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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: May 22, 2018, 01:19:25 PM »

Sure could you not put it up on one screen?

Brandband problems. We get about 16 meg, which means it collapses when there’s more than half a dozen people online.

Advertise as showing GAA we have to be able to deliver on it. We can’t. So we might as well attract a few people in who made up their minds weeks ago that they weren’t going to the marshes, but haven’t yet decided where they’re going.

It’s actually a simple enough choice.

As mentioned a few posts ago. More clubs will follow with the same this week. As long as youve barmen not going to the Marshes, it’s much more sensible.

16MB/s is more than ample for streaming iplayer, I do it on just over 3MB/s.
Put a temporary password on the Wifi for the evening to secure it.


At the same time the Ulster Council really are pricing the families out of these games, £30 at the gate is crazy money for an adult.

16MB does work sometimes.

But really honestly fella, I’m the one who has been called in on umpteen occasions the past year when our club’s Smart TV isn’t streaming. So with the greatest respect I’m a whole pile more qualified than you are to make a judgement call on whether this particular service is up to it.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: May 21, 2018, 10:34:58 PM »

or maybe its a case of we don't have anybody on the Down panel and we feel we should have, so feck them. we wont have anything to do with them, wont even watch it and maybe we wont be overly disappointed if they lose. all adds to the ballyholland siege mentality, us against the rest.

No it doesn’t. Wind your neck in.

I’m sorry to tell you friend, we’ve only got 400 odd members including juveniles, and there’s going to be many, many, many more than 400 vacant places at Esler on Saturday evening. Barbecue weather could tip it under 5,000 people.

So stop bashing one club. It’s childish.

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The Ulster Council in their infinite wisdom have decided to put  a round 1 game between two  struggling counties in direct competition with the biggest sporting event in the world this weekend.

And then they want people to pay £30 for the privilege.

If anyone on this thread has a problem with how Gaelic Games are being promoted, start by knocking on that door.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: May 21, 2018, 10:28:04 PM »

Sure could you not put it up on one screen?

Brandband problems. We get about 16 meg, which means it collapses when there’s more than half a dozen people online.

Advertise as showing GAA we have to be able to deliver on it. We can’t. So we might as well attract a few people in who made up their minds weeks ago that they weren’t going to the marshes, but haven’t yet decided where they’re going.

It’s actually a simple enough choice.

As mentioned a few posts ago. More clubs will follow with the same this week. As long as youve barmen not going to the Marshes, it’s much more sensible.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: May 21, 2018, 09:57:35 PM »

Perhaps you’re right folks.

But bear this in mind. Our club bar will be open Saturday evening as it always is. We are in something of a broadband blackspot, and are genuinely unable to guarantee the smooth streaming of an iPlayer feed for 70 minutes.

Whereas we can guarantee RTE for the champions league final will work.

So tell me something. In this situation is is better that our members who really want to watch Down play but don’t want to watch it at home, nor watch it in real life 1 mile away, are at least advised in advance that the club isn’t really an option either? Or do we wait until the stream drops after 10 minutes to let them know?

Sometimes things aren’t as simple as the click bait generation want to believe.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: May 21, 2018, 08:59:30 PM »

Two miles down the road Down play in the USFC snd Ballyholland post that.  I thought it was a piss take but apparently not.
What a joke of a club, and Wobbler you can’t defend this. Would it happen it Joe Murphy was still on panel

Keep on fishing. You will catch me eventually.

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GAA Discussion / Re: The Sunday Game

« on: May 21, 2018, 08:23:06 PM »

No McDonagh or Ring results given!!!!

Give both those competitions to TG4/Eirsport and watch them flourish.

As for a tiered football competition, RTE would treat it with disdain.

Excellent idea. Tg4 or Eir would do wonders with them.

The IRFU forced RTE into showing u-20s and womens rugby if they wanted the rights to the 6 nations.
The GAA approaches TV rights negotiations as if we're just glad somebody is willing to show the games at all.
It's like they think televised games involving the 'weaker' counties will devalue the product.

Ladies rugby is a minority sport and helps RTE fulfil its public service remit.

A second tier GAA match wouldn’t.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: May 21, 2018, 05:47:54 PM »

Watch while a stream of other clubs now follow suit Ambrose.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Tyrone v Monaghan, Sun 20th May, Healy Park

« on: May 20, 2018, 07:43:37 PM »

This is a pretty good game so far.

But of lateral passing going on, but not sure how it could be described as horrible.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Fermanagh v Armagh Brewster Pk Sat 19th May 7:00pm

« on: May 20, 2018, 04:53:40 PM »

Just noticed Clare number 11 in hurling getting a yellow card for a similar tackle to the one Grimley got sent off for.

That's because his opponent didn't roll around in feigned agony, clutching his face and took it in a manly fashion without trying to get his man sent off.

To be honest I reckon it’s more to do with media punditry.

In hurling, the analysts describe anything short of a night in hospital as men being men. So the masses buy into this, and what referee really wants to go against the masses?

Whereas in football, there’s a queue of absolute shithead analysts waiting to denounce anything and everything as GBH, especially when one of their own county’s team is tackled. So everything goes under the spotlight, the public go up in arms, and referees have no choice but to do what is demanded off them.

The levels of diving and injury feigning in our game is directly related to this too.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Fermanagh v Armagh Brewster Pk Sat 19th May 7:00pm

« on: May 19, 2018, 11:21:14 PM »

Football is simple and it is complicated by people who believe in systems over skills. I have always. Even if the opinion that the basics are the key and it you can do them better than the man beside you in the opposite jersey then this increases the changes of winning. The fundamentals are the basic building blocks and I get the feeling that armagh don’t know what they are. It won’t change and that’s the reality. Too many people in key positions are happy with the status hip remaining

I’d agree 100%.

It’s truly odd just how many people are determined that complex systems, and focusing on the oppositon instead on your own team, will make average players into good players.

As for the naming of incorrect teams and bizarre positional switches. Down players from 1991 and 94 played in a remarkably simple time; when you put your best 15 on the field in the best arrangement to make the most of their abilities. And it produced success. Yet a succession of those players have convinced themselves that their role as managers is to focus on the “extra 2%”, instead of the initial 100%.

Armagh’s class of 2003 also enjoyed remarkably uncomplicated tactics and a straightforward duel in the sun approach to team formations and announcements. Yet as managers, those players just don’t seem to believe in that approach.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Fermanagh v Armagh Brewster Pk Sat 19th May 7:00pm

« on: May 19, 2018, 08:31:32 PM »

Hard to tell who’s worse in this game. Awful awful stuff on show.

Not having that. Fermanagh are playing very efficiently.

Armagh absolutely horrendous.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Fermanagh v Armagh Brewster Pk Sat 19th May 7:00pm

« on: May 19, 2018, 08:20:35 PM »

Armagh averaging a score every 10 minutes against Fermanagh.

It’s an absolutely shocking indictment of whatever it is they do in training.

If those lads had played club football only the past 3 months and were literally gathered up this morning, they would perform better than this.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Fermanagh v Armagh Brewster Pk Sat 19th May 7:00pm

« on: May 19, 2018, 07:48:53 PM »

Is Kieran McGeeney the biggest fraud in football?

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General discussion / Re: Another School Shooting in America

« on: May 18, 2018, 08:52:13 PM »

What is making so many kids so deranged they are willing to commit mass murder is a question that needs to be addressed

Awareness.

If the upside of the internet and other modern communications is that things like paedophilia in the Catholic Church are almost impossible to keep covered up, the downside is that the more loosely wired people of this world have greater access to the ideas, knowledge and actions of similarly loosely-wired folk.

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General discussion / Re: The Official World Cup 2018 Thread

« on: May 16, 2018, 05:43:00 PM »

Can’t see him starting Walker at centre back. That was an experiment.

Maguire and Stones with Jones or Cahill. Walker will be RWB.