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i wouldnt read too much into that match in ballycran thou bacon as the antrim team wasnt at full strength

well said the green man
this whole debate is dead in the water now

i was part of the minor team this year bredaghgael86...mcafee??
btw who are you?? was trying to work it out myself

just read on another forum site that dublin are going to appoint Anthony Daly as there new manager
http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=103961

its some appointment and he will def get the best out of some of the players on that dublin team
antrim will need to be wary

im at dundee uni silky

wouldnt have known bout that this is my first year at uni
in the scottish gaelic leagues there is a few scottish lads playing
i remember my mate telling me when he was playing a game in leeds he skint someone who subsquently shouted after him "you irish b******" which i thought a bit weird esp in a gaelic match lol

one of the RGU lads i was talking to said that their keeper during the british champs was a shinty player (mite explain some of the "saves" he tried to make lol)

i wouldnt be too quick to write of the dall in the semis i know they wouldnt be as strong as their counterparts (on paper anyway) but on their they'd be able to match anyone just look at ballygalget a couple of years ago newtownshandrum (i know i've mis-spelt it - you all probably know im referring to ben o'connors club) only beat them by a point. if the dall same injury free in the lead up then they will be able to give it a hell of a lash

when are the sevens played? are they played in birmingham as well?

that dublin antrim match should be interesting especially with antrim wanting to prove that they are capable of giving the leinster a good crack at
dublin will be definitely up for it IMO as they would to show antrim that leinster is their domain and not antrims
would tip dublin to nick it (esp as they are playing in croker)

u have a pretty good team at LJMU and yea the ref wasnt that good in the final (think it was the same one that reffed our game. btw wat position were u playing)
i played for the ulster u-16 team that went over to scotland to play our shinty counter-parts in 2006 and i can see were ur coming from cos they are very diiferent however i like the idea of not being able to use ur hands to an extend as it quickens the stick work of the hurlers which when they bring back to hurling matches will benefit they greatly (thats wat i found when i played) it is one hell of a concession IMO but in reality if the hurlers were allowed to play normal hurling it wouldnt be a contest. i think the point of it is to create links with our celtic neighbours unlike the gaelic/AFL series which IMO is jst an excuse for the top cats of the GAA to go to dubai for a couple of weeks for "meetings" then on to Australia to be wined and dined
the shinty lads i spoke to when we played them as a warm up game liked the idea cos it gave them a different experience playing shinty as they found it difficult to deal with us running at them with the ball on ours sticks at the start without fouling us.
i suppose i like the idea of lads getting a chance to play for their country when in all other circumstances they wouldnt get a chance to (at least we dont have to worry about shinty nickking all our top players like the footballers do about the AFL)
however i would prefer that the GAA put more of an effort in promoting the Railway Cup again instead of trying to make more and more connections with other organisations.

wat uni are u at youngfella?
i think there are 8 uni teams playing in the league for the shinty

youngfella im at dundee uni atm and i play for the gaa club at the uni as well as the shinty

lads i play shinty for the university i attend in scotland and it aint a brutal sport in fact u get more injuries playing hurling easily. its cos in shinty the marking is no-where near as tight as it is in hurling and the shinty lads dont get "stuck in" with each other the same way hurlers do when there is a breaking ball.
the reason the hurlers get so many broken sticks against the shinty lads is cos a shinty stick is more solid than a hurl (the scottish uni hurlers played the scottish shinty team as a warm match and yes we did a few sticks)
the only reason that its called brutal is cos when the hurlers get stuck they arent used to a shinty stick's swing which frankly takes everything with it, the shinty lads are just playing the way they usually play as are the hurlers but they both play completely different styles.

i have never had any problems with scullion hurls and rate them very highly
a got hurl i had this season was a hurl from tipp o'brian i think it was