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on turbidy now.

seems to be a bit of a defensive crisis.  Taken from the bbc website

Liverpool have a defensive headache with Jamie Carragher suspended and Martin Skrtel (ankle) set to miss out.

Daniel Agger can resume playing after his foot problem but he will not be risked, meaning Alvaro Arbeloa could partner Sami Hyypia in the centre.

Very quiet this last while here lads.
Any news from the senior set up??
Clucker and Brewster any closer to full fitness??

Drici is there any way of getting odds for this years Ulster minor championship??

I like many others on the board have spent abit of time travelling.  Spent the end of the summer06 in Asia and had one of the best nights craic in my life listening to the Mayo-Dublin semi final over the internet in Chang Mai in a hostel with a crowd of fellas from Dublin and Mayo.  Micheal painted some picture for us and seeing the looks from The English lad's trying to work out what we were doing and what the fella on the radio was saying. Priceless  There were about 10 of us sitting around there. Was great to see 2 sets of supporters giving it their all and after(And during) the match, well we had a good session of the finest Chang beer we could find.
Also was in Australia in O7 and joined a club in Perth for about 4 months.  They were great craic and a fine group of people who provide social connections to the emigrated Irish communties and those that are there(like myself) for a bit of a holiday.
Supposed i never fully appreciated exactly what The GAA did until i left it behind and exactly what a huge part of my life it was and is. It gives you a sense of belonging and community no matter if you are part of a club in Ireland,England, America, Australia or anywhere else.  It's uniquely Irish and long may it continue

Taken from http://www.hoganstand.com/fermanagh/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=89808

Fermanagh footballers get new dates
20 February 2008


Unlike Cork, the weather-jinxed footballers of Fermanagh have been given new dates for their two postponed NFL matches.

Amazingly, both Erne County Division Three games to date have been foiled by the weather - one by rain, the other by fog.

The home match against Limerick has been re-fixed for Saturday March 22 at Lisnaskea. And the away clash with neighbours Leitrim, which was supposed to be Fermanagh's opener, goes ahead in Carrick-on-Shannon on March 9.

What should have been Fermanagh's third-round outing - away to Longford - will now serve as their opener on March 2. Weather permitting, of course... Pessimists in the midlands are bracing themselves for a downpour of frogs...

Utd fans telling you that theChampions League is nothing more than a glorifed cup competition but then 5 minutes later tell you that the current Utd or Chelsea team needs to win it to be regarded as a great team 

FG, did you not think it was strange that the field should have been reseeded by ploughing it early last year when newer seeding and pitch renovation technologies are available from those within your own county?

TYP as far as i know some of those newer technologies are being used.  The grass is off a similar type to that being used on Faldo's Golf Course out in CastleHume.  It has knitted together remarkable well in such a quick time and so,(touch wood) seems to be doing a great job despite heavy rain recently.
It was only really reseeded in August/September due to the fact that they wanted to make sure that all of the remaining work involving heavy machinery on the field was finished. 

have to agree Irvinestown should be upgraded at least the traffic would be easier managed than Tempo but whats keeping Brewster park in reopening i work in the town and there never sees to be much activity around it.

its a disgrace that the county board have not got brewster up and going by now.

Gerry as regards Brewster the main thing holding things up is the pitch.  Is was only laid there in the Winter and it takes time to bed.  the main aim seems to be the Championship game against Monaghan with a possibility that the last league match against wexford might be played there.
As to why it took so long.  It was a huge job.  The pitch had to be re-done and it could not be done until everything else was finished. The Pitch also had to have the hollow on the Cornagrade end of the ground taken out of it too.  there were a few problems that needed fixing with the main stand and the flood lights had to be installed.  Also the far end has now been completely terraced and disabled access had to be added for the main stand.  These things take time and its better they did the thing right than fix it in bits and pieces.

Fermanaghandsam, I not going to repeat myself after this but the matter of the rained off game was quite simple - the field was playable at 10am when officially inspected.  For the following 4 hours there was persistent rain (sleet as well) - I know this to be fact as I live within a stones throw of the field in question.  At 1pm- ish I didn't expect there would be a game with the volume that fell.  I don't know where you were but you were not near the area or you would have been aware of the rainfall as were most residents of the county. - No one in Leitrm was surprised the game was eventually called off - although to be fair everyone would have liked to have known much earlier to prevent teams and supporters from traveling - Unfortunately by 1pm it was the ref's call.   By the way some of Leitrm players would have had longer journeys to the game then some from Fermanagh ! 
To finish off - the rain could have eased off just as much as fog could have lifted - the weather didn't ease in either case.  So stop pontificating innocence and implying guilt elsewhere.

Right Big john I have to take you up on a couple of points.
Firstly the match was called off on Sunday at 2 p.m.  I was in the ground when the match was callled off.  That is far too late.  The referee was interviewed afterwards on Rte 1 and when asked whether he was asked to come early and inspect the pitch he was told no.  So the fault there lies with someobody in the Leitrim county board.
Secondly i happened to be on the rip in Carrick on the Saturday night and it bucked rain on Saturday night well into the early morning.  The rain that fell on Sunday morning was light in comparrison to it.  There is no way that the rain on Sunday made that big a difference to the pitch.  It would have been waterlogged at 10.
It would not have mattered if the rain would have eased at 2.  The pitch was still unplayable.
Now imagine if the fog would have lifted at 1.  Then the pitch would have benn playable and the match could have gone ahead.  Huge difference.
Lads as for fermanagh developing another ground the county board are going to have to take a punt on either Lisnaskea, Irvinestown, Tempo or Kinawley.  They need to invest in one of them and make it capable of holding at least 10'000-12'000 specators.  My own preference would be Irvinestown because it is one of the best playing surfaces in the county

game is off due to bad fog.2nd year in a row that this fixture is off due to fog.

Beaten in the last minute by Barnsley.
Watched the whole game on SopCast and they were not good. Even through Gerrard on for the last 15 minutes.  The Barnsley keeper had a great game but we should have won that easily. We looked toothless up front without Torres and we just have too many average players at the moment.
Jesus i hope they were saving themselves for Tuesday night because that is the only trophy we have a chance of winning this season.  If Liverpool do not get a result on Tuesday then Rafa will be living on borrowed time.  I Have no idea why he took of Babbel and brought on Kewell. 

Beni and then Crouch are after missing an open goal

Watching the Liverpool game here.  Was about to say that they were not good and then Barnsley go and equalize.  They deserve it

 

There was some atmosphere in Croaker Park that day Fermgael

There was in deed.  Made even better by the fact that I had been in America for the whole of July and had missed the games against Donegal, Cork and Meath.  Also helped by the fact that the Tyrone supporters thought they were in the  final after we beat Armagh.  They were talking about what they would do to Kerry and then Mayo put a spanner in the works.