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GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire 2024 Group 4 -...

Last post by thejuice - Today at 08:34:38 PM

The same bunch on the county board that wanted Andy McEntee out at the start of 2022 wanted O'Rourke. No idea why. As ever with Meath CB they are a law unto themselves and don't offer any explanations as to why they decide things. But we let them get away with it I suppose.

The fact that the whole back room team walked after year one was telling.

#2

GAA Discussion / Re: Negativity around current ...

Last post by Rossfan - Today at 08:29:59 PM

Ye had ye're "straight knock out" in 2020 and 2021 and that cured most people of that disease.
Journalists made Refs give yellow cards for pulling jerseys....

#3

GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire 2024 Group 4 -...

Last post by Dunneroyal - Today at 08:24:53 PM

I have genuine fear for this weekend. I hope Kerry just come for a bit of practice rather than at full tilt. Cause under Colm they can win by whatever margin they want. Upto and including 20 points. Meath have never been as low as we are now. I wonder what the geniuses who destroyed mcentee last year by voting against him think now. After we had lost a playoff to get promoted and lost to Dublin by lowest score in years.  Pathetic.  We are a shambles I'd say worse than Kildare. But Colm will put out excuse after excuse after excuse.  And of course a few Latin phrases too just for good measure.

Still seems bizarre to me that he ended up as an intercounty manager given how poor he was on The Sunday Game for years.

By comparison neither Brolly or Spillane were allowed within an asses roar of any intercounty team.

. Never a ic manager. He was u21 manager and didn't win a game years ago. And the fact our expenses have gone up 5 fold.

#4

Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and...

Last post by Truthsayer - Today at 08:20:43 PM

That's a bit severe considering where he took Monaghan with a limited enough panel at his disposal...

O'Rourke took the Monaghan job in 2013, and won a first Ulster Senior title for 25 years.[1] He took Monaghan from Division 3 to Division 1 in successive seasons.[1] Under his stewardship, he led Monaghan to a first win over Kerry in 27 years during the 2015 National League. They also lost narrowly against Dublin in the same year's League semi-final.[1] They reached the Ulster final in the next two seasons, which was three final appearances in a row, the first time in 92 years for Monaghan.[1] He managed the county to four All Ireland Senior quarter finals and took them to the 2018 All Ireland Senior semi final, only losing by a point to Tyrone before he left in June 2019.[

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachy_O'Rourke

#5

Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and...

Last post by Jim Bob - Today at 08:03:14 PM

Jeez - a Fermanagh man needed to sort you out?

The man has lived in Tyrone 25 years, I think he can be given a pass by now.

Not sure about ORourke. Couldn't do it with Monaghan anytime they hit Croker.

#6

General discussion / Re: Westminster General Electi...

Last post by RedHand88 - Today at 07:54:25 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq554q5w7k7o

Quite a close season signing by the Shinners...

She's been a member for years and years, would have been involved with canvassing and the like.

I get the impression that Unionists (and the media) have been blindsided by this.

I remember her saying that there should be a re-united Ireland as the health system would be a lot better...something like this?

Yes thats her. She's right.

#7

GAA Discussion / Re: Negativity around current ...

Last post by RadioGAAGAA - Today at 07:44:23 PM

Getting rid of the provincial championships is stupid.

How a proponent of the idea thinks anyone is going to travel 200 miles round trip for say, Antrim vs. Offaly is beyond me.
[and thats only half way down the Island]

The journos have done more to screw up the game with their endless yapping going on decades.

It was them that insisted any defender tugging a jersey gets booked. Which meant the only alternative to managers to avoid getting wiped out by either losing defenders to the line or by allowing free scoring was dropping extra men back.

You'll not see any of them in a rush to admit to that though.


None in the corridors of power will have the balls to even propose trying for a year or two reverting back to a straight knockout to see what affect it has. Instead it'll be another mad scheme - probably adding further games or logistical juggling.

#8

General discussion / Re: Westminster General Electi...

Last post by RadioGAAGAA - Today at 07:32:48 PM

... and as for the general subject.

Representative democracy is a load of balls.

If the job of running the country were based on qualifications and interview, how many of them would even get beyond initial CV screening?


Something could probably be salvaged from it if there were two houses:
- elected house of commons to bring the will of the people to governance
- elected house of professionals (professional bodies electing technically adept individuals)

No bill can be passed into law without approval of both houses.


Funnily enough, no room there for lord and lady of the manor. Who have done f**k all but either lick the right arse or fall out of the right arse.

#9

General discussion / Re: Westminster General Electi...

Last post by RadioGAAGAA - Today at 07:28:33 PM

The Mickey Mouse degree thing is a good idea tbf

Would going to Oxford and studying Classics, ancient languages, literature, history, and philosophy be considered a Mickey Mouse degree?

Uni should teach you two things:
- how to research and learn independently of tuition
- knowledge in topics of immediate value in society

Far too many courses in far too many universities aren't worth two sh!tes for either.

If Oxford were churning out hundreds of graduates a year in ancient languages, then I'd suggest most of those graduates will find the topics covered useless; but because of the standards and expectations, they will have learned how to dig up information and learn in other matters through the rest of their life.

Probably fair to say that the average student could pick a better subject than the classics in somewhere like Oxford, but it should still offer enough transferrable skills to be useful.

#10

General discussion / Re: Hamas attack Israel & sub...

Last post by Rossfan - Today at 06:48:36 PM

I see war criminal Netanyahu saying the destruction and child murders will continue till the end of the year.
A gang of snivelling Yank Senators
licking his behind abd promising to always help him in his war crimes and child murder campaign.