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As someone said- you could let Jim Allister write the framework himself and he would still object to itIn summary, what's the DUPs issue with this latest agreement?
Equality - don't want to see a nationalist First Minister. All about the optics.
Protocol is a red herring.
Either tbh. Yes every bit as good when he’s at it.Any Armagh posters. What's the story with Oisin O'Neill? Will both brothers be missing or are either likely to come back for championship. if rumours are true
dont think we will see Oisin this year. Dont know whats going on with Rian
Had been wondering where Oisin was. Did he miss all of last year too? Is it a run of injuries?
He had a substantial operation in London to address an Achilles injury and isn't match fit yet in recovery from that.
He'd need to be playing for the club before he could envisage a return to county.
He missed all last year with the club as well didn't he? Fully fit he would be a massive player for armagh
Where would he play? Midfield or closer to the goals? Would he be similar level of quality to Rian?
Read on an Our Ma forum that Rian O'Neill got injury to shoulder and out for the year.Don’t believe everything you read online….
Nail. In. The. Casket... Geezer didn't last long in Div1!
England players surrounding the ref and not a word from the commentatorsstraight reds for that shite. Soon stop it!
Kane heading it
Will be some craic when news filters through from Castlebar that Monaghan are two up, and Armagh two down going into injury time :-)And then big Raff buries one in the top corner
.That doesn’t make sense.Think the word lose is missing there in first paragraph. They need us to lose in Tyrone
or the fifth season in a row, Monaghan's safety hopes comes down to the final round
For that to happen, Monaghan would need to win in Mayo and Armagh in Tyrone. That would leave the second relegation spot on six points – the total Kerry, Tyrone and Roscommon are currently on - and scoring difference would again come into play.
The Farney County are the kings of last-day heroics, but if Armagh were to avoid a defeat in Omagh, then they’d need a massive win in Mayo to have any chance of survival. Their simplest route is victory in Castlebar and hope that Tyrone do them a favour.
The first paragraph claims Monaghan needs Armagh to win, the second claims they need Tyrone to win!
If we do stay up this year it’ll be more a case of us being less shite than 2 very poor teams in Monaghan and Donegal than us being good.Mayo - Another year another false dawn
Galway - Grinding out results - if they can get Comer & Walsh firing on all cylinders they will kick out. Great midfield
Kerry - No need to even think about peaking yet - currently just going through the motions
Rossies - Many teams in the league seemed to underestimate them - will be happy with the finish but do nothing as usual come cship
Armagh - Not a clue what McGeeney has done with this team. From all out attack to all out defence. Deserve to go down
Tyrone - Starting to come good and I still dont think we have clicked. Will be a test for any team in the round robins
Monaghan - Could have the great escape yet again - wont count come cship time unless McManus & Mcarron are 100%
Donegal - Shambles of a set up on and off the field
Don’t necessarily disagree about Armagh deserving to go down but if we beat Tyrone and finish on 7. Or we lose and Mayo breath Monaghan then we will have deserved to stay up. Barely
It's simple. If we get more points than the bottom two we deserve to stay up. Anything else is subjective.
Mayo - Loads of energy. Team clicking well. But shur it's only the League.Maybe last year, but it’s be clearly the opposite this year!
Galway - Marked by big name absences . Half forwards impressed.
Kerry - Not as interested this year. Replacements underwhelming
Rossies - Tus maith leath na h-oibre. Showed up well in matches lost. A very good bench as well. Status secured so yoyo put away. Interesting to compare them with Cavan now.
Armagh - Defensive issues holding them back
Tyrone - Momentum in the second half . Be afraid.
Monaghan - One of the weakest teams
Donegal - Off field chaos mirrored on field.
Now that the dust has settled a bit I'll give you my two bobs worth on Armagh...We have lost the plot, Armagh have great forwards and playing them all in our own half back line is a sin. I get what KMcG is trying to achieve by pulling everyone back and trying to hit the other teams on the counter as we're poor defensively atm but it's not working. I love Armagh and have followed them all my life and I'm considering taking a sabbatical away as I genuinely can't watch that crap atm. I honestly would rather be beaten and having a go/rattle than get beaten in a close game that was like watch grass grow.Yeah I think I’d rather just go for it at this stage. Maybe not totally gung ho, but if we’d a full team, Morgan, Burn, Forker, McCambridge and Ciaran Mackin are all good enough defenders that’d trust a little bit more than what we’re currently doing. We’ve one of the most talented players in Ireland in Rian O’Neill but are getting very little out of him at the minute.
For some reason our top forwards are all below par and seem to be short of confidence...do we go for a shoot out with the Kerry's etc and get humped as we'll be left exposed at the back?...I dunno but if we're still losing anyway why not try it out and see. We have to go to Omagh next week and Tyrone will love nothing more than relegating Armagh and we will only have ourselves to blame for this mess as we had a chance to win every game so far and couldn't manage it, from what i have seen the 3 teams at the bottom are the worst teams in Div 1 and there's nothing between Monaghan and Armagh so whoever has the goolies for it next week will stay up.
I know i'm a bit old school here but can someone please tell me why all forwards are afraid to shoot from 30-45m out, this is from all the games in general. Are forwards told not to shoot unless it's in front of the posts...is this a % thing?. you see guys in what i think is a scoreable position but they won't shoot and recycle the ball across and back and across and back and across and back before someone gets dispossed and the counter attack starts...WTF. You're a County footballer, get within 30-45m and pop the the ball over the bar. Even at club level I played with guys who didn't think twice about shooting from those ranges and hardly ever missed...Maybe the footballer is being replaced with an athlete now and fitness/strength is preferred to a proper footballer...
Rant over...
The own goals and silly red cards at crucial times did help Dublin though lolBe interesting to see them against a full strength Kerry, huge credit to how they’ve gone so far especially after losing 2 of the best defenders in the country.Couple of provincials and all ireland final appearances since then, not a bad rebuild. If Armagh don’t win sam i’d love to see Mayo do it of course, but would be heart breaking for Lee Keegan.
Contrast this with Mayo who have been the best team to watch during the entire League to date. I would have thought that they were entering a transition phase having lost so many players in the last few years so I'm not sure how they produce a new batch while still competing at the top level.
The last decent group from Mayo was 2013-2017. Since 2017 that group of players have been retiring/dropped. That's 6 years ago. Seems like a short time to auld bucks like us.
Rebuild was done under Horan. Introduced the likes of O'Donoghue,Flynn,Conroy etc into the side it was a perfect opportunity for McStay to step in and he stocked his management team to leave no stone unturned. Should go on to win the league title now and it's going to take a very good team to beat them in this years All Ireland.
For a good while the only team that beat Mayo was themselves.
Themselves being a Dublin team who in their own back garden blew away teams for a decade.
Be interesting to see them against a full strength Kerry, huge credit to how they’ve gone so far especially after losing 2 of the best defenders in the country.Couple of provincials and all ireland final appearances since then, not a bad rebuild. If Armagh don’t win sam i’d love to see Mayo do it of course, but would be heart breaking for Lee Keegan.
Contrast this with Mayo who have been the best team to watch during the entire League to date. I would have thought that they were entering a transition phase having lost so many players in the last few years so I'm not sure how they produce a new batch while still competing at the top level.
The last decent group from Mayo was 2013-2017. Since 2017 that group of players have been retiring/dropped. That's 6 years ago. Seems like a short time to auld bucks like us.
Rebuild was done under Horan. Introduced the likes of O'Donoghue,Flynn,Conroy etc into the side it was a perfect opportunity for McStay to step in and he stocked his management team to leave no stone unturned. Should go on to win the league title now and it's going to take a very good team to beat them in this years All Ireland.
Couple of provincials and all ireland final appearances since then, not a bad rebuild. If Armagh don’t win sam i’d love to see Mayo do it of course, but would be heart breaking for Lee Keegan.
Contrast this with Mayo who have been the best team to watch during the entire League to date. I would have thought that they were entering a transition phase having lost so many players in the last few years so I'm not sure how they produce a new batch while still competing at the top level.
The last decent group from Mayo was 2013-2017. Since 2017 that group of players have been retiring/dropped. That's 6 years ago. Seems like a short time to auld bucks like us.
