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Interesting to read the thread from back when Klopp was appointed

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=11101.msg1521898#msg1521898

Dinny, Bingo, deiseach, heganboy, muppet, AZ....serious talent lost to the board.

YESS!!!!

Slippy G. Sign him up.

sure flopps useless him staying be a good thing surely?

He is and it is.

In all seriousness it will be a good case study in terms of can a club keep performing at a high level when they lose their manager. Does having all the proper structures negate the impact of losing him.

Surely the case study has already been done with Man United.

Bob Paisley replaced Shankly. Complete domination in England and Europe for next 8-9 years....

Gutted is an understatement. Hopefully Alonso is lined up

So Jeffrey was  threatened , by  an unnamed person(s).  Very convenient 

So now he's  reduced the heat on himself and Colm  Eastwood even coming  out in support of him.

He should have  turned on the tears as well. That   would have  put the tin hat on it

Threatened by an unknown person who, when he checked hadn't voted!
How can he check if someone voted? I thought that was anonymous?
Can't be an unknown person if he knows them!

Whole thing is a deflection....ironic give  he said he wouldn't be deflected.

No sympathy for him, I don't condone threats, I mean the situation he and the dup are in. Its self made and we are all suffering for their party politics.

The person who didn't vote is wee Seamie I suspect. On the day of the election is was gurning as there was a Rangers game on that day and he was not able to vote,  according to him,  as he was away at the game. The references by wee Jeff and CCH to people on twitter is a clear shot at Bryson.

While I have little sympathy for Donaldson maybe he has grown a pair and publicly now has stood up to the back room bullies. Very pointed sitting in the HoC with all the DUP members in a row expect Junior sitting directly behind wee Jeff in the eye of the camera.

Pitch invasion on BBC iplayer about the Irish and Scottish footballers over the years was great. A reminder of when football was magic and full of personalities not like the dung on offer now. Also rather depressing reminder just how much Irish football has suffered since the influx of players from all over the world into the premier league.

Watch BBC over next few years spin the NI/Scots connection....

That was a good win in the road with about half the team missing. Bradley has slotted in very well.

With all the red cards for 6 studs on the shin the season not sure how Kluivert's wasn't one.

Paul Tierney VAR....say no more

Credit where its due. Glen were persecuted for years as a townie club that would never deliver. You only have to go back to start of Derry thread here to see that. In fact all towns were written off, as the rural clubs were the predominant forces.

Then Coleraine won it and in time Magherafelt crossed the coveted line...before Glen kicked the doors down altogether  not just winning Derry, but Ulster and now AI.

People talk about tradition, I say go ahead and make your own history. Glen proved that.

Agreed on making your own tradition but that only happens in special circumstances. This is a very gifted group of footballers in Glen and in Glass they have one of the top 5 players in the country. They nearly threw it away yesterday but got over the line.

Question now is can they back it up?  Good teams win 1,  great teams back it up. Had yesterday taken the edge off them enough or are they hungry for more. Much will depend on how much Harte expects of them for Derry. The body can only do so much so back to back will be a huge ask

Any Coldplay song.. 

Or Snow Patrol....

[diary intoleranc]

Probably frowned upon especially these days but we would have had to stay and hold our wee girls hand to help her fall asleep but when the other half was in hospital I done the "Cry it Out" method. Life saver wouldn't be the word.. Meant I had 1/2 hours in the evening to clean the house, do the washing, meal prep etc.. Also helped her sleep through the night which other half was glad off when she got out of hospital.

I used a sleep consultant (just one session) and she more or less gave me permission to do a version of "cry it out" - worked like a treat too, after two nights.  Has mainly slept through ever since.  About to transition him to a bed though - that'll be interesting...

Definitely 'cry it out',  absolutely works. Was very young with first one,  and I reckon in hindsight he had a diary intolerance,  so couldn't as he never shut up. Did it with the next 2 and it worked a treat....meant that by no 4,  many years later, I had the casting vote!!

I still have that. F**king hate meetings.

Smart hole!  I suffer the same affliction...

Some amount of boomers revealing themselves... young players probably doing a lot more training nowadays with no much recovery in between.

That too. Like i said, theres a difference in genuinely picking up an injury and needing to "person" up and play through that wee bit of pain everyone gets.

Not sure about anyone else but when I was 16/17/18 we would have trained twice a week with seniors, played senior game, minor game and trained once or twice with minors as well. 

Throw in school games on top of that.

I genuinely trained Tuesday Thursday Friday and then at the weekend from start of 1996 until October 2000 with basically no break (2 months around end of 1997 was the height of it). Also 2 gym sessions as well. Got plenty of success but it was intense

Probably frowned upon especially these days but we would have had to stay and hold our wee girls hand to help her fall asleep but when the other half was in hospital I done the "Cry it Out" method. Life saver wouldn't be the word.. Meant I had 1/2 hours in the evening to clean the house, do the washing, meal prep etc.. Also helped her sleep through the night which other half was glad off when she got out of hospital.

I used a sleep consultant (just one session) and she more or less gave me permission to do a version of "cry it out" - worked like a treat too, after two nights.  Has mainly slept through ever since.  About to transition him to a bed though - that'll be interesting...

Definitely 'cry it out',  absolutely works. Was very young with first one,  and I reckon in hindsight he had a diary intolerance,  so couldn't as he never shut up. Did it with the next 2 and it worked a treat....meant that by no 4,  many years later, I had the casting vote!!

I must be the only person watching traitors

Nope - good show and worth watching.
But it clashes with Love Island now - decisions decisions

Great entertainment,  last nights show was brilliant.

Traitors or Love Island the all stars (proper title)

Poor Jake had to leave, he didn't love anyone and Liberty shafted him.... 

Seemed like Jake matured a bit in the last few years and got the f**k out of dodge.

Paul is playing a great game in Traitors. Why Miles didnt really sink him last night when he knew he was going to get the chop is a mystery.

Miles tried but Harry played a clinker as well,  particularly sowing the seeds of 2 traitors fighting. He's playing the best game of them all

As for making the bottles at night,  filled them with boiling water going to bed and then just add the formula when you land down. Never did my 4 any harm

[Kids are made of paperEvery injury now requires surgery!! Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)]

There are a few things different from back in the day..

Pitches are harder
Shoes are different
Training in the gym
Kids are made of paper
Every injury now requires surgery!!
Players know about, hamstrings and metatarsals and ligaments (was a sore leg in my day)
Players are bigger
Diet plans

Few other factors as to why we have these injuries I'm sure..

The enjoyment I'm sure is still there but, seems like hard work in comparison to the, hill runs during the week preseasons and the drills with the ball at the weekend

Aye exactly this.  I find the young guys coming from our minor team to the senior team are all specialists in complicated injuries and are getting told they need surgery etc. 

There are no more "sore legs" its all hamstring tendinopathy this and osteitis pubis that. 

I think parents have a lot of input here putting it in their heads they are 'injured', rather than just sore. 

Yeah obviously theres going to be genuine cases of muscles going and stuff but I'd say a fair amount of the time players need to man the f**k up and play through a bit of discomfort.

Not allowed to say 'man up'. Get with the program!!!

While players now have greater conditioning opportunities etc I would question that they are any 'stronger' than we were 25 years ago. Could maybe bench press more but genuinely question their core strength. As for fitness,  I've trained teams the way we trained when I was playing and they could not do it. Simple as that

Has anyone used Doulas for their child birth?

This a job now, where some buck eejit sits with the woman during child birth and provides emotional support!

The worlds gone crazy

What about emotional support for the da?!?!  First time round I sought my emotional support half way through the job by heading to Sphinx on Stranmillis for a '1 on Chips'....thats what I call support!!!

Anyway, congrats BB on the cub,  I'd get the Tommee Tippee going asap.  Give the missus a break,  it's hard going but if an auld fart like me could do it at 45-ish then you're well fit for it. Happy mummy is a happy household....trust me on that!

I must be the only person watching traitors

Nope - good show and worth watching.
But it clashes with Love Island now - decisions decisions

Great entertainment,  last nights show was brilliant.