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Armagh could take penalties better than Man City.

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I haven't listened to this yet, but no GAA person should ever entertain any comparison with the OO. Compare with the IRFU, FAI, IFA, basketball etc by all means, but the OO is not a valid comparison.

He's after saying the most popular place for work experience for St Pauls students is with the psni. All for trying to be inclusive Jarlath but come on ffs.

I suppose that it is more interesting that work experience in Camlough Car & Tractor Parts!

Just listened to Jarlath Burns on BBC. I like Jarlath and hope he has a great reign but some thoughts (hope he reads the GAA Board lol)

He was very coy about payments being made to managers. His son is on the Armagh panel.They are one of the most "professional" set ups around. McGeeney, Donaghy, Gilligan etc are on tens of thousands of pounds. The Armagh players virtually never play for their clubs and the club leagues in the county are terrible.

This is replicated up and down the country but surely Jarlath must know what's happening on his doorstep.

Because these people are getting paid so well they are placing so many demands on players to justify their existence. This is the problem in the GAA!!!!!


 

Just started listening. Surely he doesn't really believe that the Orange Order is in any way comparable to the GAA?

Also loved how he managed to say that the tournaments etc named after IRA men aren't actually GAA organised. A clued in interviewer would have asked him who Sam Maguire was! Or maybe he was ok because he was in the old IRA.

I haven't listened to this yet, but no GAA person should ever entertain any comparison with the OO. Compare with the IRFU, FAI, IFA, basketball etc by all means, but the OO is not a valid comparison.

They had more rain in the desert in the UAE yesterday than most parts of Ireland had in the entire month of March.

Danfoss is sometimes a motorised valve manufacturer, if you photograph the serial numbers it's a reference to purchase replacements.

The electrical part alone should be what needs replaced but most times you have to buy the mechanical part, it should need changed.

Indeed, I was able to get a new valve head on Amazon, having identified the old one. That wasn't the problem though, the valve itself was stuck.

Absolutely, but seen the days where we were losing to Fermanagh and Cavan in Ulster first round games. (Did Down actually beat us under Geezer as well?)

Yes, the complete shame of being beaten by Down.
We are in the race now, but it is amazing that Geezer was kept on through Div 3 and not winning a game in Ulster.

Would it be worth rotating Dublin through the other provinces every year? Give the Leinster teams a chance and give Kerry a kick in the hole every few years?

It wouldn't solve the All Ireland problem.

Armagh have shown glimpses of the 2022 championship form this year but I'd still be worried that they will slip back into last years negative mindset when faced with better opposition. The same thing happened in the League final again when the stakes were heightened and the fear of losing took over. 

The Ulster final, should we get there, could well be the defining game of the season because they won't be winning an All Ireland title. For a lot of those players it's probably the last chance saloon to try and win meaningful silverware.

Is it meaningful silverware?

No, neither is the league, Sam is the only show in town!! 

the Ulster championship has an important advantage in that someone other than Dublin has to win it.

how many counties would a train station in clones benefit?

Armagh, hoor's only have trains to Belfast and the rest of the place connecting via Dublin the critters

Was waiting on the shout going up before last weekend about needing extra trains to Enniskillen 🤪

Armagh ones love an auld train.

Brewster park would be 12 mins walk from the railway station.

If that's the answer, what was the question?

Describe a Gaelic football game in the style of cynical analyst.

Lads still think it's a session incoming or you have the ex players now pundits still thinking about the glory days on that pitch. I don't think it would take an awful lot of investment to tidy it up a bit with facilities and pathways etc. You're never putting more covered areas though.

I've got soaked in Clones some times over the years. Only really remember 1 nice sunny day, 94 Ulster final v Tyrone.

It has been allowed to decline owing to attention on the mirage of the Cathedral at Casement. It could be tided up and while the hill will never be roofed, behind either goal could be. I've had roasting hot days at Clones too when the factor 50 was needed, but that will not happen in April.

The 2nd half was a draw. Yes the game was already won, but the better sides would just keep going and rack up a cricket score.
For what it's worth, Armagh should beat Down and I've no doubt they'll give who ever they play in Ulster Final a game of it. But for me, they're not yet playing at the level you'd expect of a team with ambitions to win Ulster. It still might come...but against a Fermanagh side that were beaten 20 mins in you'd have expected them to pull away in the 2nd half. That's the worrying bit for Armagh in my view.

A bit worrying is not a bad place to be, more work is needed and complacency is entirely inappropriate.

Will 22k turn up to Clones this year for Down v Armagh ?. I'd be surprised if it gets 15k. Standing on thr hill last year surrounded by the buckfast brigade is not something to experience. Let alone the pissing rain in a kip of a ground and getting a hiding.   

I'd say that if both Down and Armagh were motoring well there would be a good crowd, but as you say Down people do not anticipate victory. Perhaps they should let people designate their county and guarantee an Ulster final ticket if that county wins.