CALLS FOR GAA club pitches to be opened up again continue to intensify with Kilkenny hurling star TJ Reid and Armagh All-Ireland winner Steven McDonnell the latest leading figures to argue that it is time to allow access to those facilities.
GAA matches at county and club level continue to be off the agenda with the current directive seeing club grounds closed until 20 July at the earliest due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Yesterday was the first date since mid-March that no deaths of people with Covid-19 were recorded, a development described as a ‘significant milestone’ by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
GAA President John Horan has suggested in a recent interview with BBC Northern Ireland that the re-opening of clubs may be fast-tracked.
“If there is one first step that we may make in terms of loosening things up it may well be that people will be allowed access to grounds for restricted periods of time under supervision, though with no ball activity.
“If there are walkways available then the elderly in the community could go down at a particular time of the day and have a period to exercise. Then later in the day other people could do the grounds for exercise.”
With public parks being utilised by small groups playing hurling or football, Reid believes it is time to open GAA pitches which would be of particular benefit to rural clubs.
An All-Ireland club winner with Ballyhale Shamrocks in January, Reid also pointed out on Twitter that he believes club volunteers would be able to help with stewarding to ensure large crowds do not gather.
Please reopen our GAA pitches😊
— TJ Reid (@_tjreid) May 25, 2020
Public parks are open and were packed over the weekend, yet rural club areas within 5km of people's homes cant be accessed for use of safe walkways and to enjoy the grass roots of the community.#club #exercise #physicalhealth #mentalhealth #GAA
TJ Reid / Twitter
TJ Reid / Twitter / Twitter
Steven McDonnell made similar points when he tweeted last night, the 2002 Sam Maguire victor feels the adherence to social distancing guidelines will not change if club pitches were open.
It would be great if the GAA brought forward plans to open up our grounds again. Almost everyone is adhering to social distancing guidelines and I can’t see that this will be any different if they were open. Give our people a place of solace to go for a walk or some practice.
— Steven McDonnell (@StevenMcD13) May 25, 2020
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You had no available strikers and you didn’t go with a False 9? Your status as football hipster is now revoked. Please hand back your copy of “Inverting the Pyramid”.
Into my 3rd season with Southampton…..
2 7th places finishes a cup final and I. Europe…….
Not too bad
Get in Daniel Carr from Huddersfield – Frightening quality and cheap
You’d want to get a wriggle on if you’re going to win the Champions League before Dec 1. If it’s taken this long to get to February in the game you’re either going to have to go all out (take a week off work/family) or concede defeat.
Why don’t we all help Paul with any tips on good affordable signings that he could make to improve his chances. It’s often a case of stumbling across cheap quality signings and sharing the find with friends.
Played 01/02 religously! (Anyone remember Javier Saviola??), i actually cannot play a version from 09 on, seasons take too long and everything became far too complicated. Im playing 08 the last few years, seems to be the last uncomplicated version. Maybe i just cant except change?? Lol.
Saviola was a goal machine!!
How long does a season take in the games these days? I’m a recovering cm01/02 player (kinda like being an alcoholic, although I may not have played today, I know just one match and I’m back to where I started) – was gona buy this but someone said the seasons take ages these days.
Mid-table mediocrity in the Argentine second division is where it’s at.
Try winning it with Limerick FC – took me ten in game years to win! Once you get qualified for the CL you get some good money to invest in players!
Loved the game years ago but had to stop due to losing too many weekends !
Illegally downloading it as we speak, i know miles jacobson wont be happy but i invested all my gaming money on Gta V. Might take on the brighton challenge too, sorry miles i bought every version up until now ;)
Its not illegal at all. The game is so old eidos released it for free. Go to champman0102.co.UK and you can download the game and update the database to the the 2013 season. Has to be the most addictive game ever created
What about Cork?
Da people’s republic is only available as an international side in the newer versions – wouldn’t be able to compete for the champo league with them.
I once won the champions league with dubnica nad chain who were in the Slovak 2nd division when I started with them :)
*dubnica nad vahom…curse you autocorrect!
Curse you indeed!
Nerds
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…..says the “Back to The Future Trilogy” fan!!
cm 01/02 won’t work on windows 7 :-(
I tried to play the newer versions but it’s just not the same. Definitely stuck in my ways..
It’s a free download from a message board site, Google champman01/02. there is a way of installing on 7 and it’s on the website. Looks daunting at first but easy to do
It will work on windows 7 fine. After install right click the exe file and in properties change to compatibility mode as windows 98 and set as always run as administrator and it will work perfectly
How does one download it illegally?… Don’t worry I pay all my taxes
When is FM2014 out on android????…just checked play store…no sign of it?
Well at least you’re using FMC so the seasons shouldn’t take too long to do!
I started league 2 with bury won 3 consecutive promotions in the premier league now mid table.