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Ah lads, no point being cute hoors now.. Sure youse have 30+ starting 15 level players and everyone on here has stated we'll not win a game and finish bottom of the group. This is David v Goliath on a football pitch. I'm going just to get out of the house for the day

No one is TBH, this will be a tight hard match that could go either way. In a way Derry have nothing to lose as they're expected to lose (except within Derry) so they have a free shot and they didn't become a bad team over night...

I've said this many times over the years and no matter how good or bad Armagh are they always do things the hard way...I'm expecting a very tough game on Sat evening from Derry and this Derry team are not finished by no stretch. 12 months ago people were talking about them winning SAM so for me they'll need Armagh to be at their best to beat them. They've had plenty of time to rest, train, tactics and get injured players back so they'll be very dangerous come Sat nite. Anyone who thinks this is gonna be easy or Derry or just gonna roll over are not right in the head...

There's a 30% sell-on clause on transfer profit due to a likely Frimpong transfer, probably means about 6m for Celtic. Frimpong was a bargain buy, a gift that keeps on giving.

Yeah it's a 30% sell on clause of the profit, think Celtic sold him for £11m and Liverpool are buying for £30n so 30% of £19m is approx £5.7m so great bit of business for Celtic.
Played well last night with a lot of new faces, great to see Kenny getting his goal and thon young cub Sean McArdle looks the business too. Hopefully he can develop further and keep himself in the first team squads for next season. All the new signings are great but Celtic need a few more home grown talents breaking into the first team ASAP as the other Scottish Celtic players are all getting older now and you always need home grown players around the club.

Maeda linked with Leeds

In all seriousness...I'd be asking for £35m for him. Pay up or shut up🤷�♂️

Big summer ahead for Celtic but KT coming back is a major coup and hopefully another 2-3 quality signings like that for the big games (Europe & Huns) and use Taylor, Scales etc for league games at home where we have 80% possession.

On a separate note and football related...anyone know when the match tickets are due out for upcoming games

Celtic earned €46m in champions league...

That doesn't include gate receipts, merch and anything else purchased (Food & drinks etc)...You can add another £15m to that

You lot must be bored stupid or can't think of anything else to talk about rather than a bit of a row after the game was over and worse still about Jarleth Burns commenting on a court case. Away and put a set of frilly knickers on yis FFS, this thread is for talk of football. Use the appropriate thread for that crap so I know to stay the feck away from it.

I personally think that defeat for Armagh will galvanise them and push them on, Armagh will get stronger as the injured men start to return and get fitness and sharpness back. RON will need some major training and fitness to get back to that level but what a player to come back too, Armagh with a siege mentality and getting stronger as the Championship goes on will be a handling for any team. I feel the team that beats Armagh will likely win SAM.

Not a big drinker but do enjoy 1-2 pints when i get them (once every couple of months). Have to say I enjoy the Guinness 0,0 but i'd say 2 or 3 pints max would do ya. If I didn't get a drink for 6 months wouldn't annoy me either TBH, tea and a few biscuits now is a different matter

Well if he wants a transfer to Armagh (we'll find him a Sheila) I would welcome him into our Clan no bother, the man is a class act and would get his place on any team in any era.

Armagh 7/5 (8/1 Draw) Donegal 8/11
Donegal favourites for this game and rightly so with Armagh's injury problems. Jimmy's winning matches should continue if the Bookies are correct.

Pitches that have had grown turf sods laid which were grown off site elsewhere is played on pretty soon after laying as the grass has already established and is in deep turf sods, you can still see some movement in the sod if a player turns suddenly or a quick stop you'd see the sod move a bit so you still have to be careful but generally if it's late spring or early summer it wouldn't take the deep sod long to bed in and played on (3-4 weeks).

Probably just wait to after next weekend and then we'll not have to guess, everything will be clear. Tickets for Ulster final is the biggest issue at present...Big, big demand and clubs have more ticket requests than tickets available.

Sligo as a venue won't be picked anyway.
https://x.com/sligogaa/status/1917596575179690076

"Work began this morning on the restoration of the pitch at Markievicz Park. The work is being undertaken by @PruntyPitches and will be completed mid next year."

A full year just to do a pitch restoration?

It takes a pitch 12 months to bed in and roots to go deep enough into soil to start playing on it, if you go on it earlier you'll just destroy it. It will look perfect and ready to play on but it's the grass roots that you can't see that needs time and it all to knit together...