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#31
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
September 08, 2023, 01:34:24 PM
Quote from: weareros on September 08, 2023, 01:16:55 PM
Whether you like rugby or not, that's a tasty opener coming up, and if we get out of our group we meet one of them.

I'm looking forward to watching it. But does the result really matter?
#32
Quote from: weareros on September 05, 2023, 07:05:39 PM
3rd place still gives a chance of a playoff depending on nations league rankings after top 2 in each group are known. That said: Greece have looked better than us so far.

Nations League playoff route looking highly unlikely given how other groups are panning out. Too many of the team ranked above Ireland are having a poor campaign.
#33
Quote from: delgany on September 05, 2023, 04:06:25 PM
Quote from: weareros on September 05, 2023, 03:15:22 PM
Lot of paranoid nonsense being posted that he can still switch to England until he wins 4th competitive cap. He's already capped 6 times for Ireland.

I think friendlies are not counted ! So he has 3 full International caps!

They are. He has 6. Couldn't change now even if he wanted to.
#34

Quote from: seafoid on September 01, 2023, 12:47:40 PM
Quote from: Rossfan on September 01, 2023, 11:55:28 AM
Well said Shark.
A player with a D1 Club in Ros would play a maximum of 18 games over 8 months from 1st March to end of October - 34 weekends.
11 League rounds, League Final, 3 Championship group games and 3 k.o. games up to Co Final.
A player with a D2/Inter Championship  team could have a minimum of 13 games over 27 weekends from 1/3 to we 2/3 Sept.
9 League rounds, 3 Championship group games and a play off game.

No one will be burnt out from Club games anyway.

How many games will Enda Smith play in total?

The same number as previously. We are done allowing concerns over the tiny minority dictate the schedules of the vast majority. And have you asked any county players what they think of the new split season? 100% of those I've spoken to prefer it now.
Counties like Tyrone can do as they please , but they can't be a template for everyone. For a start , they don't have to consider having to leave 50% of weekends for hurling.
#35
Quote from: seafoid on September 01, 2023, 11:40:52 AM
Quote from: Rossfan on September 01, 2023, 11:28:51 AM
You're entitled to your opinion but the majority of Counties favour a group system followed by the best teams playing a knocknout closing stages.
Gives every team a chance of priming/improving before the hell for leather starts. Then the knockout fetishists can have their pleasure.
Also means a team just up from Inter gets 3 Senior Championship games.
Club Leagues are grand for a bit of exercise but with County lads not involved and player availability issues they don't count for a lot in the greater scheme of things.

The obsession of playing as few games as possible always amazes/amuses me, usually we'll summed up in the phrase "running off" a competition.
If I was running a soccer club I'd be delighted of course.
Hope is thinking something is worth working for. Optimism is thinking things will work out.
If County Boards genuinely want group stages and leagues and knockout , lets see how they feel after 5 years of injuries and burnout.

Players want group stages. Have you chatted to many? County boards do as they are instructed by clubs. More games is always the preferred option. If they don't have them they'll be training in its place.
These changes were driven by players , for players. Players love the changes. Let it be lads.
#36
Why does it even matter? If the GAA cared about it enough, they could market direct to consumer. And they wouldn't be doing that via newspapers that nobody under 40 reads.
The all Ireland hurling final had practically no media build up as the teams involved wouldn't engage. That has nothing to do with the game being played in July instead of September.
#37
GAA Discussion / Re: Ladies football
August 13, 2023, 08:11:46 PM
I think he coached Clare early in Colm Collins' tenure
#38
Quote from: imtommygunn on August 02, 2023, 09:44:14 AM
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on August 02, 2023, 12:29:19 AM
Fitzgerald, never scored remotely near as much from play, granted he played half his career on poor to average kerry team.

He also would have played a lot further from goal a lot of the times too.

Watched a re-run of the '92 Munster Final a few years ago. He was playing wing forward, and spent most of his time a long way from goal. He wasn't even taking the frees initially. Took Jack O'Shea to miss a couple of handy ones before he got to take them.
#39
Quote from: bennydorano on August 01, 2023, 04:36:45 PM
Fitzsimmons is one of those players whom I've always thought isn't that super, a potential weaklink and could be easily exposed by the right man, when you look back now, it's never really happened and he's very very rarely had a poor game, solid as they come.

Clifford is obviously a huge talent but I've never understood the GOAT talk for such a young fella with the majority of his career ahead of him.

I have a friend who was an intercounty forward for 10 years. Says he is the best player he's ever been marked by. Make what you will of that.
#40
Quote from: marty34 on August 01, 2023, 09:11:02 AM
I mentioned a while back that one of the players was asked directly should VP get a new contract and the player was noncommital on the issue.

Maybe because it was a curve ball question for a journalist looking a story, especially as the player and VP were sitting beside each other.

Seems to say a lot.

A case of that ill-fated statement that the manager has lost the dressing room.

A real shitty question to ask a player really. Have never seen it in the mens game. Maybe because they know that male players are media trained at their clubs, and will bat away a question like that so easily.

Regarding the allegations from her time in the US. Maybe there is more to come out , but so far all I have heard is what one would expect from a professional sports manager.
#41
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on July 29, 2023, 03:57:38 PM
Sorry to be positive but it has the makings of a very good game. I've no love for either team but I'm looking forward to it.

I'm really looking forward to it too. But I'd have preferred Derry v Monaghan. But that's intercounty ; a few have won the vast majority.
#42
Quote from: weareros on July 29, 2023, 03:10:00 PM
You'd wonder if there's any joy in wining so many. I'd settle for one in my lifetime.

There absolutely is joy. But nothing beats the first. Diminishing marginal returns.  Although I'm not speaking from experience when it comes to all Irelands   ;D
#43
General discussion / Re: The Official Golf Thread
July 23, 2023, 01:55:26 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on July 22, 2023, 06:37:50 PM
Quote from: shark on July 22, 2023, 06:08:10 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on July 22, 2023, 05:47:04 PM
Quote from: Mikhail Prokhorov on July 22, 2023, 05:26:29 PM
ah lads, been saying for years mcilroy can't putt  ;D

he'll be top 10 at best tomorrow evening, despite what sky want

hopefully harman can get it done despite the haters, funny to see how desperate they are for him to lose

Who's hating Harman?

The local crowd is obviously against him, which is fair enough seeing as he's up against a local player.

The locals are cheering on Fleetwood but not hearing boos or jeers when Harman is about the course?

Think someone is full of shit and looking for stuff that's not actually happening



Brian Harman (-12 / solo leader) says some of the fans have been giving him a hard time at Hoylake — "You know, I'd be lying if I didn't hear some things that weren't super nice today towards me. I hear them, but at the same time, I don't try to let that influence the decision I'm about to make."

Asked what he heard, he said the comments were "unrepeatable."


#44
General discussion / Re: The Official Golf Thread
July 22, 2023, 06:08:10 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on July 22, 2023, 05:47:04 PM
Quote from: Mikhail Prokhorov on July 22, 2023, 05:26:29 PM
ah lads, been saying for years mcilroy can't putt  ;D

he'll be top 10 at best tomorrow evening, despite what sky want

hopefully harman can get it done despite the haters, funny to see how desperate they are for him to lose

Who's hating Harman?

The local crowd is obviously against him, which is fair enough seeing as he's up against a local player.
#45
GAA Discussion / Re: Standard of Refs
July 21, 2023, 11:26:23 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on July 21, 2023, 10:36:27 AM
Quote from: Eire90 on July 21, 2023, 10:04:01 AM
was just thinking is there many duel refs in gaa  meaning they ref football and hurling.

Not at intercounty level but plenty of intercounty ref's from dual counties ref both at club level. Barry Kelly has done All Ireland finals and ref'd county football finals

He's probably the best football ref in Westmeath. Certainly top 3.