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I think someone's afraid of a very hostile crowd.. 

And because there is damn all to talk about it would appear and little appetite for it as far as I can see. Pity.

As predicted, having the game in the Hyde has shot the tie down before it got off the runway. The atrocious weather is not helping things either. Nothing is helping the mood.

Making the excuses for a minor and senior loss early, are we? 

This'll be one of the most electric Connacht final atmospheres in quite some time, even more so if we beat Tyrone and/or win the minor final.

Ros 4 Sam (and drugs too)

Four of the top ten teams in the country going into the championship were Ulster teams - Ulster football is still in a very good place overall.

Trying to counter balance your over the top good news round every corner type thing with a bit of common sense realism.

A bit harder when I was dead right, though 

Jaysus, you'd want to bring those sour grapes back to the store!

I sense another "Patsy from Forkhill" moment is fast approaching...

Ah Mike, the longest surviving single account troll in the history of the internet! We need to do a tell-all interview some time, you're the Tyrone of the forum dark arts.

Not that you're past your peak, or anything!

That's a pity, he's a good keeper and it's always helpful to have an experienced backup. He would be first choice with a lot of counties but Clarke is more consistent, less erratic and deserves his starting place. I wonder though if he had been first choice would he have managed to balance work and football or would we have had to switch keepers this far into a championship season?

Back-up keepers suffer a bad lot in most counties, rarely if ever playing even FBD/whatever games and expected to be there time in time out. It's honestly a wonder you don't hear stuff like this more often.

If, as is being alleged, Armagh did, and continue to, underestimate Roscommon then we were joined by an awful lot of your own countymen since I couldn't find one Roscommon supporter who expected a win before Sunday's match.

Ahem. Didn't look very hard, did we?

More than one opinion exists in the county, however much you'd like to put one blanket over it all.

So that means our game will be the live one, if any. Ye Tyronies can save yourselves trip now 

He filled alot of his writing with similes that were so long-winded and obscure that they entirely broke the flow of his writing. I just found it to be very egotistical stuff (and I promise you I felt this way long before everything came out) and he came across as rather unlikeable. Someone like Keith Duggan is more utilitarian but he sticks to the point and lets the story be the king.

[against an average (and i'm being generous with my wording) Roscommon outfit then it's a fairly low ebb.]

Oisin's only stating the obvious.  For Armagh to go out and perform the way they did, with no spirit and fight and pretty clueless, against an average (and i'm being generous with my wording) Roscommon outfit then it's a fairly low ebb.
Enjoy the win and i hope you have a good run in the qualifiers - doubt it though.

I'm sorry to be the one to have to break this to you, but you are a worse team than Roscommon. You simply have alot of work to do to return even to contention for All-Irelands and Cross players aren't some magic bullet like alot of Armagh supporters think they are. You played a team with a hell of alot of young talented players, with potential that's far higher than beating (and I'm being generous with my wording) an average Armagh side at home in Round 1. Armagh supporters read far too much into one bad day at the office against Galway and it bit ye in the backside. I did warn ye.

Will we beat Tyrone? Who knows. But you'll be hearing a hell of alot more from us in the years to come.

Tom Humphries

Now reviewing books for the Irish Times seemingly, I assume not Children's books.

That's below the belt Dinny.

Humphries is probably the best GAA writer in the last 20 or so years...but has slipped under the radar after the shenanigans. No matter what he has alleged to have done I don't think there's any need for cheap shots like that.

Given what happened, long may the low blows rain down upon him. His journalism has been forever tainted and honestly I found it quite poor and comically myopic even before all this came out.

We don't need a judge to allow us to put two and two together; you're clutching at very tenuous straws.

Was some weekend for the midlands - Louth, Derry and Armagh came to town and left with their championship cards punched for the year. Limerick, Kerry and Tyrone are next to be buried. No bother.

[two years ago that we saw in Croke Park against Tyrone.]

"It's a low ebb as far as Armagh football is concerned"

"Roscommon were disjointed. They've lost players. The word going down was that they weren't the team they were two years ago that we saw in Croke Park against Tyrone."


Jesus M. Christ this Osin lad most have took a few too many knocks on the head! Cross would want to tone down the training if this is the state they're leaving them in. 

I get he's upset his county lost but his level of knowledge of the situation, even on the most basic level, is severely lacking. It's almost maddening, honestly. At least Armagh are offering to write the pre-match speech for the Tyrone game for us.

If we hit form (which we didn't at all yesterday in terms of shooting) we have the capacity to be alot better than we were last year or the year before, and that's with a bunch of absentees and first season starters. I have absolute belief that our panel's ceiling lays significantly north of beating Armagh at home in Round 1 of the qualifiers. Maybe the loss will look better for Osin with the hindsight of a few more years.