2020 season - write off?

JESUS REF

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League splits after the 7 games then each team plays 3 more either in bottom half or top half to gain promotion or avoid relegation
 

ragingbull

Well-Known Member
Time to end meaningless adult leagues and the u19 competition and give breathing space to calm covid before the inter county season starts otherwise it won’t! John McEntee tweet
 

JoeH

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Time to end meaningless adult leagues and the u19 competition and give breathing space to calm covid before the inter county season starts otherwise it won’t! John McEntee tweet
Don't often agree with John but teams are just going through the motions
Once championship is over that's it
It's been a good championship and warm up league games but it is time to call it
Pitches are still in decent nick - if we keep training and playing the pitches will deteriorate
The issue I see is that teams think it's still fine to go and drink the heads of themselves, and do it a couple of times.
It's asking for trouble
 

Eireogatron

Well-Known Member
Let's all disband the association, forget the hard work players and officials are putting in, forget the team's trying to go up a grade and hibernate for the next 6 months for a virus people need to be tested to find out they have. Better still, let's cancel league's forever and just run a knockout championship each year because the league's are clearly superfluous.

If Cross had won the championship and Ulster was on the line would mcentee be as vocal, not a hope!
 

PatMustard

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Let's all disband the association, forget the hard work players and officials are putting in, forget the team's trying to go up a grade and hibernate for the next 6 months for a virus people need to be tested to find out they have. Better still, let's cancel league's forever and just run a knockout championship each year because the league's are clearly superfluous.

If Cross had won the championship and Ulster was on the line would mcentee be as vocal, not a hope!

To be honest, leagues and championships come a distant second place if this virus is in danger of getting out of control again.

I understand people’s frustrations but if things get worse, you can’t put those same hard working players and officials at risk of contracting it or passing it on. They all have parents, children, partners that might be at risk too.

As far as I know, McEntee’s job is health-related, so maybe his opinion carries more weight than any of ours.
 

Eireogatron

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To be honest, leagues and championships come a distant second place if this virus is in danger of getting out of control again.

I understand people’s frustrations but if things get worse, you can’t put those same hard working players and officials at risk of contracting it or passing it on. They all have parents, children, partners that might be at risk too.

As far as I know, McEntee’s job is health-related, so maybe his opinion carries more weight than any of ours.

Why would it, he's not a virologist afaik, he works on occupational and social care which isn't strictly speaking, medical. Although I admit I'm being a bit pedantic.

To be honest with you, from several personal experiences with this thing both on myself and with relatives who are in the 1% and contracted it, alongside questionable records of causes of death, I am now a massive sceptic having stringently adhered to the previous lockdown to the detriment of my family's immediate mental and physical wellbeing.

The British government have already said up to 90% of tests are potentially false positive (Dominic raab said 93%), hospital beds currently used by covid sit at 1% of capacity and that includes all people who tested positive while already in hospital so even that is false data.

The South's own govt statistics website says that 7, yes 7 people under 70 without a serious health condition have died from the virus IN TOTAL in the state.

Hundreds of independent virologists, red brick university professors and other experts are speaking up as to the gross over estimations being given out and the true impact on society. We're stuck with Whitty and Ballance, the doomsday merchants leading the Brits with our counterparts on the hill following suit. Note that the govt medical advisers predicted 500,000 deaths from BSE, millions from SARS and over 65,000 from swine flu....

I know numerous heavily sick "at risk" people who have had it and didn't even know.

We've already been assured outdoor activity has minimal chance of transmission. I, for example, tested positive due to my late father being in Haematology as that cluster was announced and not a single other member of our team tested positive despite me training twice with them before we found out and isolated.... Now people are being told not to test without symptoms but isolate anyway. It's a load of absolute nonsense.

80% of deaths in the North linked to care homes and the extremely elderly. Why not put safety buffers in place for the vulnerable to help them stay protected, comfortable and the rest of the population try to reach a form of normality, albeit phased in? And I'm not saying lock them away, they are valuable people with every bit as much rights as anyone else and should be protected but locking away the 99% to protect the 1% and potentially sky rocketing child poverty, people losing jobs and houses, sports clubs going bust, depression, cancer referral delays etc etc etc is madness imo.


This virus is here and we have to live with it. Lockdowns every other month isn't gonna help.

Listen, that's my opinion (the polar opposite of what I thought in April) and I admit it won't be everyone's but I've formed it through trying to get as much information as possible and also through personal experiences (and I'm not a conspiracy theorist, anti-vaxxer or tin hat merchant lol)

PS - today the BBC are reporting the spread is slowing in England... Yesterday it was doomsday.
 
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PatMustard

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@Eireogatron firstly, condolences on your loss.

I understand things have to open, life has to go on. And I know that some are going to get infected even if they’re doing everything right. I accept that will happen.

But it’s the people who are clearly doing nothing, that has people (particularly the vulnerable) worried. I’ve met quite a few who get worried by the student gatherings, house parties, and people not wearing a mask in shops. I mean, come on. How fecking difficult is it to stick one on for 5 minutes?! We all know some elderly/vulnerable people, the only contact they might have in their week could be from their local shop, collecting their pension, visiting the butcher etc. People are denying those people those simple things in life by pissing about, and not doing the right things.

Everyone can feel safer and go about their lives more if everyone does the right things. Nobody needs to be locked away. Not even the vulnerable.
 

Gaamaniac

Active Member
County board stated last night league will be finished including the split leagues, personally don't see how this is going to happen, getting worse each week and we will be playing into november at this stage. Are we the only county still playing leagues?
 

ragingbull

Well-Known Member
Let's all disband the association, forget the hard work players and officials are putting in, forget the team's trying to go up a grade and hibernate for the next 6 months for a virus people need to be tested to find out they have. Better still, let's cancel league's forever and just run a knockout championship each year because the league's are clearly superfluous.

If Cross had won the championship and Ulster was on the line would mcentee be as vocal, not a hope!
Would you be saying that if Eire Og weren't top of the Junior league :confused:
 

ShiftYa

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Just after hearing that all club activity in Armagh has just been suspended
Armagh released a statement earlier saying the County senior team‘s training was suspended. Are you sure it isn’t this news or is this a further development they haven’t publicly communicated yet?
 
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