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Tipp Game now on in Monegall ( ancestral home of Barack O`Bomber ) Co Offaly as Semple Stadium is "unplayable" . Even though they are Biffo`s they play their GAA in Tipperary . One of the worse Grounds in the County !

You'd have thought the Tipp camogs would have offered the use of the Ragg for this game.

Are those other companies directly funding the genocide like Allianz are? Surely boycotting one complicit company is better than none? If we can all do a small bit it would soon add up.

Meta are being accused of supplying the IDF information on people in Gaza, so cancel insta, facebook etc.

Samsung has been accused also having an Israeli IDF backed app, Appcloud preinstalled on all phones so get it deleted.

Larry Fink has us all tied up in his Zionist web.

Your phone is a tracking devixe

Some whataboutary there.... so whatabout as GAA members do nothing about a company complicit and funding genocide being sponsors of our major leagues? Zionism seems to own half the world but we are the GAA. Do they have to own us as well? #DropAllianz
Those other things are individual choices. If you wish to support them and ignore Allianz role in the GAA you're free to do.

You're misunderstanding the point I'm making, I'm not saying to stick with Allianz, but whoever the GAA does decide to go with for insurance, let alone league sponsors will at some level have a link to one of the three big financing outfits, Blackrock, Vanguard etc and they've all got a lot of Zionist links.

Agree if everything you say there Johnny but blitzes must have started earlier as mind being in the Ards or other venues around 2009/2010 wi 6/8/10s?? The Eddie Irvine centre was good too but wild early start!!!

There was blitzes earlier than that alright, but were haphazard at best. You'd get an email the night before saying the host club had pulled out and could someone else host. It weren't great.

It was around the time I suggested that the Coaching and Development team under C O'Toole took on the first Saturday of the month ones with the clubs offering to host the 3rd Saturday of the month.
Back then the Red High was the normal base for the first Saturday one and there was normally one of the GDO's organising and on the ground.

TBH I'd like to see the GDO's take that role back up (even if the last one I saw in Clonduff 2 years ago hadn't a baldy what was going on) as they've gotten so big only clubs with at least 2 full size pitches could even think about hosting an All County blitz, I know we can't.

Good problems to have.

The Eddie Irvine indoor blitzes were a good start to the season and it was mostly the teams in the North of the county there with a lot of the Belfast (Antrim) clubs there made it a good mornings hurling. You could have hung beef in there it was that cold.

I think there was an attempt to get something similar up and running in Newry, not sure how successful that was.

Recreational GAA for kids?

Good luck to whoever is put in charge of defining the line between a recreational player and a non-recreational player.

The ones that prefer to go play soccer in Lisburn would be recreational players, no?
 

Are those other companies directly funding the genocide like Allianz are? Surely boycotting one complicit company is better than none? If we can all do a small bit it would soon add up.

Meta are being accused of supplying the IDF information on people in Gaza, so cancel insta, facebook etc.

Samsung has been accused also having an Israeli IDF backed app, Appcloud preinstalled on all phones so get it deleted.

Larry Fink has us all tied up in his Zionist web.

Your phone is a tracking devixe

[Therese Maher]

Some of the best Laochra Gael's are the ones about lads and ladies who probably didn't win a whole pile in their career on the field but have an interesting story to tell, Sambo's being the most obvious one.

The ones where, sure we won our first AI this year and then won another the following year, then X beat us that year and then we came back and beat X the following year get a bit tedious.

Sambo,Therese Maher, Kevin Cassidy and Keady were great.

Only found out that the infamous Johnny Maher of Loughrea fame for hammering all round him was her brother on that episode.

I'm not going to trawl this entire thread and this may have been pointed out already, but not only do Allianz sponsor the National Leagues they are also the company the GAA has everything insured with.

This doesn't make it right and for me the GAA really need to start looking for a new insurance company as well as league sponsors.

Some of the best Laochra Gael's are the ones about lads and ladies who probably didn't win a whole pile in their career on the field but have an interesting story to tell, Sambo's being the most obvious one.

The ones where, sure we won our first AI this year and then won another the following year, then X beat us that year and then we came back and beat X the following year get a bit tedious.

PUC may be too big but a 20,000 seat stadium say wouldn't be much use to Ulster GAA & doesn't fit with their Strategic Plan.

PuC will be sold out for their 2 Munster round robin games.

What works against it is geographical isolation where none of the other counties want to play a semi-final or final there unless they really have to.
So, does it pay to have a stadium that size which will only be to capacity two, maybe three times a year at best?

Casement may suffer from the same geographical isolation when it comes to neutral football championship games post Ulster championship.

Would Wembley Stadium be to capacity much more than half a dozen times a year? Same for Twickenham or Cardiff's Millenium Stadium!

half a million has been found for another soccer pitch at Carryduff will providing the square root of diddly for Gaa.

At Loughmoss?

Currently there is one grass GAA pitch (probably only big enough for juvenile games) and one of those floodlit 4G Multisports pitches suitable for GAA (130 metres long) which considering this is Lisburn & Castlereagh Council I was pleasantly surprised with.

Then are we avoiding the issue with an impractical solution?

Why not have leagues run off prior to summer? April to end of June 
That's around 14 weeks
Say 10 fixtures
Space Allowing for exams etc

Have a summer league of maybe say 11 or 13 aside to allow some sort of games to take place without pressure, then have championship late/post Summer?

I don't envy fixture secretaries at all as with the way GCSE's and A levels are working now kids are doing exams every year from 15yo to 18yo's.
You can rule out the latter part of May and all of June for U16 and minor games nowadays.

Then you have holidays which is an absolute bollox with small squads so the option of playing down to 11 means at least some lads are getting game time rather than none at all.

Proposal going to February Congress for any dissent to the referee on pitch or from the sideline will result in sliothar being forward 30m
If dissent happens at half time break , the game will restart with a 20m free to the opposition!
Davy may curb his enthusiasm for the refs

Maybe Davy is seeing how things have been for us traveling down South for years and the way we are treated by officials. Maybe not keen to be on the other side of it now, I hope he does highlight it and bring it to the fore.

That being said the dissent rule seems to have worked well in the football so no harm in trying something similar for the hurling.

Exactly this.

Wee Davy made it all about him last year when it wasn't at all, it's just how Northern teams are refereed in general and has been like that for decades.

I see no issue with the 30 metre rule if the referees don't let it go to their heads when arse-hole spectators are roaring at them and they start punishing the players.

Source?

Ha ha! There's enough information there for you to go and look it up yourself. "Source", my eye!!

The Centre for Migration Control is a front for Reform UK.

https://goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statistics-and-fringe-beliefs-the-groups-behind-reforms-anti-migrant-agenda/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cr7jx97j8jjo

Some deal for Wolves, Mateta maybe get his move also. 

Strand Larsen has potential, but for £50m you'd need to be showing a bit more than that.

Some very thought provoking responses on here to splashes excellent though lengthy post on hurling. The Wobbler gave a very accurate summation of the issues facing GAA in his area issues which are similar in the likes of Newcastle Warrenpoint Castlewellan Downpatrick Kilkeel etc. Soccer is a challenge. It's going to become a bigger challenge to our games in the 26 counties going forward with the switch to a Summer season going forward. It's up to each club in the first instance to instill a love for / interest in our games and a sense of club from an early age. The county has to facilitate this too. Not sure about the u14 F u16 H on alternate Sundays is the best approach. One thing is certain. Without an early start (5/6),  parents on board, good structured coaching of hurling and or football you face an uphill battle. A lot of big dual clubs have one parental wattsapp group for the younger age groups and work hard on their dual aspect. Down currently have 14 hurling clubs to adult plus 3 other clubs with early juvenile sections and Mourne drawing from a number of football clubs. A long and winding road ahead but the journey has begun at least.

There are lots of positives in terms of the number of kids in Down now playing hurling now as to when the Primary school blitzes started in Down.

I was at the first one ever held and it was in Ballykinlar with the three Ards clubs, maybe Kilclief and Bredagh and that was about 2014 or there abouts.

Now there will be almost 5 times that and building with Clann Mhúrn, Saul, East Belfast adding to the normal attenders in recent years.

It has to be said, the sheer amount of kids with the likes of Carryduff at underage is unreal.
At P4 up there they'd 7 different teams, all 7 aside with Bredagh not far behind and if they can keep it going there will be a power shift from the Ards in terms of hurling dominance.
We've seen a bit of it at underage, it hasn't transferred to senior just yet, but it's coming.