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Div 2 is going to be an absolute hoor to get out of next year, that's for sure.

Louth found it easy enough this year and Down or Meath are giving it a good shot

Badum tish !

I'll get yer coat.

....whatsoever....unless you're from Laois. 

National Finals should be in HQ.

Or do some of ye want it to be used for rubby and stick Carlow into one of the 3 worst County Grounds in the Country.
Disappointed in you Dinny

I get the whole arguement about playing it in CP but it does nothing, zero to promote the game. Since you bizarrely brought rugby into it, the same day Thomand Park is sold out, 27k Munster fans which game will have the better atmosphere and better optics and therefore better promotion.

IF Thomond Park is sold out, it's because Munster have a half decent team again, and/or a post Grand Slam supporter high. The place has been half empty for most of their games, these past 4 or 5 years. Now that they are no longer shite, their supporters - the biggest bandwagon brigade in the country - are turning up again. (Good luck getting their PR machine to admit it mind.) Proper marketing has sweet EFF all to do with it.

Div 2 is going to be an absolute hoor to get out of next year, that's for sure.

What's with all the whinging about fixtures cancelled due to bad weather.  Mcstay whinging today, emlyn  (the whole world is against me) Mulligan last week. RTE radio had Martin McHugh whinging about it too yet it took him 10 minutes to figure out the permutations in div 2 and turns out he was talking crap. Weather was unprecedented in a decade, it's not the GAAs fault.

If Donegal could get the 3 mchughs playing close to potential they'd have a lot less to whinge about.
there must be a story there?

What story?

Eoin is taking the year off to focus on university finals. Mark took time off in 2014 and has never been able to force his way back into the starting 15 on a regular basis, partly because his brother fills a similar role. Ryan is one of our best three players, but takes a serious amount of high hits and abuse.

The story that Mark has a reputation for being - searches for polite word - a bit of a handful? Was he not fcuked off the panel for going on the piss and then had a hissy fit when mgt called him out on it?

Very much so. http://www.gaa.ie/news/crunch-time-for-mayo-and-donegal-footballers/

Thanks Martin. You doing the game tomorrow?

Would the players/managers not prefer Croker, over a provincial ground? Somewhere like Clones would have a much better atmosphere than a 90% empty Croker, but it may be the only chance a lot of Div 3 & 4 players ever get to play there. Give them that at least, as well as the prospect of a walk up the steps of the Hogan Stand. Granted that may not be the case this year, as most of the counties involved are from Leinster & have a better chance than most of playing in Croker occasionally. I'm talking in the general sense.

will be a lucky young lad to get away with the 8 weeks minimum.

he was totally out of order and gavin really needs to get a grip on his backroom team, between this and the alleged discord between a selector and Connolly

What's the story with Connolly and the selector?

A bitter p***k who despises hurling basically

Sorry. I'm confused. What is the background there? What does hurling have to do with anything?

will be a lucky young lad to get away with the 8 weeks minimum.

he was totally out of order and gavin really needs to get a grip on his backroom team, between this and the alleged discord between a selector and Connolly

What's the story with Connolly and the selector?

Watching League Sunday and wondering how is Pat Spillane still getting a gig. Marty Clarke young and fresh. To top it off went to add break with Justin Timberlake playing as a complete contrast to the old tired cliched Kerry lad. I know Lyster still there but he retiring.

I know. The contrast in ages was very stark. Maybe it was the shiny & overly coiffed birds nest on top of MC's head, that stood out so much, in contrast to Spillane's grey head, that made me think of what an old, out dated geezer PS is. ( I'm not normally so shallow.  ) But the age gap was very apparent. Am not being deliberatley age-ist, but if Spillane's so called analysis wasn't as woeful as it is, we wouldn't have such a problem with the age contrast. It is, so we do.

Mayo are like any other county  , if we get a smell of success we will turn up in droves otherwise its just the much smaller hard core support .
but there is great goodwill towards the team and many are just looking for a chance to hit the road

Exactly. Mayo are just as guilty of being event junkies as anyone else. If they fall back into the chasing pack, or drop down to Div 2, or go back to getting knocked out in the early stages of the Championship, you'll soon see their numbers go back to their pre 2011 ones.

No they don't, just over 13k attended the Carlow game last year and probably about 3k were Carlow fans. This myth that Dublin fans travel is just that a myth with no basis in reality.

In fairness, they were playing Carlow. Not the most nail biting of ties.

A knock out game against Kerry, Mayo etc in Castlebar, Killarney etc, or a neutal venue like Semple or the new Stade de Frank, would draw a much bigger crowd of Dubs.

Jesus. Some people really need to get a life.

Are Eir showing any live games on Sat night?

Yes RHD so am I or at least I was until I had my bubble burst a few back

For me I'd love to see this as a REAL chance to lay down a marker the way the Dubs did back in 2006 in the first BOO (Battle of Omagh)

Some might say so what if Tyrone lay into them and its only Dublin thirds but in my eyes this is a great opportunity to stand up and beat this team in a once off game rather than take this "Ahh sure its means nothing in February" attitude.

Yeah I'd love to see a feisty Sat night atmosphere with the crowd really getting behind the Dubs. The Dubs need to realise they can't just come up there and expect an easy game, even with their 3rd team.

I'll nearly hope Moy lose so we have Colm back for it.

The Dubs never have an easy game up in Omagh, even when they play their A team. Dunno why you are assuming that they will expect an easy game, when they haven't had one before.