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There are certain age groups where St Galls have enough on their own but alas....they enter amalgamations.

And I'm sorry for calling them out on it because it's a thing. Be it sanctions or amalgamations, the bigger picture is often blurred at many clubs.

Same thing again there with the keep-ball tactics before halftime. When you've Enda McGinley rattling on about control and game-management you know you've the wrong rules in place.

I know there was instances of keep-ball before and the hooter came in but it's now established practice across all levels to kill time.

You're like a man swimming in clear blue, beautiful waters, on a sunny day on an uncrowded beach, surrounded by friends and family, complaining that some other family - keeping their distance - happens to be there.

You're upset but you don't know why.

What the f**k are you on about?

That you'd find misery in anything

There is a hilarious irony or a glaring lack of self awareness here. And I'm not sure which it is.

The Irish rage against the machine, sans talent

Holding a mirror up to the BBC IDF et al is where it's at and very effectively achieved

You can just say you don't like them or rap / beat music in general. To say they have no talent is just plain ridiculous

Yep. I don't like their music, which is no surprise seeing as I've never liked anything remotely associated to their music. But a hell of a lot of people do.
It's like Austin Powers playing God in the Top 3 songs thread. "Not worthy of inclusion". Nobody dies ffs.

Tyrone are fcukin brain dead.

Tyrone continually give needless passes to players who have men hanging out of them.

For all that, looking at the league table - U16 Div 2 looks like a decent league to play in.

That's the way the senior should be too.

We need a body. End of.

We've thrown good money after bad for decades now to end up, by and large, with the same end result. We've bobbed up and down between 3 and 4 for a lifetime and it hasn't mattered a damn who has been over us.

Invest every single bean we have at the bottom and try to produce teams capable of doing better.

A Cookstown man was stabbed as he tried to stop Chicken being attacked.

I don't think the stabbing at the game a couple of years ago has anything to do with "internal club culture" in Fintona and this probably doesn't either.

You can put up all the signs around your field, provide all the coach/player/parent education you can, hand out hefty bans, involve the cops, scream it from the rooftops 24/7 and close pitches endlessly but as sure as night follows day we are going to have these isolated incidents of people losing their shit at football matches.

It's not one club. It's not one county. There is potential for this to happen everywhere.

By all means, the incidents need punished but I don't believe for a second that any punishment will be enough to deter the next fella who sees red.

I assumed when I read "landowner" that he is an objector. I don't know why.
Then I watched the video. He doesn't seem to be.

From the negative comments about him on here, others seem to have made the same assumption as me.

Is he an objector or just a farmer who is being fucked about by this mess?

I don't think anyone is under the illusion that teams aren't where they deserve to be.
There seems to be an assumption that these counties believe that they are better than what they are or they there is some snobbery at play. That's not correct. The truth is that Antrim haven't a mission of winning the TC let alone anything above it.
Regardless of all that, it's not a competition that I have much interest in. And I'm not obliged to. There are other things to be interested in and I get to pick.

It was highlighted from the very beginning that the GAA would struggle to get people interested in it, as we saw the same idea (Tommy Murphy Cup) end up in the bin after a few years. I don't know what they do to breathe a bit of life into this one but it's heading the same way IMO.

2024 TC winners Down. Reached last 12 Sam in 25.
2023 TC winners Meath. Leinster Finalists and at least AI Quarter finalists 2025.
2022 winners Westmeath.
Got 2 years in Sam, didnt set world alight but some v narrow defeats.
Lot of players retired for 2025 and they failed to make Sam.

2 of the 3 winners are back at it again next year probably.

You're reading a bit too much into it tbh.
People just don't seem bothered about going to watch the Tailteann Cup matches. There's really not that much more to it.

Down have a very good chance of winning it next year. I'd say they are hardly wetting themselves with anticipation over that prospect this morning though.

As I say, you're only interested in what you're interested in.

I'm not against your view.

However, the route to qualifying for Sam Maguire should be the same for all. That's not currently the case. And before I'm accused of whinging for Ulster (which I am), Leinster has 11 teams in it ffs.