McKenna Cup 2024

[tonto1888]

Some people getting their knickers in a twist about a McKenna cup game and the usual guys talking dung as they've done for years looking a reaction. The long running joke was even the McKenna's didn't go to watch the McKenna cup, it's there to win if you want to take it seriously and it's there to experiment with youth or however you want. If he'd fielded a strong team and still got beat then that would have been another shit show on here.

Donegal would have known well in advance of the Armagh team and what they were going to face/expect, it was a win win for everyone. Donegal got a run out and tried a few players getting minutes into their legs and Armagh got their young guns a game and there were a few who done themselves not harm at all but as someone stated earlier Donegal were always going to win this game handy enough and thats what happened...Build a bridge for yourselves frig sake.

Good post. Should be the end of it. Somehow I doubt it tho

[armaghniac]

Some people getting their knickers in a twist about a McKenna cup game and the usual guys talking dung as they've done for years looking a reaction. The long running joke was even the McKenna's didn't go to watch the McKenna cup, it's there to win if you want to take it seriously and it's there to experiment with youth or however you want. If he'd fielded a strong team and still got beat then that would have been another shit show on here.

Donegal would have known well in advance of the Armagh team and what they were going to face/expect, it was a win win for everyone. Donegal got a run out and tried a few players getting minutes into their legs and Armagh got their young guns a game and there were a few who done themselves not harm at all but as someone stated earlier Donegal were always going to win this game handy enough and thats what happened...Build a bridge for yourselves frig sake.

Good post. Should be the end of it. Somehow I doubt it tho

Armagh have had similar mismatches in games like this even when they had players of all ages selected, the U20s did rightly.

[StephenC]

So why exactly did Armagh send a young team out? I haven't read a credible answer yet. Like, it's not cause of travel given that they went to Dublin. Is it really about not wanting to reveal tactics before a league game? Seems hard to belive that; Armagh are a settled team with relatively well established patterns of play. Is it that they wouldn't get enough of a challenge from Donegal? Possibly, but the gap isn't that big. 2 fingers to the McKenna cup? Don't see why they would want to do that.

Genuinely interested.

[God14]

Its especially difficult to beat a neighboring side whom you know very well... twice...in a matter of weeks. McGeeney swerved it saving his powder for the league game. Sound move in my opinion.

[lurganblue]

The only thing I took from the game was that we could have big concerns at the GK position for the league.

I've no real problem with the decision to approach it like an U20 game but I would have preferred a few fringe players from the senior squad last year included too.

As a club, it was nice to see a lot of our younger lads get a run out.

[Armagh18]

The only thing I took from the game was that we could have big concerns at the GK position for the league.

I've no real problem with the decision to approach it like an U20 game but I would have preferred a few fringe players from the senior squad last year included too.

As a club, it was nice to see a lot of our younger lads get a run out.

Blaine Hughes and Shea Magill both grand options. Yous DLB's are doing something right for sure, credit to the club. 

[inroundthesquare]

McGeeney feared of a potential McKenna Cup semi or final penalty shootout

[toby47]

So why exactly did Armagh send a young team out? I haven't read a credible answer yet. Like, it's not cause of travel given that they went to Dublin. Is it really about not wanting to reveal tactics before a league game? Seems hard to belive that; Armagh are a settled team with relatively well established patterns of play. Is it that they wouldn't get enough of a challenge from Donegal? Possibly, but the gap isn't that big. 2 fingers to the McKenna cup? Don't see why they would want to do that.

Genuinely interested.

I think you answered it yourself. A settled team, try to find a few youngsters capable of standing up, and bring them on a bit.

I can't see what he's done wrong, approach it whatever way you see fit. Dublin done the same a few years ago and got a few players like Sean Bugler, Tom Lahiff & McMahon who then went on to start league games that year and ended up with All-Ireland medals a few years later.

No big deal, teams have done it before, teams will do it again next year. Are people going to cry every time it happens.

[Armagh18]

So why exactly did Armagh send a young team out? I haven't read a credible answer yet. Like, it's not cause of travel given that they went to Dublin. Is it really about not wanting to reveal tactics before a league game? Seems hard to belive that; Armagh are a settled team with relatively well established patterns of play. Is it that they wouldn't get enough of a challenge from Donegal? Possibly, but the gap isn't that big. 2 fingers to the McKenna cup? Don't see why they would want to do that.

Genuinely interested.

I think you answered it yourself. A settled team, try to find a few youngsters capable of standing up, and bring them on a bit.

I can't see what he's done wrong, approach it whatever way you see fit. Dublin done the same a few years ago and got a few players like Sean Bugler, Tom Lahiff & McMahon who then went on to start league games that year and ended up with All-Ireland medals a few years later.

No big deal, teams have done it before, teams will do it again next year. Are people going to cry every time it happens.

Yes.

[illdecide]

So why exactly did Armagh send a young team out? I haven't read a credible answer yet. Like, it's not cause of travel given that they went to Dublin. Is it really about not wanting to reveal tactics before a league game? Seems hard to belive that; Armagh are a settled team with relatively well established patterns of play. Is it that they wouldn't get enough of a challenge from Donegal? Possibly, but the gap isn't that big. 2 fingers to the McKenna cup? Don't see why they would want to do that.

Genuinely interested.

Armagh or any team for that matter don't have to give u a reason, two teams got a run out instead of fielding one team and a shit show of sending a different team on at HT and it like a circus. It is what it is and park it, no one died and loads of guys got a game of football who wouldn't normally get one...winner winner...

[tonto1888]

So why exactly did Armagh send a young team out? I haven't read a credible answer yet. Like, it's not cause of travel given that they went to Dublin. Is it really about not wanting to reveal tactics before a league game? Seems hard to belive that; Armagh are a settled team with relatively well established patterns of play. Is it that they wouldn't get enough of a challenge from Donegal? Possibly, but the gap isn't that big. 2 fingers to the McKenna cup? Don't see why they would want to do that.

Genuinely interested.

They wanted to. That should be that really

[StephenC]

Thanks lads. I really appreciate the genuine and non-defensive nature of the replies.

[Eire90]

They should rename the mckenna cup the ulster trophy or ulster plate or something.

[Kidder81]

The McKenna Cup is challenge games on steroids

[Wolfetones]

So Donegal played an ineligible player?

Yes and it's either through complete ignorance or a case of sticking two fingers up at the rules. Derry had to withdraw Callum Brown from the starting line up a few years ago for the exact same reason.