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I don't think Tipp will do much this year.

You have a blind spot about them. I see some promising signs. They won't be far away, there's little between a lot of the chasing pack, and I think they are all closing on Kilkenny.

I dunno AZ. They should be way better in terms of putting it up to Kilkenny but all they have to show for the last 7 or 8 years of effort is that one win that killed the drive for 5. I thought they would kick on after that and they didn't, which was a real pity.
Last year they were very disappointing.  And hurling needs them to be better.
The game is not in great shape tbh. Offaly and Cork are badly missed.

During Horan's time, a lot of the energy of the team came from back to front behind a competitive middle third. Likes of Cuniiffe, Gardiner(while he was still around), Boyle, Higgins, Vaughan and Keegan ripped into teams. That was the strength of the team.
Now were are trying to remould those players into a different approach and not sure they are as effective now. Vaughan, for one, looks like he has been disempowered by new approach.
Under Horan we were never able to make long ball inside stick. Goal chances came from our running game; not long ball in.
Rochford now has to decide to persist with what he is trying to do or backtrack. Jason Doherty played better as a grinder about the pitch than in ff line. Inside this year he has looked very ordinary.  Aidan gets crowded out and when he gets his hands on ball, defenders get away with fouls against him - something I don't see changing either. Cillian will return but Cillian struggles to win long independent ball inside as well.
Rochford has a huge decision to make now. Returning players wont make such a difference imo.

Why would returning  to what wasn't good enough before with older legs be a real option Moy? Might as well stick to your guns and try something that may work rather than what we know doesn't.

What wasn t good enough before was nearly good enough and should have been good enough if a few decisions had gone our way or if a few bits of housekeeping were done better.
What's happening now is like a top golfer trying to reconstruct his swing, to get better, but ends up missing the cuts.
What appears to be happening now is that we are breaking down the game that nearly got us there while not having the ammo to make the new approach viable.

I bet they will be ready for the summer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alasdair_Mac_Colla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DvvfNACsYc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtpZMMpd2q4

Caoineadh chu Chulainn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDyMFP6yzfk

Blue

http://youtu.be/03qBqP2I4p8

another Blue but not really funeral style, perhaps for the pub afterwards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjqAHPu097c

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/pro12/anthony-foley-close-to-earning-contract-extension-1.2573049

I don't think Tipp will do much this year.

This was very good

The Irish Times - Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Channel-hopping offers explosive time and space perspective
NEWTON EMERSON
NEWTON'S OPTIC:
BBC News
We interrupt our report on wheelchair access at job centres to bring you some breaking news. Astronomers at Britain's Jodrell Bank observatory have detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Initial projections suggest it will strike the Republic of Ireland in approximately 15 minutes.
RTÉ News
We interrupt our report on a cat stuck up a tree in Cabinteely to bring you some breaking news. The BBC is reporting a serious problem with wheelchair access at job centres. More on Six-One, but, meanwhile, back to Cabinteely.
BBC News
We have an update on that developing asteroid story, by which we mean the story is developing, not the asteroid. Astronomers confirm it will strike the Republic of Ireland in 13 minutes, causing widespread devastation. Shock waves are expected across Europe and EU leaders are meeting now in emergency session.
RTÉ News
And I'm sure we're all delighted to see Tiddles safely back on the ground. In other news, Government sources have reacted angrily to reports in London of an "astronomical problem" threatening Ireland.
The British media has a long history of anti-Irish reporting, as you can see from this 1865 cartoon of Mr Punch dropping a rock on "Poor Paddy".
BBC News
Further details on that asteroid. Jodrell Bank says it is five miles wide, travelling at 20,000mph and will hit Dublin in 10 minutes.
Scientists warn this is an "existential threat" to the Republic of Ireland, while linguists warn that "existential" should not be used as an adjective for "existence".
RTÉ News
The Government is denying reports of an existential threat to Ireland or a threat to the existence of Ireland.  RTÉ understands that several alarming statistics circulating in London have come from a British bank, which may well have its own reasons for speculating on Dublin's future.
BBC News
As the so-called "Paddy's Rock" passes lunar orbit, EU leaders have urged the Irish Government to recognise the gravity of the situation and seek urgent help.
RTÉ News
Government sources confirm they have spoken to EU leaders about an urgent situation, but only to complain that talk of "gravity" is not helping.
BBC News
With impact now minutes away, survival experts advise people to dig a hole in the softest ground available. Fortunately the Irish are good at digging holes in soft ground, as you can see from this 1865 cartoon of Mr Punch "watching Paddy stick his head in the bog".
RTÉ News
We interrupt these scurrilous rumours to bring you truly earth-shattering news. A man with a beard is moving from Belfast to Dundalk to look for work. Central Bank sources say this proves the recession is over.
BBC News
Our correspondent in Ireland reports that a shadow has now fallen over the whole country and people are fleeing the affected area, except for one man with a beard who appears to be fleeing in the opposite direction.
RTÉ News
In an exclusive angry phone call to our newsroom, a Government press officer has confirmed that he can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The light has appeared in the sky directly over Dublin, where it is glowing bright red and getting larger and larger by the . . .

Crossmaglen Rangers have consented to be part of this BBC NI series. True North? Not North against our will,or until our day comes?

I thought cross was in the deep south where they eat ulster gumbo

Ah don't make me well up Seafoid. The way the team are playing football at the moment would make Dermot very proud.

This is very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdI5sEKGWtE&ebc

anyway Syf it is about time !

It is a pity he is not around to see the Rossies this year

A memorial card handed out at the funeral outlined the five points of his Plan for Life:
1. Enjoy time with my family; 2. Give the best to my work; 3. Give back to my community; 4. Spend my leisure time well; 5. Make time for God in my life".

And how it is used. Say RTE or BBC and how they present information. Or things like bailouts and how they happen. Or Denis O Brien...

https://next.ft.com/content/96810a0e-8d8f-11de-93df-00144feabdc0
decades ago, Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, observed that elites in a society typically maintain their power not simply by controlling the means of production (ie money), but by dominating the cultural discourse too (ie a society's intellectual map). And what is most important in relation to that cognitive map is not what is overtly stated and discussed –but what is left unstated, or ignored. Or as he wrote: "The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than a complicitous silence."

Other than this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-9fGEgAcY

Where are you getting these ideas for new threads from?

Not sure. There is a lot going on at the moment. Very interesting time I think

think it has to be this one for me...

https://youtu.be/_eiI-jgDnAo

. You could throw in a "you're not singing anymore" at the end.

This would be class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Cmzvt549Y

Has to be this: https://youtu.be/kl4Uh5nOFAg

the French version isn't bad either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0pBPp6cjlo