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Congratulations to St Brigid's, and hope you go well in Ulster when it comes.

Great to see two new teams in the final. Serious amount of arrogance in here, people looking down on clubs like St Brigid's and Portglenone as if any of us were world beaters. Humble pie time for quite a few posters.

Few lads with egg on their face tonight.

Jamie and Carla looking like a beaten docket here. It has galvanised nationalists and most unionists appear to be somewhere between embarrassed and couldn't be bothered. Hopefully the court case will swing the other way and we can all move on.

I've always tried to give PSNI a chance, but my god John Boucher's 'leadership' has been woeful.
Firstly they got their assessment completely and dangerously wrong, and that document undoubtedly went all the way to top for sign off.  Then he runs around telling everyone the intelligence operation is well underway to identify people on the road, again complete lack of judgement.  And today he says they won't be forcing the march through - very good, so what was all the land rovers, riot gear, mutual aid assistance all about?
He's butchered the whole thing more than anyone.

I can't think of any compromise that would work, unless they both compromised, and I just can't see that happening. Seen it all before.

With the OO having left that should be it over for this week anyway?

Confirmed?

They've went back to the heat of their hall to discuss what they are for doing.

Don't give them an inch of the road.

Yeah that's what I thought.

They'll be hitting the traybakes.

They dont get heavy handed with Loyalist rioters, whats the term they use for surveillance and get them in their beds the next morning, they can't afford to go in here and start being heavy handed

They can't be lifting people for a peaceful protest either. As Mary Lou literally just said this is madness.

Wouldn't be the first time.

I've criticised the Shinners before but Mary Lou and Michelle handling this as well as can be expected.

Michelle dodging the question about taking down the institutions lol

They spoke well, to a live UK audience.  Good to have it set out in clear terms, rather than the 'butter wouldn't melt' diarrhoea from Carla and co.

Could Court of Appeal hear it tonight or are they out of time?

Sadly The solution to this is violent protest. A outbreak of disorder and violence would show the parade commission that this march can't go off peacefully and result in it being banned again.

This is how f**king stupid the solicitors on the parade commission are. Their decision means that the Garvaghey Road residents are actually encouraged to violently oppose the march. Why we put legalistic pricks like this in charge of serious decisions is beyond me.

Considering how many people were murdered the last time this was in the headlines, your post is pathetic. Pathetic and ill thought on many levels.

If the court case changes nothing, do the residents sit down on the road on Sunday morning, and what do the police do then?  I can't see PSNI dragging people off the road so do they usher orangemen down the side? In a certain way it's actually farcical.
It's a pity young people are being exposed to it.  All the shite in the 90's was just depressing and dangerous.

Jim Allister on the radio invoking EU law which favours the right to assemble.  The same man who has nearly twisted himself inside out over the thought of EU law applying under the Windsor Framework.

The Rossa result (and last weekends matches) makes me itch for a straight knockout again from the get-go.

It's hard to beat the do or die of proper championship.

Now we're getting somewhere.

We're all to blame for the standard of refereeing.
Many clubs have used every trick in the rule book to get players out of a suspension, leaving refs looking stupid.
Every club has morons who slabber at refs from start to finish.
Many clubs haven't tidied up their own players disciplines.
Very few of us get involved in admin to try to improve allocation of fixtures, spot up and coming refs etc - it does seem to be the same faces every time.
And the rule book itself doesn't help at times as decisions are open to interpretation.

So, anyone with any wit might be interested in refereeing, but then they'll cop themselves on and give it a miss.
The inevitable result is you're left with a tiny cohort, many with small man syndrome, who are on easy street and generally the standard just endlessly deteriorates.

Portglenone were nothing special against a very ordinary Aghagallon side. The whole thing is bang average. So I suppose yes, anyone could win it, but the overall standard is poor - teams stacked with players who play the ball sideways. Very few players playing at a genuinely high level.