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Consistency- flags are put exactly 2 of Stuart's feet away from the line intersection...

this same computer said "miss"...

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ps ask Steve Carter if hawkeye was calibrated for this
pss ask Stuart Wilson about the flags and the crossbar


it would be easier if someone could explain how to put pictures on these replies, please

I'm glad to see them 2 in the final.

They do need a referee, but only to refer to the odd time when they can't agree between themselves.

Ps Chin's free should never been given as a point, it would mean Hogan's fingers catching the ball would have had to be 195mm behind the front of a regulation crossbar, that's 8 inches, I can't think of many with hands that size.
Ref. Limerick Galway minors was a bad calibration

Pss The crossbar didn't look 125mm diameter, more like 90mm trendy aluminum, but surely Croke park have everything correct to their own rules and regulations, just like the flags being part of pitch at line intersections...

Catch yourselves on lads, it's a football match between 30-42 or so local men, all of whom are super fit and surely playing competitive football most of their lives, how can it not be finely balanced ?

Assuming Antrim pick from a potential players pool of 109,653 twenty to thirty-four year old taigs, spread in 34 senior teams, Tyrone from an equivalent pool of 48,019 in 49 senior teams,  this is an imbalance.

The math is elementary, we all know it...
Must be a culture thing; twenty year CB compunction maybe, or more...

Ps and they say there are too many teams in Belfast...

Pss we'll park casement in the shortstay for now.

Psss the phrase brexit will be consigned to the history books soon, same as Ukexit or GB&Niexit

No one is selling this ref lark too well 

Look I've been doing it over 10 years now, it's not bad at all, the automated messages, regular updates,referee WhatsApps, fitness rules test, assessments and good structure, it's a hell of a lot better than it was. But I'm certainly noticing gurning more and more, even creeping into the manly sport of hurling.


If a keeper makes a mistake it's magnified as it will/could cost a goal, the players will rally round him and encourage him, a referee is human also but will get torrid abuse the whole match, if a player feels he didn't get a 'foul' . It's a bizarre 'job' but being involved in these games is good. On games alone in a week I could maybe run 24 Km, that's without doing my own training, if anything it keeps you fit.

Start a Referees Appriciation Thread...

Motto;  L'essence du bénévolat, c'est la gratitude.

There would appear to be plenty of forumites for it...

To get you guys started, some discussion topics;
Condemnation is not justified, unless self-inflicted
Match 'fee' for volunteering, the only man on the pitch getting tax free coin
Travel expenses tax deductible
'Mileage' per game
Sycophancy of the 2 main men...

Ps
Selling the lark; the morer the labourer, the lesser the wage...

Spike - Reply #17687
Best post ? My bollocks !

I would think bannside is pretty close to the mark with his corrective post.

Anyways, antrim are where the are now, and that is bottom.

The main stakeholders are made up of four groups; players, management and backroom, fans and county board. During my time in antrim, the players have changed, the management has changed, the fans have dwindled, and the county board have cosmetically changed.

So for me the common denominator to the dire situation is the culture remains the same. As with most, but unfortunately not all, volunteers, credit must be given to the guys who step up to the plate at all levels within the county and club organisation. But, here's the thing, until there is a step change in culture, it will likely stay the same.

Where will the step change come from, that's like a secret any successful organisation already knows, and most folks think it can be bought; it can't for most, and there is nobody coming up from croke, and also, nobody actually wants the Midas Touch...
Most of it is called work; shoulders to the wheel, pulling on the oars, planning, organisation, management, leadership, gratitude and comradery.
The rest is a bit of magic; where from ? Je ne sais pas. Perhaps from a positive and coherent culture, where all involved retrospect instead of complaining and criticising.

When the stakeholders jell using effective teams and the "magic" formula balances, then there may be a new quantum state created with natural stoichiometry, and successful may follow.

So, ostracise the negativity, not the individuals and create positivity, it's about evolution, not revolution.

I'll complete my last statement, and try and make it as unambiguous as possible;
The result shows the level between a 2018 Div 2 Kerry team and a 2018 Div 1 Antrim team.

Embarrassment had some Antrim men trying to disiguse this fact, whitewashing... some were quite entertaining in the stealth

It's over now, let's move on, I don't want to have to go down a few levels. 

Division 1  in Kerry    beginning to show up the difference between the sides. ENDAS making some poor decisions in attack. Rory Scott not on the ball enough

Only one word now; deranged

Ps. The result shows the level...

Well it's two div1 teams in the final at Croker, so that should persuade the begrudgers to support St Enda's 

There's one word to describe this, but I don't know if it's because of your perfunctory investigation or your biased presentation, the smiley suggests the latter.

P.s. Kilcummin weren't even division 2 champions last year. Now we have a new year and a new club championship.
P.s.s.  The reply options don't have a suitable simley for antrim football today, but one is close... 

Well done Antrim gaa.

Having regular match Twitter updates and some pictures and videos for matches are great when unable to go to the match.

Now having live radio commentary as well is brilliant. 


Ps what club would let anyone train on their pitch this time of year...

Happy new year.
Have only seen two really one sided matches so for this year, both rubbish, and it was more expensive to watch club minors playing than it was a senior county game !

Ps. There's more than a keeper Antrim need.
Pss. And unfortunately Christmas is just past... 

so, I think there is only one reason NE won't play Antrim intermediate c/s next year, FF.

Won't have said match fitness is going to be a difference as hurling and football are 2 different games.. ...

... Bollocks

Ps. Footblock, you're a bollocks or only talk ballocks ...

Pss st Enda's, more bollocks - senior, intermediate and u21

St Enda's may have success winning two B championships this year, the history books will be kinder to them...

Above are the illustrious seniors and A's, around are the illustrious medians and B's.  Do they deserve a crown of the virtues, or a pusillanimous crown ?

Ps The dreadnoughts play div 2 football, worthy competitors. Proper county administration.

We have been docked the 2 points for the Aghagallon game and will play Moneyglass in a winner takes all game to see who will progress to the A competition.

The player in question will be banned for how long no one in our club cares as he wont be back in the gates again

No official from Dunloy has been punished and rightfully so as no one done anything wrong on our behalf

Owen Elliott has no Dunloy connections but I must say he and his committee have reached the right decision on this one

We move on

Christ, if that's your clubs policy, droop your heads...

A young kid, who wants to play football, makes a mistake and regardless of real reason or juicy gossip, he's getting thrown in the trash bin.

When you lookout for your own wanes, for even longer than 22 years, you understand only some mistakes they make, not all, and try to keep them on track, that's called progress...
transgression, reasoning, punishment, restorative justice, result.

Ijustkeepdroppingballs, be a real gaa/club man and mentor, find that kid, put your arm around him, communicate your pain to him, and get him back playing football again. He'll learn from this hopefully, and maybe become one of you future stalwarts; Be a mature man, a real man.

Ps his registration details are bound to be correct by now....
Pss keep an eye on him