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Finally Celtic are getting a bit of competition for the league but how much is it really? We'll find out in good time, for the last number of years anytime a team thought they're genuine contenders Celtic put them in their box. We have picked our performances up recentluy and are def playing better than we did at the start of the year, all being well no more points dropped and go to the Cesspit at the year and beat them again. Slippy G has improved them a bit no doubt on that but they don't have the quality we have and we should beat them again.

I didn't get to see the Cup Final on Sunday due to a funeral (which i had a ticket for the game but couldn't go...ripping) but Rodgers will be pushing for the treble treble which has never been done and will go down in the history books for many a year. Will be tough but January transfers will play a big part in this...fingers crossed.

Who would be on your shopping list?  The Liverpool-Rangers scum-alliance will no doubt mean a few more rejects get off-loaded North of the border to the huns as well.

Celtic are a very difficult club to pick players for...People will argue this next point but we can't affored top quality players, we seem to be in the market for up and coming players to develop and sell on (i'm guessing that's the carrot Celtic dangle in front of them to sign). The top players in Scotland are usually at Celtic and if not they're not good enough to be there, there are we gems out there but it's getting harder and harder to find them. I just hope Celtic have been working on their potential targets from Sept and get it done early...

Listening to Rodgers after the cup final, i think he has a few nearly ready to sign and is hopeful to have them away on the winter break camp to bed in, thats how we should be operating, another Benkovic type, i think a Roberts like loan like the first time where we take him in Jan bed him in and he hits the ground the following season, no point in a Jan to end of season loan for a club like us unless its an opportunity too good to turn down like Bellamy or Robbie Keane.

Enjoyed the fight, Fury done what Fury does, dodges and counters, hes class at it, not everyones cup of team but how someone at that size, weight and build can make themselves so hard to hit is impressive, the thing about heavyweight boxing is it can just take that one shot and Wilder landed it, how Fury got up is a real credit to him just shows that although his main attribute is not getting hit he can also take the shots when they land. Im actually gutted for Fury because to all who have an idea on boxing he won that fight, i think it was Mayweather said one time, theres more to boxing than throwing punches. I like Wilder but you could tell how frustrated he was at not being able to hit fury in the opening rounds, he didint really know how to react, when they do face off again i would like to think that it'll be a different fight, Wilder will have the experience of 12 rounds with Fury and will have a better idea of how to fight, in saying that id love it to be in a big stadium in England and Fury to win.

Great result for st Enda's, as BC said, a massive Cavan club who are used to playing senior Ulster, st Enda's will enjoy it and I'm sure fitzy will have them back focused for a good rattle at the AI. Absouluty no reason why not! As last man said, this team is backbones by lads who won an A feile, Paul McGirr etc, it shows that out the work in underage and it can bring success at senior level!hoping they  Go on and win the whole thing now

Snobbery has everything to do with it. Otherwise why would you write 'why are people getting their knickers in a twist over a B competition'?

Maybe you don't like that. What else is it if not snobbery or condescension.

At under 21 level (in my view is senior level) b competition is pointless.. now if they doesn't sit well with you I'm sorry. Get them all in one competition and play it off. If you think I'm a snob then fine

We have B competitions at every other level, why wouldn't we at U21? In fact, at senior, we have ABC and D competitions.

At senor level we have junior intermediate and senior and that's fine.. the b competition is relativity new, certainty wasn't about in my day, think my sons team won a b hurling competition at casement many moons ago and that would have been one of the early ones..

I'm just not a fan of it, Rossa were in one this year, I did the line at it at Lamhs, I thought the standards of both teams were good enough for them to be in the a championship tbh..

agreed, dont see the draw in it, if you're going to have a B comp for u21 run it like the Junior b in the hurling, weaker teams play it before the actual championship, straight knock out and the winner goes into the championship proper, would be better than the grading games etc.

What's the draw in B competitions at U12, U14, U16 and minor? What's the draw in intermediate and junior championships?
To give competitive championship games to teams playing at a lower standard.
The exact same principle applies to U21.
Maybe I'm wrong but I can't remember anyone complaining about B competitions in any other grade. Why is U21 different?

the main difference i see is that at all those other age groups there are leagues etc, u21 is different in that sense, if you ran a b championship like the junior B with the winner taking up a place in the A championship i dont think it would be a bad thing, clubs are getting games against teams of a similar standard and the carrot is a crack at an A team at the end, given there is no ulster for u21 b i dont see why it would be a problem. DR, if you had won an u21 in the kind of format i mentioned would it have diminished it, i dont think it would, would still be an achievement and set you up for a game in the A with a medal already in the pocket. i think a few years ago didnt Glenravel win junior b and maybe actually win the Junior or possibly got to a final?

Snobbery has everything to do with it. Otherwise why would you write 'why are people getting their knickers in a twist over a B competition'?

Maybe you don't like that. What else is it if not snobbery or condescension.

At under 21 level (in my view is senior level) b competition is pointless.. now if they doesn't sit well with you I'm sorry. Get them all in one competition and play it off. If you think I'm a snob then fine

We have B competitions at every other level, why wouldn't we at U21? In fact, at senior, we have ABC and D competitions.

At senor level we have junior intermediate and senior and that's fine.. the b competition is relativity new, certainty wasn't about in my day, think my sons team won a b hurling competition at casement many moons ago and that would have been one of the early ones..

I'm just not a fan of it, Rossa were in one this year, I did the line at it at Lamhs, I thought the standards of both teams were good enough for them to be in the a championship tbh..

agreed, dont see the draw in it, if you're going to have a B comp for u21 run it like the Junior b in the hurling, weaker teams play it before the actual championship, straight knock out and the winner goes into the championship proper, would be better than the grading games etc.

Benkovic is some upgrade from Jack Hendry. Himself and Boyata have been superb. A quality right back in January and Celtic will be sorted at the back. Unfortunately only be sorted to the summer with Benkovic going back to Leicester and Boyata probably leaving too

Wonder what the chances are of getting Benkovic for another year, still a young player, our problem is he has been playing too well and im sure isn't going unnoticed, reminds me of VVD the way he strolls out and clips passes forward. if we could keep him and Boyata, add a keeper and a RB we would be very close to being a CL side

I found Breaking Bad a bit of an anti-climax as well, the series I have enjoyed the most in the last year is Ray Donavon. Hard hitting and a character with Irish routes your always trying to figure out. His wife is played by Belfast actor Paula Malcomson so her role of the squawking ball breaker is very convincing 

Jeez I thought Breaking Bad was exceptional.   Up there with Sopranos and The Wire.

Im the same.
Only just behind The Wire for me.

The wire is next on my rewatch list after just finishing Breaking bad again, watched the first episode last night, great quote 'there ya go again Bunk, giving a F**k when it wasnt your turn to give a F**k'
forgot how much i loved the show and the characters until last night

Id actually like to see Gordon Strachan in, done pretty well with a limited Scotland squad, failed to get them over the line then got hounded, 2 games after he was gone the Scotland fans were nearly falling over themselves admitting they made a mistake. Strachan is very good at getting results, i look at the celtic team he got to the last 16 of the champions league, good keeper strong but limited CB pairing and players with a lot of work rate. i think he'd do a good job

I hope to f**k this does not happen, an atrocious manager.  Just ask any Coventry, Middlesbrough or Scotland fan.

Well thats it solved, get the managers out and then the results will change... So who will get the blame when the results stay the same? The FAI no doubt as they will have appointed said person, the problem is not the managers and their sidekicks, the problem is a shit squad of players..

Now there are managers who, with a limited squad did actually make teams perform above their station and believe it or not, MON was one of those managers.. Big Sam lined up 

Do you think the two boys should have carried on?

Jobs for the old guard should be discarded as a way of thinking. No to McCarthy, Big Sam, Wee Gordon, Pardew, Bruce etc.

Sometimes a bit of experience is hard to beat, especially given that our squad is/will be pretty inexperienced come the next round of qualifiers.

Id actually like to see Gordon Strachan in, done pretty well with a limited Scotland squad, failed to get them over the line then got hounded, 2 games after he was gone the Scotland fans were nearly falling over themselves admitting they made a mistake. Strachan is very good at getting results, i look at the celtic team he got to the last 16 of the champions league, good keeper strong but limited CB pairing and players with a lot of work rate. i think he'd do a good job

Yeah look it is current hence worth commenting on in my opinion. Yes other clubs have actually succeeded in saving their bacon with this type of motion in the past. Sarsfields immediately spring to mind if I am correct. Certainly there was a recent case but in that case, again if memory serves me correct, leagues were expanded and a few clubs benefited rather than Sarsfields benefiting at the expense of others.

I could and have in the past named plenty teams who wouldn't take their medicine. That's not the point.. the county need to put measures in place (as Hardststion as mentioned) to make it fair and just.. proposals can be positive btw

DUNLOY
AGHGALLON
SARSFIELDS
All took the medicine over the past 4 years. It hasn't done them much harm to fair to them

ill have to agree with this. we went to D3 and we fully deserved to be there for the duration until we got our act together and started to move up a bit to a higher league. No complaints or excuses
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as i said on here before, st endas 2 years in Div 3 doesn't seem to have done them too badly, go down regroup with less pressure get a style of football that suits your players and build from there.

I've often thought that while Breaking Bad was good, it only became essential viewing when the background characters of Mike, Saul and Gus took on prominent roles.

The main cast were generally unpleasant and hard to root for - the female leads in particular - while the early season antagonists were too OTT. Sociopaths are always more interesting than psychopaths.

I've been rewatching BB since better call Saul finished there, I love it, Walt is so
Manipulative, you start to realise things about him when you watch it again, when you see how he uses Jesse for his own gain as has him as his little puppet when everyone is trying to advise Jesse to go his own way and get rid of Walt is first class viewing

What is all this 1a/b/2a/b nonsense?  Call it what it is Div 1,2,3,4.
Teams have earned the right to be where they are next year.  I agree with a previous poster, any new proposals should take place the following year, or at least should not affect rightly promoted teams.

I don't understand all this stuff about top tier. They're still moving up in effect as they'll be playing with 2 teams better than them and frankly relegated/promoted teams are usually close enough in ability. But by that logic we can't ever change the leagues because then someone will lose out getting to the "top tier". The league structures are broken and need to be addressed. Like I said previously, St Pauls are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons but the new proposed div 1 with those teams is about right.

Actually the top 2 leagues are fine, the 1 league where there is a massive gulf in class is the bottom division which their proposal doesn't actually address, it's literally just smacks of 'how do we save ourselves'

What am I missing here? St Pauls right now are in bottom 10. You sure it is not a 10 team 2A and an 8 team 2B?  Even at that there would probably be debate as to whether St Pauls and ODs or Ardoyne and Antrim would get the extra 2 places from the bottom 10.

Restructure of the All County Football Leagues for the 2019 Season

The All County Football League to be restructured on a pilot basis for 1 year to the following;

Div 1A – 8 team league (top 8 placed teams in 2018 season)
Div 1B – 8 team league (9-16 placed teams in 2018 season)
Div 2A – 8 team league (17-24 placed teams in 2018 season)
Div 2B – 10 team league (25-34 placed teams in 2018 season)

Surely that cant be right? if that is their proposals my reading of it is that O'ds and St Pauls stay 2a and Lisburn and Glenravel would be 2b, that cant be right, and if you changed the 2 teams then the re structure wouldn't save St Pauls?

St.Pauls trying to save themselves from Division 3 football next year. Proposing 3 x team leagues 1A, 1B ,2A and a 10 team - div 2B.  Totally ignoring promotion and relegation. A team that won four games all year - worthy of Div2 A status .....Jesus weep for them

How would their proposals work exactly? any links to them?

See the new cork one, very lazy from O'Neills, just the red Tyrone one rehashed, suppose not much else they can do but im sure they coulda done something with it