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I am going to miss Divsion 2.

Any reason not to have hurling and football on the same weekends?
Alternate saturday evening/sunday afternoon fixtures?
I don't think there's much crossover in terms of the fan-bases for the two codes to be honest.
Any floating voters can still go to both if they want.

There are dual fans in Cork, Galway, Dublin,  Tipp etc

Down must be looking forward to getting a last minute Armagh guard of honour.

Just saw this pop up on facebook...

http://www.punditarena.com/gaa/bbarry/video-tipperary-goal-armagh/

Atrocious defending

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/03/war-threats-over-gibraltar-are-rightwing-imperial-fantasies

Any day that Kilkenny are beaten is a great day. Meath Schadenfreude is worth a few bonus marks especially for farmers with bad or boggy land who managed to stay up in Division 1. How Armagh managed not to go up was truly mysterious.

But at an individual level some of the Telegraph journalists voted Remain and they now spout Brexit nonsense as if it made sense

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/29/voted-remain-delusional-remainers-damaging-britain/

[May should be prepared to go to war over gibraltar according to michael howard in the telegraph.]

This gibraltar thing really shaking some brits up. May should be prepared to go to war over gibraltar according to michael howard in the telegraph.

Muppets. The colonial superiority complex far from gone in some of them.

The media in the uk really going down a bad path these days.

Yes, to defend the democratic rights of Gibraltarians...who voted 96%-4% to remain in the EU.

Spain played a blinder here, wave a red rag and the British loonies inevitably charged. All that they've said was the Gibraltar was a separate jurisdiction from the UK and that they had a veto, which they had anyway. The Spanish haven't said anything about invading, or put any concrete proposal, but the Englanders lost the plot immediately. Then the Spanish also said that Scotland could apply to the EU, which was also true anyway.

The Gibraltar thing is interesting because Gibraltar needs the Single market .
The right wing UK media are insane.  I look at the Daily Telegraph site opinion page most days and it is fascinating.
The paper is flogging a sick ideology that will damage the interests of most of its readers. How this happened is the big question.

I think it's very open. What price are Waterford?

13/2

Tipp favs at 11/8
KK at 7/2

Is it really over?


http://www.paddypower.com/bet/gaa-sports/gaa-hurling/all-ireland-shc

They should probably make an exception for round 7 of the league when deciding highlights contracts. There were at least 6 very important football matches on yesterday plus 3 decent hurling matches and people have been starved of GAA  since September.

McGeeney reminds me of Liam Brady. An exceptional player but not a manager. Sometimes drive is not enough

Colm O'Rourke was in the Sindo yesterday. The rule of thumb is 6 points to stay up and 10 to be promoted.
It is not ideal to lose 2 matches and draw another and if you do you are dependent on the comfort of strangers.
It has happened to Galway enough times in recent years..

Sooner the GAA have their own TV channel the better.

Does the GAA have a proper plan? Your have 2 problems here, RTE are constrained, they have half a dozen stations on Saorview but are not allowed show additional programmes when they could show complete games during the week. The other problem is that the GAA look on rights as purely a money game, and undervalue having more coverage, for instance when UTV had a magazine programme but could not get the clips to show on it.

I dunno but back in the day RTE did not seem to regard GAA as worthy. There was defo. more horse racing live. Rugby, hockey and showjumping would have got more attention and exposure. The AI replay between Dublin and Mayo in 85 was not live. Neither was Roscommon v Armagh in '77. There is no footage of the Roscommon v Mayo Connacht Final in 79. I remember that because Joe McGrath scored 2-5 from play, got an All-Star, but only player that got an All-Star that there was no video clip for.
In '91 I think only the last game of the Dublin v Meath epic was shown live. It was probably well into the 90's before all provisional finals even were live matches.

They only showed 10 live matches back in the good old days and it didn't include provincial finals.
Maybe Ros vs Armagh was deleted. That was a big problem 40 years ago

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/the-seasons-of-sundays-in-their-own-words-1.1476526

Not showing Tipp vs Armagh was bad, not showing anything of Offaly vs Laois was criminal - they had the cameras in the ground for the hurling, so there was no additional cost whatsoever. If it turned out to be a drab procession for one team or another fair enough, but instead it was one of the best games of the day. Up there with Armagh and Tipp.....

RTE are not very fluirseach at the moment. I think budgets are very tight . They lost €20 million last year.