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county board tickets are out.

clubs have to organise vouchers from local businesses to attach to the tickets to make them easier to sell.

i suggest you get your county board delegate to go to the meetings and report back to ye.

ours didnt and i got a phone call from Paddy Mac regarding same.

i hate fundraising for the county board - shower of @?><:'s

was anyone at the county convention last night?

i didnt make it myself - geesala is a bit too much of a trek on a busy weekday evening with clients screaming for stuff to go out the door before xmas. you'd almost think they didnt want us to go?!!

fecking thing should be mchale park on a weekend afternoon - i think it was kiltaine who proposed something along these lines in the little book they sent out.

If I may say so Sniper I agree with you. But isn't the problem that at every club AGM you have been to, or in me own case, year in year out, AGM's with different clubs  , when the jobs are up for grabs its very hard to fill the top chairs. So in a club its either the same browbeaten reliable duty bound volunteer who takes a job or the guy with the bit of an ego who wants to rub shoulders with the big boys who will end up representing the club.

One guy only half wants to be there and the other who loves it will no way in hell rock the boat.

Just my opinion from observing over the years.

You're spot on nephinman. That's the craic in most clubs. The County Board only love that. Delegates are all too often fodder for the board who are kept happy with ticket access etc when the good times come. I think the GAA needs to badly look at its structure. We only have a facade of democracy. Either the club secretary or chairman must be the county board delegate as well or some other method needs to be used to ensure that the delegate sent over doesn't turn out to be a yes man which happens at the moment all too often when the club's delegate is far from the top of their priorities.

ye two lads have yer fingers on the pulse as regards the co board and delegates. i can add a little to that however.

our club had a admitadely brief discussion about the Plan a couple of weeks ago. basically our delegate was told by the assembled members who obviously hadnt read the bloody thing - do whatever the county board wants cos they will screw us if we dont.

after sundays farce we are now going to struggle in a massive way to sell the fecking co board draw tickets. if i had my own way id tell them to shove mchale park up their arses and let us get on with trying to put footballs in the hands of young fellas and jerseys on their backs.

as far as im concerned the county board are a shower of  - insert your own expletives here....

now that ive been in the stand with a few thousand other people i am begining to realise there are major design issues in it. i gave out about it before but didnt fully appreciate the extent of the shambles that it is.

if there was ever a reason to have to evacuate the stand where the hell do you go? the exits are very inaccessable - next time you go there when you arrive up the steps - there is no gangway or proper access you land right in the middle of a section of seating.

think about any other decent stadium and your access aisles lead you to an exit - all of them. many of the ones in that stand lead to nowhere. in many cases if you want to leave, you have to do so by going through not only your own seating section but others too.

i hope the fire office for castlebar town council had a good look at it cos im not convinced its safe.

i now know why those two stupid colums are right in the way at the half way line - the players tunnel is there and the designers didnt have the mental capability to rethink the location of the columns. its maddening.

the most annoying thing about it is that our club are going to have to help pay for a botch job over the next few years to the detriment of our own developments.

[MWR is utter shite by the way but it serves its own demographic well.]

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MWR is utter shite by the way but it serves its own demographic well.

exactly. its utter tripe but there is a market for that out there. to be fair it keeps a lot of older people company all day long. if it does nothing more than that, it can be regarded as a success.

i cant stand it, but i wont begrudge it to those who do

Steer clear of this lad until he/she puts a decent bit of info up regarding who they are, what they do, how the fundraising works etc etc.

Easy to say very reputable etc. the internet wont refuse a bit of typing

Who gives a feck about new york especially a fermanagh supporter. New york biggest worry is that if they won the game what would they do.

highly unlikely, but a fair point.

what happens if new york beat galway?

i suppose if we want to be really fussy, a precedent has already been set at mchale park.

the lights have in fact already been used. the county final i think it was, was quickly decending into darkness and next thing we know - hey presto - lights on!

so whats the harm in doing that again for galway match?!!! lol we can all congregate for the game as it is fixed at the moment and when everyone realises that actually its a bit dark and we cant see the players as they warm up, flick the lights on so someone doesnt do themselves a mischief on the 804 and maintanence spread around the back of the stand?

its a health and safety thing - health and safety! say it enough and you might actually believe it.

[I wonder how many of them are not blow-ins and I see they have hired a serial complainer solicitor to get involved.]

Lads it's a fine stand. The poles are hardly noticeable. Ye would look for a problem in an orgy in heaven, ffs. I take great pride every time I pass along the ring road behind McHale Road. As for those complaining on McHale road, complaints for complaints sake methinks, I wonder how many of them are not blow-ins and I see they have hired a serial complainer solicitor to get involved.

This rhetoric sounds very familiar. It continues that ' most of the residents didn't object' and therefore we are in the right. It ignores the fact that most of the residents don't live under the tower of Crossmaglen.

The blow-ins on McHale Road are not those living there.

The stand is on the east side because there was no way they would ever get planning on the west side. The houses there would never see the sun again. The tower that has been built on the west side does not comply with the planning. The residents have done nothing wrong and are being treated very poorly and have every right to protest.

I have always considered the McHale Road residents to be a big part of match day, decorating their houses on green & red, and many of them played for and are/were members of Castlebar Michels club. The new conflict between residents and McHale park seems to have a lot to do with those who took it off the Mitchel's hands.

agreed it wouldnt get planning on that side of the pich so to be fair me saying its on the wrong bloody side is a bit harsh.

the whole thing seems to send out the image of 'ah itll do' kind of job from design and building of the stand and media tower to the treatment of both mchale road residents and the planning process

that stand - its something that annoys me every time i see it. i ranted earlier about it so i wont go into it again but its just symptomatic of the recent celtic tiger attitude - 'il build a bigger house than you no matter what it looks like or how it cripples me'. i fully agree it is an improvement on what was there before but nevertheless theres so much wrong with it.

i needed to get that off my chest - i feel much better now!

mchale park is a joke.

1) they dont need the bloody media tower at all. simple solution like in gaelic grounds in limerick - stick the cameras above in the roof with all associated gantries and walkway access - commentators too and have the rest of the press up along the back wall in ther own area. not as if we would be losing much 'corporate' space for executive boxes or the likes.

2) the poles! in the name of jaysus!!! take a look at hyde park or salthill - admitadely much smaller stands but no poles. why do we need a 10,000 seater stand? we dont! 7500 is plenty and use the money in the balance to build a decent fecking roof.

3) paying for it. the county board have imposed more development draw tickets upon the clubs of mayo. our club cant sell what we get in a standard year never mind the extra, so the club has to fork out instead. that money could be paid to coaches or give young lads gear or anything - maybe drain the fecking training pitch we have.

4) orientation - its facing west!! the prevailing wind rain and evening sun all come from there! its on the wrong side of the bloody pitch. 

if you want an example of what not to do when building a stand see mchale parks new stand. total disaster.

Mayo Senior Championship Relegation playoff - weekend just gone.

Burrishoole V Bohola Moy Davitts

Burrishoole player hits the deck after a lame enough shoulder to shoulder challenge.

Match in the balance, Burrishoole a point up with a few minutes to play, Moy Davitts running out of time.

A Moy Davitts supporter who was exasperated by the time delay caused by the Burrishoole mans rolling around lets a shout

''call the priest, yer man is fucked''

this is hilarious!

it would serve the county board right for a couple of reasons.

firstly - dont piss off the mchale road residents by building something you dont have permission for. they have been contrary enough for a few years regarding mchale park (and rightly so to be fair to them).

secondly - get a decent architect or engineer who can design out the bloody colums from the stand and make a better fist at the press box - its a joke of a design - something more lowslung would be approriate. theres no need for it to be so tall.

thirdly - dont you know the council are looking for someone to make an example of, after years of people bulding extensions, slatted houses, housing estates with 10 extra houses etc etc etc only then to seek retention. fecking hell its father ted stuff.

as far as i know a county/town council can take a vote on a planning permission and overturn decisions. so they might be able to prevent the retention permission. im not sure about this and could wrong!

you know how in the match stats the actual playing time in the game is approx 50-55% of the total match time,

well, to speed up the game - a max of 5 seconds to take a free kick once awarded, unless of course a player is deemed to be injured.
would reduce a lot of wasted time and keep the game flowing a lot better. there would be none of this business of throwing the ball around until someone decides to take the kick. maybe he who is fouled must take the kick??

for goal kicks and 45s maybe 10-15 seconds (or whatever) and allow the goal kick to be taken from the hands - again it would speed things up a bit.

but to be honest theres not a whole lot wrong with the games rules.