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London won fairly easily in the end, think it was 4-12 to 1-6, but a minute before half time the game was actually level and yorkshire were competing very well, then london got a goal and a few points just before the break and that knocked the stuffing out of our lads a bit. London looked a very impressive team with 4 or 5 really talented players. They were very big and strong and eventually just wore the yorkshire team down. Very impressed by the attitude of the two teams and there was some excellent talent on show, just a pity they weren't treated with the bit of respect their efforts deserved. Its difficult enough to convince lads of that age that GAA is the sport they should devote their time to with the lure of soccer, rugby (both codes and especially league in Leeds) and cricket, so its disappointing when they make the journey to the game and are left standing around waiting for the referee. By the way, I think london play the winners of hertsfordshire and Warwickshire who play next week.

The GAA in the UK doesn't really help itself. We took an U16 Yorkshire side down to Birmingham on saturday to play london in the All Britain semi final. Throw in was at 2.30pm and both teams where on the picth for 2.15 only to find out that the ref had decided not to turn up. The ref was supposed to be a Warwickshire offical so had considerablty less travelling than either of the two teams. Eventually a replacement was found and the game started over an hour late. Understandably both sets of players weren't too amused at having to wait on the pitch for over an hour, then face the long journey back again! Can't imagine those young lad's opinion of the GAA was improved by this experience.

We never see teams lining up in their positions for the national anthem anymore either!

Lads climbing the poles which hold the catch nets up at clones, to watch the match! I remember a couple of eegits doing that at an Ulster final in the late 80's think it was Tyrone v Donegal in 1989!

The subs kicking around at half time! Why did they stop that? 

I played for Michael Cusacks in San Francisco a few years back, got to the final of the intermediate championship, drew the match then where kicked out of the competition before the replay because we played an illegal player - great craic playing there though!

As theres a new board for local GAA discussion, thought it would be interesting to see how many people who post on here are involved in GAA in the UK and what their opinions are of the standard and how to improve things.

I don't mean this as an insult but i'd prefer if the thread wasn't overtaken by students talking about their uni teams!