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i thought it was wild funny when your wee girl says "say mammy!!"

aye it is a good show i reckon

davy mc alernon went nd worked in the bahama's for a while after minors but came back within a year or 18 months i think. magills working out of the country, dont think there is anything to it, hope there is not like the rest of youse.

is the tyrone match on the radio anywhere

i can see him as the  best forward in the country tbh

the club is a slow burner. I ws underwhelmed after reading it especially with the very high standard o'connor set with last man standing, but i found that it rattled around in my head and stayed with me and on reflection was a great book in the sense that anybody involved with a team or club will emphasize with the year ending without success and how disapoitning that can be. i also thought it was very honest in that o'connors club had been to the pinnacle but there was a great humility in laying all their problems out there. thats what i thought anyway!!!

aye, apple's that's fairly pathetic behaviour from armstrong tbh. they are not going to get anywhere if they ignore the reasons why people choose to repersent the Republic of Ireland. But in my view that's a good thing and I'm glad/delighted that James Mc Lean has made the switch to the Irish team. Where is it Armstrong is from? Who was the good soccer player who was a johnnies man (St. John's, Belfast)?

MILLTOWN:
if you look at the age profile of your team, take sean kelly for example, is he 29? he is as fit as a fiddle and prob could go at a good club standard for another 6/7 years at least. then you have sean burke and cj at 23/24, who are probably coming into their best years. after that group and any younger players can be improved with the experience of training and playing with the quality players in your club and blooded in gradually. or do youse expect a lot of players to retire at the one time? (Wishful thinking)
i think cargins improved and i hope they will give yous a real rattle, still have to get by Lamh Dhearg and Creggan though.
Antrim football is like the all-ireland senior hurling championship in the last 5 years. All commentators said that the other hurling counties had to improve and bring themselves up to the standard that Killkenny (St. Gall's) have set, it took maybe three years building but tipp did that. Now, like milltown says about St. galls, it is up to the other clubs in antrim to break into the top 2, cargin and st.galls.
in antrim the best hope for breaking into antrim's top 2 to is arguably/maybe creggan and possibly st brigids or st. johns.

the colonel soounds suspiciously like the county guestbook moderator. Our county board would have done very well in east Germany

"On paper with Kevin O'Boyle, Tony Scullion, Justin Crozier, Michael McCann, Tomas McCann and Kieran Close they should be much closer than they are."

maybe they should, but st. galls arguably have the equal of them players and then strong players beside that. So, I reckon the question is are cargins younger players who have been mentioned, able/ready to do it in the championship? if they are then this will add to cargins strength in depth. Also is the cargin team pulling with the management as in other years (the year wilkinson from ballinderry was there) maybe all hasnt been right in their camp, which it needs to be if their to challenge as stong a team as st. galls

" In all my years of watching Cargin this team has been their best, problem is they are up against a team that bases their form/training around winning the championship."

here milltown, i think cargin have been doing the same this year though, using the league games as preparation to get a team in place playing in a way that can trouble st. galls. e.g. laverty and mc groggan working hard in the 3/4 line, fergal johnstone withdraws and plays like a half-forward too, when cargin get the ball, these three men along with half-backs e.g. marty kane, break forward and attack. johnstone can/does play as a trad. inside forward.
cargin has loads of talent and i hope that come the championship, they will be right to show their ability, if for nothing else, to make the antrim footb. championship interesting for fu*k knows it needs it.

is there any word of the prices for the championship football matches at the weekend, the CB would do well to take notice of the prices across the bann for their championship which have reflected the difficult times people are in. the standard of football on offer is generally higher in doire too, to be honest.
I cant see the CB being too understanding, after all, they have The Dunsilly Centre to finance, so its ok to hit the GAA people who paid (very high) fees at the start of the year, run weekly lottos, club functions, support other clubs grand draws etc....
but then again them boys is there to lead and what would i know, sure i dont put myself forward etc etc etc
how much is the top administrator in antrim gaa getting???

[Time for some serious action to be taken. No back door agreements no pandering to clubs, stand up and stick to the rules, going to be a sad day when someone ends up dead as a result of one of these brawls.]

Time for some serious action to be taken. No back door agreements no pandering to clubs, stand up and stick to the rules, going to be a sad day when someone ends up dead as a result of one of these brawls.

NAG, you wrote this a couple of posts ago, bit behind I know and I dont take any joy in re-telling this, but I think that somebody has already died beacuase of one of these rows. It was in another county, minor football league match in east tyrone, local derby between one of cookstown, ardboe or moortown, something happened, full scale row. started to settle down and an 'oul' boy (maybe a mentor), pulled two young boys apart, one of the team-mates took exception to this and kicked him in the balls, 'oul' boy dropped and died on the spot, its that easy, hit somebody on the wrong part of the head, and nowadays boys are training harder and lifting wieghts .....
might be an idea, where or as much as possible for a referee to have his two linesmen and four umpires for championship matches but i understand what youse are saying in that, clubs should be monitoring themselves.

lads, excuse my incompetence but could any of youse throw up brollys DM column from yest. I missed it and wouldnt mind a read at it

spot on meagpie seanie, but i think that other fella is right too you need to be wary of boys going for pay-days, which of course, ferguson would be wary of. also worth bearing in mind just how could sneijder is and a lot of people are making the point that wesley will bring on utd's younger players. how good is this young boy morrison that got off with the assault charge??? i really hope paul pogba isnt dung aft. utd making all that hassle over going for him.

here here magpie seanie, i have to say i like brolly, i havent seen last nights sunday game yet but i think the vast majority of people would have to recognise that brolly is fairly / very (delete depending on your opinion) insightful about tactics. I go out of my way to read his stuff in the irish mail and the gaelic life and in the last few weeks I believe that he has become more controversial and before last night it must have been 3 maybe 4 weeks since he was last on, so maybe he was tyring to keep aome air in his own profile balloon (not exactly sure what this is but you get my point!!). i thik lads tbh that, although its hard when its your own county if there is some objectivity than there is a fair bit of truth in his anlysis. i think he's bang on about cork, and kildare, if kildare are that strong, how the hell did they not beat a very questionable dublin team

cargin are going as well as anybody has seen them going in a long time, Clooney are having a horrible year but that result wouldnt be reflective of  the ability of ahoghill, maybe theyve just give up??

i think cargin COULD have the forwards to beat galls, if they dont, i dont think it will be a lack of firepower. more probably would be that st. glls are just that good a team.

ciaran close seems to have a point to prove, james laverty is a very good footballer, very hard working which surely isnt a bad thing against st. galls, not sure whether enda mc groggan could do it at that eilite level but then again maybe anto healy or some of the galls players might be about that level too and mc grogggan might play well. fergal johnston is a classy player, onlyl young but has to show he can do it in a county final or against st. galls whenever they play. gerard o boyle's playing steady but if he hits the form that he was in earlier in his career then i would nt want to mark him, paul mc canns playing good and is helped by the fact that cargins playing well, then add in tomas arguably most potent forward on the senior county panel.