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Do any of ye know what yer talking about or is this just a bit of anti GPA bluster?

Fire away Zulu. End the ill-informed speculation. Where have they gone? What do they do for their our money?

Have they gone away, do ye know ?

Crawled back into the hole they came from 

FFS, boys give it a rest as nobody on here gives a Sh**te about either Queen's or UUJ.

You clearly do 

Now fcuk away off to another thread if you're not interested. 

There was a lot of talk on this thread and elsewhere about Cross playing on the edge and being masters of the dark arts, etc., etc. but their red-card record wouldn't be the worst to be fair. Are they just super cute and disciplined? What is the craic about Burren? For a team that considered themselves genuine contenders, they seem to have had more than their fair share sent off this year? Is it just naivety, bad luck and/or misplaced aggression on their part?

[so I have no axe to grind]

By the way I am interested in fresher football, I have a son a UUJ, a daughter at Queens and a son who graduated from Queens, so I have no axe to grind.

Your posts say different. Nearly half them are spent bitchin about Queen's Even one on an unrelated Down thread ffs. If there were bursaries for having a chip you'd have more degrees than CJ and Kevin combined 

You seem to know more about the Poly freshers B team than would make a Parish Priest blush but you were at a Queen's v St Mary's freshers match ...because you have a son at UUJ and a daughter at Queen's? 

You're not clever enough to play that game and you have been rumbled you tool. 

Tommy Joe has no involvement with the fresher teams

Totally unrelated question. Who was the fat fcuker talking to the ref at half time? 

[B]

I have been told that both teams have agreed to a replay not only because of the mixup in the scoreline but because Queens played a number of A players on the B team. Game to be played next Wednesday

Is that you Tommy Joe?

I have been told that you were told wrong   
The Poly must be pretty desperate to get some silverware on the table if that is the lengths they are going to to win a freshers B title. Important to lads playing no doubt, but freshers B? Is their integrity that cheap?
McAleenan and Farrell should hang their heads in shame. "I didn't keep the score" 

[Calling me a sectarian]

Calling me a sectarian and calling whistup a bollocks....you're quite the skilled debater aren't you 

He did no such thing. Are you Antony Cotton?

Yes he did. Are you trileacman's boyfriend?

Not sure. Is he medium build with blond hair? Are you askin'? You Carmen ones are such charmers ...when you're not biting lumps out of each other. 

As far as I am concerned, the following is an accusation of sectarianism:

1. There seems to be a school of thought that the pitch brawl, "happens up and down the country" so that makes it all-right......
2. Alot of people running to the defence of Tyrone here too. If I read "sure it happens up and down the country" one more time I think I'll be sick......

I can only imagine the reaction from Nally and the boys if this happened at a Linfield/Portadown match. I'm sure they would be more than accommodating. 

<puff>As far as I am concerned </puff> (had to puff myself up there to give it a proper air of authority) you are a pompous assh*le and I don't need anything other than your own quote to prove it 

I don't give a flying fcuk what you concern. You said he called you "a sectarian". He did no such thing.

[Calling me a sectarian]

Calling me a sectarian and calling whistup a bollocks....you're quite the skilled debater aren't you 

He did no such thing. Are you Antony Cotton?

[as we do come from one of the last two Gaelic Kingdoms of Ireland]

             The tribal nature of this country will always exist and should be acknowledged and nourished as an irish facet.      99% of the time it manifests itself in a positive way so if you want to disown that then go ahead.   I know where I'll stand.  Is it possible that we are Tyrone are more tribal than others-possible, as we do come from one of the last two Gaelic Kingdoms of Ireland and have endured recent troubles that other counties will never experience.  Then why does it happen in other counties the length and breadth of Ireland?     

WTF? Are you Darby O'Gill?

[our national games are synonymous with our tribal culture]

           These things have the potential to happen at any game, anywhere in the country.  The only game I was ever at in Kerry was in the league a few years back when Tyrone played Kerry in Austin Stacks.  My better half and I were seated beside a particularly aggressive element where if either of us had opened our mouths at the wrong time, I have no doubt that physical violence would have ensued. (by the way, our car had been keyed during the game-perhaps more to do with the Cork Reg. than anything!)   
           My point is that there is the potential for these things to happen at any sporting event and it does happen.  I seem to remember a Clare club hurling match where the supporters held a player through the wire while the opposing team flailed him with hurleys. 

           Whataboutery? What about it?  Maybe if the GAA and pundits concentrated a bit more on whataboutery, they could compile a dossier of incidents, analyse the root causes, look for trends and decide if changes need to be made or intuitive sessions need to be held because it does happen occasionally in all counties.  Imposing massive fines and bans on the clubs concerned will do nothing to stop these things happening.   I'm all for whataboutery!

          I see some nonsense in today's Irish Times, comparing the role of the referees in Rugby to that of the GAA ref.  While I enjoy watching rugby,   I for one would hate to see that militant and almost pompous control of GAA games take place.  In many ways our national games are synonymous with our tribal culture, that is what makes them special.  It also makes them potentially dangerous if they are not steered in the right direction by officials, coaches, and stewards, albeit in a way that is relative to the spirit of the games.         

Couldn't have said it better myself Tyrone club football = tribal culture. You can stick your tribal culture if it means referees getting assaulted, supporters getting their ears bitten off and the GAA making news headlines for all the wrong reasons.

Officials and coaches steering in the right direction? - you're having a laugh. A Rasharkin club official was prominent in their shenanigans and McGinn was manager when he was at his "Dromore Kiss" routine.

Whataboutery is for primary schoolyards 

Hopefully McMenamin. Sorry to see these 5 go but I wouldn't miss McMenamin and his trampish behaviour.

And a u 

downatthemidda, did you damage your keyboard when you threw it at the screen?
You could probably get a new shift, h, and fullstop key from ebay

Lads, you might want to tell the County Board to have a wee look over in the Ulster Club Championship thread before they start rejigging the leagues to help wee Paul. There's a rumour over there that he's heading to St Gall's! Any truth in it?