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#91

GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire 2024 Group 2 ...

Last post by JoG2 - May 20, 2024, 08:04:19 PM

Mayo have confirmed captain Paddy Durcan has suffered a cruciate ligament injury, ruling him out for the remainder of the year.

Brutal.. A long road back

#92

GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire 2024 Group 2 ...

Last post by Blowitupref - May 20, 2024, 08:02:36 PM

Mayo have confirmed captain Paddy Durcan has suffered a cruciate ligament injury, ruling him out for the remainder of the year.

#93

GAA Discussion / Re: Seconds teams

Last post by Milltown Row2 - May 20, 2024, 07:36:04 PM

By all means have them playing league football. There should be a proper reserve championship to accommodate them however. As much as the CE lads would have enjoyed winning a junior championship last year, there was hardly a celebration out of them after they beat Ballyhegan.

As for this year, St Peter's seconds are doing well, only lost one game to league favourites Corrinshego early in the season. Come championship you'd imagine that Forkhill and Middletown would be the favourites if they're at full strength.

That St Peters team will be hard stopped. Yeah probably a tiered league competition for seconds and reserve teams would be best. 

Yeah they'll be one of the favourites along with Forkhill, Middletown and Ballyhegan. Corrinshego have beaten them already this year and were semi finalists last year so they'll be up there you'd imagine. Playing in the lower division won't benefit  Corrinshego and St. Peters though.

On your second point, I'm all for seconds teams competing in the league system, if anything I'd be encouraging more clubs to do it. But we need to have a properly organised reserve championship that is running at the same time as the other championships  for them to take part in.

I get the points on seconds playing in the lower championships being unfair on other clubs, but if it's graded and policed properly then the lads on those seconds, that's their level and being associated to a senior club without a huge opportunity of getting on the senior squad then they are being denied an opportunity to win a recognised all county trophy.

#94

General discussion / Re: The far right

Last post by Rossfan - May 20, 2024, 07:26:58 PM

Another nazifascist hero!
Any chance we could replace him with a decent human being.

#95

Tyrone / Re: Tyrone Club Football and H...

Last post by Rebel84 - May 20, 2024, 07:19:22 PM

I see there a Ronan Strain being doing a bit of scoring for Drumquin in the first few rounds of Division 3. Is that the fella that played underage for Tyrone? I thought he was an Omagh man?

Yeah that's him, transferred to drumquin at the beginning of the year I believe. Not sure why?

Isn't he a son of Laurence Strain who would have been originally Drumquin back in the day.

#96

GAA Discussion / Re: Gaelic Football - Rules & ...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - May 20, 2024, 07:07:46 PM

There was a incident in the Derry Galway game were a Galway player in possession was "ushered" over the sideline by a couple of Derry players. McQullian pointed his flag in favour of the Galway player and indicated a pushing motion with this hands.  I didn't hear if the referee blew his whistle at this point but is it not the linesmans job to indicate which way the line ball is to go and he should not be calling the freekick??

The linesman will advise the ref on off the ball incidents, he will do the line and he may even stand in behind a free and help the umpire on a wide or a point call.. The ref alone decides, he can take advise, but it will be his call

It's his call yes, but the wording in the rule book has changed. Historically the linesman would have called lined decisions and off the ball stuff, but can now alert the ref to any incident the ref may not have seen on or off the ball

But he can't stop play like soccer.. the ref can still regardless of what the linesman says or motions (as in this case) do his own thing

#97

GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire 2024 Group 2 ...

Last post by cavanmaniac - May 20, 2024, 06:47:17 PM

It was always going to come down to the game with Roscommon, for Cavan, and that hasn't and won't change, but the hope was we'd arrive there without too many scars and some confidence remaining. Who knows now what to expect from them on any given day? We're hideously inconsistent, often within games never mind from one to another, very mentally fragile and too content with moral victories, as shown by leaving a win behind us versus Tyrone. Any small degree of momentum from that is now in shreds. Mayo might not turn out to even be all that good, that's the scary thing, with Dublin waiting to annihilate us in second gear at Breffni - a game supporters will now understandably stay away from in droves? You try not to lapse into too much negativity and I know we've a new manager etc. but with all the gurus and back room geniuses we have, how in the hell did Cavan go out and turn in a dreadful display like that?

Cavan can put it up to a lot of teams but Mayo, Dublin, Kerry - big physical athletic teams, we will not compete with them. Most worrying for us is the total lack of quality coming through at underage (if you go by our results). One win for our U20s this year v Antrim (who were dire) and 2 wins for our Minors against Antrim and Fermanagh. When the Cillian Clarkes, Padraig Faulkners, Gerry Smiths hand up their boots we will be back slumming it in Div 3.

I hope you're wrong but couldn't make a convincing case right now. Underage has gone to shite altogether but isn't helped by honorary/name recognition appointments like Larry at U20, who anyone could see from his club management efforts would bring little bar an outdated, infuriating blanket defence and the usual robotic over-thinking. He'll be still there next year, I presume? If Damien Donohoe did reasonably well there the years before, why not leave him at it? Or at least make a considered choice instead of just lazily going for the ex-county legend.

Minors fared marginally better this year but as always the good news of a very commendable display against Tyrone is tainted by the age-old failing of not being able to take the win that was there to be taken, and losing composure when victory beckoned. It doesn't happen with such regularity to other counties; these moral victories all speak to ingrained mental fragility in our players but at least Seanie Smith seemed to be aware of as much in his post match comments - the first step to fixing a problem being awareness it exists and all that, which is not something you see a lot of acknowledgement of from other county board figures.

#98

General discussion / Re: TV Show recommendations

Last post by quit yo jibbajabba - May 20, 2024, 06:24:10 PM

Seems this woman sent a pile of emails to Keir Starmer too. Deffo something missing

#99

GAA Discussion / Re: Minor All Ireland Footbal...

Last post by Blowitupref - May 20, 2024, 06:17:43 PM

Leinster final on tonight.

Dublin v Longford,O'Connor Park, 7.30pm

Connacht final on Friday

Roscommon v Mayo, Dr Hyde Park, 7:30pm

Ulster final on Sunday

Armagh v Derry, 1pm in Healy Park

Munster final already played with Kerry beating Cork


All Ireland Quarter finals are scheduled for June 8-9,

Kerry v Connacht runner up
Cork v Connacht winner
Ulster winner v Leinster runner up
Leinster winner v Ulster runner up

Semi-finals on June 22-23 and final on July 6-7.

All games will be covered on TG4.




Will also be tier 2 and 3 Minor All Ireland championships this year.

A few matches already played.

Tier 3 knockout
Westmeath 5-18 Carlow 0-4,
Offaly 0-13 Waterford 4-11,
Limerick 3-11 Fermanagh 0-8
Laois 4-16 Antrim 1-9
Meath 0-8 Down 2-16

Quarter finals Tier 3

Saturday May 25 - 2pm

Tipperary v Westmeath
Waterford v Laois
Limerick v Down

Sunday May 26 - 1pm
Leitrim v London


The tier 2 knockout competition has the following teams Louth,Kildare,Wexford,Wicklow,Clare.Tipp,Cavan,Monaghan,Tyone,Donegal,Sligo and Galway

#100

Antrim / Re: Antrim Hurling

Last post by marty34 - May 20, 2024, 06:12:13 PM

I didn't think it was a red. A yellow would have sufficed.  A iltimed flick for the ball.

The thing is the ref didn't blow for it straight away.  I think the ref was for playing on, then Whelan stopped and went down.

(BTW, I've saw a lot of this recently where the ref. doesn't think it's a free and the player, who thinks he's been fouled just stops, and the referee blows the whistle.  It's like the player is saying to the ref. , ref that's a free and puts pressure on the ref.)

The ref obviously saw the blood when the helmet came off and issued the red.  Harsh enough as it wasn't a wild pull/swing.  It killed the game for Antrim. Took the wind right out of Antrim's sails at the start of the second half. Galway's penalty was a bit dodgy too I think.

Coby was a big lose also I reckon. Especially as he was named. Must have good injured in the warm up?

Galway started well but Antrim came back into it in the second part of the first half. Walsh hit a monster free and followed it up with a 'Wexford' sideline. Mc Naughton was excellent also and Shefflin was rattled along the line in the latter part of the first half.  He was a frustrated figure along the line.  He wanted the ball delivered in quicker to Niland and Whelan. When Burke was switched on to Whelan he quitened him down a bit.  Burke is some operator.

All to play for V Carlow.