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[which defeats the point of the season being split in the first place.]

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So league shouldn't matter? Ok, let Dublin play tailteann cup.. Kilkenny play Christy ring

Exactly, league shouldn't matter.
With there being a split season it's much fairer that championship grades are based on championship performances when all clubs have their county players available. Basing it on league position is unfair, which is why we get a situation where a club like Cullyhanna  win a handy intermediate championship in Armagh this year.
If they are going to be linked then counties need to take Tyrone's approach and play the majority of league games once county players are back with their clubs, which defeats the point of the season being split in the first place.

I thought the point of the split season was that clubs didn't play when county was playing. An intercounty season, and then a club season

So if that's the case - say your county gets knocked out in mid June...
Club players get no games whatsoever at all (either league or championship) effectively until the start of July?
So you have to fit both competitions in at that stage.
If you want to lose players to the game that's a great starting point towards achieving it

You'd wonder why it wasn't in Tuam. Would have suited both sets of supporters more and would be less windy.

I read during the week that Tuam wasn't an option for this one.
Something to do with capacity restrictions (dunno why as these games aren't going to draw huge crowds in these conditions).
Stand is being redeveloped after the intermediate game tomorrow.
Corofin generally choose Tuam for their Connacht club games - they would prefer to play there.
Comfortable enough win in the end

Corofin far superior in that first half. Is 6 points up enough is the question.
Have seem so many "game of two halves" matches in that stadium it's hard to know.

Once again - the wind in Pearse is about to ruin a game

Sure it's not a question of saying you "want" to play junior championship.
If you manage to get yourself relegated in championship football from both senior and intermediate then it will happen.
Where there is no link between league and championship it can and sometimes does happen.
Sin e

The reason I like the fact that there is no link is that the league can go ahead to conclusion without county players. Not sure that would be the case if it affected your championship status.
We get a league game every two weeks uninterrupted from early March up until early July (dual county so alternate football and hurling weekends). And then a short 3-4 weeks until first round of championship.
Much better than it used to be

Corofin are cruising. Be very afraid.

Good. Hope someone can stop Kilmacud. Looking forward to seeing how Kilcoo go. 

Fair play to Corofin.
This current team isn't at the level of the 3 in a row crew though I think. Not sure they would be able for Kilmacud.
I honestly think the Ballina game will be 50-50.
Liam Silke showed today what a loss he was to us last year at county level.
Class player

As a matter of interest - is every county different in terms of whether or not there is a link between league and championship?
In Galway we used to have senior league, intermediate league, junior league etc. You played at that same grade for Championship.2 up and 2 down each year.
To get senior you either had to win the intermediate league or win the intermediate championship.
Restructure maybe 10-11 years ago removed the link between c'ship and league.
Your league division has nothing to do with what championship grade you play in at all.
My own club play junior championship but in our league (division 3) all
of the other teams play either intermediate or senior championship.
These provincial club championships are amazing competitions.
Played in a Connacht final a good few years back and was a brilliant experience.

South Africa don't look like getting back into this

No, Sexton wasn't good. What was the wattsapp lads say re. the blasphemy question? Gerry Thornley gushing all over Sexton, as ever, in The Irish Times. Almost embarrassing. He also had a pop at the ref. - again, as usual - but I didn't think Barnes was bad.

I think both of France and SA would have beaten Ireland the way they played the following night.

Thornley sickens my hole the way that he is a complete and utter cheerleader for the Irish rugby team.
Listening to The Left Wing podcast every day during the World Cup Ruadhri O Connor was the same - constantly talking the team
Up. Giving endless reasons why they'd beat the All Blacks. I read an article somewhere - where it was stated that there was a perception that people outside of Ireland were glad that the ABs won that game because of the quote "nauseating arrogance" of the Irish media.
And I say all this as someone who is a big fan of the team and was gutted they lost.
But some of the media coverage was cringey to say the least.

Lads what's the deal with Kilcoo and Faloon?
What was the reason for the objection re him reffing it - some past incident?
As an outsider it beggars belief that a club can object to an appointed referee and get it changed.
Sure that opens a huge can of worms.
You could have this craic going on every week. I'd say most clubs have certain refs that they feel havent done them any favours in the past.

It was 2014 when I was in San Sebastian & had no kids back then but it's really lovely. I would definitely go back with the family now.
We went in August for 5 nights. Had 3 lovely days weather wise
 - one overcast and one a mixture of the two. The day we left it was lashing rain.
We are normally hotel pool people rather than beach but booked extremely last minute so accommodation choice was limited.
Went to La Concha beach instead every day which was really nice.
Food fab and plenty of shops for the wife to mooch about.
I'd really recommend it

Hard to believe how shite Argentina have been with an extra man for pretty much the whole game.
They haven't even looked like scoring.

Does it much matter who the manager is though?
We have an extremely weak squad at the moment that's the reality.
Bad and all as our results have been - they are probably in line with the squad we have.

It seems she didn't have the players on her side.
The writing is usually on the wall in such situations.