NFL Division 1 2022

[hoynevalley]

Well done Armagh. John Small still doing what John Small does.

I hope the Kieran McGeeney thread on res dubs is resurrected tonight.

Typical kildare supporter. A lot booing from their fans in Newbridge on kerry frees today. Kerry should be beating a hurling county. Kildare are a very athletic and well drilled team. Referee couldn't wait to give Kildare frees today. Kerry just didn't show today but will be gunning for the dubs next week. Dubs could be relegated now.

[Wildweasel74]

Kerry got a better hurling team than kildare lol

[David McKeown]

Who would have known that Saturday's match was a relegation battle.

Joking aside Dublin could be in a spot of difficulty. Only have 3 home games (2left) and one of those is Mayo so they don't even have one less away game. Armagh on the other hand have 4 home games, 2 away (1 left) and one neutral venue.

[imtommygunn]

I think if a defender good enough, you don't have to resort to sledging, grabbing, digs in the bck trying to get McManus yellow carded. Shows up why they so popular all over the country, and I ain't no lover of Monaghan.

I tend to agree with this, if you are good enough you shouldn't be getting involved in incidents. However every single top team does this regularly. Look at how much attention Peter harte and Sean cavanagh have received over the years.

Mckernan is awful for it. He waved an imaginary card at a ref last year and he was at it all day. (Not from Monaghan or derry )

[Dougal Maguire]

Why are Mayo playing their home games away from Castlebar?

[Blowitupref]

Why are Mayo playing their home games away from Castlebar?

MacHale Park has got a new playing surface and won't be ready for matches for a few months. Other grounds in Mayo not deemed big enough. Two remaining home games that will be played in Pairc sean mac diarmada and Dr Hyde Park

[Main Street]

Who would have known that Saturday's match was a relegation battle.

Joking aside Dublin could be in a spot of difficulty. Only have 3 home games (2left) and one of those is Mayo so they don't even have one less away game. Armagh on the other hand have 4 home games, 2 away (1 left) and one neutral venue.

An away win against a top team  pretty much means Armagh are safe.
Apart from normal Dublin warming up issues this early in the league  a big missing piece is Cluxton, his presence, game management and goalkeeping prowess is a big loss. I think he would have made a much better attempt to block the first goal with his body and for the 2nd he'd be the least likely goalkeeper to be lobbed.

[From the Bunker]

Who would have known that Saturday's match was a relegation battle.

Joking aside Dublin could be in a spot of difficulty. Only have 3 home games (2left) and one of those is Mayo so they don't even have one less away game. Armagh on the other hand have 4 home games, 2 away (1 left) and one neutral venue.

An away win against a top team  pretty much means Armagh are safe.
Apart from normal Dublin warming up issues this early in the league  a big missing piece is Cluxton, his presence, game management and goalkeeping prowess is a big loss. I think he would have made a much better attempt to block the first goal with his body and for the 2nd he'd be the least likely goalkeeper to be lobbed.

Armagh are far from safe. But the weekends result gives them a good chance!

[Armagh18]

Who would have known that Saturday's match was a relegation battle.

Joking aside Dublin could be in a spot of difficulty. Only have 3 home games (2left) and one of those is Mayo so they don't even have one less away game. Armagh on the other hand have 4 home games, 2 away (1 left) and one neutral venue.

An away win against a top team  pretty much means Armagh are safe.
Apart from normal Dublin warming up issues this early in the league  a big missing piece is Cluxton, his presence, game management and goalkeeping prowess is a big loss. I think he would have made a much better attempt to block the first goal with his body and for the 2nd he'd be the least likely goalkeeper to be lobbed.

Great start but far from safe after one game. As for that first goal? Cluxton, Comerford Van Der Sar and De Gea could have been in nets and I'd back Rian to score it.

[naka]

Watched the Armagh game again on YouTube last night
Jeez Dublin no matter how poor they were kicked themselves out of the game
I think they had close to 15 wides.

[balladmaker]

Watched the Armagh game again on YouTube last night
Jeez Dublin no matter how poor they were kicked themselves out of the game
I think they had close to 15 wides.

A lot of which was due to being forced into poor shot selections by the Armagh defence.

[Unlaoised]

Great chance for this improving Armagh side to stay up .

Great results from kildare too now to give them a chance .

Dublin and Monaghan looking at their fixtures will need to grind results out to stay in the mix

[Taylor]

Happy enough with the point given we arent long back from holidays and are a few weeks behind.

Kerry wont be too disappointed - Kildare will give a lot of teams trouble at home especially on a dirty wet day

Donegal will be sick this morning - game should have been over.

Hyperbole about Armagh - a Dubs team who played terrible got within 5 pts after kicking 15 wides.

[bennydorano]

Trouble for Armagh is that the only way is down, that level of intensity can't (nor should be) maintained at this time of year. I'd love to see that level of performance being maintained but that's highly unlikely as well. Tyrone game will be intense but not so silky in the skills department.

[illdecide]

I certainly won't get carried away by Armagh's great performance on Sat nite, one thing i've learned from Armagh over the years is after a great result like that there a few nasty ones around the corner. They played great on the night but Dublin will improve a lot and we were probably at our best and not much more in the tank. It was a great result and hopefully can grind out another 3-4 pts from somewhere to stay up...That's all i'm thinking of at this stage is staying up and Sat's game has given us a much better chance of doing so...

As for Sunday's game with our neighbours that will be interesting...Armagh like to play football so Tyrone will be in their element and will probably end up a shoot out so expect a different game to what you seen Tyrone v Monaghan yesterday.