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#1
GAA Discussion / Re: Leinster club championship 2022
December 04, 2023, 09:56:47 AM
Well done to Allenwood and also to Milltown for winning Junior - both clubs are in the same parish
#2
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone Club Football and Hurling
October 18, 2023, 11:00:22 AM
Quote from: Delgany 2nds on October 17, 2023, 09:17:17 PM
Quote from: inroundthesquare on October 17, 2023, 08:51:41 PMWhen was the last time Fintona were in Intermediate?

Fintona had an unbelievable period in late 70s.
They won JFC in 1975.They won the IFC in 1978 and were just beaten (1pt) by Carrickmore in SFC in 1979.
One of my first SFC finals, not sure where final was. Dessie Campbell and Dermot Mc Guigan stood out as key players

The great late Dessie Campbell explaining what is needed to win championship games
https://fb.watch/nLplVyqpDm/
#3
i would say the Department of Transport - I had to regularly have to go between Dublin Airport and Dundalk about 20 years ago. It used to really get my goat seeing an Ulsterbus which would stop at Dundalk bus station to pick up people but was not allowed to drop off people solely down to partitionist regulations shite.
#4
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
August 15, 2023, 09:47:49 AM
I was in the Gerry Arthurs that day. I've never experienced an atmosphere like it at any match I've been at before or since. It was just on the edge of boiling over. There was 2/3 pages of letters in the Irish News the next week about how bad it was.
#5
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
August 01, 2023, 03:44:08 PM
Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman

https://youtu.be/ZJEwrw4VEls
#6
GAA Discussion / Re: Assaults at GAA games
July 07, 2023, 11:35:06 AM
Quote from: thewobbler on July 07, 2023, 10:15:39 AM
This will likely be an unpopular opinion, but referees have been feeding this beast for years, by turning a blind eye during matches, and accepting post-match apologies deliberately feigned to ensure a more favourable report. And now they can no longer control the beast.

Now they need to take control again, which means getting together and forcing through a new code, along the lines of:

1. personal abuse from player or mentor - immediate red card.
2. more than two instances from the one side - match abandoned.
3. abuse from supporters - registered as a complaint with their CCCC.  Every second complaint sees the reversal of a home match, or a requirement to play with no spectators for a match.

And re no. 1, suspensions should work on a multiplier level and carried over two seasons. First offence, 1 match ban. Second instance, two match ban, and so on.

Perhaps more importantly, they need to police this from within. If they find tgat one of their own is being lenient on personal abuse, then sanction him.

One season of learning and heartache for players, mentors and supporters would clean up football forever.

I'd agree with The Wobbler on this. I've been to a good few DDSL (Dublin District Soccer League) matches and the refs who take no shit have the quietest matches. The worst matches (crowd wise) have been were the refs have been debating with players and the sideline. The Sideline mentors have the biggest effect on the atmosphere in a match and the ref needs to shut them down quickly before the atmosphere heats up. I was at one U14 game where the referee sent one player off after 10 minutes and we couldn't figure out what for. I spoke to the ref after the game and asked him why he was sent off and he told me that after he'd blown for a foul the lad had said 'for f**k sake ref'. He'd told both teams that he was not going to take any abuse and send the lad off on a red card. There was not a word said to the ref from players and sideline after that.
#7
GAA Discussion / Re: Assaults at GAA games
July 06, 2023, 11:08:37 PM
#8
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
April 12, 2023, 01:34:55 PM
Bushwhacker Butch Miller aged 78
#9
GAA Discussion / Re: Best dead-ball kicker - ever?
April 06, 2023, 09:57:44 AM
Quote from: rrhf on April 06, 2023, 07:47:47 AM
Quote from: bennydorano on April 05, 2023, 04:40:44 PM
Quote from: grounded on April 04, 2023, 01:38:20 PM
Quote from: tc_manchester on April 04, 2023, 08:37:08 AM
The cleanest kicker of a dead ball I've seen was Matt Connor of Offaly

A fantastic free taker. Having seen both though, i'd still say Maurice Fitzgerald was better at frees. Matt Connor was a better all round player though!
Not wanting to be disrespectul to the man but Matt Connor enters nearly every GAA conversation eventually in a Godwins law type way. Mo Fitz going the same way.
Matt Connor is the football connoisseurs answer. Most people cannot dispute as they have only seen a clip or 2.
I only seen him once live in a Centenary Cup match in Dungannon but his free kicks made a real impression on me. Frank McGuigan was still the best footballer on the pitch that day though.
#10
GAA Discussion / Re: Best dead-ball kicker - ever?
April 04, 2023, 08:37:08 AM
The cleanest kicker of a dead ball I've seen was Matt Connor of Offaly
#11
GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster U20 Championship 2023
March 30, 2023, 08:53:56 AM
Down had 8 lads starting from Burren and 2 subs. This is the highest number of players from one team to represent a county I've ever seen
#12
The game keeps changing. When I was a cub in the 70s all the oul boys complained that the game had changed into Basketball, now that I'm an oul boy I'm complaining that the game has turned into soccer.
#13
General discussion / Re: Singers Who Don't Sing Live
January 20, 2023, 11:25:42 AM
Quote from: In hiding on January 20, 2023, 09:44:17 AM
Luv Bug

Spent many a night not dancing to them in Omagh St Enda's
#14
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
January 19, 2023, 04:51:45 PM
Quote from: Captain Scarlet on January 19, 2023, 04:07:08 PM
What's the feeling on the beer debate?

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/time-to-ban-the-booze-at-aviva-1.4839373

I know from going to games that it is just an excuse for a sess, but if you take away the badwagon the rugby community in Ireland is not that big, so what do they do?

i'm a bandwagonner. Rugby similiar to motor racing is a game better watched on TV than at the ground since you need to be on the halfway line to actually have a half of a chance to see what is going on. At least 3/4 of the time I end up watching the big screen to see what's happening. Given the cost of the tickets you need a bit of drink in order to make it an enjoyable day.
#15
General discussion / Re: Price of a Pint
January 19, 2023, 12:44:44 PM
Quote from: lurganblue on January 19, 2023, 12:40:44 PM
Quote from: tc_manchester on January 18, 2023, 02:59:10 PM
Went into Richard Corrigan's new place 'The Park Cafe' in Ballsbridge last week. A pint at the bar was 7.81 - when I got the receipt the actual price was 7.10 and a 'discretionary service charge' of 10% had been added. If it was discretionary I'd like to have been asked about it before I had to pay it

What's this? So you ordered while up at the bar. They didn't even come to your table and take your order and bring it to you for that 10%?
Exactly - I took a seat at the bar and ordered a pint. She poured it and handed it to me and that was it. Pouring and handing me the pint was 71 cents worth