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Why so bad?

Lets show off to the www a bit of home grown talent here..

Team           expect/ Quality of forwards/ midfield/defence          appetite for the battle/ experience / watchability   sportsmanship Total rating 

Cork             semi                             2/3/3                                            3                         2           1               3                     17   
Kerry            final                              4/4/3                                            4                         5           2               2                    24
Tyrone         winner                          3/3/4                                            5                         4           4               3                    26
Wexford       semi                              3/3/4                                           3                          1           3              3                    20

Team:   Speciality:                           Why is this so bad                      
Kerry:  Appealing tecnhnicalities         Poor example to kids

Currently loving a nice rouge Cotes de rhone 05, Cabernet Sauvignon.   Loses little for the screwtop around 5.99 a bang, lovely with a wee ribeye.  Would normally like my Shiraz.  and like the Penfolds variety.  Whats hot and not in wines these days?

Listen we can talk about this, that and everything, but what other sport would encourage moralistic debate about the rights and wrongs of a reaction to a punch.  In the street you get prosecuted but in the GAA we ask if he punched how hard was it?  And does it matter if the punch is to the bonce, belly, balls or bake.  Should there any difference to the punishment, if you are a better puncher and hurt the guy harder? 

The doctors just told ye some bad news - the athletes foot will have you ravaged by the morning and its curtains for you.  How would you spend your last night,  if you could have toe tennis with  just one woman (outside spouses or girlfriends) before you go who would you have and why?

Paul Galvin has done the GAA a favour by showing the disciplinary procedure is absolutely worthless.  People are talking about spending millions on a new rule book.  Can i suggest that the following happens and a line is drawn in the sand ie incidents which ghave taken place before now can no longer be refereed to as precedents. 
The rules of playing the games are drawn up and categories of offences are clearly defined as are punishments.  The book is reduced to quite simply a couple of pages.  The role of tv replay in discipline is either defined as is the final decision of the referee.   the referee becomes sacrosanct although they are heavily trained vetted and privately assessed as often as can be feasibly done. The rule book is for playing the game only and a sperate series of aspirations aims ie constitution eg rule 42 etc  - this is kept separate as part of the GAA constitution and has little to do with playing the games. 
All GAA members sign up to a new code of conduct reneging their right to challenging legally any rulebook implementation and recognising the right of the disciiplinary body to implement GAA law ie the referee to rule the game.  Clubs, counties , individuals must sign up to this before fixtures are announced. 
Lets make one thing clear - there is no grey area surrounding Paul Galvins actions and wrongness, the grey area is to do with efficient, transparent rules.
We should aim for 95 % automatic penalty ie there is little room for doubt / interpretation ie a guy knows he kcks knees etc what he will get for it - discipline should be a mere rubberstamping exercise.  An outlook for appeal for say clubs where they can appeal a referee performance if they deem it to be unacceptable but not individual decisions, penalties are hard on any appealing against the performance of a referee when they are deemed to be michievous.  A small 3 man body overviews this whole prodcedure at county and club level.  They are known to everyone and are appointed by the clubs counties at the start of the year form a shortlist.   
The question we must ask ourselves do we really want a lawyer to write our rulebooks or ourselves.  I could write a new Gaelic Football rulebook myself withing 2 pages in one day.  How many more could here?  We might need a legal mind to have a once over but it would be an honest effort.  Lets stop making a maggie more out of everything.         

Feel free to take out your frustrations of your days work, the stuff and people that grinds your gears, the arguements against people with no sense etc.   Feel free top let it all out here.  IIf theres someboy you would like to thump let it all out on this thread and it will I believe reduce our tendancy to be violent. 

What new players do you tip for the top in 2008 in your county?
Tyrone:
M Swift; PJ Quinn; D Mc Caul.

It appears that Maybe the Pay for play group have plans to split and set up their own rival organisation.  Mark Conway, you and your right thinking co horts have a lot to answer for!!!!
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