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Some finish by Colm Cooper. Few too many steps though? Class act all the same:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3TcT5E-ckk&sns=tw

Gneeveg. is one of the names that defies spelling in English

Redmond Barrys goal at the weekend was pure class and may not be bettered this season. Technically brilliant in that he didnt overcarry and he also threw in a fantastic dummy before burying it in the top corner.

After that shambles today,the Larries will have to be favourites.
I wasnt down at Aughrim two years ago,or Pairc Ui Rinn last year,but that might very well the worst championship performance ive ever witnessed by a Cavan team.
What do you Larries think?

Maybe, but surely even with a bad defeat your young players will have benefitted from getting a senior championship game under their belts. Donegal are difficult opponents with a settled team and gameplan. They have a great chance of winning Ulster this year so its no shame to be beaten by them. A bit of a run in the qualifiers could suit a young team like Cavan and really bring them on.

Murphy's sending off is ridiculous.

Agreed, terrible decision.  Hopefully he can get it overturned. The crowds are bad enough for games without our class, crowd pleasing, players being suspended for barely even a yellow card offence.

Yeah Lenny but when men with the integrity, intelligence, ability and not to mention busy schedule of the likes of Harte, Mcgeeney and Cody take the trouble to make a unified stand on something I personally would respect it. There must be more to it if they're taking such a stance.

Think most of the other managers are backing Harte out of sympathy for what he has come through this year. I honestly think he has lost the run of himself with this dispute. I usually respect his opinions even though I don't always agree, but I think he is just behaving ridiculously here.

Anyone hear the Mickey Harte "skit" on the John Murray show this morning? Seemed in fairly bad taste to me. 

Didn't hear it and can't get it on the link? What was it about?

It dosn't surprise me though that this idiot Murray who is in the smart arse sense of humour would have a go and it would be in bad taste. He had a very low cut at DJ Carey there a while back over his financial miss-fortune which in my view is a very low thing to do. I stopped listening to him after that. The RTE brigade probably think he is a great laugh though.

It was a pretend phone call and him asking Mickey what he should do and play on the show. Ended up playing "Pretty Little Girl From Omagh".

I see the Indo today backs up your view Ulick. Sounds like it was in bad taste and Harte deserves better in view of recent family tragedies. Typical poor attempt at humour by the drone Murray and his RTE colleagues.

Fair point but Harte and the other managers have no business stciking their nose into RTEs appointments process. I think its very stupid of Harte to not be giving interviews and it will be counter productive in the long run.

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Looks really good, Chris. Keep up the good work and thanks very much for the twitter updates on matches. Really apprecaiate your hard work.

He seems like a bit off an ass to be fair..  Surely the sign of a good ref is that no one talks about them after a game. But again the GAA top brass seem to pick the more harsh refs for big games and this takes away from the spectacle usually.  I wonder did he ever play himself?

At the start of the championship last year the refs were told to referee the handpass really tightly. The Derry Armagh game was the first one to be reffed like this and it was a farce. From then on all the other championship games were reffed less and less tightly with regard to the handpass rules. Most refs now apply common senese to allow the game to flow. At the moment Hughes is the only ref who refs this rule really tightly and he is way over the top. He has almost completely destroyed every game i've seen him ref.

Looking at the league table its a must win game for Tyrone if they've any chance of getting promoted
http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/gaa_tables_footballleague.html

Kildare are home to Sligo in the last game whereas we're away to our old pals Mead.

Laois are away to Sligo and home to Donegal in their last game.
Derry are home to Mead and away to Antrim

Derry will be hoping we can beat the SillyWhites and then they've a good chance of qualifying as they beat us in the head to head should we end with the same points. However should Tyrone, Derry & Laois win all their remaining games, then Laois would go up on score difference if stay with their current +16
Is that right lads? If so then we need to win our last 2 games and hope Derry lose or draw one game. Come on Baker.
If Derry win their 2 games they'll be hoping we win our two games as well as Laois beat them on their head to head game so they need a 3 way tie for 2nd.

I think Derry will be content to stay in div 2 for another season. They have introduced a lot of new players this year and another season in div 2 would do no harm.

Mc Nicholl some player remember him playing against the college with wee james also playing

You sure about that. McNicholl left maghera in 1984 and wee James left Colmans in 1989. James would therefore have been a 2nd year playing MacRory.

To be fair U-21 is by far the most unpredictable of games to call, although still surprised the 2009 AI lads didn't do better.

Was Grugan etc all playing?

Armagh seemed to be leading by 6 or 7 at a stage so it was a great comeback from Derry. Perhaps Armagh became complacent.

Anyone care to post Armagh/Derry updates

Armagh 1.1 Derry 1.0

Armagh 3.1 Derry 1.2. Doesnt sound like good defending from derry.

Anyone care to post Armagh/Derry updates

Armagh 1.1 Derry 1.0

Sounded read like a good game..just in and didn't get to listen to it 

What was final score?

Johnny McGurks winning point v Dublin in all ireland semi in 1993. Fantastic score. Also Eamon Burns point for Derry v Down in 1991. Think it won score of the championship that year.

[they were being fouled all day (plus ca change for Derry?)]

Was happy enough with that.  It was a game we should have won but kicked too many wides ... and does anybody else think one of Bradley's points looked wide (his 'point' before he kicked three in a row wide)?  From a Tyrone point of view, thought McGuigan ran the show and was all over the pitch, Penrose played well and young McKenna looked good when he came on ...  O'Neill and Cavanagh were OK, but saying that they were being fouled all day (plus ca change for Derry?)  Pity a couple of times we were in good positions the ball was in Hub's hands!!  He put in a good shift but he'd be first to admit his shooting isn't his strong point.  Lot of time-wasting from Derry thanx to the goalkeeper and the substitutions at the end ... but sure we'd probably have done the same if we'd been in their position

Boy, yous are sore losers. In fairness most derry fans i spoke to thought tyrone should have won, they kicked themselves out of it. It's a bit rich to hear you complain about tyrone players getting fouled all day when Dermot Carlin spent the whole day holding on to Lynchs jersey, he nearly had it pulled off him at one stage. Also McMenamin and McCarron are fond of the timely jersey holding onm the blind side of the ref.