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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!!!!!

All the massive backroom teams are running and ruining the sport.
The more professional it becomes at county and club level the more of a disconnect occurs.
Jarlath Burns needs to derail the train.

Actually someone post up a revenue and expenditure estimate for how Casement will be run and if it works I will hold my hands up and say by all means work away. A great stadium like that would of course be wonderful.

OK Trailer you tell us how Casement will make the 10 million a year it will need to wash its face?
Thats based on a 200 million spend with 5% running costs per annum.

Most people I know don't think Casement is a good idea.

If built to current spec it will be an enormous drain on resources.

For example if Ulster Council make circa 1 million from an Ulster final in Clones they can spread most of that around.

In the future all of that and a whole lot more will have to go to the upkeep of Casement. It will be some burden for Antrim GAA in particular.

For vanity purposes it would be great to see it built but the GAA don't need it.

Celtic Park is a great venue to watch a game. Could do with some upgrades that are easily sorted, toilets, PA, clock, more shops etc and better traffic control.

Omagh could do with some upgrades. The likes of Armagh and Newry are very good grounds.

Antrim need a good ground but do they or the GAA really need Casement as proposed?

Once it is built and paid for in time for the Euros (which is hard to turn down) how is the upkeep going to be paid for and will this be to the detriment of other grounds?

Would it not be better for Antrim to have a ground like the Athletic grounds and other counties to get cash to make some upgrades?

On Thursday the DUP get walloped by strikers and a resignation so on Friday they change the narrative to take away the negative headlines.......if they don't go back they should br further vilified for taking publicity away from the strikers. They have no shame!

Why would anyone vote for the DUP?

The DUP are now seeing NI public services in the worst state ever

The DUP now have the worst relationship there has ever been with Westminster

The DUP have no friends in Europe

The DUP shunned the US President when he visited

King Charles had a warmer relationship with Sinn Fein than he did with the DUP when he was at Hillsborough

The DUP are isolated among all the main parties here. They don't want to share power even though Martin McGuinness was prepared to be deputy first minister under Ian Paisley.

And most of all the DUP brought all of this upon themselves by advocating for a Brexit that the majority of people here didn't vote for.

The NO brigade would rather go back to the troubles and have soldiers on the streets, the RUC, UDR etc.....take a few casualties
to keep stoking tensions..... not a forward looking mind between them.
I know people have been saying for years that schools have failed them but it is really showing now!

If the game was not on TG4 would the county board have been stronger?
Agree that the statement leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
On the match itself Kilcoo were miles ahead. Paul Faloon would have done well to make the difference!

Surely Laverty is going to struggle to go back to Down after this club season. Will all the best players in Down play for him?

Will it be a straightforward ratification tonight? Presumably so with possibly a few dissenting voices.
A major thing in whether this goes well or not is in who fills out the backroom team. Harte and Devlin are obviously McKaigues men but Mckaigue cannot be allowed to dictate everything that happens. Needs tk be someone else from Derry having an influence e.g. Gilligan

The ref is winning this game for kilcoo.....they looked in trouble but played the ref like a fiddle

If somehow they wriggle Gallagher back in what will his backroom team be? Meenagh and Hughes are gone and they played very significant roles.
If they want Gallagher so badly and it doesn't work out will that put off ORourke? Will he want to leave Glen anyway?
Mickey Harte and Gavin Devlin is a good shout but they have committed to Louth.
Mickey Moran and his Kilcoo men maybe but has Gilligan committed to Armagh?

If not Gallagher or ORourke then who?