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Anyone have any idea what way the youth football is working this year?

Will it be U12 and U16 starting first with U14 and Minor running from July, like last year?
Or will it be back to U14 and Minor starting first, with U12 and U16 running from July?

The latter makes more sense if they ever finish off 2023 minors.

As county minors are u17 they dont disrupt club minors as much as when they were aligned. They would impact u16's as much as u18's.
Let club minors finish up to release players for Senior / reserve football.

Darragh is with UU, but I don't believe Ruairi is with a university

2nd year Sports exercise science(!) according to Sigerson panels.
https://twitter.com/score_beo/status/1740817210887803033?s=46&t=DMV_b69FttsNJUeqtS-Zyg

If nothing else Christmas breaks up the winter, Winter would be such a long drag of a season without that mental & physical holiday.

It does that, at least by the time I go back to work in the new year the days are lengthening, if only marginally. It gets you thinking about spring.

[in general wages have kept pace with inflation]

While there are people struggling, in general wages have kept pace with inflation, and in the ROI the government has indexed tax bands etc. Most people are about the same and do not have a crisis, which seems to showing up the shops.
In Ireland, people have not lost the run of themselves they way they did in 2007.

You read of queues for food vouchers etc, I would be interested in the stories behind these; e.g. excessive rent might be squeezing the food budget.

Not up north they haven't or even close. Are you just talking about the south here because in the north or the remainder of the UK that is very very far from the truth particularly for public sector workers.

Clearly public sector workers are screwed, but someone is getting increases, many in the private sector are doing OK.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/pay-up-75-in-northern-ireland-to-2100-a-month-report/a256063943.html

Is that take home pay they are referring to when it is taking about monthly pay and comes from PAYE data?

THE one-sided nature of numerous matches in Junior football in Tyrone, both in the league and championship this past season, gives cause for concern, one of the county's leading officers has warned.

Donaghmore, Killyman, Castlederg, Brocagh would be only 4 that I would say haven't been competitive this year

With Killyman and Brocagh combining underage is there any appetite for a merger? Are both clubs still fielding reserve teams?

Seems the underage of Naomh Brid (Killyman and Brocagh amalgamation) is going well with them winning 2 titles this year in their respected grades. As for the senior reserves teams of both clubs, Killyman conceded all reserve games last year while brocagh conceded 7 reserve games (3 Home games 4 Away games).

Sounds like they could just about field 3 teams, though the same could have been said of Naomh Eoghan.

The risk of an amalgamation is losing players as you are effectively reducing the number of starting berths.

THE one-sided nature of numerous matches in Junior football in Tyrone, both in the league and championship this past season, gives cause for concern, one of the county's leading officers has warned.

Donaghmore, Killyman, Castlederg, Brocagh would be only 4 that I would say haven't been competitive this year

With Killyman and Brocagh combining underage is there any appetite for a merger? Are both clubs still fielding reserve teams?

Map showing what clubs should receive in each county.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2023/12/15/some-gaa-clubs-to-receive-over-30000-after-donation-by-jp-mcmanus/

Nothing for Derry, based on that map.
Maybe JP reckons that if they can afford Mickey Harte...

Its the definition of genocide ffs.

It is not. Isreal has the arms to kill everyone in Gaza if they wanted to.
The analogy I used before was, this is analogous to the invasion of Poland, when many Poles were killed, but is not analogous to the holocaust, which actually was genocide. 

They don't need to kill everyone in Gaza to make it genocide. Destroying the infrastructure and driving the population out makes in genocide.

Thats more than Russia lost in Afghanistan, and other uprisings since WW2.its funny on US complaining about funding the Ukraine, when guns and heavy weapons are Coming out of their ears in that country.

Complaining about funding but it is primarily an accountancy trick. The US has a lot of servicable equipment that is end of life. They would need to pay to have it destroyed but when it is transferred to Ukraine it is at full book value.

is there any reason the semi finals can not be played on the 30th/31st december

Yes. Common sense.

Common sense would be to finish the Ulster,Munster championships up sooner and have the All Ireland football semi final as two double headers with the Hurling semi finals this weekend.

2 double headers on a 4g pitch this weekend then the 2 finals on Christmas Eve?

Christmas eve?! Christ on a bus.

It was a tongue in cheek response to the suggestion to play the semi-finals this weekend, not letting the provincial champions have a few weeks off.

It is linked, it is linked to the weakness of Biden and or the US.

Putin is playing a waiting game. If Trump wins, he wins, not just because he owns him but because Trump is an isolationist.

Netanyahu is leading Biden by the nose and can carry out his genocidal fantasies without repercussions.

Iran/ Hezbollah have the Houthis throwing missiles at US ships in the gulf without response.

Maduro and Venezuela have their eyes on Guyana's oil.

And as always, China are playing the long game. The current incursions in the Whitsun reef in the Philippines are just testing the water as the US is supposed to have a mutual defence treaty. No response gives the green light for Taiwan incursions.


The US is no longer the worlds policeman, their legitimacy and their capability have been eroded.

is there any reason the semi finals can not be played on the 30th/31st december

Yes. Common sense.

Common sense would be to finish the Ulster,Munster championships up sooner and have the All Ireland football semi final as two double headers with the Hurling semi finals this weekend.

2 double headers on a 4g pitch this weekend then the 2 finals on Christmas Eve?

I feel sorry for the players in this county, the standard of refereeing in Tyrone is on the floor and highlighted by some recent disastrous performances.

Junior and inter finals, yesterday's league final amongst many - utterly dreadful officiating. We're getting to the point where clubs will have to step up and say enough is enough

Clubs will have to step up and provide more Refs.

If you are that desperate to see it, Armagh is fairly central and easy to get in and out of.
A bit damper than sitting on your hole complaining and saving £15 though.

Listen to this man speak about killing babies as if he was talking about rats...

https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1733008513163784237?t=m8QVuuxRMINrb_yhF4xeoA&s=19

The video is edited to cut out the bit about Hamas and make it seem like the IDF killed them.


The IDF have enough blood on their hands without false propaganda.