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SHUT UP CHILD

You fell for it Pints !!!!

Where does your Chairman Donal Walsh come from.

Again...ever heard of "People in glass houses"

Cross will be taking the cruppen threat very seriously given their championship tradition and the fact that they have a one hundred percent success record against us in our last 5 meetings even though it has been some time since we last met
Prior to 1978 cross generally had the upper hand against cruppen in championship encounters. We were Armagh title holders when we met them in the first round of the championship in 1978 in mullabawn Cruppen were leading by a point with a couple of minutes left Cross had about 5 opportunities to get an equalising point but we kept going for a goal to win the match and they held on to beat us by a point.
Our present club chairman Tommy Coleman was full back for Cruppen that day.
Cruppen proceeded to beat us in the championship each year up to and including the final of1982 and we haven't met since.
So whilst we expect to scrape home by a couple of points we certainly wont be treating them lightly.

Pints.
You infer that Kieran and Brendan Mallie are bona fide Bridge people, even though they were raised in Drumintee, because their father and two uncles did a lot of work for the Bridge club.
John Murtaghs father and 4 uncles all played football for Cross.
They all did massive work for the club off the field.
His uncle Donal is the current senior team manager and another uncle Kevin is the club referee.

Given the criteria you use for the young Mallies would you now agree that John Murtagh is a bona fide Cross player and not "Stolen" as you earlier alleged. ??

This is my first post
I decided to register on this site to counteract the anti Rangers sentiments being expressed by a couple of posters.
On the issue of "outside players", John Murtagh's dad is from Cross and played with Rangers until he got married to a Cullyhanna girl. He then went to live in Cullyhanna and transferred to them which seems reasonable enough to me.
He eventually built a bungalow on his parents land in Cross and moved back to Cross when John was about 14. John then transferred to the Rangers. If it was reasonable for his father to transfer to Cullyhanna when he went to live there surely it was reasonable for his son John to transfer to the Rangers when he came to live in Cross.!!

John Donaldson  was born and reared in Cross Parish ( Upper Creggan ) and still lives there. He went to Cross primary school. He never ever lived in Cullyhanna parish ( Lower Creggan ), so arguably he should have been a Cross player all along. However on his fathers wishes he played for Cullyhanna at all levels which I have no problem with.. He eventually fell out with the Cullyhanna club and went to play for Stabannon in Louth for 3 years. He signed for the Rangers in 1999 as it was more convenient for him. Again it seems a reasonable enough decision.

You would think to read the post from Pints of Guinness that Cross were the only team to include players in their team that started their careers elsewhere.

Mind you the Bridge have had their fair share of "outsiders" in their ranks down the years, including James Traynor ( Forkhill ), Jimmy Phillips Drumintee ), Martin Smyth ( Belleek ), Joe Crawley ( Mullabawn ), Gary Boyle ( Carrickcruppen ), Colm Murphy ( Crossmaglen ), Kieran Mallie ( Drumintee ), ( Brendan Mallie ( Drumintee ), Mickey Martin ( Drumintee ), Vincent Martin ( Drumintee ) and Shane Lyons ( Forkhill ), I'm sure other posters could add to this list.

I am not criticising the Bridge for playing the aforementioned, they would be very silly not to as they would probably have ended up playing against them, but pints ever heard of "people in glass houses" ??