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Meath 2-11
Derry 1-16

Couldn't get it back in our favour. Battled well but didn't have enough in midfield and defense ultimately.

Well done Derry

Watching Sunday game there, seen something at the end but didn't properly see what happened. The ball was played back to the Meath goalkeeper and because he touched it a free in was given. They were saying he should've let it go for a 45 which makes sense. But what was the circumstances in which the keeper touching the ball equated to a free in?

Under rule, the player receiving a kick out , cannot play it directly back to the GK

If he had let it cross the line it would have been a 45 for Derry. Meath were one point behind and the game was just about over. It's an understatement to say the goalie was stuck between a rock and a hard place with 2 slow seconds to decide which choice offered less despair. No matter what the goalie did, Meath were going to lose, the only hope was the longshot that he would get away with it. But with everybody and the ref watching what the goalie was going to do, his situation was hopeless.
The SG pundits saying he should have let it go for a 45  was heartless.

Are ye all drunk lads?
It was the cork Offaly match 🤷‍♂️😀

True,nothing soft from Joyce.. ..what's the story with Walsh ?..is it injury or just out of form at the moment?

Galway have opted to pick a fairly strong team with good options off the bench for this Sunday

Conor Flaherty
Sean Fitzgerald
Kieran Molloy
Jack Glynn
Tony Gill
Sean Kelly
Cathal Sweeney
Matthew Tierney
Niall Daly
Finnian O'Laoi
Paul Kelly
Johnny Heaney
Dylan Canney
Eoin Finnerty
Dessie Connelly

Subs
Conor Gleeson
Johnny McGrath
Liam Silke
Dylan McHugh
Conor Campbell
James Mcloughlin
Liam Costello
Shane Walsh
Owen Gallagher
Tomo Culhane
Cormac McWalter
8 changes from last Sunday ,a couple enforced.Derry mightn't be happy but Galway have earned the right to do as they please with a big match v mayo just four weeks away..a good day promised in the Hyde so should be a good game and hopefully finish the day with a repeat date in Croke Park next week to look forward to.

Is the Derry straight red as a result of contact with the eye?

No angels on either side yesterday oakleaf..both sides gave and took it..that's why a good ref was needed not the amateur (aren't they all😊)with the whistle yesterday ..bad calls both ways ..dalys two yellows were a joke as were mcguigans..the heneghan incident was crucial but rte ignored it..fair result in the end and both teams will learn from it..Galway still have their two hardest games with their star player out of form according to his manager  so let's see where the cards fall in two weeks time ..

Cork were poor too, lot of wides.
We had a good spell from around 15 to 30 minutes, went to sleep for a few minutes conceding 3 soft points.
Dug in well 2nd half and while Cork had a lot of wides we hit the corner flag from a good goal chance.
Have to be happy to start the League with a win and 5 or 6 lads making decent League debuts.
Smith's excellent today, McKeon Stack and Hughes (despite a few poor things) best of the rest.

Every Rossie would have taken a win this morning especially with the absence of Cox ..cork absolutely clueless but that's Roscommon's first first round win since 2014 so most welcome ..

The McManus brothers Eamon and Tony..both gave long service to club and county..

https://www.irishnews.com/sport/gaafootball/2020/05/16/news/from-nowhere-to-croker-how-gerry-o-neill-transformed-armagh-in-the-1970s-1940329/
Good read on Gerry O'Neill ,Armagh manager of that period and older brother of Martin..
On the match itself it's the forgotten  classic semi of 1980..the one where Matt Connor scored 2-9 was entertaining but was never a contest with Kerry leading by double figures for long periods..final score was 2-20 to 3-11..
That Roscommon team scored 2-13 in the second half and were contesting their 4th semi in a row with many fine players especially in defense..they lost to a declining Dublin in '79 semi final which would have given them final experience like Offaly got in '81..that said we missed a great chance v Kerry who were missing the great Eoin Liston through appendicitis operation..that also got involved with Kerry which was a mistake because that great Kerry team could beat you anyway you wanted to play it and were overall physically tougher than us with Tim Keneally outstanding on the day..
We had three thrilling semi finals with Armagh in a 4 season period and there is always a great affinity between the two counties ...in fact in 1982 they played a 3 match series in New York and San Francisco which was a great trip by all accounts..

especially as we'll likely be the only team with the 6 day turnaround again for the semi-final. 

A 6 day turnaround before an an All Ireland semi-final is an utter joke. Nobody really cares when it happens the Dubs but it's still wrong.

This 'we're the victim' nonsense has to stop by all fans..there should be a two week break after super 8s.. a six day turnaround is just not right ..

Imagine for a second if that was McCann who did what Smith did there. Imagine the social media outrage.

When tyrone are playing you dont need to imagine anything, it happens right in front of your eyes, Smith got fouled after he hit that shot that was saved by morgan, peno all day, also after the save from cregg a tyrone player picked the ball straight off the ground in the big square but sure the ref was a rossie

You've a vivid imagination. Will the Roscommon media be running a match report this week on how they beat Tyrone as they bid to defend their All Ireland title or does the delusion extend only to the performance of the referee?

They are always like that, the most delusional fans in the country. Won Connacht this year and you had grown Rossie men crying like it was Leitrim circa 1994

The above brought to you by a Mayoman. Doing delusion better than anyone for 70 odd years.

nice to crying for joy after a final though😊..if Mayo weren't so cocky about Roscommon they'd wouldn't be worn out and in danger of crashing out to a fresh young Meath team..

Im sick to the teeth of reading that Shane Walsh is a quality footballer, he may have some ball skills all right but when the chips are down he a choker and at best a show pony.

Didn't play well today for sure.
Were the chips not down in Hyde Park last year when he dragged us to a Connacht title nearly on his own at times?

Because mcstay had a forward playing centre back and decided there was no need to go man to man on Walsh...still think he's a quality player though

 :dubs first two at home and then away to tyrone/cavan

Where is Syferus?

He putting on boards.ie now. He posts under Syferus and nice guys 80s on that forum

Are you going around trying to find similarities to posts on different forums?
You need to get out more

No. But it's highly unlikely that someone from Mid-north Roscommon would have a decent knowledge of Offaly hurling. I only read the page about Offaly. Don't have that much time on my hands.
Funnily enough, some say I get out too much.

Syferus still annoying the arse off us on stolen sheep..still the same syferus..

[himself and Gilroy probably fell out]

Why did Parkinson fall out with OTB, I saw him tweeting that they didn't credit him for his interview with the ladies Mayo manager, a bit narcissistic I thought.

He reckons a couple of the more high-profile people involved with OTB are spoofers (Joe Molloy isn't one of them).
I recall he was sticking the knife into them around the time they lost the radio rights to cover games.
Basically said they were only interested in GAA coverage when it suited them.

Did he think they should have got into a bidding war with RTE, the GAA made their choice and no surprise it was RTE, they control the narrative a lot better with RTE. I like OTB's coverage of GAA they get a lot right but by no means perfect. They must provide at at least 4 hours a week of GAA coverage, what do RTE Radio provide outside live coverage? Or Joe.ie for that matter.

Seems more personal to me, himself and Gilroy probably fell out, no doubt over money rather than creative differences.

Reckon that's at the heart of it alright.
And anyone that knows the two of us them so I'd say there's a pair of pricks in it..