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A crowd of aul wimen in here.. Natter natter natter. My 3rd cousin thrice removed who is married to a chap who used to live down the road has a niece who knows someone who once had a lovely all inclusive week in Portugal, and they confirmed the players were tucked in by 10pm

Glad that's cleared up then!

The cheek of us, discussing rumours on a discussion forum!!

That fact of the matter is that Mickey and Horse got up to a bit of tomfoolery around the pool and some of the players assisted by a young pool attendant had to step in to settle things down.
Later that night Mickey was heard saying, "more like a wasp than a horse"....and the whole thing kicked off again.
From what I was told by a reliable eye witness (to someone else being told the story by a Portuguese taxi driver outside the airport in Faro) was that it was all just a bit of craic and it all settled down by the time they sobered up next morning. They had a good laugh about it over breakfast, but both were seen wearing sunglasses and horse was walking very gingerly for a couple of days.

Those are the facts, never to be questioned or doubted.
All other stories are false.

[all true.]

Can confirm it is all true.
I have two sources.
One is my cousins cousins friends Portuguese girlfriend who works on the resort, saw it all kick off. Mad what she is saying, too bad to repeat.
Solicitors will be making a fortune from it all that's for sure.
Would explain the poor performances since then.

We must be related!

[Surely you tender based on your cost modellling of the actual plans and specifications, no?]

The message I'm taking from that is that the British Government is delaying the stadium at the minute.
However, are the GAA themselves not in the middle of a tendering process which is delaying it anyway? Is the British Government holding that up? Is there a point in the British Government declaring what they can put forward until the total cost is known?

Is it out for Tender at the moment? If I was a company considering tendering for this, I'd be looking at it thinking I've no idea what the budget will be as the funding isnt there. Is it worth the risk of tendering (with all the associated costs of that) to perhaps get excluded as our price exceeds a budget yet to be agreed.

Surely you tender based on your cost modellling of the actual plans and specifications, no?

The budget can't be locked down until those tenders are in, but CHH is backtracking like a good one, although the Minister responsible, Mr Lyons doesn't seem to be pushing too hard either.

I'd say yes, but if people are saying only build what you have the money for - then the plans and specs could be changing? Also if there's no likelihood of getting the funding to build against existing specs - it could be another 10yr delay and a waste of time and effort for a tenderer.

The whole thing is a sh*tshow in terms of how it was managed from day 1.

The message I'm taking from that is that the British Government is delaying the stadium at the minute.
However, are the GAA themselves not in the middle of a tendering process which is delaying it anyway? Is the British Government holding that up? Is there a point in the British Government declaring what they can put forward until the total cost is known?

Is it out for Tender at the moment? If I was a company considering tendering for this, I'd be looking at it thinking I've no idea what the budget will be as the funding isnt there. Is it worth the risk of tendering (with all the associated costs of that) to perhaps get excluded as our price exceeds a budget yet to be agreed.

I been to a number of games, think they competive enough. There not alot of goalkeeping options in the county. Not alot of possible stand out future county men. Alot of the very good players are not big. There is a very good lad playing No.11 for Castledawson whos he? Wouldn't be the biggest!

I don't get to many club games these days but I'd have though there were some good players coming through from those county minor/u20 sides? We already have a 2nd keeper in Scullion at the senior county level so we're covered there for a while.
Championship is usually competitive enough, 3 teams realistic contenders and 1 or 2 others can always can always win on a given day.

Very poor from Derry, sending off aside. So flat.
First half us where the game was lost, too many dropped short.

Too many of derrys star players were nowhere to be seen, glass didn't seem interested.

We were chasing the game, lachlan Murray just scored 3 I think, made a score saving tackle and Harte takes him off. Can't see the logic in that.

Galway were good. Should rightly leapfrog derry in the AI rankings and must be in that top 3 tier now.

Didn't listen to the commentary after the game but there can be no defending mckinless.
However,  I did think in general galway got their frees easier than us.

Such a stupid thing for mckinless to do. I didn't quite catch it in real time, but red for sure.

Derry really struggling.
Still look lethargic.
Must be 4 or 5 kicked short....that's a team short in confidence.

Really up against it now, 2 down, man down, so many injuries.

It seems to be having a big impact on marketing and things like writing contracts. Software wise it can write code for you but that's based on the bank of data you have so new stuff not as much but I am sure that will improve.

It can give you garbage but there is a real skill to getting what you want out of it too.

In the software space we've used AI to help modernise code, taking something like cobol and writing an equivalent. We had some good results out of it but it's not perfect. It does generally get the gist of what existing code is doing but you are right, all depends on the learned information.

Also seen some really good use cases on predictive maintenance on equipment or vehicles like trucks and cranes. Certainly can provide real efficiencies there.

There is some really cool stuff, but a lot of what you here about is generative AI based which isn't as exciting imo.

Where its really cool is when it's able to tell you something you would not have worked out without ai.

Panel named - obviously a few named won't be playing.

Do we know who is in the panel that hasn't been named that will be coming onto the bench?

Whats the story there?
Niall Loughlin not named on panel for one id say

He's out

What's the story there?

Injured - got an opp

Bench looking very light now, betwen those lads leaving the panel and few injuries im nervous for the rest of the season.

No mcgrogan, murphy, loughlin.
Jack cassidy, c mcguckian, m downey left, who else left? Mccarron & mcwilliams earlier in season

Realistically, of the guys that left I don't think any were going to get game time in championship - so you couldn't blame them for going back to clubs to get football.

McGrogan out for the year is a huge loss.
No idea on the length of time Nial O and Murphy will be out - but we really need both available.
If we pick up any more serious injuries, we'll really struggle.

No 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.

Conversation of the big three talk will be back on should Derry win this weekend.  A win will put them in the box seat to top the group and then perhaps talking on a Mayo,Tyrone or Monaghan in the last eight tie that they'll be expected to win.  Should Dublin play Kerry in one semi final you could be looking at All Ireland final spot for Derry yet.

If we beat Galway with a depleted side undoubtedly those conversations will happen in the media.
But if we get beaten in the manner we did against Donegal - regardless of team on the field, the talk will be of the wheels coming off in the media.
Fine lines between being top 3 and an also ran in the media sphere.
I'd love to win, but if we lose I'm more interested in a good performance as 2 bad ones in a row will do nothing for confidence.

[Derry wans trying their hand at the cute hoorism here?]

No 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.

Definately not in my opinion.
Top 3 talk was mostly coming from outside Derry, whereas the rest of us realists were/are hopeful rather than expectant. Been around Derry too long to set the bar of expectation too high.
After the Donegal defeat, and the manner of that defeat, confidence has taken a hit. Now with an abundance of injuries to key players and the fact we are away to Galway - its a case of travelling in hope rather than expectation I feel.

Had a look around but couldn't find a specific topic on this. The pace of change is absolutely absurd. Chat-GPT 4o announced this week and then Google come out with this. Terrifying/fascinating.

https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1790433540548558853

What if anything is anyone using these for? thinking more in the work setting

We use them to help collate information for tenders - so for example, we can ask our AI where we have previously done x, y and z and it will give us a written response with direct links to previous bids or case studies. It definately saves a lot of time.

We also have a private ChatGPT we use in writing tenders. We'd use it to reword reducing word count, as an example.

In both cases, they only give you a starter for 10. Wouldn't, and shouldn't, just copy and paste the output as fact. It certainly needs sanitised and reviewed for use as sometimes it comes back with nonsense. In general though, it saves a lot of time in writing bid documents.

I hope I'm wrong but hearing that we've a long line of injured players at the minute including Rodgers, Conor Doc, and mcevoy. Big blow if that is correct. Will need everyone to win in Galway.

Been hearing similar plus another one.
Hadn't hear about Conor though.

Worse than anyone.

I'd have to toss a coin between him and Cora.

All very quiet on the build up to Saturday. Have we a clean bill of health? Murphy and McKinless fit? Not sure what to expect to be honest, let's hope we get the 2 pts and get back on the wagon again

Derry camp have been very quiet since the donegal game.
McKinless is a must at the best of times, but now we are without mcgrogan it add even more pressure on that half back line.
Galway with Comer back are a different proposition and will be high on confidence after winning provincial honours. But, that might help us. Could be difficult for them to re-focus so quickly after winning a final.

For Derry, we really need to up our game after the Donegal match to be in with a shout. Galway are our bogey team and we're away - a huge ask.

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Agree with all that..I wouldn't be too confident on McKaigue picking up Comer, surely McEvoy goes to no3 and McKinless straight to 6?

I had hoped that would be the setup when mckinless returned to fitness but with McGrogan out who would we bring into the hb line?
Gilmore is more of a sub than a starter at this stage I feel.
McKaigue is way past it imo, but we might not have another option in this position.