2017 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Either way humiliation awaits ye and that pleases me no end

James McCarthy has a right go at Cillian O’Connor here. I’m sure John Small agrees with these sentiments too.

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Surprisingly positive about the black card rule

You literally couldn’t make it up

Why you say that ???

Are you really stupid?

Did you hear if John Horan was nominated for anything this week pal?

i asked MBB . Mind your own business you nosey cunt.

Heard nawthin. Send me a PM & i’ll investigate. :+1:

If he was nominated for anything, I’d be betting Kilkenny will give him ‘da wan’.

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You fucking bullshit artist cunt.

Leinster Council chairman John Horan has defended the decision to fix Dublin to play in Portlaoise next summer - despite previously ruling the venue unsuitable.

Should Carlow beat Wexford in their 2017 championship opener, the All-Ireland champions will travel to O’Moore Park to start the defence of their Leinster Championship on June 3/4.
The decision piqued interest in Laois who were unhappy they weren’t permitted to face the Dubs at their home venue last summer and instead travelled to Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park.

But Horan explained that they took the “cautious” decision in moving that game to the province’s second largest stadium.

“Last year (2016) we done it on the basis that we were going to the biggest venue to test it out, and we were taking a cautious step,” he said.
"It hadn’t been done in 10 years, the Dublin that’s there now is a different Dublin that was there 10 years ago. They have four All-Irelands under their belt in that sense, so we felt that we had to take that cautious step last year and test the market and we tested the market.

"Now we feel we can take another step forward and spread the actual base that Dublin would use. You’d be talking about Wexford, Portlaoise and Tullamore as possible venues, but again it’ll be reviewed every year and just see how it goes.
“If there are problems out of it this year, we’ll obviously have to review them. But we had no problems last year, Kilkenny did a great job and there was a great atmosphere for anyone that was there.”

Leinster took a small financial hit that weekend but Horan puts that down to the fact that their double-header was moved to Saturday night from Sunday due to a Bruce Springsteen concert. And he hinted the arrangement will remain in place for the foreseeable future.
“I think once we had taken the step to take Dublin out, I think going forward that it’s a good idea,” he said.

Lads, that’s a serious mugging off for Laois

Its not like we didn’t say it at the time, and were sneered at.

Politics motherfucker. Horan, was, and always will be, a cunt.

9 new faces for Donegal this year.

I think 4 of those lads are from last year’s minor side and the rest come from the minor sides of the two years before that. There doesn’t look to be much outside of what is currently in the panel and coming through recent underage panels for Donegal.

@croppy_boy

Why isn’t Niall O’Donnell one of the minors from last year called up? Is he minor again next year?

They’re slow to promote the minors to the Senior panel up here.

That’s the only reasoning I can see behind it.

They seem to be quick to promote them to the panel but very slow to pick them and give them gametime.

Yeah it’s very strange. They’ll have to accelerate the process soon.

That’s why I feel the likes of Toye, Kavanagh, Gallagher and Lacey stepping away would do Donegal the world of good 2/3 years down the line.

Lads ye haven’t a notion if ye think throwing a load of young lads in is a good idea. Or fetting rid of a losd of experince together. Look at Cork ffs, Cutbert never recovered from his cull. He wasn’t a good enough manager to cope with that loss of leadership. Kavanagh is the same, but i’d say he realises it.