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RedHand88, that's not what happened here. Jota, Elliot and Nunez were rotation players who all knew their place behind Salah in the pecking order. I can understand why the club chose to replace them with big upgrades. But doing so at the same time as cementing Salah into the top dog position was a poor strategy.

Do you ever wonder...

Giving a 32 year old a mega money contract. Possibly the best player in the club's history. The ultra reliable edge of a free scoring team.

Then a few months later they dispense the best part of half a billion gathering up 3 players who should enable freescoring.

I can understand the former move completely. I can understand the latter move completely.

But together. No. That's just madness.

It's Manchester United kind of stuff.

I do enjoy a World Cup.

But the only way they could make a worse occasion out of the draw would be to start and finish it with a wee mass. 

I don't think it's a better way Armagh18.

Somewhere along the line lads have to work out if lads a couple of school years above them are better, or vice versa.

What you're suggesting here is in effect putting that on hold until they're adults.

Furthermore the unintended consequence of keeping everyone in school years is that their development then takes place in silos, and integration at adult level can only become more difficult.

And last but not least, all you actually end up doing is taking the best month to be born in away from January, and placing it firmly in July. For the July birthdays then get it better at club level as well as at schools level where they've always had it.

It'll be Ulster GAA streaming it themselves.

VAR is beyond a farce.

Big Dan Burn got a penalty for being outmuscled. The kind of occurrence that if strictly enforced would have seen half of Arsenal's goal tally for the season wiped out.

I've a simple suggestion to fix this mess: VAR and referees are only permitted to see any incident in realtime. No slow mo allowed.

The c***ts upstairs won't  be as quick to look then to make normal football activity into fouls.

Maybe some of the great political minds in either party might be able to identify the correlation between putting senior pensioners up for office, and those pensioners showing clear signs of old age when in office.

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You know, I've found an odd thing over the past couple of seasons Johnnycool; that mentors are almost entirely more civilised and balanced at u14 football (competitive) than they are at u10.5 and u12 Go Games levels.

I'd harbour a few guesses as to why. Real referees would help. That the kids are older and don't need so much of a "protective arm" would help. That the teams are streamed more evenly would help.

But I would think the main reason is that as mentors go through the ranks and gain experience, most of them come to realise that treating a juvenile league match like a senior championship final helps nobody, but does stress everyone.

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All under 12 footballers keep score whether the referee does or not. There's pretty much always one team cheering at the final whistle.

Thomas Frank the latest victim of the Spursy effect. Decent manager but doomed to failure.

It's not "Spursy".

He's doomed to failure as he's at a club that has higher expectations than being difficult to beat.

Spurs manager will be gone by ht

Hopefully.

I don't like to pick on managers.

But Spurs are meant to be entertaining. That's all the fans really expect. Anything bigger than that is just pipe dream stuff from younger fans.

And week in, week out, Spurs aren't creating a single chance of note. It's anti-entertainment.

Imagine paying in to watch that every week.

Scouse are kind of living out a "why fans should be ignored" season.

"Pay him what he wants" was the maxim of last season.

I'd guess there were more than a few LFC directors wondering aloud all season about the sense in paying record wages to thirtysomethings who've won every honour already. But their voices were drowned out.

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Whats your source for this?

Tyrone GAA Annual Report to County Convention 2024

The figures are for registered members. I'm sure we're all aware that some clubs don't register 100% of their members, keeping the fees withing the club - something which comes back to bite them when All-Ireland tickets are being distributed.
Camogie & LGFA Memberships wouldn't be included. I removed the hurling only clubs.
Interesting to compare size V ranking; many clubs roughly where they "should be" with some over/under achievers

Couple of things here.

Registering a male member, to the best of my knowledge (I'm 3 years out of the loop to be fair) doesn't cost anything. When I was looking after things for Ballyholland, fees paid to both county board and central funds (insurance) are based on the number of teams entered, and not on the number of players. So if you've 40 players at say u14 and need 2 teams, the fee wouldn't change whether all 40 players are registered, or just 10.

Also... are Foireann teamsheets not a thing in Tyrone juvenile football? They're now pretty much omnipresent in Down football. Players can't appear on those unless they're registered centrally.

Foireann definitely has some major plus points. 

But the quality - bull 21 bull to finish it's fantastic to watch.

I'd compare this to playing Texas Hold 'Em.

When you first start playing regularly, you find yourself astounded by the number of "impossible" beats on the river card.

The it becomes normal.

Then it becomes boring.

Littler is somewhere between the latter  two stages already.

It's getting boring. No-one can touch Littler. Hard to see anyone beat him in the World Championship.

That's gonna be the problem now. He is that good no one is close to his level not even Humphries. I love watching him but it will be a bit of a problem for World Darts/Matchroom if he continues to blow everyone away with no competition over the next year or two.

MVG was playing darts on a different planet for a period as well. With Darts becoming more popular year on year, I don't expect Littler to have it his own way for say the next 10 years though he is a level above at the momemt.  As good as Taylor was he benefited from the fact that Darts was probably know as a pintman sport during his era of success, where as people can make a really good career out of it for themselves, saw Rock's earnings for the year over the weekend was over £350k and he wasn't even in the premier league. 

Not sure about this take.

Whether it was a "pintman" sport or not during the time, the top dozen or more were full time professionals, yet none of them could compete with Taylor unless Phil had a bad day. And even then they didn't beat him most of the time. His below-par average of high 90s was still enough most of the time.

That's the same situation which is unfolding now. A below par day for Littler is an average of 102 or 103. There's almost nobody can throw to that level over a longer format match. Humphries, MVG and Price have it in them, but they don't have the ability to go to 108-109 levels needed when Littler gets going.

Nor should they. Darts wasn't meant to be this easy.

Littler will ruin the game by being too good at at. It's not his fault. But it is wild boring knowing the outcome of any sporting contest before it begins.

The brass neck of the fella on TV there ... disgraceful

couldn't give a straight answer to any of 3 legitimate questions

When's the reply - don't know
Will you delay the final - don't know
What punters have to pay in next week - don't know

Try putting someone who can answer questions in front of the camera next time.

It's a shitshow and it's very harsh on Scotstown

You'd have to be a very needy sort to expect a man to be able to those questions within that timeframe.