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Bunch of fcukin a***oles.
Sod off and leave people get on wit htheir lives.
As for Tonto ... look at your own political bedfellows 

I think Micky Harte took a swipe at the GPA today in the Irish News after they backed the installation of barriers. .

Any chance Micky Harte would just shut up for a week or two.

I suppose Fear if micky Harte called you a b****x you'd send in 10 posts here agreeing with him 

, when the Sligo job becomes available

Hmmmm ... about 3 weeks time when Kevin W. goes back to mother Galway.

I'm amazed soccer dublin fella hasnt commented on this thread 

The population of Down & Kildare alone should be able to fill croker for All Ireland semi final but for whatever reason it won't

I suspect that 60% of the population of Down wouldnt be minded to travel 
while a lot of the Kildare crowd will probably be taking an active part in some race meeting or other.( or watching English Premier League Soccer on TV )

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fundamental inequity of the current set-up, and how easy it would be fix the one glaring anomaly. That's all I really care about, because that's all that can be addressed in practical terms.

I'm repeating myself here, enough already.

The thingy Micky Harte and his loyal followers are proposing is just  too silly for words. An un necessary extra round of meaningless games the winners of which dont get a "second chance".
Provincial Champions do get a bye to the All Ireland Quarter Finals by virtue of being Provincial Champions. Those that fail to win their Provincial Championships enter the All Ireland Championship at either Round 1, 2 or 4.
The Provincial Championships are their own separate competitions .
There is no inequality .. Down/Kerry, Dublin/Tyrone, Ros/Cork and Kildare/Meath all started the weekend of 31/7-1/8 with an equal opportunity of winning Sam under the same conditions ...win you're in the Semi/lose and you're out.
Congress (for once) had the good sense to throw out the Tyrone/Dublin silliness last April and hopefully will do the same again.
If there are to be changes to the championship system/structure it needs to be only after a long period of consultation and in conjunction with an overall package taking into account the whole scene ... Adult/Underage/County/club/NFLs/Sigersons/Hurling as well rather than once off knee jerk reactions by losing managers who should be looking at where they and their teams went wrong rather than the red herring whinges about the system.

. Nobody in Roscommon rated finneran, thats all ive heard from roscommon people since, they couldnt belive his performance, that kinda of freakish stuff is lucky enough imo.

I suppose twould have nothing to do with good management - preparation/training/mental state etc.
He did reasonably well against Cork too for a good part of the game  until Murphy came on.
They substituted their 2 midfielders .
Whatever about Sligo ...we need a whole new half back line, 2 big midfielders and at least 2 scoring forwards to take the weight off Donie before we can be considered  serious contenders.
We have potential for the HB line, possibilities but only in about 3 years time for midfield and with Senan back and maybe Devaney interested we will have some help for Donie next year.
Mayowr and Galway will be back re juvenated and enthusiastic again next year and Sligo will just have to try again.
And with a likelihood of  no outstanding teams at National level next year Connacht could have a good enough year.
Only last year the question was how bad is Leinster football ...now they have 2 teams in the last 4 and the possibility of an All Leinster Final.

Some very angry ( and no wonder !!!) Louth fans come in on the pitch from the Stands and have a go at the Ref. A Steward it hit on the head by a plastic bottle thrown from the Stand.
Answer === put a big fence on front of Hill16.
You couldnt make it up 

The proposed Harte/Tyrone shite system won't make it better anyway.

As you might say yourself Strabaneman   ROT !!!

Present system = you play in your Provincial Championship ...either win it ...then a bye to All Ireland Quarter Final or lose and you enter the All Ireland at Round 1 or 2.
Any team loses a game in the All Ireland Championship = OUT.

Perfectly fair understandable and equitable.
Micky Harte's nonsense = Provincial winners get to lose a game in the all ireland Championship and get back in. So a team goes unbeaten to the All Ireland Final and then loses.
Have to replay the Final "because ALL teams must get a second chance".
No wonder Congress in one of its more lucid moments threw that out.

He had no complaints about it on 2008 nor had th'other bucko in 2009.

On RTE Radio Sports this morning they had a piece on the FAI's Finances.
They mentioned the C E O took a pay cut of €17,000 p.a giving him a new REDUCED !!!! figure of €435,000 ( FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND EURO !!!!) which is more than the GAA Ard Stiúthóir and IRFU Secretary put together.

All I can say is

Why on earth would he condemn an attempot on the life of one of the queens agents of oppesssion if hes a republican?

Does he claim expenses as a Councillor?
Surely he should refuse to take his seat on a body set up by a Brit Act of Parliament?

As repeated ad nauseum Harte and O'Connor are whinging because their teams lost.
Unlike Kilkenny their teams had too many of yesterday's men,were on the downwards slope and were beaten by younger fresher teams.
Maybe they should ask themselves did they pick the right players, had they prepared them properly and all the other questions managers should be asking themselves after a defeat.