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Personally preferred BBC

Whatever happened to plans for the training centre in Portadown, still on track or stalled?

Where do Armagh currently train?

Callanbridge. Armagh City

I saw that, the Buncrana Cup would be fairly prestigious - when is the last time Armagh reached the final? Haven't heard of the u15 competition before if I'm honest.

As far as I know the under 16s won the under 15 competition last year - or at least got to the final.

The Buncrana Cup final is against Tyrone.

Having said that, I just saw the Monaghan black card. Not sure what he thinks he saw.

I was sitting in Davin End with Monaghan supporters and we all thought black card was right in real time. Shows the rule - as written - is stupid. It looked like a deliberate trip. TV replays suggest otherwise.

The only way anyone could agree with McGEeney on this is they also agree that when a team defending a one point lead in injury time should legitimately be able to protect that lead and use up all remaining time, by laying claim to a head injury.

Would clock not be stopped for injuries

I took a chance and headed down Collins Avenue and up the N2 on my way home last night, there was very little traffic on the road and I was home at 11pm.

Show off

Did some genius switch Hawkeye off after the 70 minutes were up? Perhaps Croke Park are paying for Hawkeye by the minute, so switched it off to save money.

Yes, I saw lots of drunk Armagh fans in the stadium. Perhaps thats a downside of running a train special. But I didnt see any abuse in the walkways or outside the stadium. Myself and others shook hands with the Farney men and wished them luck.

I also applauded every good score from both sides in the Kerry Tyrone drubbing. The two british sides playing on Saturday just were not good enough. Feck it Orior, delete that line, lol.

Overall, I think we were just unlucky. In full time and extra time, the match could have gone one way or the other. Monaghan just edged it on killer instinct.

The journey home was awful too. When we reaching the single lane at Dundalk, who were the buck ejits racing up the hard shoulder? I got home about 12:30am

Finally, why are keepers allowed to wear the same colours as the ref? This was never an issue until keepers started playing outfield.

Good points and you did well to get home for 12.30. The bit on keepers and referees wearing the same colours is 100%.

I don't get Tyrone fans getting annoyed about Armagh fans cheering Kerry. Is that not part of local rivalry. I don't like the goading as you leave the ground though. Same thing happened me when Armagh lost to Fermanagh in 2004 and I had to get home. Tyrone ones gave me plenty of grief.

With the traffic tailbacks yesterday the Tyrone game had stopped being a contest by the time I got in.

No harm but if anyone thinks the referees did well today it says more about the poor clarity of the rules leading to an overall poor standard of consistency in interpreting those rules. We can all say Armagh were crap today, Monaghan weren't great or Tyrone were brutal. Why can't we say the officials had a bad game. Going on the fair today gaelic football is in serious bother. People can laugh and joke at Armagh and their supporters but the last couple of years they have brought numbers to matches. That will soon change if the fare on show continues to be so poor. Look at Tyrone. They used to have a massive support. The football they served up for years now means the local country GAA club could host their games.

Cathal o Rourke was excellent in the first drawn game
Was taken out in the replay
Can we agree on this at least , if you recall your player was booked then substituted.
If you note I haven't named any names apart from Kennelly who acknowledged what he did  so won't be.
Let's agree to differ .

You are right. As the referee threw the ball in at the start of the game O'Shea punched O'Rourke in a very sore area. He struggled until taken off. If I remember rightly O'Shea got booked in All Ireland final for an off the ball hit too.

As for Kerry in general. The 2006 quarter final first 20 minutes of second half v Armagh was a rough a display as I have seen from any county.

In relation to penalty incident. Is it definitely Forker?

Just read over a few pages there after watching the Sunday game. Think these Tyrone boys live in a different world. The referee got the penalty / card in their game 100 % by the rules. Maybe some should learn the rules instead of complaining about the referee.

As for the Armagh game. It was great craic with the Galway fans today. Everyone agreed it was a good game played in a good spirit. McKay was reckless at the end and lucky it didn't cost a draw. The free given to Murnin may have been on the soft side but there were plenty of soft frees to both teams during the game. I still find it amusing how Tyrone ones in particular complain that Armagh deliberately use rough house tactics. Maybe it is because I didn't hear any Galway ones complaining during the game.

As for the celebrations. It is always great to enjoy the big games. Maybe if Tyrone did the same so many fellas - players and supporters- wouldn't have deserted the team.

Never want hear Armagh complain about tickets again!

I assume there were bigger crowds at other gamesq

Galway v Kerry in the rain , croker , can't remember what year it was maybe 08 ish .

Definitely 2008.

Armagh lost to Wexford in first game.

Unless memory is failing I also saw O'Neill say something to referee while Armagh were waiting for Derry for extra time. He also lifted his jersey at that time. I thought he was complaining about a nip then?

What antics were Derry at? The only thing I saw was McGuigan charging after the ball in the middle of getting treatment which wasn't great. Other than that I didn't see anything dirty from us!

Just saw Flynn and Keegan tell us Tyrone are still the team to beat in Ulster anyway so what even is the point of the Ulster championship?

I saw a good bit along with plenty of 'game management'. Sean Hurson tried to bring it to referees attention a few times. Still no use debating at this stage. Maybe Armagh's biggest problem is that they aren't as cute as other teams and many people believe the narrative that that are a team of bodybuilding MMA artists.