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How do you know? That's a sort of a dangerous allegation unless Talty or himself came out and said it?

Rooney is missing a lot of one on ones at the moment, which is a real sign of a lad struggling for confidence in front of the net. However, you'd have to think he'll score a shot or something, and the goals will start coming again for him. Which is worrying.

Also, playing up front on his own doesn't suit him at all, but in fairness he's grafting away and getting better at it. It's not the position that made him his name though.

Take a chill pill GNevin. If we can put up with trying to decipher your hieroglyphic ramblings, we can understand when orangeman uses italics for quotes.


GY Joe, how do you know Mullins cold cocked him? I thought it was a row?

Laois hurling's raison d'etre is to beat Offaly. Just that - nothing else. Not survival; not beating a Munster team; not brating any other neigbouring county.
They acheived their target for the league just passed. Their next target is the Leinster quarter final.

The frustrating thing for us is that Laois beat us by a point!! And we drew with Galway!!! Explain that to me

I know that POTH, what I'm asking is how can Offaly be so repectable against Galway, and even Clare, and then lose to Laois.?It's more a comment on Offaly than Laois' ability to raise themselves at the sight of the faithful.

Fcuk's sake. This is a Darwin Awards type scenario, except his poor wife is the one eliminated. Would have served him right if the bullet ricocheted back and took his knee cap out.

Maybe because I buy them in Elvery's in Limerick makes a difference? If Torpey is shipping rubbish to shops up the country, maybe he feels it won't do him any harm, whereas the average punter buying a hurl in Limerick or Tipp or Clare might know the difference, and his hurls for clubs and counties might be tarnished by association?

Oakland are giving Boston a bit of a trimming in their second game in Tokyo. It's 4-0 in the middle of the fifth. Emil Brown hit a 3 run homer in the bottom of the third.

I agree with what yourself and hound are saying but i agree with the Wexford lad that the GAA seemed not to following the rules by keeping Cork in the league and in general with this whole Strike thing you have no idea which "rule" will be applied where .

There seems to be more doubt surrounding whether the hurling games were postponements (games should be re-played) or walkovers (two and you're out). As far as I know they were postponed by the GAA, but I'm not sure.

Personally I think the GAA would have ordered all the games to be played but for Meath proclaiming (and Dublin hinting) that they wouldnt play Cork. If the GAA had followed the rules and ordered the postponed games to be played, then not only would Cork not really be punished (there is no provision in the rules for them starting at -4) but there would have been an unholy mess if Meath refused to play and then Cork were given the points! (which I believe would have been the outcome had the GAA followed the rules).

So I think they came up with the "common sense" provision of just giving the points to Cork's opposition. Cork, in theory, could have objected to this, but I think it was a safe bet that they wouldnt bearing in mind the goodwill shown to them (rightly or wrongly) by the GAA in postponing games rather than putting Cork into the position of having to give walkovers.
 

I think you've nailed it on the head Hound. The GAA were faced with a situation where they 'deferred' at least one of the games in football, and therefore Cork were not eligible to be kicked out of the football league. (Not sure about the first hurling game).

When they then decided to award the points to Meath, Dublin, Waterford and Kilkenny, they were actually contradicting themselves (surprise, surprise) in that even the deferred games were deemed to be awarded to the opposition, when by rights a refixture should have been ordered for those games. Cork, at that point, could easily have appealed that ruling, and I'm sure that Frank Murphy gave it some thought before realising that for once he should bite the bullet because there was a compelling case to say they got away with it.

The GAA fell between 2 stools in trying to accomodate Cork while they sorted out the mess, but at the same time punishing them for making games be 'deferred'. It was an imperfect solution, but probably the best one because Cork would definitely have appealed if they were docked 4 points as well as the matches being awarded to the opposition because they would in effect be punished twice for the one offence.

Of course the GAA could have deemed all 4 matches unfulfilled from day 1, no deferrments or 'postponements' and relegated Cork in both codes, but there was no appetite to do that.

I think they wear different colour bibs to designate their function. I know the maor uisce and maor camán wear differnt colours in hurling. I think the Bainisteor wears a different colour as well.

Seemingly he was wearing an orange bib. According to the Monaghan statement.

He should have a picture of Bryan Cullen taunting Declan O'Sullivan after O'Sullivan missed an early goal chance. Then Kerry Mike could have the picture of O'Sullivan shaking hands after the whistle with a big smile after scoring 1-3 and getting man of the match. That's the medicine for them boys

If it's the Talty incident, yes, I believe it was a punch. Men were men back then, no one headbutted except blackguards.

I agree hound. If Wexford and Dublin have played all their games, and each played Cork, then he has absolutely no right to demand a play off in my view. I would have agreed with him had one, or even both, of them not played Cork.

We've been guilty of the same thing in the past, and I criticised it then, so I feel valid in criticising Wexford now. They should take their medicine, go down to Division 2 and regroup. Play good games against Offaly, Antrim and Laois, along with potentially tricky ties against Carlow, Kerry and whoever else is there, and get promoted.

Division 1 is a reward for being at that level today, not an entitlement because you won a few All Irelands in the past. Same applies to Offaly, Dublin, Limerick, Clare, Laois, Antrim or whoever else might consider Division 2 'beneath' them.

Well, ye do talk fast up there.

Is Gregory Campbell not a NI supporter as well?