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December, January and February would be all that most club players would want, players love playing and training you know, that's why most of them do it! If they know they have them 3 months off then they can go and plan things for those 3 months.

Going forward I think the coming season will be used to get the split right for the 4 division plan that was passed at county committee level and would have been in now only for covid. When that comes in it's 4 divisions of 12, each team plays 22 league games (play each team home and away), 11 starred which will be played while county season is ongoing and 11 unstarred which will go from mid July and be wrapped up before championship. I think the starred games should be weighted points wise (I.e 2 for winning a starred game and 3 for an unstarred game) but either way plenty of games from the start of May with championship in late Sept to mid November and 3+ months break after that, will be a great system

Surely that 4x12 system isn't required now with the split season at National level? I assume there's been no mention of it because the idea's been dropped.

It was only suggested to deal with the circumstances at the time, which have now changed.

I would have thought all the more reason for it with split season. The big problem that turned up in the survey and workshops that all players done at that time was not enough games so it's a no brainier

December, January and February would be all that most club players would want, players love playing and training you know, that's why most of them do it! If they know they have them 3 months off then they can go and plan things for those 3 months.

Going forward I think the coming season will be used to get the split right for the 4 division plan that was passed at county committee level and would have been in now only for covid. When that comes in it's 4 divisions of 12, each team plays 22 league games (play each team home and away), 11 starred which will be played while county season is ongoing and 11 unstarred which will go from mid July and be wrapped up before championship. I think the starred games should be weighted points wise (I.e 2 for winning a starred game and 3 for an unstarred game) but either way plenty of games from the start of May with championship in late Sept to mid November and 3+ months break after that, will be a great system

Surely a split season means no overlap??

So you expect club footballers to sit kicking their heels until the middle of July??? Half the league will be starred as before with those starred games being played May, June and July

Yet again we will have new winners in the Tyrone championship, unbelievable how it has not been defended in 16 years or so. Serious crowd there tonight, Tyrone club football is alive and kicking

Donaghmore starting well against KC against the wind

I got an EU digital cert on the covid tracker app a few weeks ago, going to Portugal on Friday so hoping this will work as chances of them sorting the new system before then is it good according to their helpline

Got the cert from Dept of Health this evening!

Cannot get this to work, I've tried scanning the paper PDF and screenshot of the app QR code, all rejected. Which did you use?

As noted above Aia you have to use a different version of chrome. It's not the QR code it's the browser you're using.

For us less technical does it have to be chrome, can it be done on explorer, I would t have a clue how to  go about getting a different version of chrome or even know which version I am using

Anyone know if this will be continued as an Ulster u15 comp?

Was a brilliant tournament.

It would be more likely to continue as the U17 competition as this is what it originally was before the Ulster Council requested it to move to U16. There are no tournaments this year but it's likely to resume next year if the Ulster Council can find room in the revised calendar for it. The charity has suffered greatly with covid so the re-start is badly needed

Can you pay at the turnstiles for today's games in pomeroy?

No you have to buy the ticket online beforehand

A player red carded, or two yellow cards or a yellow card followed by a black cannot play in extra time, never could. the team can start with 15 players, but none of those players sent off in normal time... their offences would need to been seen before a CCC meeting to determined their offence and ban..

The yellow cards from the 'normal' games are squashed.. so it seems even the keyboard warriors are unsure of the rules..

as for applying them wobbler that's down to the referee, his call his interpretation of the rules, not your interpretation of the rules. If you'd like to carry out that function on the pitch for your county then they would love to have a man that knows it all and be able to carry it out correctly

Here is one for you and happened in the London Intermediate final last
Weekend, a player was black carded 2 or 3 minutes before the end of normal time, game went to extra time but given he has only 3 minutes of his 10 minute spell served should he have been allowed to start extra time or not?

Our boys did the business last night in the Armagh Minor Championship, wondering is there anybody in the know if St Paul"s plan to run their fantastic Ulster Minor Club tournament this year? (Assuming it would be U17)

I would assume so and hopefully name it after one of its best players in Anto Finnegan

No Ulster underage tournaments this year as no room in the calendar as schools have priority over the winter

Can anyone shed light on how many tickets Tyrone gave to clubs ?

Not sure yet but have some clubs allowed ticketmaster to sort their tickets while other clubs have done it themselves? Anyone else confirm this?

Confused about this one, clubs have given ticketmaster their allocation of tickets to hand out to its members or just random Tyrone supporters?

Is that because the club couldn't find enough people to take them or do they make money off it?

It is very confusing. The way I've taken it is that some clubs have possibly handed in a list of names of club members to ticketmaster to sort therefore washing their hands of it all, whereas some clubs have decided to not risk that scenario in case a club member that deserves a ticket doesn't get one? You only have to look at different clubs Facebook pages to see that not all clubs are reading off the same script on this.

At the Ulster final stage each Monaghan club (and presumably Tyrone?) handled applications from club members by holding their own draw but submitting the winners names and email addresses to Ticketmaster and the tickets were paid for and downloaded via ticketmasters online portal... A lot less messy for clubs i'm sure?

I know this cause I had to print out about 5 different sets of tickets for less 'technical' friends of mine 

Less difficult than heading to your club have a few pints/juice and get the tickets?

Personally I'd prefer to get a physical ticket, I've all mine in a tin box with all the programs from over the years

Easier for the club. No money changing hands, no people all meeting up to collect tickets, no people deciding not to take tickets last minute. Just less crap for a club to do.

I love the new way. It's straight forward and efficient. As you say takes a load of stress out of it for the clubs.

As someone deeply involved in the distribution of the tickets I can wholeheartedly say this is definitely not less stress on the clubs and in addition not fair on our members, would be strongly pushing the county boards to lobby the GAA to go back to the old system

is it the clubs allocating the tickets? or is it the same process as the previous 2 games in Croke park where you will have to download/print the tickets from a GAA ticketmaster account?

Same as previous in Mayo anyway. In pods of two so I'm hoping the other fella doesn't make a balls of mine,!

surely if you've been (Tyrone or Mayo) to the provincial final and all-ireland semi-final in Croke Park you should get preference for the final?, and they should be able to tell then who was went previously or not.

How does this make you any more deserving that the man who cleans out the changing room every week of the year, or the man who lines the club pitch out or the man who takes the u12's for 50 coaching sessions a year? People in and around the club are much more deserving of All Ireland tickets than the avid county supporter who couldn't tell you how their club played last week or who was playing full back in the reserve team etc 

Do we reckon there will be senior fixtures played next weekend, the 13,14th?

For Division one it will be reserve championship games

Forgot Michael Cassidy. Is Murnaghan from Killyclogher Or David Mulgrew still on the panel

both gone

Peter Teague also