Those draws were really quite special occasions. It’s an absolute travesty what theyve taken from us
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We love an aul junket pal. And it aint Munster thats selling it out.
Another bit of handy money for GAA coffers to develop facilities around the country 
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Its mighty. Always good to help out the neighbour down on his luck. Its been a good week for the GAA coffers with all the Sports Capital Grants gone out.
The Leinster vs Munster games are a grand auld piss-up in the capital to kick off the build up to Crimbo. I’ve gone the last couple of years, will be sorry to miss it this time round but I think I’ll be on international bidness duty that week.
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What I love most about this photo is that even me man in the fucking beret is looking down on the doses.
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October 12 is leaving a fair run in to the chrimbo!
I’ve never heard anybody use the term “Chrimbo” in real life. I’m sure it’s possible there’s some person in Dublin with the nickname “Chrimbo” but I haven’t come across them.
good to see the crotchety old stadium might be full at last
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In fairness to Leinster they market this game well and months in advance, good proportion of people at this match probably only go to 2-3 rugby matches a year, also for GAA most people at a match are from only 2 counties, people from all over the country would go to this.
Sure the shops are wedged with selection boxes already. Any fella who hasn’t a skeleton pint schedule in place already for the next three months would want his head examined.
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https://twitter.com/offtheball/status/1841110819905364141?s=46
Idiotic idea to the link the league and championship. Championship already consists of too many games for most counties resources.
That’s some evisceration of the split season by Dr. Noel McCaffrey in todays Paper of Record.
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I thought she died a couple of months ago.
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RIP
One of the intangible factors which makes the new Croke Park such a lonely place when it’s not full and unconsciously puts people off from going to Croke Park when they know it won’t be full is the look of the seats themselves. They’re cold in their faded bluey greyness. Is there anything worse than looking at swathes of empty, cold, faded bluey-grey seats in the cavernous upper tiers? They’re as welcoming as the cold, dead eyes of a shark.
Compare them to the colourful wooden benches of the old Cusack Stand, Nally Stand and Hogan Stand, which when not being sat on, retained a charm and a warmth, as if they were accompanying you in looking on at a barney of an NHL semi-final or the likes. The yellow paint on the gangways of the Canal End was a lovely touch too. Then of course you the Toyota clock, the electronic scoreboard under the Nally Stand and the hilarious manually operated scoreboard showing total score numbers only at the back of the Canal End. These things gave the old place the vibe of a very lived in 1920s house which you wanted to visit.
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The zealots wont like this.
Spillane and and his ilk are like the Japanese soldiers in the jungle who think the war is still going on.
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The pro-split season zealots are like the western journalists and academics who continued to lavish praise on Stalin’s regime as a great, enlightened leap forward even as it was clear a grotesque calamity was unfolding.
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Any idea what these tweaks are that pat is suggesting?