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David Clifford has to be the best Gaelic Footballer of all time, he can do anything he wants and you can't stop him. In truth you only stop him if he has a poor game by his own standards, if he's firing on all cylinders then you just have to suck it up and hope he kicks a few wides. In truth the only way to limit his influence on a game is stop the supply going into him and reduce his play other than that he impacts the game significantly.
He's tall, powerful and a machine. There have been so many great Gaelic footballers over the years and were a pleasure to watch but this man is above them all...

3-4 big signings are needed sooner rather than later. As for Kuhn don't let the door hit him on his way out...he didn't want to be there and stopped playing for Celtic after Munich game, we don't need guys like him around. £20m there to spend but not on project players as we have the cupboard full of them, tried and tested players is what is required. Right Brendy, get the finger out son.

I think on Sunday Kerry did a number on Crealey, he got the treatment, plus I think he gassed easily in the heat. Grimley was just poor. So Rafferty's options weren't great anywhere, but he wasn't good either.

Our midfield were poor and can hardly remember Crealey touching the ball with Grimley similar, as you say Kerry done their homework on us and done us good and proper. They pushed up and gave Rafferty nothing to hit or aim for so praise must go to Kerry for that, we didn't seem to have the energy to burst a gut to try and get a short one away. Sent back up the road with the tail firmly between the legs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6J-KXlgdV0

Armagh without a doubt the sorest losers in Ireland.

Wise up FFS

Guys you are losing the run of yourselves on the costs...just because 6k seats cost 24 million then the Casement project should be 5 or 6 times that. It doesn't work like that. The higher up you go the more construction costs are, if you don't know about Construction costs then prob best not to comment on it.

Congrats to Kerry, very deserving winners yesterday and If they play like that in the next 2 games they will win SAM but will they get themselves up for the following games like yesterday...We will see.
I was fearing all the hype we were receiving and Armagh have never worn the fav tag well, when we go into games as the underdog and the world against us it's when we perform best but full credit must go to Kerry as they done us well and good yesterday, I wish them well for the rest of the Championship.
Keeper kick outs were poor but credit must go to Kerry for this as they pushed up and gave him nowt to hit, Armagh midfield were poor and a lot of guys who are usually steady and reliable had below par games and again I put that down to Kerry's intensity and endeavor.

Guys I know depression has been around forever but would you say it's got a lot worse now with the smart phones and social media etc?. I see my two watching Tik Tok and whatever else they're doing for hours upon hours when i was out as a child climbing trees and playing football, I know society has changed and is a lot different now but interacting thru phones instead of face to face chats has to be a bad thing. Young ones are so vain and have to look a certain way and are under so much pressure, I'm so thankful I grew up in the era I did and not now.

Just checking in to see if it has been built yet?. Should be renamed "Kneecap Park"

[1. Armagh2. Donegal 3. Galway4. Kerry5. Tyrone6. Dublin]

3 rounds in and this is how I see it. Meath the big movers. And still have more scope to move up the ranks if they continue to prove me wrong.

1. Armagh
2. Donegal
3. Galway
4. Kerry
5. Tyrone
6. Dublin
7. Meath
8. Monaghan
9. Mayo
10. Derry
11. Down
12. Cork
13. Louth
14. Roscommon
15. Kildare
16. Cavan
17. Offaly
18. Fermanagh
19. Clare
20. Westmeath
21. Sligo
22. Limerick
23. Wicklow
24. Laois
25. Wexford
26. Carlow
27. Antrim
28. Leitrim
29. Longford
30. Tipperary
31. London
32. Waterford
33. New York

Top 6 highlighted will vary in most peoples thoughts. All have been beaten and all can beat each other. Impossible to call it TBH and that 6 could be in any order

["to stick it to the f**king Prods"]

Completely agree, get it built if GAA members were asked to contribute £1 each to make up the short fall I'm sure they would do it in a heart beat. The GAA community in the north need this stadium and they needed it yesterday.

I for one would not even contribute the steam off my piss.
If it goes ahead as planned, its hanging a massive millstone around the neck of the Ulster Council (UC) for decades, and that will have real connotations for UC coaching development etc.


When the ongoing maintenance costs of the ivory towers becomes clear in due course, the level of stupidity in calling for this stadium as currently designed will also become crystal clear.



I'd much rather put my money into any club looking to make a second pitch or changing rooms - something of far more benefit.

Unreal.....can you not see past the nose on your face, future generations should have this stadium.
The great days of going to Clones on Ulster final day are a thing of the past, and live only in our heads.
Why can we not have a stadium where you can get the same feeling of pride walking into it as you do when going into Croke Park and its only up the road.

I don't understand how anyone can think this new stadium is just gonna magically fall out of the money tree. It will consume millions of the GAA's revenue for years to come. That means less coaches for underage teams, increased ticket prices, fewer development grants for clubs, dilapidated county grounds because there's no money to repair or replace them.

A 250 mil Casement is a financial millstone that will weigh around the neck of every club in Ulster for years and years and years. And the only f**king reason you and illdecide can come up with for building it is "to stick it to the f**king Prods".

LOL away and catch yourself on.

You'll be happy enough when Ulster GAA send your club a bill for 180,000?

You sir are talking sh1te. I'm not sticking nothing up to the Prods, I keep posting it's being blocked because it's for the GAA and the Unionist/Loyalist community would rather die than see this stadium built, that's a fact. I can't see what's wrong with making a factual statement like that. I've said many times if this scenario was Windsor Park or Ravenhill it would have been already built (The GAA didn't cover themselves in glory with this either). That's my opinion and you're entitled to yours...Sin e.
Ohh and why would you think the Ulster Council would bill every club for that money?. I'm hoping you were taking the P155

First of all for the 1000th time it can't be f**king built somewhere else...It's Casement or nowt.
Maybe VAT on ticket sales wasn't mentioned enough so maybe throw it in another few times there.
It's not being scaled back so please stop saying built it with the money you have and cut your cloth...They're going all out for the 34k stadium.
As for planning...once you have full planning in place you can construct a wall as part of the project and come back in 10 years and finish it if you feel like it unless there is a special planning requirement placed as part of the approval that the works must be complete in a certain time frame, this is usually in place if the Construction works is having a major impact on others around or major infrastructure etc.
It is us v them whether you like or not and them are more bitter and twisted than us, them hate us and don't want us to have anything and we should just crawl back under the rock and be quiet.
If only i'd have won the Euro millions on Tue nite I could have funded the rest of it myself...

It's like the night before Christmas.

A bag of coal left in the middle of the pitch

Donegal v Mayo - Donegal by 3
Cavan v Tyrone - Tyrone by 5
Kerry v Meath - Kerry by 7
Cork v Roscommon - Draw
Monaghan v Down - Monaghan by 3
Louth v Clare - Louth by 3
Armagh v Galway - Galway by 4
Derry v Dublin - Dublin by 5

Why are most of you singling out Casement Pk for funding?. Funding is allocated to projects from Governments both Brits, Irish and Lottery etc all the time and has done for years. The grants can be questioned for all projects and asked is it value for money and is it needed. Did we need Ravenhill, Windsor Park, Dundonald Ice Bow. Did all the schools need upgraded or rebuilt, do Translink need £100m every year for subsidiary, do we need all this?. The truth is we can build cheaper and stop free travel for pensioners and pay for prescriptions, the point is funding is provided all the time and in most cases will not be value for money.
Did Ulster Council and GAA f**K it up?. Absolutely they did, no one is denying this but FFS just get on with it and build the poxy thing, you can go on-line and yap about something else to fill your joyful day or get a life.

Whether we like it or not we are taxpaying members of the British state, so every time they piss millions up the wall its coming out of our pockets. Spending hundreds of millions on a stadium that will be lucky to be filled 15 times in the next 20 years is bordering on the immoral. The IFA and Ulster rugby lads at least had the brains to cut their cloth accordingly. I don't see why we should be giving the GAA free reign to build a white elephant that will weigh around the neck of those funding it like a millstone.

If the GAA had sense and built a good sound 20,000 seater stadium for Antrim back in 2011 then we'd have none of this perpetual shitshow since. What's unforgiveable is that after nearly 20 years of getting kicked back they still haven't taken the hint that they should just build a smaller, more sensible stadium that's acceptable to the residents and acceptable for their sponsors (the british gov, GAA) to finance.

Of all the things you've listed none come anywhere near the level of waste that Casement will be. Ravenhill was redeveloped into an 18,000 seater for ~15 million, Windsor was 30 million. Ulster GAA are looking 250 million to do Casement. Comparing Casement funding to Translink or schools funding is just a strawman argument. Schools are used 5 days a week, 40 weeks a year, a vital part of our society and always have been. Translink move thousands of people daily, to work, for travel, to hospital appts. Just because there is sometimes waste or inefficiency their tendering in no way justifies spunking 100 million on a Ulster GAA vanity project.

Do the sensible thing Ulster GAA, take 100 mill, build the stadium you can afford.

I don't disagree with your points and it might sound that way in some of the things i'm saying but maybe i'm not wording it right...I've said from day 1 the GAA made a balls of the thing and that's a fact. It has been politicised and is a bit like us v them for it...Ravenhill and Windsor were considerably cheaper but if they were being built now they'd be 3 or 4 times the original cost and that's another fact so people are not considering this when they're factoring in the cost of Casement but my main point is when the Government gave £50m or whatever the figure was to an ice bowl in Dundonald no one batted an eye lid or complained that there was no call for it or one half the size was enough for the people that attended it but once GAA is mentioned it's a different story. I actually don't care if they build Casement with 34k or 20k I just want it built but I would prefer it with 34k and have Ulster finals and maybe All Ireland quarter finals in it too. Concerts and other events would be perfect and the area would flourish with it there

Why are most of you singling out Casement Pk for funding?.

Because it's topical. Not that f**king hard to figure out.

Alright smart arse...