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Let's not go crawling up Biden's hole if he survives long enough to return to the oul sod.

Was thinking that myself, the plight of the Palestinians has always resonated strongly with the Irish for obvious reasons. He should be told to f..k off next time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4idQbwsvtUo

Why does morgan keep bringing on guest that can rip him to shreds.

The only people obsessed with the Glazers are Utd fans and ex Utd player/pundits, Neville especially. So blinded they refuse to look anywhere else for the problems at the club. Ten Hag has got plenty of his wish list players, it's now down to him to make his mark with those players and if he fails that's on him. I get that overpaying for players is problematic but only if they turn out to be flops. If they gel into the managers system and offer a return it's not a problem. Every club overpays. City on Grealish, Arsenal on Rice, Liverpool on Van Dijk, Nunez, Becker are just some examples.   

Keep Liverpool and Van Dijk out of this please, considering you guys paid more for Harry Maquire.

Well Done to LG, the played us off the park. Don't know why our lads were so flat yesterday but we weren't at the races. It's been a long year for some of them. LG will know more about themselves after final than yesterday but good luck to them.

Another day, another Lundy outed. This time, one of the founders of the DUP...

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/new-ireland-is-now-inevitable-says-dup-founding-member/a1243025765.html

I think that reality has been obvious now for years, it's the persistent policy of trying to wreck the place before they lose their grip is a reflection of the vindictiveness and bile. But their electorate seems happy with the chaos.

Loughgiel seem to have went with too much youth at once instead of opting for a more blended approach. Not working out for them so far this year, and they could struggle with the physicality that St Johns will offer.

Agreed

LG are very young and light and are a work in progress. More of a concern is very conventional hurling in terms of set up and strategy. Their next management is going to be paramount in terms of success when them lads come of age. Thought the difference yesterday was Mc Manus and difference in the physical stakes.
Did LG win one of their puckouts

I guess we're getting to the point now where Liverpool may need to think longer term.

Let's say Salah is the difference between getting back into the CL next year and not.

Will 200 million, minus the cost of replacing him, cover that loss?

If it goes to 200 million then yes let him go. He's the 5th highest paid player in the world and Liverpool would save hundreds of thousands a week if he's gone as well. Big loss for sure but he's a 31 and may have seen the best of him.

You lot should be more focused on your own slurry. Currently the main processing plant in Belfast is too small to handle all the sludge coming from treatment plants all over the north where it is incinerated.. It's in the process of being expanded but NI water has been seriously delayed with plans due to guess what "no Stormont". As we speak the excess sludge is going by boat to Scotland to be processed to the tune of millions every month at the expense of the taxpayers. You might say I'm talking sh..te ( literally )but it's a reminder of how dysfunctional out current administration is. Crazy stuff

That was the best footballing display from an Ulster team in manys a year. Ran out of steam & ideas in the last 15 mins. No team will win a major game by only scoring 4 points in the 2nd half. Came with a good game plan but had no plan B when it mattered most. Kerry were poor enough in the first half and were also caught out by Derrys switch of tactics. A game of 2 halves but Kerry had more composure & footballing nous to win the game. Jack o Connor made the right changes on the line also. As I said Derry were good to watch yesterday.

We didn't need a plan B, we just needed to pop up a few easy scores from plan A and the game was over. The chances were there and that was the winning and losing of the game. Easy to write these narratives after the game. Next year we will hear how Derry don't have the legs/squad depth to sustain that game in Croke Park, in reality it's just momentum. McKinless or Toner goal chances go in and the team gets loads of energy coming down the stretch, Ethan Doherty taps that one over the bar to put us 3 points up, McQuillan doesn't give O'Brien a soft free after we have just won a massive turn over. Those things went against us and sucked the energy from the team and give it to Kerry. Fine margins.

100 %
Another goal or some of those wides go over and that's enough oxygen to kick on and win the thing. Wides  in the last ten and some bad decisions meant they beat themselves as Kerry where there for the taking.

Dirtiest bunch of pricks we played in years, and we played everybody past 4yrs.Understand why Tyrone detest them so much. Hope Dublin beat them out of the field.

Take your beating like a man....

Looking at you're posts probably best put phone away when you on the booze.

You're deffo a Kerry man Piskin, terrible company when you're beat and even worse when you win. I'd say as a child your mother tied a bone round your neck so the dog would play with you which isn't that long ago looking at your post.

https://twitter.com/gaa__joe/status/1680880345019809792?s=46&t=zgzuYWfgC5dD3Y5jl1Xd6A

Oisin McConville showing us he doesn't know if it's pumped or stuffed.

Intercounty manager!! Someone send him the rules, deliberate trip, black card, accidental trip a free, but very strange considering Joe biased

Mc Quillan had a stinker as usual, two Kerry frees near the end were laughable, only Derry blew up and their decision making with it had a bigger impact than his incompetence he could have robbed them.
Only people that can't see that is obviously Kerry people and yourself, not overly supprised at either.
I am starting to see what brolly is implying this years that Kerry are the most cynical team in the game. With Referees like that I can't see them changing.

[people want a physical game and when it suits them and non contact when it doesn't]

Regardless of the debate whether Ryans challenge was a foul, in the interest of protecting the player, was mc Quillan  obligated to stop play for a potential head injury?

That is a very valid point.

Yes he is but when players (not in this case) keep holding their heads at every 'tackle' it can be the a bit much to keep working out was he hit, how bad or where was it on the body.

In this particular incident, the ball was played across the pitch? so the position the keeper was in was natural enough? plus he was really reaching for it and collected it, the aftermath was worse than what I had thought though, but it wasn't a charge, I thought he caught the ball first and collided second.

It's all about opinions though, people want a physical game and when it suits them and non contact when it doesn't

You are one to talk, once gave a free for the best shoulder I've ever saw. Antrim twitter even posted it on their twitter feed it was that good.

But you somehow saw it as a free 

Again I'd focus on why you never won the game rather than the odd mistake, which I agreed with after seeing it

You are rowing back here now.
All Derry supporters know we left thar game behind. Inspite of questionable decisions.
It does not change tge fact that refereeing is haphazard and inconsistent, not only from game to game but from end to end and incident to incident. And you have spent 24 hours telling us it is all in our heads, and team bias. It is not, it is in tge failure of the GAA to put structures in place to bring a team of, highly trained and standardised referees and umpires in place in every province. They have the money , just not the will.

My quote

"I actually watched this one and it could have been a free when I watched it multiple times, watching it live I didn't give it a second thought."

I'm not sure you know the referee training at inter county level goes on..

Give me your opinion on what they do and I'll fill in the blanks

They obviously are not doing enough, if Hurson called Mohan for contact  and  Ryan was not.
And that is only one irrefutable example.
Every other sport has managed to achieve a much higher level of consistency ,that is only a pipe dream for Gaelic.
I would refer you to Aussie rules for reference.

But if you are going to insist that there is enough being done , then why is Joe McQuillan still being given games at this level. He cant even stop a play for player welfare, the most basic of requirements for a referee i would have thought.

This is not a professional sport, don't refer me to a Aussie rules as I believe this is a professional sport like soccer, NFL and basketball and so on.

These ref's go to work on the Monday, they ain't heading to a training camp, and tell me were I insisted enough is being done? There are ones implying that nothing is being done, I've asked you what do you think they are doing?

Shane mc Guigan has to go to work to, the Refs job is to protect from thuggish behaviour that could lead to serious injury. CMK got  a yellow for something that couldn't be deemed as dangerous. Can you tell me as a Referee is it ok the tackle someone like that while off the ground so your making contact with his head.

No it is not. Turning so that your side takes the impact is completely natural.

I thought you couldn't break a tackle with both feet of the air, you can't in hurling anyway. Very cynical challenge and could have hurt the lad.

It was one of the more dangerous challenges of the entire match. He eyed up McGuigan beforehand and made sure he left something on him. When you consider some of the innocuous decisions that pass as fouls or even yellow cards in the modern game, the punishment (none) did not fit the crime. Would it have taken a concussion or a head injury for some people to claim that it was an actual foul, the player was not protected by the referee in that instance.   

I actually watched this one and it could have been a free when I watched it multiple times, watching it live I didn't give it a second thought.

I was watching live and couldn't believe how it wasn't a free and yellow at least. It sets a president that it's ok to ride the tackle off the ground.

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/dublin-ireland-16-july-2023-kerry-goalkeeper-shane-ryan-news-photo/1535749975

No it is not. Turning so that your side takes the impact is completely natural.

I thought you couldn't break a tackle with both feet of the air, you can't in hurling anyway. Very cynical challenge and could have hurt the lad.

There's not a game you could not pick out a grievance with calls. In the main I felt the calls evened themselves out.

Galvin should look back at some of his refereeing decisions over the years. I'd like to see how critical he is of his own strange calls

Can't argue with anything Gavin wrote there, Kilkenny are masters at buying frees and getting away with stuff as well. Brian Lohan was going mad on the sideline and quite rightly so. Teams have to bring a game that gives them a few extra scores to counter balance the lob sided free count. Still if Tony Kelly had of showed up and Clare's decision making was a bit better they would have got over the line anyway. Eoin Cody is some player and Eoin Murphy was probably the difference yesterday.