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Think it's a good idea, makes the senior league more competitive as the same 2/3 teams seem to pull away mid-season and the lower placed teams struggle badly every year, there was a huge gulf in difference and not all fixtures were fulfilled. 

Not sure what the thinking was behind this divisional cup competition though? With league and championships that would bring the minimum amount of games up to 18 at least? Between scheduled breaks, re fixtures, replays and county matches this could bring us well into October for possible league matches and divisional cup matches?

I find u21 and minor both and too hard to pick from.  Minor football is enjoyable to watch, a true fearlessness in them players and players not bogged down with external pressures. 

The u21's is a great advertisement for the game, players near fully developed mentally and physically, fast flowing and skillful.  The added benefit of it being run off quickly is teams don't have time to muck about with tactics and most teams go unnoticed unless there winning.  Again pressure lifted for young adults to enjoy a game without worrying of the results! Football at its purest!

A good read and defiantly reflects what I see in clubs at the moment, a sense of superior commitment than ever. 

But don't think the fun has totally gone from it.  At our training the work is done but the craic is always had.  The manager makes a point of letting us know the benefits of S&C and eating this and that, but nothing is enforced to the point where if it isn't done your dropped, but I think the perception of this elitism is putting off the younger fellas from stepping up.  Thankfully we have a second's team so recreational football is still available, and the craic is priority numero uno!

What is the consensus from KK posters, is football a novelty or is it treated anyway serious?
I know in Armagh Keady footballers suffer as a result of the commitment their hurlers show so to say northern teams don't try is ignorant, and that's a club, not a county. 

Regarding Brennans comments on saving money by not fielding a team is a pure joke.  Money should never be a factor in deciding whether a team should be incorporated.   

The Waterford example is ridiculous.  A book detailing the Waterford footballers 2009 season shown the sacrifice and commitment their players and staff gave to represent.  Some players were traveling from England and some were taking football over hurling.  Results aside the effort and progress is being made.

Probably not the best way to put that!

I would have taken Germany to be outright favourites closely followed by Spain/Belgium/N. Ireland?

France dark horses in the summer perhaps? good squad!

The Monaghan Road would be quite a popular road for running/cycling on and the decent hard should and good straight lends to relative safety compared to most places.  It really was a tragedy.

I've been speaking to a few lads around this fella's age and they all share the opinion that he is nothing but a ****, involved in all sorts and being in incidents with cars before.  I genuinely feel if this had occurred at night time he would have gotten away with it and turning himself in was a formality as he knew he would have been caught, no regret or compassion for the girl whatsoever. 

Hearing about him threatening the woman he purchased the car off has only reinforced people's opinion of the type of person he must be.  Hopefully he gets the book fucked at him the p***k.         

From reading that he definitely seems to have an axe to grind with mcgeeney.  Perhaps mc geeneys  profile lends to more attention but as already stated, who else is talking about Armagh relegation nationally, there have been better national league stories he could lend his opinion on, e.g Roscommon's rise, Cavan's promotion, Tyrone's form, Donegal's mixed fortunes. 

With Kildare I felt they were more competitive and mcgeeny took them as far as he could, with Armagh I genuinely feel he doesn't have the team to compete, whether he thinks there shit or not how would Brolly know?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35984381

On the theme of social media and its ongoing issues of getting people in trouble...

Laughable that article, as already mentioned a nationalist supporting the IRA is hardly breaking news, getting unionist to voice their opinion on it is even worse.  More to the point why interview politicians at all?

Some boy trying to put in his 40 hours at the BT me thinks!

Yes and no.  Yes because it quells the argument of how cross keep winning in Armagh (and the competitiveness of the Armagh county championship) when their beating teams, or champions if you will, from other counties.  And no because it's usually cross!

A knobhead like this trying to stir the bucket for no reason in a place where it is none of his concern. 

http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=228301

People like him must sit in the office and think, what will I complain about today!

After studying american politics the guts of 10 years ago I came to the conclusion that following a law from the 1700's, ie, the right to bear arms, is one of the main reasons why america has so much violence and a rampant gun culture. 

I'm not saying that guns wouldn't have found their way into society if that particular law was abolished, but certainly incidents like this may not have happened. 

An example, imagine walking down the street where you live and you see a twelve year old have what looks like a genuine handgun.  Would you be inclined to think it is real? Probably not, we live in a country were guns aren't as common, and children walking about with them even less so. 

America will never change their constitution, guns will always be freely available, and the chances of a child getting their hands on a gun are more likely than not, that's the truley fucked up thing! 

Just think its clowns like this who helps make decisions for everyone else in the country!

Both sides ruling in Stormont need to:

• Stop being bitter c***ts
• quit the snide digs at each other
• lower the price of a pint of harp

Flawed process in my opinion the all stars, I feel Ulster and Lenster teams come up against tougher opposition in the provincial run, whereas Mayo and Kerry have 1 major tussle to overcome the Ulster and Leinster championships are a tough campaign in themselves, and less credit is due to the teams that work their way to the latter stages of the championship coming from each Provence.

This year Armagh came up against Monaghan twice in two tough battles, only to have to face Tyrone in the qualifiers, Roscommon, Meath and eventually Donegal, another close encounter. During there run I would argue that several players warented  the praise heaped on them, imho Andy Mallon, who was consistently great and was unlucky to miss out!

On the other side of the coin, armagh only managed to get to the quarter finals, with seven other teams and failed to progress to the business end! Can players from one of the top eight teams get an all star, in armaghs case they had harder matches and the awkward route to get there, but when it came crunch time the players didn't produce!

If you take the second point that a team in the quarter finals just would be hard placed to get an all star, then there can be no arguments as to donaghys inclusion, who undobtly had his best games on the biggest days!

The 2015 draw is a good example of the campian a team can go through before they get out of their own province, whereas Mayo play the winners of NY, Galway or Leitrim to make a final and get a qf spot, Tyrone would have to play Donegal, Armagh, down/ Derry to make a final!

Who says the quarter finals of a championship are nothing to rave about!