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[Championship: Tattyreagh]

League: Dungannon
Championship: Tattyreagh
Play offs: Drumragh Grin Drumquin, Brockagh, Fintona

Feck sake supersarsfields! Even if you think it, never say it!

Semi-finalists if they're lucky!

Does anyone know what time the games on Easter Tuesday will throw in?

What all dates for league/championship have been confirmed?

heganboy, norf tyrone, redcard

fecksake Ziggy! what about me?? thats the last time I speak to you on a night out. there's me thinking it was a life changing moment for us both!


Downgirl, were you in the Errigal on Monday night by any chance?

[Then low and behold it went again last year!!]

A broken wrist and am currently sitting on 8 dislocations for my shoulders. 4 on each one.
Should have had the op on it by now but refused it as I had just went two years without any bother. Then low and behold it went again last year!!

C'mon now supersarsfields, tell the lads how exactly it happen last year!! I'm pretty sure it doesn't count as a 'Sporting Accident' when it happens in your bedroom either!

You'll be covered in beer and surrounded by Mucksavages.

Have car, willing to travel...........

4 of us are heading to it for the first time aswell. I Heard that the Odyssey was full of spides. Hopefully slane will attract a slighly better crowd.

Depending on the weather around the time, we're considering camping. Has anyone done this at slane before? the brother done it a few times back in the day and says its was great craic

We might just tag along on someone elses bus, but aren't too keen on being stuck on a bus with a load of  dicks/people we dont know

I was at a meeting the other night where the sec. of cavan county board said that bouncy castles can't come onto a GAA grounds due to insurances issues...

we may pack away the Tyrone GAA bouncy castle we had at sports day last year then!

Lads, would any of you have a copy of the Joe McMahon mask from during the summer you could email me? They're not avaliable on that website anymore. Also, was there a Justin McMahon one?

It's news to me, I would have heard of it by now if there were any plans. Also IIRC affiliation can only be made at the county convention or a county EGM.

Yep, obviously there has been no new club affiliated, just wondering if there actually is an organised group with this aim. Couldn't see too many clubs looking a challenge game

Fionntamhnach, just spotted this comment in the 'The best local derby’s this year in all divisions' thread on hoganstand.com (yes I know!)

Fintona Michael Davitts v Fintona Pearses in Division 3 could be a real cracker, assuming the County Board allow the new Fintona team to affiliate to the County Board in time. Watch out for the Davitts in challenge games though, if the county board and the Fintona dinosaurs hold up the new teams' progress

Is this just complete balls, or is there something to it?

If the smaller clubs were more precise and active with their registration of young players then they could take a principled stand about not allowing movement.

We've been in the position where we could have made this stand, but all it would achieve would be that a young lad can't play football for a year.
Preventing young lads from playing football is certainly not something a club would want to do.
It certainly doesn't promote our games, but then again some larger clubs with 50-60 kids in the one age group are happy enough to focus on the 20 best players, send the rest off to the 'B team' (which disappears by the time the lads are minors), and at the same time actively try and recruit the better players from neighbouring clubs. This approach doesn't encourage wider participation in Gaelic games either!

I can totally see Aghaloo's reasoning for this. Say this happens your club with 1 player every 3 years. For a club of their size, it'll make a right difference to their adult football sides a few years down the line.
If you can see that the numbers for your adult teams are going to be low in 10 years time, you're not just going to sit and let every good youth footballer transfer out. Eventually you have to take a stand.

How come these lads have been out of football for 5 years? I thought if a club opposed a transfer, it meant that the player couldn't play for a year, but once the year is up they could move? Or is this only if they have an address in the parish of the new club?

As far as I see it, it's the fathers fault. Why did he take them to Aghaloo in the first place?? If he wanted them to play for Dungannon, he should have taken them there when they first showed an interest in football.

I used joomla for our site. www.drumraghgfc.net.
I'd definitely recommend it. You don't have to have much programming experience to set one up, and you need none at all to update a joomla site.

Abbeysider, you're not painting a good picture of joomla. It's very simple to use.

There's plent of useful step-by-step books;
http://shop.joomla.org/amazoncouk-bookstores.html

I used Building Website with Joomla for my first one and it's pretty good.

As PRO I have no problem updating the site but I'll be damned if I'm producing all the content

The earlier versions of our site were all html based and needed me to update all the info and even with others producing the material, it was a pain in the ass to be honest.

You want a CMS based site that others can update themselves. It means that you can let the PRO, team managers etc update the site themselves. It'll mean that the site will be much better as a result I think.
If you check our sites clubtalk section, you'll have to go back 11 articles before you find one submitted by me, which is great:)


Id have to agree with Mac Eoghan. The hardest part is getting the content. That's why it's good to have users from every section of the club involved in uploading content.
Although I think he definitely needs to get rid of that blue menu on his site


Does your club use servasport heganboy? How much do they charge??

How much do all of you get charged p/a for club websites? I remember someone on here before saying that they paid quite a lot for their hosting etc.

I pay £19 for 500mb of webspace but I need to increase it as I've used 80%. 1143 photos in the gallery at this stage

The company I use are having a 50% off sale at the moment;
http://hosting-unlimited.co.uk/products/hosting/index.asp

my domain name only costs £8.50 p/a

So a total of £27.45 p/a isn't bad.

[extremely expensive]

Yeah, the Fermanagh website isn't great but it was updated wth results regularly throughout the whole summer so I suppose that's a big improvement from last year. Websites are extremely expensive to update and maintain so I'm not going to be too critical of the Fermanagh county board.

This is 100% untrue. The GAA is the greatest organisation of volunteers in this country. Are you saying there's noone in the whole of Fermanagh, that would design a site for your county board, for free, for elected officials to update?
I hate the way so many county boards have decided to use the GAAs CMS simply because it's free. It's crap! It's a good resource for club's that have noone in their membership capable of putting a site together, otherwise it shouldnt be used.
The idea of croke park providing some sort of CMS solution for clubs was good. But the outcome was poor/terrible. I hope they didn't spend much on it.
You should be able to run a site for less than £100 a year. Our club site costs £30pa for hosting etc. Surely County boards could fork out this much? After that all you need is the input of volunteers.
Also, alot have used servasport? (Tyrone) and they look crap for a professionally designed site. Why the need to use this company? Why don't county boards source webdevelopers from within the county who will most likely put a little more effort into the site?

Any danger of themn developing a decent system for producing and managing a club website?

I'm in the process of gathering together ideas and researching different types of content management system at the minute and it seems to be a bit of a nightmare. The current GAA CMS looks crap as well as the design of a lot of gaa.ie websites. Something ese which needs to be looked at I think.

Screenexile, use joomla. It's free and easy to customise for your needs. The sites below all use it. Do a google search and you'll find more.
If you need any help, i'll do it for you.

www.drumraghgfc.net
http://www.erinsislegaa.com/

www.fintonagaa.com
www.beraghredknights.com
http://www.james-stephens.com/
www.wdcgaels.com
http://www.whitehallcolmcille.ie/
http://gaa.glenelly.net/
http://www.rossagaels.org/
http://ellanvanningaels.com/
www.parisgaels.celeonet.fr
http://www.odempseysgfc.ie/

Rois, are you based in Belfast? I live in a house in malone with four other lads, we haven't cleaned since we moved in, in August. Let me make you an offer you can't refuse; if you come over and clean the house (just the kitchen. livingroom, hall and bathrooms) we'll microwave you dinner!!! Now you couln't say no to that! plus you get the enjoyment of our company for the evening!
.... and if you refill my windscreen washer we'll throw in desert to sweeten the deal...??

wrecked_em how many feckin user accounts do you have?

Palestine street, those were the days my friend! me and the big lad were just agreeing there today that we're gonna head to the states in the summer. Thinking of doing route 66 if you're up for it?

7 of us went the summer before last and about 7 others joined in and left us along the way. We started in Krakow. Class city, so much nicer than we expected.  6 pints of Warga Strong here will get the holiday off to a good start. Auchwitch was interesting for a day trip, but jokes to lighten to mood were not appreciated! It wasn't karma!
Went on to Prague then. Kinda seedy when you've a crowd of girls with ya. Went to a strip club with the laziest hoors in Europe. They just dandered round the poles. Got locked outa the hostel here, and having lost the phone in Krakow i hada spend the night outside.
From there we headed to Vienna and then on down to Dubrovnik, which was absolutely class. Nicest place I've ever been to. All the women were class, except the fat, ginger, fair skinned ones you could spot from the other end of town. They were Irish.
Then we headed for Milan, caught an AC V juve game in the san siro then on to Nice and finally Biarritz. Class holiday, although on the last night of the 3 weeks I came outa the pub full drunk  and got knocked down crossing the road  but sure these things happen.
A few pointers;
•   If your from the north, get one of those E11 cards from the post office. If you need a doctor, just flash it and you don't have any hassle at the time with insurance etc. They'll just charge the NHS and then send a bill to you for the rest, which your travel insurance will pay.
•   They don't stamp your rail pass in most trains, so if you need say 12 train journeys,  just get a 10 journey pass and wing it the other times, its good craic avoiding the conductors anyway.
•   They only sell drink in the really long journeys. Bring some with you for he short ones.
•   Bring cards, and if there's some lad you don't know or want sleeping/snoring in your cabin, play bullshit.
•   For the long journeys book your seat. It only costs around €1 and means yous are guaranteed seats together. Most cabins seat 6. When there were 9/10 of us we still bought all the seats in 2 cabins. Although we didn't do this all the time as you meet some interesting people on the trains. And some not very interesting feckers you went to school with.
•   Get a rucksack and not one of those wheelie suitcases. If you're running to catch a train with one of those and you hit a kerb, your 20yards away before you realise you've just got the handle. Plus they take up too much room in the train.
•   Kleenex travel packs = essential. Can't emphasise enough.
•   Hostels don't provide towels. All the lads on our trip assumed they did, so it was a few days before there were any showers.
•   Some crap bars around claiming to be Irish bars and the only thing Irish about them is the brand new hurley nailed to the bar, the tins of Guinness and a crap internet steam of GAA games that keeps cutting out. You'll discover that any other Irish about will have found the decent place to watch a game by the Sunday which actually has Irish people who live in the city drinking in it.
•   Try the local drinks. Some beer beginning with K in a red&white can from Croatia is the nicest i've ever had.
•   Do fun things link kayaking, surfing,skydiving etc You're only young once (i think) Note: If you go sea kayaking, put sun cream on your legs!!
Feck thats a while rant. Hope it helps somehow. The only thing i regret about interailling is that i didn't do it til the summer after final year and we only went for 3 weeks.
Any of you in first year of uni with no plans for the summer, go travelling! You'll regret in a few years when you're working and get crap holidays if you don't.