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Apart from the journalists who get a three week holiday in Oz and the Croke park staff (who may or may not have any operational connection to the games) who get drawn out of a hat to go - does anyone give a toss about this anymore?

My son wants to go and see a game next year as he has never seen it before. I'm sure there will be plenty like him.

Well im sure that your son was at the top of everyone's agenda when they were deciding whether or not to hold the series. What away to justify this waste of time, money and resources. Tube

Big appointments incoming in ballygawley and east Tyrone by the weekend. Former Monaghan crew touted to be signed up. Think we will see a lot of movement in coming weeks as clubs try to get house in order long before Christmas! Gone were the days when clubs would meet mid jan and start to look at things

Ive been tipping O'Rourke for a Tyrone club for a lifetime. Hopefully a few of you posters start listening to me

Quite simply a case of throwing enough dung at the gable and something will stick in your case.

4 divisions of 12 teams next year?

Would be good and very competitive but the championship structure works off the leagues so how do you decide whos in each level

top 16 teams in the county i.e All in division 1 and top 4 from the previous years division 2 play in senior, Rest of division 2 and 8 teams from division 3 play in intermediate and all below that play in junior. Just a suggestion

Reality is individual clubs can take a stand against this by removing those who they know are involved in drug use from their teams and strip them of club membership. It has absolutely zero place in our communities or our association.

To be honest thats an absolute non runner. Impossible to police and unfair to expect club members to police it. Its not like fellas be landing down to the club off their nut. How would you go about it? "Johnny I hear you were doing a few lines at a party at the weekend, dont come back through those gates". Hes likely to tell you to go fcuk yourself.

Well then dont come crying and complaining when the culture develops. If this sort of stuff was nipped in the bud then there is no issue. People involved in this sort of carry on need ostracised from the community and then young people will think twice about engaging in behaviour like this. Not a nice thing to have to do but ultimately needed.

Teams need to wise up and just play away without county players over the summer.

Obviously you come from a club with either no county men, or a large enough pick to offset playing without county men. Clubs produce these players, they should have access to them as they see fit. Tube

How do you all see the results going this weekend? Any upsets in the Senior or Intermediate?

Fully expect Banagher to do the business against Magherafelt this weekend. A good result in last week's hurling decider will leave them on a high and Magherafelt by all accounts feel they are in bonus territory themselves.

Going to put an early prediction for Tyrone Intermediate winners to coast through Ulster at a snails pace. Galbally and Pomeroy both very strong from what i can hear, with Galbally especially racking up huge scores so far. Cant see any major opposition coming from my own county especially

Any Eoghan Rua posters out there able to shed any light on the rumour that the two Seans have stepped down?

getting knocked out of the championship probably doesnt convince them to stay.
there was talk previously of Malachy O'Rourke taking over next year, them rumours are now catching fire and look like it'll actually happen.

What a load of rubbish, this is the second job you have linked Malachy ORourke to, looking at your posts. Regarding Sean McGoldrick and McLaughlin I believe Coleraine could definitely do with these men at the helm going forward, they know the lads inside out and ultimately I doubt there are better men within their club

Any truth in the rumours circulating in Owenbeg on Sunday night that the league structures are changing again next year to a 16 team division 1, giving Dungiven and Banagher a reprieve from Intermediate status?

Never heard the rumour but Dungiven & Banager aren't intermediate next year!  In 2020, if the structures remain the same, they will both still play in the senior championship as the finished in the top 15/16 in the league (depends on who wins the intermediate championship) in 2019; in 2020, they will play their league football in Division 1B - if they finish in the top 3/4* (again depending on who wins the intermediate championship) in 2020 they will still play senior championship in 2021

*even if they don't they can still put themselves forward to play in the senior championship as far as i know.  Glenullin did it a few years ago but i don't know if that ruling has changed.

Yes Glenullin Entered the 2016 Senior Championship following their relegation from senior league in 2015. They lost to the loup by 6 though in a first round tie. County board facilitated this with a preliminary match. Glenullin sort of justified their inclusion all the same by winning the Division 2 league at a canter

More to the point what's O'Kane sprouting this all in the papers and not let it be dealt internally between the County board and the clubs at the meeting. Good to know the pound signs for the paper come before been a Derry Supporter.

+ 10. Think his latest contribution will not even sit well with more mature journalists or with Irish News. Trying too hard. Getting too personal.

That's balls on both of your points. He is simply doing his job.

I'd agree with the 2 men above. You're talking about volunteers at the end of the day who give up their time for the county. To have inaccuracies about them and their procedures splashed all over the back pages of the IN doesn't sit well with me. It's tabloidesque, gossipy gutter press stuff.  This mornings article had a glaring untruth in it (if you're to take the CB at their word last night).

Call out the inaccuracies then.

Read the articles and then speak with your club delegate who was at the meeting last night. He / she will know

You are the man saying that the story had inaccuracies and untruths. Call them out.

Great to see an outside manager is finally uniting all Derry gaels!!

What was the attendance tonight?

4500 I saw in Twitter, shows what the people of Derry think of league football when it matters

The Glens, Magherafelts and Screen's just don't have it when it really matters

With regards Glen it must be said that given their u21 success in recent years this should have been translating into senior success already

Fantastic display by Slaughtneil tonight, Showed a great hunger for silverware this evening against a tame Glen outfit. Has to be said they will be hard to look past for the senior championship if they can string a few performances like that together