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I dont believe there was as much of an outcry when Larry Tompkins, the greatest footballer of his era, transferred to Cork after he fell out with Kildare Co Board?

By that stage he had already won a hatful of New York County championships with Donegal - hardly the same as this situation.

As for transfers in Dublin, the day the Dublin footballers develop a transfer policy such as the one McGeeney has I'll keep schtum. Until then I'm perfectly entitled to voice my opinion, just as you can defend the policy.

How is it different, Tompkins and Fahy playing for a county at the far end of the country? I don't remember anyone saying that Cork's two All-Irelands were tainted, or that the team contravened the ethos of the GAA.
Btw, I assume you boycotted Dublin games when Brian Murphy was on the panel?

Is there a losers round in the Championship that means Seanie will get to play for Kevins??

Yes. Even if they lose the next round there would be more games to decide who gets relegated.

[Best was being hammered by Offaly in a league semi-final and the three Offaly boys in front of us pretending to be Kildare fans and doing it so well that despite the depression of the day and the intense rivalry/hatred you could only laugh in the end.]

Lost count of the amount of times I've had some lad on his seventh can of Scrumpy Jack thinking he's being original by roaring 'sheep shagger' or 'what a waste of petrol' in my face on the streets around Croker if we're either playing Dublin or playing on the same day as them. 

Best was being hammered by Offaly in a league semi-final and the three Offaly boys in front of us pretending to be Kildare fans and doing it so well that despite the depression of the day and the intense rivalry/hatred you could only laugh in the end.

That wasn't today or yesterday!

No thank God! Not as long as you might think either though, just looked it up there, 2004, 1-16 to 1-8...

Lost count of the amount of times I've had some lad on his seventh can of Scrumpy Jack thinking he's being original by roaring 'sheep shagger' or 'what a waste of petrol' in my face on the streets around Croker if we're either playing Dublin or playing on the same day as them. 

Best was being hammered by Offaly in a league semi-final and the three Offaly boys in front of us pretending to be Kildare fans and doing it so well that despite the depression of the day and the intense rivalry/hatred you could only laugh in the end.

Meath by six or more for me. The way some people go on you'd think Meath are the worst team in the country and we (Kildare) are All-Ireland contenders. So how come it took an injury-time point to separate the teams a couple of months ago?
I expect Meath to beat Wicklow well, destroy Carlow and come into the Leinster semi-final with confidence restored.

I'm against this transfer on principle but find it fascinating that Croke Park will move heaven and earth to stop a player transferring to Kildare when they batted scarcely an eyelid when Thomas Walsh transferred to Wicklow, for example. Didn't hear too much talk of ethos then.

Irish Post preview backs Kerry, with Cork as finalists and Dublin and Kildare as semi-finalists:
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/index.php/component/content/article/27-comment-a-analysis/407-the-hunt-for-sam-maguire-

Who was at that awful game v Dublin in 198* (5 perhaps). Leinster Q/F or perhaps S/F  when we were 0-09 to 0-07 up 5 mins into the second half only to lose 4-15 to 0-09. I was there. Jesus, it was painful. That was the day Eamon Heery from the Dubs decided that Speedy's nads were fair game. tr**p.

Wasn't at it but that was the 88 Leinster semi

[the players fund also contributes to the expense of their own training at home]

You're completely missing the point DH...there is a finite amount of resources in any county. Presumably the county board pay all other expenses for the senior team? Or are the senior footballers self-financing?

If those finite resources are taken and spent on something non-essential like warm weather training, and at the same time, central GAA money has to be given to bail the county out, then that's wrong and unfair on other counties. You cannot separate the county board from the senior team and run two financial systems. I think that's the point Martin Breheny is making and I think many will agree with. The GAA won't let that happen either as Kildare might soon find out.

Good luck!

I take on board your point but the players fund also contributes to the expense of their own training at home so that is not solely the county board's burden. They decided to forgo a team holiday at the end of last year to go on this training trip so I think it is unfair of the likes of Breheny to drag them into this debate. They are not at fault for financial mismanagement by the county board.

Is Seanie going on this?

Nope. He can't afford it. The house in Straffan and the daily round trip through the M3 tolls have hit the Cavanman hard in the pocket!

What does this include.  I can only think of gym membership?

They built and equipped their own gym

From what I've read and heard and seen, has to be Peter Harte.

was that not a bit far fetched to say kildare would have won an all ireland had larry tompkins and fahy stayed put instead of going to cork? how does he come to that conclusion, kildare wern't even winning leinsters or knocking on the door

We weren't that far off the Dublin team that played in three AIFs in the early to mid nineties with a very young team. Still don't know how we didn't hold out in '94 after Ken Doyle kicked us ahead in injury time

Was that definitely Doyle? Thought it was Graham Dunne but I'm probably just remembering that Dunne scored four points from play that day but was never heard of again really after that.

In fairness I think you're being paranoid - people from Kerry (and maybe Dublin) may not like ye, but I love watching Tyrone play, lovely brand of football, and the sadness of all the tragedies, beginning with Paul McGirr, makes me want them to win any time the result doesn't affect Kildare.

For the record, Kildare started with seven lads who started in last Championship match against Donegal, so both teams well understrength.

Donegal won that game so surely that wasnt ure best team 

Only too aware of who won that game, one of the worst moments of my life when Cassidy swung the boot...

For the record, Kildare started with seven lads who started in last Championship match against Donegal, so both teams well understrength.

The whole thing makes me a little uncomfortable.
I could accept Bryan Murphy and Karl O'Dwyer playing for us because both were committed to living in Kildare and had been discarded by counties that always have strong football teams, with zero hope of ever playing for those counties again.. Murphy is committed to Kildare to this day, for example.
With SJ, it smacks a little more of taking advantage of an internal row in Cavan by poaching their most talented forward - and as Kildare people, we all know how bad that felt when Larry Tompkins went to Cork.
I'm not sure how I'll feel if he's starting in the championship. I wouldn't go as far as to say that anything we win would be tainted, but I would prefer to see 15 Kildare men on the pitch, particularly at a time when we're producing a lot of promising young players and have a strong U21 team.