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Have 2 leagues... a provincial league and an All Ireland Championships!

Provincial League is run off at the start of the year over 6/7 weeks. 2 games a week in each province (most Counties have lights now). Ulster each team plays eachother once, Leinster each team plays eachother once and in Connaught/Munster teams play twice. BOOM!

Provincial League gains you entry into the All Ireland league... 3 from Munster, 5 From Ulster, 5 From Leinster and 3 from Connaught.

The rest go into an All Ireland B League! Run both All Ireland competitions off at same time, all games on every weekend up to the Q/F, 2 weeks between Q/F and S/F, 3 weeks between S/F and Final. 9 Weeks! There's a max of 18 Weeks to run off all competitions. Plenty of time for club and plenty of time for an off season!

Of course it's never going to work and it might not even be manageable but really with the introduction of floodlights into most County Grounds now there is no reason why you couldn't have a match within a province on during a weeknight!!! It still maintains the Provincial Championship (league) and gives every team a decent season and something meaningful to play for at the end of it. Maybe work an incentive in where the team who wins the All Ireland B one year has automatic entry into the A the following year or something. Just something to think about I guess. Anyone got any other wacky ideas?

[but basically teachers offer no real threat to children anymore if they can't inflict pain on them]

but basically teachers offer no real threat to children anymore if they can't inflict pain on them

Scary from a childs perspective if thats a representive sample of the mentality within  the teaching profession !

OK maybe I could have phrased that better instead of sounding like a Headmaster from a school during the war times. I do not and never would condone the infliction of pain on a child. All I am saying is that no longer is a stern word, a detention or a grounding enough to maintain discipline. None of these things are a real punishment for a child and god help you if you don't have the parents on your side becasue you will be slaughtered.

I had real problems with a couple of children last year. One of their parents was a lovely woman and we arranged that the child not be allowed his laptop back until he had behaved sufficiently in my class for a week and he was on the same notice for the rest of the term that I could have an impact on something he cared about.

The flipside was another kid whose mother didn't care! She said it was my problem and I had to deal with it! What could I do? Give him a yellow card (that was the system of discipline used)? A lot of discipline policies mean nothing in School's and withough proper co-operation from all other teachers and parents you stand very little chance of controlling discipline!

Yeah when playing an open game this tactic no doubt works... ESPECIALLY if a forward knows that as soon as a man out the field his first instinct is to kick the ball into space in front of a forward line it can be deadly and a good forward will thrive in it.

Against Fermanagh that tactic for Derry would have been useless! With 3 men on P. Bradley it sisn't matter how people played ball into him he wouldn't win it. This is where that tactic of pulling forwards the other way works so well but it needs to be communicated and worked on in order to be effective.

The only reason this tactic works for Kerry is the fact that Donaghy is so good in the air and difficult to break ball against which negates the players standing in front of him.

I think the best method of beating the blanket is composed short handpassing that probes for an opening. A bit like the way Munster play in rugby if footballers pass the ball around enough spaces do occur the only problem is it is not used enough in our game and invariably with a long passage of handpassing play people start to think they should be kicking it and referees make an overcarrying call when there isn't one.

Basically there are a few ways to break the blanket defence but it must come from management and must be practised and discussed at length on the training field so that everyone is of the one mind and pulling in the same direction! From what I can make of the match last Saturday, Fermanagh have discussed the way they will play in great length whereas Derry did not and becasue of this it looked like Derry weren't able to function as a team!

[After all, you have all recieved training to deal with such incidents]

But if you were a good enough teacher you shouldnt have to resort to violence against a child.

After all, you have all recieved training to deal with such incidents. Teachers want to be regarded as professionals after all !

Has to be the biggest myth of all time!

You cannot train someone how to keep discipline in a classroom. Some people have a certain personality that lends itself to pupils not wanting to cross them but basically teachers offer no real threat to children anymore if they can't inflict pain on them. Kids are wise to the idea now and any threat of detention or telling parents is laughed off and the behaviour keeps continuing.

I'm a qualified teacher myself and the last year of teaching practice is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do... I'm not too keen to rush back into it to be honest as I don't think I have the personality to teach in a secondary school. I would be much happier as a primary teacher I think but then I made the wrong choice when doing my teaching practice so I just have to live with it!

Anybody read the article about Tyrone's new centre of excellence the other week? I've never laughed so much in my entire life it was absolutely hilarious!!!

Crunchy nut cornflakes!

Div 1 is SOOOOOO strong that the teams have had to peak too early to stay in the division. That's what's happened! Our season's over 

Shit! I got like 24% yet I live in the country! Ah well I guess I'm one of the 'cool' ones

Fair play to the Cavan County board! If only other County Boards would take notice we could maybe clean up our games a bit!

Sounds like this Ballinagh are a rough crowd though. 2 Incidents like this in a year isn't too good.

Dick's!

Why are you so worried about Derry anyway? Apparently we're  no threat now anyway so what's the problem. As for the 'Out Tyroning Tyrone' thing. We aren't crying like little bitches like the rest of Tyrone were a few years ago so there shouldn't be any reason why this is discussed.

As for DFS1 I'm sure when you come across Fermanagh/Tyrone/Donegal you will be crying about 'the day the football died' in an 'American Pie'/'Jackeen Pie' stylee.

Derry adopted that particular tactic for one game in PC's tenure so this 'buying into the deal' thing is also a stupid notion Fuzzman. In each of the last 3 years we have gone down playing decent football and forgetting about the blanket. Sometimes when you're playing a team they drag you down to their level so I wouldn't be comparing Derry too much with the inbreds based on the strength of one match 2 years ago!

There are no sour grapes over the defeat here lads, we have decried our own players and our own management, a few observations of the match and Fermanagh's tactics have been made but nobody is holding it against them. If you have nothing constructive to add to the discussion other than trying to stir the pot I suggest you worry about your own teams and let us Derry folk worry about ours.

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Yeah we'll wait and see wha happens in the qualifiers shall we... no Div 1 teams are actually out yet!

I'm not complaining about it! Not too many have in fairness. Fermanagh did what the had to to win. They did systematically foul us in certain areas of the field and I think the card count of 10 yellows to 3 reflect this but we weren't up for it mentally and didn't use the right (if any) tactics to impose our style of play n them or to counter the style they imposed on us!

Also... why the fcuk are you talking about something that happened 2 years ago? It has no relevance to this game whatsoever!

I agree with Oneill f***ing Dubs! 

 

Came across this the other day and I didn't realise Gerry Anderson's a complete legend... "Are you mechanised?" "Well I make a bit!"

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