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And it continues....

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41005442.html

From that the on field looked to be more handbags than anything (hard to tell from the terrible camera) the supporter stuff bang out of order, but can't really hold the clubs responsible. It's a big game and as in all sports big games attract idiots. It's a neutral venue so can't really see either club being taken to task for it.

People need to grow up, I can't imagine getting that wound up at a game as a spectator that I'd scale a load a rows of seats to throw digs. Morons

I think it is the biggest pile of virtue signalling shite. "Look how big a GAA man I am. Look I deep my love for Kilcoo goes."

I think it is an absolute pile of dung.

This X2

if you're that concerned about your own club then dont manage an outside club. Regardless if they are in a different county, you take a job on you do the job. We get all misty eyed about the GAA but look at soccer, even at a local level. Take Barry Gray when he was Cliftonville manager, he had taken Warrenpoint from nowhere, done everything around the club but didnt stop him doing his job for Cliftonville against the Point when the time came.

If I was a player and a manager asked me to sacrifice so much over a season to then say he wasn't managing us in our biggest game of the year id be furious. Either do the job or dont.

Will Errigal be any use to Glen? You're looking at a lot shorter than 11/1 if they were to spring an upset Sunday week.

The 1 thing id say in this is Errigal won't sit back and try and ruin the game the way most Derry teams do against Glen. They'll go for it and it gives Glen something to think about with the 2 Canavans, I think glen come through by a couple of points though but be tight. stuck £10 on EC for ulster anyway as think the winner will come from this and there's no value in betting Glen

Wouldn't write off Dunloy to be there or there abouts, they are a serious outfit. I suppose it'll depend on the scheduling between the SHC and IFC games, they are as fit as you'll see and some of their forward play is first class. im looking forward to seeing what they can do in Ulster

Lets hope they can get games arranged to give them the best chance in both. Would be fantastic to see

Some season for Dunloy so far. Is there much crossover of players between the hurling and the football? As mentioned above hopefully common sense would see games scheduled so they can compete well in both.

Think I seen a pic after the hurling final of the dual players think it was about 12 in both squads, id say of that you'd have 7 or so starting on both give or take, of that id say 5 of their Hurlers would be their main men in football ads their league form compared to championship showed

Wouldn't write off Dunloy to be there or there abouts, they are a serious outfit. I suppose it'll depend on the scheduling between the SHC and IFC games, they are as fit as you'll see and some of their forward play is first class. im looking forward to seeing what they can do in Ulster

I see the narrative is set that Celtic symphony is a pro IRA song. I wish someone would correct them that it's a Celtic song, it references 'the ra' but it's not a republican song

Once a week for training and a game, whether go games, tournaments or challenge games is plenty. The players would go 4-5 days a week all year round but you need to give them space to do other things and you do not want to fatigue the Parents or coaches.

Yeah, between football, hurling/camogie, soccer plus other activities (be it swimming, music, youth club etc) I think one training a week is plenty at the younger age groups.

Our club actually merged the football & hurling training at U7.5 age group which I thought was a great idea - introduced boys to hurling that probably wouldn't have otherwise taken it up; obviously not everyone kept it going but I think it's great to expose young children to as many activities as possible.

My sons team do that, they do first 45 mins hurling then 45mins football or vica versa. when he started he hated hurling used to cry he didnt want to do it (prob to do with the helmet etc) but after about 6 months he's done a complete U turn and enjoys hurling more. Really shows that these things take time =. His coaches are first class too, brilliant with the kids which id say will stop there being a massive drop out rate.

Get rid of the group stages, they are not working. League kick off in mid April, finish at end of August. Then straight into a knockout championship with the 4 teams seeded (Seed 1 and 4 on one side of draw, 2 and 3 on the other side). Plus no relegation playoffs, bottom 2 go down and top 2 go up.

That means you will not have a county player playing in the league, which translates to you having your county player play one game in the season for you if your beat in the first round to playing four games for you if win the title. ??

if the issue is the 1 game you're out then try implement a back door. teams then guaranteed 2 games which mean something. the groups end up with dead rubbers. Go knockout with a backdoor and there's no dead rubbers and teams still get 2 gos at it, better trying that than the groups.

Aghagallon haven't long to lick their wounds, relegation play off on Friday night v All Saints. Surely a foregone conclusion but of course you never know.

Does anyone know if aghagallon as senior championship finalists get seeded again along with the 3 other 3 semi finalists? If they lose to ballymena I thought they will be relegated to div 2 and drop out of senior championship but unsure if that still stands given they have done enough to be seeded in senior championship next year

Afaik, the top 4 in the league are seeded for championship.
Aghagallon would have option of playing SFC or ask to be re graded to IFC  if they lost play off with Ballymena for 2023.

no chance of getting rid of the farcical groups and back to straight knock out then?

It'll take a manager or coach to just go f it, we're gonna leave our 6 forwards up and play them man for man when opposition has the ball, you're gonna concede scores but I'm yet to see a tactic which won't concede scores. I genuinely don't know how some teams would react to not having the time on the ball. Turn the team over in their own half enough times and they'll soon want to get the ball forward. It boils down to managers being brave and backing their players .

Mayo here a new jersey out.

Adidas Rugby phoned and want their design back lol

Stephen Kenny has to go, he's out of his depth. We need a manager who realises that in international football you have to play the cards you're dealt with regards your approach and your players. we dont have the players for playing out from the back all the time, there's a time and a place. we need someone who is going to be more pragmatic in their approach, Id love to see Chris Houghton take the job, he knows how to deal with players in the lower levels of England and knows how to get a winning formula.

We may not have the players right now for an effective brand of possession based football, but we definitely don't have the players for a return to hoofball.

Outside of the centre backs, we are tiny. Who plays the point man in a hoofball system? Obefemi, Parrott, Ogbene, Robinson, Hogan - none of those guys fit the bill. Maybe Idah, but he's perma-crocked these days.

Whether you agree or not on sticking with Kenny, it's pretty clear that we have it persist with something like his brand of football.

There's a difference in what we're doing now and hoofball. What we do now is try and play with possession. That's great but you have to have players who can then break the lines, that's the part we don't have. Teams will let us have the ball and drop a bit simply because they know we don't have the quality to break them down with the type of play we're doing.

Scotland have the perfect mix they play to their strengths, look at Steve Clarke, he's teams are always built from the back. Strong CB partnership RB/LB who can get forward and get balls into the box, it's not hoofball by any stretch.

There's more than 2 ways to play football

Stephen Kenny has to go, he's out of his depth. We need a manager who realises that in international football you have to play the cards you're dealt with regards your approach and your players. we dont have the players for playing out from the back all the time, there's a time and a place. we need someone who is going to be more pragmatic in their approach, Id love to see Chris Houghton take the job, he knows how to deal with players in the lower levels of England and knows how to get a winning formula.

There no chance people will wait about from about 12.30 to possibly 6.30, used to be great going to a double header in championship

Yeah thats what im saying, they are actively discouraging people from going to both games, you'd look past the time between the games if Dif venues and trying to allow people time to get between them.