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General discussion / Re: The Offical Glasgow Celtic...

Last post by No1 - Today at 01:04:12 PM

Hopefully full strength team out tonight and get at least a point.  Don't fancy a last day nail biter!  Kilmarnock are owed one for this season.

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General discussion / Re: Man Utd Thread:

Last post by JPGJOHNNYG - Today at 01:02:41 PM

ffs please not Southgate, he has wasted England best chance to win something over the last few tournaments. The English seem blinded to his incompetence. He speaks well to the media and is a likeable guy but is tactically brain dead

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Footba...

Last post by thewobbler - Today at 01:01:56 PM

There's a significant chunk of our small pool of referees approaching (and past) retirement age.

I'm a realist (I hope) and I'd be properly worried about our county's ability to run a full schedule of fixtures in the next 3-5 years.

And I'd be even more worried about such a situation might be resolved with short term measures (e.g no referees for u14, no u16 grade at all, alternate weekends for ACFL 1 and 2, and so on). Really, because there is no solution.

I've refereed a dozen or so u12 (go) games the past year. Even at that level, the culture - by roughly half the clubs involved - towards referees from players, managers and spectators is revolting. And i would firmly believe that the "roughly half" becomes "roughly  three quarters" by minor level and "just about everyone" by senior.

Do our next generations a favour. Actually just give them a chance to play football. If you're involved with a team, at any grade, develop a policy that referee abuse will not be tolerated.

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GAA Discussion / Re: GAA moneybags and Sean Cav...

Last post by tonto1888 - Today at 01:00:34 PM

The GAA must be the only organisation where fans want them to move with the times yet remain stuck in the past

Perfectly put.

The modern business phenomenon of trying to clean as much money off people as possible is one we could do without in the GAA.

if this was actually the case we wouldnt have season tickets or packages for the all ireland group stages would we

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General discussion / Re: Premier League 2023-2024

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 12:34:07 PM

Players have a duty to their club and employers, they get paid to be professional and last night Spurs were very unlucky, had Son scored that one on one, I'd say the game could have been a draw.

Teams lose the league over the season, Arsenal and other teams that have been pipped at the post lost their battle throughout the year, not end of season games

Fans are fans though and they will take the positives from defeats. Any club that has any rivalry fall into that.

I suppose the neutrals loved this season with the last day finishes coming up  

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GAA Discussion / Re: GAA moneybags and Sean Cav...

Last post by johnnycool - Today at 12:19:01 PM

The GAA must be the only organisation where fans want them to move with the times yet remain stuck in the past

Perfectly put.

I'm not sure where you're about but absolutely everything is going behind paywalls now, especially sport, that's the modern way.

Burns did point out that to make GAAGO viable that it needed to show some high profile games, he'd didn't shirk on that and Cork fans were probably unlucky in that their first three games were all on GAAGO and that does need addressed by the GAA.

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General discussion / Re: Premier League 2023-2024

Last post by jcpen - Today at 12:12:20 PM

Thought the Spurs fans were pathetically funny last night. Cheering on a Man City victory to stop Arsenal winning the league even though it also meant that they would fail to qualify for the CL. If ever there was a more suitable time for the phrase turkey's voting for Christmas

Remember Man United fans being the same a few times when playing Man City and wanting to lose so it would mean Liverpool wouldn't win the league.

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General discussion / Re: Premier League 2023-2024

Last post by lurganblue - Today at 12:05:50 PM

It was ridiculous wasnt it.  I see big Ange is ragin. He got his eyes opened.

[She was an Only Fans model]

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General discussion / Re: Things that make you go Wh...

Last post by TabClear - Today at 12:04:20 PM

At least one woman in NYC was caught flashing their t**s

She was an Only Fans model.. The woman that mooned in Dublin didn't look like an Only Fans model. I'm not saying anything else 

Have you any proof of that?

From what I can see on social media Only Fans model often translates to someone you would not look twice at in a bar but is willing to take their kit off. Not like in my youth when the word model meant something.

Says the fat, balding middle aged man     

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GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire 2024 Group 4 -...

Last post by armaghniac - Today at 12:01:15 PM

Kerry are the one team this year who I've felt have been playing their cards very close to their chest, that or they've just been pretty poor. Seeing that's it's Kerry we'll have to give them the benefit of the  doubt I suppose. I remember thinking Derry had moved ahead of them in the pecking order but the league reslly is just the league. I'd be tempted to back them for the AI at this stage- not that it would be a huge shock if they won.

Joe Kernan said last week that the the only serious teams were Dublin, Armagh, Derry, Mayo and Galway.  We needn't worry about the likes of Donegal and Kerry for Sam, although they are nice to visit.

Would definitely have Donegal ahead of Mayo and maybe Kerry as well at this stage, never rule out the Tyronies as well.

Donegal have beaten one of the teams on that list and drawn with another one. It is hard to say about Kerry, while their group means that they will probably go to a QF, they could have challenges in both the QF and SF.