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Tyson v Jake Paul has been postponed indefinitely

Reason?

True. Tyrone very Jekyll and Hyde.

I think a simple tweak would improve the whole GAA year.

All-Ireland should be restricted to 8 counties. Four provincial winners, (a revamped) Tailteann Cup winners and the next three top placed teams in the league. Two groups of four with top team in each group going through to semi-final and second and third place into quarter finals. These groups would be far more competitive as you have the top 8 teams playing off against each other each week. It would also remove the nonsense we have now of three rounds of group games to reduce the All-Ireland from 16 to 12 teams. It would make the league highly competitive if you brought in a rule that top two teams in division 2 place higher than bottom two teams in division 1 for seeding purposes. Therefore, the likes of Monaghan and Roscommon would have missed out this year. Galway as they finished 6th would have had to win Connaught to stay in the All-Ireland championship (which they did) but it would have added even more excitement and jeopardy to the Connaught Final with the stakes raised knowing the consequences of losing. 

I would then have a second and third national competition for the remaining 25 counties. Tailteann Cup for next 12 teams and a third tier competition for next 12 teams plus New York.

The second tier competition this year would have comprised of Roscommon, Monaghan, Cavan, Cork, Meath, Louth, Fermanagh, Kildare, Down, Westmeath, Clare and Sligo. All very evening matched teams with the carrot and incentive of winning the competition knowing that there is a guaranteed place in the All-Ireland Championship for next year.   

For the third tier you have Antrim, Offaly, Wicklow, Limerick, Laois, Leitrim, Wexford, Longford, Carlow, Tipperary, London, Waterford and New York to be added in a knock-out qualifier game. A criticism of the Tailteann Cup is that with a couple of bigger counties dropping into it, it means that smaller counties such as Leitrim, Carlow etc. still do not have realistic chances of ever winning the competition. In this competition any of the teams named who manage to get a bit of form and momentum has a serious crack at winning it and gaining automatic promotion to the higher grade for the following year.

In this model all of the teams are playing teams of a similar standard, have realistic ambitions of winning a national title at championship level and with an opportunity to advance and move up if they gain success.         

Feck I actually like this!

Updated Power Rankings - Have seen every team play in the All Ireland Series at this stage now.

1. Dublin - No change
2. Kerry - No change
3. Galway - Up 5 places
4. Donegal - No change
5. Derry - Down one place
6. Mayo - Down one place
7. Armagh - Down one place
8. Tyrone - Down one place
9. Cork- Up 2 places
10. Roscommon - Up 2 places
11. Monaghan - Down one place
12. Louth - Up 2 places
13. Down - No change
14. Cavan - Down 2 places
15. Sligo - Up one place
16. Westmeath - Up one place
17. Meath - Down 2 places
18. Kildare - No change
19. Clare - No change
20. Fermanagh - No change
21. Antrim - Up 4 places
22. Wexford - No change
23. Laois - Up 1 place
24. Leitrim - Up 2 places
25. Wicklow - Down one place
26. Limerick - Up 2 places
27. Offaly - Down 6 places
28. Carlow - Up 1 places
29. Longford - Down 2 places
30. Tipp - Up one place
31. Waterford - Down
32. London - No change
33. New York - No change

Galway ahead of Donegal?

Only because they were division 1.

Wouldn't be much in it.

think 2 to 8 could all beat each other.

8th are Tyrone, unlikely on this years form.

They could and probably should have beaten Donegal the first day though

I think the Armagh bench could be the winning of this game.

Hopefully.

No Kelly, Finnerty or Comer for Galway, though Tierney and McDaid are back in the starting 15.

They'll get it tight.

Updated Power Rankings - Have seen every team play in the All Ireland Series at this stage now.

1. Dublin - No change
2. Kerry - No change
3. Galway - Up 5 places
4. Donegal - No change
5. Derry - Down one place
6. Mayo - Down one place
7. Armagh - Down one place
8. Tyrone - Down one place
9. Cork- Up 2 places
10. Roscommon - Up 2 places
11. Monaghan - Down one place
12. Louth - Up 2 places
13. Down - No change
14. Cavan - Down 2 places
15. Sligo - Up one place
16. Westmeath - Up one place
17. Meath - Down 2 places
18. Kildare - No change
19. Clare - No change
20. Fermanagh - No change
21. Antrim - Up 4 places
22. Wexford - No change
23. Laois - Up 1 place
24. Leitrim - Up 2 places
25. Wicklow - Down one place
26. Limerick - Up 2 places
27. Offaly - Down 6 places
28. Carlow - Up 1 places
29. Longford - Down 2 places
30. Tipp - Up one place
31. Waterford - Down
32. London - No change
33. New York - No change

Galway ahead of Donegal?

Only because they were division 1.

Wouldn't be much in it.

think 2 to 8 could all beat each other.

Would hope mc cabe starts.

Not sure who drops out for him though. Same with Oisin O'Neill and Nugent both definitely deserve starts.

What ever about the local politicians running for Westminster - the only real interest I have in that is the nationalist v unionist count at the end of it. An increase in the number of nationalists might nudge us further towards a border poll.

It feels inevitable that the Tories are going to lose in a landslide Labour victory and as much as I want to see that, I can't help but feel Starmer is not going to change much. I'm not a fan of his. It's such a pity Labour aren't going in with a Corbyn-esque leader who I think would do some real good. I know he wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but I think he was honest and had the good of all people at heart.

Starmer is the continuity candidate.

Starmer is basically a tory

Another p***k!

I see the SDLP are running in all 18 areas. Eastwood is a joke.

SF running in 14.

He's a p***k. Any chance he'll he'll booted out of Foyle

You can bet any problem or complaint will be blamed on Jeffrey

I said this before but some MLA should tackle this head on and go to town on these clowns.

Call all the heads of insurers into a committee meeting and grill the f&"k out of them.

Complete rip off.

Easy vote winner.

I'd wait for a better source before ruling out any Armagh man. (Bar Conor O'Neill)

SF not standing in Belfast East, Belfast South and Mid Down, Lagan Valley and North Down.
Another few votes for Alliance to stop the DUP.

Will alliance do the same in fst?

Is his injury from that stamp? He's injury prone anyway but to be injured from that act must be infuriating.

Hamstring apparently.