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Should move Div 3 and 4 hurling to a summer league.

What are you smoking?
How does that matter?

From 2008 through 2010 all 9 counties competed in a highly seeded competition. In 2011 Cavan dropped out and in 2012 it was back to only the stronger counties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Ulster_Senior_Hurling_Championship

Ah right, didn't realise that was the format, but in the end there was just nowhere in the calendar suitable to play it as I recollect Down were asked to play a CR game on the Saturday and then Antrim in the final up in Derry on the Sunday, Ulster Council weren't for budging and it lost a lot of support for it after that in Down anyway.

There was an attempt at it for a few years in the late 2000s with London included as well. It was heavily seeded based on league position if I recall correctly

Nothing ever involving the whole 9 counties that I can see.

Clarinbridge in Galway ?

indeed

It is insane

Football or Hurling?

no football in Clarinbridge

Except Alan Kerins who probably won more at the football than the hurling...

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any good if I get an invite

Didn't get the invite, did you?

Martial more league goals than this great striker hojlund?

How TF Everton didn't score in that first half I'll never know...

Missed three guilt edge chances, Gueye skews a sitter, DCL heads one into the hands of Onana and puts another one over the bar.

United had four shots on target and scored three, that's the difference.

Goal of the season right there from Garnacho in fairness.

There's a pretty detailed article on it in one of the Irish papers. "Do you know who the f**k I am" said. Doesn't read well for him.

From reading reports, do they not all know each other?

Don't think so as they followed the lad out from the nightclub wanting to know his name.

I think the girls in question know both parties and that is the link, but Hayes didn't know this lad evidently.

Big choices now for Kiely as they booted Pat Ryan off the panel for his legal indiscretions...

When this came up at CCCC none of the delegates from these counties spoke out against it or for it, all sat dumb, but I think the biggest insight came from the Leitrim county hurling manager who knows their county treasurer was openly all on for it for behind the scenes they secretly wanted it to go through under the radar but now it's blown up these sneeky hoors are all running for cover leaving CCCC rightly looking like a shower of dicks.

Time those in power understood that in a lot of instances when you're discussing the weaker codes in a lot of counties with their delegates, chairpersons etc etc you won't be getting the right story.

Nolan show today, bemoaning the lack of involvement by the GAA top brass in de-escalating last nights activities.
Bryson was on saying their silence shows they are in agreement with the rioters.
Mary from Larne says they don't know how to riot down there.

Knew it had to be the GAA's fault. The fuppin baxtards.

Did the soccer clubs get a mention? Over 450,000 play soccer in Ireland, hopefully the soccer hardmen can calm the lads down lol

Philly McMahon has been deployed in the area tonight, the Gardaí can rest easy.

No need for those soccer fairies, the main man is on duty.
 
And if Philly is getting it a bit tight, he's got the Limerick hurlers on speed dial, Kyle Hayes will be up in a flash.

[Think McKaigue does this at S'Neil?]

Always thought it would be a brilliant investment by a club. Think McKaigue does this at S'Neil?
Although its probably not possible financially with most clubs. Is St Brigids still a council pitch or do they own it now??

Costs to run a club now are shocking without new developments. To cut and maintain the pitches every year, fertaliser and sand is a small fortune!

He's the only GPO I know of and certainly seems the way to go instead of throwing thousands at outside managers every year, get a good club man who has been there and done it and is passionate about the club, not every club has a person as successful as McKaigue of course

Mckaigue is in on a 3 year term and is paid by a sponsor.

Slaughtneil are still paying outside managers, in both football & hurling.

And Camogie.

Kyle Hayes in a bit of bother in court in Limerick, assault charges..

[Take a look at the premier league stars that are lauded who point blank refuse to shoot with their 'weaker' foot.]

Do Irish people really make good soccer players. We rarely produce a player at international level standard that can leave a player dead with skill. Liam Brady and Damien Duff are the only two that come to mind, and Georgie Best who was on another level. A Roy Keane was a great player but very limited skill wise. When it comes to nimbleness and skill, as a race we are great at the fiddle, tin whistle, bodhrán, Uileann pipe, guitar, boxing, plastering and the pen. We seem to have been overly blessed with movement in the elbow, fists and fingers, but useless with the feet. Even Irish dancers look very stiff compared to the Latins and the few lads who venture out onto the floorboards and get too ambitious are in danger of tripping over themselves. Our best chance is immigrants adding to our gene pool. We are seeing that in Athletics and the beginnings of that in soccer. There's hope yet.

Soccer is globalised. We do better in sports that are not globalised like rugby and GAA. In athletics and rowing we wait for generational talents .

We don't have a development system and we don't have a league of an appropriate standard for soccer.

It is not a priority. 

What a weird post, take a look at some of the great Dublin/ Kerry recent footballers especially the attackers. All have the ability to shoot accurately on the move with both feet, I think this sometimes get overlooked when it is actually an incredibly difficult skill.

Take a look at the premier league stars that are lauded who point blank refuse to shoot with their 'weaker' foot.

There is no lack of skill or flair in this country.

This takes me to the absolute cleaners... Lads payed 10's of thousands of pounds a week and aren't confident enough to pass or shoot on their supposed weaker foot.
What have they been coached in a professional environment to do FFS.

Weird one. So why would they count?

Because it suited someones agenda.

Toss a coin for Owenbeg or Corrigan.
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Toss a coin for Owenbeg or Corrigan.

Nearly all ulster games used to be in casement. Was no home advantage back then!

I beg to differ and was pretty vocal on here at the time about the advantage afforded to the Antrim club champions who'd already had competitive club games there prior to playing the Derry or Down club champions.
And don't start me on the stewards etc etc who refused the disabled brother of three of our players a parking permit inside the ground only to be met by all the Dunloy team getting allowed to drive in past them.

Toss a coin for Owenbeg or Corrigan.
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Toss a coin for Owenbeg or Corrigan.

Nearly all ulster games used to be in casement. Was no home advantage back then!

I beg to differ and was pretty vocal on here at the time about the advantage afforded to the Antrim club champions who'd already had competitive club games there prior to playing the Derry or Down club champions.
And don't start me on the stewards etc etc who refused the disabled brother of three of our players a parking permit inside the ground only to be met by all the Dunloy team getting allowed to drive in past them.

I'm going to disagree with you there. There isn't a hurler in Ireland would have turned down the chance to hurl on the casement surface. Down and Derry teams were well accustomed to playing there so it was familiar and it was still always a big deal for Antrim club teams to play there.   If you're going to turn down the opportunity of hurling on casement, as it was, in favour of Newry or Armagh or Owenbeg then it's not the pitch that's the advantage, it's getting found out on the ideal hurling pitch that's your concern.

The days of home and away at club grounds are gone, this is supposed to showcase the best of ulster club hurling (in November/December very few pitches are ideal).  Bringing teams competing at this stage to a less than ideal pitch which merely serves as a leveller just shouldnt apply.  The Gaelic grounds surface for Ballygunner and Na Piarsiagh at the weekend looked immaculate.

I take your point regarding the stewards and agree entirely, found many of them to be obnoxious all the while letting their pals from West Belfast in without paying. Some people can't help themselves, desperate for a little authority and ultimately just an embarassment.

You can disagree with me all that you like, I've played on plenty of Down teams, club and county that have been treated abysmally in Casement and the great surface wasn't always the case as we'd played Dunloy in an Ulster semi-final there and they'd obviously just vertidrained the pitch that week and there was loads of surface sand which prevented the ball from bouncing. Dunloy were far superior on the day, so can't say the pitch ultimately played a part in the result but the game should not have been played there.
Also,
Down had repeatedly asked for access to the pitch in the lead up to the Ulster finals and access was only granted once in my time with them whilst we knew Antrim were training on it regularly.
It was far from a neutral venue.

What prevents the UN moving into a situation like this as peacekeepers and putting troops on the ground? 

They have done in the past e.g. Yugoslavia in the 90s albeit with varying degrees of success.

The good ole US of A, that's who.

They'd veto it.