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New look Antrim team, from the league anyway, he interesting to see how the fellas that didn't play any league get on

Sad news from Lamh Dhearg, Ryan Straney, senior footballer killed in car accident in Sydney. 96 year old man driving the wrong way up the motorway.

This keeps going mcilroys gona waken up in the lead 🤣🤣

Currently 2000/1 to win if you fancy it

I'm just waiting for Paul McGinley to say if he starts well tomorrow he has a great chance 

Here - https://youtu.be/uKTICK54tMQ?feature=shared

I'd say Brolly couldn't care less.

He did when he got the boot from RTE

The same old GAA Board problem of people not reading a post, I'm not talking about Brolly & MacKenna having the same position on issues. I am talking about someone who was relatively mainstream (MacKenna) who has been totally ostracised due to his ramblings, ranting and behaviour. I can see the same happening with Brolly

Latest podcast was a bit ott in terms of GAA exceptionalism, GAA has its share of fraud, spivs, spoofers, and wrong'uns - Joe's experience seems akin to Tom Cruise involvement in Scientology

And why so much hate for Micky Harte - referred to as 'that man' in the latest episode, a bit much

I used to find Brolly really interesting, he actually seems to be becoming slightly unhinged.

I can easily see him totally ostracised in the media world and an Ewan MacKenna type character in a few years

Have to say I got well caught up in the drama of it all back in the day, but yes a bad un behind it all you'd have to say

For anyone who hasn't watched it, The People v OJ was a great ten parter

OJ: Made In America the five part documentary is great. Currently available on demand on Sky Documentaries

Have to say I got well caught up in the drama of it all back in the day, but yes a bad un behind it all you'd have to say

For anyone who hasn't watched it, The People v OJ was a great ten parter

Yep was on again recently again there, one of the black jurors basically said after he didn't care what the evidence was he was going to be finding him innocent.

In the hurling you had to make the cut from the first trial to make the second, I'm sure the football is the same.

I know the first hurling trial was just a few days after St Killians All Ireland win. Maybe they could look at weighting it between performances in games, adjudicated by Ulster Colleges staff, and trial games at the end of the year. Especially when there are UCAS points now involved for the students.

[Revealed: how GAA star in Garda probe received €30,000 from GPA]

Revealed: how GAA star in Garda probe received €30,000 from GPA

John Fogarty - Irish Examiner 9 April 2024


The Gaelic Players Association (GPA) gave €30,000 in 2022 to a former inter-county player who has since come under investigation by An Garda Síochána.

The individual received the monies from the official inter-county players body in two tranches amounting to the five-figure sum, the Irish Examiner understands. The GPA chose not to comment when contacted.

Donations between the association and players are kept confidential between the two parties.

In conjunction with the GAA, the organisation has a past player medical and surgical intervention fund. However, the donations did not come from that source, which is under the auspices of the GAA and was established "to assist former senior inter-county players who may require medical or surgical intervention arising from their involvement with their relevant county team".

The GPA have their own benevolent fund, the aim of which is described in their annual accounts ending December 2022 as offering "support to members of the company who experience setbacks, both personal and professional. The service exists to offer support in a way that helps people find their feet by providing more than financial assistance."

Benevolent fund donations in 2022, which are deducted as a portion of annual membership fees, amounted to €20,550. That year, the GPA spent €2.843 million on player development programmes, €71,493 on player engagement services and €23,832 on welfare support expenditure, while they had two "staff and pension costs" entries, one for €506,183 under player programmes and another for €284,719 under operating costs.

Other units either associated with the GAA or part of it may also have given money to the ex-player. Some provincial councils use gate receipts from pre-season competitions to provide hardship funds for GAA players, both club and county. Supporters groups are also known to ring-fence monies raised for welfare and hardship funds for current and former inter-county players.

Insurance will go through the roof after the 10th ACL in a team who train on a synthetic pitch.

I've my doubts about 3G/4G pitches and ACL's as well, but have you any evidence on this?

It's not really in any doubt when it comes to the NFL for example, obviously different game etc but the players absolutely hate artificial pitches. Much harder on the body

Authentic - everyone is trying to be authentic these days

As quite a few thought, Jota has proved to be a big miss, much more clinical than any of the other attackers

I imagine the mental side of that is tougher than the physical.

Wicklow got relegated 2 weeks ago but yeah God help Westmeath and their mental turmoil of winning the league a week ago.

Give teams a few days to get over knocks and fatigue without going straight into a championship game, especially with teams playing week after week on heavy pitches.

Not everyone has a squad like a Derry or Dublin. Leitrim in the same boat today. You just will not get the best version of a team with a weeks break.