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funny as...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rg22v/Trevor_Noah_The_Racist/

Mayo authorities never complain.. But it is a storm in a teacup. Mayo won, if we lost then there may be a different reaction.

yues are the hardy bucks!

Cadence,Im with rosnarun on this one.I watched it on
Slow mo on tg4 coverage -guy knew what he was at .
Thats my one and only comment on the incident.

Well I haven't and I'm sceptical by nature. No disrespect, but until I see good quality footage, I won't be giving any weight to your opinion. Same as I wouldn't give any weight to someone who claims to have seen the slo mo better quality footage and states that he didn't do what's claimed. In each case, the evidence has to be presented before an assessment can be made.

we should be sixth. we might even be seventh.

some teams are almost as good as they're going to get though, others far from it. be interesting to see how good these ratings are come august and september. bookmarking it for the crack.

Don't be silly! Donegal are top 3 at least! There are only two counties they will fear come summer! Nobody can put Kildare 4th (not just yet), not even their most enthusiastic supporters.

I think we fear more than 2. We all know that you have to treat each game seriously or you will likely get what you deserve. I think it's really open this year. When the championship gets underway, it'll be interesting to see if the league form, or lack of current form either, transfers to the championship.

What I do think is that when it gets to the championship, it means more because of it's importance and you get those situations were a side, any side, doesn't perform as good as they can under that pressure. it happened to the dubs last year, and you could argue that we succumbed to it in the final, although mayo def had a lot to do with that too. It can happen to any side, that tentativeness caused by anxiety in players. Maybe not all the players at the same time, but enough to make a difference and enough to make a coach change tactics and be less aggressive about taking the game to the other team and trying to limit poor outcomes that emotionally driven behaviour has. This can happen to any team. At the moment, the dubs are walking around with their chests stuck out, which they deserve, as they're the pick of the bunch now. Everyone else knows it too. When we get off the path and back onto the hard road and get going again at that higher level the whole psychology of the thing changes and that's a really interesting thing to see. I love seeing teams develop that swagger. Just hope we have it again this year!

we should be sixth. we might even be seventh.

some teams are almost as good as they're going to get though, others far from it. be interesting to see how good these ratings are come august and september. bookmarking it for the crack.

@ rosnarun... seriously, all i can see from the clips is that thompson stuck his hand in the lad's face and that's a foul. it's dangerous play, but not the level of skullduggery you're imagining. it has nothing to do with poor reception. the clip you've provided doesn't show anything other than thompson sticking his hand in the lad's face and pushing his face down.

if thompson has gouged, then he deserves to get a proportionate ban. but he shouldn't be judged to have done something as extreme as you're saying without clear and convincing evidence surely. i'm sorry, but the grainy youtube clip we see flashes what happened in an instant, from not a great angle to see what happened either, you don't see gouging, and it does not provide clear and convincing evidence. it's not a donegal thing, it's a burden of proof thing. nothing there.

Think whoever plays for Dublin these days are trying to make a name for themselves with the competition for places that's going on. If we play like we have been we might be on the end of an awful hiding. In the past I would've been worried about heading down to div 2 but can't say I am now. If we get beat but it means we learn more about what we need to do to get right for Tyrone I'd take that every time.

http://www.hilltopbandb.net/

looks alright. it's in stranorlar, just across the river from the ground heading towards letterkenny. 10-15min walk to the ground i'd say.

http://www.hilltopbandb.net/Map.htm

re the alleged gouging on the evidence so far... if thompson were to be summoned to offer up an account of his version of events, it's fairly obvious his version of what happened wouldn't be contradicted by the evidence so far. the evidence doesn't show that gouging took place, nor would it disprove what thompson would (presumably) argue.

let the player involved or the mayo camp, if they're aggrieved, make a complaint. it's telling that no one from the mayo camp has said anything about it. not a peep.



 

this board is hysterical in more ways than one sometimes.

great news.

[always thought he was a complete gobsh*te and my opinion remains unchanged]

Heard Eugene McGee on the radio afterwards, always thought he was a complete gobsh*te and my opinion remains unchanged.

Fair play to him for what he achieved with Offaly but I would have preferred if they had gotten someone with half a notion about football to chair the FRC e.g. Gilroy / JO'C / Kernan.

arrah whisht.

mcgee not as badly injured as first feared thank ....

Disgracefull behaviour by one of the donegal backs yesterday When he gouged and then stood on the Arm of a Mayo player .Video seriously needs to be looked at by the Powers that be.
Duffy was so busy Giving frees for feck all he missed the major act of foul play.

ref didn't have a good game. every time i watch a game he refs he blows away all day for nothing and then does nothing about the bad fouls. he's consistent i'll give him that.

+1 Cadence then the players get frustrated in a stop start game and the inevitable few bad fouls start coming with a couple of players getting the line (only after a good few bad challenges are let go). Myself I don't see the black card rule improving the standard of referee's anytime soon!

agree 100%. not condoning malicious or dangerous play, but jsut becasue a ref is blowing up for fouls doesn't mean he has the players under control. if a ref is having a bad game and blowing up left right and centre you know he has lost control and you can get up to all sorts then. it descends into a bit of a free for all and you need the wing mirrors on because some lads have the mentality of getting before they get got themselves. a ref who blows for all the wee things they can let go, or blows for nothing at all, is a ref that isn't assured. you can see that when they bottle the big calls and give nothing.

the black card makes sense if it allows the ref to issue something for the niggly tactical fouls and leaves the yellow and red for the more dangerous stuff. maybe there should be two refs at inter county level.

just re where donegal are atm. if ever there was a good defeat to have it was this one. to be beaten, and beaten well by mayo, who seemed to be relishing a bit of slagging going into the final minute or so, and why shouldn't they, is a good thing. yesterday shouldn't hurt us at all, we're not as good as mayo, and a few others atm. we should accept that. what yesterday has done is highlight again to the players, if that was ever needed becasue they know themselves, what areas need working on. we've been poor to a man going forward, repeatedly making bad decisions with the ball. it's one more step towards tyrone and if we sort out our attacks by then, which i'd expect us to, we'll be a handful for them.   

Disgracefull behaviour by one of the donegal backs yesterday When he gouged and then stood on the Arm of a Mayo player .Video seriously needs to be looked at by the Powers that be.
Duffy was so busy Giving frees for feck all he missed the major act of foul play.

ref didn't have a good game. every time i watch a game he refs he blows away all day for nothing and then does nothing about the bad fouls. he's consistent i'll give him that.