Effect of new rules

2024 Rd1 Div1 & 2 total lines averaged 31.25 with a max of 33.5 & a min of 29 5

2025? 6 games priced with an average of 36.17 (+5 points !!). A max of 39.5 (🤯) and a min of 34.5

The 2025 minimum is a full point ahead of the 2024 maximum #gaa

Kelly's Heroes. Perfect for a day like today

"To any New Yorker like you a hero is some kind of sandwich"

No idea on the new rules. But analysts have to be happy. The more lines on the pitch the easier to reference where something happens 😁

Am annual tradition from "over there" ... always a highlight

WATCH: The @gaeliclife.bsky.social Ulster Club final review show is out now #GAA

I chatted with Aidan McCrory and Ciaran Quinn

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBxb...

Spotify: March was your Francophile Cowgirl Crush Punk phase
Me: Uh huh that’s right
Spotify: In July you had a Surf Princess Girl Math Autoerotic-core moment
Me: I recall that, yes

Some game in Croker 👀

Argh. You're right

YouTube video by Off The Ball Special Congress Vote Yes: how Gaelic Football will look in 2025 | Reaction, Interviews, Analysis

30.11.24 - Gaelic Football changed today ✅

Here is your hour-long deep dive into Special Congress and what it means for 2025!

ft. Jim Gavin, Colm Collins, Eamon Fitzmaurice, Jarlath Burns, an explainer on all 18 changes, also analysis with Philip Lanigan & Jason Byrne 🎥
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84 between FF& FG would be a "good" outcome in terms of forming a new govt relatively quickly.

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

The totals don't add up as the probables & possibles overlap (due to bookies margins).

But it will be interesting to see who wins what seats from each pot.

▪︎ FG’s lack of returning TDs hurts them in the “nailed” category and they’ll be open to any swing in those final seat battles.

▪︎ GP & LAB are in for a long weekend fighting with everyone for those final seats (3/3)

It’s a simple exercise but you can start to see the various parties’ weaknesses (and/or openness to variance).

▪︎ SF are your atypical “stars and scrubs” team coming out on top for the number of candidates nailed on. But the back up bench is weak.

▪︎ FF are just solid across the board. (2/3)

Bookmaker’s odds are not great for election prognostication, as they build in such margin (avg. 60% cushion for a5 seater), but we can still do something.

Boyles have priced up every constituency. We’ll categorise TDs as “nailed” (<= 1/10), “probable” (1/9 to 1/4) and “possible” (2/7 to 2/1) (1/3)

Kerry will love Clifford being able to use space with the 3v3. Roscommon have a number of longvrange shooters for the 2pt arc. Donegal coming in waves off consistent long kickouts.

English: Irish seems like such a conservative, pious language.

Gaeilge, naming places: An Dá Chích (Two Boobs)

English: No. Wait-

Gaeilge: Baile Phíte Méabha (Townland Of Medb's Vulva)

English: Stop that.

Gaeilge: ...

English: ...

Gaeilge: Magairlí an Deamhain (Devil's Testicles) ☺️

On the flipside

• Wall doesn't have Bacik on his - probably fair. I'd guess Wall is better known than Bacik down here!
• Similar for O'Gorman on the Greens. Though Sood is new and completely unknown
• Byrne gets her picture!
• SF go with both Pearse *&* Mary Lou

Leaflets dropped through the letterbox today. Always interested in the decisions made on how to produce them.

• Berry didn't get the memo on right aligning the address
• Poor old Byrne doesn't get a photo on the front
• Mini Martin on the bottom right of the FF version is ... a thing!

this looks like an interesting addition building on lmthis years' success @trackathletesie.bsky.social

Maybe they just don't have any beyond the policy of getting elected?

Now that I've annoyed the Eagles fans, I'll bring out my first team color week-to-week graphic of 2024 to show how well the Eagles have played over the last six weeks.

Understand margins, rounding etc. . . but my poor brain can't get past totalling the movements and getting -10 and +7

GAA Beo may just have turned "obair na gcapall" into my favourite phrase

Using the wind isn't just about long range shooting etc. You've got to ensure you don't give away cheap frees close in ... make em earn it against the wind. Crokes have had 0-04 from their opening 0-05 against a strong wind from frees all within 25m

Argh Rathgormack. Stop giving close in frees when you have the wind ... make em earn it #gaa

Latest #UlsterSFC

Kilcoo 0-3
Scotstown 0-1

11 mins

Kilcoo with 7 shots so far

Listening to Ciara Mageean doing the rounds this week ... aside from how brilliant she is on the track she's a phenomenal, thoughtful, inciteful interviewee.