Armagh Club football & hurling

[el_cuervo_fc]

I see someone is keeping the BC 5's president upto date by text anyway...

I was on the phone to him.  He's on the beer

[charlie stubbs]

pog i think that the tones where in a false position last year.  the manager was a complte clown who no one could take seriously and a number of players had issues with him.  miceal magill has come in this year and the players seem to have respect for him.  the team last year was very young and inexperienced and i think magills experience will help especially in a defensive capacity as they shipped alot of goals last year.  think that they will finish midtable or upwards this season, though anportmor whereterrible and cant see much hope for them..

[qub la la la]

Listen goat - half those absentees are done, Tony Mac played yestersay and wouldnt have had the ball three times, so his bro aint far behind him. Bellew started the game and I honestly had to be told he played after the game, I actually argued with a guy that he wasnt playing, so forget about these big household 'names', the younger Cross players who played are the ones who are gonna be playing regularly before long and they are all involved in county teams so in my opinion they make cross a better team due to their youth and egerness. Im not for one minute naive enough to think those players would not make an impact but their day is almost over and the cross team that took the field yesterday was by no means 'weak' - thats my only point.

shows how much you know when you dont even recognise county men on the field. if you didnt notice bellew then the clans mustn't have been doing too much up front. how you can say any team minus players that start for the county team are not weakened is beyond belief. wise up!

[pintsofguinness]

pog i think that the tones where in a false position last year.  the manager was a complte clown who no one could take seriously and a number of players had issues with him.  miceal magill has come in this year and the players seem to have respect for him.  the team last year was very young and inexperienced and i think magills experience will help especially in a defensive capacity as they shipped alot of goals last year.  think that they will finish midtable or upwards this season, though anportmor whereterrible and cant see much hope for them..

listen here charlie! Last year, having missed our first game with yourselves you convinced on here one day a couple of weeks before our second game that yous were a young and inexperienced side (fair enough) with little or no physcial presence!  Now imagine my surprise when I went to our game and actually found yous were one of the most physcial (verging on dirty!) sides in the division! I said it to you after the game and you never answered me.  Did you get rid of any of those big hallions with little or no football in them? I'm still waiting to see Moriarty kick players in a county game the way he kicked 'bridge lads that day.

Out of interest, what would the average age of the side be?

[Shortso79]

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[diesel-smuggler]

illdecide its clann eireann that are playing cruppen this saturday evening and not clan na gael

[illdecide]

illdecide its clann eireann that are playing cruppen this saturday evening and not clan na gael

I sort of gathered that. Just messing

[Candyman]

Any predictions from these fixtures:

Maghery v Pearse Og             Maghery to just shade it. I'd go for Maghery simply because the Ogs won't have their Co men available who are a massive loss to them.
Dromintee v Mullaghbawn       Dromintee
Killeavey v Harps                    Harps 
Crossmaglen v Culloville           Cross
St Patrick's v Clan Na Gael       Clans...  County men run the show for Dorsey last sunday but arent available Sat evening (McKeever, Mackin, O'Hare)

[full back]

Any word on the referee's for the games?

[diesel-smuggler]

division 2

Wolfe Tones v Ballymacnab - tough call ballymacnab impressed against us last sunday and wolfe tones hammered an port mor - will go for tones simply on home advantage.

Sarsfields v Whitecross - both teams lost last sunday would have to fancy whitecross on this one.

Keady v Silverbridge - silverbridge will be hoping to kickstart their season and will want to get off to a winning start after last sunday's defeat - silverbridge by 2

Granemore v An Port Mor - granemore should have too much in the tank and should win this one!

St Michael's v Tir na nÓg - st. michael's will be buoyed after beating the bridge last time out, brian mallon will be a massive loss to tir na nog - home win

Carrickcruppen v Clann Eireann - we came away from ballymacnab having robbed a point in injury time, this is clann eireann first game of season - cruppen by 4

[winsamsoon]

ballymacnab will beat the tones

[High Catch]

Ogs
Dromintee
Draw
Cross
Clans

[illdecide]

ballymacnab will beat the tones

I'll decide who beats who

Just to be awkward I'll go for the draw

Maghery
Draw
Killeavey (Sorry Harps guys)
Cross
Clans

[holylandsniper]

Maghery v Pearse Og             Maghery
Dromintee v Mullaghbawn       Dromintee
Killeavey v Harps                    Harps 
Crossmaglen v Culloville           Cross
St Patrick's v Clan Na Gael       Cullyhanna

[Uladh]

Very difficult to assess teams this early in the season, especially without seeing them. Going on hunches, guesses, stories and reports it looks as though
clans might be in decent shape with DM in full tow.
cullyhanna will be very competitive in the division but as has been said, the county players are probably vital to them.
Maghery seem to be poorly organised and well back.
Mullaghbawn will be the usual high energy side but lack quality.
Dromintee - hard to know. beat a poor maghery without the 2 o'rourkes but could be running out of resources.
Ogs seem to be moving well and should progress from last year.
Harps look to have taken a few more steps back but this weekend will say more about them
killeavy will be fit and organised but will lack a scoring threat in this division without their 2 county men (stanfield should be available sat?)
Cross - assuming they'll not be training their starters much at this stage but have more than adequate cover.
Cullaville - Alan o'neill's retiremant will have hit them but will be aggressive and direct as usual

Cross to win the league ahead of clans and ogs
Killeavy, cullaville and harps to battle for survival

This weekend -

Maghery v Pearse Og            Ogs
Dromintee v Mullaghbawn      Draw
Killeavey v Harps                   Killeavy
Crossmaglen v Culloville          Cross
St Patrick's v Clan Na Gael      Clans