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Aaron Kernan is best suited to an attacking half back on a dominant team. This way he can overlap and as his teammates have faith in him, he will get plenty of ball and use it well. Half back suits him because it means he is generally playing against someone who doesn't want to tackle back. He has not worked out at half forward for probably several reasons but one is that he is being marked by someone who sees their job as marking him so he isn't getting the latitude he would get from a reluctant wing half forward.

He was good when Meath were good but when they needed someone to stand up in the second half he went missing, as he did against Louth

FYI "Big Joe" is Joe Kernan, Joe Sheridan was  "Cheating Joe" and now he's "Idiot Joe". Of course based on the Kildare game and the last 2 semi finals he could be "Bottler Joe".

A ref has to add 30 seconds for each substitution even the ones in injury time. A fact in soccer, a myth in GAA. GAA managers please note!

Talking about revenue commissioners on TV3 now.

A misunderstanding about where tax liability lies is emerging in my view - would it not be the the employer ie gaa county boards rather than employee ie the manager who is responsible for tax and failure to deduct PRSI etc ?

Absolutely correct!

 "Champions League Style" is the answer to the qualifier issue

How anyone could seriously suggest getting rid of the provincial championships is baffling.

Why? I'd get rid of them in the morning.

Sigh......I doesn't matter whether people want rid of them or not. It's never, never, ever going to happen. In order for it to happen you would to get officials most of who are on a Provincial Council, to vote to take the main source of their income and power away. There does need to be change but doing away with the Provincial Championship is a non starter

The GAA has to play it's Quarter Finals in Crke Park because of a deal with Corporate Boxes/ Premium Seat holders. Absolute crap!!!!!
The GAA were very careful never to give specifics on any game. Also when these seats were being sold there was no such thng as a quarter final!

I've never heard of that particular 'myth' and given that Qtr finals have been staged outside of Croke Park, it's not a very viable one..

I hadnt heard it myself until about a week ago.  This particular one is all over GAA forums at the moment as one of the reasons why the Qualifiers can't be changed that much.

If the Kerry team was in the Ulster C'ship instead of the Munster C'ship they wouldn't have won as many All-Irelands, particularly during the 70s and 80s.

Proof against this myth: Look at some of the Ulster teams' results in that era:
Kerry 0-23; Derry 0-10
Cork 5-10; Tyrone 2-4
Kerry 5-14; Derry 1-10
Dublin 5-12; Armagh 3-6
Dublin 1-16; Down 0-8
Kerry 5-14; Monaghan 0-7
Kerry 3-15; Armagh 1-11

If this was what was happening to the best team in Ulster surely the lesser teams in Ulster wouldn't have been too much trouble either?

I'd like to point out that the crucial 5th goal Kerry got against Monaghan was definitely a square ball!!

The 1977 semi final between Dublin and Kerry was one of the greatest games ever.

Agree. It was as Pat Spillane said a good tight game with the result the Dublin based media wanted

Paul Early won his Bank of Ireland All Star in 1985 because he was a Bank of Ireland employee. Hang on, that's the truth!

The GAA has to play it's Quarter Finals in Crke Park because of a deal with Corporate Boxes/ Premium Seat holders. Absolute crap!!!!!
The GAA were very careful never to give specifics on any game. Also when these seats were being sold there was no such thng as a quarter final!

Aka the flick up!

The pick up isn't a skill. Whenever the GAA are marketing Gaelic Football they show scores and high catches. Also, if the pick up was a skill then it would be included in Ladies Football.

"insert name of famous player"'s brother was even better than him only for drink/county minor selectors/women