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Considering how much we Irish love to celebrate - even worship - our countrymen and women who gain a smidgen of global recognition, there has to be a story worth investigating with regards to U2's slow descent into the national unconsciousness.

Somewhere over the past decade we all collectively - and without any campaigns, without any trigger points, scandal or incident - decided that they weren't worth the effort anymore.

Christy O'Connor talking about players being put over a barrell to breack county training bans...

"They have the players over a barrel. As one of the players said to me 'you don't have to do it but you do really'"

Counties are flaunting the November 21 back to training rule. Everyone knows it but no one is doing anything about it."

Is this not something for the GPA to be up in arms over?!

The purpose of the GPA is to milk the GAA's administrators for everything they can.

They would have no ostensible reason to get sidetracked by player welfare issues, unless doing so provides further opportunities for milking.

Oh and by way of explanation. I'm a Dazzler superfan. He's one of my favourite players ever.

But anyone pushing for an All Star for a substitute on a team that was knocked out at the quarter final stage, well they're not just scraping the last dregs from the barrel of loyalty, they need their f**king head seen to.

Darren McCurry should have got a nomination. His performances against Mayo & Kerry are as good as anything seen this year.

Ah it's good to see GAABoard clause 3.1 in action once again...... I.e. no matter how highly rated, how effective, how influential a player is, someone from Tyrone will be along before too long to advise that they have one who is better.

https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0921/1591655-u2-at-50-the-10-best-u2-songs-of-all-time-ranked/

RTE nicking  the top 3 idea

Strange list , although one thing I've realised is I  just can't listen to U2 anymore

Shite list. Who wrote that, The Wobbler or Baloney

I definitely wouldn't be able to scribe a top 10 for u2. I like some of Joshua Tree, and some of Rattle and Hum, but all told I'd rather listen to Westlife. Or even the Saw Doctors. Probably not OCS.

Would it hurt BBCNI that much to read out the results during sports section on GMU from the various club championships in the north from this weekend.

Why would they?

This is a regional radio station. What you're looking for is localised sports coverage.

Should they read out the results for every local adult soccer league too?

Considerable difference in interest between say the Derry Championship and the D and D Soccer leagues with about 20 people in attendance

1. It's still a heavily localised interest.

2. Would you be happy if it was just SFC results read out then? For surely you can't make a case than anyone outside of the competing clubs really cares what happens in a JFC match (and the crowds are proof)?

Would it hurt BBCNI that much to read out the results during sports section on GMU from the various club championships in the north from this weekend.

Why would they?

This is a regional radio station. What you're looking for is localised sports coverage.

Should they read out the results for every local adult soccer league too?

Something that absolutely truly makes my blood boil.

£1.50 for air at a filling station.

I don't expect it to be free.

But f**k me it was 20p before covid.

f**kers.

Maybe 30years before covid!

Honestly no. Around Covid some of them went straight from 20p to 50p then they all caught on that it's not a convenience they're housing, it's a means to extract money.

Something that absolutely truly makes my blood boil.

£1.50 for air at a filling station.

I don't expect it to be free.

But f**k me it was 20p before covid.

f**kers.

I was thinking the same thing.

Harper collins won't publish any of David Walliams back catologue any more.

What has he done?

If nothing else he has penned (or pseudo-penned) perhaps the worst collection of children's books in history and no future generations should have to suffer through them.

Can't see it...their best players will be picked off again like it was a couple of years ago with Wissa, Mbeumo, Norgaard and Toney & Raya the year before...same goes for the other 2 teams.

But this kind of harks back to a discussion from a month or so on this thread.

There are so few genuinely, visibly top-quality players in the EPL, that the "3Bs" are in the best positions of their existence to prosper.

Here's how their formula is currently working out;

1. Source athletic, coordinated and underpaid (by EPL standards) from across the world.

2. Indoctrinate them in playing aggressive, committed, focused team football with the carrot that they'll be noticed by a bigger-spending club.

3. Sell off a batch of those players to bigger-spending clubs, for ridiculous transfer fees.

4. That batch get huge payrises and find themselves as wealthy men with guaranteed contracts, surrounded in their new changing room by players of a similar ilk.

5. That batch inevitably flounder at the bigger-spending clubs, who also have to keep them on their books until those contracts run out.

6. Meanwhile the 3Bs have already gone through steps 1 and 2 above, and subsequently have a whole new batch of coordinated, athletic but not overly special lads ready to move along, to bigger-spending clubs who really should know better, but never seem to learn.

And after a handful of cycles what we end up with is some of the biggest clubs in England falling down with underperforming players who used to look good at a smaller club, whilst the smaller clubs are just as good as they were a decade ago.

The biggest problem the 3Bs face at the minute is that Arsenal have developed an aura whereby even though they're no more than a solid team, most of the EPL are beaten before they play them, which means an unattainable 80 point target for Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford. If somehow Arsenal's aura can be reined in a little, it's genuinely open season on any of the 3Bs mounting a serious title challenge. 

This is all just a little strange.

Who is it that pays £40+ to watch a GAA-lite friendly? And why would our Association want to appeal to these types of people?

Proud Mary
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Honestly it's not that wrong.

I don't understand the 3 year pursuit of Savinho or why the two Chelsea rejects have ended up at the club.

But Spurs are going to be hard to beat this season, and there were signs against Newcastle and Everton that they might have a little variety and ingenuity in attack this season. Goals will come. Maybe not enough of them to make CL this season, but Spurs won't  be far away either now that a "big club pack" hasn't formed at the top.