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#1
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 22, 2024, 07:12:41 AM
Quote from: NotedObserver on March 21, 2024, 10:33:25 PM
Quote from: Newbridge Exile on March 21, 2024, 09:22:22 PM
Quote from: NotedObserver on March 21, 2024, 06:15:31 PM
Quote from: derry82 on March 21, 2024, 05:11:55 PMjust heard 2 derry players are reopning a bar in maghera together

Which bar?
And not clubmates either

Clubs?

Think it's a bar and they're only opening one.
#2
Quote from: seafoid on March 12, 2024, 08:53:16 PM
Quote from: Blowitupref on March 12, 2024, 08:44:49 PM
Quote from: seafoid on March 12, 2024, 08:41:46 PM
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Quote from: seafoid on March 12, 2024, 07:39:44 PMMichael Foley in the Sunday Times said that the current system is not the final system and that eventually it will be the provincials first with the League and championship combined

An opinion piece by a journalist or be a good journalist. For that to happen it needs to be voted in by congress and the current system changed. Provincial championship under that system would become pre-season competitions with 2nd string teams in action and small crowds in attendance.
There would be less matches.  Currently D1 games are meaningless.

Don't think they are meaingless. First and foremost every team wants to retain their Div 1 status. Don't believe the theory that no team wants to reach the final, once in it a national title is there to be won. 
Everyone saw what happened to Mayo last year. The league only matters in D2 because of the Sam Maguire

From 2003 to 2023 10 league winners have gone on to win Sam. Almost a 50% record so it's hardly a hindrance to have won the league. You're using one example of a league winner having a poor championship.If you look back over those years the league winners are way more likely to have a really good championship than flop.
#3
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 07, 2024, 06:29:52 PM
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on March 07, 2024, 03:39:24 PMI remember Faughanvale win 3 out 4 intermediate  championships in the 90's ,they weren't biting at the bullet to go onto senior like Glemullin, as they knew what happen to them.

I've sympathy for Glenullin and I think they're a brilliant club but they wouldn't get within 20 points of Glen or Slaughtneil. They'll get a real good test at intermediate this year and a 3 in a row would be a brilliant achievement.
#4
GAA Discussion / Re: RG at arms length
March 04, 2024, 06:59:44 PM
Quote from: tbrick18 on March 04, 2024, 12:25:43 PM
Quote from: Saffron_sam20 on March 04, 2024, 10:22:59 AM
Quote from: tbrick18 on March 04, 2024, 09:58:12 AM
Quote from: Truth hurts on March 04, 2024, 08:50:31 AMRG is training a Down team by all accounts

Heard he was in the crowd with his kids at the Derry v Dublin game.

Don't see the issue, man should be allowed to get on with his life rather than every time he leaves the house it being reported

Oh no issue at all, not what I was getting at. I just thought it was interesting that he'd go to a Derry game and I personally wonder does he still have aspirations there.
100% should be able to get on with things, I've said from the start of the whole episode that no-body should be judged based on someone elses social media posts.

I fDonal Trump is allowed to run for the most important job in the world and people vote for him surely RG should be allowed to manage a football team.
#5
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
March 02, 2024, 08:47:48 PM
Quote from: tyrone08 on March 02, 2024, 07:46:01 PMMickey continuing his excellent record against Dublin,Kerry and Mayo

He's already beaten Kerry this season.
#6
GAA Discussion / Re: The Advanced Mark
February 27, 2024, 07:02:10 PM
Quote from: J70 on February 27, 2024, 05:31:16 PM
Quote from: thewobbler on February 27, 2024, 10:12:11 AMDerryman forever, it's not a cheap shot at all.

This board goes back forever and a day.

Look at threads on rule changes from the early noughties and it's Donegal ones saying there's nothing wrong with the game. Look at the late noughties threads and it's all Dublin ones telling us that we should get better at football instead of trying to change the rules. The past few years it's Derry wans telling us that football is as good to watch now as it ever was.

With all due respect, I don't think people from your county are currently objective about the state of Gaelic Football. This isn't a criticism of Derry btw... you folks didn't create this mess and it's absolute credit that instead of whinging about it, you've caught up.

But football is shite. Absolute shite. That's our sport and it's absolute shite.


We were, but in our defense, it wasn't an obvious certainty (at least to me early on!) that the game would evolve in the manner in did following Jim's lead. I think back to our thrilling semis against Cork and Dublin, when they played open and allowed us to annihilate them on the break. By the 2016 Ulster Final, the writing was on the wall for me (that was like a pair of slow, giant sumo wrestlers going at it, rescued for Tyrone in injury time by three worldie points) and its only gotten worse. When we held the ball for the last 90 seconds of normal time in the 2022 Ulster Final, instead of trying to go for the winning score, I was pretty much done.

I read Jarlath's interview on GAA.ie and his plans for a root and branch look at how the game is played. Hope he succeeds, because I'm finding it hard to even watch Donegal these days. Aside from the freak of nature that is David Clifford, how many GAA stars could be considered among the top sports people in the country? As Burns alludes to when talking about skillful forwards being basically rendered obsolete, without his physique to go with his incredible skillset, would even Clifford be up there?

Clifford is arguably the best of all time. Current stars who would be among the top sports people in the country would surely include Conor Glass, Darragh Canavan, Shane Mcguigan, Con OCallaghan. A lot of people criticise the modern game saying there's no room for flair and marquee forwards don't get a chance but in recent games we've seen Con O'C score 3.4, Shane McGuigan 0.11 and canavan 1.5. There possibly are rules which could be tinkered with slightly but there's still a great game there and the crowds are still turning out to see the games.
#7
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
February 25, 2024, 03:39:21 PM
Quote from: AustinPowers on February 25, 2024, 03:24:20 PM
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on February 25, 2024, 03:10:47 PM
Quote from: AustinPowers on February 25, 2024, 03:06:17 PMThird goal looked like it was   thrown into the net

A fist only  rule needs bringing in. A player will be blown up if he palmed  the ball in open play , so why are  they allowed to palm the ball into the net?
What??

I said...

A player will be blown up if he palmed  the ball in open play

You're thinking of soccer.
#8
General discussion / Re: Teachers get it handy!
December 13, 2023, 03:22:23 PM
Quote from: LC on December 13, 2023, 11:25:39 AM
Quote from: trailer on December 13, 2023, 10:34:59 AM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on December 12, 2023, 10:26:32 PMEvery A&E should have security and if you lay a finger on staff you get lifted by the peelers without treatment.

Automatic custodial sentence.
Fines starting at £1000 for verbal abuse and upwards
If you're on any sort of benefits you automatically lose them.

Should carry a very high punishment. Absolutely no call for it.

Force them to go out and get a job, that will fairly put the frighteners on them.

Really worry for society at times, for every pair of scum bags that get together and have wains they are raising  people with the same morals and sense of entitlement when it comes to benefits, housing and relationship with work or lack of.


This attitude is one of the major reasons society is in the state it's in. The hard right and extremely wealthy have convinced lots of ordinary working people that the relatively small number of people on benefits are costing everyone else. The simple fact is the vast majority of people on benefits are there legitimately and are living on the breadline. We all may know the odd exception but it's the exception that proves the rule. A much bigger issue in society is the big number of extremely wealthy people who find all sorts of ways of avoiding paying their taxes. I've read recently that this costs the exchequer around 5 times as much as all the benefits paid out. Those are the real cheats who cost the public the necessary funds to provide good public services and the nhs.
#9
GAA Discussion / Re: Joe Brolly
December 02, 2023, 08:12:35 PM
Quote from: clarshack on December 02, 2023, 07:19:14 PM
Quote from: Rawhide on December 02, 2023, 05:56:55 PMBrolly, a guy who gave away his kidney, does literally copious amounts of charity gigs, goes to club events up and down the country for nothing, and we have gaels slating because he has a opinion that some of you don't like or agree with. The whole essence of being a barister is strongly putting across your opinion. And that's the bit that gets under your skin. The difference between brolly and McGregor is night and day.

His charity work or whatever doesn't excuse his outrageous outbursts over the year's especially the one towards Sean Cavanagh 10 years ago. He should have been booted from RTE at that point. Did Sean Cavanagh go running to solicitors?

lol, cavanagh is fond of a pound or 2, if he thought there was any grounds for suing he'd have been in there. Seriously can't believe there are people taking the side of a complete sc**bag like mcgregor.
#10
GAA Discussion / Re: Joe Brolly
December 02, 2023, 05:37:09 PM
Quote from: DuffleKing on December 02, 2023, 05:23:57 PMThe usual from Brolly. Abuse and denegrade people and everyone should take it as a joke. When he gets it back, then running for the solicitor.

Absolutely no fan of McGregor but unlike ordinary folk, the threat of being sued won't cow him in any way. Like most bullies in these types of scenarios, the legal threat will end up nonsense.

I would suspect Brolly understands the law a bit better than you. If he takes that sc**bag mcgregor to court and hammers him then that'll be a great result for decent people.
#11
GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Club SFC 2023
November 27, 2023, 06:22:13 PM
Quote from: seafoid on November 27, 2023, 03:26:49 PMUlster is really interesting.  Trillick showing Tyrone clubs can compete.

Totally, they performed really well and with Errigal competing well last year also it shows the Tyrone club championship isn't as weak as many on here think.
#12
General discussion / Re: East wall #Irelandisfull
November 19, 2023, 06:17:39 PM
Quote from: burdizzo on November 19, 2023, 02:56:40 PMThe converse will mean being overwhelmed. Look after your own first.

You don't give a shit about our own, you're just a racist.
#13
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
October 27, 2023, 07:06:17 AM
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on October 27, 2023, 01:30:27 AMHell I brought home and away new ones last year!!

I'm still wearing the old white one to games. I've always much preferred the white with red band. Having said that many youngsters will want the latest jersey and that's where it's a complete shame they change so often.
#14
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
September 10, 2023, 10:04:14 PM
Quote from: screenexile on September 10, 2023, 09:38:19 PM
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on September 10, 2023, 09:36:50 PM
Quote from: screenexile on September 10, 2023, 09:32:37 PM
Great game Wales should have a man in the bin at this stage!

Fiji have fumbled the ball twice going over the line ffs. A bit more  maturity and better discipline and they would be winning

Yeah definitely. Can't believe he's given Fiji that yellow and Wales are offside for fun defending the try line and nothing!

The better team lost. Most of the decisions went the way of Wales also.
#15
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
August 28, 2023, 11:30:12 AM
Quote from: Hound on August 28, 2023, 10:51:34 AM
Bookies have us as fourth favourites, behind NZ, France and South Africa. So expectation is that we will exit at the QF stage.

All 4 favourites in one half of the draw. Complete joke. What a tournament it could've been with those 4 in the semifinals.