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Question for parents.

If your 18 or 19 year old son, playing in a minor, U21 or senior game was on the receiving end of a dirty punch and ended up with a broken nose or worse, a broken jaw, what would you do? 

Would you go to the police / guards?

Would you let the County Board sort it, with the potential of a lenient suspension being handed out?

Would you try and persuade the lad to leave the sport?

Just interested in other's experiences.  I'm not looking forward to the day my young lads are playing under the threat of something like that happening.  I'm worrying about it already.

Was it last year that Belfast won everything?

I seem to recall some healthy jesting.

Aghagallon beat St Brigid's in the U14 County Final.  More hype 

Yeah look all you can ask for is success and then see if you can breed it through. No guarantees but still better to be winning.

We've had a great year at underage alright, winning either SW or County titles at each age group from U12 up.  Added to that our large representation on the MacRory / Hogan winning team.

Biggest disappointment was the semi-final loss to St.Galls in the minor championship.  We just didn't turn up for that game, particularly as there was a real buzz around the team and that it would be our best chance to win a minor title.

Still, as Hectic says, the challenge is transferring that underage success into senior, but hopefully we're going in the right direction!

I think Joe had noticed his GAA Board topic page count had stagnated at around 295 or so.  Next thing he's blasting out an incoherent and somewhat factually incorrect rant about MMA, or as he calls it "UFC".

300 pages in no time!  Good man Joe!   

I take it you South West hillbillies will be wanting this fixture v Tyrone or Derry played in Ahoghill 😂

As long as it aint in Belfast I dont mind. Will save the car from getting broke into.

Bullshit

Sorry should have added 'if I dont throw somebody a few quid to mind it'.

As much as you'd love that to be true because it would help you with your stereotyping, that has never happened around Corrigan and 'paying someone to look after your car' is not a thing. You are no better than the people around Corrigan despite what you might believe.

You, my friend, are a ballbag.

Jaysus lad, if you're throwing out stick about SW Hillbillies and stereotypes, you're gonna have to take some stick back in return.

You'll need a thicker skin round these parts! 

Off topic, but did you ever hear the one he had with the guy who spent 20 odd years on death row?  That was crazy.  Nick Yarris was his name.  The man was a complete pyscho, very manipulative. 

His methods have developed over the years through trial and error, not through science.

Was actually gonna put in brackets (science, or lack of) so you beat me to it there...although he has something like 200 fighters on his books so there must be something in it.

As for Kavanagh's background outside the ring, I know nothing.  I just like to hear him talk about tactics and strategies.  Get a different perspective on things, ye know?

But 3 bell-ends on one podcast! Harsh!    

That's me told!   

He will say St. Enda's aren't a Belfast team....

And you are correct! They could be SW or NA.. don't forget SA couldn't cater for their teams a few years back so they came to the dark side 

Next thing you'll be telling us is Aghagallon are an Armagh team!   

I don't like his attitude but nobody can deny he has promoted the UFC (and himself) brand more than their own marketing department. Just look at the two years he was out, there was F all going on.

On the otherhand he has to be admired. For one, how many of us have the balls to drop our jobs and sacrafice it all to fulfill our dream? He took people for a ride with the Mayweather fight, everyone knew he was going to lose but people still watched it.

Khabib, Diaz, Mayweather etc they are all just a stepping stone for McGregor. It doesn't matter if they beat him, when he is done with them (maybe not Mayweather) they will go back to their 100k odd payday while he is coming up with a new scheme.

He knows it won't last forever, he will become predictable and boring  to watch and listen to. He is investing in business adventures and fair play to him. He would make a comfortable living making a few appearances on wwe a year just because he is good at promoting.

Was interesting to hear John Kavanagh on the Joe Rogan podcast this week talking about how it's really only Prizefighting.  Get in, make as much money as possible in the shortest time possible and get out with the least amount of damage.  So, with talk like this from his coach, I'd imagine McGregor won't have too long left in the UFC.

(I could listen to Kavanagh talk all day.  He's a proper fight nerd)

Also, for anyone interested in the prep work going into a fight, McGregor's nutritionist was on talking about the science behind the weight cut.  Fascinating stuff.

Exactly.

It just grates on me a bit when people confuse the two.

I would just love it if even a quarter of the people who watched Khabib vs McGregor tuned in to watch Holloway vs Ortega in December.

Agree with Syf here to a point with regards to the UFC needing names to sell fights rather than the best MMA exponents.

If all they are interested in is making money then they need to suspend/ban Khabib for as long as possible. He is and will be completely dominant in this division and no one will touch him. However we wont make the money for the company that other fighters can clearly make. He doesnt sell PPV. Its pretty simple.

McGregor is a good fighter and a great promoter and he will bring the cash to the company. It is in their interests to keep him at the top of the pile

So instead of getting the best in the sport to the front they should get the best promoters to the front.

It then is no longer a sport!

It never was a sport, it was/ is a business.

MMA isn't a sport?  You're kidding, right?

I've a 5 gallon drum of red here if needed.

That's the JP McManus money put to good use then!

Brush their teeth with it from the age of 3.