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Cheers AZ - Maybe a listing from 1-50 now of just the film names so we dont have to trawl back through the posts??

Great Job AZ...especially when they are on over christmas

44   Love Actually   2003   Multiple times on Sky Movies. First time Sky Movies Christmas 19/12 @ 20:00
44   The Breakfast Club   1985 Not On
44   Cool Hand Luke   1967 Sky Movies Classics 21/12 @ 01:35
44   Doctor Strangelove   1964 Not On
44   Koyaanisqatsi   1982 MGM 20/12 @ 10:20
44   Hunger   2008 Not On
44   Raging Bull   1980 Sky Movies Drama 20/12 @ 23:40
44   Apocalypse Now   1979 Not On
44   Betty Blue   1986 Not On
44   Taken   2008 Not On
44   Terminator II   1991 ITV2 27/12 @ 21:00
44   Kings   2007 Not On
44   Carlito's Way   1993 Not On
44   Heat   1995 Not On
44   2001 A Space Odyssey   1968 Not On
44   The French Connection   1971 Film 4 29/12 @ 23:20  & RTE 1 01/01 @ 02:15
44   Jean de Florrette   1986 Not On
44   Life is Beautiful   1997 Not On
44   Roadhouse   1989 Not On
44   The Wickerman   1973 Sky Movies Sci Fi 22/12 @ 07:40
44   Jurassic Park   1993 Not On
44   Dead Man's Shoes   2004 Film 4 +1 17/12 @ 00:20
44   Drive   2011 Not On
44   An Officer and a Gentleman   1982 Film4 30/12 @ 21:00
44   The Sting   1973 Not On

39  Pale Rider 1985 Not On
39  Cinema Paradiso 1988 Not On
39  The Matrix 1999 Not On
39  No Country for Old Men 2007 More 4 23/12 @ 00:00
39  North by North West 1959 Not On

37   The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers   2002   Not On
37   In The Name of the Father   1993   Not On

36   Intermission   2003   TG4 29/12 @ 22:00

32   Star Wars : A New Hope   1977   Not On
32   Platoon   1986   MGM 23/12 @ 17:05
32   Dances With Wolves   1990   Not On
32   The Searchers   1956   TCM 26/12 @ 13:45

31   12 Angry Men   1957   Not On

29   The Dark Knight   2008   TG4 02/01 @ 21:30
29   Saving Private Ryan   1998   more4 29/12 @ 23:00

28   Gladiator   2000   Not On

26   Rocky IV   1985   ITV4 21/12 @ 23:00
26   Untouchables   1987   Not On

24   The Great Escape   1963   RTE 2 25/12 @ 14:55
24   Rocky III   1982   ITV4 20/12 @ 23:25

23   Anchorman   2004   Not On

22   Casablanca   1942   C4 03/01 @ 13:55

20   Trainspotting   1996   Not On
20   Lost in Translation   2003   Not On

19   Good Will Hunting   1997   Sky Modern Greats 21/12 @ 09:05

18   Dumb & Dumber   1994   Comedy Central 01/01 @ 21:00

17   City of God   2002   Not On TV over Christmas/New Year

16   Braveheart   1995   Sky Modern Greats 17/12 @ 12:40

15   One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest   1975   Not On TV over Christmas/New Year

14   Last of the Mohicans   1992   Not On TV over Christmas

13   The Big Lebowski   1998   Dave 17/12 @ 21:00

12   Jaws   1975   Not On TV over Christmas/New Year

11   Blazing Saddles   1974   "TCM 24/12 @ 22:35 RTE 2 25/12 @ 02:20"

10   The Good, The Bad and The Ugly   1966   "Sky Movies Classics 24/12 @ 08:00 and 19:00"

9    Godfather I      1972     C4 27/12 @ 01:00

8    Star Wars V : The Empire Strikes Back   1980   Not On

7    It's a Wonderful Life   1946   "Multiple times on Sky Movies.  TV3 - 25/12 @ 09:35 Sky Movies Christmas 19/12 @ 16:10"

6    Life of Brian   1979   Not On

5    The Usual Suspects   1995   Not On

4    Godfather II   1974   C4 30/12 @ 00:20

3    Pulp Fiction   1994   "Multiple times on Sky Movies First on Sky Movies Indie, 17/12 @ 00:15"

2    Goodfellas   1990   22/12/2011 TG4 00:05

1    Shawshank Redemption   1994   Not On

Echo what people have said already

   -Better seats than last year (min that seat be covered and at a decent hight,and in between the two 40's)
   -Site beside other season ticket holders
   -On-line record of your attendance
   -On-line Statement of transactions for tickets
   -Option to indicate accessible seats for older people
   -Option to take a friend.
   -Some clarity in how the "Draw" happens if you have 100% attendance

Any advise greatly appreciated.

Current set up is analogue. Have good quality analogue picture which comes from the Strabane transmitter and seperate RTE from Raphoe. In the roofspace there is a box fed from the aerial which splits the signal and sends it via coaxial cable to three rooms downstairs and three upstairs.

Bought a new tv last weekend which is MPEG 4. Able to pick up RTE digital on the new TV which is a great job.

I would like to be able to get FreeView as well which is where the problem begins.

Have been advised to leave the RTE aerial alone but that I cant get a Freeview aerial from Strabane as the signal will clash with the RTE digital signal coming from Raphoe. I cant pick up the signal from Brougher which would have cured the problem.

It has been recommended that I get FreeSat but it will only be available on the one TV.

Would it be posible to modify the box in the roofspace or replace it so that I could connect a feed into it from both the RTE aerial and the FreeSat dish, if this can be done would I then have both FreeSat and RTE Digital in the 6 rooms.

No expert here and am open to correction.
Fisrtly with the freesat, you can't split the cable coming from the dish (though I might be wrong on this as I have been looking into it recently, but think there is splitter available but can be expensive), best option there is to have a Octo LNB on the dish and have a line going to each room (http://www.tvtrade.ie/octo-lnb.html)
if you only have one line going to each room from the loft and you use it for the analog tv, you can combine the tv and sat feeds into one line and then split them out again in each room, to do that you would need two of these one to combine and one to split (http://www.tvtrade.ie/alltrade-tv-aerial-and-satellite-combiner.html)

But like another poster said wait untill freeview comes on line, if you wait you might have to have the following set up:
two aerials one point to Raphoe and one point to Strabane they might clash but the following page gives a good description on how to combine freeview and saorview. http://www.tvtrade.ie/how-to-combine-saorview-and-freeview-on-the-same-digital-receiver.html
Planning the same kind of set up too but will wait till I know what the frequencies are in the north before doing anything.

On my freesat box I just tuned it in as it was not on EPG as I put in a NI post code. here is the list of channels you can get and tuning info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free-to-air_channels_at_28%C2%B0E

To me Apple are really just a marketing and design company not a leader in technology, they are usually playing catch up in the technology stakes.

Back in 2004 I was using my iRiver Multi Codec 40GB HDD media player to listen to my music, look at my pictures and flims on the colour screen, used it too to connect to external USB devices like my camera to transfer pictures over to it, listen to the radio and use it as a voice recorder, while the iPod still had the black and white screen with sub standard quality of music, in farness a few months later aplle did introduce the ipod photo (colour screen so you could view pictures on it).
Of course for a Techy like me the interface on the iRiver was grand but for a non-techy it was a nightmare and that where Apple comes into its own the design of the interface, made technology like this available to the masses and through marketing made it a status symbol too, hats off to them on that front but technology leader, I am sorry but no.

Dublin 1-8  Kerry 0-17

Great for league, balls for championship. Big thing to remember is that you'll be charged for all your county's champ games  wether u attend or not (bar 1 opt out). This really didn't suit me this summer as i missed more than i attended

If there's not a hope of your county reaching the All Ireland, the best thing to do is cancel after the first Championship game.

Been a season ticket holder from the very start and found it a good system. This year was not that good though, and I think it is down to them moving over to the new company, but also I found this year the tickets for the Championship matchs have been of a very poor quality compared to other years. Very Very poor indeed, also this year there was never an option to get a ticket for a friend when other years there was.

As far as the opt out goes, for all championship games I was able to option out of them, got the mail usually about a week and a half before the game with the opt out link.

This could be a great system but currently not been implemented well, lets hope it improves.

I will more than likely be renewing my ticket when it comes around again.

Eh???

You said you find 'traditional' games, which I presume you mean 15 v 15 games, uninspiring and that teams only have one or two skilful players. That sounds like a man who isn't much of a football fan. I never said it was because we disagree and only someone who wants to be insulted would interpret that way.

What else do you disagree with? You claim you can't be bothered because I've my mind made up yet you laud one kind of football and label other types boring, so which of us our mind made up?

You're a donegal man and it is understandable you might defend them but this isn't about Donegal but about the style of football they currently play. You can talk all you like about 'fitness and endeavour' but most of us want that and more and we can have it. Donegal's football is unimaginative and full of fear, the Kildare game was tremendous, the Dublin game was fascinating in some ways but most of Donegal's games lacked everything you claim they had.

sorry, but eh back! and excuse me for disagreeing, but your idea of how football should be played is wrong. it's too definitive to me. i would have thought that it must help teams and improve football to become better at attacking in the quest to find new ways to overcome these tactics. and that the game will evolve for the better because of this. so you know, perhaps the future of the game is in the safe hands, and that's in the hands of teams who want to win and be competitive. it is competitive sport we're talking about here, right?

+ regardless of what it is, there is less to be interested about something if you know how things will end. that's just the way it is and there just is limited interest in games where the usual tactics are played. of course there is something to keep the interest in any football game, that's a given. but this doesn't mean that the top end shouldn't be more complex and nuanced. and sticking to some perceived notion of what the definitive tactics should be is contrary to progression. i'm not saying that we don't have great games, but it's like hurling when you know who's going to win, it ultimately doesn't get your juices flowing. so clever tactics even things up and close the gap between sides. what would be dull becomes something else altogether. more tactically competitive games are what's called for, not the same as before.

and just on the fitness. donegal are noticeably fitter and much better to watch nowadays as a consequence of the tactics than before. we have purpose and are organised, put it up to teams and play our football when we've earned our opportunities rather than leaving having opportunities in the lap of the gods of football. there's that added dimension of leaving every last ounce on the field, which doesn't happen if you're well beaten and have given up the ghost. mcguinness's tactics fail without supreme fitness and effort, and seeing this is absorbing.

Well said Cadence . And not a Fairy in sight.

has anyone recorded the game? i've a brother who was abroad and couldn't catch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6SeR_0If-E

behave yourself

I have it recorded, but think it should be available on the RTE player after Wednesday for the rest of the world, but will be gone from the RTE player by this Sunday as I think they only stay 7 days.

But if you want a DVD copy of it drop me a PM and I am sure we can sort something out.

I hear Kerry have half the HILL

Got crap seats yesterday for the semi......................season ticket holders usually get shafted when the bandwagon brigade get going

Some amount of saps at the game yesterday, terrible to see lads who have been with the lads since early January  get shafted now by the event junkies and stupid girls at games who havent the remotest interest of whats going on ................yerra, will every animal be up from kerry for this one ??

Where did they put the Dub season ticket holders on Sunday, I am a Donegal Season Ticket holder and the seats were crap too, section 305 right at the front row, to low to see all the action and fecking stewards sitting on stools near the touch line blocking eveyones view and would not move. Actually any ticket issues this year to season ticket holders (in Donegal anyways) has been of a very poor standard.

After all Tyrone we crucified when they appeared with their blanked defense now coming up on ten years of they are lauded, well donegal are at the start of that journey...

Fair dues there Goldengreen, you've every right to be extremely proud of your team.

But, you're incorrect in that statement above (to equate our system with yours): at no time in our games at any stage of our evolutionary cycle did we utilise the single solitary attacker in the oppostion half for our kickouts as a strategic ploy, never.

If what we employed was a 'blanket defence', then your lads were employing a 'fire blanket defence'.

Yea let me correct that Fear ón Srath Bán, agree with you 100% there, what i meant was more equating the critriciam Tyrone got at the time to now being lauded. I like that 'fire blanket defence' good description and that is what we were, Tyrone had the Sean Cavanaghs that Donegal does not have yet but give it time.

Some hysterical over reaction to Donegals tactics, to understand them people need to look at the bigger picture. After all Tyrone we crucified when they appeared with their blanked defense now coming up on ten years of they are lauded, well donegal are at the start of that journey.  People say we had no Plan B and indeed we did not have a Plan B but as a proud Donegal supporter I am not to worried about that this year due to the fact that we had a Plan A, the last good few years Donegal teams did not even have a Plan A. Not having a Plan A all came to a head in Crossmaglen Last year and the tanking we got from Armagh, coming out of that game we really feared that we would have gotten regulated to Division 3 in the coming year, in fact in the last few years Donegal have been a bottom half team if not a bottom 8 team. Donegal opened their league with Sligo it was even said on this forum that this would be the regulation match :-)

There was never any pride shown in the jersey, there was never any excitement for our supporters, now that is all changed there is huge pride in the jersey from the players to the supporters and such a buzz around the county this past few weeks it really has promoted  the GAA in our county, after all we are mostly a soccer county and also  Rugby getting more of a foothold as well. At least the focus is on the Donegal GAA team and all positive in this county, surly this is for the betterment of our games. Hey winning ugly and the ultra blanket defense does not still totally well with us Donegal supporters but we are also very realistic after horrendous few years we did have, we know we had to start some where and defense is the best place to start, but with the defense now in place and we are getting into the habit of winning again expect to see donegals game evolve more, and expect to see some more attacking football, when its called for and defense when that is called for, this is Jims next goal the next stage in his 5 year plan.


We are not naive in Donegal and I am sure the rest of the country is the same to know that playing with just a blanket defense will not win you an all irelands, and that was shown on Sunday, Our set up this year was done to achieve a few goals:
1. Get Donegal back to winning ways
2. Get pride back in the jersey, get the players to want to play for their county.
3. Get some belief back into the team that they can compete.

These goals were well an truly achieved. But this is only the start of the journey, Jim knows and has said publicy that we need to shore up a few position to as to make us a more attacking team and to go forward more and take our scores, this will happen, and mark my words, Donegal will be in for a shout for an all ireland title with in the next five years.

At the start of the season I would have take the following: 1. To stay in Div 2 and not get regulated; 2. Finally get a win in the ulster championship after 3 years of getting beat at home, wow were my expectations well and truly shattered. Div 2 Champs, Ulster Champs and to make it to a all ireland semi, dont care what anyone say but any other supporter from any other county would have taken the arm off some one for that kind of season at the start of the year.

Pat Spillane and the likes would almost just rather see the same team complete each year for the all ireland, surly that is not good for our games, just look at the hurling its the same few teams each year. Surly it better that these top 3 teams are challenged and made to work for their all irelands.

All I can say watch this space from a  proud Donegal Supporter.

Just parked up here in Dublin. Unreal traffic coming up the road from Donegal. Never seen the likes of it before.
Come on Donegal

DONGL SF v Dub:

Durcan;
McGrath, McGee, McGlynn;
Thompsn, Lacey, Cassidy;
Kavangh, Gallaghr;
McHugh, Hegarty, Bradley;
McBrearty, Murphy, McFaddn.

interesting insight to the mentality of the Dublin players going into the AI final in 92

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/carr-i-knew-dubs-would-lose-92-final-a-month-beforehand-2856006.html