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I'm surprised Joe has never went into management. I remember he was very critical of the club in Belfast who he was going to take and they went for thr 'paid' option, iirc?

You'd think he get a gig somewhere. Maybe too many plates on the go with his job, podcast and writings etc. 

Didn't he offer to do the laundry and drive the bus as well? No injustice is as bad or as wrong as when Joe is scorned.

Obviously an understatement but Joe has a complicated personality, he's not just a class a narcissist coupled with being overtly sarcastic bittercnt who tells king sized porkies.
One day he's tearing strips of MH and the next day  with a certainty praising MH's prowess when managing Tyrone. Possibly Joe is bionic because all these raging contradictions have a harmony of sorts inside Joe's head.
I'm concerned though about one creepy aspect of Joe and that is his zealous espousal of the cult of the GAA where Joe is a sort of a Guru  or maybe just an apostle cum preacher, Joe the Baptist.

I just said let's see, then you went on a rant..

I'll put this out here in case people are stupid enough to think I'm supporting Russia  .. I'm not

You are the sensitive thin skinned emotional sort When I outline the situation that has been happening in Ukraine over 2 years and basically rubbish your statement of what the AFU will or might do in response to yet another civilian massacre in Ukraine, I am on a rant

Well let's see, tactics over the years with various conflicts or wars have used indiscriminate bombs to create fear..

Doesn't mean it will impact change from the aggressors, in fact might have the opposite

You don't need to wait and see, Russia has been hitting civilians targets intentionally for over 2 years now. Including double tap strikes to kill first responders and those coming to help the wounded.

Ukraine hasn't adopted their 'strategy' and they aren't going to. In fact, every time Ukraine hits a high value Russian military target such as an airfield or ship watch out for the next shopping mall or marketplace packed with civilians to get obliterated. They think they can break the will of the Ukrainian civilian population, they are wrong.

I seriously doubt that MR2 has been following the war news from Ukraine, the weak justification offered for his statement that something may change in the future would suggest so.

On hitting military targets deep inside Russia, this recent hit takes the biscuit with aplomb, A drone traveled (a new world record) 1,800km "attacking the Voronezh M long-range ballistic missile target detection radar station located in the city of Orsk on 26 May"
This radar station offered some level of protection for a vast area of land  (thousands of kms) which includes Crimea.This station can detect ATTACKMS and for example f16 fighter planes (yet to arrive) but not Stormshadow missiles or drones.
This very effective softening up strategy by the AFU of hitting active  and passive Russian  defense systems continues unabated.
The 2 radar complexes that were hit, approx value $1bn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6masppIXd1w&t=54s

Ok..

Im watching the news, documentary's, clips online like anyone else.

What are you doing different?

I am not seeing what you claim will happen

This will end up with a few retaliatory explosions in Russian cities. More than two years of war and no end in sight

And when it was pointed that the AFU do not do purposeful retaliation strikes against Russian civilians   you then claimed  that it might happen in the future (no shit!!)

Well let's see, tactics over the years with various conflicts or wars have used indiscriminate bombs to create fear..

What I come across are daily reports of indiscriminate bombing and actual targeting of Ukrainian civilians over a period of 2 years. Well documented massacres and eg the blitzing of Mariupal. I have not come across anything that one could call a retaliation by th
Not only has there been no deliberate retaliation strikes against Russian civilians in the past 2 years, there is not the slightest hint that the AFU will deviate from their very effective strategy of striking  Russian logistics and their active/passive defense systems.

Well let's see, tactics over the years with various conflicts or wars have used indiscriminate bombs to create fear..

Doesn't mean it will impact change from the aggressors, in fact might have the opposite

You don't need to wait and see, Russia has been hitting civilians targets intentionally for over 2 years now. Including double tap strikes to kill first responders and those coming to help the wounded.

Ukraine hasn't adopted their 'strategy' and they aren't going to. In fact, every time Ukraine hits a high value Russian military target such as an airfield or ship watch out for the next shopping mall or marketplace packed with civilians to get obliterated. They think they can break the will of the Ukrainian civilian population, they are wrong.

I seriously doubt that MR2 has been following the war news from Ukraine, the weak justification offered for his statement that something may change in the future would suggest so.

On hitting military targets deep inside Russia, this recent hit takes the biscuit with aplomb, A drone traveled (a new world record) 1,800km "attacking the Voronezh M long-range ballistic missile target detection radar station located in the city of Orsk on 26 May"
This radar station offered some level of protection for a vast area of land  (thousands of kms) which includes Crimea.This station can detect ATTACKMS and for example f16 fighter planes (yet to arrive) but not Stormshadow missiles or drones.
This very effective softening up strategy by the AFU of hitting active  and passive Russian  defense systems continues unabated.
The 2 radar complexes that were hit, approx value $1bn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6masppIXd1w&t=54s

[Colm is not a senior manager Latin phrases won't put the ball over the bar.]

If I were Meath County board I'd be going all out for Malachy O'Rourke.

He could transform that team if given time.

Would Meath not get their U20 manager on board?

They need a rebuild with that minor and now that U20 squad.

O'Bric should be involved in any set up but I think we need a proven senior county coach. O'Bric can take the senior role eventually.

Malachy might be an option but I would also look in Dublin as well for a manager and coaches. Someone who has been involved with Jim Gavin. 

I'd go for obric and Brennan as joint managers.  New fresh and know what is needed. They have a huge rebuild to do. Colm has brought us to the lowest level I can remember, we went from 25k expenses under Andy to 125k under Colm in one year. To do what ? Lose our seeding in Leinster, get beat by Offaly not qualify for all ire first year. Yea we won tc beating div 3/4 teams. Lucky v Antrim and Down. But we got there. Again this year no improvement in league and now another disaster in championship. Colm is not a senior manager Latin phrases won't put the ball over the bar. I'd like to see a statement from Meath cb saying that at end of campaign we wil be moving forward with a new appointment

A herbalist worked some charms in the past, stay away from teachers.

[This will end up with a few retaliatory explosions in Russian cities.]

 

This will end up with a few retaliatory explosions in Russian cities. More than two years of war and no end in sight

That's a very questionable statement, as in 'both sides do crap'. The AFU, in the main, strike at military logistic targets inside Russia as well as their vital fuel industrial economy.
Killing Russian civilians  for the sake of a retaliation would be regarded as a waste of a good AFU bomb.

Hello. Goal - Idah. O'Riley has been rubbish all day, that run & shot was his first big contribution. Alaistair Johnston my MOTM by a country mile

That was Bernardo

I couldn't believe it was Bernardo
Idah has made some strides since he arrived from Norwich, then he was a lumberer as mobile as a carthorse. He's a completely different proposition now, you'd wonder what was he doing at Norwich besides wasting his time. Brendan has done some serious rehab on him. As they say timing is everything and Brendan was waxing lyrical about both him and  Bernado post game, I'd say Idah definitely and Bernado most probably to be signed.

re advertising and broadcasting rights, wouldn't GAAGO need a separate channel for the 26 county subscribers if they were to do adverts? I presume that's why there are no adverts.
I watched the Tipp Cork game on Sunday streamed on RTE but it stuttered, I switched over to the GAAGO stream, it was steady and with 50% more bit rate. I guess that there is less demand for the GAAGO when the game is on RTE, therefore the ratio of demand  v bandwidth provided is more healthy on GAAGO.

The Wicklow Laois game was decent enough quality. I wonder how many viewed it live and later on the player.

Won the 2nd half handy enough  1-9 to 0-9

If that be the Monaghan team that starts, then it's about as good it can get, the wiry O'Hanlon fit with McAnespie and Dessie Ward returning at least to the subs bench.

As it stands now I'd say 1.Kerry 2.Louth, and a scrap for the 3rd spot between us and Meath

Hard to know what way it'll go. Monaghan have had a long rest as have we but they're on a bit of a downturn. We beat Louth in the league but if you compare the games against Dublin you'd put them ahead of us. Kerry clear winners of this group.

These 3 games will be the summation of O'Rourkes term. Now is the time to prove his worth, this is what we've been building towards. Now is the time to perform, to show what we're made of, no holding back, no more talk of building. This is it now. Let's see.

Monaghan on "a bit of a downturn" sounds not so bad  right now. Completely written off by your own mother, embedded in the long grass would be more accurate.
There's always hope though.

[Ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the programme asks why no-one was ever brought to justice]

Thurs night.  21:35  RTE  Prime Time
Ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the programme asks why no-one was ever brought to justice

Dublin-Monaghan bomb gang investigator says 'there was collusion'

The officer leading the inquiry into the activities of the loyalist gang suspected of being responsible for the Dublin and Monaghan bombings has said he has no doubt there was collusion between the gang and the British security services.

Sir Iain Livingstone heads up Operation Denton, which is examining allegations relating to the activities of the so-called Glenanne Gang, which was based in County Armagh and Mid-Ulster during the Troubles, including its role in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

There's been a lot on the radio over the past few days, but given the scale of the bombings in terms of civilian lives lost, its amazing how little has been said about it over the years.
I was in school in the 80s and 90s and it was a footnote in history class at best - there was certainly no in depth coverage or analysis. 
It seems many people have been unhappy with the Irish state response to it - presumably in terms of pressuring the British government to investigate probable collusion.  Why would the Irish state be reluctant to press the Brits about that though?

Thurs night.  21:35  RTE  Prime Time
Ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the programme asks why no-one was ever brought to justice

Dublin-Monaghan bomb gang investigator says 'there was collusion'

The officer leading the inquiry into the activities of the loyalist gang suspected of being responsible for the Dublin and Monaghan bombings has said he has no doubt there was collusion between the gang and the British security services.

Sir Iain Livingstone heads up Operation Denton, which is examining allegations relating to the activities of the so-called Glenanne Gang, which was based in County Armagh and Mid-Ulster during the Troubles, including its role in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

There's been a lot on the radio over the past few days, but given the scale of the bombings in terms of civilian lives lost, its amazing how little has been said about it over the years.
I was in school in the 80s and 90s and it was a footnote in history class at best - there was certainly no in depth coverage or analysis. 
It seems many people have been unhappy with the Irish state response to it - presumably in terms of pressuring the British government to investigate probable collusion.  Why would the Irish state be reluctant to press the Brits about that though?

Simply put, it was totally down to the lack of interest by  the toxic sludge  FG/Lab coalition government of the day to do anything other than exploit it for their own interests.

[Ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the programme asks why no-one was ever brought to justice]

Thurs night.  21:35  RTE  Prime Time
Ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the programme asks why no-one was ever brought to justice

Dublin-Monaghan bomb gang investigator says 'there was collusion'

The officer leading the inquiry into the activities of the loyalist gang suspected of being responsible for the Dublin and Monaghan bombings has said he has no doubt there was collusion between the gang and the British security services.

Sir Iain Livingstone heads up Operation Denton, which is examining allegations relating to the activities of the so-called Glenanne Gang, which was based in County Armagh and Mid-Ulster during the Troubles, including its role in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

BR knows exactly how to wind up Clement

I'll watch Spurs v Man City not Rangers - Rodgers

Brendan was asked if he will be keeping an eye on the action at Ibrox, Rodgers said: "Not really, no. I'll watch Tottenham-Man City."

"Our only focus is on ourselves and preparing for the game. Outwith that, we can't control anything else."