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[Are Down not in the Sam Maguire next year anyway due to getting promoted into Div2 of the NFL?]

Good luck to the lads on Saturday, We need to win three big games to go into Sam Maguire. Should we prevail, it would culminate a promising season for the county.

I didn't realise there was a pathway from the Tailteann cup to the Sam Maguire this year.

Are Down not in the Sam Maguire next year anyway due to getting promoted into Div2 of the NFL?

Not necessarily.
Fermanagh & Kildare were in Div 2 this year.

Whatever about predicting who is going to finish where in the table, I don't think I'd have backed a single winner in those Division 1 games tonight.

They'd kill other.

If I am correct in saying that Corrigan Park is owned by the county as opposed to St Johns, then the club should not be able to dictate in cases like this if they want to be 'stubborn'

Corrigan has been owned by the Johnnies for as long as I can remember.

Might be a bit pedantic but are all the grounds not technically owned by the GAA and that's what the Trustees of the club are for.

Bigger question is will there even be a St John's club in 20/30 years?

Div 1 football and hurling.. maybe not going full on at juvenile like in the past, but I doubt very much a club that has the most senior football titles and some senior hurling titles will be folding in the next 20/30 years?

Or have I missed something?

I just have no idea how they sustain a club with no juvenile numbers. Biggest club in Belfast, when did they last compete at any level of juvenile competition/ minor?

That for me is unsustainable in the long term.

They won the minor B championship in both hurling and football last year.
They have teams at every age group.
They'll be grand.

I don't think people are too critical. I'd almost give anyone a bye ball with Dublin (perhaps, incorrectly) but Tyrone have produced enough quality underage teams to be confident against anything else. Last year against Kerry was a fcukin embarrassment. In itself, and because that's a middlin enough Kerry team.

That's true.

And got tanked. Really.

Having failed to win Ulster. Scraping by Monaghan.

And I know it's harsh. But an example of this is the 2021 POTY.

Hyde a long time now. Or is it Jekyll?

Either way.... 2 games in 2021 are doing some heavy lifting. And that's harsh because winning an All Ireland takes some doing. It's just that those performances were very much the outliers for this squad.

That being the case, why are the GAA, Sinn Féin & all other interested parties not jumping up and down about Lyons? Are they putting any pressure on him at all? I haven't heard it.
All of their focus is on the British Govt. They've written a letter to them, it's all they ever mention.

That doesn't make a lot of sense, barelegs.

You can howl that at the moon for as long as you like, Dougal, but unless someone is going to bail the project out to an eye-watering tune, then an alternative plan needs to be in the conversation.
It appears that the British Govt/Euro 2028 is the last roll of the dice on this and there is still a chance but I think most people would say that it isn't looking good at the minute.

Is Rialtas na h'Éireann really committing €50 million to that scenario?

The message I'm taking from that is that the British Government is delaying the stadium at the minute.
However, are the GAA themselves not in the middle of a tendering process which is delaying it anyway? Is the British Government holding that up? Is there a point in the British Government declaring what they can put forward until the total cost is known?

["I don't think they knew. I think it was a guess at the end of it, that's what it looked like."All the boys were saying to me they hadn't a clue. It's just hard. We probably deserved a puckout."]

"I don't think they knew. I think it was a guess at the end of it, that's what it looked like.

"All the boys were saying to me they hadn't a clue. It's just hard. We probably deserved a puckout."

No, Davy, you would have liked a puckout. You certainly didn't deserve one.

Regardless of how he arrived at the decision, the replay clearly shows that it was the correct one and that's all that matters.
Don't know what there is to yap about.

He must believe that Cargin conducted themselves disgracefully also if U15 players assaulting coaches is the threshold for such.
The coaches of both teams acted admirably in very difficult circumstances. Everyone else....well...

Pretty sure you were right.