The UAFC

So football won’t go there, and rugby doesn’t need to go there…..maybe except for artificially set up matches. So GAA are probably the sole users…….and therefore the sole financiers. Imagine the Treasury in London deciding whether we put 200 million into the GB health service, education, controllin...

Wonder did we ever unknowingly meet in Durham Street, before we eventually met at Ravers? :scratch: Probably not. I was only in Durham St a couple of times before they relocated to the new unit in the City Hospital. Dr Scally was in charge when I was a regular. Dr Scally was a lovely woman. I was o...

7-0 at halftime

Hope that cricket score comes in the second innings.

And we are back to the original problem. Who wants to play NI soccer matches in a 35000 stadium with a 20000 crowd, or an Ulster rugby match with 15/18000 crowd? Which can be accommodated at Ravers anyway. Why would we pay GAA to host a match we can host ourselves, let alone lose out on bar and foo...

New stadium effect. People want to go and experience it for the first few years. Play a big European match there or against a NZ xv with cheap ticket prices and marketed well and it would work. Even 28k at Casement would still look good. Other than the euros (potentially) I couldn't see NI going ba...

My wife is always complaining that I'm tight with money so yesterday, to surprise her, I treated her to afternoon tea. It was very exciting as she had never given blood before ... SPOILER ALERT First time donors get a cold drink. (at least they did when I gave my first pint back in 1977) I'm on abo...

My wife is always complaining that I'm tight with money so yesterday, to surprise her, I treated her to afternoon tea. It was very exciting as she had never given blood before ... SPOILER ALERT First time donors get a cold drink. (at least they did when I gave my first pint back in 1977) I'm on abo...

Stats aside, one could argue that Kok is the living embodiment of our new ‘three pillars’ of energy, enjoyment and competitiveness. He never stops, has had a bit of craic with East Terrace and knew he’d have to be the fittest bloke in the squad to make up for being a short Brennan. Would you want y...

big mervyn wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:14 pm My wife is always complaining that I'm tight with money so yesterday, to surprise her, I treated her to afternoon tea.

It was very exciting as she had never given blood before ...

SPOILER ALERT

First time donors get a cold drink. (at least they did when I gave my first pint back in 1977)

https://simons-rock.edu/academics/faculty-bios/science-mathematics-and-computing-faculty/david-myers.php He still talked twaddle. He can know it all about physical and organic chemistry or whatever, but I doubt very much he ever carried out proper research on what happens to a individual bits of fo...

Taken in the full context, I think what Bryn said is perfectly true - we're not in a position to be competing, but what he goes on to say is also true that we need to be bringing players through our academy, building bridges with schools etc. In that context, nothing to see here . . . (except, maybe...

solidarity wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:28 pm Sticks in the throat to say it, but the better team on the day won.

Aye another false dawn for Scottyland.

Well played Italy.

Hairy Biker Dave Myers Enjoying their current series. Lovely bloke. Very sad to hear this and I won’t be trying to think of any puns. Was always great to see two pretty ordinary blokes preparing food that you and I could actually aspire to producing. Personally I couldn't stand Dave Myers, but a sa...

For a long while after the second round of matches, Aunty Beeb had Ireland top of the table with 10 points and England second on 9. I think it was almost match day 3 before they realised that England had 2 bonus points and Ireland only 1, and changed the table. Very poor. Not unlike their commentary...

Springwatch comes to the UAFC. Had 5 . . . yes FIVE robins eating out of my hand today. Only managed to get the imings right on a couple of shots though. The shutter noise if pressed too soon scared them off, and if pressed too late caught them flying off with whatever they took from my hand. Still...