It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Off Topic Chat

Had an up & down mothers day, had managed to call up to my own mum Saturday evening as knew I'd be busy Sunday and that was really nice to spend some time with my Mum & Dad who are both really getting old now.

Yesterday started okay but we had a bit of argy bargy after our match as two of the lads (1 from each team) decided to carry the niggle that was going on between them in the game into a full on trading of blows… ended up with their entire sideline turning it into a free for all which despite the best of intentions to de-escalate the whole thing led to 'peacemaker' here being assaulted by one of their sideline whilst trying to calm the situation down… thankfully there was witnesses and I reported it to the gardai but in reality nothing will happen and they told me as much. Never felt so low after a match as i drove home, when you give so much of your valuable spare time to a team and to have to deal with nonsense like that It does make you question why you bother. Some people are just animals and really should know better around childrens games.

The irony is that we'll be in the same venue with that team again next Sunday for the feile finals, so fingers crossed there's no repeat of the battle royale of yesterday as I think i'd just walk away if it did.

After that drama we went to visit my MIL in her nursing home & had a nice couple of hours with her, then home & I cooked a roast chicken dinner, stuffing, roast veg, roast potatoes & even managed some bread sauce too… delish!!

Was meant to be off today but am so busy have decided to cancel it & work instead, hopefully take the pressure off for the second half of the week.

Hope everyone else (especially the mammy's) had a more relaxing & less dramatic day than me yesterday anyway!!

Need to start employing bouncers at some of these games now.

God almighty @DvB that's mental!

Roughly what age group was that😱

My son played for a few years but only when it wasn't competive and he has given it up now because it was getting too serious and he wasn't enjoying it and he is only 9!

i had a nice relaxing mother's day spent with my family and my parents although yesterday it really hit me that my parents are getting old, so that was hard😮.

Under 15s so just 14 /15 year old's playing.

Been told the ref included it in his report to the Dublin county board after our club chairman spoke to him so they'll not come out of that well as they tend to come down hard on sidelines that lose control.

Either way, am moving on, even if I see the scumbag on Sunday I'll be totally ignoring him. People like that dont deserve the oxygen.

@Princess Calla in knots laughing at your post. That's were we went wrong we have no sporting 'bloodline' either🤣.

Thankfully my son has three other activities a week to keep him interested, my friend was amazed he has so much choice because in rural area its was the local team or nothing.

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone, just back from parade, got lucky with weather windy but mild and dry.

Bowling booked for afternoon as the 4 year old said he wants to show everyone his face painting🤣