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We need to see more of this. Indeed it needs the full backing of VFI and another supplier ready to step in.

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/dublin-pub-takes-stand-against-29004882

(Why do so many "news" websites have to destroy the user experience with an advert every scroll? Yes I clicked on that article because it interested me. No, I refuse to stay on that site and see if there's anything else interesting to read)

Think you're picking me up wrong Puckoon.

This thread works best when it's about artists who have a body of work that achieved mainstream popularity.  Thats where discussion emanates from.

From the artists of his era and beyond, the likes of Elvis, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Queen, Elton John, AC/DC, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Michael Jackson, Metallica all find their way into everyone's life. 

The likes of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Simon & Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, David Bowie always pick up enough new followers to ensure their exposure through the generations.

I don't believe Eric Clapton (similar to Neil Young) quite has this resonance in popular culture. You rarely find his music in popular culture, and you'll rarely have a "music mate" who is fascinated enough with him to force you through the initial curve.

This isn't denying his genius at all. But for whatever reason, you just don't hear Clapton on the radio. His songs aren't soundtracked onto movies or TV, or adverts. I don't know why. Maybe his day is still coming, like the Who and the CSI series.

But for now I would say any "top 3" discussion among general music lovers, on Clapton would be a short discussion.

Fair on Sting. Clapton's catalogue is huge, arguably a bigger artist than Knoffler and the lads?

Layla. Tears in Heaven. Wonderful Tonight. Cocaine.

Anyone from my age (46) down would have had to make a concerted effort for  Clapton beyond that.

For all of the plaudits he has gained (earned), his music just doesn't make it into mainstream.

I'd listen to Neil Young but not enough to qualify a top 3. I'd really want to be able to name at least 10 songs by an artist, before qualifying a top 3.

I think Clapton and Sting would fall into the same boat for most people. Not many people would get past the greatest hits side one album for either, I'd guess.

In the early noughties there was a media/pundit backlash against Gaelic Football. Puke football and all that. Yet despite being told every week that football was crap, we knew better ourselves... and crowds were never higher.

What we've arrived at 20 years later is different. We now face an utterly dismal viewing experience.

There is only a limited amount of people on this earth who will travel and pay >£20 to solemnly sit bored out of their wits for an hour and a half. And that number is dwindling rapidly.

The occasional classic has saved the sport's bacon for the past decade.

But that's no longer enough.

Wake me up when the rules have changed for i'm not tuning into another game this year.

What does KPI stand for? 😂

Strikes me as a business term.

It stands for over coaching i.e. emphasising a desire statistical success in things other than the scoreboard

Who, where and when has anyone "bigged up" Down?

I've seen plenty of comments on these threads and in the media. They were shoe ins for last years Tailteann Cup and the division 3 title and tipped by lots of pundits to win both of those finals.

They've definitely improved alright under Laverty but from what I've seen of them they lack players who can kick the ball, it's basically the Kilcoo blueprint being employed at county level.

Being tipped to win D3 titles is not bigging anyone up. Not even remotely close.

Even the most diehard blinkered and biased Down followers knows exactly where we are at.

Who, where and when has anyone "bigged up" Down?

Blow it up.

Harps showed heart in the closing quarter, but Point were deserving winners tonight.

Of course it would make sense Truth. But there's a few involved in running LFGA who live for these moments.

Sure Munich should have had a penalty for handball that Arsenal fans don't seem to be talking about!

Was reading about that in The Athletic.

I can understand the ref's "common sense" rationale for dismissing it, but surely under the rules he had no choice but to give it?

I don't know.

Well I do know what you're saying.

But if referees didn't apply common sense to soccer (and GAA) the game would be unwatchable.

Almost every referee will punish a late tackle more severely later in a game when a team is protecting a lead, than they will earlier in the game when the outcome is a long way off being decided.

Thats common sense.

It's not as black and white as that bizarre handball, but it's the same chain of thought ie don't force decisions on the game unless they're really needed.

I've said it before and probably on this thread last year.

How they do these things in America is so much cleaner and more accurate.

Every week, each coach nominates players from the opposition for "team of the week". As far as I know they do not have to nominate any, and there's no upper limit to nominations per week in some leagues.

The players with the most nominations at year end become what they call All Americans, and what we call All Stars. Each league/tier has its own awards, and they have "first team" All Americans, and "second team" All Americans per tier when the league is big enough.

To be fair to the yanks - I generally hate how that country is run - they tend to have the most consistent, fair and even sporting structures imaginable. And this is a further example. Of course there'll be personalities, egos and vendettas between some schools/coaches, but it would be a smallminded and soon regretful coach to play this system unfairly, as other schools will notice and black ball them. 

Shitshow

Paddy Power summed him up succinctly at the weekend...

"There's only one man who can stop Phil Foden in this kind of form, and that's Gareth Southgate".