Quote from: smort on Today at 12:11:02 PMHave RTÉ ever looked in to adding a new channel, RTÉ Sport say?
Quote from: Blowitupref on Today at 11:19:58 AMQuote from: Walter Cronc on Today at 07:50:32 AMSome nonsense being talked by the usual suspects. I'm with Keyser on this one. We battled well considering the circumstances. We'll be fine come preliminary quarters onwards.
I'm sure before this championship started the objective for Derry was to match or better their last two championship campaigns which was All Ireland semi final. If it's a Preliminary quarter final and Derry win that it will be three games in three weeks and up against a rested table topper (probably Kerry,Dublin or Donegal)
Quote from: square_ball on Today at 08:32:42 AMI think a lot of you lads are judging the overall fight on that 1 round in the 9th and then thinking Usyk should be winning comfortably. Looking at those scorecards they look fair enough imo. Fury had plenty of success in the middle rounds, Usyk done well at the start and end and then a few rounds hard enough to score.
Carl Frampton had it 6 rounds each and then with the knockdown Usyk wins 114-113. Though I agree with the above it Fury could/should have been stopped by the ref in the 9th. Seen fights stopped for less.
Quote from: galwayman on May 18, 2024, 07:54:19 PMQuote from: tbrick18 on May 18, 2024, 07:41:04 PMVery poor from Derry, sending off aside. So flat.I'm trying to take my Galway hat off here (not easy of course) but I honestly didn't feel that we were getting frees easier.
First half us where the game was lost, too many dropped short.
Too many of derrys star players were nowhere to be seen, glass didn't seem interested.
We were chasing the game, lachlan Murray just scored 3 I think, made a score saving tackle and Harte takes him off. Can't see the logic in that.
Galway were good. Should rightly leapfrog derry in the AI rankings and must be in that top 3 tier now.
Didn't listen to the commentary after the game but there can be no defending mckinless.
However, I did think in general galway got their frees easier than us.
In terms of scores from frees I'm not sure how many we ended up with but when we had 1-12 on the board only two of those were frees.
I can think of two off the top of my head tap over frees Derry got that were never frees (to me anyway).
McGuigan wins a high ball in first half & doesn't call a mark. He gets shepherded and throws himself down and gets a free.
One in second half (I think number 10) who runs into 2-3 Galway defenders and gets a very soft free.
Anyhow I'm only picking them as examples. The red card changed the game.
Who knows what would have happened if it didn't happen. It was going to be tight regardless
Quote from: Captain Obvious on May 16, 2024, 05:15:39 PMHe's definitely better at kicking points than any of them, but there's more to being an intercounty player than that. His club being in D3 doesn't help with being able to play himself back in.Quote from: Gael85 on May 16, 2024, 05:07:40 PMQuote from: Captain Obvious on May 16, 2024, 03:54:33 PMCan anyone from Dublin tell me why Ciarán Archer who would be around 24 now hasn't made the step up to Dublin senior team and is he even on the panel at the moment?
A talented player but don't think he better than what on panel now. Quality freetaker but for me doesn't do enough from play and without the ball. He was on senior panel in 2022 but picked up an injury and never got back in.
A few of the forwards on the Dublin panel at the moment Ross McGarry,Killian O'Gara,Lorcan O'Dell,Killian McGinnis. He must have fallen back a fair bit from his days standing out at U20 level if not better than some of them now.