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Pints, I can honestly say I don't care enough about Cullyhanna to get into a slanging match with you, but there were several men on the field on the second day in suits fighting (in their suits as there was a Bridge wedding on that day). And yes the other victim of your No 12 was Ciaran McKeever, he tried to take the young lad out of it in front of me in the stand and when he was on the ground he was stamped on. Now you may say that he deserved it and fair enough, but what happened the other Cullyhanna lad was inexcusable. I had my 6 year old son at the match and NOTHING of what went on that day was pretty.
My reading of what happened the second day was that after the Bridge started to pull away in extra time your No 12 knew what was going to happen next, signalled to your bench that he was "injured" and when the Cullyhanna lads saw what was happening they wanted to get him before he went off. What happened after that should be an embarassment to the Cullyhanna club, and I know from speaking to a number of decent Cullyhanna men (there are some!) they think it is.

[]fully agree with him on the thuggish behaviour of some the Cullyhanna boys was unacceptable and I also can't believe a right-minded committee could re-instate Casey as manager]

As a lurker for a year or so now, I have read pints' comments on the St Pat's v Silverbridge melee. I was at the matches as a neutral with a "loose" connection to St Pat's (i.e. the in-laws) and ]fully agree with him on the thuggish behaviour of some the Cullyhanna boys was unacceptable and I also can't believe a right-minded committee could re-instate Casey as manager.  But I feel that it's fair to also draw people's attention to the fact that the Silverbridge no.12 tramped on two defenceless Cullyhanna players as they lay on the ground in the first match, seriously injuring both of them (one of them was a lad that I believe he spent a lot of time travelling up to college in Belfast with). And from where I was sitting in the second match the Silverbridge fans were all too keen to join in the fun on the pitch also.  So this notion that he's portraying that all the thugs were on the St Pat's side is laughable.

I agree with Uladh's concerns over our half forward line and our reliance on Stevie for scores. Surely this is the perfect opportunity to start Peadar Toal. He can give Stevie a hand with regard to getting a few scores, and with the Derry wing backs being so poor the last day out, his defensive frailities will not be exposed.