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So reports of The Stones playing were untrue 

Best of luck with it Emmet. Looks a good Xmas present for the brother.

[Clubs may be allowed too apply for senior status24 October 2012]

Clubs may be allowed too apply for senior status
24 October 2012
http://hoganstand.com/cavan/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=179776

Relegated senior clubs may yet be allowed to compete in the top flight of the championship in 2013.

Seven clubs have been demoted to the intermediate grade in a restructuring of the championships, but most of these are thought to be unhappy about the move.

If clubs did not finish in the top eight of Division 1, they were automatically relegated, despite how far they progressed in the championship.

For example, the likes of Killygarry, who defeated Cavan Gaels in the quarterfinal and were narrow losers to eventual champions Mullahoran in the semi final will be in the intermediate grade next year, due to the league standing.

However, county board chairman Tom Reilly admits that there may be some 'tweaking' done to the new structure with teams set to amalgamate from the intermediate and junior grades to play in the senior championship, while others could force their way back into the top flight on appeal.

If Cavan County Board dont have the balls to implement their own development plan there is not much hope of things improving going forward.  I was not fully in favour of this idea from the start but once things have gone this far they should be implementing it. 

I will take a guess that a few clubs have got together and have decided that if they are not reinstated that they will put forward a motion to remove the current county board.

There has always been a process where a club could apply to play Senior Championship I believe. It just has to be ratified by the clubs . I'm not sure what Tom Reilly is referring to though regarding a club appealling their relegation.
Might we see a Division 1A and 1B next year?

For a county that gave us Joe McQuillan, you boys should know that some refs are just shite and aren't out to stitch up "free staters" or "nordie brits" or anyone else.

I'l see your Joe Mc Quillan and raise you John Gough. Oh trust me we know all about shite refs in Cavan. But you expect a better standard when it comes to Inter-County or Ulster club. Unfortunately that is rarely the case. Maybe the standard of refereeing up north is just plain shite. I'm trying to remember the last man from the 6 to referee an Senior All-Ireland final. It's a while ago. He must have made a balls off it and sent 4 men off or something crazy like that.

I Point, win didn't cover the fact the there was blatant free's not given to lacken, any neutral at the game would have seen that,

Can you not just simply say that the ref was biased instead of saying he was a 'Northern' ref 'favouring his own'. That oul chat never goes down to well and you'd think an ulster man like yourself would know that.

Don't bite my head off but there is definitely a perception by a lot of Cavan supporters that we rarely get fair play in Ulster when the referee is from the wee 6. Nothing to do with partionist or pro-union sentiments. I have walked away from too many games in Ulster, especially at underage level cursing the referee and at times it is hard to argue against the perception.

Sorry I'm only catching up now. Peter Donnelly is a brilliant addition to the U-21 set-up. In 2010 he gave us (Drumalee) a certain impetus just at the right time of the knock out stages of the championship and we never looked back that year. He demands an intensity and maximum effort from everybody and I found him a joy to train with. He won a Senior championship with his own club Coalisland the same year and is still playing AFAIK.

Congratulations to Lacken and Laragh at the weekend. 2 hard fought wins. Commiserations to Mountnugent and Cootehill. Cootehill were a joy to watch playing fast, running football and I'm sure they will be back if they can keep the bones of that team together.
Regarding the alleged racist abuse at the weekend. I have heard some bits and pieces and if it is true I hope that the perpetrator is severely punished. No room for anything like this in sport.
It is very sad that a reported isolated incident can take away from what should be a time of celebration out round Ballintemple.

A blatant line ball that was given to Mullahoran, Mossy Malone then gave verbals and was sent off. Himself and Joe McQuillan should have spotted if, if not the ref then McQuillan. It led to a Mullahoran score. Some soft free's given, he told farrelly to hurry up at the end, and as he was about to kick it he blew for a hop ball, what was he suppose to do run and kick at the same time.. he was slow but , no keeper could pull that off.

Very hard game to referee. I think Noel did well and I think you're implication that he was looking for revenge on Kingscourt is completely unfair on him. He can't be blamed for line ball calls in fairness. Mc Quillan also had Dermot Sheridan booked in the 1st half for nothing. Tully ran into him and came off worse. The Kingscourt keeper should have buried the ball as far as he could instead of delaying at the end.
Don't be surprised if you see Paul the Gunner play Sunday.

I have just bought a 2nd hand Sony Vaio laptop for college. It has Windows Vista home premium and I am trying to download Microsoft Office 2010 onto it from disc but I'm having problems. It seems I might need Windows 7. Will I have to purchase Windows 7 or is there another way around it? Any help would be appreciated.

Has the license already been used for microsoft office 2010?
It could be that old microsoft files are interferring with the installation and the Hard Disc Drive needs to be wiped.
I have not come across a problem with installing office software on Vista, dont think you need to buy windows 7.

Thanks for the reply. No there isn't a problem with the license. It has been downloaded to desktop but I can still use it once more on another device. How would I go about wiping the HD drive? It has Photoshop which I wouldn't mind holding onto.

It was a bit risky for the person selling it to hand over the laptop without having it wiped (but even still it would be possible to extract stuff from hdd anyway) as all their private information would be on it.
Photoshop isn't that difficult to get a hold of online but it is illegal. Usually there is an option on the computer to wipe the HDD and a restore disc which comes with the computer when bought new.

The following is coming up when I try to install it.

Set-up is unable to proceed due to following errors.

You must be running one of the following operating systems.

*86 platform

-windows 7

-windows vista SP1

Windows XP SP3

Windows server 2003 SP2

or *64 platform

-Windows 7

-Windows Vista SP1

-Windows server 2008

I have just bought a 2nd hand Sony Vaio laptop for college. It has Windows Vista home premium and I am trying to download Microsoft Office 2010 onto it from disc but I'm having problems. It seems I might need Windows 7. Will I have to purchase Windows 7 or is there another way around it? Any help would be appreciated.

Has the license already been used for microsoft office 2010?
It could be that old microsoft files are interferring with the installation and the Hard Disc Drive needs to be wiped.
I have not come across a problem with installing office software on Vista, dont think you need to buy windows 7.

Thanks for the reply. No there isn't a problem with the license. It has been downloaded to desktop but I can still use it once more on another device. How would I go about wiping the HD drive? It has Photoshop which I wouldn't mind holding onto.

I have just bought a 2nd hand Sony Vaio laptop for college. It has Windows Vista home premium and I am trying to download Microsoft Office 2010 onto it from disc but I'm having problems. It seems I might need Windows 7. Will I have to purchase Windows 7 or is there another way around it? Any help would be appreciated.

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Single on Cordoza 1st goal.

I know I am late in asking this but can anybody shed some light on how a certain Ballinagh player was allowed to play in the recent Senior Championship Q-Finals after initially been handed an 8 week suspension? I believe a neighbouring club had an influence? Could Rodney or anybody else enlighten me?

I heard he appealed it and Ballinagh had independent witness's who were not linked to the club and they were called to the appeal and said that the player in question had not done what the referee sent him off for.

Yes I heard that. One is a referee. Since when did this become a practice or procedure of the CCC or County Board? They are now over ruling the report of a referee over the word of 2 spectators from a neighbouring club. So certain referees word now means more than others? Is this even allowed in the rule book?
My own club had a lad suspended for striking earlier in the year. The player he (supposedly) struck was willing to come in to the hearing and back up the players appeal contrary to the referees report. The player couldn't attend the night of the appeal because his wife was in labour but was willing to talk over the phone. The disciplinary committee wouldn't allow it. The player got 4 weeks and missed the 1st round of the championship. One rule for some clubs, another rule for other clubs.

I was premature yesterday saying that the Senior final had been moved. It appears that someone is holding it up. I hope they see common sense.

A more informed board member has pointed me towards the correct procedure regarding the appeal process in the GAA. I received the following post.

his hearing was held in front of the Hearings Committee, who are totally independent of the CCC & the county board
- he only got off because the Hearings Committee, having heard the evidence from neutral witnesses, asked the referee did he wish to clarify his report. The referee wrote a letter in reply and this cleared the player.
- the " disciplinary committee ", ie the CCC, dont have anything to do with appeals. It was the Hearings Committee that would have heard that case. They only accept witness evidence given in person, and the rules do not allow them to accept evidence by phone. This is in line with GAA rules on appeals.

I apologise to anybody I may have offended with my previous post. The hearings Committee allows 3rd party witnesses to give evidence. The referee can then be asked to clarify any point within the report. The lesson is to always know the rules. I am still questioning the point on evidence by phone however like the rest of my understanding of the rules I am probably wrong.   

I know I am late in asking this but can anybody shed some light on how a certain Ballinagh player was allowed to play in the recent Senior Championship Q-Finals after initially been handed an 8 week suspension? I believe a neighbouring club had an influence? Could Rodney or anybody else enlighten me?

I heard he appealed it and Ballinagh had independent witness's who were not linked to the club and they were called to the appeal and said that the player in question had not done what the referee sent him off for.

Yes I heard that. One is a referee. Since when did this become a practice or procedure of the CCC or County Board? They are now over ruling the report of a referee over the word of 2 spectators from a neighbouring club. So certain referees word now means more than others? Is this even allowed in the rule book?
My own club had a lad suspended for striking earlier in the year. The player he (supposedly) struck was willing to come in to the hearing and back up the players appeal contrary to the referees report. The player couldn't attend the night of the appeal because his wife was in labour but was willing to talk over the phone. The disciplinary committee wouldn't allow it. The player got 4 weeks and missed the 1st round of the championship. One rule for some clubs, another rule for other clubs.

I was premature yesterday saying that the Senior final had been moved. It appears that someone is holding it up. I hope they see common sense.

Senior Championship final has been moved forward to September 30th. Paul the Gunner is going for his 4th World handball Championship the following week so I presume they are accomodating him. Good to see common sense being used.

It was pointed out to me the other evening that from the 12 teams left in the championship in Junior, Intermediate and Senior before the weekend only 3 players from the starting 15 against Kildare were still involved.
I would be inclined to agree with Tommy on this one. Cavan club football may be evening out but I think it's fair to say that the standard has deteriorated. Kingscourt have obviously upped the ante and are looking strong while Mullahoran are grinding out results as only they can but after that a lot of clubs at all levels are failing to reach their potential.

I know I am late in asking this but can anybody shed some light on how a certain Ballinagh player was allowed to play in the recent Senior Championship Q-Finals after initially been handed an 8 week suspension? I believe a neighbouring club had an influence? Could Rodney or anybody else enlighten me?

Condolences to his family and friends. Shocking news. RIP