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Be surprised if he goes.

If this was entirely a BBC NI issue then yes I'd have agreed, but with the UK media reporting on it then I think Adam Smith has quite a bit of explaining to do on the back of the Huw Edwards saga.

if nolan goes will they shift crawley to mornings and bring someone in for talkback or will they replace nolan with another shock jock

Hugo Duncan?

I'd say there's a few opportunists who just need quick access to cash they don't have to pay off other debt. I refuse to believe every single person is so stupid to think they'd get away with stealing money.

Did something similar not happen before with Ulster bank?

Yes and they had to pay it back. Obv some people who don't care about their credit score probably didn't. These people complain how things aren't fair yet only take from society and give nothing back. BOI and others should debank them. (unbank? whatever the term is).

When you're on the breadline it's all about the here and now!

UK papers now picking up this story, it's in the Daily Mail and Telegraph so they see this as a good opportunity to get a dig at the BBC.

Mr Smith in Belfast won't be able to cover the big lads arse on this for much longer.

KDB is out for months! I know they are a serious squad but he is one lad they will miss.

I see that City squad quite light now that KDB is out tbh.. Don't get me wrong they've fantastic players but short on numbers. Mind you there are in for Paqueta from West Ham and Jeremy Doku from Rennes. Doku looked good anytime I seen him play for Belgium

They also have lads who fly when the team are flying eg Foden and Grealish.
DeBruyne and Gundogan would dig it out a bit more.
Rodri will battle on but they do look much lighter suddenly.
Plus Mahrez after hitting the road too.

I'm living in hope of a proper challenger to step up...

Surely Calvin Philips will get some gametime now!

Is Nolan just best ignored?

I have been doing it all my life, some just want to be permanently offended though

The short answer is yes and if he was on a commercial radio station then he could fire away.
The problem is he's on a public funded radio station which I pay towards and evidently is unaccountable to anyone in terms of the shows content and behaviour.

He's not a journalist BTW and his shows are deemed light entertainment so he doesn't have to meet any "balance" requirements.

Looking back at clips of the show he had on with this lad Bear was absolute car crash homo-erotic drivel, surely someone in the production team should have shouted stop!

VAR making a mockery of itself already, last nights game Onana clattering yer man for a cert penalty at the death and then Fulham keeper drops the ball on Tarkowski's head for Keane to put it in the net..

Why bother?

I don't understand how this happened... he must have a good lawyer!!

Yes George moved the Welsh lad in the direction of Farrell but he didn't even try to lower himself, he readied himself for the shoulder hit and pushed it through. Ridiculous decision especially given previous form.

Right arm tucked in for the shoulder charge, no attempt to wrap with it at all..

World Rugby filled the togs on this one.
Edit, it was 6Nations Rugby who made this decision, big pressure being put on world rugby to review it and indeed from quite a few English rugby journalists and pundits

Reading that article it sounds like a lot of banter and maybe its in bad taste and shouldnt be in the workplace but I dont think its the big story the Irish News thinks it is. And I cant stand  the guy.

I thought the same myself, as I said above, if it's photos of himself, totally different

Where do you work when a manager sends out unsolicited dick pics of "celebrities" and that's OK?

Ballygalget come out of Belfast with the points. Not much in it in the end. 

Liatroim continue the good run of form and put Shamrocks to the sword in Newry. Apparently was very close in the first half and took Liatroim some time to click and get going.

All the same, would still fancy them to rattle Ballygalget.

Great to see two South Down teams play in the Senior Championship; hopefully South Down hurling continues to grow.

Think the results mean both Shamrocks and Bredagh will be playing in the Intermediate  Semi-Finals (bar an upset against Ballycran or Portaferry). Would say Clonduff would fancy a crack at Shamrocks and Bredagh/Carryduff would be a great derby match.

Think Carryduff will have too much for anyone in the intermediate to deal with, including Bredagh and Shamrocks. Considering they've been neck and neck with Liatroim over the past few years,  an Ulster Title or even an Intermediate All Ireland isnt out of the realms of possibility. They came the closest to beating Liatroim until they were knocked out by Tooreen in the All Ireland Semi Final. Carryduff seem to be coming into a good era of hurling with success at underage levels, and a hurling All Ireland of any type would no doubt do great things for the game in Belfast and North Down, as well as the rest of the county.

Also great to see East Belfast's John Dornan taking charge of the game between Liatroim and Newry Shamrocks, his first Senior Championship match. A great achievement for the club.

Great progress for Down hurling when we have an East Belfast referee taking charge of a Senior Championship match between two South Down teams in a competitive six team championship. Great that the game is growing in the county.

If we play like we did last night Liatroim will beat us handy enough and that's not taking anything away from Bredagh who are shorn of a lot of their better hurlers for various reasons yet still made a game of it, but lacked that cutting edge to take full advantage of our poor hurling. One more injury to a key player for us to contend with and a few discipline issues in the camp to iron out as well I believe...

We've Newry in Newry and then the Ports at home before we face Liatroim in a neutral venue.
If we get over Newry and other results go as expected then our game v Liatroim will only decide who we get in the semi-finals at their venue.

Liatroim will get a better idea of where they're at on Sunday over in Portaferry, that's a game Portaferry will need to win to keep a home semi-final slot in their own hands.

Dornan is a good referee, we'd him in a minor league final, rightly sent one of our lads off.

I'll need Truth hurts to confirm, but are Liatroim not officially an East Down club?

[Missus]

Who are the transfers into Liatroim? They always had the potential, sometimes need a outside manager to bring it together

I think the other Murphy is back from his travels and playing for them as well as Ryan McCusker from Ballela who's sanctioned from a football club I believe. Don't know how that works!

They fancy giving it a right good rattle and they might just do that, but defensively they might struggle against Portaferry and Ballycran.

Paul Sheehan is going well for Ballycran and not just from dead balls. He's a good acquisition for them.

I still think the final will be between them and Portaferry.

We need a clean bill of health and with 5 games in quick succession before even a semi-final is a big ask on a small panel. Jordan Doran is out for another few weeks at the least with a knee injury, John McManus shouldn't be playing tonight, but we'll see, Prenter might be OK even with going off injured last Sunday, one of the Coulters hasn't played for the better part of two years with a hip issue, he trained yesterday though with the full panel so might make an appearance tonight. Fully fit he's one of our best players and has been a big loss. Lose a senior standard hurler and we're replacing them with weak enough hurlers, some young enough age wise and have lots to learn.

How come Sheehan has moved to the Cran? Works? Missus?

Girlfriend is a young Keith...

I hope Brendan Rodgers (SN and Derry) doesn't do the same 

Who are the transfers into Liatroim? They always had the potential, sometimes need a outside manager to bring it together

I think the other Murphy is back from his travels and playing for them as well as Ryan McCusker from Ballela who's sanctioned from a football club I believe. Don't know how that works!

They fancy giving it a right good rattle and they might just do that, but defensively they might struggle against Portaferry and Ballycran.

Paul Sheehan is going well for Ballycran and not just from dead balls. He's a good acquisition for them.

I still think the final will be between them and Portaferry.

We need a clean bill of health and with 5 games in quick succession before even a semi-final is a big ask on a small panel. Jordan Doran is out for another few weeks at the least with a knee injury, John McManus shouldn't be playing tonight, but we'll see, Prenter might be OK even with going off injured last Sunday, one of the Coulters hasn't played for the better part of two years with a hip issue, he trained yesterday though with the full panel so might make an appearance tonight. Fully fit he's one of our best players and has been a big loss. Lose a senior standard hurler and we're replacing them with weak enough hurlers, some young enough age wise and have lots to learn.

Romaine Ntamack out of the world cup with an ACL injury. Big blow for France as him and Dupont are dynamite together

I know you can't read a whole pile into these warm up games but Scotland's offloading game caused the French big issues as they couldn't use their power in close quarters and those big men were moved about a lot, creating gaps.

Scotland will give Ireland their fill of it in the WC..

Ballycran laying down a marker with a good scalp over Portaferry.

Be interesting to see if Bredagh just has an off day against Liatroim last week and if  they're able to pick up against Ballygalget where they left off last year. Might be looking like the work they've put in over the last few years is coming to a bit of a halt for a while.

Also be interesting to see the difference in Newry Shamrocks and Liatroim tomorrow; wasn't much between them in the Intermediate Championship over the past few years, but feels like Liatroim really have come on whilst Shamrocks have sort of froze. Not outside the realms of possibility for Liatroim to reach a Senior Championship Final. Not bad for a South Down team.

Ballycran are well organised and are more or less guaranteed a home semi-final for now, Liatroim could be the surprise package this year, a final is not beyond them, but will depend who they get in a semi-final. They've a few more "transfers" into their ranks and the highest paid management team in Down hurling.. 
We're screwed if we get a few injuries to key players like we did against Ballycran but we're hopeful of having three of them back for tonight, which is a must win game for us even at this stage. Bredagh have had a poor league campaign, struggling with injuries as well I believe, but the tight council pitch will suit them.

Ports won't be too concerned about the defeat yesterday, they'd a wedding in the parish this weekend so a few players preparation was less than ideal.

Looks like Caicedo doesn't want to go to Liverpool.

Why, (if true) would he prefer Chelsea? strange

Money, Money Money!! Money

Has Klopp lost his pulling power? Surely Liverpool. bar the city and extra wages, is a far better choice?

He has been set on going to Chelsea since May when they agreed personal terms,just couldn't agree on a fee with Brighton

It's embarrassing from a Liverpool standpoint. You'd have thought they'd have sounded out his representatives before launching a British transfer record bid. It's really amateur. The kind of thing Utd and that w**ker Woodward would have been at.
And now the cat is out of the bag... every deal they do will carry a Liverpool tax. This will end up costing them in the long run a huge amount of money.

Looks like Chelsea are confident of getting Caicedo now, they've stalled on Tyler Adams and him with the medical concluded!

This looks like amateur hour from Liverpool who used to be on top of this sort of stuff, not getting into bidding wars and all that, biding their time like with Virgil..