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Antrim competes internally on 3 fronts:
- football v hurling
- club v county
- city v country

A few years ago they ran an initiative called the saffron sweep and they raised over £250,000...then they fucked up Dunsilly....there are people on the county board who take the seat as some kind of badge without actually doing anything...they haven't been able to generate consists commercial support from business in the city or across the county for that matter.

yet despite all of this there is some serious potential - St Galls and loughgeil prove that...if they ere to get the same level of support from Croke park that Dublin ir Cork did, then things might change....but the first change needs to come from within

Going to have serious mileage put up before this year is out, I'd say. I can picture the Done Deal ad already.

will be back in the garage for a while come Saturday evening

https://vimeo.com/123992616 Jesus wept!

I knew St Pats Armagh were winning nothing the last while because there were too many Tyrone teachers coaching them!

"The death of Gaelic Football" Exhibit A....f**k me. Did Jerome Quinn get his journalism training from joe Brolly? What a load of w**k.
So anyway, these u21s....

The ulster herald has it that dwayne quinn.shea mcgiugan.emmet mckenna and paddy mcniece have left the squad.if true its a wild thing to do a few weeks before the showdown with donegal.granted some might be injured but not all of them

Yeah, go ahead and enlighten us how sitting on a bench all season, playing max of 60 mins and then missing 5 starred games with the club will help you develop as a player. Answers on a stamp.

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You lads/kids/girls should know better to not be taken in by his wind ups

In fairness I don't think most people take him seriously at all, the point here is the awful timing of the article given the situation with Harte.

I don't think he'd say anything about Harte if he thought Harte was unwell. Brolly writes his stuff at least a week in advance.

You couldn't be further from the truth. Editors are often waiting into the early hours before printing to receive his articles.

Joe thinks he's striking a blow for his establishment - RTE - with his anti-Harte stance. He's also a performer and loves the attention his blasts gives him.

He's impossible to debate with. If he doesn't shout you down ('hold on, hold on') he'll turn it into a joke when things go against him with a few personal yet humorous insults ('ah sure it's only a bit of crack').

He's the Piers Morgan of the GAA.

He's the Katie Hopkins of the GAA

Am I right in saying that the "Grimley is useless" comment was in response to Grimley NOT setting his team up defensively v Cavan in the Championship a few years ago?

ha! you may be right there BennyHarp...was a league game at the athletic grounds v Wexford in the same league campaign, where they were 11 down at half time and then drew (i think...) brolly was all over him and his family around this time.

I don't know Lynchboy, Mickey just didn't get ill overnight before Joe's article. The sad thing is that Joe's behaviour which involves trying to maximise his own opinions and profile would mean that people may believe he chooses the most high profile person of the week to sling mud at. Mickey not being at Omagh was always going to be a big story to piggy back on. Now this may not be true, but the way he behaves certainly makes people cynical. This whole idea of using the media to call for people to be sacked in the GAA is just rotten to the core anyway, regardless of the situation regarding Mickeys health. Unfortunately, Joe, like any bully, responds to those egging him on telling him he's deadly craic and a brilliant wind up merchant and ignores those telling him to wind his neck in and that he's going a bit too far.

If you look at the stuff Brolly has come out with, in no order at all:
- Sean Cavanagh isn't a man (live on TV...)
- philip Jordan defaced the 2003 final (12 years later in the Indo...)
- Mickey harte should be sacked by the county board (papers...)
- f**k off and play behind closed doors Mickey (live on radio)
- teaching the youngsters to play like this in school and in development squads (papers, every other month for the last 2 years...)
- Brian McIver, McGuinness...
- Gooch is a choker
- Paul Grimley is useless
- Grimleys 2 brothers were just as bad

Im paraphrasing here in many cases, but the notion that Brolly prepares for this in advance is wrong....he shoots from the hip with no regard for the offence it causes to people, their families, friends etc...

Brolly coaches an u14 team in south belfast only because thats about his level. he has no experience of what is required to manage a county team to failure, never mind victory...yet he talks like he is an expert.

Sure, some of the stuff he comes out with makes sense, but you know what happens if you give a clatter of monkeys a few typewriters...

he is getting paid through his media outlets and he uses those platforms to slag off amateur sportsmen....he is entitled to his opinion for sure but Mickey Harte, Philip Jordan etc are all entitled to go about their business without being slagged off...

I'm getting tired of his, "I was talking to..." spiel every week.
He can't seem to turn a corner without walking into a disgruntled inter-county player.

100% agree....meeting donegal men in an ice cream shop..."my son was playing crossmaglen..." "my u14 team..." "2 county men i spoke to..."
Its as if in some way his opinion is more valid than anyone else and he needs to justify his piece by "bumping into men"
What a complete w**ker

You're the w**ker.

Keep her lit Joe!

Good man

I'm getting tired of his, "I was talking to..." spiel every week.
He can't seem to turn a corner without walking into a disgruntled inter-county player.

100% agree....meeting donegal men in an ice cream shop..."my son was playing crossmaglen..." "my u14 team..." "2 county men i spoke to..."
Its as if in some way his opinion is more valid than anyone else and he needs to justify his piece by "bumping into men"
What a complete w**ker

Joe Brolly, contrary to his own world view, is NOT THE GAA, nor is he the voice of reason for the GAA. That he chooses to write for the Independent proves that in itself. He is a populist media whore who loves nothing better than the sound of his own voice.
He has continually slagged of Tyrone this last number of years, and even when he was praising MH and his players, he would usually round of his piece by slagging Tyrone off...."aye but sure isn't my ma from Brackaville..."
Who gives a f**k Joe, where your ma is from?
You are a disingenuous hypocritical liar - fair play with the kidney and all that, but i wonder would you ever go and f**k off...

Funny game - 11 wides and 4/5 dropped short into Dublin keeper....a few ifs and buts and that game would have left the papers saying that Gavin and Dublin were under more pressure and Tyrone were on the ascendancy....?
And the monaghan game all but forgotten....

That looks deadly - would be great to see that expand over time.
Godo work Jerome Quinn...one minute freezing the balls off at the Dub....

Mickey says the players are free to speak to RTE. Sean Cavanagh, as captain & a fella slandered by RTE himself in the Brolly debacle, should throw them a few words on Saturday night & it'll be forgotten about soon after. Sure I could tell ye Seans interview here & now anyway - he's been giving the same clichéd answers since 2001.
Sean is too important a player for MH to drop, and sure anyway Mickey is in his last few months of the job. He will be gone by the end of July.

Fair point - i'd say that sean would be hoping for a career in Media when he retires - a spot on Second Captains, sure you know the craic