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Post by kerrygold on Apr 19, 2020 14:08:58 GMT
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 18, 2020 9:45:39 GMT
Government policy and the hopes of the GAA hierarchy are only one part of the equation - any decision will need player buy in also and in this regard the comments of Clare huring captain John Conlon are very revealing "I don't think there will be a GAA championship this year," he told 2fm's Game On. "Until there’s a vaccine and the safety of everyone and their families can be guaranteed. "We have players whose grandparents live with them. My mother has had cancer twice and hasn’t left the house the last number of weeks. I hate to think that if I was able to play I wouldn’t be able to see them for a number of weeks. What if anything we end up with this year will only emerge gradually - I would disagree with his later comments that an altered championship would be tainted - nobody regards pre-2000 competitions as tainted or indeed nobody discounts championship victories from the first couple of decades of the GAA because 6 or 8 or 12 counties participated. Read that aswell be very unfair on players to be put in that position just draw a line under the year pretend it never happened and start again in 2021 (hopefully) or play two championships next year and no league ! If you cant play championship autumn 2020 it is unlikely NFL 2021 could be played.
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 14, 2020 11:33:39 GMT
I presume SKY and RTE have "no games no money" clauses built into their deals with the GAA. The GAA will probably attempt a straight knockout championship. It would be simple enough in hurling as there is only 9 counties plus Laois to deal with. In football they could put div 1 and div 2 into a bowl ...16 teams. Div 3 and 4 could do likewise for a b championship. It would still be a big undertaking to run it off in both codes in front of tiny crowds or maybe behind closed doors. All players would have to be tested and results back jn a day or two before each game. Same with refs etc. The 2021 championship will be in a similar situation unless the vaccine is there which is unlikely. Not all players may wsnt to take the vaccine either. Where does that leave things. Straight four rounds open draw, all 32 names into the hat, 16, 8, 4 & final. 6-8 weeks in the autumn if were lucky. New open draw after each round.
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 8, 2020 9:59:18 GMT
People might also be interested in this following on from yesterdays link on the Buteyko Breathing Method posted above. oxygenadvantage.com/Both are well worth taking a look at. Very interesting Mick, his book The Oxygen Advantage will give you a very good oversight, well worth the investment. I'd imagine the Dubs are aware of this (and much more). You just look at James McCarthy carrying the ball forward in an advanced position if the middle third 5-6 minutes into added time of the drawn final a point down and he is still fully in the zone. You'd like to think Kerry would take a look at this in a game of millimetres - DM getting turned over versus JMC in the zone at the very death of the drawn final in the middle third as the game enters extreme championship minutes......................
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 7, 2020 10:40:52 GMT
People might also be interested in this following on from yesterdays link on the Buteyko Breathing Method posted above. oxygenadvantage.com/Both are well worth taking a look at.
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 6, 2020 18:27:19 GMT
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Post by kerrygold on Apr 4, 2020 12:57:02 GMT
I thing T. K. did something amazing, Winning championships on Two continents. He would be remembered in a better light here only for the book. None of the guys that go away do it to hurt Kerry. It's a massive opportunity and an even bigger badge of honor for a young fella to be chosen for this. They're always welcome back to Ireland. Kerry couldnt buy a free from any ref for about 3 years after the fallout from certain events relating to TK after the 2009 final. Dublin have no such referring problems after actions from Philly, Cooper, Small, Howard for example..........!
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Post by kerrygold on Mar 15, 2020 12:49:18 GMT
Hard to correlate between people out socialising in compact enclosures while frontline medics (with families at home) are dealing with infected people in hospitals 7-14 days later! Would people not just stay the * in for a while while the authorities deal with this? Disturbing images from last night on social media. Not much different to the Fools & Horses in Cheltenham during the week. Show some respect for frontline people.
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Post by kerrygold on Mar 5, 2020 8:32:07 GMT
Hearth warming display last night. It would be great to go the distance this year. A few potential seniors in that setup.
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Post by kerrygold on Mar 4, 2020 13:28:06 GMT
Breakdown of our scorers showing our reliance on the two main men. Player____score_____play____total_____%of total Clifford____2-21____2-12____27_____ 29% O Shea____1-22____1-2____25____26% Geaney____1-6_____1-4_____9____10% Burns_____0-7____0-7_____7______8% JOD______ 0-5____0-5_______5_____5% O'BRIEN_______0-3_____0-3______3_____3% Moynihan_____0-3______0-3______3______3% Then another 4 players with 02 points each and 6 with 01. I know they are our two freetakers but combined they account for 55% of our scores. Clifford alone gets nearly 1/3 of our scores from play. We are top scorers in the division but only four goals scored. Ps sorry about formatting and i know im a total nerd This table conclusively says every thing about retaining our blue chip young players in Kerry.................You simply have to retain the best to be the best.
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Post by kerrygold on Mar 2, 2020 8:56:54 GMT
Great to win when it looked like it was going to slip away from us. Not one bit worried about losing such a lead. Mayo are a decent team and they played very well for 30/40 minutes in all of their games this year. When you’re away from home, particularly in places like Castlebar, Enniskeen and Omagh the home crowd is a huge factor. One Mayo got a couple of scores either side of halftime they had a pep in their step and a gift of a goal added to their momentum. Allied to that Kerry were never going to be able to keep that pace up for most of the game. All in all an away win is very satisfactory, we did enough to win. It can’t have been easy given the postponement last night etc. A couple of very sturdy tests await us away to Monaghan and home to Donegal. We are very well placed to take advantage if we are good enough. Did enough to win - nail on head.
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Post by kerrygold on Mar 2, 2020 8:52:33 GMT
A win is a win, would have been heading for the bus at HT if Clifford had goaled from the peno and had SOS follow up his goal with a second first half chance. Would also have been heading for the bus with 15 to play only for gifting Mayo their goal. Despite all that Kerry failed to win one breaking or scour ground ball in the second half when Mayo increased their intensity. Mayo were poor in the first half Kerry were poor in the middle third after the break. Great to be in a top two position going into the last two games. Question marks again about the amount of time the ref added after the four minutes. Looked like he gave Mayo every chance to get an equaliser. Added time keeping needs to be reviewed.
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Post by kerrygold on Mar 1, 2020 8:32:45 GMT
Dry bright calm morning in Castlebar whatever the pitch will be like............
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 29, 2020 23:14:22 GMT
Dean Rocks shot in the first half exemplified why it shouldn't have been played. Heading over the black spot...nearly hit the corner flag. I have decided I am not going to Castlebar. Its not a great surface in normal conditions. Omagh pitch was only marginally better than Edendork No bad night in Castlebar, sipping pints down town.........
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 28, 2020 21:03:33 GMT
Perhaps the reason that there is no action by the GAA is that ALL CCCC members are at the Congress gathering. With matters like the election of the next President taking all their attention, who worries about the players and supporters. Burns & Flynn will get on like a house on fire! With a few gallons of petrol thrown in!!
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 28, 2020 17:30:53 GMT
Dublin GAA could drive their own finances on to the next level with their own 30k seater stadium in Dublin. It would be some Events centre in the capital. Probably handier though to be receiving the GAA Dole year on year however.............
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 24, 2020 22:54:52 GMT
Home town decisions have been a factor in sport forever. If Dublin get to the AI final this year it is likely they will play 12 of 16 games in their de facto home stadium. Same dressing room, safe routine for every match, no travel, sleeping in your own bed the night before the game. Yet you will still have otherwise intelligent people saying stuff like 'it wasn't a factor pre 2011'. Look at Dubs Park through the lens of the Leinster counties in the Leinster championship. The Leinster Chanpionship is untenable now. Dublin won't be beaten there for the foreseeable future. Kerry & Mayo will go up and have a cut off it regardless.
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 24, 2020 22:50:54 GMT
The current time keeping system is totally unsatisfactory. We need 40 minute plus halves now, blow the whistle. Dublin got 7 extra minutes plus in the drawn final last year, Kerry got 5 minutes extra time in the replay. People can form their own opinions...................
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 24, 2020 10:21:35 GMT
Very enjoyable football to watch at this time of the year rather than watching Kerry playing with 15 behind the ball. Different strokes for different times of the year. Summer will bring different challenges. It a real pity this fine chuck of football is shoehorned into Feb/March........!!!
Looking forward, midfield post DM looks like a horizon of inconsistency for Kerry in the absence of MO'C........
Mayo looking for the points will bring a bit of bite to next weekends game. J'OC is not getting the Micko bounce in Kildare at the moment, the summer will be interesting in the short grass county. Dublin are looking like a runaway train again this year. Top of the table on the back of five in a row, hugely impressive! Difficult to see a lurker in Leinster at the moment, Meath bottom of Div 1, Kildare bottom of div 2 with Laois mid table in the same division.
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 23, 2020 10:10:02 GMT
Fabulous for the Dubs to be able to blood their new up and coming young players week on week in Dubs Park. Even if it is almost empty. Let's continue to water the young snowdrops.........
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 12, 2020 17:00:35 GMT
I didnt see much wrong with the amount of added time in the club final which Corofin won, the drawn game between Kerry and Dublin and the game between Monaghan and Dublin. In each case, the allotted injury time had to be extended for substitutions plus stoppages occuring in the allotted injury time. I'm not so sure. It seems that stoppages in injury time are treated differently to stoppages in normal time. So at the end of 35 minutes of the 2nd half the last night, there were 6 minutes of added time. Just under 1/6 of the 35 minutes. But at the end of the 6 minutes injury time, another 3 minutes were played. So 1/2 of the 6 minutes. It seems to have gone full circle since Dublin Joe blew the whistle after the 2 minutes of injury time in the 2011 final - half of which entailed a goalkeeper coming up the pitch to take a dodgy free! Spot on.
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 12, 2020 8:44:15 GMT
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Money
Feb 12, 2020 8:42:15 GMT
Post by kerrygold on Feb 12, 2020 8:42:15 GMT
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 12, 2020 8:37:47 GMT
I didnt see much wrong with the amount of added time in the club final which Corofin won, the drawn game between Kerry and Dublin and the game between Monaghan and Dublin. In each case, the allotted injury time had to be extended for substitutions plus stoppages occuring in the allotted injury time. Two halves of 40 minutes would be much more transparent. Very few games run over the 80 minutes with added time. Most are probably finishing in the 77-78 minutes bracket, two minutes added in the first half and 5-6 in the second half. 80 minutes in total would be more than adequate broken down into two 40 minute halves.
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 11, 2020 8:42:50 GMT
A number of managers are starting to call out the time keeping issue now at the end of games. It is becoming completely unsatisfactory now and not fit for purpose. Time to bring in 40 minutes halves, stop the clock for injures and blow the whistle on 40 minutes. Everyone would know where they stand.
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 11, 2020 8:39:37 GMT
A number of managers are starting to call out the time keeping issue now at the end of games. It is becoming completely unsatisfactory now and not fit for purpose. Time to bring in 40 minutes halves, stop the clock for injures and blow the whistle on 40 minutes. Everyone would know where they stand.
Regarding the game, I wouldn't lose any sleep about losing an away game in a mud bath in a club grounds away form home. Kerry would probably have eked out a draw if DC had stayed on the pitch.
Great to see Tyrone creating the conditions to allow McShane prepare in a professional way for his peek years with Tyrone. That is where it is at if the top counties want to retain their top blue chip young players from AFL.
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 9, 2020 14:48:42 GMT
Real argument to be made for finding a way to play this great completion during the summer. The football would be massive!
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 8, 2020 20:48:14 GMT
Off topic I know but those fekin Dubs are unbeatable. 9 points down after an hour and drew again. Time keeping at the end of games is a shambles now. Refs playing God. Make the games 40 mins a half and bring in a stop clock.
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 7, 2020 22:00:25 GMT
Killian in for James O’D. I guess he is injured again so. F*ck! I'd say he's ok.
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Post by kerrygold on Feb 4, 2020 21:20:45 GMT
Hard to believe Kerry would have won 3-4 All-Irelands in the last decade with a FIXED cap e tan........!!!
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