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Thought Hartes comments after the game were a disgrace. Said he didn't see mckinless incident , but then proceeded to accuse Comer of making a meal of it and theatrics.
It was as  blatant a red card as seen at a game & it more or less ended Comers involvement in the game. McKinless deserves a lengthy ban for it

Comer 100% made a meal of the initial free obviously not of the stamp.

I didn't see the stamp at first and I'm sure Harte hadn't seen footage by the time he was interviewed either!

In all seriousness, will Derry get out of this group?

Complete collapse in a year, and its not just the defeats, its the manner of them... a team on the other side of their peak.

Hopefully we get Tyrone in the preliminary QF and we can revisit this conversation!

Ref giving derry some amount of leeway

You'll need to elaborate.. I've watched 15 minutes there and not seeing what you are

There was 2 times the derry player both arms around a galway lad and pulled him round, both given as free outs to derry. 2 trips during advantages with no cards given.

What?? Where?? Were we watching the same game?!

I think we battled manfully down to 14 against a decent team for 65 minutes. Galway haven't set the world on fire with this performance against 14 either and suffered a few injuries.

Armagh match is crucial now to get a home game in the preliminary QF. We definitely need McEvoy and CD back for it!

Galway suffering a few injuries here!

We've actually played ok here.

The 5 balls dropped short and McKinless' red card have put a dampener on it though.

Before the red we looked up for it and had a good structure in place but with the squad so threadbare it's hard to see us pulling ahead in the second half.

What was he doing??!! It's not new but I thought he'd matured and stopped that auld shite!

Totally brainless

McGurk has been called up from U20s as well apparently

Galway maybe by abit,if am hearing the Derry team likely lineout.

Go on.....

Loughlin and the h/b line, it's been mentioned in here by a few

Hearing McEvoy and Conor Doherty are out!

McIlroy stinking the place out too!

[3 U20s named,]

Just Padraig McGrogan that featured in the match against Galway in the league game not named on that Derry 26 and he's replaced by McKinless. A depleted side and potential injury crisis?

Loughlin and Murphy seem to be injured as well. 3 U20s named,  our bench isn't just as strong as it seemed during the league.

I hope McEvoy is fit but Harte likes to name bullshit teams so we'll find out on Saturday evening!

Danny McDermott, Ruairi Forbes and who else? were they on the senior panel already this year or added to the panel since the U20 Ulster final defeat.

Sorry you're right only 2 got Mark and Oisin Doherty mixed up!

Just Padraig McGrogan that featured in the match against Galway in the league game not named on that Derry 26 and he's replaced by McKinless. A depleted side and potential injury crisis?

Loughlin and Murphy seem to be injured as well. 3 U20s named,  our bench isn't just as strong as it seemed during the league.

I hope McEvoy is fit but Harte likes to name bullshit teams so we'll find out on Saturday evening!

Don't have any faith in Derry getting a result against Galway, don't think we have ever beat them in Senior championship.

Last time we played them in Q's, Conor Lane gave us as sore a riding as I've ever seen from a referee.

PS sorry to intrude on an Armagh thread lol

This version of Derry has played Galway a few times, lost 2 and won 1, league / championship. So history, bogey team etc wouldn't come into my thinking. Home advantage and their inside forward line does. If I was a gambling man I'd say there will only be a kick of a ball in it with Galway winning a fairly open game of football. Could be a cracker. Hope I'm wrong

I'm not sure what your point is, or if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me.

No version of Derry has ever beaten Galway in championship, you can be sure that will be a factor on saturday.

Injuries look like being the main factor atm if true

I'm hearing McEvoy is the main doubt and the others should play... in that case who picks up Comer?

It's a 50/50 game even if we're fully fit. I think recent results have pushed Derry out of the top 3 and back into the group of 6 teams that could all beat eachother on a given day.

Derry/Galway/Armagh - Donegal/Tyrone - Mayo.

You'd expect all of these will get into the last 12.