Ulster Minor Football Championship 2010

[hobit hunter]

Any word on the favourites for this year's minors.  Armagh have 2 returning and 2 from the St Colmans team, I expect the Down team to be helped too by the St Colmans Hogan winners.  Outside of that and the Tyrone team that lost the minor league final are there any front runners to be watched?

[drici]

All Ireland Minor Football Championship 2010

Quarter Finals:

Connacht Winners v Laighin Runners Up

Uladh Winners v Mumha Runners Up (Cork/Kerry)

Laighin Winners v Connacht Runners Up

Mumha Winners (Cork/Kerry) v Uladh Runners Up

[drici]

                  Preliminary Round
                      Derry v Armagh

                                                       Quarter Finals:
                Monaghan v Derry/Armagh                          Antrim v Tyrone

                Cavan v Fermanagh                                    Donegal v Down

                                                          Semi Finals:
Cavan/Fermanagh v Monaghan/Derry/Armagh      Antrim/Tyrone v Donegal/Down

                                                              Final:
                                                        Sunday July 18th
                   

[hobit hunter]

Could well be an Armagh v Down/Tyrone final by the looks of it

[Joxer]

Could well be Cavan v Donegal final too

Duh!

[orangeman]

Ballinderry must have some minor team - 6 starters.
How mnay more years is Ryan Bell a minor ?

[Hammer]

Any word of an Armagh team?
What do yu Armagh men think it'll be?

[Newbridge Exile]

Ballinderry must have some minor team - 6 starters.
How mnay more years is Ryan Bell a minor ?

Ryan is still U-16 as far as I know

[David McKeown]

Good win for Armagh 2-8 to 2-7. Derry got two goals in injury time but Armagh easily the better team on the day

[AFS]

Hard to know what to make of the minor match today. Armagh looked as good as last year at times, but faded badly for long patches. We look very strong around the midfield area. Carragher is a super player, and Gough could be as good if he learns to use the ball a bit better. The forwards don't look as potent as last year's, although those lads set the bar high. Reckon if we'd had a couple of forwards of the calibre of McVerry or Grugan today we might have won by double figures. That said, Rafferty and Stevenson both look lively. Derry's two goals were very well taken, if they'd come five minutes earlier we could've been in bother. It looked like they had given up before they bagged the first one.

[The Doire Geal]

no ballienderry don't have a great minor team, it is good, but its same old in Derry, sounth manager south palayers. the players from kilrea, ballienderry, glen, magherfelt, great in league but will never win you a big game, always the way and was proven the day

[drici]

Ulster Minor Football Championship
Sunday May 16th
12-00pm Celtic Park Doire v Ard Macha

Sunday May 23rd
2-00pm Casement Park Aontroim v Tír Eoghain

Saturday May 29th
7-00pm TBC Muineachán v Ard Macha

Sunday May 30th
12-00pm Ballybofey Dún na nGall v An Dún

7-00pm Clones An Cabhán v Fear Manach

Saturday June 19th
Semi Final 3-30pm  Aontroim/Ti­r Eoghain v  Dún na nGall/An Dún

Sunday June 27th
Semi Final 1-45pm  An Cabhán/Fear Manach v Ard Macha/Muineachán

Sunday July 18th
Ulster Minor Football Championship Final
                  12-00pm

[mackers]

Presumably the Armagh Monaghan minor match will be in Crossmaglen as it's an Armagh home tie.

[drici]

Derry 2-08 Armagh 2-09

TWO LATE goals from Aaron Devlin weren't enough to secure a replay for Derry as Armagh hung on for a one-point victory in a game that they initially seemed to have wrapped up early in the second half.

A brace of major scores from full forward Paul McGeown had seen Armagh lead by 2-9 to 0-8 with one minute of regulation time remaining, but Devlin hammered two pile drivers to see the visitors looking mightily relieved at the final whistle.

Derry started brightly and led when Benny Quigg pointed from 30 metres, but were rocked by a goal on nine minutes.

The third quarter would prove decisive as Armagh took over and built up a cushion that would prove sufficient. Barry Seeley started the onslaught kicking a free from the right which was followed by a point from McGeown.

When a flowing move finished with McGeown sliding home his second goal on 38 minutes Armagh led by 2-5 to 0-5 and Derry looked a beaten side.

ARMAGH : M McNeice; R McCaughey, C Hoey, R Finnegan; D Nugent, J King (0-1) , N McConville; P Carragher, C Gough; S McCoy, A Forker (0-2), B Seeley (0-2, frees); C Stevenson (0-1), P McGeown (2-2), R Rafferty (0-1). Subs : A Findon for McCoy (48 mins), R Conlon for Stevenson (55 mins).

DERRY : D McKindless; R Ferris, R Moore, K McKaigue; T Rafferty, N Rocks, C Rocks (0-1) ; C Mullan, A Devlin (2-0) ; C Spiers, B Quigg (0-4, two free), T Martin (0-1) ; R Bell, F Bell (0-1, free) , C Devlin. Subs : D Johnston for Mullan (38 mins), B Óg McGilligan for C Devlin (40 mins), G Keane for Martin (49 mins), F Duffin (0-1) for N Rocks (49 mins).

Referee: Eamon McHugh (Tyrone).

[Throw ball]

Presumably the Armagh Monaghan minor match will be in Crossmaglen as it's an Armagh home tie.

The programme yesterday had the match down for Newry on 29th May at 7pm. Bloody nuisance as I have other arrangements for then.