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I think it is pretty simple, if Limerick play to their potential there isn't a team to touch them. If they have the hunger back which it appears they do, then I can't see anyone getting close.

Clare will be glad to be out of that division, the level difference in the two games was huge. Hoping that Tipp can bounce back and get the form back from late last season.

yes,
  they are a formidable outfit and Cork weren't great yet go to within 2 points of Limerick with 10 minutes to go.

Limerick saw them off well in the end, but their dominance wasn't reflected in the scoreboard in the second half.

They'll need to put teams away much more clinically come championship or they could get caught with a sucker punch.

The first game was very cagey and TBH Dublin do my head in with the way they approach these games.

In the Leinster RR v Kilkenny and again on Sunday they seemed to have this thing about playing defensively and "keeping in the game" for as long as possible and only put on a bit of a spurt late on only to come up short.

They tried something similar v Cork in the AI semi and were blown away.

How about going at it full bore from the get go rather than trying to chase down 8 and 9 point leads with 10 minutes to go?

They also have a great target man in Hetherington, yet against Cork and again on Sunday starved him of the ball down on top of him he thrives on. He's no Guillane to be running out to the wings for a low ball into space, it's not his game, so why feckin do it?

For me the Dubs should be coming out of Leinster well, but you can't be sure of them at all.

Clare will be disappointed with their performance in general no matter what Lohan says, some big players are still a bit off their best, David Fitzgerald and Duggan in particular. Both will be needing better games in the coming weeks to take the pressure of Kelly and O'Donnell. Meehan does seem to have stepped up though and that's a bonus.

Seems Daire O'Leary has a hamstring injury and may also miss the Tipp game as will O'Donoghue, so that's a major overhaul needed in there. Mellerick will be one to get at start, but the No.3. needs a bit more thought!

Tipp will know Joyce doesn't like standing under a high ball so close to his own goal and will target him.

I'd be inclined to put Eoin Downey back in there for all his limitations he's more comfortable there than Joyce and hope that Daire O'Leary makes it back for the business end of the season if Cork are still in with a shout.

So much winning for Donny:




14M Chinese Yuan ($2M) per boat out of there is some deal.

Joyce isn't a full back and if he remains there will be targeted.
O'Donoghue had yet another tough day on Guillane but Mellerick didn't fair any better and possibly worse only for a decent save from the keeper.

Limerick don't let Cork work out short puck outs and then cleaned them out under the long ball.
For all that Cork got it back to 2 points but Limerick were the ones that kicked on.

Limerick have installed themselves as the front runners again but got caught out in a knock out game.  It'll need to be the same this year for them not to go the whole way.

Tipp now wait for Cork in Thurles in 2 weeks time. 

Whoever loses that is in a bit of bother already.

The pilot rescue fable is catnip for Americans. The entire war is a soothing distraction for them as their domestic situation worsens.

This "seriously injured " pilot managed to travel 110 miles in 24 hours to a ridge where he was extracted.

John Rambo wouldn't get a look in.

Strange thing is that the area they bombed the shite out of and landed those big planes and copters is near where Iran is supposed to have stashed the enriched uranium.

 

Note the French Russians And Chinese vetoed against using force to reopen Hormuz.

Today a French vessel passed without incident. Do not be shocked if the US and Israel start attacking French ships.

There are ships passing through the strait ok, provided you don't support the terrorist regime who started this so that's the UK and a lot of the gulf States fecked.

Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Malaysian tankers have all been given the green light.

["Judeochristian" is an oxymoron.]

Reality seems to be asserting itself thank God.

The wild card is as usual the Israelis with the seizing of Southern Lebanon.

Iran may also keep hitting now they have leverage to force concessions.

Speaking of God, in this, the most holy of times for Christians...

Judeo Christian nut jobs have taken over the White House

And Iran must have got a new batch of missiles.

Passover

"Judeochristian" is an oxymoron.

Hegseth was appointed as Lead Man on Iran because he is a "crusader Christian".

This is red meat for lazy slobs like Michael Moore, same with Trump pushing the "steal their oil" line [a la Iraq war Chomsky narrative].

They knew this war would be deeply unpopular thus he is useful fall guy.

Few know who Billionaire Epstein associate Steve Feinberg[Cereberus Capital founder]. He is Hegseths "Deputy".

Know what you mean but not exactly correct. Jesus was a jew after all. The Bible before that was a shared bible, jew , christian and muslim technically.

But a Christian in the strictest sense is a follower of the teachings of Jesus and the New Testament, not that Old Testament scorched earth, unhinged, death to everyone BS now coming out of the WH.

JudeoChristian is entirely an oxymoron but it's being lapped up by the morons in the US.

From AI:
"Judeo-Christian" refers to the shared religious, ethical, and historical foundations between Judaism and Christianity, emphasizing their common roots in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). It highlights shared values—such as honoring the Ten Commandments and the concept of a creator God—often used to describe the basis of Western civilization and moral tradition.

Reality seems to be asserting itself thank God.

The wild card is as usual the Israelis with the seizing of Southern Lebanon.

Iran may also keep hitting now they have leverage to force concessions.

Speaking of God, in this, the most holy of times for Christians...

Judeo Christian nut jobs have taken over the White House

And Iran must have got a new batch of missiles.

Passover

[Israel wanted to]

The issue for orange man is; while that all may be true, he is arguably not an inch closer to a victory than he was when the first bomb was falling.

Clearly he either didn't think it through, and/or let himself be led by the nose.... or... didn't care. Suppose can't rule that out. He's possibly thought "I'm not getting another term, so I'll f**k everyone else to benefit myself", thinking then he can probably enrich himself on the commodities market with the yoyo-ing of oil to his press releases.

As long as Iranians can substantially threaten shipping in the gulf; then inflated oil prices in the US means Trump is always facing his own electoral defeat. But as said above, if he's done this as a big financial manipulation effort, maybe he doesn't care.

The lack of any clear strategy from the US means they don't really know what "winning" is.

Killing the Ayatollah is like killing the Pope, another one will be elected, but the doctrine remains.

Getting the Strait of Hormuz opened may well be considered a win by some (if it happens) but then the Strait was open up until the US and Israel attacks started, so that in itself can only be realistically seen as a return to the norm.

Wiping out the nuclear threat, if one exists, will mean ground troops deep into the heart of Iran and that could come at a heavy price if they wish to remove enriched uranium.

Wiping out Iran's ballistic missile capability is only a temporary reprieve as the technology and knowhow is there and they'll regroup soon enough either with the help of Russia and China or not.

I don't know how this ends well for the US or Israel.

Israel wanted to
turn Iran into a failed state. This mission has failed.
The Yanks also failed.
"The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology." Mencken

With negotiations ongoing , the nuclear threat thwarted, the only question has to be, what made Trump , without a Congressional green light start bombing Iran? What was said in the call from Israel that made him do it?

You think Epstein wasn't working for Mossad then?

All 12 group winners and 12 second-place teams advance, but also the eight best third-place teams. It is going to be a long tedious group phase, not many games you would care about as a neutral in any of the groups.

Time enough watching a few games at the 1/4 finals then, anything up to that point will be shíte.

Please tell me only one team gets out of each group!

There'll be a load of dead rubbers otherwise.

[Why are people repeating the "removing uranium" crap]

Why are people repeating the "removing uranium" crap. This is obvious lies and nonsense designed to keep the narrative upheld.

Arch Neocon Robert Kagan[married to Vicky Nudleman] has put this out. Unprecedented tbh.

https://archive.is/aZrz9


"As for Israel, the United States committed to its defense out of a sense of moral responsibility after the Holocaust. This never had anything to do with American national-security interests. In fact, American officials from the beginning regarded support for Israel as contrary to U.S. interests. George C. Marshall opposed recognition in 1948, and Dean Acheson said that by recognizing Israel, the United States had succeeded Britain as "the most disliked power in the Middle East." During the Cold War, even supporters of Israel acknowledged that as a simple matter of "power politics," the United States had "every reason for wishing that Israel had never come into existence." But as Harry Truman put it, the decision to support the state of Israel was made "not in the light of oil, but in the light of justice."
Even the threat of terrorism from the region was a consequence of American involvement, not the reason for it. Had the United States not been deeply and consistently involved in the Muslim world since the 1940s, Islamic militants would have little interest in attacking an indifferent nation 5,000 miles and two oceans away. Contrary to much mythology, they have hated us not so much because of "who we are" but because of where we are".

It is pure BS, agreed, but I was just pointing out the nonsensical approach the US has taken with this war, they're making it up as they go along.

The issue for orange man is; while that all may be true, he is arguably not an inch closer to a victory than he was when the first bomb was falling.

Clearly he either didn't think it through, and/or let himself be led by the nose.... or... didn't care. Suppose can't rule that out. He's possibly thought "I'm not getting another term, so I'll f**k everyone else to benefit myself", thinking then he can probably enrich himself on the commodities market with the yoyo-ing of oil to his press releases.

As long as Iranians can substantially threaten shipping in the gulf; then inflated oil prices in the US means Trump is always facing his own electoral defeat. But as said above, if he's done this as a big financial manipulation effort, maybe he doesn't care.

The lack of any clear strategy from the US means they don't really know what "winning" is.

Killing the Ayatollah is like killing the Pope, another one will be elected, but the doctrine remains.

Getting the Strait of Hormuz opened may well be considered a win by some (if it happens) but then the Strait was open up until the US and Israel attacks started, so that in itself can only be realistically seen as a return to the norm.

Wiping out the nuclear threat, if one exists, will mean ground troops deep into the heart of Iran and that could come at a heavy price if they wish to remove enriched uranium.

Wiping out Iran's ballistic missile capability is only a temporary reprieve as the technology and knowhow is there and they'll regroup soon enough either with the help of Russia and China or not.

I don't know how this ends well for the US or Israel.

Both Italy and Denmark didn't make it through.

Czechia mustn't be a bad team after all, but Ireland will be kicking themselves going 2-0 up and blowing it.

[RDZ has had a good record in the league before and plays a style of football the fans would buy into]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/03/30/de-zerbi-facing-tottenham-fan-backlash-before-taken-job/

Roberto De Zerbi is already facing a fan backlash at Tottenham Hotspur over his previous support for Mason Greenwood.

Four supporter groups have claimed he should not be appointed because of his comments about the striker at Marseille.

De Zerbi, who has been offered a five-year deal at crisis-torn Spurs following the departure of interim manager Igor Tudor, signed former England forward Greenwood for the Ligue 1 club in the summer of 2024.

Think RDZ would be a decent fit, plays a decent style of football which Spurs supporters will demand.  The Greenwood situation would have been difficult to manage.  Surprised by the backlash from fans, if they had kept Tudor they would be 100% going to the championship. 

The backlash isn't about Tudor.

It's about a club that has spent all too long behaving like Sideshow Bob around rakes.

I know that.

RDZ has had a good record in the league before and plays a style of football the fans would buy into. 

RDZ said Greenwood was a good guy who had paid a heavy price for what he done.  Would be difficult for him to come out publicly and say Greenwoods a sc**bag. 

Spurs are in the mire, it's not about style of football in these last 7 games, it's about being hard to beat and picking up points, more than the Hammers, Forrest and Leeds who all have shown a bit of an upturn in performances recently.

Spurs are for me the most likely to go down out of those teams. They don't seem to have leaders with clear heads in that team.