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Well lads, first of, fully support you in playing Armagh in Corrigan, hopefully you get home advantage and hopefully can get the win.

Huge winner takes all game on Sunday. How are ye fixed for it? Not sure ye would be in this position had ye not got men sent off against Offaly and Laois? Are they suspended or all back? I think we are starting to improve but away from home is always tougher and we have been inconsistent this year. No lead is safe for us. I'm sure Antrim management were at the game yesterday to give us a watch.

I'm very surprised you've been struggling.  Was very impressed with a lot of your players in Croke Park last year.  Thought Sligo would be table toppers to be honest.

We did too with the players we have available but looks like we very poorly prepared for the start of the season. The management have finally cottoned on to a few of the weaker players in the team. Its been a pattern to start badly for a few years now so hopefully out trajectory is the same and we keep improving as the year goes on. Going down would be a disaster but it looks like its between us and yourselves. We have Mayo away in Connacht so tough draw their too.

Well lads, first of, fully support you in playing Armagh in Corrigan, hopefully you get home advantage and hopefully can get the win.

Huge winner takes all game on Sunday. How are ye fixed for it? Not sure ye would be in this position had ye not got men sent off against Offaly and Laois? Are they suspended or all back? I think we are starting to improve but away from home is always tougher and we have been inconsistent this year. No lead is safe for us. I'm sure Antrim management were at the game yesterday to give us a watch.

It was a good win and we are starting to score where it needs to be. A few issues is closing out games remains an issue, 7 pts up the week before 6 pts up in injury time today and Clare missed a chance by foot to equalise. We don't seem to be learning fast at all this year. Our record at home remains very good across all teams but thanks to incompetence we will be closing Markievicz Park fairly soon for all our minor and u20 matches and county matches due to the state of the pitch which will need to get redone again.

Anyways while that gets looked at, all eyes are on Corrigan park for the winner takes all showdown with Antrim. We should have plenty of belief and confidence but under huge pressure so hard to know how it will go. Are Antrim missing any players from all the sendings off?

A poor league for Sligo. McEntee in his 5th year as manager and never got beyond division 3.

It is disappointing. Saturday was a kick in teeth 19-12 up. By most accounts McEntee disrupted our rhythm with the changes 2nd half which looked preplanned but you got to adapt to the game. McEntee is not a good manager. He hasn't developed the panel and its largely the same players year on year. This has stagnated the development of the underage players coming through which his greatest flaw. He is far too loyal to low ceiling players and is getting found out this year.

Kildare have given gametime to 13 players of the U20 All Ireland final, Sligo in contrast are at 4 with 1 only a regular. He allegedly concentrate's on finding flaws in the younger players. The county board continue to believe in this management which is a mistake.

Saturday was a beacon of hope but Management found a way to mess it up.

Loads of posts getting taken down on Hoganstand of Sligo posters criticising the state of Markievicz park pitch which is telling. County Board look to have a lot of influence on there. You can't really criticise McEntee on there either.

None of what is happening within Sligo and on the pitch is surprising to those who have watched Sligo over the last few years.

Still if we beat Antrim away and Leitrim home we will stay up which I believe we can do (that's if Kildare beat Antrim). Clare at home is a free hit too but they look very impressive against Kildare.

Even if you evaluate from the outside, the last 5 years our underage has been winning at A level standard in schools and minor and u20 and our club had its breakthrough this year. Our u20s haven't lost to Mayo in 3 years which is unheard of. The only lagging factor is our County Seniors and I believe management are a big problem here. They way we were prepared this year was nothing short of a disaster and it showed but the CB continue to give them support and a free pass.

Leitrim were expected to be out of their depth with many lads not committing etc.
Sligo are the biggest disappointment in D3 to date anyway.
Another manager not suited to the 3 up/back scene?

Certainly appears that way, Sligo greatly underachieving to not at least be in the mix for promotion and now a fight on their hands to avoid relegation.

McEntee was always going to struggle with the new rules because he such a slow learner. Even before they came in I thought we would struggle this year because I know the expectation was to get promoted but this management are not capable of pushing us on to the next level. They spent far too much time being loyal to low ceiling players and they are so poor at evaluating players and managing talent. Now we have to beat Clare and Antrim to stay up which wont be easy. If we can beat Clare, it will make the Antrim game a winner takes all on the head to head.

Its hard to see it, most reports from Laois was the score line flattered us. We were very flat but I am not waving the white flag just yet. It has been a very disappointing start but a fair few of us are not surprised given what we think of the management. I know outside the county McEntee is highly rated but within the county outside of the CB he isn't rated. If you look at our underage and club results only one area is lagging.

Massive win tonight. Didn't play great, lot of overplaying I thought. Once they got the ball in the box Sunderland were all over the place. Even bigger one next Monday.

That was a great win. Rothwells quality made the difference. MOT.

Goal from play from the Offaly goalkeeper yesterday.

https://x.com/Offaly_GAA/status/1886180208924889113

absolute joke that a goal keeper is now a goal scorer. Laois had no chance there, 12 vs 11 so they have to split somebody leaving space for the keeper to just walk straight through. The rules have to change there's no way that should be happening!

Laois had no chance there? pure rubbish defending by them.

what do you expect them to do? They are outnumbered. Aye Laois are pure dung but that's the point, they have even less of a chance now that teams can attack with a free man.

Not allow the goalkeeper to run into that amount of space with four Laois players trailing behind behind him.

Goal from play from the Offaly goalkeeper yesterday.

https://x.com/Offaly_GAA/status/1886180208924889113

absolute joke that a goal keeper is now a goal scorer. Laois had no chance there, 12 vs 11 so they have to split somebody leaving space for the keeper to just walk straight through. The rules have to change there's no way that should be happening!

Laois had no chance there? pure rubbish defending by them.

what do you expect them to do? They are outnumbered. Aye Laois are pure dung but that's the point, they have even less of a chance now that teams can attack with a free man.

Not allow the goalkeeper to run into that amount of space with four Laois players trailing behind behind him.

cheers captain obvious👍 think that's easier said than done. There's 4 Laois players all marking 4 Offaly forwards. They shouldn't have an extra one to deal with. Yes maybe there was a bit of miscommunication and 1 had an unfortunate slip taking him out of the game, but they shouldn't have to worry about the goalkeeper being a threat because he shouldn't be there in the first place.

If you watch no10 for Laois its mainly his fault, he follows his man out the wing. His body position is all wrong and he should have cut the GK off. He runs out of the picture to the right and creates a running lane.

Very disappointing start again for us in the league. Kildare at home next doesn't look great for us. I have never been a fan of McEntee having watched the lack of chance's and development of our u20s are getting but more importantly the regression of them within the set up is even more alarming. The county board are in complete denial.

We were 9-6 up today before HT and went 1-15 to 10 pts down so it was some collapse. McEntee is slow to see things in game so not surprised momentum continued in their favor. The kickout strategy which is the main thing we worked on all pre season totally collapsed 2nd half, again not surprising at all.

The only hope is the last few seasons we have performed terribly the 1st day out we react and go on a winning run. Usually its because opposition are poor more than anything but I doubt Kildare are in that category with Calaghan in charge. Markievicz is a fortress for our teams so you'd hope that counts for something the next day but the pressure is on for this year and this management. 

Boyle is close enough to Sligo 

I think its a great opportunity for him. Boyle never won a Roscommon championship and if the Smiths and Cregg stay fit they must have a great chance?

Aaronsson and Bamford missed tap ins. Joseph even missed his chance but fortunately the defender saved him.

For me our biggest issue last few years is being clinical in front of goal. We miss too many big chances. We struggle when we don't score first.

Agree with everything you say Rufus. We found a few gems for nothing. I really like Rothwell too and Ampadu just coming back from injury is a huge boost. I was concerned at the lack of investment after the outlay on summerville, rutter and gray. Tanaka was 4m from Dusseldorf. It looks like it has all worked out and we are stronger but I'd like to get some more strength up front. Could we tempt a load for Evan Ferguson in January?

My only concern and its the same every year is our ability to handle the pressure of closing out the season. The pressure now is nothing compared to April/May.

We are where we need to be right now and that's all you can ask playing good football too. MOT

The new Sligo jersey is class. Not sure how to post pictures.

There you go. 

Thanks blowitupref 

What an extraordinary win, still can't get my head around how Coolera wrestled back momentum 5pts down at one stage.

The mental fortitude was incredible and never wavered.

Some of the frees given to pearses from their players falling or losing footing and even the penalty was never one and then he let them overcarry and pick ball off the ground. Different story for coolera to win a free.

Higgins was unreal when he came on. Mcdaniel needs to bury those chances though. Missed one against ballina too to win it.

Massive win for Sligo GAA.

Coolera play Cuala next. Huge task given it won't be in Markievicz. The pitch was recently relaid but looks like they botched it. 

Coolera did very well to wrestle back momentum 5 pts down. This ref though is heavily favoring Pearses imo. Hopefully he is a bit fairer in ET.

The new Sligo jersey is class. Not sure how to post pictures.