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In case anyone doesn't know, Setanta Ireland are showing full re-runs of most of the weekend's matches (I don't see Tipp-Limerick in the schedule) at the following times this week:

Meath-Dublin tonight (Monday) 22:30, Friday 19:00
Tyrone-Donegal Tuesday 12:05
Waterford-Cork Tuesday 19:00, Wednesday 12:00
Wexford-Louth Wednesday 19:00, Friday 14:40
Sligo-Roscommon Thursday 19:00, Friday 11:50
Tyrone-Donegal (MFC) Wednesday 15:30

There's also The GAA show on Friday at 18:30 and 21:30 and Saturday at 9:05 and they're showing Féile na nGael throughout the week during the day.

Setanta Ireland is available on Sky (I don't know the terms) and free on Chorus (Channel 105).

The full schedule is here:
http://ie.setanta.com/portal/systemcontent/tvschedule

The issue of the square ball rule has arisen on the Donegal v. Armagh thread. Martin McHugh said on TV the rule should be dropped. I'd agree on the basis that it's impossible to determine accurately whether a forward is in the square before the ball, particularly when the ball is coming from one direction, in the air and the forward is coming from the other.

However, I think you'd have to have some rule to prevent goal-hanging and the clogging up of the goalmouth.  I suggested considering making the small square a total exclusion zone for forwards, but Tacadoir Ard Mhacha rightly pointed out that it would be unreasonable to prevent a forward from netting a ball spilled by the goalie.

What do people think? Is the rule OK as it stands or should it be dropped and, if so, what, if anything should replace it?

Sorry, all, to start a thread for this, but I want to get in touch with Bud in a hurry.

Bud - I've sent you a PM there, with an urgent question!

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I haven't time to contribute, but I logged in to find out what people here think of the GAA's decision to back the GPA's pay-for-play agenda and was amazed to find no discussuion here.

What do people think?

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Limerick, March 2007.

Football followers have, for years now, scratched their heads in vain for a solution to the appalling diving tendency that has threatened to ruin our game. 

Diving, often seen as a component of the much reviled 'puke football' system, is perhaps most notoriously perpetrated by dual All-Ireland winners Tyrone, though most observers credit Kerryman, Mick O'Dwyer with its invention.

Now, appropriately, another Kerryman, Limerick football manager Mickey Ned O'Sullivan, may have refurbished the county's reputation by coming up with the antidote to this virulent syndrome, with a new tactic introduced at last Sunday's league game against Tyrone. And, like all good ideas, it's simplicity itself.

Rather than try to describe the tactic and the technique behind it, we will allow this picture to illustrate it:
www.geocities.com/hardyarse/401887.jpg

Do we have any collectors of programmes, GAA publications, tickets etc. here who know the going rates for these things?

I've just heard, through a third party, that a friend of mine is about to offer me her late father's entire collection, which I understand is very large. I think she may not know the potential value of it, so I'd like to be able to say "thanks for the thought, but do you realise that an All-Ireland programme is worth €xx, a ticket is worth €yy, etc."

So does anyone know what an All-Ireland programme and ticket might be worth? Same for semi, provincial final, ordinary championship match, club match, etc?

Thanks.

Anyone in Aughrim today? It seems we struggled, but I'm encouraged by the fact that we came back from six points to one down and later 9-4, to win by three. Maybe this team under Coyle has the old fight that wasn't evident under the previous regime.

The run in will be interesting, with Cavan and ourselves both playing Waterford and Wexford. It may all come down to the fact that Cavan have Wexford at home, while we have to travel to Wexford Park. Of course if Wexford win both, they'll win the division.

That trip will be as big a test as we've had to date under Coyle and will tell a lot about the state of development. I think I'll travel.

Thomas Walsh withdrew his application to the Leinster Council for a transfer from Fenagh (Carlow) to Bray Emmets (Wicklow) when he discovered he had put the wrong address, at which he claims to be residing in Wicklow, on his application form! He has now re-submitted the request with the "correct" address.

I suppose you can't blame him for being confused about where he lives.

The apartment in question, in Greystones, is owned by Ballymore Properties, sponsors of the Wicklow football team. When contacted by the Irish Daily mail, Walsh claimed he owned the apartment, until it was pointed out to him that the registered owner is Ballymore properties. He then said the issue is not ownership but residence and insisted he lived there.

He lives there, but he's just not sure exactly where it is, it seems.