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Post by kerrygold on May 18, 2015 21:10:45 GMT
Donegal look to be in good shape and will be hard to beat as the summer unfolds.
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Post by colinsworth1 on May 18, 2015 23:30:44 GMT
Donegal Man is playing down the midfield t think Odhran has improved noticeably and now looks a great prospect I feel ye are asking too much. Of big Nial His work rate. Has been off the charts and I don't know how he can keep that up Mind him he's one of the best. But runs the risk of being burn out
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Post by Control2 on May 22, 2015 9:39:50 GMT
Had to spend half an hour deleting all the rubbish on here. Posters have to decide if they want this forum to continue or not. This tat for tat nonsense will not be tolerated by the county board and the forum will be shut down. Have no doubt about that. Probably time to tidy up a lot of the dead wood here that use the forum for settling scores and abusing other members. I don't see the majority should be denied the brilliant reports and contributions that some members put time and effort into putting together.
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Post by fitz on May 22, 2015 11:12:25 GMT
I take issue with you deleting my posts. They were I believe reasoned and non confrontational. Sledging is a very valid discussion and is arguably the number one issue in GAA and most posts were trying to source its origins and highlight incidences. Yes we were debating with Tyrone members and yes it got passionate and yes there were disagreements and unfortunately petty childish insults being swapped but not by all. Quite a number crossed line of general acceptability. This is where you guys intervene.However we have to be allowed argue points with opinion and fact even if it's not to everyone's liking.
Threatening to close the forum is not the most well measured example of behaviour you want contributors to follow.
Rather than lumping us all into the same boat, can I suggest isolating the offenders crossing the line, issue one warning in private message, further indiscretions remove them.
You are a moderator, moderators need to devote some time to managing the site. 30 minutes doesn't seem overbearing but I don't pretend to know your day and workload, so that might be unfair but I hope you see a point in my point.
Would some known contributors be considered for moderator roles if site maintenance is a somewhat thankless burdensome task?
I enjoy this forum very much and am very grateful for its existence. I have got to know without meeting many contributors through their views and enjoy their contributions wit and perspective.
I would hate to lose this because of folk trying to sledge(how topical) each other through keyboards. Please consider the broader audience.
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Post by fitz on May 22, 2015 11:17:22 GMT
Apologies Control I didn't absorb that you had given focus to positive contributors, so looks like I over packed the lumping into the same boat
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Post by kot on May 22, 2015 13:35:35 GMT
That will teach you now lads!
So the games this weekend.
Clare Vs. Limerick (Typical GAA Stupidity having these 2 play in Ennis the night before the same 2 meet in the hurling in Thurles! Double header???) Cavan Vs. Monaghan London Vs. Roscommon
Clare / Monaghan & Roscommon on a juicy handicap for me to win by double figures.
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Post by kerrygold on May 22, 2015 15:14:56 GMT
That will teach you now lads! So the games this weekend. Clare Vs. Limerick (Typical GAA Stupidity having these 2 play in Ennis the night before the same 2 meet in the hurling in Thurles! Double header???) Cavan Vs. Monaghan London Vs. Roscommon Clare / Monaghan & Roscommon on a juicy handicap for me to win by double figures. Touch and go with that one I would think kot. Big confidence being placed on Clare. Hard to see Monaghan winning by double scores!
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Post by Fado on May 22, 2015 16:01:09 GMT
滑雪撬… is my favourite type, legal too.
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Post by fitz on May 22, 2015 16:01:17 GMT
Agree on outcomes, Monaghan are inconsistent however and Cavan made quarters only 2 years ago and underperformed. They have consistently had good u21s for last few years, I think they will be competitive and it could be close but Monaghan to prevail. Limerick might by not be a pushover and although Clare are trending upwards though they might not be quite as good as being lauded. Rossies to win pulling up.
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Post by donegalman on May 22, 2015 16:02:49 GMT
Roscommon could win this one pulling up by half time. London had a handy enough team 2 years ago but have dropped way back now.
I dont know a thing about clare other than they are improbing, but they lost a few in division 3 as well, so they are not as good as they could have been. I read that Pa Collins is playing exclusively for the clare footballers now, so they must have aspirations and potential.. Limerick I dont know much about either, but they were in a lower division again, and they will not have enough methinks.
Monaghan should beat Cavan, they are just stronger. STats are against them doing well in Breffni, they have never ever beaten cavan there, but trends have been bucked recently in ulster, and I find it hard to bet against them.
There will be no big shocks this weekend.
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Post by royalkerryfan on May 22, 2015 19:52:03 GMT
Well I've gone for, Monaghan, Roscommon Clare & Limerick in the hurling.
First bet of the summer, seems like ages to till we are out in the chamchampionship
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Post by glengael on May 23, 2015 10:21:22 GMT
You'd expect Monaghan to win, maybe not by much though.
Roscommon have expectations upon them but should ave enough.
Clare/Limerick could go one to each, football to Clare, hurling to Limerick methinks.
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Post by southward on May 24, 2015 12:12:24 GMT
Ah noooo! Tommy f*ckin Carr commentating on Cavan/Monaghan game.
Might make a date with the lawnmower instead then. Similar sound, actually.
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Post by Annascaultilidie on May 24, 2015 12:23:56 GMT
Ah noooo! Tommy f*ckin Carr commentating on Cavan/Monaghan game. Might make a date with the lawnmower instead then. Similar sound, actually. More sense out of it too.
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Post by southward on May 24, 2015 13:40:45 GMT
False alarm. Martin Carney instead. RTE website giving a bum steer.
Crap game so far.
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Post by Mickmack on May 24, 2015 21:59:59 GMT
Monaghan won the last 20 mins by 9 points to 2 or something like that. They deserved to win. Typical tight defensive Ulster game but watchable all the same.
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Post by MrRasherstoyou on May 24, 2015 23:36:50 GMT
Monaghan good comeback. Clare hurlers an ongoing carcrash but slow enough that Davy hangs on. Not good sledging weather...............
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Post by misteallaigh abú on May 25, 2015 10:08:13 GMT
Monaghan toughed it out, the win will stand to them. Cavan were a bit too inexperienced and their tackling and shot taking was,at times, very careless.Monaghan have a very handy draw. Beat a couple of divison 3/4 teams and they are in the Ulster final. Davy Fitzgerald looked like a sullen child after that defeat yesterday. There will be better days ahead for Clare this year,for sure. They were missing a couple of their big guns yesterday and Bugler, in particular,was a massive loss to the defence.
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Post by buck02 on May 25, 2015 11:05:31 GMT
Key moment in the Monaghan Cavan game was when the Cavan number 2 totally pulled out of going for a ball with one of the Hughes' I think which the Monaghan man put over the bar - the Monaghan man was there to be hit and the Cavan man wasnt willing to put his body on the line (perhaps because there wasn't another 4 of his team-mates around him).
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Post by donegalman on May 25, 2015 12:14:18 GMT
Monaghan toughed it out, the win will stand to them. Cavan were a bit too inexperienced and their tackling and shot taking was,at times, very careless.Monaghan have a very handy draw. Beat a couple of divison 3/4 teams and they are in the Ulster final. Davy Fitzgerald looked like a sullen child after that defeat yesterday. There will be better days ahead for Clare this year,for sure. They were missing a couple of their big guns yesterday and Bugler, in particular,was a massive loss to the defence. Om paper I would agree with this, but Fermanagh can be very tricky for one big game every year. They beat donegal 4 times in the all ireland between 2000 and 2004, 3 times in ulster, and once in the back door. Twice of these times they put us out of the all ireland, so I would say they are well able if they get half a chance. I know this was a long time ago, but they are under good management and had an excellent run in division 3 this year.
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Post by Jigz84 on May 25, 2015 14:00:01 GMT
Always got the feeling that Monaghan's experience in Div 1 would see them through. McManus is some operator. However, still hard to see them taking a scalp in Croker later in the year, be it ourselves or Cork.
Roscommon did what they had to do. Looking like a Mayo Roscommon Final in the West unless Galway shock Mayo in Salthill, which isn't out of the question.
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Post by southward on May 25, 2015 16:28:52 GMT
I thought the ref was a bit hard on Cavan yesterday and frees kept Monaghan in it first-half. It's not always easy to judge but it just seemed like similar tackles by the two sides were being viewed differently.
Surprised Mackey was taken off, unless he was injured. I thought he was their best player.
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Post by kot on May 26, 2015 10:12:10 GMT
That will teach you now lads! So the games this weekend. Clare Vs. Limerick (Typical GAA Stupidity having these 2 play in Ennis the night before the same 2 meet in the hurling in Thurles! Double header???) Cavan Vs. Monaghan London Vs. Roscommon Clare / Monaghan & Roscommon on a juicy handicap for me to win by double figures. Touch and go with that one I would think kot. Big confidence being placed on Clare. Hard to see Monaghan winning by double scores! No no, I meant just the Rossies but that didn't turn out the way I wanted either. Went for Clare (football obviously), Monaghan and Rossies -10. Had it won after 20 mins apparently and were just going through the motions.
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Post by kot on May 26, 2015 10:15:29 GMT
Monaghan good comeback. Clare hurlers an ongoing carcrash but slow enough that Davy hangs on. Not good sledging weather............... Clare car crash in the hurling? I would say that any team who loses 5 of their best players in the space of 2 years and goes into play a rival with aspirations of the All Ireland themselves is going to find it very tough. Imagine the Dubs heading into play Mayo or something with McCauley, Cooper, B. Brogan, Paul Flynn & Diarmaid Connoly missing from their 2013 team.
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Post by Jigz84 on May 26, 2015 10:49:06 GMT
Shane Curran wasn't too impressive on the Sunday Game. His comments on London were in poor taste.
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Post by Mickmack on May 26, 2015 11:42:30 GMT
Former Donegal manager Jim McGuinness has hit out at RTE and the Sunday Game football panel following Joe Brolly’s controversial comments about Marty Morrissey at the weekend.
McGuinness cast the spotlight on the panel in his column in today's Irish Times, describing their opinions as “more like crass than class” after Brolly described Cavan football as being "as ugly as Marty Morrissey”.
While recognising that Brolly's comments were in jest, McGuinness believes they highlight a bigger issue within RTE and its GAA coverage.
McGuinness doesn’t remember Gaelic Football being analysed in the same “sensationalist” vein 20 years ago when he started playing with current pundits using terms such as “the black death of football”.
"Joe apologised for the remark he made about Marty live on the programme. It was offered in jest and the programme moved on. But I think the incident is like a window to a bigger issue which has been damaging to RTÉ and to its coverage of Gaelic football," writes McGuinness in today's Irish Times.
"The Sunday Game is considered to be the blue riband programme of RTÉ’s sports coverage. It is supposed to be something that exudes class. But in some instances it can look more like crass than class. Sunday was an example of this."
McGuinness himself was no stranger to receiving criticism off the panel during his tenure as Donegal manager with one reference likening his team to the “Taliban”. It was like water off a duck's back for McGuinness but he feels that still doesn’t make right.
"It is about pushing boundaries. For me, RTÉ should control the content but I feel in many respects they have sat on their hands and let the sensationalism evolve," continued McGuinness.
"I enjoy opinion and strong opinion at that. But there is a very important line between opinion and disrespect. People have a right to express their opinion but when their comments cross over into disrespect, it is an issue."
The All Ireland winning manager is currently presiding as performance coach at Celtic Park where they were presented another League trophy last Sunday.
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Post by Mickmack on May 26, 2015 11:43:30 GMT
RTE should stamp out the sledging between football pundits on TSG
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Post by Dermot on May 26, 2015 12:25:01 GMT
Brolly is a complete sensationalist .. He's turned into a complete media wh0re at this stage .. Anything to get himself in the papers !! ..
I watched on Sunday when he made his comments, and even though it should have been a big shock to hear him come out with that, it wasnt !! .. and thats the worst about it, he thinks he can say whatever he likes now ..
The hurling pundits talk sense and about the game .. they arent like the football eejits slagging the game off and looking out for their next rant to make themselves stand out ...
Football is very poorly represented by these people and I just wish we could see the last of them .. bring in new faces now RTE if you have any sense..Though I doubt they will do this - Can the GAA HQ not demand this?
p.s. Brolly aint exactly an oil painting either ..
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Post by Joxer on May 26, 2015 17:04:11 GMT
A bit off topic here but I was at the hurling in Thurles on Sunday and some off the crap that went on both off the ball and even on the ball that goes totally unpunished would have football pundits fuming. If everything that was technically a foul was punished, then Hurling would be far from the free flowing game that's it is renowned as...on Sundays evidence at any rate. Whats punished/whistled in Football is often left go in Hurling if Sundays refereeing performance is a regular occurrence.
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Post by Dermot on May 26, 2015 17:50:46 GMT
No doubt about it .. two totally different interpretations of the rules....This and the increasingly self-centred pundits that football have leads to a very different presentation and reception of the two games..
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