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Not sorry to see Henry beat. Is enough great men bout Galway without going to him. Henry probly be Kilkenny manager now if he'd not gone to one of their greatest rivals.

Perhaps he successfully ensured that they are no longer rivals!

As blatant a black card as you could ever see. And the ref gives a yellow!?!

The Armagh minors could learn from the senior team who are more disciplined nowadays.
Derry the better team on balance, as expected.

Strange I thought Westmeath were very inventive with the high press, thought Hughes had his worst game of the year and didn't think the wind was a massive factor. Shows how we can all see games differently I guess

Although with the wind in the second half Hughes did kick over the press, Donegal style, on one occasion.
One point about this is that if there is a significant wind, so teams need to change their approach in each half.

7.6 to Armagh at HT, Westmeath played with a good wind there. Armagh looked in containment mode into the wind. Awful to watch.

I actually thought Armagh were ok first half against a very good Westmeath side playing a refreshing brand of football. The High Press they used defensively really disrupted the Armagh rhythm.

Second half I felt Armagh made the necessary adjustments and fared much better keeping Westmeath scoreless for almost 20 minutes and always looking comfortable with out really having to exert themselves.

The wind was a definite factor, in the second half with the wind Armagh bunged in 5 points and then relaxed to some extent. But there were passes that went astray that that will not do in our next two games.

Can't believe this isn't on tv anywhere. 

Not as big a game as Tyrone Donegal. It'll always be shown ahead of Armagh Westmeath.

For GAAgo the Internet can have many streams.

Can't believe this isn't on tv anywhere. 

One of the claims of GAAGo is that is covers more games that could ever be on TV, but they don't bother covering that many games. ArmaghTV have the capactity to do games at the Athletic grounds, but they wouldn't be allowed cover this and GAA wouldn't contract them to cover it. Now in today's case that is a pity, but Cork v Donegal next week is a disgrace.

I can understand provincial winners getting a home advantage first game but asking Ros to play Dublin and then a rested Mayo following Saturday is not a level playing field in the group stages. But then again sure that's nothing to be complainin' about - have you heard a Cork hurling game was not free to air and they had to watch on GAAGo? The tyranny.

The issue here is a that all Provincial finals are not on the same weekend and that is because they are all guaranteed to be on TV and in theory people want to see them. of course, people have an interest in the Ulster final most years, and the Connacht final some years, the other two are not very interesting.

Sounds like he's letting labour worry about it

he should just sign off in it on the last day, and send the DUP a note stating that Theresa May wanted to make sure that it was done.

Heaton Harris saying they will make a "significant contribution", wonderful legacy, great to have Euros in Belfast blah blah.
Of course he won't be there much longer... 

His most significant contribution will be leaving.

Not looking good now, probably will still happen but can't see it done it time for the Euros which i'm not one bit bothered about tbh. I know this is childish, but would really love Dublin to step up and fund the rest and let them see what we have and look on in envy. Pure shambles from day one...

Really doubt Dublin is going to add any more money. Someone I was talking to a while back was speculating Dublin only announced their €50 million as a way to put pressure on London to guarantee their contribution.

If it doesn't happen for the Euros (with the London money), I just can't see the 34k capacity stadium happening at all given the estimated cost. There would be savings from not having to cater to the Euro requirements and the deadline but I just can't see these savings being enough for the 34k version to be feasible.

If that happens it's a case of right back to the drawing board and a complete reappraisal of the project - what can be built with the actual money available and what that means with respect to Clones/Ulster Final Day. If there's only the money for a 20k capacity stadium in Belfast, what happens then?

The clusterfuck goes on.

Use the Stormont money to build Belfast and have Dublin provide something towards a Clones upgrade?

Can any of you Armachians post a link to Armagh's starting lineup against Westmeath? Thanks a lot.

Armagh gaa twitter
Kelly in midfield
Conor o Neill in half back line
Mc cabe on the bench 
No other changes

Or the glorious colour version, strong subs bench but no Rian.

Western standards laid bare for all to see:

I'm not sure the term "Western" is appropriate, every west European country and Canada, Australia and New Zealand support the ICC.

The USA don't.

Then the post should have referred to the USA and not to "Western".

While your post shouldn't have made the claim that "every western country" supports the ICC.

Where I did make that claim?

Don't look back in anger
She's Electric
Wonderwall

Some of the lads need to familiarise themselves with the term "the lesser of two evils". By their very nature no politician is going to tick every box but if you find yourself rooting for the Tory candidate *ever* then you need to take a look at yourself.

I haven't seen anyone here rooting for the Tory candidate. And there's no question that Labour is the lesser of two evils, but the point is that as far as Kier Starmer himself goes, you could barely more than slide a cigarette paper between himself and your average Tory.

The average Tory, as represented by people now driven out of the party, was fairly middle of the road, but the party left those behind in its recent governments. Someone close to middle ground is ideal.

Tickets on sale now!

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I expect that Derry v Armagh should draw a good crowd, TV or not, with thousands of seats already gone because of the 3 game package and season tickets.