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Very exciting appointment, third Ulster man to manage Celtic in the past 11 years.

I'd love to see us bring Jimmy McClean to Celtic Park this summer.

Justy is the biggest loss for us there, Derry have quite a few big lads like McGuckin, Kielt, Lynch, Bell and O'Boyle in their forward line so we will badly miss his aerial presence.

Big chance for the likes of Sludden, O'Neill, McShane and Richie Donnelly.

Highly doubt frank will get start in such a crucial position on his debut. Hugh pat into the corner with aidy coming out, or else sludden coming straight in for who ever injured. Meyler to start for me instead of sludden

Mickey doesn't have any qualms about throwing young lads in at the deep end.

If Justy and Rory Brennan are struggling with injury I would not be surprised to see Frank Burns given a baptism of fire at no  6.

Donegal are very average these days. Fermanagh way better on the line too. A Fermanagh win isn't going to be a big shock honestly.

Really? It would be one of the biggest shocks of the year if it happens.

Not really. Seen both at home in the last year and Donegal look a tired group of men. Fermanagh are very compact and good at counter attacking, they can do what Donegal does and in some ways can do it better at this point. Too many Donegal men at the end of the line and with medals in their back pocket the hunger isn't there either. Don't rate Gallagher either. May win Ulster but that's more a testament to the level Ulster is at than an endorsement of Donegal who are no where in the race for Sam.

The level Ulster is at is that 6 of their 9 teams have reached All Ireland quarter finals in the past three seasons.

2013 - Donegal, Tyrone, Monaghan and Cavan
2014 - Donegal, Monaghan and Armagh
2015 - Donegal, Tyrone, Monaghan and Fermanagh.

Every county is guaranteed one team in the last 8 which means there are 4 spots up for grabs ever year and Ulster has claimed more of those spots than the other three provinces combined in that time.

It is the provincial leader by an absolute mile, that's the level Ulster is at.

Very strange the inferiority complex Tyrone supporters seem to have with regard to Derry... not strange actually very amusing!

We have possibly our worst team since the early 80s, and Tyrone have their best team since 2008 yet all any Tyrone man I speak to can say is "Aye but it's Celtic Park and it's Derry it's not going to be that simple".

My own opinion is that we'll do well to keep it within double figures. Don't get me wrong I love Derry and I wish the lads the best of luck and I'll eat humble pie should it happen but I just don't think we have the players to compete at the level Tyrone are currently operating at!

I hope I'm wrong!!

You ran us very close last year when, but for three or four unbelievable long distance scores from Murphy and McElhinney, you might have won. I know Tyrone have improved since then while we were on the downward slope, but double figures?? Derry can't have regressed THAT much?!

From last year's team we're missing Dermot McBride, Kevin Johnston, Holly, Doherty (Our entire Midfield), Enda Lynn, Skinner, Cailean O'Boyle. . . The subs that came on against Donegal Benny Heron is out, Loughlin injured and O'Brien opted off the panel which is a lot to be missing from a team that didn't perform fantastically last year anyway!!!

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying Tyrone will win the All Ireland but they have Monaghan's number and I would fancy them if they were to play Donegal again but Kerry, Dublin, Mayo would beat them on any day.

From what I've heard, McBride and Johnston are expected to be in contention as is Holly. What's up with Cailean O'Boyle?

You also have a number of players back this year that didn't take any real part in Championship last year - McKinless, Kielt, Emmet Bradley and a few others so less of the poor mouthing.

We'll give Mayo and Kerry their fill of it on any day, if we had taken our chances last year against Kerry and had key decisions been called correctly we would have beaten Kerry. Style wise we are all wrong for Kerry and given the age profiles of our squad and Kerry's one side is going on an upward curve and another is going on a downward curve.

If gaelic football was art, the Leinster championship would be a painting by Salvador Dali.
The Ulster championship would be a CAD drawing.

The Leinster Championship would be a crayon colouring book with Dublin being an adult and everyone else being a child.

We could also have Kildare and Meath as mid teens in remedial class.

The upping in standard when the Antrim Fermanagh game came on was very noticeable compared to the Leinster matches, some hilarious scores in the games in Leinster. They seem to be playing some sort of hybrid tag defending, space everywhere, inside forwards winning balls about four feet in front of their markers, handy scores being clipped over by unmarked men.

In the Ulster game you had some great scores being kicked in the face of tigerish marked and confined spaces. Wee Pete has done a terrific job there and in terms of attitude and approach to the game they are an example to any other county. No fear, no respect, they go out and play the game the way they feel suits them best and they're getting good rewards in doing so.

Antrim were a bit disappointing, thought they would have given Fermanagh a better game of it with the players they have back this year and the decent league showing they had.

Corrigan is a lovely footballer, seems to have taken over from Quigley as Fermanagh's main man.

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We've finally got something to top the Mayo Mayo Mayo chant.

Niall McKeever seems to be blighted with injuries, he'd make a huge difference to Antrim if he was fully fit - was looking forward to seeing how the midfield battle with Eoin Donnelly would have unfolded today but alas.

You're clutching at straws, J70. Dublin have sapped away any fight left in Leinster counties. And they're in the process of doing the same to everyone else. Can you really blame them when the deck is so heavily stacked in the favour of Dublin? It's a shell game, one or two upsets are no more than a passing distraction. Nonsense talk that it's even those counties' faults is just that. Very easy for the ivory tower dwellers to blame the poor feckers on the ground floor.

What is happening with Meath and Kildare now is embarrassing, irrespective of how close they are to Dublin, they should be at the very least competing seriously at the business end of the Championship. Kildare getting a 30 odd point hammering from Kerry last year was scary. I think both Meath and Kildare have the players to be top 10 teams at the minute, but there is something badly lacking in their approach and mentality to the game.

Martin McHugh may have had a point when he said the Celtic Tiger ruined Meath. Both Meath and Kildare would have double the gaelic football playing population of any Ulster county with the exception of Donegal.

Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker.

It's as low an ebb as I can ever remember Down football, the quality players from years gone by have called it a day, their other good players who can still offer a bit are not putting themselves forward, they've been a rabble at underage over the past 10 years, a host of withdrawals leading up to the Championship, a pitiful league campaign.

Hard to see past anything other than a Monaghan win.

Tomas O'Se said Dubs have some 'scumbags'   if he said it about Tyrone there'd be protest marches, internet going crazy and McElduff writing to RTE ...

Tomas O'Se retracted his comments after intense criticism within an hour. If he had said that about Tyrone, RTE would probably have ran a documentary aiming to support that assertion.