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At the weekend there we seen fights in Clones ad fights on the Hill. What can we do to stop young ones congregating to matches full of Drink and drugs acting like soccer hooligans.

Maybe soccer fans are acting like gaelic hooligans?

Well done Louth!

Can we stop talking about getting rid of Provincials now?

Look at what this means to Louth..don't take this chance of silverware away!

The problem with the provincials isn't what they mean to those involved it's the disproportionate impact they have on the All Ireland. With the greatest amount of respect to Clare and Meath they aren't in the top 8 in the country and therefore don't deserve to be seeded second. For me they should be a standalone competition between the league and the all Ireland. Or the calendar should be reshuffled.

You have far easier routes for some counties to Sam than for others. It's inherently unfair.

They would never mean as much without the link to the all Ireland.

The seeding doesn't mean much in the current format anyway. Every team still has to get through the round Robin. (And 1st and 2nd seed are likely getting through these anyway)

They do mean a lot though.  First of all they allow teams in the All Ireland ahead of potentially better teams, then they skew the groups which provides easier routes for some counties.  That's the issue I have with the link between the provincials and the All Ireland.  Happy enough if you seeded the provincial champions and left the other 12 spots open draw I think that would go along way.

Kerry and Louth will likely make it to the knock out stages without playing a division 1 team.  Armagh will have played 5 if they make it that far 

Armagh have Derry relegated to Div 2 for next year are they really much different to having Monaghan or Roscommon in your group who are promoted to Div 1 for 2026?  As you said Meath aren't a top 8 team yet they earned a 2nd seed by taking out Dublin.  Taking that into account the Dubs shouldn't bring the same fear they once did for Armagh either.

The difference is Derry are the worst team in their group, Monaghan and Roscommon are in the top 2 of their groups.  So yes the groups are highly unbalanced because of the provincial championships

That's the luck of the draw and things balance themselves out with three teams in each group progressing to the knock out stages and if you happen to be in a weaker group you are more likely to face elimination in the 12 round tie.

On what basis is that accurate. Kerry and one of Clare, Louth, Monaghan and down will be in the last 8?  Yet Armagh could end up meeting Tyrone and Dublin could meet Mayo in the last 12.

The groups matter and the imbalance in them is for me a farce. It's not luck of the draw. It's a badly weighted system.

That all said it's always been a badly weighted system and the concept of the sport is badly weighted to begin with.

It's the luck of the draw.
Euro 2021 had a group with France, Germany, Portugal and Hungary. The same tournament also had one with Netherlands, Austria, Ukraine and North Macedonia.
It happens in sport.

Savage effort put in by both sets of players in that cauldron. You can't help but have huge respect.I don't think at any stage did I think Armagh are the team to win this though. Perfect day and no real 2 point threat. Maybe a returning Rian will help that later in the year.

Just a note on the "supporters" around me. The Donegal bucks with their repeated English soccer style chants about a former Armagh player and his ongoing legal case, similar style chants about another returned player and his alleged lifestyle choices, repeated shouts of "orange bastids", and "bring back the RUC" for some reason. The Armagh bucks in front of me barely looked in the direction of the pitch and instead it was just an opportunity for a social gathering and a chat with mates. Wasted tickets imo.

I had a crowd of Lurgan fans behind me on the hill. Good singing when Soupy came on but someone from the same group was throwing bottles of coke with the top off. I can pm you a photo of said group if you so desire. (Not sure which club they were from)

They won't be from any club, i can guarantee you that.

Soupy charged. Referee got it spot on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypfhAHbw24s

Embarrassing stuff from the nordies.

Donegal further North than Armagh!

Did rian bring his mate nuget back to the panel with him

Couldn't even spell his name right.

2/10.

And in early May the most childest pathetic post of 2025 is awarded to the above post.

Account made a month ago, and a quick scan through your posts shows the majority are snipey, negative remarks like this.

Why bother? What's going on in your real life that this is how you spend your free time?

[for a ref to act the ballbag]

And in your world it's ok for a ref to act the ballbag and potentially decide a match because players and management are normal humans with normal emotions who may get frustrated and vent out loud or kick a flag, abuse my hole away and wrap yourself in bubble wrap.

It's no wonder they can't get referees anymore when there's people like this.
To have to listen to abuse from ill informed idiots on the sideline/crowd who only have a vague grasp on the intricacies of rules and what is/isn't a card.

Couldn't pay me to do it.

Who's giving or advocating abuse - please post the quote many thanks in advance.

Edit - maybe don't change so many rules and give no one any games to get use to them, there are ex gaa pundits don't know wtf is going on half the time.

You are?? In the post above?

[2023 Vs Tyrone - He scored 0-5,]

Clifford scores at will against any opposition.

Woeful against Armagh last year, poor against Tyrone and Dublin the year before as well.

False narrative
2023 Vs Dublin - He scored 0-3, Set up Geaney's goal with a piece of magic, was involved in a few other scores and kicked a few wides.
2023 Vs Tyrone - He scored 0-5, involved in another couple of scores and another piece of magic for Sean O'Sheas goal.
2024 League - 0-5 vs Mayo, 0-8 v Tyrone, 0-6 v Roscommon,

1 point from play. It's easy to rack up scores when you're the designated free taker.

And in your world it's ok for a ref to act the ballbag and potentially decide a match because players and management are normal humans with normal emotions who may get frustrated and vent out loud or kick a flag, abuse my hole away and wrap yourself in bubble wrap.

It's no wonder they can't get referees anymore when there's people like this.
To have to listen to abuse from ill informed idiots on the sideline/crowd who only have a vague grasp on the intricacies of rules and what is/isn't a card.

Couldn't pay me to do it.

Is there anything the Camogie association can do though? It was voted down last year if I read right? And can't be debated again until 2027?
Where does this end?

Cathal McShane away from the panel

Antrim play league games at 7pm on Wednesday night's. 

Who gives a fiddlers about Antrim football its pure dirt, our Div 3B teams would win their div 1 league.

^ False. Arrogant Ciaran got well tested by Cargin in Ulster Club. Cargin would probably beat most teams in Tyrone. Considering they are a semi professional club & they train on Wednesdays at 3pm... Which has changed to Mondays due to league games now played on Wednesdays <- not false.

Didn't EC win by 8?

I see Sundays games are now 5pm and 6:30pm. Oh what a time to be a club player. Coalisland getting to travel to Owen Roes on a Sunday night and Killeeshil to Aghyaran.

The county board will be thinking the glory days are back with the Sunday evening games

I fail to see how the County Board don't change these games to a more suitable day e.g. Saturday. Sunday at 6:30 isn't ideal when both teams are so far apart. I seen the same last year with teams having to travel on a Friday evening, serious pressure to put on the ordinary club player to rush home from work then head to the opposite end of the County when a Saturday would be more practical.

Alot of ones work on a Saturday. Students etc.
From talking to ones Friday night games were the best option, so long as you aren't going to the far side of the county.

Lots of Liverpool fans on Twitter seem oblivious to the fact that the very mechanisms which allow them to swoop for other clubs' best players, means that sometimes this will happen to themselves.

Or perhaps they just do expect things to be different for them. I don't know why.

BREAKING: Football twitter is apparently full of idiots

More on this developing story as we get it.