Will Breheny ever give it a rest ?

[Rossfan]

He's at it again ...
" MICKEY Harte continues to argue for change, so that provincial football champions who lose All-Ireland quarter-finals get a second chance. But why the silence from so many of his fellow managers? Most of them believe the current system is unfair but aren't nearly as vocal as Harte. Do they not realise the power they are capable of exerting? Some can wipe out club fixture programmes for months during the summer; if they got together on a national issue one suspects it wouldn't be long before change emerged.

Harte's case has unchallengeable logic. But having lost out amid a flood of spurious counter-arguments at Congress last year, there seems no great appetite to re-visit it, which is odd. Surely, history shows that persistence is the key to getting change in the GAA."

Can this floot ever get it into his head that this nonsense is a non runner?

[Denn Forever]

He's at it again ...
" MICKEY Harte continues to argue for change, so that provincial football champions who lose All-Ireland quarter-finals get a second chance. But why the silence from so many of his fellow managers? Most of them believe the current system is unfair but aren't nearly as vocal as Harte. Do they not realise the power they are capable of exerting? Some can wipe out club fixture programmes for months during the summer; if they got together on a national issue one suspects it wouldn't be long before change emerged.

Harte's case has unchallengeable logic. But having lost out amid a flood of spurious counter-arguments at Congress last year, there seems no great appetite to re-visit it, which is odd. Surely, history shows that persistence is the key to getting change in the GAA."
Can this floot ever get it into his head that this nonsense is a non runner?

May be non runner but Mickey is following the percieved wisdom of getting change.

[Jinxy]

I was more annoyed with the rest of his article.
Huge excitement on the last day of the league and he's still griping about the system being unfair.

[Rossfan]

And of course if Score difference was used he'd be spoutin crap about it being unfair as some teams might have played weakened teams and so on etc blah blah bullshit.

Will he have his usual middle of the most exciting part of the championship season exclusive about the lack of goals being scored in the modern day championship ?

[thejuice]

Lads, it's called creative writing, if you can't appreciate his genius just leave it be. I love the way he can turn a complete non-event or even something good into a dour/hellish epic that would rival The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

It's amazing how he can do that with such little analysis of what actually happens. Few can can create such stale banquet out of so few crumbs.

[galwayman]

Has Breheny ever written a decent article in the Indo? Jesus he doesn't half write some rubbish articles.
Just seems to be trying to fill space.
Top 100 footballers at the moment, top 100 hurlers at the moment, every football team ranked by how good he thinks they are, every hurling team ranked by how good he thinks they are etc etc etc.
Really boring shit.

[macdanger2]

Has Breheny ever written a decent article in the Indo?

Surely an oxymoron!!!

Rag of a paper so no point in complaining about the content

[galwayman]

Which daily paper tends to have the best sports coverage?
I find the Indo to actually be decent enough on a Saturday but that's about it.
Monday to Friday which would be best for sport?

[Donnellys Hollow]

Which daily paper tends to have the best sports coverage?
I find the Indo to actually be decent enough on a Saturday but that's about it.
Monday to Friday which would be best for sport?

The Examiner has by far the best coverage of all the national dailies.

[galwayman]

Must admit the Examiner is one paper I have never bought. Will give it a try. Cheers.

There's no really good Irish paper for sports coverage on Sundays either. The SIndo is crap. The Sunday Tribune had some good stuff in their sports section (though it was quite small) from Dave Hannigan, Miguel Delaney and a few more.
The Sunday Times is the one I would tend to buy.Decent sport section albeit much of it relates to UK sport.

[Denn Forever]

Try the Examiner.  Don't know if they have a Sunday paper.

[Tubberman]

Must admit the Examiner is one paper I have never bought. Will give it a try. Cheers.

There's no really good Irish paper for sports coverage on Sundays either. The SIndo is crap. The Sunday Tribune had some good stuff in their sports section (though it was quite small) from Dave Hannigan, Miguel Delaney and a few more.
The Sunday Times is the one I would tend to buy.Decent sport section albeit much of it relates to UK sport.

I used to enjoy reading the Sunday papers, but I can't anymore.
I can't abide the Sindo, but there is very little else to buy. I used to get the Tribune, but that's gone under.
The Sunday Times is the English paper with a few Irish pages thrown in.
The Sunday World is..... well, you wouldn't want to be relying on it for much apart from following the Dundons et al

[Jinxy]

Yeah the Tribune was a huge loss for sport.

[Lamh Dhearg Alba]

And of course if Score difference was used he'd be spoutin crap about it being unfair as some teams might have played weakened teams and so on etc blah blah bullshit.

I thought his column was pretty reasonable. He is 100% correct to say that using head to head to separate teams level on points goes against the essence of league competition. The previous system was fairer.

Regarding Harte's suggestion he doesn't tackle the problem that it still doesn't give every beaten provincial champion a second chance. You have to draw the line somewhere or you could be giving beaten AI finalists a second chance . The system as it stands is fair enough IMO, everybody knows there is no safety netonce you reach the AI series.

[under the bar]

Can this floot ever get it into his head that this nonsense is a non runner?

Can you explain why you are so convinced that it's a non-runner?