Club in trouble - a good news story!

[Schumi]

Anybody else think that Dubs ad makes it look like Jedward are playing for them?

I think that's intentional, they're playing at half time of a Dublin game.

[Ash]

Sure all our clubs are based on volunteers.

except Fingal ...

[Bluebeard]

I hate to see any club go under, but Tom Davis really pushed my charity to the limit. I am hoping that they current coconuts running it who were involved in the hateful court case a booted, and decent folk GENUINELY concerned for the good of their community get involved, and they pull a Shamrock Rovers, and come back as less heinous crowd. Deffo think that Rovers should make a genuine effort to help them out, partly to demonstrate their willingness to help in the community, but also to really stick it into both the GAH Uberalles crowd who endorsed the "Rovers will destroy Davis" case, and those who are involved in Thos Davis who bang on about community, wouldn't stroll from the Square to watch Rovers, but manage to find time to make pilgrimages to Liverpool or Glasgow or London or Manchester. I'm not saying don't make them, just don't bang on about community, then stiff your own.

I am also reminded of a survey of hurlers in Limerick in the 1930s, about the biggest threat to hurling. It was commissioned by the GAH on the basis of using this to cast an incriminating shadow on the "English" games. Far from rugby and football, the hurlers said it was GAH Football was the biggest threat. Cue submerging of the report. As someone from a hurling county, it really killed me to see Thos Davis being funded to attack Rovers as a threat to the Irish games, when the GAA as a whole seems to be doing nothing to help hurling, especially by insisting it has the same rules and structures as GAH Football. Not cool. And don't get me started about how they are castrating handball - the one game they have that has a genuine chance of international success, and perhaps even an olympic slot (with a lot more promotion, granted).

Sorry, wandered off topic.

[micls]

Despite being a GAA fan, I laughed at this. Well deserved!