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Title: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: From the Bunker on August 20, 2018, 01:00:47 AM
Connacht final 1997 Mayo v Sligo! Referee gives one minute extra time! Sligo had us on the rack. Would have lost if the proper injury time was given.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Jinxy on August 20, 2018, 09:41:56 AM
We deserved to win every game we ever did.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: AQMP on August 20, 2018, 09:57:10 AM
I don't think this has ever happened to Antrim!
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: The Subbie on August 20, 2018, 09:59:42 AM
2005 Div 2 league final v Meath without a doubt!
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Insane Bolt on August 20, 2018, 10:04:26 AM
Armagh beating Fermanagh 1993 preliminary round replay......daylight robbery😎
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Jinxy on August 20, 2018, 10:28:55 AM
Quote from: The Subbie on August 20, 2018, 09:59:42 AM
2005 Div 2 league final v Meath without a doubt!

I think Down were playing that day as well, were they?
All I remember is some fella from Down, who'd had a few drinks, giving everyone dogs abuse before he was 'asked' to leave.  ;D
Which was a pity, as I think he would have quite enjoyed the finale.
Maybe Down weren't actually playing and he just came along to remind Meath people that, 'The Mourne men were well able for youse fcukers!'
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: mackers on August 20, 2018, 10:46:43 AM
Quote from: Jinxy on August 20, 2018, 10:28:55 AM
Quote from: The Subbie on August 20, 2018, 09:59:42 AM
2005 Div 2 league final v Meath without a doubt!

I think Down were playing that day as well, were they?
All I remember is some fella from Down, who'd had a few drinks, giving everyone dogs abuse before he was 'asked' to leave.  ;D
Which was a pity, as I think he would have quite enjoyed the finale.
Maybe Down weren't actually playing and he just came along to remind Meath people that, 'The Mourne men were well able for youse fcukers!'
Down didn't play that day.  Armagh beat Wexford in the Division 1 final afterwards.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Rossfan on August 20, 2018, 11:01:44 AM
Winter in early this year with threads like this and your Counties' worst defeats.
Soon be time for best players not to get an All Star.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Rufus T Firefly on August 20, 2018, 11:02:16 AM
Quote from: Insane Bolt on August 20, 2018, 10:04:26 AM
Armagh beating Fermanagh 1993 preliminary round replay......daylight robbery😎

If you could give a score, based on the degree of theft that took place, this would win hands down. It's still mindboggling, twenty five years later.   :o
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Itchy on August 20, 2018, 11:14:05 AM
Down in this years qualifiers, what a robbery that was
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: The Subbie on August 20, 2018, 11:58:48 AM
Quote from: mackers on August 20, 2018, 10:46:43 AM
Quote from: Jinxy on August 20, 2018, 10:28:55 AM
Quote from: The Subbie on August 20, 2018, 09:59:42 AM
2005 Div 2 league final v Meath without a doubt!

I think Down were playing that day as well, were they?
All I remember is some fella from Down, who'd had a few drinks, giving everyone dogs abuse before he was 'asked' to leave.  ;D
Which was a pity, as I think he would have quite enjoyed the finale.
Maybe Down weren't actually playing and he just came along to remind Meath people that, 'The Mourne men were well able for youse fcukers!'
Down didn't play that day.  Armagh beat Wexford in the Division 1 final afterwards.

There was a game after ??  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Owenmoresider on August 20, 2018, 01:42:23 PM
Quote from: From the Bunker on August 20, 2018, 01:00:47 AM
Connacht final 1997 Mayo v Sligo! Referee gives one minute extra time! Sligo had us on the rack. Would have lost if the proper injury time was given.
In fairness we were never really in that game until we got a goal with a minute or two to go to bring it back by two points, and then Paul Durcan landed a huge point in injury time, only for Curley to blow up almost immediately. Injury time wasn't that much of a thing back then so there was never going to be much added on. Might have nabbed a draw if the momentum continued but that's about it.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: armaghniac on August 20, 2018, 04:18:31 PM
Quote from: Rufus T Firefly on August 20, 2018, 11:02:16 AM
Quote from: Insane Bolt on August 20, 2018, 10:04:26 AM
Armagh beating Fermanagh 1993 preliminary round replay......daylight robbery😎

If you could give a score, based on the degree of theft that took place, this would win hands down. It's still mindboggling, twenty five years later.   :o

Holywood star quality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-eBq6htd6I
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: thejuice on August 20, 2018, 10:36:19 PM
Louth should never have won the 2010 Leinster Final.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Farrandeelin on August 21, 2018, 09:03:03 AM
Quote from: Owenmoresider on August 20, 2018, 01:42:23 PM
Quote from: From the Bunker on August 20, 2018, 01:00:47 AM
Connacht final 1997 Mayo v Sligo! Referee gives one minute extra time! Sligo had us on the rack. Would have lost if the proper injury time was given.
In fairness we were never really in that game until we got a goal with a minute or two to go to bring it back by two points, and then Paul Durcan landed a huge point in injury time, only for Curley to blow up almost immediately. Injury time wasn't that much of a thing back then so there was never going to be much added on. Might have nabbed a draw if the momentum continued but that's about it.

Damn right. Like Jinxy's Meath, my Mayo deserved every win we got.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: From the Bunker on August 21, 2018, 09:48:58 AM
Quote from: thejuice on August 20, 2018, 10:36:19 PM
Louth should never have won the 2010 Leinster Final.

I loved O'Rourkes defence of Meath at the time. He said that ''Louth had only themselves to blame as they should have been further ahead!''
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Wildweasel74 on August 27, 2018, 10:46:17 AM
Never was their a bigger theft than Armagh v Fermanagh 1993 literally daylight robbery by Holywood and J Grimley
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: imtommygunn on August 27, 2018, 10:56:48 AM
Quote from: AQMP on August 20, 2018, 09:57:10 AM
I don't think this has ever happened to Antrim!

The year we got to the ulster final we should never have beat donegal! They hit some wides that day.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: sid waddell on August 27, 2018, 11:10:51 AM
1992 NFL Quarter-final at Breffni Park: Dublin 2-8 Donegal 0-12. Dublin got two goals right at the end to win after being comprehensively outplayed.

It was the old story of the non-traditional county having to play twice as well as the traditional one to win, and in this case, it still wasn't enough.

That game gave Dublin a vice-like psychological hold over Donegal which would never loosen...
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Hound on August 27, 2018, 11:24:10 AM
Can't remember the year, but Ian Robertson scored 1-1 in injury time to salvage a draw v Laois in a Leinster semi final, after we'd been comprehensively outplayed. The red lad in midfield had a stormer if I remember correctly.
Dubs won replay handily enough.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: nrico2006 on August 27, 2018, 11:51:34 AM
Armagh should never have won the 2005 Ulster.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: sid waddell on August 27, 2018, 12:30:21 PM
Quote from: Hound on August 27, 2018, 11:24:10 AM
Can't remember the year, but Ian Robertson scored 1-1 in injury time to salvage a draw v Laois in a Leinster semi final, after we'd been comprehensively outplayed. The red lad in midfield had a stormer if I remember correctly.
Dubs won replay handily enough.
That was 1999. There was a lot of controversy over Robertson "picking up" the ball before he handpassed the equaliser.

Dublin won the replay by two points but the last kick of the game was a goal for Laois from a penalty so it was more comfortable thn that in reality.

2003 was the one where Padraig Clancy had a stormer.
Title: Re: Games that your county should never have won.
Post by: Laois Rising on August 27, 2018, 01:02:38 PM
Laois came from something like 6 points down to lead by 4 with game almost up. Robertson equalizing score came from a blatant pick up missed by the ref. That Laois team was coming near the end of its shelf life-was a very competitive team in 90s without ever really threatening a Leinster title.