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Conor mcatamney had some game.

Some fantastic stuff played early in that first half

Would you not consider parking somewhere residential like up the top of ravenhill or Rosetta and then taxi to airport?  Taxi would only be a few pound

Awk sure whatever gets a crowd in

Would gladly take any of them and feel confident over two legs. That said a draw against Sevilla or a Roma would be grand

At this stage I think we are just hoping we can beat Wexford at home this weekend, which should be enough to keep us up. I wouldn't be confident going away to Sligo needing points.

It's depressing that it's come to this isn't it

Yous all for that match on Sunday then? Form an ultras section. Bring flares.

I agree that enda lynn barely got a kick v Armagh. And have no illusions that when we meet Donegal (or Cavan) we won't have a hope in the Ulster championship, paddy mcbrearty would have some laugh. We do silly things  going forward, like three times against Armagh a man tried to fist a simple pass over the head of the back, only for him to just put the hands up and catch it. Like I know Armagh missed some chances, we did too, and a win wasn't totally off the cards. I was expecting a 10-15 point loss heading to the game.

I agree with Lenny, I saw some positives. A lot of negatives but there were some good things. The bones of an attacking mindset are there albeit the players need to get themselves out of their hardwired defensive rut they have been in for years. But it's slowlygetting better.

Hardwired defence?! Is this the one that has us on -11 and joint second lowest in Division 3? Please elaborate on the good things because it would be useful to know the detail.

The hard wired blanket defence Derry have been playing for years. At the minute we are at least leaving men forward, it's just that the forward ball isn't coming often enough and the runs aren't being made, the players are choosing to pass round the back and across the field. They need to get into the habit of playing a quick offensive ball to make use of the forwards left up front. We have a young team and in patches we are playing good football. I don't believe in going to a game and sitting there being totally negative and getting on the players backs, that helps no one.

That would be fantastic. I could get plastered and walk home 😂 but I'd say highly unlikely.

I agree with Lenny, I saw some positives. A lot of negatives but there were some good things. The bones of an attacking mindset are there albeit the players need to get themselves out of their hardwired defensive rut they have been in for years. But it's slowlygetting better.

Ha see to me it seemed a big crowd. You should see the crowds we get at Celtic  Park (570 last time out)

Interesting enough match last night. Armagh were short a lot of players with a very inexperienced bench. Then they lost McIlroy and Rafferty early on with Rafferty a particular miss. His injury looked particularly bad. Hopefully he can be fit for championship.
Given the missing players and the sprinkling of Slaughtneil players Derry had back I would not have given Armagh much hope of winning before the game. However Derry were terrible for the most part and will need to improve if they are not to get relegated again.
On another note I assume Derek O Mahoney was relegated to a division 3 match after his club semi final performance. He could be in Division 4 next day out ! His first half performance was particularly eccentric.

do refs get demoted for poor performances, its usually the case that the more criticism there is the bigger the games they end up getting. All ill say is he isnt someone i enjoy seeing being named to do any of my clubs games down here, can make crazy decisions and very fond of the black card

No black cards but plenty of yellow- some undoubtedly deserved. The problem I had was the amount of frees he gave for very innocent looking challenges. At times you were guessing what frees were for. To be fair I don't feel he favoured either side but players did get frustrated.

As a Derry fan among hundreds of Armagh fans I did get a good laugh at the abuse given to the ref "go back to Tipperary ya c**t" and "cheat cheat cheat" at this point yous were four points up.

Was in Armagh last night. Few points to take away. The Armagh fans are total mouths, they did some yapping at the referee. Derry kick outs are shocking, no one making themselves available, aside from Karl mckaigue making runs in the second half and getting ignored anyway. This resulted in long kick outs being kicked up the field where we weren't winning them most of the time. Surely that's something that could be coached into that team, to run looking the ball? I've seen gradual improvement in the forward play with the ball being played sooner as the league has progressed. Last night was a big improvement on the Longford game for example. Hopefully the slaughtneil lads get settled in for the last couple of games and give us some optimism for what looks like a Donegal game in the championship.  The team has a long way to go, but maybe it's the optimist in me that sees at least some positives.