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[There is only one GAA]

Will he ask about the embarrassing legal threat to Supermacs over the April Fools joke?

They'll not apologise for clamping down on ambush marketing and rightly so.

They'd want to pick and choose their battles.
Corporate Croke Park against a homegrown company that is a big GAA sponsor isn't likely to win much popular support.

Who is "corporate Croke Park"? There is only one GAA and these people are charged with protecting the brand to raise revenue for all of us. Supermacs should be undermining the brand in this way and would likely be just as protective of anyone using their brand.

Unfortunately I don't think that's true. Peter McKenna runs Croke Park as a corporate entity, there to make money, and as far as I can see he couldn't care less whether it's Taylor Swift or an All-Ireland final that's booked in, as long as it brings in the cash.
He's as far removed from the local club volunteers as it's possible to be.
I mention Peter McKenna as he's the name I know, but presumably there's a large team of people involved.

Peter McKee a does what he us told to do, which includes bringing in more money, which then makes its way to local clubs.
It us fine to say that he should d stop trying to make money, if you are happy to raise that money some other way or do without.

Any idea what this looks like in a practical sense? If I'm a random club in the middle of Armagh, how am I seeing this revenue coming in? And what sort of money are we talking annually?

Brolly knows what he's at. He recognises that he has about 15 minutes and to avoid answering any direct question that may be uncomfortable, he gets in first just talking shite and telling wee random stories.

How to avoid cross examination in simple steps.

I wouldn't imagine it carries that much weight.
If it did sure the criminals would just be putting a pile of stuff around about themselves.
You could get bots tweeting it millions of times a minute if you wanted.

Of course it's a goal if you put it into your own net by any means.

Remember them hoors were in Div 4?

Great stuff!

Christ that's harsh.

Is it fair to say that the price of a pint in pubs isn't the reason why pubs are empty?
As far as I can see, the dearest places for a pint is where people are flocking to while a lot of the other pubs with cheaper drink are struggling to get people in.
Yes, a lot of these pubs were packed 7 days a week in the 80s & 90s but it's never coming back. Society and drinking culture has changed and a £2 pint isn't going to make a difference.

What are pubs paying Diageo per pint nowadays? Couldn't be much over £2?

To be fair, Tyrone only beat Antrim by 6.

Don't see a minor thread apologies it I've missed it


U17 result (shield semi final)

Armagh 7-16 Antrim 0-2.

Results like that are good for no one

If this was a semi-final then who was worse than Antrim?

Fermanagh were deemed to be, though they never met.

It must be noted that this was the shield semi final. There were 4 teams in cup semi finals.

Tír Eoghain 8-16 (40)
Aontroim 0-7 (7)

Brutal from Antrim. What a let down the county board has been to GAA in the county. With the size of the population it is a outright disgrace that the CB would put such a team out. They must be doing zero work at club and schools underage level. I don't blame the players at all, in fact to pull on the jersey and go out and represent their county they are a credit to themselves. 
Having McEntee and others up managing the senior team while ignoring underage is f**king pointless. The CB and Northern Switchgear would be better off taking £100k out on to the Falls road and setting it on fire. If I was an Antrim man I'd be calling for heads.

Utterly pathetic.

You ain't wrong but you might want to look about your own greenhouse when you're lobbing bricks at others.

is he not a Tyrone man? They're performing unbelievably at underage and schools level are they not.

It didn't stop them being "brutal" and "utterly pathetic" in the trimming they took today.

Tír Eoghain 8-16 (40)
Aontroim 0-7 (7)

Brutal from Antrim. What a let down the county board has been to GAA in the county. With the size of the population it is a outright disgrace that the CB would put such a team out. They must be doing zero work at club and schools underage level. I don't blame the players at all, in fact to pull on the jersey and go out and represent their county they are a credit to themselves. 
Having McEntee and others up managing the senior team while ignoring underage is f**king pointless. The CB and Northern Switchgear would be better off taking £100k out on to the Falls road and setting it on fire. If I was an Antrim man I'd be calling for heads.

Utterly pathetic.

You ain't wrong but you might want to look about your own greenhouse when you're lobbing bricks at others.

Yeah, I believe the standard is getting worse or we are getting left further behind by everyone else. Both probably. That said, results like this did happen 10 years ago.

Armagh 7-16
Antrim 0-02
Another bad result for our underage set-up.
Armagh wouldn't be known for being an underage powerhouse, which makes this result standout for me.

Another horrendous beating, and as you say Armagh are no big shakes. Apathy from top to bottom. I genuinely don't know where you'd even start to fix this as we've fallen miles behind and it's been decades in the making. A multitude of issues.

Armagh had success at u16 level last year I believe and have hope to follow that through to minors, with aidan o rourke taking the reigns this year. I would say they are decent enough tbf.

Perhaps but considering this result was in "the shield", it's probably fair to say that they haven't been setting the world alight in previous games.

Anyway, we've been through it all when the U20s took a similar tanking. Same applies.