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Wobbler if you look up the page you'll see that i have no problem with the reporting of the incidents and yes there would have been brief highlights of the match if no violence had occurred as BBC's ONE camera dedicated to gaelic games was in Casement park anyway. My beef was with Thompson saying that maybe there should be a monday feature on the GAA showing the boxing from the weekend. The inference being that these savages are at it all the time but we cant get round it all as we have to show 'highlights' from all the one man and his dog League games.

For the avoidance of doubt this thread was not meant as a pop at Jerome or Mark Sidebottom, I have nothing but admiration for all of the Championship team but decisions on funding of sports coverage does not lie with them. Which leads me to the second/final point if you really believe that 'regional' soccer coverage is less than 'regional' gaa coverage or even proportionate to their followings then we'll have to agree to differ on that point.

I agree with Donagh about making our views heard re disproportionate coverage because rest assured the BBC receive plenty of complaints when GAA is shown. The squeakiest wheel gets the oil.

Ziggy you may not give a fcuk but i do, mainly because as uselessfootballer says

Coverage and comments such as last nights certainly makes the recruitment of kids from families that don't have a GAA background all the more difficult.

Things like this might not matter in Greencastle or other places where the battle for hearts and minds is won, they do where we're toiling. I accept that a large part of the problem stems from the GAA itself but it bugs the hell out of me when a whole organisation can be stereotyped the way Thompson did last night.

Wobbler do you honestly think that if this had happened at the Antrim County final that it wouldn't have made its way to our screens?

5sams as someone who grew up with Leslie Dawes and Charlie Witherspoon maybe mentioning the AIF after the tiddlywinks, i accept that things have improved immeasurably especially on the BBC, but like a lot of things in our lovely little entity, should we accept second best because it's not last?

edit sorry meant this to be in this thread in the first place but logged out 

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=144.0

Bud, just for you I think we should all mark new threads as per the link above. What do you think?

The GPA lads and JOM standing for election follows a long tradition (in the free state anyway) of lads parlaying their sporting prowess into political positions. I was wondering if we could get a team each of Hurlers and footballers (county standard and td,mp or mla).

I'll give you Jack Lynch (Cork, FF) as captain of the hurlers and Seamus Mallon (Armagh SDLP) for the footballers as your starters.Selection on the basis of political 'achievement'.

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Just to help Bud negotiate his way around the board i've added a 'Free State Friendly' sticker to my original post. 

slim, your men would be wasting their breath. I have no problem with Jerome, he was delivering a script, fairly accurately describing what happened. Do you actually think he runs that show?. And as for calling himself a gael, ask some of the Bredagh lads, he has more right than most.

Thompson on the other hand felt the need to add his , unscripted, two cents. what he said was ignorant and patronising. Since when did he give a fcuk about Gaelic games?  Just look at his copresenter's reaction.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/newsline/newsline1830.ram

26.25 minutes in.

Nice one Noel, it's the only way to get the BBC to cover any GAA. As at matter of interest what was the combined attendance at the Irish league matches on saturday?

bump & merge

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=25.0

Gael, you don't have any relatives in Poyntzpass by any chance?

[thrusting]

what chance is there of men thrusting them

very little i'd say, though many male referees have been advised to do it to themselves over the years.

Might work guillem, as long as she is as strong as the stewardess who held back about thirty lads looking into the tunnel at half time in the drawn Ulster Hurling final. I've a feeling no fella would have coped in that situation. 

Also, less backchat and lifts home in the boot of someone's car.

BC i know what you're saying but it could have been dealt with last night with little damage. Slim you may or may not care but i think it's a dangerous precedent.

as for the avatar and sig Bc, i have a calf injury healing since august which is telling me more than the missus hiding the boots.
Not that i'm listening.

I'd be interested to hear the board policy on outing posters. l believe it's well out of order and reported the first post on this thread to the moderator last night. To date i have received no response positive or negative. Scooby, do yerself a favour and edit that post.

http://p072.ezboard.com/fgaadiscussionboardfrm1.showMessageRange?topicID=10594.topic&start=1241&stop=1256


I'd change that password again if i was you mate.

square ball or even page 1 of this thread.

Has he made it accross here yet? I want to quiz him about the fact that he appears to have asked every big fcuker in the county (regardless of age)  to trials apart from me 

I hear Magic wasnt the only hurler asked, maybe he should try some of the Ulster rugby boys as well.