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His twitter feed is weird.

If you want to find a really weird one have a look at Colm Parkinson's personal one. The man has gone full Graham Linehan as it seem his only personal thoughts are about trans women.

In fairness to O'Rourke it's his first season. Padraic Joyce only got going in year 3.

Doubt O'Rourke will see three years with Meath that's the difference. He could well walk after this years championship.

They showed serious patience with McEntee to be fair.

Spending more time promoting the deeply racist gript website rather than his own employers might have played a part.

To be fair McKenna has been calling out the double standards in all this Covid BS. There is a tsunami of problems coming down the line. Our Government, our media and our public servants have their comfortable heads in the sand. 

Most people are drifting along in this made-up form of living. Others as sinking financially, mentally and health wise.

Or he has been a poor mans Dunphy/Brolly commenting on something he doesn't understand in alarming volume and alligning himself with the only group who agree with him in the fascist right?

Is he still with the wife?

Says he is alone in the apartment so no idea

He prob has the madras to keep him company.

https://twitter.com/EwanMacKenna/status/1381334352706072576

Did you know that he never won Sports Journalist or Sports Writer of the Year award like he claims?
Won a possibly less prestigous award called Sports Reporter of the Year in 2012. The only other person to receive that award was Roy Curtis in 2013 so he is in esteemed company.
http://journalismawards.ie/previous-winners/

Something to do as a bit of fun and to waste some time.
Posters pick a 15 from the last 30 years in a draft format and put their teams against one another to see who has the sharpest mind at putting together a football team.
An example of what I'm shiteing on about from the boards.ie soccer forum.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=110529515
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=110557610
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058002711

I put my name down to enter anyway, hopefully we can get a few volunteers.

Thats a nice jersey and it might be no harm for them to alternate between black and white from now on.

They won by 7 in the end.

Any Kildare people out there tell me why johnstownbridge are only 1/6 against Round Towers? looking at league and Championship placings and it doesnt add up

JTB had loads of county players missing for the league, Towers aren't great.

The 2016 replay was a great occasion to be fair, same with the hurling ones. Most major sporting finals do be on Saturday evenings.

Sludden was not at the races today I didn't think

His 1-2 from play in a low scoring game today was a huge contribution.

Clifford doesn't deserve an All-Star. YPotY.

Check out his Super 8s stats on his own dedicated thread.  Howard of Dublin could win the YPOTY before him.

Clifford played in the far weaker of the two groups and on a team that won a single match of three. Distant losers in the AIQFs rarely net many All-Stars no matter what their stats are. If he gets one it's just the usual Kerry-Dublin-Mayo bias at work.

His scoring ratio would probably be even higher in the other group as he would then play against that wide open Roscommon defence that marks space instead of their men.

He did have a Kildare team who threw in the towel when sent down to 14 men which was just the same. Neill Flynn's scoring rate per minutes played in this championship is probably as good as anyone's but he won't be getting nominated.

Was awful today

The ref gave the Dubs everything too...as he did when they played Longford. Awful

I don't know about that, Galway got a few soft frees in the first half which kept them in it. Dublin got a couple in the second half. He ignored a lot of blocking off the ball by both teams, if done by the rules there would have been a few black cards.

Well then the only thing for it is 4 Provincial teams and have a 5 Team All Ireland Championship.
Let the Counties play Provincials without Dublin.

I had a similar proposal here a few months back. Make Dublin a province with it's 4 established counties. Revive the Railway cup (5 team round robin, no final, games played in Winter when county championships are over so most players available) so the Dubs can still have their traditional team to get behind for 4 games.

I'd let them get their 6 or 7 in a row first but it should be done by the early to mid 2020's.

Tyrone and Galway now proven to be nowhere near the Dubs. Hopes lie with Monaghan who where beaten by Fermanagh this year.

People need to wake up from the dreamworld that Dublin are regressing and football will turn a corner soon. The game we love is dying, being turned into a corporate procession. A famous quote by one of the Dublin supporters on here was that Flynn, Connolly, Brogan and MDMA were the golden generation and when they aged Dublin would drop into the chasing pack. That's not happening, with the flair of previous Dublin teams being transmuted into the workmanlike efforts of Scully, Howard, Small, Kilkenny and Mannion.

Of their starting forwards today only Dean Rock was over 25.

Nobody has managed to do better at Cavan than him since he left anyway and he built a strong enough team there.