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Haffey makes a seriously good pitch! Derrytresk (in the middle of the moss) has to be a  monument to hs ability!

Someone obviously fancies themselves as a 'journo',would'nt buy the rag they would write for!

Anyone who's still wearing a santa hat on the 21st january deserves to have it taken off !!!!! Tell them you were just trying to do the honours Trevor !!!!!

A GAA pitch without a 'scoring goal' isn't worthy of the name!The scoring goal in The Grange was next to the road,Ballymacnab was next to the clubrooms,An Port Mor was nearest to Quaymount,Derrylaughan is next to the road,Dungannon is nearest the clubrooms,Coalisland is next to Meenagh Park and Clones is the town end! These are very important details ,GAA history has ebbed and flowed on these  facts, a failure to be au fait with the 'scoring goals' would be a mistake of monumental proportions for any manager!To attribute this phenomena to gravity  is being naive in the extreme! The fall in The Grange is the opposite,as is An Port Mor, Derrylaughan and Coalisland! For those managers who aren't familiar with the phenomena of the 'scoring goal', my theory is that the 'scoring goal' is usually the one that the local players gravitate to when they first take the field,hence Hill 16 and the Dubs is the most famous example of the 'scoring goals'!!!!!!
 

Have to say, I was very disappointed with Gaelic Life on Friday!There was absolutely no attempt at innovation,which I would expect from a new publication.The 'Five minutes with' features didn't include one question that I haven't seen somewhere in the previous thirty years since that type of thing first appeared,in fact the questions are more banal now than in 1975,how the f**k could you buy Eoin Liston or Mickey (sic) Sheehy on a transfer market if it did exist?Jarlath Burns and Joe Brolly are boring me now,I see enough of them on television(somebody please tell them that something is funny the first time,not when it is repeated 500 times later. By the way,could the editor not have pointed out that they were using the same tired anecdote,or did he read their submissions?)I thought that they used the best of 'The Game' and did it poorly.From a personal point of view, I think that the most interesting pieces in 'The Game' were provided by Eamon Coleman and one of the most interesting Gaelic Games columnists is Benny Tierney,I would love to see more articles from players and managers, who performed at the highest level,giving their insights into past events and views on today's games!

Meath were the last to win Sam senior and first to win Sam og,I think!

I am a lot more confident of your motives now Lone Shark,now that you have been up-front about who you are and who you work for! I saw cases of bookies fishing in the most unlikely areas for information and laying bets that were beaten before they started,refusing bets from people who understood odds and how to get a piece of value and taking enormous bets from people who were obviously compulsive and losers by nature ! I even saw a bookie refuse to give a mother money that her mentally unstable son had lost the previous day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If anyone wants a bet and is prepared to lose OR win I will accommodate them.However,you won't be getting any information from me Lone Shark!

The only Hillian who could venture into the moss at the minute without going to the neck is Jim Mc Nally!

Find this a strange subject.As someone who was involved in the business,I have never heard of a bookie  being so open when gathering information!They usually have a network of contacts which delivers information directly!The only benefit I can see from a bookie's point of view is that he will add a couple of unwitting sources by comparing the information received with eventual results,if no-one produces the goods------nothing ventured nothing gained!!!!!If I was to take anything from this thread it would be to avoid teams with negative vibes for a start and then build a dossier of which poster was giving consistent information.In time,one or two posters out of a total of twenty or thirty could be invaluable when laying odds!!!!!