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The direction taken by Laochra Gael and GAA Social is unavoidable and inevitable.

Don't accept that at all, there's an ever increasing number of short format retired player profiles and team/era profiles and documentaries in other sports that don't go down this route

Francie Bellew is about as dry a character you could imagine but we still listened and enjoyed it

Excellent formats include The Overlap and The Gloves Are Off (boxing)

Yes stories of personal hardship might emerge from time to time, but to go after it relentlessly week after week is an editorial decision, as I said before, I think its a deliberate decision to try and end up on an award winning podcast podium

The GAA Social's Wednesday episodes seem to be primarily about people dealing wtih sickness/addiction/tragedy, with the occasional brief tokenistic reference to football/hurling shoehorned in. Don't get me wrong, they can be interesting, but it really is shameless at this stage. The podcast equivalent of ambulance chasing.

It smacks to me of someone trying desperately to win a podcast award

He'd be the Brendan Rodgers of sports media/podcasts

Crufts 2027 $$$ you heard it here first

Not every tragedy needs the Tommy Niblock personal branding attached to it, its odious at this stage

Tyrone Intermediate champions will be weak enough compared to previous years. At Junior if Fintona get out of Tyrone they will go far.

Yep they've the forwards

See Caolan Donnelly scored a couple of goals for McAnespies in the Boston final yesterday, they've cruised the league and I guess he missed a few rounds, a serious addition for the next stage of the season

That be the league sorted for another year then, anything to be said for having flag day at the next home game?

Work rate to win back possession with relentless high pressing was the foundation.  40 phases of play for Mayo and 28 of these came from Kerry possession.

Tally must have shared the Tyrone 03 DVD with him

Makes you wonder what was going on with Derry that they didn't win a league or championship game under Tally. 

Think Agent Tally showed Derry the 2002 DVD

Its rife at the minute, head honchos at my pace on 6 figure salaries flat out doing copy and paste of chat gpt content and not a word about it, embarrassing

Work rate to win back possession with relentless high pressing was the foundation.  40 phases of play for Mayo and 28 of these came from Kerry possession.

Tally must have shared the Tyrone 03 DVD with him

Cambridge Uni taken in by fabulist and academic fraud. Amusing story.

His sporting achievements inc playing soccer/ snooker professionally and running 600 miles in 6 days.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/star-cambridge-professor-jason-arday-lied-for-years-about-raising-millions-for-charity-simon-schuster-scrubbed-financial-details-from-his-new-memoir-and-falsehoods-from-his-bio/

A phd in copy and paste, what a fecking legend     

Scoring forwards alleviate pressure on your own defence as ultimately the opposition if they have any sense will at least pay some heed to them

Kerry laughably didn't really price this in, overanxious to bring lads in who were returning from injury to eke another out where the jersey alone would be enough to spook the opposition

And it was nearly enough, Kerry massively misfired on the day yet still had their chances, Mayo couldn't capitalise and had that potential wobble feel to them for a time, at the death you'd still have backed Clifford to score the 2 pointer to force extra time

History is written by the victors and winning justifies any means in high end sport, it was a great final and Mayo fully deserved it after watching a few slip away

Without Kobe they'll not have the same x factor up front next year, but entering the championship as defending champs with a target on your back is a great problem to have

Moran now has the dual distinction of a historic Connacht championship defeat to New York and a historic All-Ireland win on his CV, goes to show how a picture can be distorted by looking at results alone, hope he sticks at it McGeeney style, and Galway and Roscommon come heavy next year, Kerry Dublin and the north will reboot, it feels 90s 00s football again and thats pretty awesome

Congratulations to Fintona Pearses on their swift return to Intermediate Football after winning the Junior League title.

Intermediate just became a lot more competitive in 2027 with Fintona coming back up. You see where Cookstown are at this year and Fintona will likely operate at a similar level next year.
Add in two coming down from Senior be it Omagh, Coalisland, Moortown or whoever and you have a real minefield in Intermediate next year.

Could the Pearses pull off back to back promotions??

Not outside the realms of possibility looking at NE, depends how championship goes, if the mgmt. stay on and how much momentum they carry into next year, then a bit of luck having full pick all year, they'd be ripe for quality young lads heading to US for the summer

Its not to be sniffed at, more of the same much needed

The Junior leagues can be a bit hit and miss but the Intermediate and Senior leagues are top class

Heard a brief snippet of some of the 'artists' in attendance singing the auld triangle, absolutely butchered it, same vibe as Shane McGowan's funeral, a clientele with their faculties shot to bits looking on the bandwagon

The auld triangle must be one of the most butchered tunes over the years