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Correct, Portmarnock with one laneway leading to it makes it unworkable for 100,000 attendees, players, equipment, emergency vehicles etc to all converge on it, or have to exit in an emergency.

I've heard one workaround proposal is to construct a temporary pontoon bridge from Baldoyle the coast across to the peninsula, where people can cross on foot. Maybe vehicles too.
If the R&A are on board, money and willpower will be no issue. The government would lash the cash to get it over the line. The Portmarnock club are also willing to alter their course layout (even diminish it) to make it big tournament friendly.

I'm happy to be corrected here as I've never yet darkened Portmarnock's doors. But wouldn't a single lane entry at the end of a rural road not be the case in question for most championship links courses? Would the last mile really be more important than the 30-50 miles that bring and filter the footfall?


Turnberry, Portrush I'm familiar with and they're not even remotely able to handle a surge of traffic to their area like Portmarnock would be.

I know it's a smaller scale, but Baltray and Ballyliffin have managed to host Irish opens in surely much more inaccessible places.

How could any player sign for a score if he didn't watch it happen?

Something not adding up with this "complaint".

Query: can a free be given against a substitute?
I wasn't there so am open to correction. A club game in Tyrone last night, I'm told a team was a point behind and went to take a free way out field. A sub kicked a ball onto the field to delay things. Ref let it go and it happened a second time and ref moved the free way up in front of opponents goals. Team then elected to bring it out for a two-pointer, scored duly winning by 1 point.
Sounds bizarre but them's the facts I'm told.

Dissent rules apply to managers and as such I'd assume to everyone on the line.

Sounds like good refereeing to be fair. Too was much tinpiggery in football.

Name your three favourite chords by... [Status Quo]

lol. Sums it up for me too.

This arc will close even quicker than Ocean Colour Scene would.

[Joyce]

Clifford is the best player I've ever seen, the perfect forward.

He would seem to have a better big game to quiet game ratio than any inside forward I can remember. His quiet games tend to involve 5 points.

Those who might laud Canavan, Joyce, Connolly, O'Neill, Cooper, McDonnell, Coulter, Linden, McManus, O'Callaghan, Walsh as being better, I would suggest have their own biases to deal with.

Sorry, what?
That's not bias. It's a much bigger issue than that.

It's a subjective thing. Whoever you tilt for in "best ever" is subject to your personal bias. It's why so many people of my generation would tell you that Maradona was a better player than Messi. He was better in spurts here and there, but objectively Messi was better at just about every aspect of the game apart from heading the ball. It's why people who saw Matt Connor playing once or twice would tell you that he's better than Clifford. He might well have been. But the belief that supports this idea mainly comes from romanticism, more than objectivety. Because they only saw him play once or twice.

Recency bias is too a thing. But I don't think it's as natural for humans to consider "modern" players to be as good as those from their youth, or those from their own playing days.

Clifford is the best player I've ever seen, the perfect forward.

He would seem to have a better big game to quiet game ratio than any inside forward I can remember. His quiet games tend to involve 5 points.

Those who might laud Canavan, Joyce, Connolly, O'Neill, Cooper, McDonnell, Coulter, Linden, McManus, O'Callaghan, Walsh as being better, I would suggest have their own biases to deal with.

Meath love taking the ball into the corners and then  go around in circles until someone has a potshot. I've no idea what the f**k that's all about.

in 10 mins Donegal have kicked more direct ball into McBrearty than Meath have kicked into their full forwards.

Football has changed lads.

Two blowout semis.

Waste of time from here in today

Harte maybe even worse as a neutral.

Meath being a little underrated by the last few posters.

Had Tyrone or Armagh arrived at this juncture with wins over Dublin, Kerry and Galway, they'd at worst be one point off being favourites.

Bookies giving Donegal 5, and everyone agreeing with them, it just seems like nobody has been watching.

Not saying Meath will win, but this should more or less an even money game.

Mickey Harte was dreadful in the co commentator role yesterday. Came across as someone from a bygone era, who was more interested in Tyrone than the actual match.

Ticketmaster is a vile institution. With nothing else to gain or explore apart from inventing new ways to extract as much as possible from everyone it engages, it's at the sharp end of why monopolies hurt the end consumer.

But there's a reason why there's so little serious competition in their market. Multi venue booking systems with reserved seating are highly complex pieces of software. Once queuing systems and server latency are considered, it would be a mammoth task to take them on and do it even nearly as well.

The Dubliners. National treasures and icons no doubt.

They were though mostly interpreters of songs rather than songwriters, and for my money, every time Sinead O'Connor covered a Dubliners cover, she made it better. She was a better balladeer in my humble opinion.

So sticking to stuff that wouldn't have suited Sinead so much.


1. Rocky Road to Dublin.
2. Monto
3. Black Velvet Band

 

Same thing again there with the keep-ball tactics before halftime. When you've Enda McGinley rattling on about control and game-management you know you've the wrong rules in place.

I know there was instances of keep-ball before and the hooter came in but it's now established practice across all levels to kill time.

You're like a man swimming in clear blue, beautiful waters, on a sunny day on an uncrowded beach, surrounded by friends and family, complaining that some other family - keeping their distance - happens to be there.

You're upset but you don't know why.

What the f**k are you on about?

That you'd find misery in anything

Look at the Kerry and Mayo teams that tyrone played in 2021 and come back Wobbler?

It's not that Trap.

Tyrone didn't fluke an All Ireland. I'm not suggesting it.

But they'd baggage against Dublin. Properly heavy, can't f**king carry baggage.

The way they approached the AI final against Mayo was of a team that knew they'd unshackled a burden. It was brilliant. Mayo weren't ready for that. But they didn't beat the best team in Ireland that year. Mayo did.