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with all due respect, not meaning to be funny/rude, for the day that's in it.

we won't stand idly by.

Belfast. But dark red over all of the north

Well said O'Rourke...

I see it here in Limerick, na. piarsaigh grow into a Kilmavud Crokes while other city clubs flounder and west limerick continues to be depopulated

How do you do resolve that issue? Splitting a County like Dublin is one thing where there are natural demarcation lines but a club is a more grass roots organisation.
I don't know the geography of the Na Piarsigh nor the Dublin club catchment areas but I cannot see how you would split out a club to create a new one bar the traditional row and walk out.

I propose a new steering committee for Dublin headed by Mickey Harte and staffed exclusively by Arles (Killeen/Kilcruise/Killanybodythatmoves) natives. That should do it.

One interesting observation. Was at Sprucefiled yesterday (for those unfamiliar think of middle class church going protestants holding pen) anyways when you watch TV you'd think everyone was wearing a poppy. I'd say yesterday 1 in every 50 people was wearing one.

I was out and about around London at the back end of last week and must have passed thosands of people on foot. At most I saw ten Poppies. The fact that wearing them on tv and playing sport is virtually compulsory skews peoples perceptions.

Ah right, travelling through not booked through. I couldn't get anything up to to today. Now quoting 590 from London via Vienna. cheapest out of Dublin is a kick in the arse off two grand.

Anyone heading to Japan.

Booked flights the other day. £680 return for 10 days in Japan.

I am thinking of going, that's a great price. Have you any tickets sorted? What's accommodation like price wise?

We booked flights through Korea which was cheaper. Have accommodation through a friend in Tokyo for a few nights luckily. Heading to the Scotland game then down the country and home via Osaka. Need to look about accommodation for later in the trip.

Talk me through the Korea angle? I've got the ticket package for the group games but haven't sorted flights yet.

Great final (not quite) day to baseball season. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-playoff-picture-update/c-293413208

Much better than the bastardised rugby on now. BTW why can't they put a proper roof on their stadiums? Still drying out after watching the Eagles last week.

Liam Mc Carthy was in there sunday evening. Haven't been inside it in years. Cassidys before and Gills after for me.

Is it right Gills only opens on match days?

Downpatrick, Annaclone? Win, Loss.

Really should have read previous page. Rostrevor were indeed in Div 2, considering I played a league game against them about a fortnight before the final you'd think I'd have known that.

Any cnut supporting England deserves lined up at a wall and shot in the head. Twice. f**k it bring it home.

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Frankie Boyle
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Any Belgian players watching this must feel like Fred Astaire watching a guy in a neck brace fall down an escalator

Fair play to the Lily Whites.

All the ex players/pundits who came out in support should hang their head in shame.

Cue Mayo hammering them

I predict a refereeing performance on a par with what Mayo got in Limerick. Don't cross the Cosa Nostra.

[I remember the Gaa when you where beat you where beat and you got suspended if needed and you accepted all like a man.]

Appeal lodged I remember the Gaa when you where beat you where beat and you got suspended if needed and you accepted all like a man... I would love to have seen us win last Friday night we where beat fair and square and if no 23 had not spend the few seconds before the row goating(another thing we seemed to invent) Armagh's no 7 the row may not have happens... where the hell is our game going too...

False memory syndrome, the 'objection' is as old as the association. Two words Frank Murphy.

[Henderson as captain is a good lad, but not an ounce of wickedness in him.]

Ramos is a tr**p, no moreso than countless players in a GAA team, friends and foe. Hell I've taken men out myself and thought little of it. The thing that irritated me most about it was that he could have been knobbled back. It's not the fair aybwqy of doing things but f**k it the biggest club prize
In the game was up for grabs and it should have happened. Plenty of opportunities in the box during a corner etc. Set the runner up and do a screen a la basketball and shoulder him in the face. Too bloody nice.

Anyway it's all done but I have to laugh at the obsessive behaviour of some in here. It works both ways to the United thread as well.

Liverpool don't have anybody with the mentality to take out the opposition.  You'd expect in any side there's a centre back or a midfielder fit to do a bit of enforcing when needed but Liverpool have ball players and thats it.  Henderson as captain is a good lad, but not an ounce of wickedness in him.

With Ramos, the retaliation should have been got in first.

Jordan should have unleashed this on him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R7UCUTpHN4 that would have shown him...

bc1 on your point its not really Ramos you want to knobble more Ronaldo or on the night in question Bale?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qQ17UnJk_Y


I don't care if it's a Champions League or Junior B final, if you watch the same thug take out two of your teammates and do nothing you're not much of a teammate.

[but Ramos walking off at all says a lot about their spirit.]

If he was concussed would he at least not have gone down injured for a while. Or better yet been replaced by Mignolet before the catastrophe.

Breathtaking ignorance of concussion right there.

Concussion is all about education. Rugby had the "man up" "sure he looks grand" shit for years, only now is it getting it's act together, same with NFL, horse-racing etc. Soccer and GAA miles behind.

"Tell him he's Pele and get him back on." Partick Thistle manager John Lambie, when told his concussed striker did not know who he was

http://www.tellhimhespele.com/

None of what happened that night reflects well on Liverpool, how many backroom staff do they have? To miss that?

As for the 'team', Karius walking off alone was bad enough but Ramos walking off at all says a lot about their spirit.

This was the champions league final, not a junior championship game.

Didn't hold Ramos back.