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screen, did you hear our group is down to 3 teams? Heard yesterday Mullabawn and Derrylaughan have pulled out.

Didn't hear that at all Slim. As far as I knew we were down to play Mullabawn next Sunday!! I was hoping to make my return for the Reserves as well... Ragin!

Saying as the Championship weekend begins on Friday week I thought it might be an idea to start a thread on who the favourites are for each of the competitions... who are the big name players to look out for and more importantly does anyone know where to head out to for a weekend when staying in Jurys Heathrow!

Personally I think it will be hard to look past Liverpool Hope for the main competition. We got absolutely tanked by them in the NW league and I personally thought they were better organised than John Moore's although it will be difficult to see what effect the loss of the University of Liverpool boys will have on the team.

St. Mary's and Napier may challenge the 2 Liverpool Uni's but from what I've heard they aren't as good as they have been in previous years.

As for Division 2 I'd say it will be a toss up between any number of teams as it will depend on what Uni's get their full teams out and also a lot will depend on conditions.

The plate competition will be an even bigger lottery. My club Man Met Uni (Now Manchester Comnined) have recently been relegated due to a 'clerical' error and we've a decent squad so we'll be lookin' to give it a good rattle.

Oh and please don't let the thread deteriorate into the Hoganstand version of "No Hope are better than John Moore's" "No John Moore's are better than Hope" as it gets a bit tedious reading the same thing 100 times over!

Alrite lads just wondering if any of you could shed any light on Derry's performance as I doubt there were too many of our supporters down who could give an opinion. Were we good or were Galway really bad or was it a mixture of both? Who were the standout players apart from Gilligan and Bradley?

Screen beat the Moy by a point on Saturday morning.

I could be wrong but heard that in terms of attendance  the dublin tyrone match will the biggest sporting advent in the world during the weekend,even more than the superbowl on sunday night which will have a crowd of 75,000!!

If this is true its amazing that the league match, which is only the second tier competition in football can attract such a crowd given its the first round and not even a final!
I know the major attraction is because its underlights but even still!!

Not necessarily the biggest sporting crowd. It'll be a very close call anyway, Twickenham is also sold out AFAIK and it has a capacity of 82,000 while Croker has an extra 500. We'll have to wait for official confirmation before we can decide it It's still no mean feat for a national league game though!

I agree!

AFAIK most places in Derry are covered by at least one club (Tobermore/Fivemilestraight area is a contentious one between Screen and Glen). There used to be a map of the club boundaries but I can't seem to find it anymore. As for the City Well I've no clue how clubs are divided out up there but I would presume that anyone who wants access to a club has it.

Personally I like both Derry's strips! The pink version they had a few years ago was completely rank but the 2 designs at the minute seem to look the part. I think the Down geansaí isn't too bad at the minute and I like the way that O'Neills kind of have the same designs for most counties geansaí's I think it adds to the whole idea of community within our sport.

I think the Dubs are streets ahead of most counties in terms of their strip though!

"Sure Jaesus he'd want to be like an aeroplane to get it!"

It really is gripping stuff at the minute... Alcoholism... Wrinkly lovers... illegitimate babies!!! I don't know how they keep coming up with all these great storylines year after year!

Yeah right!! Whichh thread in here has the most posts??!!

You might also want to try this one as well AZ

http://derry.gaa.ie/coaching/coaching_tips_index.htm

There are some good ones in there and some good advice too.

The stabdard differs across different counties.

It works like this in Derry as Far as I know

Senior Championship
Senior Reserve Championship (Senior Football Club's B Team)
Intermediate
Intermediate Reserve Championship (Intermediate Club's B Team)
Junior Championship
3rds Championship (Any club that can field a 3rd team are here although they used to play in the Junior C'ship and I think most play in the Junior league anyway)

1 Man... Tohill!

As someone said before that's a crock o' shit reitoir. You'll read some Gulpin like yourself in Off the fence complaining about it next week. It has happned a few ties I might add and goes along the lines of "Paddy Heany put a picture of the wrong Michael Hasson in... he's a disgrace and should apologise" and the reply is "Sorry but journalists write articles, they have nothing to do with pictures, headlines or even thos squote boxes around the outside of the article.... yes the IN is at fault but do not blame this on Paddy Heaney"

WTF do you boys know about the journalism industry anyway? This is the way it's done for every Newspaper so wind yuor neck in and blame the right people rather than standing on your high horse "I wrote it therefore I'd stand over it" wise up!!!

As for Heaney, I've had to miss out on the IN for the last few months but I usually find his articles particularly on the club scene very humourous and interesting and judging by most here he definitely strikes a chord with your normal club footballers. In fairness the articles aren't as good as they once were but they are as good an opinion piece as you'll find on the GAA at any time of year.