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#1
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
March 24, 2024, 08:37:57 PM
Quote from: sam03/05 on March 24, 2024, 07:57:58 PMPlaying a full strength Dublin team
With no
Hampsey
McKernan
Harte
Cormac Quinn
Meyler
Burns
Kilpatrick
Darragh Canavan
O'Donnell
Ciaran Daly ( one of our best players this season)
Is pretty much football death wish

Yeah Dublin at full strength apart from Cluxton, Fitzsimons, John Small, Gannon, McCarthy, Paddy Small, Costello, McCaffrey, Bulger and Mannion only got the last 20 minutes.

Apart from Morgan and a bit of credit for R Canavan for plugging away despite hitting a right few wides, no one came out of that looking well today. A few probably played their last bit of football for the year for Tyrone.
#2
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 05, 2024, 05:44:16 PM
Quote from: square_ball on March 05, 2024, 04:27:36 PM
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 05, 2024, 03:47:37 PMDon't forget  that on many occasions such as Antrim Club games or home national league games the stadium will run at a loss. I read some where that Croke Park needs to sell C. 60,000 tickets to break even.

Bit of a myth that one.

QuoteMany had been led to believe that the GAA required a crowd of 30,000 in Croke Park to financially break even on the day but this school of thought was rubbished by the association's stadium and commercial director Peter McKenna in Michael Moynihan's GAAconomics.

"That's an urban myth. It costs between €40,000 and €120,000 to open the stadium and we often open it at a loss. The break-even figure? For the smallest crowd, it would be €30,000 so 10,000 people paying €3 each, or €5,000 paying €6 each would do it."

You've mixed my reply up there with someone else can you edit there please?

You said you read it was 60000 tickets to break even at Croke Park. I replied with a quote outlining that that was incorrect. No mix up on my part there.
#3
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 05, 2024, 03:47:37 PMDon't forget  that on many occasions such as Antrim Club games or home national league games the stadium will run at a loss. I read some where that Croke Park needs to sell C. 60,000 tickets to break even.

Bit of a myth that one.

QuoteMany had been led to believe that the GAA required a crowd of 30,000 in Croke Park to financially break even on the day but this school of thought was rubbished by the association's stadium and commercial director Peter McKenna in Michael Moynihan's GAAconomics.

"That's an urban myth. It costs between €40,000 and €120,000 to open the stadium and we often open it at a loss. The break-even figure? For the smallest crowd, it would be €30,000 so 10,000 people paying €3 each, or €5,000 paying €6 each would do it."
#4
General discussion / Re: Premier League 2023-2024
March 05, 2024, 08:22:50 AM
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 04, 2024, 11:34:26 PM
Quote from: square_ball on March 04, 2024, 10:39:22 PMLiving the dream 4-0 down after 25 minutes - really? Yeah I think you're right that's an evening they'll tell the grandkids they were there. And probably tell them about the last home game - a 5-0 defeat by Brighton. Or maybe the home game before that - a 5-0 defeat by Villa.

As you say living the dream. . .


Weird take on it. Whats the point in trying to get promoted at all then?

I'm not saying there's no point I'm just saying being in the Premier League isn' t the be all and end all that Sky like to protray for football fans. Its not that controversial a take to be honest.

Similar sentiment shared here.

https://x.com/footballramble/status/1759922096954605954?s=46
#5
General discussion / Re: Premier League 2023-2024
March 04, 2024, 10:39:22 PM
Living the dream 4-0 down after 25 minutes - really? Yeah I think you're right that's an evening they'll tell the grandkids they were there. And probably tell them about the last home game - a 5-0 defeat by Brighton. Or maybe the home game before that - a 5-0 defeat by Villa.

As you say living the dream. . .

#6
General discussion / Re: Premier League 2023-2024
March 04, 2024, 10:29:04 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 04, 2024, 09:57:32 PM
Quote from: square_ball on March 04, 2024, 09:51:36 PM
Quote from: Aaron Boone on March 04, 2024, 09:07:37 PMThe likes of Kieran McKenna and Ipswich had better be careful what they wish for.

Joining the Premier League is a massive step up.

Can't be fun for Sheff Utd fans watching that week in week out. Despite what Sky say being in the Premier League isn't the be all and end all.

Should teams that win promotion not go up?

Where did I say that?
#7
General discussion / Re: Premier League 2023-2024
March 04, 2024, 09:51:36 PM
Quote from: Aaron Boone on March 04, 2024, 09:07:37 PMThe likes of Kieran McKenna and Ipswich had better be careful what they wish for.

Joining the Premier League is a massive step up.

Can't be fun for Sheff Utd fans watching that week in week out. Despite what Sky say being in the Premier League isn't the be all and end all.
#8
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
March 04, 2024, 02:52:08 PM
So will Beggan be back for the last few rounds of the league? From reading a few things this morning - the Irish lads aren't going to neccessarily find out their fate in the NFL in the next week or two.
#9
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
March 04, 2024, 09:01:17 AM
Quote from: Mikhailov on March 04, 2024, 08:40:15 AM
Quote from: NotedObserver on March 04, 2024, 02:44:16 AMAttacking play on the whole has a bit to go yet. It was good to see Oguz running at people today although it didn't always work out he's got the size and speed to cause problems. Conn can still take too much out of it at times

Thought Ben Cullen done well today but Niall Devlin had his hands full on paudie Clifford and couldn't really get near him

Felt sorry for Niall Devlin to be honest. That couldn't have been easy for him - how 3 members of management stood and watched a young lad get destroyed like that without switching him beggars belief.
It hopefully won't dent his confidence too much but it will surely affect any sub defenders who must be asking themselves questions along with the fact that we moved a forward back to replace Petie Harte when he got injured instead of a sub defender. 

Thats a fair point. I was surprised he was still on him after the HT break I was sure they would have made a switch. Niall Devlin has a lot of very good attributes but not sure man marking a player like Clifford is one of them. He seems a confident enough player so hopefully it won't affect him too much.

I think we will beat Monaghan in 2 weeks time. They'll not fear coming to Omagh but I think in a must win game we'll have too much for them.
#10
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
March 03, 2024, 01:32:21 PM
Quality of O'Neills jerseys being put to the test here.

Pathetic stuff all round from everyone.
#11
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
March 02, 2024, 08:30:59 PM
Quote from: Tubberman on March 02, 2024, 08:12:09 PM
Quote from: tyrone08 on March 02, 2024, 07:46:01 PMMickey continuing his excellent record against Dublin,Kerry and Mayo

What's his record against Mayo? Not that great from my memory.

I can think of 3 Mayo wins to 1 Tyrone win during Harte time.
#12
Injury crisis and they're still top. Going to be hard to stop. City be doing well to beat them next weekend at Anfield.
#13
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
March 01, 2024, 09:51:31 PM
McShane and Donnelly back on the bench for Sunday.
#14
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
February 29, 2024, 04:22:54 PM
McKernan is a huge loss for Kerry. For me, him and Morgan have been our best players so far this year. Big test for the team - we usually pull something out of the bag when least expected and the form Canavan is in and what McCurry showed from the bench then maybe we have a bit of a chance. Optimistic maybe.
#15
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
February 28, 2024, 08:54:47 AM
Quote from: An Watcher on February 27, 2024, 07:09:13 PMHow do we know mcglennan isn't up to it if he hasn't had a go

I just said he didn't look ready yet in the albeit limited appearances I have seen so far. He may well turn out to be a really good player for us its early days of course.