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What a buffoon he is.

Left to their own devices we'd have blue on blue and red on maroon every week. Horrible to play in. Horrible to watch.

If it was up to me, every club and county in Ireland would have an all white away kit, and would wear it every time they play away.

Any club or county that plays predominantly in white would just have to wind their necks in an accept that this is for the greater good.

All white will go down well with the mammies doing the washing.

I got ridiculed on twitter last year for saying there was a colour clash in the Ulster final. Derry should of been wearing white too.

Bar Garnacho, Evans was Utd's best player last night for the time he was on the pitch

In hindsight letting him go for Rojo was a massive error. He has been excellent every time he's played this season

[ETH out out out.]

Who do they have left for centre back?

Big Rio

That would be ideal, get him off the TV. 

He was brefless last night, ffs, pain in the hole.

All the same Utd did well to pull themselves back from 2-0 down, took the lead with a fantastic goal, ETH was the greatest thing since sliced bread and then the wheels came off in injury time...

In fairness to Dalot, yeah he let yerman get the wrong side of him, but he slipped, pure accident but penalty all the same.

But the last goal, get ta fúck out and block the thing at source.

ETH out out out.

Last night  confirmed it to me. I  think he'll  be gone 
  at the end of season.  Even a FA cup win won't  save him.

I think that'll be it for him now. A hammering on Sunday could see him gone before the semi final.

I hope that if does go, there's a few players follow him out the door. Take your pick who goes, apart from Mainoo, Garnacho and Hojlund the rest can go if it balances the books and lets a few more in.

Its not just about moving seat. They don't open the majority of the facilities with the result that the queues for toilets and kiosks got totally overcrowded. Last year at Down v Cavan it was a dangerous cattle crush on the hogan stand concourse with everyone trying to get to the 1 or 2 bathrooms. Little they care. GAA - where we all belong.

Was there not a problem with the toilets at the semi final v Laois? I remember there was a few problems that day. Meath and Antrim headed out as Down and Laois came in caused a jam.

On  similiar vein to this road safety issue, I think it should be complusory that anyone out walking, day or evening, should have a hi-viz vest on.

The amount of people I see out at dusk walking, wear black/dark clothes is scary.

Plus all school uniforms and bags should have a few hi-viz strips or reflections on them.  I'd say it'd be simple enough to design and install.

If roads are so dangerous that people have to dress like construction workers just to go about their daily business then we've got a serious problem that no amount of high-viz is going to fix.

Bit arrogant that answer and not addressing the issue I raised about people out walking at dusk with dark clothes on nor re: school uniforms.

But hey anything for a quick quip.

So you want to live in a society where we all walk about our streets looking like we just stepped off a building site? Are you serious?

I assume he's talking about people out walking on country roads with no footpath.

You really shouldnt be walking on roads like that without one imo.

Do you mean you shouldn't walk on a road without a footpath or you should be wearing hi-viz if doing so?

On  similiar vein to this road safety issue, I think it should be complusory that anyone out walking, day or evening, should have a hi-viz vest on.

The amount of people I see out at dusk walking, wear black/dark clothes is scary.

Plus all school uniforms and bags should have a few hi-viz strips or reflections on them.  I'd say it'd be simple enough to design and install.

If roads are so dangerous that people have to dress like construction workers just to go about their daily business then we've got a serious problem that no amount of high-viz is going to fix.

Bit arrogant that answer and not addressing the issue I raised about people out walking at dusk with dark clothes on nor re: school uniforms.

But hey anything for a quick quip.

So you want to live in a society where we all walk about our streets looking like we just stepped off a building site? Are you serious?

I assume he's talking about people out walking on country roads with no footpath.

Is it just me or do a lot of young fellas in Ireland get involved in an unhealthy petrolhead culture? I remember ripping and tearing around the roads with my mates as soon as we could drive, and we had a whole language built around the act of unsafe driving. It's like the part of our brain that dealt with consequences hadn't developed yet. I look back in horror at some of the stuff we used to get up to in motors.

Every time I hear about roads deaths in the wee hours of the morning and "single vehicle collision" I feel like it could have been any of us back in the day.

"Thoughts and prayers" are all well and good, but I think we need to talk about the culture that surrounds driving, as well as the lack of enforcement of traffic laws at night time when the roads turn into racetracks.

Awful deaths.. putting a curfew on lads driving after a certain time? Or insurance incentives to reduce speed?

Should be a control box with speed restrictions..

I genuinely believe a good fix would be you cant drive anything over 1.2 until you have your test 1 or 2 years. one of the main problems is young lads(and girls) with a motor with a lot of power and cant handle it and push it on.

Cars are faster now than the bangers we drove when young. Insurance is very high for young ones but it doesn't seem to have a lot to do with the engine in the car etc. Young lads at 18 in A4s and 3 series BMWs. Parents want them in a 'safer' car but that usually means its faster than they should have. The tracking box would be a good start

Very good!

Another thing that needs to happen is sorting the mot wait times. Short term allow people to tax the car without mot.

Are they thinking of increasing MOT to 6 or 7 years old again or did I imagine that headline?

I thought Protestants were organised and would be well able to sort out regular buses to a stadium if a match was on. But are regular buses an Irish concept and thus unacceptable to Jim Allister ?

Not sure about Protestants being organised

Anytime I go to Ravenhill I get train in from where I live to bus/train station and there is a bus that brings you to Ravenhill and then back to bus/train station.

There's a park and ride from outside Belfast Met I think too. It works well.

I'm sure a solution can be found from Sprucefield etc

[Surely America can do better than put up a pervert and multiple charge sheet narcissist and an octogenarian who sadly has lost his way. I've zero intention ever to go near the place tbh...]

"I've said this before here, probably on this thread, but I've a cousin who lives in Florida and who is a mild Trumper. They came to NYC last year for Paddy's Day, but they were telling me that their friends were pleading with them not to go. The friends were genuinely terrified that my cousin wouldn't make it out of NYC alive, such was the barrage of nonsense circulating through the right wing media about the safety of NYC and other large "Democratic" cities. Never mind that crime rates are historically low, that NYC is among the safest large cities in the US, and that millions of New Yorkers go about their daily lives without incident. All lies and bullshit to those who consume right wing media and political discourse." Quote.



I've absolutely no skin in the game  think America is nuts tbh, and rotten to the core.  Both political parties controlled blackmailed or bought out by Israelis and its been that way for decades.

My daughter and son in law spent 5 days in NYC just a few weeks ago. They did all the major sights and attractions which were fine, but said that there was proper menace on every sidestreet, junkies popping out everywhere, looking like zombies. They felt like they were being followed and said it was a very unpleasant experience, because it was not an isolated thing, it was everywhere! And neither of them are shrinking violets!

Surely America can do better than put up a pervert and multiple charge sheet narcissist  and an octogenarian who sadly has lost his way. I've zero intention ever to go near the place tbh...

It is a damning indictment of the state of America at present that this is all they have to offer as the respective nominees from their parties.

The political process is owned by the plutocrats. Trump has more superpac money than Haley. Haley is coherent and Trump has dementia but Trump won because of the superpacs. they were introduced under OBAMA with Citizens Unlimited and are allowed unlimited money . so it's down to a handful of billionaires who control politics in the US. They want Israel and no taxes on wealth .

Haley controls between 25 and 30% of GOP votes. People who cannot stomach trump. The double haters.- they also hate Biden. In the Democratic party, 100'000 voted against Biden in the Michigan Primary. There is no representation for most people.

Michigan, which has a significant Muslim population, was a protest vote about Gaza. If that is still a live issue in the autumn, Biden is in huge trouble. Those Muslim and ultra-progressive voters won't vote for Trump, but they could stay home. The Democratic Party is a coalition of many different interests, all mainly united by their opposition to the christian nationalism of the GOP.

Trump would be doing the exact same thing in Gaza though.

The key will be the 2 VP nominees. It will be those 2 finishing out the term in the hot seat.

Is Harris a shoe in for the Dem VP or do Presidents often change VP nominees ahead of 2nd term?

Changing VP has happened occasionally in the past, but not recently. There is no chance Biden will drop Harris.

The talk at the time was she would take over half way through this current term because he was too old to finish the time out and here we are with the same candidates again. Both should be at home (or in a home) with their feet up ffs.

Watched plenty of All-Ireland finals back past 40yrs recently, you be lucky to get 1 in 4 of them, been a good game, 1 in 10 a outstanding game. Back then, half the lads back in the 80's, got the ball and just kicked it as far as they can. Now u watching  and going, what the hell they at, work it up the field

I agree there was some poor matches especially in the 80s. It got better in the 90s and into the 00s imho. The thing that existing in football back then that made it interesting is jeopardy. Forget about the David Clifford and Con show at the all ireland level, go to a junior or intermediate club match where the teams are trying to copy cat the senior teams and keep the ball - it's completely unwatchable.

[But for subjects like IT, industry is copping on and offering apprenticeships along with semi employment for a few years. 3/4 years at Uni for IT is not needed. That's why employers happily take people with any degree who did a 1yr conversion course for IT.]

I think the whole University thing is getting too expensive nowadays. And it's not really necessary for a lot of careers/vocations.

I get the need for it for some intense subjects like Medicine/Pharmacy where the student is also partnering  with hospitals and so on for training as they go along.

But for subjects like IT, industry is copping on and offering apprenticeships along with semi employment for a few years. 3/4 years at Uni for IT is not needed. That's why employers happily take people with any degree who did a 1yr conversion course for IT.

I get the arguments for Uni, life experience, fun, making new friends, keeping employment options open with degrees like Maths but it's a lot of debt for a young person to be burdened with for the first few decades of their working life.

This could not be farther from the truth. IT is such a broad definition and technology is constantly evolving; a degree shows some ability to learn independently and some computer science topics just are too much on the cutting edge for an apprenticeship. Plus some of these apprenticeships are taught by people that should have been roaded by the industry years ago. Also, IT conversion courses require an undergraduate degree and most people I've met that took that route come from STEM subjects.

The vast majority of apprenticeships are set up to produce cheap low skilled coders rather than quality resources with an understanding of the nuances of building modern platforms.

Apprenticeships are getting more common with construction type degrees too, surveyors and engineers. From the outside looking in, it seems a good way of doing things for some of those roles, you get paid while doing your degree over a few extra years.
I thought a mix of the 2 would be a good idea, 1st year in uni to get the life experience and get a background in what you'll be doing and then enter into a apprenticeship for the remaining modules.

I see just when Rasmus Hojlund has found the goal scoring form he's ruled out with a muscle injury for the next 4 or 5 games. While a blow to United it's a boost to Villa and Spurs ahead of them.

Disaster. Clubs medical department needs overhauled.

It has to be completely gutted. Look at the players with constant long term injuries they have had over the last 10 years. Jones, Shaw, Martial and now Mount, Martinez and Malecia can't get fit at all.

[Dark ages stuff here.]

People who want the Ulster final to remain in Clones need their heads examined.

Town = dump
Ground = dump
Roads = crap

No matter what happens casement, there shouldn't ever be a final in Clones again. What a complete kip of a place.

Dark ages stuff here. Imagine not wanting a top class stadium in the country's second biggest city. Corrigan is there for the smaller games and crowds. Though I'm sure an agreement can be made to hold the county finals there in a 90% empty stadium like it always did in the past.

People are simpletons.

But it was great craic in the 90s...

I honestly couldn't believe how bad it was when I went last year having not been there for a few years. Taking kids to places makes you look at everything differently too. Casement was better before it was closed down ffs - at least the pathways are bitmac/concrete