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Well done DavittMan

I have to say that I am not sure if I am in favour of these changes as it significantly weakens divisions 1B, and subsequently further weakens lower divisions even more as more weaker teams are promoted. As you can see, division 1C has 3 teams that would not normally be playing in that division (as 2 normally get promoted).

All its doing is diluting the league so it will come to a stage where you have very strong teams in a division hammering teams at the bottom and maybe not even getting promoted themselves.

Also, a club fielding two teams playing Senior/Intermediate and Junior; there is hardly a free weekend as things stand so with more football to play there is less weekends for championship and for fixtures. Also the likes of the Kelly cup and other cardinal directional cups and senior summer leagues will become even more meaningless.

I would have been in favour in having 10 teams in each division which would make it very competitive and free up a couple of weekends. I dont believe that it is right to play the county final so late in the year and forcing clubs to play league late in October, and maybe even early November if this goes through. This is a joke if you are out of the championship early.

And I would also change the inter county rule to 13 days (if that is not done already).

Also I dont believe it is right playing games on the Sunday of a bank holiday either as these weekends are important for players with familys and girlfriends who may make plans for family occasions like christenings and weddings or just want to get away.

Having another league game (or two if you are playing senior & junior) in the season is not solving any problems.

Thanks lads... what a feeling. Back to back 

Betting:

2/7 Brogan
7/2 O'Sullivan
13/2 Cluxton

YPOTY:

2/5 O'Connor
11/4 McCarthy
6/1 McHugh

Have you a link for YPOTY on Paddy Power? Cant find it

Nominees for 2011 GAA GPA All-Star Footballer of the Year -
1. Alan Brogan (Dublin)
2. Darran O'Sullivan (Kerry)
3. Stephen Cluxton (Dublin)

Nominees for 2011 GAA GPA All-Star Young Footballer of the Year -
1. Cillian O'Connor (Mayo)
2. James McCarthy (Dublin)
3. Mark McHugh (Donegal)

I see Karl Lacey has won the GaaBoard footballer of the year!

But I am wondering who do posters think will win the GAA-GPA footballer, and young footballer of the year? For me its between Brogan and Cluxton as I cant see a Kerry player in line for it if Dublin won the All-Ireland but I think Brogan will get it. Cillian O Connor is the only young player in his category to be nominated for an All-Star so is he a shoe in?

Mark McHugh never used his foot all year 
Young handpasser of the year maybe.
Cluxton will win it.

Cluxton? Nearly everyone I speak to says that Alan Brogan has a better chance. If Cluxton kept a clean sheet in the final he would have it but the feeling is that Brogan will shade it.

Nominees for 2011 GAA GPA All-Star Footballer of the Year -
1. Alan Brogan (Dublin)
2. Darran O'Sullivan (Kerry)
3. Stephen Cluxton (Dublin)

Nominees for 2011 GAA GPA All-Star Young Footballer of the Year -
1. Cillian O'Connor (Mayo)
2. James McCarthy (Dublin)
3. Mark McHugh (Donegal)

I see Karl Lacey has won the GaaBoard footballer of the year!

But I am wondering who do posters think will win the GAA-GPA footballer, and young footballer of the year? For me its between Brogan and Cluxton as I cant see a Kerry player in line for it if Dublin won the All-Ireland but I think Brogan will get it. Cillian O Connor is the only young player in his category to be nominated for an All-Star so is he a shoe in?

There could be some apps running services in the background that is killing memory...

Im very upset hearing the passing of Steve Jobs.
He was such an inspiration. RIP

A lot of lads here need to go to the Poor Mouth School. Some very amateur efforts.

Dont know if you are getting at me or not there R&GS.

Does anyone know if the hotdog stand will be in McHale park on Sunday?

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That's a big honour for a small country club like ourselves.

Small? Wesport to Ballyglass is a fair stretch and ye have been know to extend yer borders on occasion 

It might be a long strip, but its only two miles wide so when you think of it like that its a different story.
And you have to protect your borders! 

      Ex-Tipperary hurling trainer set to join Mayo

Horan keen on O'Neill


Ex-Tipp' hurling trainer set for switch to Mayo

Mike Finnerty

THE former physical trainer of the Tipperary senior hurling team has emerged as the front-runner to join James Horan's Mayo management team.
Dr Cian O'Neill, who stepped down from his role with Tipperary last week after four years in the role, is believed to be in pole position to replace Martin Connolly and Paul Jordan, who both resigned as Mayo selectors earlier this month.
O'Neill, a native of Kildare, is the course director for the BSc Physical Education programme at the University of Limerick, and has worked with Mayo footballers like Seamus O'Shea, Enda Varley, Barry Moran and Kenneth O'Malley in recent seasons.
The highly-rated coach would seem to fit the profile of person that James Horan said he was looking to recruit after the departure of Martin Connolly and Paul Jordan, who did most of the physical training with Mayo last season.
"We're looking for the very best coach out there, someone with ambition, drive and a desire to succeed," commented Horan recently.
"I don't care who they are or where they're from as long as they can do the job for Mayo. There's a big task here and big opportunities and we're looking to work hard and achieve as much as we possibly can."
The official appointment of Cian O'Neill to the Mayo backroom staff is expected to be ratified at next Monday night's meeting of the Mayo GAA Board.
If the former Limerick senior football trainer does come on board, it will represent a serious coup for James Horan as he looks to build on Mayo's performances in 2011.
O'Neill is credited as being one of the main driving forces behind the Tipperary hurlers' recent resurgence, with the players becoming better conditioned and more able to cope with the rigours of an inter-county campaign.

superb appointment

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i don't know why your going on about the past Abbeysider it doesn't mean a thing . At the moment you are county champions and ye are there to be bet. Yes it tough to win back to back titles but the past won't stop ye

Sure we are just happy to have our day out in McHale park Deel. That's a big honour for a small country club like ourselves.
Anything else is a bonus.

As Tyrone proved in the last ten years you don't have to have a history to be successful. League games or not winning is a great habit that breeds confidence and ye certainly have that winning culture at present. Correct me if I'm wrong but did ye not beat Ballina in the quarters last year? 36 titles in one hundreds years won't mean a thing once the ball is thrown in at the weekend (is the game Saturday or Sunday?).

Ballintubber Vs Balina - Sunday at 3.30
Park Vs Davitts - Sunday at 2:00
Islandeady Vs The Neale - Sunday at 12:00

I hope the pitch holds up to all those games in 24 hours 

Ballintubber have won 1 in the last 100 years so expecting 2 titles in a row is ambitious

I'd have thought that yer main goal at the beginning of the year was back to back titles with ambitions for Connacht?

I dont know about that, it is one of the toughest things to do to win back to back titles, and in your only your 4th year playing senior after winning it for the first time in 100 years surely the odds on that one are long enough.

[Correct me if I'm wrong but did ye not beat Ballina in the quarters last year?]

Gimmi a break StoneWall, most of those stats are from league games and we all know a lot of senior teams dont take the league seriously so its not a very accurate measurement IMO.

Anyway the big stats speak for themselves, as in Ballina have won 36 Mayo Senior Football Championships so they are the Goliath in the equation.

As Tyrone proved in the last ten years you don't have to have a history to be successful. League games or not winning is a great habit that breeds confidence and ye certainly have that winning culture at present. Correct me if I'm wrong but did ye not beat Ballina in the quarters last year? 36 titles in one hundreds years won't mean a thing once the ball is thrown in at the weekend (is the game Saturday or Sunday?).

Ballintubber have won 1 in the last 100 years so expecting 2 titles in a row is ambitious

I'd have thought that yer main goal at the beginning of the year was back to back titles with ambitions for Connacht?

Aye, by a point....long year thinking about that one.

and they didnt even have Pat Harte

Ballina are coming good at the right time and I think we could struggle with a couple of injuries so it kills me to give them the nod to be in the final.

The poor mouth card isn't going to work anymore abbeysider  . I was reading in the Mayo News that ye have won 40 of yer last 43 league and championship games. That's some record and winning culture. I expect it to continue until next February.

Gimmi a break StoneWall, most of those stats are from league games and we all know a lot of senior teams dont take the league seriously so its not a very accurate measurement IMO.

Anyway the big stats speak for themselves, as in Ballina have won 36 Mayo Senior Football Championships so they are the Goliath in the equation.

Ballintubber have won 1 in the last 100 years so expecting 2 titles in a row is ambitious

Any predictions for the weekends championship fixtures?

Senior Semi's
Knockmore    v   Mitchels
Ballintubber    v   Ballina

Intermediate Semi's
Burrishoole    v   Ballyhaunis
Parke-Keelouges-Crimlin    v   Davitts

Junior Replays
Islandeady    v   The Neale
Ardnaree    v   Lahardane

Senior Relegation Playoff
Tourmakeady    v   Charlestown

I have a funny feeling that there is a big game in Knockmore and they could surprise the next day so I will predict Knockmore to shave it.

Ballina are coming good at the right time and I think we could struggle with a couple of injuries so it kills me to give them the nod to be in the final.

Burrishoole should overcome Ballyhaunis and Davitts might have too much for Parke. The juniors are very hard to separate but I think Lahardane might be the team to beat and The Neale sounded impressive when Eoin Hughes came on to midfield on Sunday - I wasnt at either game though.

I would not like to be facing Tourmakeady in a relegation playoff...