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Worst display I've seen in over 20 years. No game plan at all. Are there no talented young fellas playing rugby.....France, Wales all are prepared to give youth a chance....EOS's idea is bring on a couple of lads with 5 mins to go.
Time for a clean sweep, get rid of all the dead wood.

Sharia law in UK ' unavoidable'
 
Rowan Williams 
The adoption of some aspects of Islamic sharia law in the UK 'seems unavoidable', the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.

Dr Rowan Williams said there was a place for finding a 'constructive accommodation' in areas such as marriage - allowing Muslim women to avoid western divorce proceedings.

Other religions enjoyed such tolerance of their own laws, he pointed out, but stressed that it could never be allowed to take precedence over an individual's rights as a citizen.

He said it would also require a change in perception of what sharia involved beyond the 'inhumanity' of extreme punishments and attitudes to women seen in some Islamic states.

Dr Williams said: 'It seems unavoidable and, as a matter of fact, certain conditions of sharia are already recognised in our society and under our law, so it is not as if we are bringing in an alien and rival system.

'We already have in this country a number of situations in which the internal law of religious communities is recognised by the law of the land as justifying conscientious objections in certain circumstances.'

He added: 'There is a place for finding what would be a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law as we already do with aspects of other kinds of religious law.

'It would be quite wrong to say that we could ever license a system of law for some community which gave people no right of appeal, no way of exercising the rights that are guaranteed to them as citizens in general.

'But there are ways of looking at marital disputes, for example, which provide an alternative to the divorce courts as we understand them.

'In some cultural and religious settings they would seem more appropriate.'

He said people needed to look at Islamic law 'with a clear eye and not imagine, either, that we know exactly what we mean by sharia and just associate it with ... Saudi Arabia, or whatever.

'Nobody in their right mind would want to see in this country the kind of inhumanity that has sometimes been associated with the practice of the law in some Islamic states: the extreme punishments, the attitudes to women.'

There were questions about how it interacted with human rights, he said.

'But I do not think we should instantly spring to the conclusion that the whole of that world of jurisprudence and practice is somehow monstrously incompatible with human rights just because it doesn't immediately fit with how we understand it.'

The "teddy-bears" are f****d now.

Manilou is out at the weekend.

Barry?     he'll probably win by a nose

Alvin and the Chipmonks..............class

I dont think Ulster teams (apart from the Universities) are worried about playing top class football at this stage, as shown by the likes of Armagh and Tyrone fielding very under strength teams.

Yes maybe so but they are still training hard and I think they should be concentrating on skills rather than fitness at this stage of the season.

[Kevin Kelly]

Was at the Queens v Antrim game last night, entertaining game.  Queens, although I wouldn't say a lot fitter than Antrim, were certainly more organised and had a well thought out gameplan, whereas Antrim seemed to fly by the seat of their pants.  Antrim dominated MF with McGourty & Joe Quinn in good form, although I thought that Queens tried to intentionally bypass MF for most of the game.  The game's best player was Antrims #11 (McCann?), who looks to be an ideal CHF, but maybe a bit too similar in style to MCGourty, he gave Joe OKane a torrid time in the first half, but to be fair to O'Kane he turned it around a bit in the second half.  Best for Queens, probably Courtney & McComiskey, with hounourable mentions to Aodan Gallgher and Kevin Kelly (who were both strangely/tactically substituted).  I though the AOR/Bernie Murray management combo definitely delivered tactically on the night.

Now he wouldn't be a relative would he?
Definately think he will get a call up to the county as we desperately need scoring forwards and he has a swet left foot, as for you Benny you have only a sweet tooth!

Just wondering, if any player showed a lot of potential now (as in January), would you still expect him to produce the goods come the summer.
Kerry don't give a rats ass until the summer and build up their training accordingly, so why are Ulster teams trying to produce top football in the winter.