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Who got the goals?.

[Po]

Crappy thing to do. He faeces a long ban as it was the turd time he did it.

Very Poetic

[and Joe McQuillan injury free this summer, they'll take some stopping.]

Dublin looked awesome today. Some range of options going forward.  McCaffrey & Kilkenny were excellent and that's how to finish a goal by McCaffrey. If they can keep Benard Brogan and Joe McQuillan injury free this summer, they'll take some stopping.

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[Also don't agree on the comments on Clarke]

. But I'm disgusted at the cynical fouling by Armagh and the clear denial of two goals by thuggish tackles. It pisses me off to see it.

Those deliberate rugby tackles to stop a goal need to be a red card and a penalty no matter where the foul occurs.
Did the Armagh fb get 2 yellows??

The first one wasn't even a booking. Awful match to watch. Also don't agree on the comments on Clarke, he seemed to stop playing after 15 minutes and was only interested in goals after that.

My god you are very hard to please

[The Ulster Champions would be entitled to feel harshly treated by Maurice Deegan on several occasions"]

As i stated earlier i was not at the game so therefore could not comment on referee.
I was only looking for neutral opinions as John O'Brien in Sunday Independent stated "The Ulster Champions would be entitled to feel harshly treated by Maurice Deegan on several occasions"This is not sour grapes on my behalf as i have said that we could blame no one but ourselves but i believe that inconsistent refereing should be highlighted.
The buzzwords are respect for referees but it has to be earned.

[neutrals]

I was in London over the weekend and have not yet seen the match.
However fom the reports that i read it seems  we conceded 2 soft goals and missed a sitter as well so we have no one to blame for the defeat but ourselves.
Nevertheless a lot of the reports including yesterdays Indo and todays Irish Times, suggest  that Maurice Deegan was more lenient towards the underdogs than he was to Cross.
What do the neutrals on here think?

what  are the parking facilities like around the pitch

What age is Paidi Og.
Does he play much football.?

[Aidan Brannigan]

One is Aidan Brannigan who plays for down.. There, happy now? 

It would suit him better to concentrate on his own game. He was getting a right roasting until Stephen Kernan went off injured.

0-6 to 0-2 for Ballymun HT

[Kilkoo Klux Klan]

Soon they'll be known as Kilkoo Klux Klan GAC!!

Class

[The London champions rotate around all four provinces' champions for QFs over the course of four years.]

The London champions rotate around all four provinces' champions for QFs over the course of four years. They played Brigids in December of last year in a QF.

I have to imagine there would be uproar if the London champions actually won a QF at some stage, the sheer effort it takes teams to win their provinces these days makes the London champions' placement in the last five incredibly unfair on everyone else. I'm guessing the financial pressures it'd put on a London club to compete in Connacht is the reasoning but it'd be a far better solution than what we have currently.

Maybe cutting out a few of the dangling carrots for intercounty players making summer trips would be in order so London GAA can build a pot up for the eventual London champions to actually compete and not simply be a token a addition.

Due to the larger number of games involved in winning leinster their champions never play a quarter final.

[If a strong ref takes charge they might get caught out though]

Hard to see anything but a Cross win here. They have the ability to raise the game by a notch or 2 when required and blow away the opposition as we discovered. They also have the cynical edge required that other teams have not experienced so much. If a strong ref takes charge they might get caught out though.

???Take a look at the DVD. Mc Quillan gave yous everything in Clones

Thats not what you said bighead.

[I am the only one who is from Cross, who posts here regularly who has any real knowledge of what is going on around the team/club.]

INDIANA, nobody expects the same team to win it every year. History has shown that it doesn't happen. In saying that, every year there will be a favourite. For a number of years, that has been Crossmaglen.

Now, every year you come on here and say that Crossmaglen aren't great and conveniently "could be taken". You cannot be beaten as they will fall more years than not. It's like standing in the bookies and saying that the favourite will be beaten in every race. You will have more + than - but there is no money in that betting.

Therefore, instead of telling us who won't win it and feeling all smug when they don't, can you simply predict who will win it?

I can't predict because they aren't in the semi-final yet. Cross could learn a thing or two about respecting their opponents. You don't seem to realise you have to win your province to enter the all-ireland stages. PLenty of material on this thread for their opponents

Indiana, just so you know this thread was started by a St Brigids man, not by a Cross man and therefore it is incorrect to say that we need to learn about respecting our opponents.  Secondly, I am the only real regular Cross poster on this Board.  By that I am the only one who is from Cross, who posts here regularly who has any real knowledge of what is going on around the team/club.  I am by no means the oracle but I do have a fair idea about a lot and trust me the lads are in no way undermining Kilcoo and neither are they looking beyond Sunday.  Also if Kilcoo need to use an anonymous DB as a means to motivate themselves a bit more to win an Ulster then that is a fair indictment of the managements motivation skills.

As for the rest of your post supposition and totally unproveable.

Ahem