Thanks for your comments bookmaker. I think the trophies will be won in the March games but only with the valuable work done on these very forums by soldiers such as yourself. In the meantime if you feel that you can provide a more accurate and reliable reference for gaelic football in Lancashire then please do so!

sparks_uuc (Fermanagh) - Posts: 91 - 09/03/2010 13:33:45    583114

Rumble young men, rumble!

SpeedDemon11 (Tyrone) - Posts: 10 - 09/03/2010 14:56:54    583197

Bookmaker at times you are a real embarrasment to your club with your comments.

The GAA is built upon the principles of voluntary work- people giving up their free time, to contribute to something they love and for the benefits of others, such as yourself in cae you han't noticed.
Sparks falls into this category- Lancashire GAA has lacked a webiste for years til last year, til Sparks built it and maintains it. He relys on others providing him with the information, which is often delayed or not forthcoming- and in some instances may be incorrect. If there were more volunteers like him our organisation would be an even better place. Perhaps you should be your clubs representative to liase with him with the scores.

Or perhaps you're not the best person for the job as going on the reports I've heard JM scored 5 unanswered points in the last 15mins to win by 6.
Less of your childish knocking and more contributing please!!

Patrick, Paul and John (None) - Posts: 81 - 09/03/2010 15:00:00    583205

A dam good post Patrick, Paul and John.

We'd be waiting a fair while for the bookmaker to contribute anything more than smart remarks and arrogant jibes.

Yer Man (None) - Posts: 286 - 09/03/2010 15:27:39    583229

They won by 8

redhanddefender (Tyrone) - Posts: 913 - 09/03/2010 15:41:34    583244

It was by 6 points and if the penalty decision which should have gone Oisins way at the end of the first half had been slotted we may have had a shock on our hands. How come JM could only muster 13 souls for the day when they have the pick of a City strange one that??????????

Mancirish (UK) - Posts: 2200 - 09/03/2010 19:48:52    583605

It was 8 points Manc Irish. I think the match report on Hoganstand is accurate.

Am sure this volunteer receive a fee for his work on creating the website.

Dont get me wrong fair play to Sparks for keeping it going, and its a good and useful website. But it does tend to be a tad bias.

There was no mention or big deal made of the Championship final, Funnily enoughh the last match report on it was the senior league against Oisins. Then nothing else. Was it because Oisins werent involve after this?

The_Bookmaker (Tyrone) - Posts: 82 - 09/03/2010 21:25:17    583738

The Lancashire website is a resource available to all clubs within the county. If a club submits a match report it posted on the site and attributed to them. If you want to refer back to the site itself you will see that the last match report was in fact from the Wolfe Tone Final between St Brendans and St Peters ( http://www.lancashiregaa.co.uk/match.php?report_id=13 ).

Without washing too much dirty laundry in public I have approached the management from other teams after games encouraging them to send me some information on how they were progressing in other tournaments but said material was not forethcoming.

If you or anyone else have content which you feel is of interest to the rest of Lancashire then please feel free to email this to [email protected]

I have had to resort to pilfering match reports from individual club's websites off my own back due to a lack of anything forethcoming. For you to say that that the Lancashire website is bias only highlights the fact that other clubs are not taking advantage of what is available to them. If Oisin are more proactive on the site that is a credit to the club itself and I would welcome input from each and every club in the county.

sparks_uuc (Fermanagh) - Posts: 91 - 10/03/2010 08:27:38    583811

I'm sure theres nothing to stop you setting up your own website bookmaker! Fair play to Sparks and speaking as a player from a Yorkshire club the lancashire website is as good a reference on the pennine league as there is online, but i'd certainly look forward to your offering which i'm sure would be up to the minute, unbiased, mistake free and 100% user friendly! Or maybe it would be like most of your posts on here - a load of rubbish!

HospitalBall (UK) - Posts: 79 - 10/03/2010 08:37:50    583816

maybe the lancs website should have more input from people from other clubs, is sparky up for sharing hte responsibilty?

BigTom2050 (Tipperary) - Posts: 289 - 10/03/2010 09:37:02    583836

Help is always welcome. No HTML or coding experience is necessary. If your club wants to put someone forward to assist please email the person's full name, email address and telephone number to [email protected] along with the club name. I will have to run any candidates past the county board as it is their website.

sparks_uuc (Fermanagh) - Posts: 91 - 10/03/2010 10:48:13    583896

I for one will be only using bookmaker.com the one-stop-shop for all your unbiased Lancashire needs! ;-)

Keep up the good work Sparks, its easily the best site online for info on GAA throughout the county.

Yer Man (None) - Posts: 286 - 10/03/2010 11:18:38    583942

lancashire Season 2010 ....... not worth talking about as no-one is interested.

CheFinny (UK) - Posts: 1358 - 10/03/2010 11:32:01    583963

What a helpful and well thought out post, thanks che.

Yer Man (None) - Posts: 286 - 10/03/2010 11:42:31    583978

Mancirish, you know what they say about people in glass houses! I heard Mitchels had 16 lads togged and ready to go for the throw in at 2pm but the match had to be delayed by an hour to allow for half the Oisin's team to make their way to the game who had been playing the Queens game earlier that afternoon!!

Mitchels should have been awarded the points before any ball was thrown in!!!

chickoboy (Fermanagh) - Posts: 10 - 10/03/2010 16:11:47    584319

Honestly there is some serious tripe talked here, I know for a fact some of these posters werent even in the country never mind at the Mitchels/Oisins game...
Well, I was, the game started at 1.15, it was supposed to start at 1.00, but the Mitchels management we good enough to grant Oisins the 15 mins allowed as they were indeed waiting on their soccer players. Thankyou Mitchels management.
If these soccer players hadnt turned up, or the game wasnt delayed 15misn, it was likely Oisins would struggle to field such has been their depth of injuries and players still not returned.
Only 3 of the 12 senior players were fielding, so u can see the why it was essential for the delay, and im sure Mitchels were understrength too, so im not using the missing players as an excuse.
I asked the referee myself after the game the score and he said 1:5 to 0:14..... leavin 6 points........
However he may be wrong, i doubt it, but if he was and it was 8 points i honestly cpould not care less...
Its the firts game of the season, many on both sides had hardly trained and it was just an houir to try and get rid of some cobwebs

Tony_Soprano (UK) - Posts: 28 - 10/03/2010 17:01:26    584372

chickoboy here are the facts just in case you were interested in them,

The game was due for a 1p.m. throw in but because some of our lads were playing for a soccer team in the morning it was agreed by both the ref and Mitchels management that it could be put off until they arrived. All credit has to be given to the Mitchels management for doing this as they would have been well within their rights to look for the points 15 minutes after the original time for throw in. Who would this have benefited? Oisins actually had 14 lads who could have started the game if necessary but because of the good grace from the ref and Mitchels we waited. Throw in was actually about twenty past one which makes it twenty minutes after the assigned throw in and not the hour you have stated. Mitchels played the game well in terms of opting to play a 13 man game against a team that had half of its players already involved in a game that morning (obviously not Mitchels problem). Bit of a shame that a team of their stature couldn't get more than 16 players who would be interested in seeing a bit of football especially as a large majority of them will be sitting on the bench later on in the year. I suppose it harks back to the old club versus team debate. Not that I would want to open that can of worms.

I for one am looking forward to this season as I think it will be one of the tightest in a long time

Comeonthetown (UK) - Posts: 57 - 10/03/2010 17:16:11    584397

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584397 chickoboy here are the facts just in case you were interested in them,

The game was due for a 1p.m. throw in but because some of our lads were playing for a soccer team in the morning it was agreed by both the ref and Mitchels management that it could be put off until they arrived. All credit has to be given to the Mitchels management for doing this as they would have been well within their rights to look for the points 15 minutes after the original time for throw in. Who would this have benefited? Oisins actually had 14 lads who could have started the game if necessary but because of the good grace from the ref and Mitchels we waited. Throw in was actually about twenty past one which makes it twenty minutes after the assigned throw in and not the hour you have stated. Mitchels played the game well in terms of opting to play a 13 man game against a team that had half of its players already involved in a game that morning (obviously not Mitchels problem). Bit of a shame that a team of their stature couldn't get more than 16 players who would be interested in seeing a bit of football especially as a large majority of them will be sitting on the bench later on in the year. I suppose it harks back to the old club versus team debate. Not that I would want to open that can of worms.

I for one am looking forward to this season as I think it will be one of the tightest in a long time

Ah comeonthetown you fail to see the irony in your post. You accuse us of being just a team, have dig at us because we chose to play 13 aside and leave players out who will be on the bench later on in the season.

Why did you not start on time with 13 of your original 14? Surely these men will spend enough time on the bench later in the season? Pot, kettle, black me thinks!

To steal a line from you a bit of shame a team of Oisins stature couldnt get all their players there on time or start with the lads they had available to them.

The_Bookmaker (Tyrone) - Posts: 82 - 10/03/2010 17:57:33    584475

Bookmaker if you have a read of my post again you will find I never had a dig at ye really and it lacked any form of irony. Ye didn't chose to play 13 a side on the day ye played 13 a side because ye could only round up 16 'club' men to come across to Manchester on a Sunday morning. That is a fact is it not? My point is that it is a bit strange that a team with a squad of your size should be doing better than that. We could have started with the lads we had on the sideline but we had a team named from training and as was said previously your management were kind enough to wait until the rest of our squad arrived. As for them sitting on the bench for the rest of the season your having a laugh right? Every man that was playing for Oisins on Sunday will figure for the team throughout the year be it junior or senior. How many of the 16 lads that were there from your team will get the same amount of game time this year? Not many would be my guess.

Comeonthetown (UK) - Posts: 57 - 10/03/2010 20:40:29    584677

Bookmaker if you have a read of my post again you will find I never had a dig at ye really and it lacked any form of irony. Ye didn't chose to play 13 a side on the day ye played 13 a side because ye could only round up 16 'club' men to come across to Manchester on a Sunday morning. That is a fact is it not? My point is that it is a bit strange that a team with a squad of your size should be doing better than that. We could have started with the lads we had on the sideline but we had a team named from training and as was said previously your management were kind enough to wait until the rest of our squad arrived. As for them sitting on the bench for the rest of the season your having a laugh right? Every man that was playing for Oisins on Sunday will figure for the team throughout the year be it junior or senior. How many of the 16 lads that were there from your team will get the same amount of game time this year? Not many would be my guess.


Your a joke lad absolute tripe, dont even want to get in to a juvenile slaggin match with ye, take your beating and move on, 13 or 15 who cares it was the penine league and we have set our stall for the how the rest of the season is gonna go when we meet you! Won't be as tight this year not a hope

redhanddefender (Tyrone) - Posts: 913 - 11/03/2010 08:39:24    584903