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I can assure you, folks.  Be under no illusion.  This deal is a wolf in wolf's clothing.  The GAA depend on voluntary imput from a much broader range of expertise than the man who sweeps out the changing rooms and the woman who makes the sandwiches and the under 10 manager.  Our medical committee is made up of GPs who give of their valuable time free of charge and none of them charge for their services to counties.  This might change now.  The DRA is made up of a team of QCs, barristers, lawyers, solicitors and again 27 hearings this year and all that work done free of charge.

We're fucked.  I tell you.

Dear All,


After yesterday's announcement about pay-for-play in the GAA, a group of concerned GAA people are coming together as follows:


Wednesday 5 December



7.00pm



The Elk



(between Castledawson and Toome on the main Belfast/Derry road)





The aim is to hold an open meeting to see what the grass-roots view is about this absolutely seismic shift in GAA policy.


If you're concerned about this whole issue, please come along.



And it would be useful if you could circulate the content of this email to like-minded people.

Time to do Something. Let's All GO!!!

ANyone else disappointed?  I certainly am.  I thought it was our big chance to sink the bastards.  Just a postponement until the next issue which is round the corner - TV money. Meanwhile, Cork Taliban are refusing to play still.  Good.

A central council delegate receives 14 tickets for an All-Ireland final; a player who has played in this championship receives the right to buy two -
(Dubs for Sam)

And Dessie as Central Council Delegate gets his share too  - and has never handed one back yet!!

Loan Shark.  That piece of writing from yourself above is just about as fine an analysis as there is anywhere.  Well Done.

I look forward to seeing the GPA's response to this thread where members have decided to emerge and actually face down the GPA face to face, no bullshit. We are the grassroots and we have no other forum other than this board.  You should take what we say as a decent barometer of opinion across the GAA Dessie and not use vulgar terms to describe us in rag papers.  (Remember, this was the paper who defiled Cormac McAnallen's memory by a headline about his girlfriend going with an ex-priest.  Lovely fellas altogether)

PS - Dessie's equivalent in the GAA is Liam Mulvihill and soon to be Paraic Duffy.  Could you see any of them two resorting to thay type of language to describe their rivals.  The GPA have taken a retrograde step and cannot be allowed to get a free run.  No way.

This has been a great week for the Board in the News.  Not content with causing a stir all week in the media with our Down Strike story, Dessie has us in the Star.  Actually he castigates us all and says he would like to meet us face to face and have it out with us.  I was thinking we could meet them in Quinn's pub with the understanding that we let Mcgeeney leave during Happy Hour.

I only deal in facts and I am not wrong here either, by the way.  This vote was taken and passed. 5 Sams also has it. There's a serious amount of backtracking going on here in the Down camp. Obviously Dessie sent one of his storm troopers up north to deal with the norsies.  This story is not over.  i tell you.  I would not have posted it if it wasn't true.  They need to come clean on what happened or it will run and run...

You heard it here first.  And remember customers; who at this stage are against the strike?

Kerry - 32 All Ireland Champions
Down - 5 All irelands
Crossmaglen Rangers Players - 4 All Irelands.

Anyone see a pattern??

I hope DOwn players read this thread and realise just how much they have connected with ordinary GAA people onthis issue.  Fair play to Ross Carr.  He probably told them that they were Down, winners of 5 All irelands and they didn't win those by striking.  He would also have pointed to the great Kerry team who have said they're not going to strike also. And Mickey harte who has made it clear that he is standing firm also.  What do all these teams have incommon?  All Irelands.  No coincidence.  Time for other managers to follow suit.  Imagine the GPA telling the county managers to keep quiet.  Did you ever hear the like of it in your life? BTW after Banty's comments, I hope Monaghan get the shite beat out of them this year.

Last night, Down players took a vote of their own and voted 38 - 2 NOT to Strike. 
Yes - the whole thing is beginning to crumble down round the Greedy Players Association.

Add this to the Kerry men saying they had no heed in the whole GPA business and a picture is beginning to emerge.

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!

I want to get the new hurling game, but I have only PS3.  Can I adapt something on mys ystem to allow me play the new game on it?

That's five years ago.  I reckon that's Jarlath just trying to be cute and take out the cleverest boy in the GPA with an offer of money to come inside the tent and piss out. 

It's interesting there has been a silence from DUBS FOR SAM on this one.  He is usually the main authority on GPA thinking and their chief apologist on the board. 

He is strangely absent onthis one...

I have since heard from very good authority that when the Halifax deal was done, good ol DOnal asked for his fee to be doubled.  He was told to get stuffed, so he did.

As I expected.  When you put a whole lot of greedy people into a cage, they begin to eat each other.

Money, Money Money.  That's what they're all about.

An interesting story this.  I would just love to know the background to this one.  I get the feeling he realised he had created a monster, came under pressure from his family who are seen as the royal family of Down football and are widely respected as great GAA people, found it difficult to cope with the increasingly erratic behaviour of some of the GPA people and realised that commercially as well as in every other way, this strike thing is going to tumble the GPA like a house of cards.

Music to my ears.

I actually used to like him.  Portadown Times was witty, ironic and hard hitting.  I think he has about three things to say and he has said them all now.  He seems to look at every report that comes out and finds a way to take it apart.  His column in the Irish News used to be wry and good, but now it's extremely bad and seems to be written in a hurry. 

Another thing.  He never ever ever ever has a go at the SDLP.  I mean never.

A good satirist shoud aim his sights at everyone and even onthis board, we found good satirical material on them.  Their 10 achievements etc.

I don't like him.  He is a self serving, self indulgent twat.