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Dear All,


After yesterday's announcement about pay-for-play in the GAA, a group of concerned GAA people are coming together as follows:


Wednesday 5 December



7.00pm



The Elk



(between Castledawson and Toome on the main Belfast/Derry road)





The aim is to hold an open meeting to see what the grass-roots view is about this absolutely seismic shift in GAA policy.


If you're concerned about this whole issue, please come along.



And it would be useful if you could circulate the content of this email to like-minded people.

Time to do Something. Let's All GO!!!

This has been a great week for the Board in the News.  Not content with causing a stir all week in the media with our Down Strike story, Dessie has us in the Star.  Actually he castigates us all and says he would like to meet us face to face and have it out with us.  I was thinking we could meet them in Quinn's pub with the understanding that we let Mcgeeney leave during Happy Hour.

Last night, Down players took a vote of their own and voted 38 - 2 NOT to Strike. 
Yes - the whole thing is beginning to crumble down round the Greedy Players Association.

Add this to the Kerry men saying they had no heed in the whole GPA business and a picture is beginning to emerge.

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!

I want to get the new hurling game, but I have only PS3.  Can I adapt something on mys ystem to allow me play the new game on it?

An interesting story this.  I would just love to know the background to this one.  I get the feeling he realised he had created a monster, came under pressure from his family who are seen as the royal family of Down football and are widely respected as great GAA people, found it difficult to cope with the increasingly erratic behaviour of some of the GPA people and realised that commercially as well as in every other way, this strike thing is going to tumble the GPA like a house of cards.

Music to my ears.

Sorry to be banging on about the GPA, but does anyone else agree that even apart from the whole grants/ pay for Play / Strike business, thatt hey are  avery divisive organisation. 

Not content with the tried and trusted Allstars thins, they go off and set up their own team of the Year Awards, thus rendering those players who have received one and not the other, not real allstars.
Not content with Toyota who are the official GAA sponsors, they go off and do a deal with Seat and then Opel for their own sponsorship which their top men drive for free.
Not content with Lucozade being the official GAA drinks product, pumping in thousands to the county boards, they go off and set up a deal with Club Energise
Not content with the GAA players getting great exposure, thsy kick up about 'image rights', thus rendering the GAA PS2 game a joke of a thing because you can't show players' faces or name them.
A couple of years ago, a few good GAA lads from my end of the country set up a GAA sticker book  company.  no killingi n it mind you, but a nice bit of exposure for ordinary county players.  Where else would you see a picture of the Carlow corner back? went about it the right way.  Got official GAA recognition - the lot.  our friends took them to court over image rights and cleaned them out.

They are the most divisive and bad mannered outfit ever to appear.  Yapped on about Rule 42 and then when they got soccer into Croke park, they couldn't even be happy about that.  Yapped on about wanting a share of the cake to keep Dessie and Donall in their big jobs and Opel cars.

Maybe I'm on my own here, but every time they put a statement in the paper about some other divisive thing they're yapping on about, , I'm ready to bust someone with pure rage. Totally negative, even Dessie's voice sounds whingy and drawling as if he was constipated for about a week. 

Just got back.  Great day.  Excellent presentations and three ministers in tow.  All kept well together by Jarlath burns, MC who got a great dig at Edwin Poots about last weeks decision on the Irish Language, saying that given Ulster GAAs spport of him during the summer ont he stadium issue, it was 1-0 and he owed us one and there was still time to change his mind on the Act.  he also suggested a couple of words of Irish he could put into his speeches, Tiocfaidh Ar La.  All ingood humour, but well put.  A great day.  Well don Ulster Council.

Dying to see what was in there.  WHo gave them the right to decide not to open it?  I'm referring of course to the time capsule found in a monument to Sigerson in Glasnevin.  We demand to know what is in there!!

Did anyone else notice this?
I presume this is well known and my lack of rugby knowledge is once again coming to the fore.  WHy couldn't our 'heroes' buy Irish as well?  No national anthem, no green jersey, jersey made in sweatshop somewhere in Botswana.  I can identify in no way at all with Irish rugby.  Sorry, but there you go. 

Pardon me, but what was the 'scandalous rumour' that the French media was supposed to have put out about Ronan O Gara? Does anyone know?  I felt the local media were at pains yesterday trying NOT to let the cat out of the bag.  DOes anyone else think that our relationship with the French nation has suffered in recent years due to Rugby and spats between our crowd and their ones?

Yes it's true.  Nice to break a bit of news on my first post, or maybe you all knew.  Apparently Grimley is with him too.  The plot thickens when you consider ARMAGH AND kILDARE ARE IN THE SAME DIVISION...