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#61
GAA Discussion / Top 3 all Ireland-less clubs who deserve to win one
November 11, 2022, 08:14:34 PM #62
General discussion / How many 32 counties players have played in the Champions League ?
November 03, 2022, 07:40:09 AM
Is Davis the only one now ?
#63
GAA Discussion / Which teams have the most county titles in your county ?
October 31, 2022, 08:50:28 AM
I was looking at Roscommon the other day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscommon_Senior_Football_Championship
Some teams win whatever the decade. Some got organised 40 or 50 years ago. Some stopped in the 40s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscommon_Senior_Football_Championship
Some teams win whatever the decade. Some got organised 40 or 50 years ago. Some stopped in the 40s.
#64
GAA Discussion / Wickla sign 300K pa sponsorship deal
October 28, 2022, 06:59:37 PM #65
General discussion / What's your earliest soccer World Cup memory?
October 26, 2022, 06:13:45 PM
Go on, go on
#66
GAA Discussion / GAA referee campaign
October 21, 2022, 10:18:30 AM
https://twitter.com/RTEgaa/status/1580623309540306945
https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2022/1020/1330310-the-case-for-putting-microphones-on-gaa-referees/
Who would benefit from referees giving post-match interviews? Would it be an opportunity for fans to better understand the decisions made on the pitch? Could it offset some of the anger that builds in the wake of supposedly controversial decisions?
Referees rarely, if ever, give post-match interviews. But perhaps if they did, would we the fans, the players, the mentors - and the referees themselves - receive any benefit? Perhaps.
After a recent trial in August conducted by TG4, in which they mic'd up referee John O'Halloran for the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship final, there were several people who were enthused by the idea.
As the action unfolded, viewers were able to understand exactly why the referee made a certain decision.
This is not a new phenomenon; it has been the case for several years in sports such as American football and rugby union - a sport others look to as the standard bearer for respecting match officials.
Referee John O'Halloran who was mic'd up
"At the moment, there probably isn't that protocol in place where I can come out and explain a decision," said Cork referee Colm Lyons.
"It's all about communication. I think we can all do a bit better in terms of explaining decisions. I think most of the decisions stand for themselves. We'd be the first as referees to put our hands up and say, 'look, we got it wrong'.
"Does everybody as a player, manager, coach, selector say 'we got it wrong'? Some will, some won't. I think referees, we're very open to improving."
Earlier this year, RTÉ Head of Sport Declan McBennett hinted at the idea of mic-ing up referees after a brawl between Tyrone and Armagh players in the Allianz National League.
McBennett wished for "the ability for referees to articulate their decisions".
"That match between Armagh and Tyrone, most people didn't know why there was five players sent off. They didn't know why there was four from Tyrone and one from Armagh got sent off," said McBennett.
Or perhaps would the general public berate officials all the more if they are privy to the on-field decision making process?
"We want to come off that field and say, 'do you know what? There wasn't an incident there now that is going to cause us contention tonight'," said referee Lyons.
"Or if you're sitting down [after a game], 'will we watch The Sunday Game? Will we avoid The Sunday Game?'"
Tyrone referee Sean Hurson got the big one this year. He was the man in the middle for the All-Ireland SFC final between Kerry and Galway.
Hurson is an experienced official, with vast amounts of experience refereeing in the often intense Ulster Football Championship.
He made reference to pressure put on inexperienced referees by both players and management.
"I think when you're starting out refereeing, everybody's trying to find a weakness and they're trying to gain a benefit to their team so coaches and players are focusing on what they can get away with," said Hurson.
"The culture is there: how can we get better at beating the opposition? Sometimes they reflect on weaknesses or perceived weaknesses of the referee and unfortunately that's what's happening with our coaches.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2022/1020/1330310-the-case-for-putting-microphones-on-gaa-referees/
Who would benefit from referees giving post-match interviews? Would it be an opportunity for fans to better understand the decisions made on the pitch? Could it offset some of the anger that builds in the wake of supposedly controversial decisions?
Referees rarely, if ever, give post-match interviews. But perhaps if they did, would we the fans, the players, the mentors - and the referees themselves - receive any benefit? Perhaps.
After a recent trial in August conducted by TG4, in which they mic'd up referee John O'Halloran for the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship final, there were several people who were enthused by the idea.
As the action unfolded, viewers were able to understand exactly why the referee made a certain decision.
This is not a new phenomenon; it has been the case for several years in sports such as American football and rugby union - a sport others look to as the standard bearer for respecting match officials.
Referee John O'Halloran who was mic'd up
"At the moment, there probably isn't that protocol in place where I can come out and explain a decision," said Cork referee Colm Lyons.
"It's all about communication. I think we can all do a bit better in terms of explaining decisions. I think most of the decisions stand for themselves. We'd be the first as referees to put our hands up and say, 'look, we got it wrong'.
"Does everybody as a player, manager, coach, selector say 'we got it wrong'? Some will, some won't. I think referees, we're very open to improving."
Earlier this year, RTÉ Head of Sport Declan McBennett hinted at the idea of mic-ing up referees after a brawl between Tyrone and Armagh players in the Allianz National League.
McBennett wished for "the ability for referees to articulate their decisions".
"That match between Armagh and Tyrone, most people didn't know why there was five players sent off. They didn't know why there was four from Tyrone and one from Armagh got sent off," said McBennett.
Or perhaps would the general public berate officials all the more if they are privy to the on-field decision making process?
"We want to come off that field and say, 'do you know what? There wasn't an incident there now that is going to cause us contention tonight'," said referee Lyons.
"Or if you're sitting down [after a game], 'will we watch The Sunday Game? Will we avoid The Sunday Game?'"
Tyrone referee Sean Hurson got the big one this year. He was the man in the middle for the All-Ireland SFC final between Kerry and Galway.
Hurson is an experienced official, with vast amounts of experience refereeing in the often intense Ulster Football Championship.
He made reference to pressure put on inexperienced referees by both players and management.
"I think when you're starting out refereeing, everybody's trying to find a weakness and they're trying to gain a benefit to their team so coaches and players are focusing on what they can get away with," said Hurson.
"The culture is there: how can we get better at beating the opposition? Sometimes they reflect on weaknesses or perceived weaknesses of the referee and unfortunately that's what's happening with our coaches.
#67
General discussion / Tyrone question
October 06, 2022, 02:39:06 PM
I see from wikipedia that there is a townland in Tyrone called Balix lower.
Is anyone on the Board from there ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archaeological_sites_in_County_Tyrone
Is anyone on the Board from there ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archaeological_sites_in_County_Tyrone
#68
GAA Discussion / What will you remember about this year's championship ?
August 26, 2022, 03:01:21 PM
Discuss
#69
General discussion / Drought
August 23, 2022, 10:34:03 PM
This is climate change .
https://www.ft.com/content/2c10693b-49f2-40db-a0c0-b46e3f706dbf
Almost half of the EU remains under drought conditions, an EU agency has said, with the weather set to remain hotter and drier until November.
This will compound fears about crop shortages and energy supply in a continent already hit by a significant reduction in gas flows from Russia.
"The combination of a severe drought and heatwaves has created an unprecedented stress on water levels in the entire EU.
https://www.ft.com/content/2c10693b-49f2-40db-a0c0-b46e3f706dbf
Almost half of the EU remains under drought conditions, an EU agency has said, with the weather set to remain hotter and drier until November.
This will compound fears about crop shortages and energy supply in a continent already hit by a significant reduction in gas flows from Russia.
"The combination of a severe drought and heatwaves has created an unprecedented stress on water levels in the entire EU.
#70
GAA Discussion / How strong is Ulster compared to the other provinces?
August 19, 2022, 10:31:21 AM
Are Armagh and Derry the real thing or will Tyrone walk all over them ?
It's a long way to Christmas
It's a long way to Christmas
#71
GAA Discussion / What was your favourite breakthrough win?
April 30, 2022, 08:57:34 AM
The sort of thing that we don't see any more. Unless Mayo break their duck.
#72
General discussion / What is the most likely future of Northern Ireland ?
April 28, 2022, 12:43:07 PM
Will the Brits continue to prop it up?
Will the South ever agree to take on the responsibility ?
Are SF competent ?
Will a pragmatic Unionism emerge?
Will Antrim ever join the Liam McCarthy permanently
Will the South ever agree to take on the responsibility ?
Are SF competent ?
Will a pragmatic Unionism emerge?
Will Antrim ever join the Liam McCarthy permanently
#73
GAA Discussion / Top 5 players of all time from your county
April 17, 2022, 12:30:36 PM
I went to an ice hockey match in Switzerland recently. One element that could be transferred to the GAA was 5 home jerseys with the names and squad numbers of 5 players suspended above the centre circle. In GAA they could be in the stand.
They represent the 5 best ever players as chosen by the fans. What 5 would you choose for your county ?
They represent the 5 best ever players as chosen by the fans. What 5 would you choose for your county ?
#74
General discussion / The next recession
February 22, 2022, 06:55:35 PM
You may have noticed the return of inflation recently. Supply chain price increases have turned up in Dunnes and Lidl and at the petrol pumps. This is not a temporary phenomenon. Inflation was generated in the US and imported everywhere else. The Federal Reserve was responsible because it tore the arse out of the Money Supply in 2020 when markets crashed.
So what ?
Central Banks will now try to put smacht on inflation by increasing interest rates and reducing liquidity. Share prices will fall. Speculative assets such as Bitcoin have already fallen significantly.
. It could get very messy.
If you want to make money have a look at gold. Gold prices tend to move up when chaos reigns.
https://www.ft.com/content/aeb0990d-8b71-40f1-8a8c-3dbfc49e1122
"Even after the events of March 2020 [the Covid crash], forgetfulness in the markets always returns, and most people are complacent again," he says. Now, though, western central banks and treasuries are much less willing (or able) to rescue institutions, markets or investors. There is just too much official debt to manage at a time of high inflation."
So what ?
Central Banks will now try to put smacht on inflation by increasing interest rates and reducing liquidity. Share prices will fall. Speculative assets such as Bitcoin have already fallen significantly.
. It could get very messy.
If you want to make money have a look at gold. Gold prices tend to move up when chaos reigns.
https://www.ft.com/content/aeb0990d-8b71-40f1-8a8c-3dbfc49e1122
"Even after the events of March 2020 [the Covid crash], forgetfulness in the markets always returns, and most people are complacent again," he says. Now, though, western central banks and treasuries are much less willing (or able) to rescue institutions, markets or investors. There is just too much official debt to manage at a time of high inflation."
#75
GAA Discussion / New All Ireland system vote this weekend
January 22, 2022, 08:48:03 AM
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/green-proposal-for-football-championship-reform-likely-to-get-green-light-1.4782418
Seán Moran
This morning's Central Council meeting is likely to favour the green proposal for football championship reform.
This morning's Central Council meeting is expected to start the process for a new football championship, which will be introduced in 2023. Before the delegates are two proposals - red and green - to reform the All-Ireland.
Both provide for additional summer matches for counties but the latter retains the central role of the provincial championships in the GAA calendar as opposed to banishing them to the early months of the year and replacing them with the league as foundation of the summer championship.
The green proposal is overwhelmingly favoured to secure the backing for submission to next month's congress where it is likely to be passed. This morning it's on the cards that the red alternative will be dropped without discussion.
One well-placed source said, "if it went to congress in the morning, I think it (green) would get 70 per cent."
Both blueprints include the Tailteann Cup, the new Tier 2 championship that is being introduced this year under the current format.
There are two critical concerns. One is that the previous attempt at round robin matches, the Super 8s, wasn't a success and secondly, for the Tailteann Cup to succeed, players need to engage with it and experience of Tier 2 competitions hasn't been positive in that regard.
Hopes are however high that the current proposal can achieve progress on both of those fronts, as the football championship opened up in 2021 and players have been increasingly looking for the realistic competitive context of a graded championship in recent years.
The genesis of both proposals before Central Council is last October's special congress at which Option B, a league-based championship, got a razor thin majority, well short of the required 60 per cent.
As change was in the air, a task force was dispatched to come up with a version that would prove agreeable to the broadest swathe of GAA opinion. They settled on an idea, originally floated 10 years ago by former association president, Seán Kelly.
That is the green proposal, with its four round-robin All-Ireland groups, based on a combination of final placings in provincial championships and national league.
The 16 counties who don't make it proceed to the Tailteann Cup, which mirrors the Sam Maguire structure.
The first objective of the task force that produced the proposals was to define what principles should inform their work or what purpose the championship should serve for the best interests of the GAA.
Distilled, those principles were: raising the standard by providing more games at an appropriate level for all teams but especially developing counties; retaining positive aspects of the current system; avoiding dead rubbers, fitting the available footprint; retaining current opportunities to be a winner and give all teams a chance of winning Sam Maguire; be easy to understand and have public acceptance.
Seán Moran
This morning's Central Council meeting is likely to favour the green proposal for football championship reform.
This morning's Central Council meeting is expected to start the process for a new football championship, which will be introduced in 2023. Before the delegates are two proposals - red and green - to reform the All-Ireland.
Both provide for additional summer matches for counties but the latter retains the central role of the provincial championships in the GAA calendar as opposed to banishing them to the early months of the year and replacing them with the league as foundation of the summer championship.
The green proposal is overwhelmingly favoured to secure the backing for submission to next month's congress where it is likely to be passed. This morning it's on the cards that the red alternative will be dropped without discussion.
One well-placed source said, "if it went to congress in the morning, I think it (green) would get 70 per cent."
Both blueprints include the Tailteann Cup, the new Tier 2 championship that is being introduced this year under the current format.
There are two critical concerns. One is that the previous attempt at round robin matches, the Super 8s, wasn't a success and secondly, for the Tailteann Cup to succeed, players need to engage with it and experience of Tier 2 competitions hasn't been positive in that regard.
Hopes are however high that the current proposal can achieve progress on both of those fronts, as the football championship opened up in 2021 and players have been increasingly looking for the realistic competitive context of a graded championship in recent years.
The genesis of both proposals before Central Council is last October's special congress at which Option B, a league-based championship, got a razor thin majority, well short of the required 60 per cent.
As change was in the air, a task force was dispatched to come up with a version that would prove agreeable to the broadest swathe of GAA opinion. They settled on an idea, originally floated 10 years ago by former association president, Seán Kelly.
That is the green proposal, with its four round-robin All-Ireland groups, based on a combination of final placings in provincial championships and national league.
The 16 counties who don't make it proceed to the Tailteann Cup, which mirrors the Sam Maguire structure.
The first objective of the task force that produced the proposals was to define what principles should inform their work or what purpose the championship should serve for the best interests of the GAA.
Distilled, those principles were: raising the standard by providing more games at an appropriate level for all teams but especially developing counties; retaining positive aspects of the current system; avoiding dead rubbers, fitting the available footprint; retaining current opportunities to be a winner and give all teams a chance of winning Sam Maguire; be easy to understand and have public acceptance.
#76
General discussion / Did the South fail Northern catholics ?
January 17, 2022, 07:20:43 PM #77
GAA Discussion / 2022 matches bar all irelands to be decided on the day. No more draws
November 20, 2021, 08:48:57 PM
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/intercounty-matches-set-to-be-decided-on-the-day-from-2022-1.4734523
Intercounty matches set to be decided on the day from 2022Proposal doesn't include All-Ireland finals but now includes semis and provincial finals
Intercounty matches set to be decided on the day from 2022Proposal doesn't include All-Ireland finals but now includes semis and provincial finals
#78
GAA Discussion / 50 years of the all Ireland club championships
November 17, 2021, 08:43:00 AM
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/sean-moran-fifty-years-a-growing-all-ireland-club-finals-reach-major-milestone-1.4730708
My first experience of the phenomenon though was in the spring of 1990 when I visited Baltinglass in Wicklow, as they sized up the All-Ireland final against Clann na nGael from Roscommon.
It was dark and cold but there was palpable excitement about being in the an All-Ireland final – the only previous such distinction in those parts had been Wicklow's junior title all the way back in 1936. They had the familiar club assembly of brothers, O'Briens, Murphys and Kennys and were trained by corner forward Tommy Murphy.
What impact has it on clubs and their neighbourhoods? Well, to this day there's a sign on the N81 welcoming people to Baltinglass, 'All-Ireland club champions 1990'.
Martin Coleman, then club secretary, says that younger people around the club still ask about the day of the All-Ireland and that, before the semi-final, the pitch was thronged with volunteers from all over the county forking the surface to drain it in time for the match.
He also recounts how when at a women's football awards event, he met Cumann Peil na mBan president Micheál Naughton from Donegal and as soon as he mentioned being from Baltinglass, the recognition was immediate: All-Ireland club champions.
My first experience of the phenomenon though was in the spring of 1990 when I visited Baltinglass in Wicklow, as they sized up the All-Ireland final against Clann na nGael from Roscommon.
It was dark and cold but there was palpable excitement about being in the an All-Ireland final – the only previous such distinction in those parts had been Wicklow's junior title all the way back in 1936. They had the familiar club assembly of brothers, O'Briens, Murphys and Kennys and were trained by corner forward Tommy Murphy.
What impact has it on clubs and their neighbourhoods? Well, to this day there's a sign on the N81 welcoming people to Baltinglass, 'All-Ireland club champions 1990'.
Martin Coleman, then club secretary, says that younger people around the club still ask about the day of the All-Ireland and that, before the semi-final, the pitch was thronged with volunteers from all over the county forking the surface to drain it in time for the match.
He also recounts how when at a women's football awards event, he met Cumann Peil na mBan president Micheál Naughton from Donegal and as soon as he mentioned being from Baltinglass, the recognition was immediate: All-Ireland club champions.
#79
GAA Discussion / if you could rename your club
November 08, 2021, 02:32:52 PM
A lot of GAA clubs are named after saints eg St Marys, St Patricks or revolutionary figures eg Wolfe Tones, Pearses.
If you could rename your club, what would the name be ?
If you could rename your club, what would the name be ?
#80
General discussion / The fall of Barcelona
October 28, 2021, 01:53:11 PM
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2021/1027/1256297-barca-sack-koeman-after-defeat-to-rayo-vallecano/
FC Barcelona have fired tonight Ronald Koeman as the first team coach," the club said on Twitter.
Barcelona are ninth in La Liga on 15 points from 10 games, six points behind leaders Real Madrid who beat them 2-1 at the Camp Nou on Sunday.
They are third in their Champions League group with three points from three matches after suffering 3-0 defeats in their opening two games against Bayern Munich and Benfica.
Barcelona are five-times European champions and the results marked the first time in the club's history that they had failed to score in their opening two European games.
FC Barcelona have fired tonight Ronald Koeman as the first team coach," the club said on Twitter.
Barcelona are ninth in La Liga on 15 points from 10 games, six points behind leaders Real Madrid who beat them 2-1 at the Camp Nou on Sunday.
They are third in their Champions League group with three points from three matches after suffering 3-0 defeats in their opening two games against Bayern Munich and Benfica.
Barcelona are five-times European champions and the results marked the first time in the club's history that they had failed to score in their opening two European games.