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who said i was a Man U fan? its not just United fans that hate the sight of you!

oh, and on another note-while watching LAST WEEKS Arsenal Liverpool game SlimShadys TV is lucky to still be in tact as I was very close to putting my boot through it.

tossers sang- Justice for the 96 for 6 minutes solid! f**k sake like.

Who do you support then?
Thats well uncalled for. Do you know why they saw for the first six minutes of a cup tie for? If you didn't want to watch it, turn the Tv to another station or turn the sound down but don't f**king be so disrespectful to the dead and peoples efforts to bring to account those who's actions contibuted to their death. You're right up their with Fearon.

What a bunch of idiots. No-one can say "we're the best fans in the world".

But I can say that its typical of Manc's, chavs or even worse "I don't support anyone" to jump in and start a "have a laugh at liverpool" thread.  I have searched and can't see "the Man united joke thread ala Southend United".

Slim - go do one.

Haven't won the league since the rule was changed....

Try not to be such an idiot, you'll never be a fearon. Run along now.

News just ijn that Ciaran McDonald has retired from Inter-County Footbal.......sad day

Does he not retire every Winter?

Had it as a coach and it is without doubt the most fustrating and annoying thing that can happen when you are trying to install discipline and respect into players in their formative years.

I have experienced it from two Refs, once from the same Ref on two occasions. One was a U-14 final and it was absolutely blatant. Senior members of the other club agreed afterwards.

It will never go away with the GAA because it is so localised and because clubs meet on so many levels. Unless a county board is strong enough or is enforced to ref the refs as such and are shown to be doing it, then it will never go away. A ref can be bad to both sides and to me, thats fair enough. Refs that are clearly bias to one side and it is clear to a party not involved (county board offical) should be held accountable, even if it is just a "you where very bad in that game, please explain your level of performance" letter, well at least they are made aware of it. But no eveidence will be available unless the match is recorded and this is rarely the case unless it is senior championship or an underage final.

I know one  Ref in the County well and he has requested not to ref our club as he is well known to the players and feels that he would be accused of bias if he was to ref any club matches. I think that this is sensible & honest by him.

Zenden out for 4/5 weeks. Midfield  will now consist of Stevie G and .

Options - Carra (played there in his formative years and last year for England), Agger or Guthrie (untried youngster).

Prob go for Carra with Hyypia and Agger CB, Riise LB and Garcia on left, Pennat on right. Not too many options though.

Might be time to give the youngsters a go. Portsmouth at home (who have their own injuries) would be as good a game as any to blood Guthrie. Should defo get a run against Gala in a dead rubber match. Also Anderson, Hamill, Peilter could get a run.

will be interesting to see the midfield saturday any thoughts?garcia,gerrard,zenden and riise,with warnock at left back?please not aurelio!?

No Warnock, he out for a few weeks. All options on the left injured bar Riise - Kewell, Aurelio, Gonzalez, Warnock. Looks like Garcia or Zenden but no-one else in the middle with Alonso and Sissoko injured. Unless he throws Anderson from the Youth team into the mix but this would be very unrafa like.

I have no idea, normally I would  but I was in the changing rooms at half time. The subs were just coming off when we went back out anyhow, never heard any chat of it afterwards-never heard much chat in fact 

The pitch was a fecking bog anyhow, total parcel of shite. Though I dont think we'd have won if we'd even played on Croker on Sunday!

The subs continued to warm up with ball but had to use the sideline (stand side of the white line).

Pitch did look bad and this is after it was closed over last winter/spring to get the drainage fixed.

Greenan is some idiot.

At the Clontibret/Cargin replay on Sunday the Cragin subs went out on the field at half time to warm up. After a few minutes, Greenan landed pitchside and shouted ordering the players off. As the arrived at the sideline he could be seen counting the number of subs on the pitch. Apparently this will result in a fine for cargin for each player on the field.

Is this correct? Slim?

No complaints from Cargin on Sunday, beaten by a better team on the day. Clontibret adapted to the horrid conditions much better than we did and moved the ball well at times. The scoreline flatters them a little as we dominated for parts of the game but failed to score.

They're a young and fit team who could cause Cross problems though I personally reckon Cross will be a wee bit too cute for them.

Would agree with that. They never missed in front of goal and got scores at the right times. Ye had a good ten minute spell at start of second half but couldn't get a score. They broke from their full back line and scored a goal as good as you'd see anywhere. Thing you got something on the shot but it made its way over the line. Game was over after that. They looked good and were actually missing 5 regulars. Don't think they'd have the strenght in depth to go any further.

We met twice in the Ulster championship.  In 1996 we played them in Clones and the build up was mad.  there were stories on men from Blaney going into pubs and laying massive bets on the counter and being matched.  The whole thing was spiced up by the fact that a lot of the players knew each other as we all socialised in Blaney at the weekends and there were a lot of relationships between people from the two areas eg Jim McConville is married to a Blaney woman who played  at the time for the faughs camogs/footballers. The craic was great and we all socialised after the game together.  The second game in 2000 was like that too but with bit more needle as we had beaten them easily in the first game.  They gave us the worst trimming we ever had at any level and it was a tough one to be involved in.

The second game was great day but we never took it any further. Lost to Errigal Ciaran in the semi. Blayney (note the spelling  ) waited for that day since 96 and played out of their skin. Thought we would win Ulster but it wasn't to be.

There was a great buzz alright in the build up. Taveys was the centre of the betting industry in the region for a few days. The first day in Clones was Prob must disappointing for Blayney as they took a while to get over it. We had a few injuries, Pip Duffy, Jason Hughes, but nothing prepared us for the display of Cross that day. The sleeping giant had arrived and as they say....the rest is history.

Round Three will be interesting. Could have been this weekend.

I was there, it was more of a handbag swinging session. The lads that got taken to hospital weren't hurt in the melee, one of them just went down with nobody near him and seemed in a bad way-rushed to hospital. The Clontibret manager ran onto the field and wrestled a Cargin player, he got a couple of digs for his troubles and ran back to the line.

The 9 minutes came from the injury to Niall Malone (I think), the paramedics had to be careful moving him as it was his back/neck he hurt. Hope he's ok.

Cheers Slim. Typical overhype of incidents from word of mouth and Hoganstand message board reporting.

Will prob get the details from the In-laws. All Clontibret folk. Will let ye know.

Anyone at the Cargin/Clontibret game?

Heard it got real nasty near the end and was held up for 9 minutes following a slapping match which saw the Cargin keeper get a red and two clontibret players taken to Hospital.

And not an Aussie in sight! Should be an interesting replay next week.

Club: Castleblayney Faughs

County: Monaghan

Best GAA memory: Winning Championships at club level. Winning Under-13 final as mentor in 2004.

Best County GAA memory: Watching Jason Hughes play for county after his battle with Cancer.

Nice new board.

Arsenal to get stuffed at weekend. (Wishful thinking, I'll take a boring 0-1 off crouchs knee)