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    Senior championship 2022 & 2023

    I've been meaning to ask. DLBs?
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    Senior championship 2022 & 2023

    Congratulations to Rangers and St Pats posters here and commiserations to any from Clans and St Pauls. It was a disappointing day yesterday for the neutrals, with both games proving to be damp squibs. I don't know enough about the Intermediate to comment in any great detail, beyond knowing...
  3. Rufus T Firefly

    Senior championship 2022 & 2023

    As for the second semi-final yesterday, I thought the better team won. On the basis of the play, Madden should have held a lead at half time, but had some terrible wides in the first half, and therefore only went in level. The game definitely got stretched towards the end and Rangers superior...
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    Senior championship 2022 & 2023

    Although the match on Saturday night was not of a particularly high standard, it was a hugely enjoyable contest. Clann Eireann were absolutely cruising towards a final. They had the match by the scruff of the neck, but were completely undone by the (deserved) red card. It totally changed the...
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    Senior championship 2022 & 2023

    You're framing the situation to make the criticism of what are volunteers, to be much more acceptable. They are not paid. They get expenses to cover their costs in travelling up and down the county. Those expenses are not in the same league as the 'expenses' paid to managers in nearly every club...
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    Senior championship 2022 & 2023

    On your first point above, that's fine. However all you are doing is accentuating a culture of officials getting the blame and being harassed / intimidated, which in turn puts people off volunteering for the role, which lessens the pool of referees which means standards remain very low. At that...
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    Senior championship 2022 & 2023

    I was at the match last night. The incident happened close to me. It was clearly a Killeavey line ball and Soupy come in and essentially prevented a quick line ball, which Killeavey were desperate to take as they were chasing the game. That provoked a reaction from the Killeavey defender and he...
  8. Rufus T Firefly

    Senior championship 2022 & 2023

    Took in all of the Senior quarter finals over the weekend. I was eagerly looking forward to the Madden v Nab match but it ended up relatively disappointing. Madden I thought were very impressive in the first half, particularly in defence, and they snuffed out the challenge of the much vaunted...
  9. Rufus T Firefly

    Is it time for change?

    Were you there?
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    Is it time for change?

    I really, really hope that a lot of the comments here are tongue in cheek, because if they're not, they would simply make you despair.
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    Is it time for change?

    Out of curiosity, where are you going with this?
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    The GAA have ruined football

    The whole debate around 'Why Kerry' frequently raises its head on GAA Forums. A good number of years ago (certainly over ten), I saw a response from Bord na Mona Man, on GAABoard, that I thought was the best I'd seen and I kept it and use it every now and again for info. I regurgitate it again...
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    All Ireland series

    It never gets any easier. Each Armagh Championship exit seems to have a special twist of the knife, and last night was no exception. I've often said that Geezer has to be one of the unluckiest managers about. At a guess, I'd venture there have been no more than 5/6 Senior Championship penalty...
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    All Ireland series

    Sunday was just great. I don't need to tell anybody here that we don't follow Armagh for the glory. We do so because they are our team. And every once in a while they have it in them to give any team in the land, a bloody nose. It's probably why we travel so often in hope more than expectation...
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