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Anyone with young ones driving around the border counties be wary of some of the insurance policies from the English insurance companies. Some of them have restrictions for under 25s which limits the cover to NI only. Once they cross the border there's no insurance.

Going to see Napoleon on Friday. Looks unreal from the trailers but hearing mixed reviews.

Keep us posted. It could be another of these ones that critic's love and Joe Public isn't fussed on.

I'd like to see it in the cinema but....

There's absolutely no way I could convince her to go.

Go on your own?

I've just convinced her.. but it's the Avenue in Belfast with food and drinks.. so be a few quid!!

Well worth it. If I can get a babysitter that's a Sunday afternoon date!

Is that place good? I just picture  that the seats are a bit manky after being open a while.

No, was pretty clean and we were happy with it. Service good but not cheap

Likes of Kilcoo and Cross at their best years ago definitely would be looking to hit top form/fitness for the provincials because they walk through their county.

Possibly, but the fact it was straight knock out for years in Armagh probably took away any complacency for Cross. But i did always wonder did winning the championship mean as much to them as it would another club, as it was just a stepping stone to competing in Ulster?
Around the 2001-2007 period Dromintee were incredibly strong in Armagh and Pearse Og were also improving a lot around then so I'd imagine when they were drawn to play those sides the level of intensity at training would have picked up for Cross.
I recall Pearse Og drawing with them (I think it was played in Keady) on one occasion, Dromintee always seemed to get close to them but would be left to rue missed chances, and Killeavy drew with them in Carrickcruppen in a great game one year.
Maybe another poster can correct me on this or confirm, but wasn't it the case that the only side to beat Dromintee in the championship between 2001-08 was Cross? Very unfortunate for them that their best ever side coincided with Cross being such a force.

I think you're right about 2001 to 2008. We definitely beat them in 4 finals and I recall beating them in 2 semis I think it was. They invested an awful lot in management during that period,  not being funny, and had some of the top club managers on the scene. McIvor from Derry, John Rafferty, few others. I recall a few testy post match manager's 'well done's',  one in particular. Dromintee were very unfortunate,  they would have won Ulster if it hadn't been for the fact they were against us.

The Armagh championship in those days was horrendous for us. Straight knock out,  Dromintee, Mullaghbawn in the early days, Clans, Pearse Ogs, and Armagh Harps were all strong teams. How we won 13 in a row I'll never know

It's not pacing themselves in games,  it's 'pacing' the training they are doing to have them peaking enough. We used to do it all the time. Glen have another gear or 2 in them but it's a dangerous game sometimes as sometimes a team can get a run on you and the gear change doesn't always kick in

[or foreplay]

What about sex - are they allowed to have sex? Maybe it only matters if it is:

1) on your own
2) with another first team member
3) with a squad member
4) with a squad member from the neighbouring parish
5) with a woman (over 40)
6) with a woman (under 40)
7) with a sheep
8 ) nun of the above
9) all the above

But only with management approval.

A quickie at best they'll approve? certainly no bondage or foreplay allowed.

I would have thought the Physio would be expecting an extensive warm up to prevent injury.
GPS should be attached and it has to be uploaded to the group.

I've seen a brave few physios that you'd happily have an extensive warm up with!!!

Load of shite these things,  Clarenbridge apparently. They obviously have serious ambition but show me any club who doesn't have at this time of year. I know we would have had drink bans but they were obeyed mostly in spirit than actuality. As players though when someone stepped out of line we dealt with it in-house. Bate the shite out of them in a tackling grid...that put the notion out of them to take the piss.

It's very strange that the Jack McCarron transfer does not seem to getting anything like the same negative publicity when you compare it to what Crokes and Walsh got .

In fact it's hardly been mentioned.

Well it's been a fairly controversial topic in Monaghan, depending who you're talking to. If he'd moved earlier in his career then I doubt there'd have been as much said about it, given it's his father's club. It's the fact that he's moving in his prime when they're already the strongest and biggest (by far) club in the county that has annoyed some people.

Maybe that hasn't come across outside the county though.

Did he not try when he was younger but there was a huge kick up at that stage so he backed down? 

Games at this time of the year are won by a team generally able to score 13-14 scores. It's rare to get much higher than that. Glen will be happy enough. In a final, haven't really played that well but still have loads in the tank.  They know how to win it whereas neither Trillick nor Scotstown do,  though the latter have a team who have been in the final before. Still think Glen win the final but not by more than 2-3

Going to see Napoleon on Friday. Looks unreal from the trailers but hearing mixed reviews.

Keep us posted. It could be another of these ones that critic's love and Joe Public isn't fussed on.

I'd like to see it in the cinema but....

There's absolutely no way I could convince her to go.

Go on your own?

I've just convinced her.. but it's the Avenue in Belfast with food and drinks.. so be a few quid!!

Well worth it. If I can get a babysitter that's a Sunday afternoon date!

Weren't many foreigners about when Larry Murphy was on the rampage.
Weren't many around and wasn't too safe when Marilyn Rynne was murdered.

239 women murdered in the 26 from 1996 to mid 2022.
All by males?

Aye sure we have a big enough handlin with our own Larry Murphys without feral lowlifes like Puskas.

The Larry Murphys of the world are a minority. The lowlifes like Puskas are an even smaller minority. The vast majority of women murdered in Ireland in the last 30 years were by people very close to them,  husbands, boyfriends, ex husbands or boyfriends or sons. Even a lot of the murders by non Irish men are were carried out by boyfriends or husbands of non Irish women.

The biggest problem of violence against women is that there has been a historic 'acceptance' of domestic violence whether we like it or not,  a lot of that directly linked to alcohol over use. How many of the murders over the years have had a history of him giving her a few slaps when the drink was in and this becoming par for the course. Before we get on our high horses about the scum from other countries coming here we have societal problems within our locals to acknowledge and sort out first.

Has any Monaghan team other than the lady footballers won an All Ireland ? 

2 All Ireland Intermediate Club Championships as far as I can see

Inaugural winners of the Lory Meagher cup in hurling too

Eldest son worked in a few places where he mixed cocktails. New Years Eve he took into the drinks cupboard....wasn't right for about a week!!!

I do believe it was an unnatural sporting movement but it would be hard to prove this in court I think. I believe the guy was deliberately trying to hurt his opponent

It has made me think about what could possibly happen in our own games. Most weeks there are videos going around of club games with brawls / off the ball stuff... It's surely only a matter of time before there is a very serious, or fatal, injury

Had happened in the past,  think have discussed it on here before. Lad I went to university with died from a punch during a scuffle in a soccer match. The lad that did it ended convicted of manslaughter. He avoided jail in that case. Reckon the same will occur in this case but maybe not avoid jail as seems to be more deliberate

do they use in house management all the time ?

Yeah. Don't think they've ever had an outsider as far as I remember anyway. I'd say theres a fella thats just hung the boots up in the last few days who'll be in that hotseat within the next few years.

Have often had external fitness coaches and trainers but never an outside manager. Something to be proud of in many ways but I suppose historically there's always been fairly qualified people to stand up to the job.

The mens rea of murder is malice aforethought, which has been interpreted by the courts as meaning intention to kill (express malice) or intention to cause GBH (implied malice).  Haven't seen the video but if he raised his foot to an unusual level,  with a pair of ice skates on,  then it could be argued he intended to cause GBH.

Lucky to have played with him and remember when he joined us as a raw 17 year old after the minor final in 2001. An outrageously gifted footballer but his greatest gift was how hard he worked and how he looked after himself. He was part of a golden age of young players who replaced another golden age of players and he was the star (though there were a number of them in that group including his brothers). A leader, a legend but to me more than anything a friend. Best of luck Ron!