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Have the Democrats just lost the 2028 presidential election?

How so?

The cheerleading after Kirk's death would have tilted the moderates away.
It'll depend on the economy/inflation. I expect either high inflation or a recession or even both in 2028.

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Can everyone please stop pretending Paudie Clifford was going for goal.

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The main suspicions with Man City are their sponsorship deals.
They signed a £140m deal with the Emirates Palace hotel. Not hotel group - it's one single hotel. So it's about 10 times the fair market value.
The hotel just happens to be owned by the Abu Dhabi government.
They don't even get major sponsorship status- they just get to call themselves Man City's official luxury hotel partner.
And this hotel deal is one of around a dozen such inflated sponsorship deals where the owner of the company has a major connection with the Abu Dhabi government or Royal Family.

Crazy coincidence...

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Are doing homecomings for losing teams - just one big embarrassment?

Why do we do them in Inter-county GAA? Does having them have any plus points?

Depends on the county. If you have massively overachieved making the final, probably no harm. But for established top counties, not a chance. Celebrating failure

So did Donegal overachieve reaching the final, or was it a failure that Kerry tore them a new one?

Baring in the mind Donegal have only appeared in 4 AI finals, winning 2 and now losing 2.

I would consider Donegal an elite county so yes, that event was demeaning.

But if a minnow made it, absolutely. A Fermanagh, Sligo or Meath level side.

Demeaning, celebrating failure... No harm but you're coming across as a complete tool
We're talking amateur footballers here, club men representing their county who bring enormous pride to their clubs, communities and families. These homecomings will be packed with family, friends, clubmates,  all who've travelled the length and breadth of the country to support their county. To mock or belittle a homecoming for the losing finalist is some elitist bullshit imo

Are you a soccer first, clubless Dublin supporter?

Hold on. Lots of teams in lots of sports are amateur and community based. I have never heard of a rugby or soccer team having a civic reception for losing a final. Again, if Sligo lost the Connaught final, go for it. But the likes of Donegal should have higher standards. Do you think the players wanted to be there?

No, no, yes.

Are doing homecomings for losing teams - just one big embarrassment?

Why do we do them in Inter-county GAA? Does having them have any plus points?

Depends on the county. If you have massively overachieved making the final, probably no harm. But for established top counties, not a chance. Celebrating failure

So did Donegal overachieve reaching the final, or was it a failure that Kerry tore them a new one?

Baring in the mind Donegal have only appeared in 4 AI finals, winning 2 and now losing 2.

I would consider Donegal an elite county so yes, that event was demeaning.

But if a minnow made it, absolutely. A Fermanagh, Sligo or Meath level side.

Demeaning, celebrating failure... No harm but you're coming across as a complete tool
We're talking amateur footballers here, club men representing their county who bring enormous pride to their clubs, communities and families. These homecomings will be packed with family, friends, clubmates,  all who've travelled the length and breadth of the country to support their county. To mock or belittle a homecoming for the losing finalist is some elitist bullshit imo

Are you a soccer first, clubless Dublin supporter?

Hold on. Lots of teams in lots of sports are amateur and community based. I have never heard of a rugby or soccer team having a civic reception for losing a final. Again, if Sligo lost the Connaught final, go for it. But the likes of Donegal should have higher standards. Do you think the players wanted to be there?

No, no, yes.

Most Football World Cup losing finalists have one
E.g https://youtu.be/Ixmif6QYb-w?si=WQ_Tcrup1qNn6FgP

Munster had a homecoming parade after losing the 2000 Heineken Cup final.

Apparently, David Clifford only spent 43 seconds of the 70 minutes of the All Ireland final on the ball.

Madness.

Only spent 19 seconds of the first 35 min on the ball and scored 5 pts.

Well done to Crystal Palace. You could not begrudge them.

Bigger fish to fry we hope.

Roll on Friday evening.

Could begrudge the dozens of their fans who interrupted Jota's minute silence.

If you did a poll of players on the losing team if they wanted a homecoming, bearing in mind just what they wanted themselves not any sense of duty, I'm sure 100% of teams would vote against it.

Do players on losing teams visit Crumlin hospital? Didn't Mayo players visit one year?

The new rule of solo and go was designed to move the game quicker, dealing with an incident after play is common enough (even before the new rules)when brought to a ref's attention by linesmen or umpires.

Personally, if dealing with a black or red, regardless of the potential of an advantage I'll stop play

But it's still ok to allow play to develop which now with the new rules advantage is whatever the ref feels.

In the case above it was one phase, not sure the ref would allow multiple phases, as in more restarts.

Solo and go also balanced out the inequality from how free-kicks benefitted the perpetrating team because they had a numerical advantage when the free was taken, 15 v 14 plus it forced a kick pass which has a higher turnover potential.

Now that dust has settled and the hangover is reseeding its fair to say this was Kerry greatest All Ireland since 75 and certainly my lifetime.

The level of adversity this team faced is incredible.

One stat I read was that Mark OShea never played for Kerry at any level before May of this year and he started midfield in an All Ireland final 2 months later.

The injuries Kerry had was incredible throughout the season 6 players from the starting and 2 subs all injured during the summer.

Playing a very tough series of games to make a final.

One last point,

I was never a fan of McGuinness but hes has been shown up again as all talk.

To stand on a line an watch Paidi walk around a pitch and do nothing about it for 70 mins is bizarre.

Unlike 2022 I think Kerry have a panel now to challenge next year and our main rivals have teams with an older profile.

A content winter.

Kerry ABU

Mark O'Shea played in an experimental McGrath Cup team in 2020. Also started the league game v Mayo in March.

Kerry's midfield pairing in the final would have been their 5th and 6th choice at the start of the year.
Rumours of Rob Monahan and Cillian Burke coming back from Australia could make Kerry's midfield competition even more intense.
Might end up shoehorning midfielders into the half back line and half forward line, a spot where Tomás Kennedy will also be pushing for a place.
Jack O'Connor will learn from 2022 where the team didn't really improve for the 2023 Championship.

One area to improve is the 2 pointers, Kerry had only two players that scored 2 pointers with a degree of regularity. Will need 4 or 5.

The new rules have been very good for the most part. Still unsure on the two pointer but the 3 up, no passing back to the keeper, the 1 on 1 for throw in, solo and go and the punishment for lack of discipline. All have been positive. There wasn't any lip to the referee yesterday nor was there holding onto the ball. It is a far better spectacle than the drivel we have been watching thr last few years.

Not sure if any further changes are needed.

No yellow cards either

In a changed strategy, Donegal will go for 2-pointers early on. A score of 8 points to 2 could be possible after 20 mins. Tyrone did this to Dublin.

Even if Donegal are playing against a strong wind in the 1st half?

Some team will discover an ultra-defensive, boring way of playing under the new rules. Mightn't happen for a few years - it took 125 years for it to happen under the old rules.
Or it might happen Sunday.

Teams playing keep ball for extended periods is one potential area. No passing to the goalie in your own half has made it more difficult, but pushing the goalie beyond halfway gives you 15 players to play keep ball with vs 14 opposition outfielders.

Good to see that this lad has finally recovered from being pocketed by Fitzsimons in the 2023 Final.

When Clifford had an off day he set up a goal and scored three points...

And beat his man to the ball another 6 times that resulted in getting shots off which were mainly only marginally wide and glided past him for a goal chance put inches wide.