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I listened to bits of it this morning and have to say Frank stood up for and promoted the GAA very well.

What a monumental balls up with these fixtures on Saturday.
Whats going on with JE and the boys?  Whats the justification.

Scrap the Sigerson cup.  Whats the point of it?
Its turned into a complete joke of a competition.

Apart from the final, the games are played before a handful of spectators on week day afternoons in January and February.
Why does it get so much media attention?

There was an off the ball incident which left a Creggan player on the ground, the Creggan subs ran on to confront the Rasharkin player and a bit of a schmozzle started.
After about 20 seconds, the referee sent off the Rasharkin player initially involved as well as one other Rasharkin player and a Creggan player both of whom were doing a bit of pushing in the schmozzle.

Later in the match a second Creggan player was sent off for a soft second yellow card.

Move along now.

Impressive?

http://www.gaainfo.com/players/football/antrim/Kevin%20McGourty.php

What is the referee's grievance here?

There was full co-operation with the investigation, individuals were identified and expelled from the GAA.
The club also received a severe penalty (pitch closed for a year) and a fine.

Do you think that players who weren't even there should be further punished?

An outsider looking in should come to the conclusion that if you assault a GAA referee then you can expect to be expelled from the organisation and your name given to the police.

Unbelievable.
Absolutely ridiculous that this wasn't played to a finish on the day.

I was doing phone interviews for my company last week.

I suppose it depends on the type of job but basically the phone interview was to ensure that the candidate met the essential criteria in the job spec.
My advice would be to make sure you can demonstrate that you meet the essential criteria and as much of the desirable criteria as possible.  If you do then the next step is a face to face.

Expect questions on the essential criteria.

The full back line were roasted.
In the half back line Murray done ok driving forward

Midfield were cleaned out, don't think Burke touched the ball although Gallagher came into it late on when the game was dead.

Up front Tomas and Cunningham hit some nice scores when McCloy was marking them but neither could get anything from the other Derry defenders.

Poor performance overall.

The sendings off yesterday were bad decisions but he also bizarrely disallowed 2 points which were fisted over the bar.
Both of which looked perfectly ok.

How will this work, will the system only be setup in Croke Park or in every county ground for championship matches?

If its used for a championship match in Croke Park then the same rules must apply to every championship match.
I think this will go the same way as the video referee last year, the same rules must apply to every match regardless of whether it is live on Tv or subject to media analysis.

St Galls
St Johns
Portglenone
Cargin

According to the BBC website Liam Bradley has gone for a new approach, starting with 16 players.  Surprised no-one has thought of it before.

Antrim: S McGreevy; A Healy, C Brady, J Crozier; J Loughrey, T Scullion, K O'Boyle, J Loughrey; B Herron, A Gallagher; Kevin McGourty, K Niblock, T McCann; P Cunningham, M McCann, K Brady

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/8777494.stm

just Rasharkin i think, st johns were in div 4 last year.
i think McDermotts finished 2nd bottom of div 3.