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What about the fly-goalie?  Obviously, you need a "real" player named as goalkeeper to start the game, but moving him out (even if to corner back) and releasing that player up the field...

Might have an issue with a turnover in midfield though...

Chelsea's remaining 6 EPL games:

Stoke h
Swansea a
Sunderland h

Liverpool a
Norwich h
Cardiff a

How much the Champions League will distract/disrupt is the wild card.

Anyone been to Malta?

Interesting fact. Meath need to beat down by more than 25 points to lep above them.

13 points, not 25.

Manchester City Starting XI last night:

Hart £600k
Zabaleta £6.5m
Kompany £6m
Demichelis £4m
Clichy £7m
Nasri £24m
Silva £26m
Yaya £24m
Fernandinho £30m
Jesus Navas £15m
Dzeko £27m

Total = £171.6m

Manchester United Starting XI Last Night

DeGea £19m
Evra £5.5m
Ferdinand £30m
Jones £16.5m
Rafael £2.6m
Carrick £18.6m
Cleverley Academy
Fellaini £27.5m
Mata £ 37m
Rooney £25.6m
Welbeck Academy

Total = £182.3m

Anyone want to take a shot at current value of both sides, rather than original cost?

Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson Jr.  Bought the Bills for 25 grand back in 1959, now worth 870 million according to Forbes.   

Bills former quarterback Jim Kelly also announces return of oral cancer - he had been declared cancer-free after having part of his jaw removed last year.  Reports are the cancer us aggressive and has spread.

Why would you extend your suicide over 6 hours and 8,000 miles, or whatever it was, waiting for the fuel to run out and the plane to fall into the sea in its own sweet time?

Everybody dead in the cockpit with door locked?  Cabin crew unable to raise the alarm as comms shut down.  This presumes pilot or co-pilot as the hijacker.

Of course, telephone answering training might not be high on the list of things these boys would receive. 

A simple practice of..."Garda station, this is Jack on a recorded line, how may I help you".

Just noticed the words "simple", "Garda", and "help" in the one sentence...what was I thinking. 

What is Fellaini at...

What about using it under your own crossbar?  Making a catch above the crossbar would be impressive, a la Darragh O'Se against Limerick some years ago.

Future use would involve launching the light corner forward up.  Could get him up to 12 feet I bet. Timing would be easier there than out the field.

What rule says this is illegal?  One would think Eamonn would know the answer, rather than ask the question, with him being an administration expert of the GAA and thereby familiar with all the rules of our games. 

Then again, what rule exists to prevent a player climbing/being hoisted onto the crossbar and standing/sitting there when a long-range free coming in?

The test involves running continuously between two points that are 20 m apart from side to side (as I'm sure you are aware of). These runs are synchronized with a laptop software (like yesterday), which plays beeps at set intervals. As the test proceeds, the interval between each successive beep decreases, forcing the athlete to increase their speed over the course of the test, until it is impossible to keep in sync with the recording (or, in rare occasions, if the athlete completes the test).

Many people who test people using the multi-stage fitness test allow one level to beep before the person makes the line, but if the person being tested does not make the next interval then the most recent level they completed is their final score.

The recording is typically structured into 21 'levels', each of which lasts around 62 seconds. Usually, the interval of beeps is calculated as requiring a speed at the start of 8.5 km/h, increasing by 0.5 km/h with each level thereafter. The progression from one level to the next is signaled by 3 quick beeps. The highest level attained before failing to keep up is recorded as the score for that test.


                             Cumulative
Level      shuttles     Shuttles             Speed           Shuttle time            Total level time     Distance     cumulative         cumulative
                                                                                                                                                       distance            time
                                                       (km/h)            (seconds)                    (s)                    (M)             (m)             (mins and secs)
17           14                185                16.5                4.36                         61.09                  280            370                17.50


So 14 .4 is running between the 20m cones at 14.4 km/h which the Antrim county board have deemed the minimum requirement

Thanks for the info.  I truly had no idea how this thing was calculated.

Far from beep tests I was reared...I'd be from the running laps days and if you couldn't drink a pint of milk and wolf down a steak after an eternity of laps you were not fit.  Every second lap would have a length of the field sprint to get that side of things up to scratch.

Did the referees fitness test today, we'd done a beep test last year for the first time so we'd all a target to reach for plus the county set a target of 14.4 the ability to do league games and 15.8 I think for championship standard. Was tough enough as the ones before I got to do mine managed 17.4, I managed to pass that but was thinking it's a decent running program, do running clubs do that type of stuff for speed work or is it to short a distance?

Target 14.4 what?

14.4 was the grade required to referee at league level. What that means in terms of difficulty? I don't think it's hard to meet, not sure what the national referee's need to meet during the beep test 18?

Knees clean fucked again with two weeks to go   

Ah that's shit!!

Still have no idea what the 14.4 is...is it the result of some formula or combination of things?  I'd be interested in seeing how it is calculated. I presume it is not units of anything.

Think I could manage 14.4 pints in a day/night session.
Hardly on 14.4 miles in an hour running though.
14.4 minutes for the mile...

Did the referees fitness test today, we'd done a beep test last year for the first time so we'd all a target to reach for plus the county set a target of 14.4 the ability to do league games and 15.8 I think for championship standard. Was tough enough as the ones before I got to do mine managed 17.4, I managed to pass that but was thinking it's a decent running program, do running clubs do that type of stuff for speed work or is it to short a distance?

Target 14.4 what? 

For me, the 5v12 games are always good auld upset chances.

Damn AZ you are good!

I got 15 out of 16 right yesterday and am tied at the top of my pool, I lost today with Duke and expect to be about 6th out of 300 by days end, $50.00 for a pool and the top twenty pay out) if I finish 10tI get $500.00, not too shabby!

Three of the four 12 seeds win.  Mercer impressive in beating Duke.  Having 5 seniors start every game this season for Mercer has them physically more mature than any opponent.  They could go on a run...

For me, the 5v12 games are always good auld upset chances.

Harvard fit the bill nicely there.