tactics are becoming more and more a part of the game, its not a good or bad thing, its just the way it is.
With regards formation, unless you've managed to land a county job, its the same as it always was. Try to find 6 defenders, put the more mobile ones on the wing, the biggest iin fb, and the best footballer in chb. Then get two mobile strong, accurate, good fielders and put them in mf. You prob wont find one of these players, so alternatively put the tallest lad in, and then the closest you have to a fit all-round player. Then get 6 forwards, put the smallest/greediest in corner forward, the best all-round footballer of these 6 in chf, and mobile players on the wing. Agsin, tal lad in ff. And sin e!
The changing tactics really only come into play at higher levels, like soccer even; I play a bit and have never played anything but 442 - its never even discussed.

Jim lands back on friday night airlocked, with a sheep under his arm. He climbs the stairs and throws open the bedroom door and stamps in, where his wife (raging) is waiting for him. Wobbling a bit, he announces 'This is the pig I have sex with when you're too tired!'.
The wife, never one to let anything pass; 'I think you'll find thats a sheep'.
Jim: 'I think you'll find, i was talking to the sheep...'

I guarantee Omagh CBS didnt spend money on expensive Bonding sessions to other countries the year they won the Hogan Cup.

TYP was on this thread,im sure he can confirm that.

Wasn't there a Football team that came north on a tour in preparation for Senior Colleges football- staying over for the weekend.  I think TYP reported that they played Omagh, I remember thinking that was the first time I'd heard of a football team going to those levels.

Schools football is big business....
Weekends away going for quite a while - we went to tuam to play a few schools round there.
Then when I got to third yr at college, one of my lecturers was John Kremer, the sports psych interviewed in the irish news there recently, and he was telling me he was at my old school a few times since to meet the macrory boys. This would have been 3/4 yrs ago, when it was really only the county teams starting to look into this level of preparation.

heard of albino condition before but dont think i have ever seen a human with it,every time hes in shot find my self staring at him,fc*k he would freak me out if i was in there.

Not surprised hes been arrested '...at least five times' - identity parades must be a bastard for him.
Best scenario I can think of is to tell the housemates that there are certain camera/mike free areas, this of course being a lie, it would be great to see them being the pricks they really are when they think they're not on tv.
That asian one is insane, theres no way shes gonna last the series; i predict suicide watch within two weeks

Westmeath
Down (Bonus)
Louth (Bonus)

For the half that isnt tongue in cheek  , I think thats an important part. It may have been v handy for the marketing company - if in doubt lash the name onto everything in sight, but perhaps the link between the GAA and the events that go on around the country, moreso the likes of the cul camps than the big games, isnt as obvious to those who arent into GAA, as it is to us. For some people, the only time they read about the GAA is when its on the front pages for a brawl, or some fcuk-up with suspensions, this should make them a bit more aware of ther other part...

Agree completely, theres a serious lack of accountability. The whole suspension process is a joke. It is ridiculous that it is time periods rather than games, so 2 players given different sentences in all likelihood receive the same punishment. And ok, the ref has to be protected, but there is a big difference between verbals and doing what McQuaid did, as said, no matter how 'bad' the verbals were. After watching that ref, I'd imagine he's well used to receiving abuse too, I thought he was v poor (though incidentally he was right in the decision against finlay, which is what I assume set him off)

Wasnt at the armagh fermanagh game, was only a caddy...but have heard enough about it since. Everyone in fermanagh who's ever had anything to do with the GAA knows the name Denis Holywood - its like the bogeyman. He took Queens freshers then when I was there, and turned out to be sound tho. Still....the bastard!