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i agree totally. Match bans not month bans. Then have a set number of games for specific offences e.g violent conduct, stiking 4 match. The ban must also only punish the player on that particular team eg sent off intercounty match, then intercounty ban, university / university, club/club.
Another rule would be if an appeal is unsuccessful then the ban is increased. 
and while i am at it............although you don't get a ban for 2 yellows then a red. Why not bring it in that if this happens a couple of times within  a 4 game period you get a 2 game ban

did anyone else think that there was alot of fouling just as the ball was being played. Also the art of fielding has somewhat deminished since that time. WJ, Mchale and Maher did some great fetching. Tj was non exsistant in that game, the strapping on his leg..he wasn't fit at all

for Gods sake lads. Considering Kevin McStay reads the board perhaps we could stop using him as a pawn in the middle of this debate. He has after all given it some good publicity in the past!! For my two cent worth . I considered him to be a stylish forward. I did not however give him my vote. But he deserves his place on the list.
I think the only solution if someone has the time is to catagorise the players 80-85,86-90,91-95(brutal years),96-2000 and 2001-present,
Then have a these sub divided into backs, mid and forwards (we can have a 1980-2006 for goal keeper). we can run off heats and then each catagory winner will go into the final.
I will try and get started with the polls next week, if anyone has time now feel free to get the ball rolling.

All Ireland Gold this wednesday. JOM's first (please God not the last) All ireland Final as mayo senior manager. If we had won this one it could have been so different

i agree totally but if one county does not bulk up they get left behind. So everyone follows suit. Its a vicious circle.

No worries. Anyway if it goes to the supreme court i can not see it being resolved before the next election and by then the bull o donohue will probably have a new brief.. that is if FF are still in power.

tayto,

point taken on board regarding u12 game,  i was however trying to show an example (howevery bad) that the stadium being built for "the community" should be for the community, If the government want to build shamrock rovers a stadium let them just come out and say it not in this veiled form.

The ground is being built for a league of ireland team. A team that plays in a division the top precentile of soccer players play in. Do people honestly think that if a u12  local team match is to be player that shamrock rovers first team will not take precident on the pitch. So lets stop this shit that  it is a community field etc.. It is a stadium being built using tax payers money to accomadate a club who mismanaged their finances.
Maybe I am wrong but of any of the gaa clubs that have sold there grounds or part of their grounds- i have not heard of one where the government go and build them a new ground. Why should we the tax payer but up money for a club who can not look after their own affairs, unless it is a ground that is available to all sports, rugby,gaa soccer and even while they are doing it put an  athletics track in as well.   

i would like to see heaney at wing back nad T Mort at centre back and let him try and make barry moran into a full back

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/in_the_gym/workouts/newsid_2100000/2100312.stm

thats a link to setting up the bleep test. the problem with alot of people dong the bleep test is that the gym is not 20m long where they are doing it and so  they are not getting a true reflection of their fitness.
I saw somewhere though that a 15m version of the test is available

as an outsider Joyce, Donnelan, Ja in that order. But probably the one i most admired was De Paor tireless running and nearly always got a point from wing back

Jimmy Nallen bombing up the field in 96 to score a goal against kerry in the semi final. We did not win the all ireland, but it was a great moment

il would have to say mc donald is the most talented player but J Nallon would have to be the most consistant. WJP was an unbelivable fielder (as my avatar shows) but he like mcd drifted in and out of games. One of my favortie players for pure work rate was Colm McMenamon,sure his distribution was sometimes brutal but he covered some ground.

We can not go with the theory that the 2006 panel is the best we have, definately some of the ballaghadreen lads deserve a go and i would also like to see benson from cross. All that is needed is level headed approach by the fans. JOM is not a miracle worker but he is a good manager who will get the best out of what we have but it will take time

 what is the best footware to wear on the plastic pitch during this weather