Sigerson Cup

[fearsiuil]

Wednesday

Sigerson Cup preliminary round
St Pat's Drumcondra v GMIT, St Pat's GAA pitch, 2pm

Anyone know where St. Pat's GAA pitch is?

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I know of a footballer who played for UUJ and Derry in the McKenna cup and attends UUM in Derry city who have their own Gaelic Football team.

Blue peter badge for the first to guess!

[fearsiuil]

Full Time Sigerson Cup
St. Pat's Drumcondra 0-9
GMIT 1-12

Decent forwards on GMIT team this year.

[DuffleKing]

Coleraine have definitely played sigerson cup and are an older, longer established GAA club than Whiteabbey

[Kickham csc]

Syferus I think the issue you were referring to was where IT Sligo was accused by Queen's of having an illegal player. It turned out he was illegal and the Sligo lads genuinely where not aware of it. (He was SU president) Ignorance is no excuse I know. Hardly a comparison to the antics of UUJ who flaunt the rules year after year though.

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New year same BS from ck

Please supply evidence of year on year flaunting of rules please

Evidence? MMmm ok. Is Niall Madine a full time student at UUJ? Or is he a full time student at South West College in Newry.

Evidence???  What course is he doing?  Is he doing a technical course run by the college, or is it a UUJ course being held in SWC? Has he been registered and has the registration been approved by central colleges? Any ideas other than mud.

No mud, just fact.
I'm hearing from croke park that he's one of many UUJ illegals in this years crop.

So have Croke Park blocked the registrations of these many UUJ illegals? If not, why has Croke Park allowed illegals to play for UUJ???

Is this the same Croke Park source who advised that Sligo IT didn't play an illegal player last year???

I find it strange that every year UUJ are identified as culprits for fielding illegal players, but when was the last time they were punished for playing illegals.

In the meantime, DCU Queens and Sligo IT have all been punished, but...... UUJ "flaunt the rules year after year though"

[Kickham csc]

Coleraine have definitely played sigerson cup and are an older, longer established GAA club than Whiteabbey

Coleraine in '69 and UUJ '71

Both clubs had to endure a massive amount of sectarian resistance over the years and have grown from strength to strength.

[Throw ball]

Who are the high profile players playing for each of the universities this year?

When UUJ played Armagh they had McKinless (Derry), McNamee (Tyrone), McHugh (Donegal), Clarke (Cavan), Argue (Cavan), O'Boyle (Derry), Hughes ( Monaghan), Madine ( Down) and McBearty ( Donegal) starting. That is just from memory. Man of match was Grugan ( Omagh and Tyrone).

[Mclf]

Who are the high profile players playing for each of the universities this year?

Whatever rossie's are involved are obviously the superstars in their teams.

[Upthecut]

Syferus I think the issue you were referring to was where IT Sligo was accused by Queen's of having an illegal player. It turned out he was illegal and the Sligo lads genuinely where not aware of it. (He was SU president) Ignorance is no excuse I know. Hardly a comparison to the antics of UUJ who flaunt the rules year after year though.

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New year same BS from ck

Please supply evidence of year on year flaunting of rules please

Evidence? MMmm ok. Is Niall Madine a full time student at UUJ? Or is he a full time student at South West College in Newry.

What's the story with multi campus universities? UU only have one team that presumably train at Jordanstown. Coleraine, Magee and Belfast don't have a team. Are students on those campuses eligible to represent the university? Or can a university enter multiple teams (for each campus) if they've enough players on each campus?

Do Magee and Coleraine not play in lower grade University competitions. Apologies if it has been discussed before but whats the story when Jordanstown moves most of its students into Belfast? Do Jordanstown and Belfast amalgamate? Not that I'm aware of too many GAA players in the former art college.

I've no idea about Magee and Coleraine. Did they ever play Sigerson?

Nah I'd be shocked if they ever did. Both very small campuses. Trench Cup at the most I'd imagine. I dont think you'd ever have Coleraine/Magee players togging out for UUJ. Plenty of county lads have went to both and never played Sigerson.

Don't know about now, but Magee played in D3 and Coleraine in D2. Coleraine actually beat UUJ in 97 in the Sigerson QF.

They beat Queens in 96 as well.

[Any craic]

Why the Sigerson is Special.. five reasons from this week's games in Carlow, Maynooth and Dublin.. Yes, I am a fan..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkWWszJo_E&feature=youtu.be

[Ciarrai_thuaidh]

Why the Sigerson is Special.. five reasons from this week's games in Carlow, Maynooth and Dublin.. Yes, I am a fan..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkWWszJo_E&feature=youtu.be

Fair play Jerome, great work as always.

I too love this competition and along with many others really appreciate the work you do throwing up highlights for us to have a look at.

[AZOffaly]

I enjoy watching the games. I just think too much emphasis is put on it, and it should be run off before Christmas.

[Ciarrai_thuaidh]

I enjoy watching the games. I just think too much emphasis is put on it, and it should be run off before Christmas.

You can't expect colleges who return in October to get teams fully prepared and then run off a league AND Sigerson before Christmas.

Don't get the "too much emphasis" comment either. According to the wise sages of this board nobody gives a shit about it. Or do you mean the colleges themselves put too much energy into it and neglect the GAA in the college as a whole?

[AZOffaly]

I'm talking about the latter, and also the pressure on players. The Sigerson, in my view, should be a competition played between colleges who treat it as a nice diversion from everyday student life. That's the way it used to be. However it seems now that in many cases it's basically another "county" team for lads at an age when they are being pulled from pillar to post with Senior and U21 county.

All that said, when the games are played, they are good to look at. The attendances would reinforce the point that nobody really cares outside the colleges, but as I said, if the players enjoy it and it was treated as a break from student life/county grind, then I'd be all for it.

[Kickham csc]

I'm talking about the latter, and also the pressure on players. The Sigerson, in my view, should be a competition played between colleges who treat it as a nice diversion from everyday student life. That's the way it used to be. However it seems now that in many cases it's basically another "county" team for lads at an age when they are being pulled from pillar to post with Senior and U21 county.

All that said, when the games are played, they are good to look at. The attendances would reinforce the point that nobody really cares outside the colleges, but as I said, if the players enjoy it and it was treated as a break from student life/county grind, then I'd be all for it.

When I played with the Poly, the pressure to win was put on the players themselves. And there was a full commitment to win. Why?? Because the chairman of the club and the committee would all be mates with the players, and together we wanted to win as this was our club, run by us.

The Sigerson was the No 1football  focus, but Sigerson, 2nds and 3rd panels all trained together. The Freshers were the only panel to not train with the Sigerson

We also ran events, socials, mystery tours, club dinners, club tours, so we had a great football and social program.

The result, friendships were formed, which are really strong 20 years later.

This wouldn't happen if it was treated as a nice diversion.