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Just heard on Radio Ulster that Francie will be out for eight months.

That'll give the thug enough time to go to Casement and gather up Mickey's teeth and return them. Tough..OK....Hard....maybe...Fair ....my arse......it's only a month since he tried to take the Gooch's head off along with that kn**ker Donaldson...take the rose tinted glasses off lads....the twins were AS tough and no dirt in them.

Boo-f*cking-hoo. Typicla Down man, crying about something that happened years ago... but guess living in the past is all you have these days.

Many a thug/tr**p has pulled on the Down jersey over the years, although they usually had a big yellow streak to go with their dirty actions.

MagpieSeanie - you refering to the Armagh v Sligo replay in 2002? It should have been a home game for Armagh but Sligo cried that much that they didn't want to go to Clones that the game was switched to Navan? Didn't matter much anyway did it?

1 ticket per club member is not much use if you have 2 or 3 kids to bring along too - kids that you've brought to all the league games, then come the first big game of the season you have to tell them that they can't go.

Obviously Donegal are out for every advantage they can get, and I've no doubt that most counties would do the same. However, it now means that many thousands of people who would have attended this match are being locked out.

What a great way to promote our games.

I was being ironic Mike Sheehy - thought most people would have got that... and I suppose a bit of me also chose that title to provoke a reaction - the same reaction that the silly Croke's statement provoked in me.

BTW, if Crossmaglen had been beaten year in year out in the Ulster championship after winning the 11 Armagh championships then it would be a poor reflection on Armagh football. However Cross have also picked up 5 or 6 Ulster titles and 4 All Ireland titles, is that a poor reflection on the state of club football all over Ireland?

As I said before, no shame in Dr Croke's losing to the greatest club team of this generation, and one of the greatest club teams of all time.

Every club has bad supporters. Every county has bad supporters. The bigger your support, the more bad supporters you will have. I think everyone would agree on that. I've encountered many foul mouthed, bad tempered, ignorant fans in my years attending matches. I've met a few Kerry supporters who meet that description - doesn't mean I would assume that to be representative of the entire county never mind a province.

The Dr Croke's club have every right to express grievances... but they have no right to make sweeping generalisations about an entire province.

Such moronic statements do nothing for the image of the GAA, especially when released to our good friends at the BBC. In fact what kind of a ignoramus would make such a statement? The Croke's must be really hard up for a spokesperson when they allow somebody to utter such nonsense.

In my opinion it is nothing more than sour grapes. They lost to the greatest club team of this generation - no shame in that.

Typical nonsense from Kerry after being beaten. The last sentence is hilarious, from the county home to a full forward that gets a red card in every game he plays.

They must be soft in Kerry, when the going gets tough the Kerry folk hide and cry.



Croke's say tie left 'sour taste' 

Skipper Oisin McConville holds aloft the Andy Merrigan Cup
Dr Croke's have ruled out appealing against Crossmaglen's AIB All-Ireland Club Football final triumph on Sunday.
There was controversy when Cross's John McEntee was allowed to play on despite getting a second yellow card.

But the club will be submitting a complaint to the GAA concerning incidents during and after the game that had left "a sour taste".

"The club is bitter about what went on, far more so than on the yellow card," said chairman Patrick O'Sullivan.

"I've had a lot of parents on to me expressing their disgust, and looking for action from the GAA," the Hogan Stand website reports.

"We had 40 kids there on Sunday, and it was a poor advert for the GAA."

In the letter, Dr Croke's will highlight how two of their substitutes were allegedly intimidated at the interval.

Croke's will also say that midfielder Ambrose O'Donovan was allegedly struck on the head by a Crossmalgen female supporter after being sent off.

The Kerry club also allege that the Gardai had to twice intervene to stop other Croke's substitutes sitting in the stand being threatened by fans.

"If this is the kind of antics that Crossmaglen are going to bring to the game, then it is little wonder that Ulster football gets so much bad publicity."