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Feck sake, next thing is we'll get suicide bombers at GAA matches.

It'll certainly keep the Bhuttos away from games next season.

Wonder would Billy Hutchinson be interested in gathering a team & entering the Antrim leagues?

Antrim website has all the 2008 league fixtures up on it & championship draws were made on Monday night & posted by Tuesday. So praise where it's due.

Apparently Lidl are selling helmets & hurls this week. Hurling gear turns up in the strangest places these days.

Would love to walk out of their shop on the Shore Road with a pile & running into the Mount Vernon mob !

Is the day women propose not supposed to be Feb 29th?

And Valentine's Day.

Anyother days and they're just getting above their stations.

Have to admit it - I fell for that ould 1 several years ago. Keep on saying that it's all totally illegal now, because the dirty deed was done on Valentine's Day instead of 29 February, but to no avail.

There's nothing else on the football thread except him, now he's taken over the hurling thread as well ffs.

Next week...........Kevin McGourty invades Poland on his own & marches on to world domination. You heard it here first.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Does anybody give a toss any more?

Proposed Maze stadium is in Poots' consituency, he's Minister of Sport & has vested interests in getting the thing up & running, hence it's a purely political decision to suck up to the GAA. He's no friend of the GAA & never will be, it merely suits his purposes at the minute to be seen to have anything to do with the GAA.

Well done to the Ulster Council......a 1 line message on your website giving 24 hours notice that some of the UHL finals were being postponed! A phone call to one of the participating clubs in particular might have been better. Next year, don't even bother if this is the way you're going to run your affairs.

Probably need 2.2 as well, thanks for clearing that up something I always wondered about so its poor refereeing for the whistle not to go twice for every foul.

Technically speaking, yes, but usually if a player takes a quick free, the referee will most often let it go, because blowing his whistle would only stop the play again - but that's what he's supposed to do, if he hasn't authorised the quick free in the first place. It often happens, but I'm certain that a refereeing assessor would make a negative comment on that in his report.

See I never read that rule as requiring the whistle simply the referees consent.

Throw in Rule 1.1 then, as well as 2.6.......the ball is in play once it has been thrown in or kicked after the referee has given a signal to start or restart play.

Cheers Playwiththewind thats something I always wanted cleared up because I have seen some refs insist on the whistle and other refs say players dont have to wait if play isn't stopped.

Rule 2.6 is the one you're looking for if you want chapter & verse.

I thought the only time you had to wait for a whistle was for a 13m free or when play was stopped e.g. for a booking or an injury.  Apart from that I thought you could take a free as quickly as you wanted.

No-you can't. You require the ref's permission to take a quick free, on all occasions.

Ref blows a free in for St Brigid's & Joe Brolly says "why did you not play advantage, I was right through on goal?"

Ref says "I decided it was better to give you the free, cos you were going to miss"