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Portaferry probably favourites for Div1, East Belfast could be a surprise package in Div2.

Think Liatroim should have what it takes to win Division One again. Agree on East Belfast, although I suppose there's the argument that they're not really a surprise anymore given their success last year.

Div 2 will be interesting. Could realistically see any team going up. I would say Portaferry or Ballycran will probably be favourites to win it outright.

Liatroim didn't really go all out in the league last year as they came to our place and had a good few starters along the line, but I'm hearing they've lost the Murphy's and McCusker, but that could be lies and more cash appeared from the festival funds 

Portaferry probably favourites for Div1, East Belfast could be a surprise package in Div2.

I didn't know that Ciara Mageean's father played hurling for Down and bate Kilkenny back in the 90s.

Bate Kilkenny and relegated them to Div2 and in Nowlan park. DJ Carey was playing also.
The team bus lost a window on the Ormeau Road on the way home.
 
Cork bate us in the league semifinal in Croke Park a few weeks later.

Chrissy AKA the White Hunter was centre forward that day.

Ned Quinn took control of Kilkenny soon after and the rest is history.

Pity to see that as it's an Antrim man managing Armagh!

There was an Antrim man managing Cavan last year, not sure if he's there this year

Good for Cavan, the same county Croke Park were looking removed from the NHL's

Should have won that game, but could have lost it too. It was funny to watch how the normally unflustered De Bruyne lost it when subbed. Looked like he had been dragged through a hedge backwards.City couldn't handle the heat in the second half.  Jota would have nailed at least one of those chances put on a plate for Diaz. Diaz had to take one of them.  He was brilliant otherwise.   The draw isn't the worst result.  City and Arsenal drawing the best result for Liverpool?

You can say that again.

Yeah tbh I don't go out of my way at all to watch hurling matches at the minute as they feel more like friendlies. Football has far more at stake it seems. Division 1 in hurling is a procession this year. Probably nice for wexford to get one over on davy and clare on kilkenny but still doesn't mean that much.

It is indeed all a bit "friendly" at this stage with some counties proving to be more successful at building up a panel for the impending championship round robins but hey, that's what the tier 1 counties wanted.

3 galway players sent off yesterday so Daithi burke and Conor whelan are unavailable for the match against Limerick next weekend

I don't think either have cause for complaint all the same.

Davy Fitz's Waterford bate again and relegated. He had to stop himself from throwing some players under the bus in the interview after the game.

Will he still be in a job in a few months time?

 

She has either put on a load of weight or had a very bad facelift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL58K-3XGKs

Gotta love those links SF 

They've now admitted that the picture was "Edited" but won't be releasing the original.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVgb5aPhDQ

This is getting stranger and stranger.

 

Doku challenge on Macalister is a bang on peno surely?Between it and Havertz not getting road for obvious dive Saturday night potential big swings in title race.

Anyone else other than Man City Liverpool get that penalty all day long.

Riddle me this,  why kick the ball back to England with only a minute and a half left?

Yes, I know they were inside their own 20 metre line, but surely play out a few phases and then boot it out

Jackie Tyrell baring all on the GAA social podcast.

GAA Social

A very good listen and not afraid to come clean on his own discretions..

On the Cody/Shefflin hand shake he talks about, we'd Cody up last winter for a "legends" talk and Cody came clean on it and wasn't asked about it.

Cody is as Tyrell talks about is an out and out hurling man, his life is lived through that prism and more importantly Cody is a James Stephens and Kilkenny hurling man first and foremost.

Cody articulated that night that for the life of him he really could not understand how any Kilkenny hurler, especially someone like Shefflin who has gained so much from Kilkenny hurling could actually coach a team to try and beat Kilkenny in a Leinster or AI championship.

Old school alright but there's loads of lads with a similar attitude in every club and county in Ireland.

I'm sure there's lads in Tyrone would go mad if Mickey Harte coaches Derry to beat them...

If Kilkenny were winning it might be different. But kilkenny are really hurting. This is season 10 ...

They're still bagging Leinster titles like hot dinners and whilst they're not winning AI's it isn't Shefflins Galway that's preventing them.

Leinsters have no value in Catland
They get hammered on the big day and that really hurts.
Huw Lawlor has never won a senior all Ireland.
If you had said back in 2015 that one of the greatest players in the game, from Kilkenny, would have lost 4 senior finals and won none, nobody would have believed it.

I know all that,  my original point being is that it isn't Shefflins Galway inflicting these defeats, it's Kielys Limerick

Badly caught there Nash goes for the smash and ends up hurting himself then Crowley tried to go too high.

Should set it up for a good game though!

England are up for this.

1. The Brits are not going to top up the funding for the sake of 4 matches imo.

2. The IFA is one of the key institutions of partition but is very weak at the moment. I didn't realise how poor it was.

3. This is about ideology versus money. Partition and sectarianism are stupid. Refusing to play in Casement might be consistent but it would also be stupid.

This must be the first time on the North, assuming that Casement goes ahead, that the Croppies have superior infrastructure to the chosen people. That is why it is so interesting. Usually culture war participants don't turn up.their noses at money.



Let's see

The IFA allowed themselves to be rode bareback by Linfield at the time of the Windsor stadium redevelopment, so much so other clubs kicked up a stink, none more so that Crusaders who got a free pitch because of it.

Linfield get a lot of the matchday profits when it comes to NI internationals.

A new Casement would allow them to generate more money, IF they can do a deal with Ulster GAA, but that may be part of the extra funding from Westminster which CHH is indeed on record as saying that the money would be found.

My spidey senses tell me there's pockets getting lined to incentivize these recent pr initiatives. Just so out of character for the likes of Poots for it to feel real real

I'm getting quite uncomfortable about it, it's so out of character of the DUP I'm wondering if they've been hit by a collective bolt of lightning of the road to Damascus Ballymoney!