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Will Mayo really start Vaughan at full back?

Did Mayo enlist Jim McGuinness or not?

It doesn't come across too well on the management team when they are enlisting outside help before a final if it is the case.

My own belief is they did enlist him but did not expect the story to get out and are now frantically denying it.

I wonder how much McGuinness earned out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4oR7bv9kF0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1VLSi9wdFE

It doesn't get any better than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUymJHLCDqM

The ball was there to be won.

The unsuspecting victim had their head there to receive blunt trauma - the Meath way.

Thankfully the guy has just regained consciousness, he was out for 6 or 7 minutes.

An ex-Meath county player just tried to kill a guy in the Europa League, looks like the lad was knocked out cold and is in a bad way.

Real cowardly stuff that Colm O'Rourke would be proud of.

Heard Ruairi Sludden was very impressive today. I remember him being a very good minor but from what I've heard he had had a few discipline problems and has been put off a few panels - think that was the case with u21s a few years ago.

Is he good enough to make it with the county?

Dromore and Killyclogher probably look the two teams most likely to win it out.

Sludden very impressive. Yes he has the ability, don't know if he'd have the commitment. Bomber u don't seem to go to club games, why not. Are you outside the county

Outside the county.

The Great Man came on and won us the game today when we were 2-1 down. Two weeks short of his 40th birthday.

Grazie, Capitano.

Heard Ruairi Sludden was very impressive today. I remember him being a very good minor but from what I've heard he had had a few discipline problems and has been put off a few panels - think that was the case with u21s a few years ago.

Is he good enough to make it with the county?

Dromore and Killyclogher probably look the two teams most likely to win it out.

On a genuine note, why are the players beyond reproach with Roscommon? Year on year excuses are proferred and management is made the sacrificial lamb. When will people look at the one constant in this? The players.

Out of interest and off the top of your head how many Roscommon players can you name?

Muppet posted this picture on another thread, 4 Roscommon players can you name them? http://img.rasset.ie/000c8bac-800.jpg (no help from Roscommon posters now)

This current Roscommon team have had a negligent impact at Championship level over the past 4/5 years despite being highly tipped to make waves, their players seem to be absoloved from blame again and again despite being the one constant in their failings.

I'm just wondering genuinely interested as to why this is the case. Scapegoating managers and other factors is an easy option.

A Tyrone political answer meaning you haven't a clue of the name of any of their players but you read somewhere those players where talked up and that annoyed you.

Maybe it's just me but I would never be interested in a case I know very little or nothing about it.

I think you just need to look here as a backdrop for your answer. The players never seem to be questioned, it never seems to be an acceptance that the players just might be a pretty average group, that they might have an attitude problem and don't work as hard as other counties pr have the same spirit.

It's always other factors like management, injuries, tactics and selection etc that are proffered up. The players never seem to be questioned or put under the spotlight, it's like they are golden children and it can can never be their fault. If other counties had the same amount of resources and time extended to them that this Roscommom team have - they had one of the biggest spends of gaelic football county teams in 2015 - and flopped like Roscommom did then the players would be catching a lot more flak.

Where was the money spent so Il Bomber. There was no over sea's training camp last year. In fact the most they got away was one night in Limerick. There was a trip to London that is expensive but even at that all panel members not included in 26 had to fund their own way over to London. Unlike Tyrone we don't have the Queen to fund us down here and cant afford a highly expensive training centre. We spent a fortune renting out St Lomans in Mullingar's and Ait's facilities last year to train . We also spent a lot on mini buses and taxi's to bring lads down from Dublin with nearly 20 of panel based up there.

I don't know where the money was spent but it was accounted for. In 2015 only Donegal, Kerry and Armagh were the teams who don't have a representative in the senior hurling Championship that spent more than Roscommon.

It was not the queen who funded Garvaghy:

Tyrone County Board have contributed 51pc (£3.4m), Croke Park have given 28pc (£1.6m), a Northern Ireland rural development programme has funded 13pc (£0.85m), and other local state bodies, including the tourist board, £1m.

The same funding would be open to Roscommon (in their own state bodies and the GAA) had they the foresight to build a training complex rather than purchasing their lavish buses and putting . Mayo and Dublin have pretty much had their centre of excellence completely funded for them under the guise of provincial if you wish to focus on handouts. Most counties at this stage have one built or in the process of building or planning to build one. What seems to be happening in Roscommon is a short termism outlook when they are blowing all their money behind this group of players, so far it has backfired - I just find it odd the defensiveness and proferring of excuses and sacrificial lambs when the players come into question?

If I had any doubts beforehand about the players being above reproach in Roscommon, I certainly don't have now.

On a genuine note, why are the players beyond reproach with Roscommon? Year on year excuses are proferred and management is made the sacrificial lamb. When will people look at the one constant in this? The players.

Out of interest and off the top of your head how many Roscommon players can you name?

Muppet posted this picture on another thread, 4 Roscommon players can you name them? http://img.rasset.ie/000c8bac-800.jpg (no help from Roscommon posters now)

This current Roscommon team have had a negligent impact at Championship level over the past 4/5 years despite being highly tipped to make waves, their players seem to be absoloved from blame again and again despite being the one constant in their failings.

I'm just wondering genuinely interested as to why this is the case. Scapegoating managers and other factors is an easy option.

A Tyrone political answer meaning you haven't a clue of the name of any of their players but you read somewhere those players where talked up and that annoyed you.

Maybe it's just me but I would never be interested in a case I know very little or nothing about it.

I think you just need to look here as a backdrop for your answer. The players never seem to be questioned, it never seems to be an acceptance that the players just might be a pretty average group, that they might have an attitude problem and don't work as hard as other counties pr have the same spirit.

It's always other factors like management, injuries, tactics and selection etc that are proffered up. The players never seem to be questioned or put under the spotlight, it's like they are golden children and it can can never be their fault. If other counties had the same amount of resources and time extended to them that this Roscommom team have - they had one of the biggest spends of gaelic football county teams in 2015 - and flopped like Roscommom did then the players would be catching a lot more flak.

On a genuine note, why are the players beyond reproach with Roscommon? Year on year excuses are proferred and management is made the sacrificial lamb. When will people look at the one constant in this? The players.

Out of interest and off the top of your head how many Roscommon players can you name?

Muppet posted this picture on another thread, 4 Roscommon players can you name them? http://img.rasset.ie/000c8bac-800.jpg (no help from Roscommon posters now)

This current Roscommon team have had a negligent impact at Championship level over the past 4/5 years despite being highly tipped to make waves, their players seem to be absoloved from blame again and again despite being the one constant in their failings.

I'm just wondering genuinely interested as to why this is the case. Scapegoating managers and other factors is an easy option.

The Ulster Council should come down very heavily on the parties involved particularly those Derrytresk lads.

Oh wait.