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#1
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 26, 2024, 04:39:28 PM
When i think of O Lynch its the getting caught sometimes when he's outfield that's a problem.  However mostly he gives us that +1 when our play goes into attacking mode that he makes a significant contribution.  As a shot stopper he is also excellent .. had 2 great saves v Roscommon.  As far as Shane McGuigan is concerned he covers a lot of ground from the opposing 14 to his own 14yrd line and is very often the 'break ball winner' in mid field and of course a top drawer efficient finisher so it's also great for L Murray, C Murphy and D Gilmore giving us more options. Baker is not ready yet to mark players like C O'Callaghan, C Basquel (nor are there many that could ? ) ... So to beat Dublin we need a floating additional 4 players can add to our defensive system during the course of the game .... Dublin will not let that happen. 

The best we can hope for is to limit them to a 8 t0 10 pt defeat.  Here's hoping i'm wrong
#2
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 21, 2024, 10:10:23 PM
Sure if the Canavan's can do it  ...!!!!
#3
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 21, 2024, 08:38:26 PM
Quote from: JoG2 on March 21, 2024, 05:41:55 PM
Quote from: Real Talk on March 21, 2024, 04:33:13 PMI get the feeling that E Bradley must have missed some training and wasn't part of the panel ... did any of you guys see him at all.  B Rogers since he got his All Star is a very closely marked/fouled players and isn't as nearly as influential as last year .... although he has played a lot of Club football and Hurling and also has got married .... there's only so much an amateur can do ... he needs a rest.  So maybe Emmet Bradley( could help with the Right Footed free kicks along with N Loughlin ) will come in for the Roscommon game . Just watched the game last night again and its unbelievable how much ground Shane Mac covers during the course of a game.  In the last ten mins he was inside his own 14yrd line helping out his defence ... incredible engine and very much the team player. 

Emmett was there and kitted out on Sunday.



Good to know that JoG2 ... he needs at least a 35 min competitive run out and who do you think are the U20's most likely to feature in the Ulster SF Championship squad?
#4
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 21, 2024, 04:54:58 PM
Indeed your correct E Brad is left footed ... Loughlin and Toner are right footed
#5
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 21, 2024, 04:33:13 PM
I get the feeling that E Bradley must have missed some training and wasn't part of the panel ... did any of you guys see him at all.  B Rogers since he got his All Star is a very closely marked/fouled players and isn't as nearly as influential as last year .... although he has played a lot of Club football and Hurling and also has got married .... there's only so much an amateur can do ... he needs a rest.  So maybe Emmet Bradley( could help with the Right Footed free kicks along with N Loughlin ) will come in for the Roscommon game . Just watched the game last night again and its unbelievable how much ground Shane Mac covers during the course of a game.  In the last ten mins he was inside his own 14yrd line helping out his defence ... incredible engine and very much the team player. 
#6
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
March 14, 2024, 04:05:25 PM
 Interesting to see which Derry team will start v Mayo .... any word on the injuries to O Lynch, C Doherty and G McKinless also Mayo have used a lot of players so far will Paul Durkin be fit to play ?
#7
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
March 14, 2024, 03:59:18 PM
Well folks what's the Derry starting team v Mayo gonna be ?

#8
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
November 30, 2023, 07:47:13 PM
What age are the County Minor teams 17 or 18 ?

And who is in charge of the Minors in 2024 ?
#9
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
October 16, 2023, 10:58:52 AM
Agree with DS on the performance of the Ref and assistant officials there very very poor no protection given too (in patricular ) targeted players on one occasion Conor Glass charged/went through B Rogers and Glen still got the free ) .... also disappointed with Shane McG's shooting ... earlier in the year he was scoring from the corner flag ....
#10
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
October 14, 2023, 08:06:22 PM
And Lavey even more disappointed
#11
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
October 05, 2023, 01:16:41 PM
Its very hard to compare the different styles of football/footballers over a 20 year period. I remember Enda Gormley having a fantastic All Ireland both as an attacking forward and also showing a great appetite to tackle back .... Eamon Coleman always said that the teams' defence should start in the full forward line.  In the 2022 Ulster Final nobody epitomised this better than Shane McGuigan when he made a brilliant catch in the final minutes to secure victory.  In the Tyrone team that won their 3 All Irelands under Harte the played a complete team game (just as Derry did this so successfully this last few years) and the intensity of their tackling was unreal. 

Hope Derry under Harte can continue these parts of their game
#12
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
September 20, 2023, 01:30:34 PM
Although we played Tyrone (with MH as manager) in the NFL at Celtic Park in 2011 and we beat them ... Declan Mullan was on at RHF and he had a great game.   
#13
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
September 13, 2023, 09:00:50 PM
Quote from: marty34 on September 12, 2023, 10:59:12 PM
Something that has been missed in all this is I think the Derry players are well focussed and driven themselves.

The culture in the panel seems high and they understand that they're a Top 4 team.  If they learn the lessons of semi-final V Kerry, they'll be in a really good place in 2024, especially being in Div. 1. Panel needs beefed up a bit though.

They have a good group of experienced players who know how to win and are seriously driven.  The manager will be very important obviously but maybe not as important as many people think.





That is a very important point about made by "marty34" and we need to retain continuity going forward with this group of highly motivated and dedicated players.
If M O'R is interested he maybe at this stage doesn't want to loose his integrity / break his agreement with Glen which is entirely understandable in the circumstances.  So surely an accommodation with right thinking personnel can find a solution so that the outcome is  is a "win - win " situation for Glen, Malachy O'Rourke and Derry
#14
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
August 14, 2023, 12:01:57 AM
Anyone at the Glen Lavey game .... are there none of the Downey family playing for them ... are they all with St Bridgets ??

and is McFaul injured ?

#15
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
August 08, 2023, 07:08:07 PM
Quote from: Bring back club football on August 08, 2023, 12:18:00 PM
Meenagh gone.

Hopefully just gone on his holidays