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Moortown won 0-9 to 0-6

I have said before that I would like to see Moortown stay up as that might be the kick up the Ar$e the Ardboe Board need to start actively developing the Young lads. Take Conan Campbell for example, the Ardboe Board wouldn't allow him adequate Insurance Cover after he was assaulted in Cookstown by his Uncle (feud between his Dad's Family and his Mum's Family). It's not like the Forbes or the Teagues don't have the Money.

[Eugene McConnell (who else)]

I'm not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, if it is apologies. It appears there was a bit of controversy in the Killyman Strabane game. Eugene McConnell (who else) awarding a stoppage time penalty to Strabane to allow them to win 2-9 to 0-14. Unsurprisingly the Killyman folk didn't agree with the decision that ultimately relegated them. Anyone at the match?

ie. The Spawn of Satan.

1. More consistent Refereeing.

2. Bookings for Playacting (as they do in Soccer).

3. A Rugby-Style Video Judge for debatable Goals (ie. Squareball).

4. A 'Third Choice' kit for Clubs so that Ulster Club Championship games involving two clubs with similar kits won't have to revert to County Colours.

5. A Universal Insurance Policy for Club Footballers. Let's face it, the GAA CAN afford it (especially since Chirsty Cooney is high up the echelons of VHI).

Snippet, Omagh are due to play an average Dromore team but his average Dromore team will have the steel to cut out Ronan O'Neill and Conan Grugan, something Coalisland didn't possess on Saturday. I do think Clonoe will win the championship hands down. Men like Shane O'Hagan will get better an McNulty is probably the best midfielder in the county. Brady and Burke could handle that Omagh forward line the same way Carrickmore did last year. Omagh Clonoe final and you can take that to the bank. Story is where to from here for Carmen and Ardboe? Frank McGuigan, John McConville are on their way out, along side Gavin Wylie and Ciaran Campbell. Frank had a great year and will probably bow out as a good footballer. Gavin Teague is quality and too is Matthew Brady. Shay McGuigan doesn't possess what Brian or Tommy had at their age so I predict an average division 1 team and mid table from here on in. Carmen should have beat Clonoe the 1st day only Caolan Daly retired injured. He is their main forward at present as Mark Donnellys Tyrone career probably destroyed his club year. Big Oz and Gaby McCallan will call it a day.Colm McGurk, Ciaran McAleer and Paul Daly have been street above the rest this year and if the retire I aslo except Carmen to be midtable as they don't have the men in the forward line. If Omagh win the championship I will eat my hat.

Beavis has been our best forward this Year, whilst Big John is only returning from a year-long injury.

Ginger Wylie is a good friend of mine, but it doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to tell you that his days are numbered. Gives the ball away as if he's an English Soccer Midfielder.

Ardboe's problem has always been that the number one priority in the Village is the Drink. Look at Horse, once Mickey Harte dropped him from Tyrone he gave up altogether (I personally blame him responsible for our Championship exit against Cookstown back in 2007).

We're gonna have to take at least 5 Years to rebuild.

Hi - lay of the Horse he's a Tone now! 

I always believed Ardboe's biggest problem was club unity - its been a split club for years! I'm looking from a distance so I apologise if that observation is wrong!

This is one of the main reasons that Football's demographic is Rural. The Town Clubs tend to favour the sons of the Professionals (Doctors, Chemists, Solicitors, etc) ahead of a more talented average Joe. That average Joe then switched his attention to Soccer. In the Rural areas, the Club is the Heartbeat of the area and is a unifying force. However, feudalism is creeping into the Rural areas as many Culchies ended up in a successful profession/trade and there is an 'In it for yourself' attitude prevalent.

WTF? 

I was in Ardara during the Summer and was talking to a guy originally from there who played Soccer in the US League in the Early 80's. He had issues with the GAA because he was overlooked for not coming from a well-off Family. The same was true with places such as Cookstown here.

McGuinness is aware that if he is elected, he cannot leave the country without permission from the government?

Which is why there will be a By-Election in Mid Ulster if he does become President.

Personally, I would like to stand as an Independent. But if Hugh McCloy stands again I'd give my support to him. True, Sinn Fein will walk it, but it might just result in the final nail of the SDLP's Coffin if they lose more votes to Independent 'Bread and Butter' Candidates.

NI needs a Shane Ross or a Ming Flanagan or a Richard Boyd-Barret to upset the Apple Cart at Stormont.

Snippet, Omagh are due to play an average Dromore team but his average Dromore team will have the steel to cut out Ronan O'Neill and Conan Grugan, something Coalisland didn't possess on Saturday. I do think Clonoe will win the championship hands down. Men like Shane O'Hagan will get better an McNulty is probably the best midfielder in the county. Brady and Burke could handle that Omagh forward line the same way Carrickmore did last year. Omagh Clonoe final and you can take that to the bank. Story is where to from here for Carmen and Ardboe? Frank McGuigan, John McConville are on their way out, along side Gavin Wylie and Ciaran Campbell. Frank had a great year and will probably bow out as a good footballer. Gavin Teague is quality and too is Matthew Brady. Shay McGuigan doesn't possess what Brian or Tommy had at their age so I predict an average division 1 team and mid table from here on in. Carmen should have beat Clonoe the 1st day only Caolan Daly retired injured. He is their main forward at present as Mark Donnellys Tyrone career probably destroyed his club year. Big Oz and Gaby McCallan will call it a day.Colm McGurk, Ciaran McAleer and Paul Daly have been street above the rest this year and if the retire I aslo except Carmen to be midtable as they don't have the men in the forward line. If Omagh win the championship I will eat my hat.

Beavis has been our best forward this Year, whilst Big John is only returning from a year-long injury.

Ginger Wylie is a good friend of mine, but it doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to tell you that his days are numbered. Gives the ball away as if he's an English Soccer Midfielder.

Ardboe's problem has always been that the number one priority in the Village is the Drink. Look at Horse, once Mickey Harte dropped him from Tyrone he gave up altogether (I personally blame him responsible for our Championship exit against Cookstown back in 2007).

We're gonna have to take at least 5 Years to rebuild.

Hi - lay of the Horse he's a Tone now! 

I always believed Ardboe's biggest problem was club unity - its been a split club for years! I'm looking from a distance so I apologise if that observation is wrong!

This is one of the main reasons that Football's demographic is Rural. The Town Clubs tend to favour the sons of the Professionals (Doctors, Chemists, Solicitors, etc) ahead of a more talented average Joe. That average Joe then switched his attention to Soccer. In the Rural areas, the Club is the Heartbeat of the area and is a unifying force. However, feudalism is creeping into the Rural areas as many Culchies ended up in a successful profession/trade and there is an 'In it for yourself' attitude prevalent.

[Proof that People; when left to their own devices; can work to better their Country without Government interference.]

Belgium (which is in Political Limbo) has experienced Economic Growth during that Period:

http://url.ie/d7lr

Proof that People; when left to their own devices; can work to better their Country without Government interference.

Err, you do realise that when people are talking about Belgium having "no government", it means that since elections took place last year, no main party leader has been about to form a viable coalition to be able to govern and appoint a cabinet which means that in the interim, a caretaker government run by ministers from the last government before the election is in charge of the day to day running of affairs of the the Belgian federal government? Public services run by them continue as normal, relevant taxes are still being collected, appropriate laws and regulations are still being applied, Belgian defence forces are still running etc. not to mention that the relevant regional and local governments still run with the mandates given to them by the electorate? The only difference with its caretaker government is that by convention they don't make any changes in standing governmental policy unless it's an emergency; ironically this has meant that Belgium hasn't gone on the same austerity drive that many other governments in other European countries have done despite the concern about the country in international financial markets. That's hardly approaching anywhere near a state of anarchy!

As a Ron Paul Fan, I believe the only role of Government is to protect us from Foreign Invasion. Policing the World has categorically failed due to the amount of Tax Payers' money spent on unnecessary wars.

No doubt Hello Magazine will salavate at the thought of him Marrying!

Belgium (which is in Political Limbo) has experienced Economic Growth during that Period:

http://url.ie/d7lr

Proof that People; when left to their own devices; can work to better their Country without Government interference.

Greatest ever Athlete in the Game.

A 16 Year stint at County Level for a player from a Club that only spent about 6 or 7 Seasons at Senior level in that County is probably also the greatest Fairy Tale come true in GAA History.

Snippet, Omagh are due to play an average Dromore team but his average Dromore team will have the steel to cut out Ronan O'Neill and Conan Grugan, something Coalisland didn't possess on Saturday. I do think Clonoe will win the championship hands down. Men like Shane O'Hagan will get better an McNulty is probably the best midfielder in the county. Brady and Burke could handle that Omagh forward line the same way Carrickmore did last year. Omagh Clonoe final and you can take that to the bank. Story is where to from here for Carmen and Ardboe? Frank McGuigan, John McConville are on their way out, along side Gavin Wylie and Ciaran Campbell. Frank had a great year and will probably bow out as a good footballer. Gavin Teague is quality and too is Matthew Brady. Shay McGuigan doesn't possess what Brian or Tommy had at their age so I predict an average division 1 team and mid table from here on in. Carmen should have beat Clonoe the 1st day only Caolan Daly retired injured. He is their main forward at present as Mark Donnellys Tyrone career probably destroyed his club year. Big Oz and Gaby McCallan will call it a day.Colm McGurk, Ciaran McAleer and Paul Daly have been street above the rest this year and if the retire I aslo except Carmen to be midtable as they don't have the men in the forward line. If Omagh win the championship I will eat my hat.

Beavis has been our best forward this Year, whilst Big John is only returning from a year-long injury.

Ginger Wylie is a good friend of mine, but it doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to tell you that his days are numbered. Gives the ball away as if he's an English Soccer Midfielder.

Ardboe's problem has always been that the number one priority in the Village is the Drink. Look at Horse, once Mickey Harte dropped him from Tyrone he gave up altogether (I personally blame him responsible for our Championship exit against Cookstown back in 2007).

We're gonna have to take at least 5 Years to rebuild.

RTE playing right into Marty's hands as he can use their 'Questioning' to maximum effect.

btw,

As much as I dislike Marty McGuinness, I hope he does become President of the Republic as it would mean a ByElection in Mid Ulster (before the Constituency is split with East Tyrone becoming part of Mid Tyrone and South Derry becoming part of Glenshane).

Again, our inability to avoid conceding a Goal let us down. Dromore are ruthless in attack. However, I don't think any Club that knocked Ardboe out of the Championship went on to win the O'Neill Cup that year (bar Dromore in the 2009 Final, obviously). Perhaps Omagh might shade the Semi, but they'll have to do it first time round as Dromore never lose a Replay.

Clonoe have done the hard part, but if they think the Semi against Derrylaughan is simply a matter of turning up then they might get turned over. Anything can happen in a Parish Derby. It's simply a case of who wants it more.

Isn't the Windsor Park arrangement a big obstacle to progress in northern soccer?  Surely if Linfield didn't have such a convenient source of revenue from internationals then the league would be a bit more balanced and there'd be more interest in it.

(Open to correction here, I'm not a dedicated follower of soccer no matter where it's played.)

Eamon (my old DebCen Mucker),

The whole 'Blues Brothers' (ie. Rangers, Linfield and Chelsea) melarchy was simply a 'Badge of Honour' for the idiots from Shankill, Sandy Row, etc. NI Soccer had to fight against it in order to appeal to a greater footballing audience.

There are actually NI Fans who attend Windsor Park who also support Celtic and attend Parkhead. Unfortunately their voices were ignored by the Rangers Morons who heckled Niel Lennon against Norway back in 2001 and the Celtic Morons who refuse to wish NI well simply because Steven Davis and Kyle Lafferty play for them.

As a Mid Ulster Culchie, I have a much greater affinity for Niall McGinn than I do for Darron Gibson or Aiden McGeady. Paddy McCourt also gets in the NI team, in spite of being overlooked at Celtic by Lennon. Having ONE Celtic player in the NI Squad (never mind two) was unthinkable even 5 Years ago. It's a measure of how far the 6 Counties has progressed in terms of attitudes.