Allianz National Football League 2022

[Lazarus]

Is there a highlights show?

[Biff_Egan]

9.30 RTE 2

[Lazarus]

[StoneCold]

Always great when this clip is rolled out.

Darragh Craig

[Tank]

Complete gimp of a ref.

[Cheasty]

@Cheasty

Association football dominates and can sustain interesting podcasts because it has soap opera.

GAA largely doesn’t. Whatever soap opera exists in GAA is largely confined to Gaelic football - as nobody recognises any hurling players anymore because they wear helmets - and it is created by chaos and absurdity, which the GAA wants to abolish in favour of bland rationality. Chaos and absurdity are much under valued qualities. They provide fodder for heated discussion, and if you don’t have fodder for heated discussion, you have nothing. People say they don’t want chaos and absurdity, but they in fact desperately desire it.

Good examples of chaos and absurdity in Gaelic football in recent years were the Tiernan McCann dive, the Dermo Connolly suspension/unsuspension/suspense saga, Brolly v CavanaghGate, the furious arguing about the venue for the 2014 Kerry v Mayo replay, the Tyrone Covid saga, and Sluddengate.

Unfair sendings off, unfair non-sendings off, illegal goals, unfairly ruled out goals, all these are discussion fodder.

These are marketing tools for a sport in and of themselves and without them you have essentially nothing to discuss.

Armagh, Tyrone and David Gough have DELIVERED the chaos and absurdity that makes for BOX OFFICE discussion fodder for any aspiring plodcasters out there and for the general public.

Tremendous marketing and promotion for the GAA.

[Aristotle]

I know people don’t want to be encouraging that behaviour, but looks like pretty harmless stuff tbh.

[starryplough]

Brawls in Ulster are a cod

[Fagan_ODowd]

I see yer man Niall Carew is doing a fine job with Carlow.

Pat Spillane Jnr on target as Sligo crush Carlow

[Julio_Geordio]

They lost the hurling to Down yesterday. #ulsterrising

[myboyblue]

Spillane Jr comes on as a sub, kicks 2 points in garbage time, and gets the photo and the headline.

Box office.

[peddlerscross]

Its utterly bizarre Spillane Jnr has time to go up to Sligo to play IC Football but cant commit to Templenoe.

[Phil_Leotardo]

What is the story with Carlow this year? That is some hiding.
They had a bit of momentum a few years back. Beating Kildare etc. Assume best players in the county are not bothering to commit again?

[padjo]

And that looked a bang average Sligo team when they played us. Some mauling for Carlow

[Perez2017]

Spillane couldn’t get a game for Templenoe. Now he is playing inter county.

[Aertel220]

@Phil_Leotardo

What is the story with Carlow this year? That is some hiding.
They had a bit of momentum a few years back. Beating Kildare etc. Assume best players in the county are not bothering to commit again?

A lot of the group who reached a Leinster minor final in 2007 and brought Dublin to extra-time in U21 in 2010 have moved on recently. That relative success in 2017/2018 appears to have been akin to a Golden Era for Carlow football. Lads not committing is a major contributory factor too I’d imagine. There’s lads from Eire Og’s intermediate team starting for Carlow.

[Aertel220]

@peddlerscross

Its utterly bizarre Spillane Jnr has time to go up to Sligo to play IC Football but cant commit to Templenoe.

You’d feel he’ll regret not togging for Templenoe in years to come. This is a very special group for them that they need to maximise that while they can. Am I right in saying he was only a sub on their Junior winning team a few years back?

[myboyblue]

You dont replace a Turlough easily, his passion isn’t quickly replicated. That Carlow dont get more out of the IT there is baffling. Kilkenny and Laois get more out of it in fact. Hard to credit. Maybe there’s just no GAA in Carlow.

[Ralphie]

Galvin wants to remove the word “division”
I don’t think it’s a spoof account

[Copper_pipe]

paul galvin