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What were Mayo like? Not good by the sound of the Tyrone people on here.

Ha, funny it had to be passed yesterday, if it was any earlier, I know a few people who would be caught out!!

just to say where i'm coming from - i reside not a million miles away from a particular university in dublin where i know for 100% fact that the senior  inter county players attending there get from various sources- scholarships, free accomodation, sponsored cars, free gear,mileage, meal vouchers, and now more expenses. Just in reference to Hound and sponsored cars i personally know 20 senior inter county footballers from one particular county with sponsored cars so your estimate a bit like Bertie's tax bill is a tad low i'd say.
The association is only going one way i feel. That's towards professionalism. Anyone who can't see that is either galactically stupid or simply refuses to read between the lines. Pay only goes one way -up - anyone who earns a living wage knows that. In my view if the demands are too much -cut back in standard then . The preceived 5% drop in standard is worth not losing what we have now- which is a game which is largely untainted by the greed of professional sports. Once it's gone you can't get it back. And it's on its way.
A sad day all round.

Well put, and did I hear somewhere that there would be more negotiations in 3 years time to 'increase' the grants? I put the word increase in inverted commas because they (GPA) will hardly say we're alright we want a decrease at this stage.

Where is the pitch in Nenagh does anybody know?

It's alright, I managed to do it on another computer...

Was it Peter Solan ? A scoring machine. Got one of our goals in 1950 AI final. Scored 3 - 1 in the Connacht final 1951 v Galway in Tuam.
St. Jar won in 47 V Armagh, minus jones, with Solan a young sean Purcell and another Mayo legend Mick Flanagan who also goaled on 1950 final i think.

That's the man. You never hear of him yet he should be up there in the pantheon of household greats.

What do you mean I never heard of him? I just told you who I thought it might be

I'd say he means that one outside of Mayo nevver hears of him.

Any of you guys familiar as to how to copy files from a USB to a CD-rom? I select the files and click 'Copy this file' button but the CD box comes up blank. Is the CD faulty or is it the computer, or maybe it's me because I'm not great at these things anyway!

he was in time square having a conversation as gaelige with Des, then he sang an Irish Song he had a donegal accent when speaking Irish having never set foot in the country

That's something else... mastering the Donegal Irish, it's so hard to understand. Way harder than Corca Dhuibhne or Conamara anyway imo.

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Armagh V Meath (guy from Sligo, forget his name) - ref lacking all common sense and seemingly obsessed with nit picking at every little thing in the game, holding the match up constantly so that he could run up and down the field to chat to his umpires or dish out ticks and 13 yellow cards in a match that wasn't in any way dirty or fractious.

Yep tis Duffy, cannot stand him or his refereeing 'ability', one of the leading exponents of the refereeing style which Uladh described earlier, and is rising up the ladder for it. And his brother isn't much better either.

The same could be said for a certain D. Corcoran from Islandeady about all the yellow cards he gives out!

It took a comedian to promote the Irish language. What did the lad from Korea do? I missed the show last night cos of other things...

It's good that Campbell starts, however, how bad does Gill have to play to be dropped? Cunniffe will probably make a better halfback as he plays at chb generally. It's interesting to see Higgins moved back to cornerback again though, I thought we had him sorted out at halfback. As moysider says though, the defence will probably be a problem area this year, hopefully the workrate of the rest of the team will compensate if the defence gets caught out on Sunday.

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In fairness to the man, I dont see anything wrong with his article. Opening up Croker (for a certain amount of time) to Rugby/Soccer did not cause the end of the world or cause any damage to GAA that we know about. England came to town and everyone behaved impeccably. And he is right the media or most GAA supporters did not make any big deal of Wales playing in Croker...

It will interesting to see how long this 'certain amount of time' will be. Will the FAI and IRFU be looking to play every important international game in Croke Park now that they've got their noses in? And Rossfan, it seems we're all bigots cos rugby is the darling sport of RTÉ. 

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That's the way we do it Fuzzman, we tend to take over threads like this!!

PS, my own opinion on McDonald is that he is one of the greatest Mayo players ever. I don't know about bringing him back (to start) or not as he might slow the gameplan down. Mayo do have a very fast gameplan at the moment and if McDo came back he would probably want the ball to go through him. I do however think he should be part of the panel.

I'd say so too Barney. Fair play to the lads though for doing a 3 in a row at Connacht level anyway. Maybe the future isn't as gloomy as I certainly thought it would be with all the 'older guard' moving on from the game. Well done again.