Armagh Club football & hurling

charlie stubbs · September 11, 2009, 04:18:09 PM

Quote from: thewanderer on September 11, 2009, 03:27:55 PM
sure johnny Corvans playing for the Harps. ps please leave ur loud mouth critics at home and thats for the clans sake, maybe they,ll still be in the pubs after cheering glenavon.

you going see the armagh city game saturday wanderer?

charlie stubbs · September 11, 2009, 04:30:20 PM

saturday nights game be a tight one. clans improved quite a bit in the second half of the season, i remember after their defeat against sarsfields in trasna in the early part of the year alot of people condemning them to relegation so fair play to them for turning it around. only saw them once this year against mullaghbawn was impressed with them, but not sure if it was them good or mullaghbawn bad. will need big game from austin in the middle to help stop holmes/vernan/richards/swift. also will need a big game from young campbell upfront along with marty lavery to try and get the scores.

harps on the other hand got off to a flyer this year winning the first 4 games before drawing with the tones. a terrible run after that meant that their season fizzled out somewhat, dissapointing for a team tipped by many to win the league at a canter after pushing cross so close last year. they seemed to have improved over the last few weeks stringing together a few wins, including a convincing win over the nab in the championship. they will be looking for big games from vernan/holmes/swift(who always impresses me at club level) and will rely on joe quigley for most of their scores. marty mckenna probably be used as a good target man his battle with mickey austin be an interesting one.

from a neutrals point of view, would like harps to progress because would love to see a harps ogs final(anyone know the lastime this was?) but it would also be good for north armagh football for the clans to progress where they would fancy their chances of going the whole way. harps bench may just swing this game for them with toal and the other 2 lads coming back from america. could be a draw this one but if had to pick a winner fancy harps to win by a point

el_cuervo_fc · September 11, 2009, 04:47:47 PM

1985 Pearse Og 0-7 Armagh Harps 0-3

Quote from: charlie stubbs on September 11, 2009, 04:30:20 PM

from a neutrals point of view, would like harps to progress because would love to see a harps ogs final(anyone know the lastime this was?)

thewanderer · September 11, 2009, 05:17:34 PM

charlie your not up to speed in the armagh gaa history maybe u know irish league champs better?. the last final was dire. are u just home from school maybe i was a bit critical as you are only a young whipper snapper.

TacadoirArdMhacha · September 12, 2009, 08:22:32 PM

Harps 1-11 Clans 1-11

Jimmy Joe · September 12, 2009, 08:48:05 PM

Harps threw the game away tonight, 9 points up with 15 mins to go. A good comeback from the Clans who looked well beaten, they hadn't even scored in the second half until that stage then a point followed by a goal brought them back to a bit of life.

Sean Morrison got a straight red with about 5 mins left which didn't help the Harps cause.

Peadar Toal was in Good form tonight, scoring some excellent points and giving the full back a torrid time of it.

Charlie Vernon was poor apart from a goal he scored in the first half, every other time he got the ball he gave it away.

Marty Lavery was very quiet for the Clans, Ronan Austin Played well in the last 15 mins to bring clans back into contention.

The Harps will be gutted that they never killed the game

Harpo · September 12, 2009, 09:19:19 PM

I have to agree with Jimmy Joe, harps threw the game away. They seemed to loose shape altogether and simply let clans back into a game that they were winning convincingly. I do think that they will however learn from their mistakes and win the replay!!

Jimmy Joe · September 12, 2009, 09:23:33 PM

The Harps should win the replay alright. They were definitely the better team on show tonight

teletubby · September 12, 2009, 10:11:39 PM

was marsden or bumpy playing for clans or are they finished?

fitzroyalty · September 12, 2009, 10:19:31 PM

i thought we were on top in the first 15 or so mins, only our shooting let us down big time, hitting 7 wides/dropped short. Harps very dangerous up front and to be honest will be kicking themselves after letting us back into it when we were 8 or so down. great character shown by the lads and we know we can still play better. CV lucky bastid for that goal, good save only for it land in his fuckin lap lol The sending off was a joke,complete coward and deserved to go, well done to the officials for seeing it and acting accordingly.

armagh leg-end · September 12, 2009, 10:27:21 PM

Quote from: fitzroyalty on September 12, 2009, 10:19:31 PM
i thought we were on top in the first 15 or so mins, only our shooting let us down big time, hitting 7 wides/dropped short. Harps very dangerous up front and to be honest will be kicking themselves after letting us back into it when we were 8 or so down. great character shown by the lads and we know we can still play better. CV lucky bastid for that goal, good save only for it land in his fuckin lap lol The sending off was a joke,complete coward and deserved to go, well done to the officials for seeing it and acting accordingly.

was at the game. talking to a man(a neutral) who was right in front of the incident and said that morrison never touched and shouldnt have been sent off.

harps should have killed the game when 9points up but fair play to clans played to the end. toal good for harps but wheres was quigley? austin did plenty of hard work in last 15mins!

whens the replay?

fitzroyalty · September 12, 2009, 10:30:09 PM

He struck him at least once. He didn't get sent off for nothing, the match was videoed so maybe that will confirm if it is examined. Replay fri night 7.30 Athletic Grounds.

Throw ball · September 13, 2009, 12:26:44 AM

Was at the match tonight and the sending off incident was right in front of me. To be honest i saw two players going for the ball and then the Clans player lying down holding his face. Although it was that quick I might have missed it I did not see Morrisson hit anyone. Would add, however, that although noone around me could say for sure or not if there was a punch they were all convinced that there must have been! I actually thought Toal was the more likely to get send off for the Harps tonight. He was playing superbly and then was subject to an off the ball nudge (nothing too bad) and seemed to lose his way for a short time. Lennon also played well for the Harps as well as Gill. Thought the Harps faded very badly in the last ten - would this be a legacy of Nudie's time managing them? For Clans I thought Campbell did well in full forward and Ronan Austin finished the game well. The fella who took the final free (nash?) showed great nerve under pressure. Replay should be interesting.

Should also add that anyone who thinks Peadar Toal lis not a good footballer should watch the video of tonights game.

lurganblue · September 13, 2009, 07:23:01 AM

Aye Nash was cool under pressure for the last kick.

All this talk about the harps being completely dominant is rubbish lads. They had a period either side of the break where they put a lot of scores on the board without reply. The clans will be very disapponted as they dominated the start and hit some terrible wides from very scoreable positions.

Dwyer mcalinden and micky Austin were good in defence for the clans.
Looking forward to the replay.

Is wee Joe injured?

Unknown · September 13, 2009, 09:33:31 AM

Quote from: lurganblue on September 13, 2009, 07:23:01 AM
Aye Nash was cool under pressure for the last kick.

All this talk about the harps being completely dominant is rubbish lads. They had a period either side of the break where they put a lot of scores on the board without reply. The clans will be very disapponted as they dominated the start and hit some terrible wides from very scoreable positions.

Dwyer mcalinden and micky Austin were good in defence for the clans.
Looking forward to the replay.

Is wee Joe injured?

Yes clans took the start of the game and hit few good chances wide but the harps took a while to get into their stride.. They will be feelin down at letting a game in which they dominated from the 20 min mark in the first half until lets face it, I no they didn't play to there best but paudie Hughes gave alot of things clans way which led to them takin alot of easy frees!! Joe wasn't 100% obviousy.. Don't think the harps wudve sat him out otherwise.. Harps will win the replay without any problems