NFL Division 1 2024

[phpearse]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0330/1039632-derry-see-off-dogged-leitrim-to-take-division-4-crown/

Just 5 years ago. In fairness some turn around in fortunes for Derry but they never were a division 4 side anyway.

[Blowitupref]

How many do we expect to be in Croke Part on Sunday?

According to Crokepark.ie they are expecting 40k and 10k for Saturday.

Optimistic on both counts from Crokepark.ie in my opinion.

They are never far wrong with their expected crowds.

[shawshank]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0330/1039632-derry-see-off-dogged-leitrim-to-take-division-4-crown/

Just 5 years ago. In fairness some turn around in fortunes for Derry but they never were a division 4 side anyway.

Just four players from that starting team still playing. The new players introduced improved the quality significantly.

[JoG2]

How many do we expect to be in Croke Part on Sunday?

According to Crokepark.ie they are expecting 40k and 10k for Saturday.

Optimistic on both counts from Crokepark.ie in my opinion.

They are never far wrong with their expected crowds.

Emmm.. Chances are the upper decks will remain closed

[marty34]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2019/0330/1039632-derry-see-off-dogged-leitrim-to-take-division-4-crown/

Just 5 years ago. In fairness some turn around in fortunes for Derry but they never were a division 4 side anyway.

Just four players from that starting team still playing. The new players introduced improved the quality significantly.

Fair play to Leitrim.

A small county population wise and club wise as well as being hit hard by emmigration and lads working away from home etc.

Great to see them play in Croke Park. 

[Blowitupref]

How many do we expect to be in Croke Part on Sunday?

According to Crokepark.ie they are expecting 40k and 10k for Saturday.

Optimistic on both counts from Crokepark.ie in my opinion.

They are never far wrong with their expected crowds.

Emmm.. Chances are the upper decks will remain closed

And won't be opened. Will many of the Donegal/Armagh supporters stay on for the 2nd game? Won't be many Dubs in for the first game.

[statto]

How many do we expect to be in Croke Part on Sunday?

According to Crokepark.ie they are expecting 40k and 10k for Saturday.

Optimistic on both counts from Crokepark.ie in my opinion.

They are never far wrong with their expected crowds.

Emmm.. Chances are the upper decks will remain closed

And won't be opened. Will many of the Donegal/Armagh supporters stay on for the 2nd game? Won't be many Dubs in for the first game.

I was talking to a few lads last night and they said going home after the Division two final really don't see the point of doing that, but each of their own. 

[Wildweasel74]

It's is a long wait to the 2nd game, last year i lasted to half time of the Division 1 final after been there for Div 2 Final to beat traffic. Be in no rush this time, try let the Armagh traffic clear.

[JoG2]

How many do we expect to be in Croke Part on Sunday?

According to Crokepark.ie they are expecting 40k and 10k for Saturday.

Optimistic on both counts from Crokepark.ie in my opinion.

They are never far wrong with their expected crowds.

Emmm.. Chances are the upper decks will remain closed

And won't be opened. Will many of the Donegal/Armagh supporters stay on for the 2nd game? Won't be many Dubs in for the first game.

Thanks.. Tix sorted

[Aaron Boone]

It's is a long wait to the 2nd game, last year i lasted to half time of the Division 1 final after been there for Div 2 Final to beat traffic. Be in no rush this time, try let the Armagh traffic clear.

Extra time in first games is the great unknown, so they build in plenty of extra space for it. Could be penalties too as Armagh are involved.


10 years ago the headline bill in Croker was often delayed for the first game to finish.

[From the Bunker]

[screenexile]

Derry have named their strongest team available. No point in risking McKinless from the start he is a very good impact sub anyway.

[seafoid]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2024/0328/1440576-all-ireland-tilt-must-be-next-step-for-derry-o-se/

Tomás Ó Sé: All-Ireland tilt must be next step for Derry

Mickey Harte's Derry team won six of their seven games in the Allianz League Divison 1 round-robin stage
Mickey Harte's Derry team won six of their seven games in the Allianz League Divison 1 round-robin stage
A concerted tilt at an All-Ireland must be the next step for Derry and Sunday's Allianz League Division 1 final against Dublin will be vital in engineering belief for Mickey Harte's side, according to RTÉ GAA analyst Tomás Ó Sé.

Derry topped the round-robin phase of this year's top tier and are coming off back-to-back Ulster titles in 2022 and 2023, as well as the Club All-Ireland success for the contingent from Watty Graham's Glen.

With that momentum behind them, Ó Sé told the RTÉ GAA Podcast that Derry's ultimate target is becoming clearer.

"They're after winning back-to-back Ulsters. The next step is, it's not that it would be a disaster if they didn't win an All-Ireland but the next step has to be to compete at the very, very top level," he said.

"I think they have to target themselves against the Dublins and the Kerrys and whoever else is up there and I think that will be the big question for them.



"They had an unbelievable chance against Kerry [in last year's semi-final]. Kerry did so well to come out of that with a win last year and Derry will look back at that and say they're not far away.

"You have two teams contesting the Division 2 final who will be aiming to win Ulster but I think Derry, Mickey Harte has played it brilliantly this year.

"He has introduced players and I think he has questioned that if they're going to go all the way, they're probably going to have to have more strength in depth."

With Dublin awaiting in the league showpiece, Ó Sé added that it's not the result per se that is most important on Sunday but an ability to demonstrate that they can cope with the benchmark that the All-Ireland champions have set.

"I don't think their championship fails on Sunday because they don't win," he continued.

"But I do think that they have to come away from Dublin saying, 'Yeah, we're up there and we're on a par with them and we're not going to be blasted out of the water.'"

[Wildweasel74]

You not a Tyrone man Seafoid? Post an awful lot of Derry stuff.

[JoG2]

You not a Tyrone man Seafoid? Post an awful lot of Derry stuff.

  god forgive you Wildweasel!