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Dirty hit from Molloy, but not a black.
Finnerty time wasting the black card after running into Glass

So we can just run into lads from 5 yards away and they get a black card??

Looked like he changed direction to connect with him.

Do you mean the Galway man or Roger's?

If you mean Rogers you're hungover!

I'm fully recovered. And I meant the Galway player.

So we can just run into lads from 5 yards away and they get a black card??

Looked like he changed direction to connect with him.

[Tyrone]

Tyrone v Mayo
Dublin v Kerry
Galway v Derry
Roscommon v Monaghan

Fermanagh v Cork
Louth v Cavan
Meath v Kildare
Armagh v Donegal

Down v Offaly
Clare v Wicklow
Sligo v Antrim
Westmeath v Limerick

Wexford v Waterford
Longford v London
Carlow v Leitrim
Tipperary v Laois

Nadine Coyle
Johnny McDaid

[Derry]

Derry v Monaghan
Dublin v Roscommon
Kerry v Mayo
Tyrone v Galway

Donegal v Fermanagh
Cork v Cavan
Meath v Louth
Kildare v Armagh

Antrim v Down - DRAW
Limerick v Sligo
Offaly v Clare
Wicklow v Westmeath

Waterford v Longford
Laois v Carlow
London v Tipperary
Leitrim v Wexford

Ridiculous refereeing.. At least 3 frees out, before he gave that free for over carrying at the end.

Losing a serious amount of ball at midfield. UU need to be working a few short ones.

Catchment areas for secondary schools are an interesting one. St Pats Maghera have a huge catchment, but there are plenty of other secondary schools within that area. You've the likes of Ballinascreen, Dungiven, Clady/Kilrea and Magherafelt all with their own schools and no need for a transfer test.

From my own parish, there would've traditionally been an even split between Maghera and Magherafelt (from those that did the transfer), but that has changed dramatically and the numbers heading to Maghera have been in and around single figures over the last 3/4 years. With an increase in the Convent numbers.

They are also under pressure from the likes of Gaelcholáiste Dhoire, who are probably taking a good few students who would have went to Maghera.

Also I never thought I'd see a day where St Mary's in Magherafelt, would have had Slaughtneil and Glen players in the same starting line up for MacRory match.

though that is no guarantee as it was interesting to hear that particular Omagh year group won nothing the whole way through their school journey until now

Maghera won D'alton, Corn Na Nog and Rannafast in this particular year group. Omagh were beat in the CNN final by Maghera. Believe it was Cavan and Macartans that lost in the other respective finals.

Think Dungannon and Omagh MacRory finals could become more frequent in the next couple of years (if they don't take the other out) as they have dominated further down the schools competitions.

[resit most upper 6th]

Abbey winning 16-3 in the mclarnon. They're supposed to be backboned by four masters players so are probably very strong.

Are the schools in the 26, kids a year older?

Nope - same ages.

There used to be a 6 month difference years back that favoured Ulster (all nine from what I recall/not just the six)

I think it's down as an U19 competition but realistically unless someone is doing a resit most upper 6th or whatever it's called now would be U18.5
Could be the same in the 26, I don't know

Its Under 19 for that reason and they rejigged the playing rules for the MacRory this year, regarding Yr 15 students (Repeat U6th students). 
If you have decided to repeat your final year in secondary school, you can only play MacRory Cup football if you are returning to the same school that you completed the previous 7 years in. Cuts out any school recruiting students/footballers who have left school, but could still play another year of MacRory Cup.

Its a pretty specific stat regarding beating the top 3 teams in Croke Park in a set time period. How many games does that actually involve?  I'd say Donegal beat Tyrone more times over that time frame that any of Kerry, Dublin, Mayo.

Any relation to Tony?

Nephew

Decent, if not overly impressive from Derry.  Butchered numerous scoring opportunities, by adding an extra hand pass instead of fisting/tapping it over the bar from 21yrds out.  But its league football and getting the wins are what really matters.

Tyrone were well in it at half time, silly frees give them the opportunity to stay in touch.  Morgan's free off the ground in the first half was superbly judged.  Not sure why they didn't kick on in the second half.  They didn't go after Scullions kicks outs as much as I would've expected as well.

Ref wasn't fantastic, looked up once and spotted a bit of shirt pulling, give the free and then it never happened again for the duration of the game.  And the curse that is two or three players surrounding the player in possession. Sometimes its over carrying and sometimes is it a free for the player in possession. No consistency in that at all.

For Derry, Baker and Murphy getting more experience at this level is a good thing.  I'd go so far as to say Murphy's performances had an influence on Toner when he came on.  When Toner got the ball, he turned and headed for goal instead of maintaining possession with an easy backward handpass. Loughlin had a better outing as well.  Cassidy wasn't at his best.

Maybe some Screen bias, but I think that Scullion is the best option to have outside of Lynch.  He hasn't had the opportunity to play much football in the last couple of years due to county commitments.  I think the relegation playoff against Lavey and the final league game against Cork, were the only two games he played between January and July last year.  He played one McKenna group game so far this year, and 15mins yesterday. Aside from one kick out over the sideline (Morgan did that too) and one kick pass that went astray (Lynch did that too) he seemed comfortable in that role.  Don't forget there are some on here who would've liked to see Lynch replaced over that last couple of year.

If Lynch and McKinless are out for a run of games, I'd say McFaul would move to CHB and then a fight for place in the forwards between Emmett Bradley, Declan Cassidy, Niall Toner and Cormac Murphy.  Which is a much better place than we were last year.

I've read this a few times but I'd have thought if this was the case TV cameras would have caught it and it'd have been replayed but I didn't see it?

There was a short replay of the afters before he was given the red, looked like a bit of a schmozzle between Conn and a couple of players, but wasn't really conclusive either. Would've need to see it a few times to make out what actually happened.

https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/categories/sport-tv-player/play/?pid=6345776284112&title=T%C3%ADr%20Eoghain%20v%20Ros%20Com%C3%A1in&series=GAA%20Beo&genre=Sport&pcode=682043

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Handbags. Nothing more, but the linesman is there with a good view as well, have to think whatever he said had an impact on the red card.