Quote from: meathie on Today at 03:10:27 PMGod I'd have had Derry as clear favourites... still haven't seen anything stand out from Galway for them to beat Derry this year
Throw the house on Derry
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Show posts MenuQuote from: meathie on Today at 03:10:27 PMGod I'd have had Derry as clear favourites... still haven't seen anything stand out from Galway for them to beat Derry this year
Quote from: p3427977 on Today at 03:22:40 PMQuote from: Wildweasel74 on Today at 03:04:25 PMGalway maybe by abit,if am hearing the Derry team likely lineout.Go on.....
Quote from: armaghniac on Today at 12:12:06 PMSF not doing so well in 26 county election poll, but then they did shite the last time and probably do not have as many sitting councillors.
Fine Gael 21%
Fianna Fail 20%
Sinn Féin 18%
Labour 6%
Green Party 5%
Social Democrats 3%
PBP - 2%
Aontú 1%.
Quote from: bennydorano on May 17, 2024, 08:54:36 PMAnyone got a battery operated lawnmower? My petrol one near done, was looking at options. Any good?? Maintenance must be minimal??
Quote from: smort on May 17, 2024, 08:15:40 AMQuote from: square_ball on May 17, 2024, 08:13:39 AMQuote from: statto on May 17, 2024, 06:08:03 AMQuote from: Armagh18 on May 17, 2024, 12:35:20 AMArmagh club leagues round 13 is 26th July and round 14 (final round) is 2nd August. Championship will be towards end of August. What are club players doing from March until Tyrone are out apart from playing 5 league games?I see they had some Jim Devlin cup competition running for seniors some slog for non county players to keep them interested without any meaningful games to do late in year.
Yeah Jim Devlin cup so teams either got 1, 2 or 3 games in that. I don't think many entered the Ulster league either. I'm sure the players have been in the gym since Christmas and then whenever pitch sessions started plus friendlies etc. I see last night the league has been put back a week so now starting on 31st May. It would have been a long slog to the start of the league.
No need to be starting training so early then when league doesn't begin until mid/end of May
Quote from: seafoid on May 16, 2024, 08:40:02 PMQuote from: Rufus T Firefly on May 15, 2024, 07:50:02 AMI don't think adding money to GAA grounds does the games much good. Pairc ui chaoimh is a great warningQuote from: seafoid on May 14, 2024, 10:13:27 PMAny idea what the €500 million refers to?
Yes, he referred to two different groups / lists of commitments - one was in relation to new / improved centres of excellence (with both Armagh and Monaghan getting a mention) and the other to GAA Stadium infrastructure projects - this latter list included Kerry, Tipp, Louth, Meath, Kildare and Antrim.
Quote from: Franko on May 16, 2024, 05:25:52 PMQuote from: thewobbler on May 16, 2024, 02:42:23 PMQuote from: Keyser soze on May 16, 2024, 10:09:37 AMQuote from: onefineday on May 16, 2024, 01:58:01 AMQuote from: Keyser soze on May 15, 2024, 09:53:35 AMMy god there are some crying hoors in the GAA who want everything for free, I surely hope they are over represented on this board or the organisation is truely in trouble.
Crying about the price of tickets to games, and the price of diesel to get to games, and how much a feed costs, and having to get a ticket for the wains, and not getting to see every game on FTA tv, and the game they just saw was lateral shite, and the forward mark, and the studio analysis, and negative managers, and people coming to the door selling tickets for their club, and the amount of money the GAA has, and the lack of money the GAA gives our club, ad nauseum ad nauseum ad nauseum.
And then thinking they are great GAA men when they've not ever wore a shirt or even washed a shirt.
I would say the vast majority of posters on here are not even GAA members.
Keyser, in my experience a good auld moan and gripe is the common language of humanity. I've spent plenty of time abroad and worked with many nationalities and the average gaa fan or poster on this board is no different to the majority everywhere else (well west coast USA with their unwavering positivity might be the exception).
And as for your comment on posters probably not being members, I suspect the vast majority of us are pretty involved with gaa at some level. We are the diehards or we wouldn't be on here in the first place. Not that many people find discussions on the kickout strategies of Armagh all that interesting you know....
There certainly are diehards on here but a majority, definitely not.
There was a thread on ticket selling on here recently.
Not only was there just one poster, of the many who contributed to the thread, who had actually gone out to sell tickets, but there were quite a few who were complaining about being asked to buy a ticket by clubs coming to their door, and there were even a few calling for it to be banned.
Like what sort of GAA person would begrudge being ASKED to voluntarily contribute a few quid to the GAA, by a person who is giving up their time to travel around the country to raise funds for their local club. The people selling the tickets are diehards, people whinging about it on Gaaboard are blowhards.
So no I don't agree that a majority are GAA diehards, their diehardness extends to going to county matches and complaining their hole off on GAA board about stuff they probably know very little about.
And yes that would indeed include Armagh kickout strategies
You seem to have a very narrow agenda.
I've:
- played football for 35 years.
- coached and selected at teams from under-8 to senior, including the past 8 years unbroken.
- spent over 15 years on our club committee, including 5 as treasurer.
- served as our county board rep for a couple of years and on a county board subcommittee for a year.
- acted as a team liaison for our county minors for two years.
And my sincere opinion is that if a club from say County Derry cannot find the funds within their own parish, community, town, county to build whatever it they think they need, then they've no business asking people from say County Down to put their hands in their pockets and pay for it.
Am I not GAA enough to be entitled to this opinion?
No issue with you holding that opinion at all.
My opinion would be that the GAA is a national organisation and one which raison d'etre was to promote Irish games and pastimes on a national basis. (Just checked there - the words Nation/National are mentioned in the preface to the Official Guide 10 times).
My sincerely held opinion is that there should be zero issue with clubs fundraising on a national basis (if practicalities allowed).
I think we should take it as a source of pride that members a club in Antrim would see fit to contribute to a club in Kerry (or vice versa). Indeed, it is entirely in line with the aims and ethos of the association.
The parish/town/county element of it should be left to the actual games only.
Quote from: Keyser soze on May 16, 2024, 03:21:02 PMQuote from: JoG2 on May 16, 2024, 02:21:28 PMQuote from: Keyser soze on May 16, 2024, 09:46:58 AMQuote from: lurganblue on May 16, 2024, 08:33:34 AMQuote from: armaghniac on May 15, 2024, 06:44:38 PMQuote from: Keyser soze on May 15, 2024, 01:53:39 PMNo version of Derry has ever beaten Galway in championship, you can be sure that will be a factor on saturday.
Janey, even Armagh has beaten Galway.
Derry wans trying their hand at the cute hoorism here? Sure Derry were in the big three talk with Dublin and Kerry not just a few weeks ago.
I would be more confident going to Kerry or Dublin and getting a result than I am about saturday due to our previous with Galway.
Out of those 3 Galway would be the 1 to choose on the road. This history v Galway will have no baring at all on Sat. I'd say at most 2 Derry players played in 2015 and will be involved on Sat. Pretty much all of them beat Galway in Salthill in March.
They bate us out the gate 2 years ago in AI SF in CP when most of this team were playing.
And a league result in March will have no bearing esp as Galway had so many out injured at that time.
PS I sincerely hope you are right.
Quote from: Keyser soze on May 16, 2024, 09:46:58 AMQuote from: lurganblue on May 16, 2024, 08:33:34 AMQuote from: armaghniac on May 15, 2024, 06:44:38 PMQuote from: Keyser soze on May 15, 2024, 01:53:39 PMNo version of Derry has ever beaten Galway in championship, you can be sure that will be a factor on saturday.
Janey, even Armagh has beaten Galway.
Derry wans trying their hand at the cute hoorism here? Sure Derry were in the big three talk with Dublin and Kerry not just a few weeks ago.
I would be more confident going to Kerry or Dublin and getting a result than I am about saturday due to our previous with Galway.
Quote from: Truthsayer on May 16, 2024, 10:39:46 AMQuote from: Keyser soze on May 16, 2024, 10:09:37 AMI did the door ticket thing a number of years ago, don't know that makes me a better club member than others who make different contributions, coaching kids, the army of ladies do the teas and all that at matches, those on the gate, people who land up for ground clean-ups... anyone lands here trying to sell a £20 ticket which isn't that often, I ask do yous pay your manager and buy or not accordingly...Quote from: onefineday on May 16, 2024, 01:58:01 AMQuote from: Keyser soze on May 15, 2024, 09:53:35 AMMy god there are some crying hoors in the GAA who want everything for free, I surely hope they are over represented on this board or the organisation is truely in trouble.
Crying about the price of tickets to games, and the price of diesel to get to games, and how much a feed costs, and having to get a ticket for the wains, and not getting to see every game on FTA tv, and the game they just saw was lateral shite, and the forward mark, and the studio analysis, and negative managers, and people coming to the door selling tickets for their club, and the amount of money the GAA has, and the lack of money the GAA gives our club, ad nauseum ad nauseum ad nauseum.
And then thinking they are great GAA men when they've not ever wore a shirt or even washed a shirt.
I would say the vast majority of posters on here are not even GAA members.
Keyser, in my experience a good auld moan and gripe is the common language of humanity. I've spent plenty of time abroad and worked with many nationalities and the average gaa fan or poster on this board is no different to the majority everywhere else (well west coast USA with their unwavering positivity might be the exception).
And as for your comment on posters probably not being members, I suspect the vast majority of us are pretty involved with gaa at some level. We are the diehards or we wouldn't be on here in the first place. Not that many people find discussions on the kickout strategies of Armagh all that interesting you know....
There certainly are diehards on here but a majority, definitely not.
There was a thread on ticket selling on here recently.
Not only was there just one poster, of the many who contributed to the thread, who had actually gone out to sell tickets, but there were quite a few who were complaining about being asked to buy a ticket by clubs coming to their door, and there were even a few calling for it to be banned.
Like what sort of GAA person would begrudge being ASKED to voluntarily contribute a few quid to the GAA, by a person who is giving up their time to travel around the country to raise funds for their local club. The people selling the tickets are diehards, people whinging about it on Gaaboard are blowhards.
So no I don't agree that a majority are GAA diehards, their diehardness extends to going to county matches and complaining their hole off on GAA board about stuff they probably know very little about.
And yes that would indeed include Armagh kickout strategies
Quote from: rosnarun on May 16, 2024, 10:57:43 AMin contrast to being the grab all association the GAA constantly hobble themselves.Disbanded after the split season came into play
they banned alcohol and bookies sponsorship and advertising as at time when every soccer jersey had some on-line or Beer Brand bookie on them.
the banning of replay potentially cost millions every year and lead to ridiculous penalty shoot outs.
they hold the championship at a stupid time of the year to facilitate club
BTW does the club players association still exist?
Quote from: Truthsayer on May 15, 2024, 06:13:05 PMQuote from: JoG2 on May 15, 2024, 04:33:34 PMWhoever is benefiting does not give a licence to do whatever you want, no matter how unscrupulous or adversely affecting our games, in order to make profits.Quote from: Truthsayer on May 15, 2024, 03:54:26 PMQuote from: tonto1888 on May 15, 2024, 03:31:42 PMI wouldn't go that far but is people in Croke Park whose remit is to maximise profits and at times they need to be reined in.Quote from: Tyrone Dreamer on May 15, 2024, 02:10:53 PMI don't know what the motivation was but there certainly is some logic in the 3 teams going through other than money. It greatly reduces the number of dead rubbers and increases the importance of topping the group.
you have got it all wrong. Its all money. Grab all association and what have you..........
To what end? Who is benefiting from these profits?
Quote from: Truthsayer on May 15, 2024, 03:54:26 PMQuote from: tonto1888 on May 15, 2024, 03:31:42 PMI wouldn't go that far but is people in Croke Park whose remit is to maximise profits and at times they need to be reined in.Quote from: Tyrone Dreamer on May 15, 2024, 02:10:53 PMI don't know what the motivation was but there certainly is some logic in the 3 teams going through other than money. It greatly reduces the number of dead rubbers and increases the importance of topping the group.
you have got it all wrong. Its all money. Grab all association and what have you..........
Quote from: burdizzo on May 15, 2024, 01:58:24 PMQuote from: Itchy on May 15, 2024, 11:40:50 AMQuote from: whitey on May 15, 2024, 10:14:44 AMQuote from: Itchy on May 15, 2024, 09:19:13 AMThe uber nationalist, I am more Irish than you, flag waving Nazi's are ironically closely aligned with the Far Right in England and even Loyalist paramilitaries in the North. They even invite them into Ireland to speak at their little rallies. That just about sums up the brain power in operation in the Far Right and their supporters like Whitey and Burdizzo. Empty vessels with one or two brain cells rattling around inside.
50% of Sinn Fein supporters now support border checks to stem the flow of migrants
The people inviting these far right types in would very very likely be Sinn Fein supporters
In this immigration matter-Sinn Fein gave the 2 fingers to their most loyal supporters
So out of touch its not funny
Sorry, Itchy, but he's right. The anarchist/ anti-fa wing of SF has been found out by the right-thinking ones, and SF doesn't have a clue what to do. It's quite funny, really!