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#1
Quote from: tbrick18 on March 19, 2024, 09:37:59 AM
Quote from: nrico2006 on March 18, 2024, 05:58:52 PMAlways been stupid. A league with 7 games and there is a final for top 2. Be understandable if there were 20 games, but not enough teams in the divisions for this setup. Plus you see teams who are near the relegation zone in the penultimate week and nearly make the final by the next.

The flip side to this is that since we only play each other once in the league, there is no chance to redeem yourself from a "slip". The league final provides that for the 2 most consistent teams in that league perhaps?

I quite like the Div 1 league finals, but at the lower divisions, promotion is the prize imo and not a league title.

What about doing something drastic? Maybe league winners get a bye in the first round of their provincial championship and don't make the championship draw until the league has finished.
That would give some real value to the Div2/3/4 winners in particular.

The AI structure now does give weight to league positions but maybe not enough?

Or we just leave it as is. For some teams the only realistic chance of winning a competition, or getting to play in Croke park is a league final and that might be their priority.

Could just seed the provincial draws based on final league position. The difference between 3rd & 4th seed could change the chances of a provincial final (and subsequent all Ireland seeding), and simultaneously helps ensure that inadequate teams don't take up a San Maguire spot because a lopsided provincial draw gifted them a run to the final.
#2
Quote from: Saffrongael on February 15, 2024, 01:10:56 PMI see local residents have been informed of "maintenance and pre-enabling works" and "enabling works including site clearance" between now and June

Probably could have been at the maintenance a few years ago!
#3
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
February 03, 2024, 10:30:16 PM
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on February 03, 2024, 09:42:10 PMIt was a free, very clever one and he played for it.Minute the man put his hands out on his back, Mayo lad went down.

You could see the free coming before the players even reached the ball. Any county player in that position is going to bend over the ball, slow up a second to try and invite contact, and go down as soon as they feel it. And get the free every time, because you can't push a player as they're bending over the ball.
#4
General discussion / Re: The Official Golf Thread
January 21, 2024, 02:44:15 PM
Quote from: Mikhail Prokhorov on January 14, 2024, 12:26:27 PM
Quote from: Tubberman on January 14, 2024, 11:59:41 AM
Quote from: screenexile on January 14, 2024, 11:57:57 AMNot helping his choker narrative with this display!!

Has to be in his head at this stage

His u turn on Liv is playing with his head  ;D


Must be alright...
#5
General discussion / Re: Man Utd Thread:
December 26, 2023, 03:32:20 PM
Quote from: marty34 on December 26, 2023, 03:22:35 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 26, 2023, 02:00:26 PMIf Utd are crap, how bad are Newcastle?

Newcastle have had a good few injuries recently, especially to key players.

Plus the European run hasn't helped them in that respect.

It'll ahow Howe where they stand panel wise and the level they need to get to.

No comparsion with Man Utd in my opinion.

Square this circle for us please
#6
General discussion / Re: East wall #Irelandisfull
November 24, 2023, 12:41:08 PM
Quote from: tyrone08 on November 24, 2023, 08:01:26 AM
Quote from: OgraAnDun on November 24, 2023, 04:15:56 AM
Quote from: armaghniac on November 24, 2023, 12:12:48 AMThe knifer was stopped, at least in part, by a Brazilian courier on a motorbike who stopped and biffed him with his helmet.

Where were all the brave Irish patriots then, needing a foreigner to step in to protect women & children?

The obvious answer is that its easier to find someone who is not from ireland in dublin these days than it is to find an irish man lol

Nonsense to start with and every bar, restaurant or cafe in the city would fold without their labour anyway as the scrotes thieving from stores last night won't (or can't) do that sort of work.

While a conversation has to be had around treatment of crime and values in this country, from foreigners and our own born & bred, immigrants have had an overall net positive in Dublin and made it a far more interesting, diverse and open minded city.
#7
General discussion / Re: East wall #Irelandisfull
November 24, 2023, 04:15:56 AM
Quote from: armaghniac on November 24, 2023, 12:12:48 AMThe knifer was stopped, at least in part, by a Brazilian courier on a motorbike who stopped and biffed him with his helmet.

Where were all the brave Irish patriots then, needing a foreigner to step in to protect women & children?
#8
General discussion / Re: Hamas launch attack on Israel
October 07, 2023, 03:34:51 PM
Quote from: red hander on October 07, 2023, 03:06:45 PMHateful Apartheid bastards propped up by hypocritical West that whines on about Russia while ignoring this shower of murdering scum and the Nazis of Ukraine.

You got the comparison the wrong way round there.
#9
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on October 05, 2023, 01:44:05 PMI'll believe it when I see the diggers going in lol!

"spades in soil" from the UK PM and they have shelved the new rail line to Manchester ..

Sure that's where they got the Casement funds from...
#10
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
October 03, 2023, 01:40:32 PM
Final will be a stop start game with the ref afraid of losing control given the high profile nature of the current scandal and recent history of the two teams involved.
#11
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
September 22, 2023, 04:06:49 PM
Quote from: NormPeterson on September 22, 2023, 03:00:16 PMMany of the people watching the rugby world cup are the same types who complain about GAA bandwagoners watching the All Ireland football championship. So tell me, are all you Irish rugby fans involved in local grassroots rugby? Sure you shouldn't be watching the Ireland international team if you don't go out and coach your local u-10s by your own logic.

As long as the U10 rugby coaches get tickets ahead of the bandwagonners, then what's the issue?
#12
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
August 30, 2023, 07:09:13 PM
Quote from: PTC on August 30, 2023, 04:45:45 PM
Quote from: 5times5times on August 30, 2023, 04:20:55 PM
Quote from: downtothecore on August 30, 2023, 04:01:13 PM
Agree every team has them. Kilcoo are just high profile team at the minute and any incident gets a lot of attention. The carryduff kilcoo wasnt a dirty game. A good game by 2 good teams.

In the last 12 months, 3 clear videos have been shared of their t***pish antics... Burren, Carryduff with Brannagans cheapshot (and ran away), and now next example on Monday night.

Carryduff were the aggressors on Monday night and when Kilcoo upped it they couldn't live with them, Burren and Kilcoo were both guilty in last years match but we won't talk about Burren

Poor Kilcoo, every club they ever play against from about U16 up instigates stuff against them.
#13
General discussion / Re: Reopen the railways
July 27, 2023, 07:26:00 AM
There's a decent page/graphic in the review stating current journey times via rail or road compared to the projected journey times for the proposed upgrades and works. Time on virtually all Inter-city routes is vastly reduced and considerably quicker than cars.
#14
General discussion / Re: The Official Golf Thread
July 16, 2023, 02:40:18 PM
Where's our Russian troll now?
#15
GAA Discussion / Re: AIQF Armagh v Monaghan
July 04, 2023, 10:35:51 AM
Quote from: AustinPowers on July 03, 2023, 11:22:39 PM
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Quote from: 5times5times on July 03, 2023, 11:36:25 AM
Some dive by McManus at the end, but once again, Armagh stupid fouling haunts them again,

Was it a dive or a foul?
It was a definite foul  but with McManus enhancing the drama. The script was already written for that last piece of drama, everybody knew their lines except Armagh and the ref was right on cue.

I see the GAA have stated that a wide was the correct call.

"During the Armagh v Monaghan game yesterday the Hawk-Eye score detection system returned a 'data unavailable' message. The GAA requested an explanation from Hawk-Eye who concluded that the message was a result of operator error.
The GAA is happy that the system review confirmed the on-field decision by the referee taken at the time."

I wonder what the operator error was?
And if the review showed it was in fact a point and Monaghan happened to lose the game in ET or penalties, another secret to buried in the Croke park cellars and the operator falls out of a 5th floor window?

Hawk-eye gives some bother in the GAA. Does it give the same amount of trouble in its other sporting applications? I read it costs between €7-8k per game!
Points are tricky and more frequent in GAA versus say rugby.

I don't  watch rugby  but am   I right  in saying rugby posts are higher than  GAA posts ?

Raise the height  of the posts , and that would  sort out some  of the  close calls

Or even put another crossbar at the top of the posts and the ball has to go through this rectangle.  :)

You might jest , but that was proposed  a few short years back . I think it failed

Awful proposal. Let's make it harder to score.

Something nice about seeing a booming point from out the pitch fly over the ball stopper.