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Definitely wouldn't be for pubs only, it would clash with setanta's commercial rights to the gaa, assuming that they still hold them, so I'm near certain that the channel won't be blocked out come throw in time, so sit back, relax, and ENJOY!!!

Well anyone that does have Sky outside of Ireland will still be able to see the games on sunday and monday, just tune into channel 167, InfoTV2. All games are advertised on the EPG so can't imagine them being blocked out!

Good news for anyone in the UK, I've just come across a thread on www.digitalspy.co.uk and has stated that all three quarter finals on sunday and monday will be available live on Sky Channel 167, channel is called InfoTV2

FUCKIN GREAT NEWS FOR ME!!!

Yeh BB2 NI is Channel 992 over in London and it's down as Golf not Swimming!!! The early rounds of the Ulster Champs were available over here no bother but they were advertised on the Sky Gude where as this weekend it's not so I'm wondering if it is only gonna be available in NI!!! Fuckin gutted if it is as we're fucked over here with Setanta going bust, and esp so as I'm working this Sunday!!!

Yeh I've Sky Digital and looking ahead on the planner, there's no mention of Live GAA on Sunday afternoon, still down as Swimming!!!

Seems like this coverage on the bbc is only gonna be in NI, can anyone confirm or deny this, as if it's true, us folk in the UK won't be able to get it!!!

By UK I mean England, Scotland, Wales, London to be precise!!!

I feel Celtic have let slip a great chance to bury Rangers for a good few seasons. The financial problems down Govan way are well documented. If they'd missed out on the league this season, they'd have had to do some serious squad pruning, with one or two of their best players moving on to pastures new. They'd have gone into the CL qualifiers with a crap squad and would, in all likelihood, have made an early exit. No European football next season, more financial headaches, more squad pruning required. They could've been a mediocre side for quite some time to come, with the Celts coining it in the CL at the same time. As it stands now, we're going to be the ones struggling to qualify, with all the financial penalties that entails.

I think that's the hardest part of having to deal with blowing the title this season, is that it could have MASSIVE implications if we don't get it right in appointing the right man for next season. No doubting it, the chance was there for us to dominate the spl for many years to come and really put Rangers in the shade. Certainly they wouldn't have been able to keep hold of Bougherra and Boyd to name just two had we won the Title, so yeah it does feel like a big chance gone to go and really dominate like Rangers did with 9 in a row in the 90's!

I'm of the belief that even if Celtic had won the Title yesterday, Strachan being Strachan would have walked away anyway. He knew maybe 2 years into the job that the bulk of Celtic fans couldn't stand him, maybe not so much his style of play but his whole attitude and apparent lack of respect for the fans with his wit and sarcasm, esp post match, almost trying to fob fans off by continually saying he couldn't ask any more of his team. I mean the whole leaving McGeady out of the game at Ibrox was bad enough but the post match interview after the hibs game was unreal. He actually stood there and said, he thought we played some fantastic stuff and all that was lacking was scoring a goal??? Hello is that not the name of the game, first and foremost, irrespective of the performance, cos I know I'd take goals over a shit performance all day long, esp if it was the difference between winning and losing the league, which in the end cost us this season. Strachan isn't totally to blame though, some of the players in that team really aint up to the task, ie, big mouth Samaras, JVOH, Crosas, just to name a few! Would Barca have sold Marc Crosas if he had anythin about him, NOT A CHANCE!!!

WGS may have led the side to 3 in a row, but when you look at it closely, it wasn't that tough a task! First title was won mainly due to the fact that Hearts fell apart having led the chase for nigh on half the season, Rangers were shite under Le Guen that season and didn't get close and were some 18 points behind Celtic and finished 3rd!!! Second of the three was won in early april with Naka's free kick against Kilmarnock. Once again, Rangers were pure shite that season too, Smith replaced Le Guen mid season and the title was pretty much in the bag by the time he'd taken over, and Rangers finished up 12 points behind us! Last season was a total fluke that Celtic won the title, had Rangers not been competing on four different fronts, the league would have been theirs after they won the 2nd old firm game in March. Celtic fell 10 points behind after losing to 1-0 at home to Motherwell in early April. Granted we did beat Rangers twice in 10 days but any club having the end of season schedule that Rangers had would have run out of gas, so yes we did win 7 straight games to win the title on the last game of the season but in all honestly, Rangers threw the title away due to their fatigue factor, which cannot be ignored, even if it was nice to see!!!

This season. we recovered from the 4-2 loss to Rangers in August and ended up 7 clear after skippy's wonder goal at Ibrox. YES 7 POINTS CLEAR GOING INTO THE NEW YEAR!!! It was strange that the only addition to the squad in January was Willo Flood, who then played f**k all in the final 4 months of the campaign. However, the word from down Govan way was that a certain Mr Boyd would need to be sold to balance their books, and me prob like alot of celtic fans thought it was only a matter of time before we won 4 in a row! The slide started up at Pittodrie back in mid January, and for me thats when the alarm bells started ringing. Losing 4-2 in the manner we did was a big cause for concern, yet Strachan seemed to thing that everything fell right for Aberdeen that day, WRONG - His constant use of the zonal marking system undid us that day, all well and good playing the zonal system if you have the defenders that can play it properly, BUT WE DON'T!!! Our home form this season was pretty sound after January, but our away form was our undoing time and time again! 0-0 away at Caley Thistle, 1-1 at Motherwell having been in front, 2-2 at Dundee Utd having been leading, and 1-1 at Hearts after going in front after 30 seconds. That was 8 points thrown away, and then the failure to score at Ibox, and more importantly Easter road after Rangers slipped up there 4 days before was the real killer, so in my honest opinion, Celtic had the league won in December after the win at Ibrox and had we signed a couple of players in January, esp Steven Fletcher then I do believe we would have won the league, prob even before the split. But our lack of transfer dealings coupled with our awful away form this year, gave Rangers the momentum they needed and fair play to them, they went to Tannadice yesterday and won easy against a Dundee Utd side who have been more than a match for the Old Firm this season. Samaras' comments about Rangers made him look pretty stupid when he was subbed at half time yesterday

In the final analysis, Celtic were guilty of alot of things this season, from the board not wanting to spend in January, to Strachan's sometimes confusing tactics and seeming lack of know how when it came to the crunch and more importantly our poor away form after that win at Ibrox. Winning 2 out of 8 away games after that was costly in the end. So Strachan has gone, can't say i'm disappointed cos I'm not, I just hope that the board do their best to get the right man in and make sure he is allowed to strengthen the squad to get the Title back next season, because right now the momentum is with Rangers and if Celtic don't want a period of Rangers domination to begin again, they had better get their act together. My choice for new manager would be David Moyes, but I reckon a more realistic target would be either Craig Levein or Mark McGhee

ROLL ON NEXT SEASON AND KEEP THE FAITH, C'MON THE BHOYS!!!

A fascinating football qualifier draw has pitted beaten Ulster finalists Fermanagh against Kildare, Monaghan taking on Kerry and Tyrone facing Mayo.

Rejuvenated Down look to have landed the best draw of all as they will face Wexford next weekend.

Fermanagh face the task of regrouping against Kieran McGeeney's Kildare.

Monaghan will face Kerry 12 months after losing to the Kingdom in the last eight while the Tyrone-Mayo game is a repeat of the 2006 clash won by Mayo.

On that occasion, Mayo defeated the then Ulster Champions in the All-Ireland quarter-finals before going on to lose heavily against Kerry in the decider.

The dates and venues for the games will be announced by the GAA on Monday with all matches scheduled to take place next weekend.

The GAA indicated on Sunday night that teams drawn out of the hat first would not have home advantage so it appears that the round-three qualifier games will be played at neutral venues.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7527929.stm

Reckon there's a real chance of having two of these games in Croker next saturday, with the other two being played as a double header on the sunday, maybe in Portlaoise???

Mayo Vs Tyrone and Kerry Vs Monaghan in Croker on the Saturday me thinks!

According to the Football Qualifier article posted on www.gaa.ie it states that all venues for the 3rd round of the football qualifiers will be determined by the CCCC. So chances are you might get a couple of matches in Croker and then two at two other neutral venues, possibly a double header in somewhere like Clones or Portlaoise may be a possibility. Looks like the home advantage goes out the window when you get to Round 3!

Tyrone Vs Fermanagh
Kildare Vs Wexford
Monaghan Vs Mayo
Down Vs Kerry

As far as i'm aware, the draw will give the team coming out first home advantage next weekend! Sounded like a great game tonight, hard luck on Laois after going in some nine points down, they almost pulled it off, and they may just have done it but it sounded like there were some very poor wides from the Laois boys. It also seemed like the ref spoilt the game somewhat with his constant stopping of the game!

Congrats go to Down and all the best for the rest of the Championship

Not totally sure on this one but I think that it's only a maximum of two games that can be shown live, with TV3 getting first pick and RTE choosing one from the other three games

So Donegal Vs Monaghan is the live game on RTE at 5pm and I'm guessing that Tyrone Vs Westmeath will be live on TV3 at 3pm

BRING ON SATURDAY!!!