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[the inference of the cold, cash hungry GAA denying many the right to see our games, in their pursuit of money.]

I think the issue was that the subject matter has the potential to be quite emotive - the conflict between needing to raise revenue and at the same time trying to ensure that the product is available to as large an audience as possible.

I thought Cavanagh's approach played on that emotion - the inference of the cold, cash hungry GAA denying many the right to see our games, in their pursuit of money.

It could not go unchallenged and the response was an extremely powerful put down.

This is absolutely the crux of it and what he was implying.

While making a buck out of it himself, does he not see the hypocrisy in his own position.

Any anyone from Tyrone raising the issue of brown envelopes has an absolute cheek with the number of their clubs even down the divisions engaging in it. As well as the number of Tyrone coaches all over the country happily taking these payments.

Burns was 100% right to slap this

I think the issue was that the subject matter has the potential to be quite emotive - the conflict between needing to raise revenue and at the same time trying to ensure that the product is available to as large an audience as possible.

I thought Cavanagh's approach played on that emotion - the inference of the cold, cash hungry GAA denying many the right to see our games, in their pursuit of money.

It could not go unchallenged and the response was an extremely powerful put down.

This is absolutely the crux of it and what he was implying.

While making a buck out of it himself, does he not see the hypocrisy in his own position.

Any anyone from Tyrone raising the issue of brown envelopes has an absolute cheek with the number of their clubs even down the divisions engaging in it. As well as the number of Tyrone coaches all over the country happily taking these payments.

Burns was 100% right to slap this down.

down.

So no one can raise the issue of envelopes because their own county is at it? Bit of a stupid argument really. I can raise it and because my own county does it doesn't make it right.

I could raise its rich that Burns sets out stopping payments as one of his objectives considering armagh are playing kierarn a fortune for achieving nothing.

Bought time gaa addressed the issue and set a maximum limit. However this is a different discussion.

What is the big deal about what Cavanagh has said anyway?. The GAA has cash in the bank and is asset rich therefore some people might think it is a wealthy organisation. Bit of an over reaction from Burns IMO.

Burns was bang on and put Cavanagh back in his wee box.

Having cash reserves is good management as you never know what your revenue streams will generate year on year, plus the GAA will be contributing to all those centres of excellence springing up in every county and investing in other areas too.
If the GAA were borrowing money year on year to stay afloat it would be deemed poor management and rightly so.

As for the brown envelopes comment, get involved in your own club and put an end to it from within and stop gurning about it, it's nothing to do with Burns or Croke Park.

You may tell Burns its nothing to do with him then, he has made it one of his objectives to cut down on under table payments.

What Sean said was that gaa are a rich organization,  they have millions in reserves and assests worth hundreds of millions. This is all factual correct.

Beside people not liking Sean what did he say that was incorrect ?

Burns could have addressed the issue in a number of better ways but he didnt.

Sean said he missed the word amateur as in they are a very rich amateur group.

Burns is turning into a politician. Of course they gaa are rich, whatever the offical figure is they are far richer.

Where do you think all the money comes from for brown envelopes

This makes zero sense. Have to seen the turnover figures and the amijbt that is required in the next while?

What brown envelopes to to who are you talking about?

The point is for an amateur organization to have cash reserves of tens of millions of pounds they can hardly call themselves poor.

If they care about raising revenue then wouldnt it be easier to drop the ticket prices a bit to encourage more attendance.

The brown envelopes are the payements made to every manager in the gaa, these arent exactly going through the books now are they.

I actually dont have an issue with paying for some games but for Burns to come out and justify it by saying we need the money while having large cash reserves is just wrong.

Sean said he missed the word amateur as in they are a very rich amateur group.

Burns is turning into a politician. Of course they gaa are rich, whatever the offical figure is they are far richer.

Where do you think all the money comes from for brown envelopes

Its almost like a miracle recovery for each donegal player going down when they dont get a free

Armagh lad dropped the ball there, wasn't over carrying.

Exactly what i thought. Very poor decision

Jesus the donegal lad there wasn't long holding his head there as he went down. He was straight up when he realised the ref wasn't buying it

What is given for a keeper blatantly charging out of the small rectangle ?

Is it a penalty? Genuinely asking

Not sure Jim should be leading this. As a manager the man was gifted every single benefit a team could possibly have. Is his suggestion going to be give each team home advantage and millions each year?

I had a quick look at the ages of all the people who died on the road. 41% were under 30 years old. 30% of people were over age of 60. The other 29% were between 30-60 years old.

I be on that road often enough to see that speed and overtaking at bad time would account for a large portion of the deaths.

Its a poor road but that doesn't always excuse the excess speed or overtaking on blind corners.

Was a grand auld game of football. Defensive, yes but not overly negative in my opinion. No major talking points from the ref either. Few calls could have went either way, but nothing major.
Felt it was lost on the sideline. Had we freshened things up in the 2nd half of normal time, I think we could have won. Too slow to make changes and reacting. That said, got tactic 100 in first half. But needed better in-game management. McShane and Seanie o Donnell should have been pulled in 2nd half.
Mattie and Morgan two players showing their class today for Tyrone.

Agree with all of it.

Jesus mcbrearty scored 1 point at the end of the game and they are doing a piece on how wonderful he is

Yeah, but it was the back breaker!

Jesus mcbrearty scored 1 point at the end of the game and they are doing a piece on how wonderful he is

Yeah, but it was the back breaker!

There was about 30 seconds left and already one up lol. Plenty of other donegal lads deserved the praise rather than mcbrearty.

Jesus mcbrearty scored 1 point at the end of the game and they are doing a piece on how wonderful he is

Management needed to make changes quicker. McShane could been gone 30 mins ago. No legs left in a few of them. Unfortunately to slow to act again.

Agree. No idea how he came on in the 2nd half of normal time.

Fair play to Donegal. Worked their scores better and seemed to have more energy in extra time

Who ever is teaching tyrone how to tackle and defend needs to stop