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Could this move possibly be an indicator that he will quit the hurling and concentrate on the football?

If this 'tactic' (handing the captaincy to a dual player) was employed by a club manager, i think it would look as if the manager is trying to get the player to lean towards that particular team.   I'm sure the same applies at county level.  Cute move if it works, don't know what will happen if he chooses hurling over football at some stage during the year, i.e what will the other players think!  Although i'm sure the hurling manager could counter this by making him captain of the hurlers too

From a purely fantasy football point of view the team of the season is:

1. Green
2. Laursen
3. Ferdinand
4. Vidic
5. Lescott
6. Ronaldo
7. Fabregas
8. Gerard
9. M. Petrov
10. Adebayor
11. Teves

12. James
13. Chichy
14. Bentley
15. Elano
16. Berbatov

[GAWA army]

Could be a bit of fun for the OWC defenders over at Windsor Park and put an end to some of the more tiresome threads sustained by indefatigable windbag contributors on the Board. As I'm sure all genuine proponents of the six county soccer teams 'Football For All' publicity drive are aware, their next game coincides Ash Wednesday when all Catholics will be giving public witness to their repentance before God by having the cross of ash placed on their foreheads.

To be honest nobody really believes these assertions about your Kaflick mate who goes to all the games, so now you can even take photographs to prove that the GAWA army aren't the mono-cultural, bigoted, sectarian, white supremacists grouping as is often alleged in the student cafes and bars of downtown Belfast.

Is that like PIN number? 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/30/bskyb.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media

Sky One is to bring back Saturday night favourite Gladiators hot on the heels of a successful relaunch in the US.

The digital satellite channel will take over Gladiators broadcasting duties from ITV, where the series was a hit for most of the 1990s.

Elisabeth Murdoch's independent production company Shine will produce the show, which will be given a "21st century makeover" and will include "much more exciting and dangerous" contests.

Gladiators is due to return to its traditional Saturday prime time slot later this year.

According to today's Sun, ex-footballer Ian Wright is being lined up to host the new UK version.

Gladiators: new logo for the show's Sky return The original ITV show's Scottish referee and voiceover man, John Anderson, whose catchphrase was "Gladiators, ready!", is also in talks to return, the paper added.

Shine is in the final stages of buying US production company Reveille, which makes the revamped US version, American Gladiators, for NBC.

Members of the public will once again be challenged to battle a new team of 12 gladiators, who are currently being recruited. Auditions for contestants will begin next month.

Gladiators became a mainstay of the ITV Saturday night schedule when it launched in 1992, regularly pulling in 12 million viewers.

Hosted by Ulrika Jonsson and John Fashanu from Birmingham's NIA, the show's team of gladiators including Wolf and Hunter became household names.

The show went on to spawn a string of money-spinning live shows and merchandising.

However, the show was eventually axed in 2000 after a revamp, which saw former England rugby star Jeremy Guscott replace Fashanu, failed to halt sliding ratings.

The success of the new US version prompted the Sky One controller, Richard Woolfe, to bring back the format.

The US version was originally intended to fill gaps in the schedule left by the ongoing writers' strike, but has been so successful that a second series has been commisisoned.

Woolfe told the Sun: "Just like the revival of Take That and the Spice Girls, the return of this David-and-Goliath contest will be unmissable."

· To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 7278 2332.

[hear its going to be organised on a regional basis this year which is a good thing]

Not sure if this should be in local discussion or not we will let the mods decide that.

Are any of the poster's clubs involved this year? I hear its going to be organised on a regional basis this year which is a good thing, it means alot less travelling for some clubs although I enjoyed my trip to dromintee a few seasons back. My club Dungiven are in it as well as local rivals Banagher.I hope we dont get them, u want to be playin someone diiff in this comp

Obviously not!  Even just looking at group A, there is some amount of travelling to be done.

I see your point about less travelling but organising it on a regional basis would sorta defeat the purpose of the ulster league - you'd be more like to draw a team from your own county or a team that is close to your county border that you probably play regularly in freindlies

Any of our american friends seen cloverfield yet??

That magherafelt council are applauded for their level of absenteeism despite it being something like an average of 7 days per year per employee. Don't get me started on Larne!!!!

I intended to post this earlier but didn't get the chance until now

Anybody watch this show on BBC1 last night....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/tv/programmes/lostforwords/

I can't begin to think what Nicola and her family have been through the past number of years, but i think it is amazing how far she has come & i hope she can continue improve, such a brave young women.

People who say "nukular", for "nuclear".  They include the president of the USA, at least one RTÉ newsreader and the latest was some fella on the "What-if" programme on RTÉ Radio 1 this morning - what if we had built the nuclear power station in Carnsore was the subject. This lad was there as an expert on the whole subject, yet he can't pronounce the name of his speciality.

Did you get the new Billy Connelly dvd for christmas? 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article600640.ece?CMP=KNC-SC&HBX_OU=50&HBX_PK=jamie+lynn+spears

Don't see a thread on this, but thought it was news-worthy enough in a trash-tabloid kinda way

More like 200-300. You might if you're lucky get 7000 at a Linfield Glentoran game if it was a boxing Day Derby or Irish Cup Final. Never at any other occasion.

Na Tony, i think Sammy is more accurate with his estimate of 3-400, that is between 3 people & 400 people   

I fully back what Paddy Heaney said in this article, but didn't he pen an article recently (in the last year or so) basically saying that it was the GAA's fault that there was poor coverage of the games by BBC & UTV?

His main point was the poor facilities in GAA grounds (barring Croke Park) for those over-worked reporters

Snowed Under grinds my gears!!!

While i understood his argument at the start of all this, his infatuataion with pints is gettin out of hand.

Pints, get a restraining order on that man!

Or would the two of you just get a room 

I can't believe he's not paying back a student loan! 

Before i even start i don't want anyone to pick me up wrong - mckeague was wrong, but what rule did he break and was the punishment correct??

Agree with most of the sentiments on here - the referee was poor but he didn't lose Derry the game!!

Edit:

This probably covers it:
5.11 To threaten or to use abusive or provocative
language or gestures to an opponent.
Which is actually punishable with a free kick - though i don't know if that applies if the free has aready been given the other way - and i doubt if many referees know either!!