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Had tickets for the gig tonight, we spent more on them than we should have, shifted them on at face value once we factored in the total cost of the trip across.
Watched the gig, zero emotions re not being there. In these expensive days, they bogged the arm in no end, greedy hoors. Working class, yes, heroes to many, but definitely not working class heroes these days

(first 2 albums, 10/10 BTW)

Where/how did you watch the gig?

Twitter, there's was around 950k watching it. Video obviously not great but the audio was spot on

Had tickets for the gig tonight, we spent more on them than we should have, shifted them on at face value once we factored in the total cost of the trip across.
Watched the gig, zero emotions re not being there. In these expensive days, they bogged the arm in no end, greedy hoors. Working class, yes, heroes to many, but definitely not working class heroes these days

(first 2 albums, 10/10 BTW)

And the world is flat

Christ, I find it hard listening to Devenney.
He sounds like he's always after the night before or is actually about 5 pints into the day after.
Talks a lot of scutter.

Jeez you must be the first man I've ever come across with a disliking for Devenny.

I thoroughly enjoy him. Great craic and has a good knowledge of the game.

In response to a comment above on Paddy Andrews. He does have a an awful bad habit of cutting across people but unlike Brolly I think it's a subconscious thing for him.

I like Andrews though good knowledge of the game and good banter with him tommy and james

Devenny is a top man, great craic and knows the game inside out. Has done a couple nights at our club over the years, couldn't get better.

Are there decent hurling podcasts as the GAA social is definitely miss titled

They've covered and interviewed multiple hurling legends, ladies footballers etc, would the "GAA Social (but we're predominantly a men's football podcast, as we're both northern men and men's county football is by a distance the most watched GAA sport and the sport we mostly cover live)" be a better title? Doesn't trip off the tongue though... Any suggestions? The Contrarian Pucker might be a runner?

Following on from my depressing post last night, weeks have passed since a few politicians in Westminster had the balls to stand up and call out this evil genocide. Two called it out on a Friday, and I remember saying to the wife, as a real tide, or so it felt was finally turning, (outside of public opinion)  I wonder how it'll all be this time next Friday?
Well, that was about 6 or 7 weeks ago, and the story now is Bob Vylan, Kneecap etc... It just shows how powerful these evil fu$kers are and how weak, morally corrupt, self serving and money hungry politicians are

Iarlaith hasn't kicked a football for Lissan in a long time and him healthy, the rest seem to have little interest

He's taking a year out. Long time would be pushing it, no? Time flies and all

Stories all over the internet sports news sites that Jota was killed in a car crash in Spain??

And brother. Married a couple of weeks ago, 3 young wains. So awful

Jesus that is so awful. 😢

Seriously grim viewing, as is thousands of other videos that have went before it.
Makes no difference, Israel is as evil and twisted as the American CEOs and shareholders of the munitions factorys are hungry for cash, and their senators / governors...and their little puppets in Westminster. Brutal in the extreme and a view what the future holds unfortunately

Boys trying to work out tactics and counter tactics with the long kickouts when the vast majority of the time it'll come down to luck ie one team will get a run on another team = luckily win most of the breaking ball. Do we really think that when a team wins 7 or 8 out of say 10 kickouts in the middle of a close game that they're unearthing something spectacular and the opposition has suddenly nose dived??

Unless teams start in earthing 8ft players or adopting a rugby lineup style lift, this the way it'll be, some games / periods of time you'll win the ball, some you won't. Under 12s know how to get in for a break. The only ways to counter or kind of control this is

*to create more space, split the middle. But both side will be have similar players there, someone will go up for the ball, another trying to win or break and then the worker bee's, again of equal number trying to get the scraps

* go short. But really only if a team stands off you and you've no wind or the wind is at your back

* get the ball as far up the pitch as possible past the h/w line (again only possible with the wind and why winning the toss has never been more important) and get set if the pin ball machine doesn't go in your favour

During the course of a 60 / 70 min game there will be lapses when a player finds space, runs in a kick is hit right into that space. Or an attacker switches off, doesn't split men and one or 2 go short

There will be clean catches too as there has always been, but with so many fit fast, strong athletic players all scrimmaging a small area of the pitch, well, it really is just a roll of the dice alot of the time

[David]

Kerry went hard at the emotional angle against Armagh. It was genuine and authentic. Very hard to replicate that level of emotional intensity the next day out.

If we get a fast start and the Kerry shot accuracy is around 50-60% then we have a chance.

Were huge underdogs but that's the way we like it.

I give Tyrone every chance. Kerry had as close to perfect a second half as I've ever seen. Very unlikely they'll repeat that.

We got it tactically wrong on kickouts, defensively and were just second to every break ball which I've never known us to be as poor at. Tyrone will learn from that I'm sure and have a plan for O'Shea and Paudie Clifford, David you just need to hope for the best and try to limit the supply. 

He's playing a Div 2 team, could get messy

Coming from Derry that's priceless after the last 18 months 

You'll have to look a little closer to home re the post above

[David]

Kerry went hard at the emotional angle against Armagh. It was genuine and authentic. Very hard to replicate that level of emotional intensity the next day out.

If we get a fast start and the Kerry shot accuracy is around 50-60% then we have a chance.

Were huge underdogs but that's the way we like it.

I give Tyrone every chance. Kerry had as close to perfect a second half as I've ever seen. Very unlikely they'll repeat that.

We got it tactically wrong on kickouts, defensively and were just second to every break ball which I've never known us to be as poor at. Tyrone will learn from that I'm sure and have a plan for O'Shea and Paudie Clifford, David you just need to hope for the best and try to limit the supply. 

He's playing a Div 2 team, could get messy

The Irish rage against the machine, sans talent

Holding a mirror up to the BBC IDF et al is where it's at and very effectively achieved

You can just say you don't like them or rap / beat music in general. To say they have no talent is just plain ridiculous

Yep. I don't like their music, which is no surprise seeing as I've never liked anything remotely associated to their music. But a hell of a lot of people do.
It's like Austin Powers playing God in the Top 3 songs thread. "Not worthy of inclusion". Nobody dies ffs.

I know nobody died, but, to say they've no talent is, as I said, ridiculous... Own it, it's 100%

Is being a spide a talent though?

How very middle class of you

But Outside D'Arcy of Galway very few of these kickouts are won clean, it's all mostly break ball. A team can be on top for 50/60mins and still get beat in the last 10mins. Under the old rules that wouldn't happen.

I think that's great and adds to the jeopardy of the thing and before if a team was 6 points up heading to the last 10 mins the game was completely over now you can't leave in case a comeback is on.

Teams are going to have to develop a set play kickout to break momentum. I imagine we'll see more of these next year becuase once you go on a run of losing possession in midfield things can get bad very quickly!

Great? It's by far the worst rule of the new rules*, has turned the game into a game of luck re kickouts. At some stage it'll be dropped.
Folk talk about working on the kickout, but there's v little you can do to gain an advantage

* love most of the new rules