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Some weeks ago Irish News Sports Journalist and former Drum player,Cahair O'Kane, who really knows his football picked his present Derry All Stars team.With the exception of one player the team was selected mostly on the basis  of outstanding performances by players in the latter stages of this year's Senior club championship.

Few, if any any, could argue with the merits of the players selected.His selection was as follows.Daryl McDermott,Shane Murphy.Brendan Rogers,Ryan Dougan,Conor McCluskey,Connor Nevin,Conor Kearns,Gavin O'Neill.Ciaran McFaul,Danny Tallon,Shane Heavron,Christopher Bradley,Niall Moore,Alex Doherty and Emmett McGuckin.

Does any poster know which of the above players were either asked and/or committed themselves to join the current County panel?
  are you series or is it april fools day. the man hasn't a clue

Is this April 1st. i just cannot take this to be true. we have a chance for really pushing on but if we miss the opportunity then we will pay the penalty for years to come. hope someone within the derry county board can show leadership and appoint the appropriate management team and backroom staff that can physically and mentally prepare our very good players to give our county the best chance of being successful.

Very good performance and very encouraging to see, Just need to get up to the same physical shape as the top teams as i feel that is a big part of the problem, a number of our players are completely of the pace, hope we can get a decent run in the qualifiers.

Championship time. Good run in league and now i believe we will be very competitive tomorrow. Looking forward to it. hope we have good support. take inspiration from limerick waterford and wicklow tonight. we can do it.

Enjoyed the mckenna cup final last night. watched it on tv. armagh improving. looking forward to the start next weekend

Can anyone explain how 2 teams from the same group end up playing each other in the semifinal?

The draw was made in advance, winner of A v Winner of B and winner of C v Best runner up.

As Gerry Donnelly would say... even the McKenna's would think that was daft.

Its only the gaa this would happen, no forward thinking

Another decent performance but we should not read to much into tonights game as Jordanstown were terrible.Another game against tyrone which will give playing time to university players and get ready for the league.

Good result yesterday and a few lads played very well.looking forward to wednesday night

How much stock can we really put in an average Bellaghy side winning an unofficial minor tournament? A lot of people getting carried away.

It is an official competition sanctioned by the Ulster council. Bellaghy thoroughly outplayed every side they met in Ulster and their closest challengers were from within our own county. I think this is encouraging.

I notice in todays paper that this competition is classed as a tournament

How much stock can we really put in an average Bellaghy side winning an unofficial minor tournament? A lot of people getting carried away.

Lets give bellaghy credit. by all accounts they blew cross away and as a club they are on the rise again

Start of the new season and my annual good wishes.just wishing the derry management and players all the best for the year ahead.we have enough quality to cruise through the league and get ready for our neighbours in the championship.

So, are you certain that Doire will win Division 4 of National Football League?

Absolutely.

Yes certain for promotion

Start of the new season and my annual good wishes.just wishing the derry management and players all the best for the year ahead.we have enough quality to cruise through the league and get ready for our neighbours in the championship.

We can't blame Coldrick, bad as he was.  Defensive approach was brutal.  Letting Kildare carry the ball so far up the field, without a challenge.  What was the thinking there?

Wouldn't blame coldrick but his performance didn't help. At times we played very well. But it all came down to how much we concede. Which has been the issue over the past few years. Scoring 2-14 should win most games

Agree that 2-14 should win most games but we have been conceding an average of 20pts a game from the start of the league and thats us playing in division 3, we have been shocking the whole year, sorry but i have to be honest, just not good enough with the quality of players we have

Wishing the derry management and players all the best for the coming season. Really do believe we will have a good one and first thing we can achieve is promotion from division3. Thought we were going to be light for the first few games but just after seeing team selection for sunday and i must say that is a very strong first 15 plus a few subs that will make a big difference. Have no doubt we will beat westmeath pretty handly and push on for a few bigger games which will decide our fate in the league. So again good luck to all involved and i hope we start were we left off last year when we could and should have beaten mayo down in mayo in the all ireland qualifiers.if we play like that no-one will beat us in the league. doire abu

Got it completely wrong, really thought we would start the season well. Maybe the less said the better on the performance. We should be winning games like this.

Wishing the derry management and players all the best for the coming season. Really do believe we will have a good one and first thing we can achieve is promotion from division3. Thought we were going to be light for the first few games but just after seeing team selection for sunday and i must say that is a very strong first 15 plus a few subs that will make a big difference. Have no doubt we will beat westmeath pretty handly and push on for a few bigger games which will decide our fate in the league. So again good luck to all involved and i hope we start were we left off last year when we could and should have beaten mayo down in mayo in the all ireland qualifiers.if we play like that no-one will beat us in the league. doire abu