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Just don't know what to expect Saturday, United's record against the top teams in the league has been excellent the last 2 months so there's reason to be optimistic but who knows what United will turn up.

I'd say Conte has the same contract as LVG had whereby no champions league qualification means he won't be manager next season with that mind the Chelsea players will probably lift themselves and look to win the FA Cup for Conte much like the United players did for LVG in 2016

The way the Chelski players have played this year it looks like they hate Conte and his stupid hair implants. But it's a cup final and I would imagine they will give it a real go.

They are pretty decent implants 

+1. I would kill to have Conte's luscious hair.

The Rockets look the more in-form team of the 2 and have a great chance of winning this.

I agree with the rest of your post but this is nonsense. Harden scored 41 the other night and they were obliterated.

GSW have snatched home court advantage. It's very much still advantage warriors.

They do have home advantage but their stars, Durant aside, aren't in great form. Kerr seems to be staying loyal to Curry even though he's been struggling a bit and that could be the losing of it. Having said that, Curry did have some nice drives to the basket and it wouldn't be any great surprise.if his shooting caught fire at home.

Game 3 is set up beautifully. Can't f**king wait for it. Usually watch them back in the morning but will stay up to watch this one live.

Heavy beating for the Warriors last night. Durant kept them in touch for 3 quarters but Klay, Green and Steph were all very poor offensively. The Rockets looked a different team with Ariza, Gordon and Tucker all flying.

Warriors fans would have to be worried. Curry's 3 point attempts weren't even close last night and defensively he's being targeted successfully. I'd like to see Livingstone get more minutes at Steph's expense. He's looked good at both ends and his +/-  stats bear that out. Young has done well too when brought in and should get more game time.

The Rockets look the more in-form team of the 2 and have a great chance of winning this.

Only got to see the first five or so minutes.  Was anything made of the cp3 elbow on KD's butt?

The commentators just said something about Paul telling Durant to get up or some words to that effect. Paul gets away with a lot of fouls that a bigger man wouldn't, especially in his use of his spare arm when dribbling at defenders.

Warriors were a much better balanced team than the Rockets last night. Too much teamwork and too many options for them to handle. Durant and Thompson were a joy to watch. Hard to imagine the Warriors winning without KD now. Green very fortunate not to have been ejected with a 2nd technical on a couple of occasions for roaring at the refs. Had an excellent game too though.

Harden couldn't have done any more offensively and Capela was very good and effective doing what he does. Ariza was a bit unlucky with a couple of calls which got him into foul trouble and the Rockets bench was poor. Mbah a Moute went 0-6.

It was a joke and pretty f**king harmless for a bunch of white Irish people on a GAA forum.

Go write a strongly worded letter to Sacha Baron Cohen or Seth McFarlane who've spent the best part of 15 years telling the same kind of jokes to the mass market.

I'm not familiar with Seth MacFarlane, but I would assume he is Jewish given his first name.

Sacha Baron Cohen can tell all the jokes about Jews that he likes, because he is one.

The thing is, his humour is designed to not only to laugh at his own historically oppressed ethnic group, which is he is entitled to do by virtue of being a member of that group, but to ridicule anti-semitism and anti-semites. And you clearly don't even get that.

Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman can tell jokes about Jews and rape jokes, because they are both Jewish and women, and thus can use dark, confrontational humour to challenge and ridicule anti-semitism and misogynism.

A Muslim comedian gets to make jokes about Muslims. A disabled comedian gets to tell jokes about disabled people.

It's very clear you fail to understand the difference betwen that type of humour, and, say, Bernard Manning. Or Kevin Myers. Or Ron Atkinson.

Or this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoLPLsQbdt0

Sid, if you heard such a joke from a comedian you're not familiar with, would you need to check his religious and ethnical background so you could accurately weigh up whether the joke is funny or offensive, before deciding whether to laugh heartily or write a thesis about racism in comedy?

Ireland were 5/1 before the song was sang tonight and now its 10/1..

The second Great Irish Famine to continue? Still think it could be our year.

Fair play to them.
Can't believe I'm saying this but the song is actually growing on me!

Growing on me too.

Ireland have gone from no hopers in the betting to one of the favourites after the Chinese broadcasters didn't show the Irish performance because of the gay dancers. Eurovision have barred the Chinese channel from showing the event.

That gay dance routine was an absolute stroke of genius.

Durant + Curry + Klay + Draymond >>>>> Harden + CP3.

Agreed but then Capela, Tucker, Ariza and Gordon are better than Swaggy, Magee, Livingston, Cook and Looney

Capela had 6 blocks last night and should be a menace at both ends under the basket. When Harden drives to the basket, the alley-oop to Capela is another option that's been working really well and is very difficult to defend. They have the 3 point shooters to potentially stay with the Warriors in a high scoring game. Home court advantage too.

I'd still make the Warriors slight favourites but think it will be close.

"He kicked a poor wide there. I blame the lack of regular club fixtures."

Apprehensive about warriors rockets. Warriors on their day win out handily enough but they just aren't that consistent this year, whilst the rockets are. Can't stand hardens style of play, well the looking for fouls part. Chris Paul really has taken a lot of pressure of him, cause before these play offs he wilted.

Think the Rockets will trouble the Warriors and take it to 6 or 7 games, maybe even beat them. Can't see anyone from the East winning out. LeBron is superhuman but would still need more help than he'll get. Bookies have it as a Warriors v Rockets 2 horse race as well.

Excellent post Wobbler.

Cheers for posting that Jinxy. Most moving thing I've read in a long time.

[Anyone else think this was way out of order on the Sindo's part?]

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/paul-kimmage-low-lie-the-fields-of-athenry-the-gaa-story-every-parent-will-want-to-read-36879150.html

Anyone else think this was way out of order on the Sindo's part?

The club handled the situation terribly and it's unacceptable to use that language when coaching u-12s, but tarnishing the name of two volunteers and sensationalising this matter with a journalist who doesn't seem to like or care about the GAA, was wrong of the Sindo imo.

I don't think O' Rourke, Brolly or Dermot Crowe would have touched this. Be interested to hear Brolly's take on it.

No.

A frequently used definition of news is that it is something that somebody, somewhere doesn't want people to know.

Two mentors broke GAA rules. That in itself is not the real story. While what the mentors did was against the rules, what they did were not, shall we say, hanging offences.

Had the mentors and the club held their hands up, admitted their mistakes and taken their medicine, as it were, this would not have become a story.

The problem, and what makes the story newsworthy, is the institutional closing of ranks by the club.

This involved:
i) Refusing to properly deal with the matter internally.
ii) A clear attempt to intimidate the complainants and the panel conducting the disciplinary hearing.
iii) A refusal to accept the outcome of the disciplinary hearing and attempt to spin an untrue version of such to the public.

There is something endemic within Irish institutions across all areas of society that leads to lack of accountability, denials and covering up. Institutional closing of ranks.

And it always, always, always makes things worse for the institution in question.

The club handled it disastrously. No argument there.

Often those who complain most about volunteer coaches give precisely zero of their own time and expect the team to revolve around their child. I don't know if that's the case here but in the vast majority of these cases the complaining parent is a selfish pain in the hole and the coach is trying their best. Anyone who coaches underage teams these days would say that the parents are more challenging than the kids.

One of the parents has given more than enough of his time and service to both Athenry and Galway.

A lot of nutters make their way into managing underage teams and think they have landed the county job. Is about enjoyment and developing young players. If there was a coach fucing and blinding about my boys I'd ask him to wise up.I have seen it though thankfully not at my club

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https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/paul-kimmage-low-lie-the-fields-of-athenry-the-gaa-story-every-parent-will-want-to-read-36879150.html

Anyone else think this was way out of order on the Sindo's part?

The club handled the situation terribly and it's unacceptable to use that language when coaching u-12s, but tarnishing the name of two volunteers and sensationalising this matter with a journalist who doesn't seem to like or care about the GAA, was wrong of the Sindo imo.

I don't think O' Rourke, Brolly or Dermot Crowe would have touched this. Be interested to hear Brolly's take on it.

No.

A frequently used definition of news is that it is something that somebody, somewhere doesn't want people to know.

Two mentors broke GAA rules. That in itself is not the real story. While what the mentors did was against the rules, what they did were not, shall we say, hanging offences.

Had the mentors and the club held their hands up, admitted their mistakes and taken their medicine, as it were, this would not have become a story.

The problem, and what makes the story newsworthy, is the institutional closing of ranks by the club.

This involved:
i) Refusing to properly deal with the matter internally.
ii) A clear attempt to intimidate the complainants and the panel conducting the disciplinary hearing.
iii) A refusal to accept the outcome of the disciplinary hearing and attempt to spin an untrue version of such to the public.

There is something endemic within Irish institutions across all areas of society that leads to lack of accountability, denials and covering up. Institutional closing of ranks.

And it always, always, always makes things worse for the institution in question.

The club handled it disastrously. No argument there.

Often those who complain most about volunteer coaches give precisely zero of their own time and expect the team to revolve around their child. I don't know if that's the case here but in the vast majority of these cases the complaining parent is a selfish pain in the hole and the coach is trying their best. Anyone who coaches underage teams these days would say that the parents are more challenging than the kids.

One of the parents has given more than enough of his time and service to both Athenry and Galway.

Fair enough.