The Sunday Game

[AZOffaly]

Maybe. I thought it was later.

[5 Sams]

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/toms-s-nobody-goes-on-to-the-sunday-game-with-an-agenda-34753474.html

[BennyCake]

RTE HD but with Ger Canning, so non-HD on BBC it is. That's how annoying Canning is.

[trentoneill15]

Those BBC GAA commentators are the worst in the english speaking sporting commentary world

[BennyCake]

Those BBC GAA commentators are the worst in the english speaking sporting commentary world

Canning is worse.

[From the Bunker]

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/toms-s-nobody-goes-on-to-the-sunday-game-with-an-agenda-34753474.html

You have to have huge sympathy for Plámás, having to work so hard!


I might arrive in Donnybrook at 11am, but I'll still be there 12 hours later. And, if I have two main gripes, they'd have to be the food and the travel. The RTE canteen is a holocaust on good dietary habits, so I tend to bring my own lunch. But that's never enough and, at some point, I'll end up horsing into a plate of stuff I shouldn't.

And the late night drive back down south isn't a ball of laughs either, knowing I'm due in class first thing the following morning.

[Syferus]

In fairness he's a better writer than almost all of the trained ones.

[AQMP]

Brolly spot on for once.

[Zulu]

Is what he is saying true? It sounds unlikely to me that all of it is true.

[Milltown Row2]

Brolly spot on for once.

Lot of great stuff by Joe, club v county....

[Jinxy]

Which bit, that Colm's Meath team were ugly?
That's a downright lie.

[Milltown Row2]

Which bit, that Colm's Meath team were ugly?
That's a downright lie.

Club v country but that meath team was ugly

[joemamas]

Brolly spot on for once.

Lot of great stuff by Joe, club v county....

Totally agree wish they had continued discussion for an hour. It made have ultimately showed up county boards and provincials councils and the GPA for what they all are, self serving.
Reduce season by a month to six weeks would be a simple solution, yet two of counties that voted against reducing it by two weeks were Galway (who never can finish their club championships )and Cork who have shit county teams and f all supporters at football level.
I hope they return to this discussion again in the near future

[Minder]

What did Brolly say?

[Hound]

Brolly spot on for once.

Lot of great stuff by Joe, club v county....

Totally agree wish they had continued discussion for an hour. It made have ultimately showed up county boards and provincials councils and the GPA for what they all are, self serving.
Reduce season by a month to six weeks would be a simple solution, yet two of counties that voted against reducing it by two weeks were Galway (who never can finish their club championships )and Cork who have shit county teams and f all supporters at football level.
I hope they return to this discussion again in the near future

Joe as usual mixes a few good points with some absolute nonsense and some outright lies.
His personal attacks on McGeeney were way over the top. He goes on about the ethos of GAA and can't see the irony in his verbal assainasation of a fellow Gael.
Also blaming the GPA for lads not playing club football is ridiculous.

I know from a Dubs perspective, under Pillar our panel played almost no club league football. Gilroy announced on his appointment that he'd let players play club, yet he often played A v B games on days when there was a round of league fixtures on, so you had 35 lads missing league games. Gavin has brought in a much fairer structure, panel members are enouraged to play for their club although the first 15 probably still only play about 6 of the 15 league games. But all of that has absolutely nothing to do with the GPA and all to do with the power the county board (and thus the clubs who give the mandate to the county board) give the manager.