That's not too bad a draw. An extra week rest as well having drawn the Ulster winners. Toughest game out of the road first then should be beating Clare and Cork. Though Cork were decent against Kerry a few weeks ago.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Scoring Zone on April 29, 2024, 03:19:00 PMQuote from: trueblue1234 on April 29, 2024, 09:15:50 AMAm I the only one thinking our conditioning is below were it should be? I thought in the 2nd half of normal time, a good few of our men stopped making the runs that we had been making in the 1st half. Think new legs then could have made a big difference. But management have been slow to implement changes. Oguz A big loss in that regards.
Spot on - conditioning has been a problem for me for a number of years (since P Donnelly has left). It was never an issue when he was about. The energy started to drop after 15 mins in the second half and the defensive line dropped a few yards which let Mogan and McGonnigle hit big scores that help Donegal get the momentum back (as well as a few bad turnovers from McShane and McDonnell).
RE: the bench, McGuinness hasn't a lot of faith in his bench also as I think he brought O Baoill back on again
Quote from: gallsman on April 29, 2024, 01:21:58 PMHave always found Buff to be an eejit of the highest order. I'm not his target market but felt as if he'd disappeared for a while. His take on the foul restart was the first time I'd come across him in a couple of years.
Feels like he was going out of the way to be contrary.
Quote from: Mikhailov on April 28, 2024, 11:08:28 PMQuote from: square_ball on April 28, 2024, 08:51:06 PMLack of any sort of strength in depth killed us today. One enforced sub and another in the 63rd minute in normal time tells the tale.
Can't fault the effort and performance and probably should have seen it out in normal time. Once it went to extra time we were always going to struggle particularly with the lack of changes made.
Hopefully Meyler and Harte will be back for the group stage. I'd be expecting QF minimum and then after that who knows.
Our refusal by the management to use our bench killed us today. Yes, they may lack experience but if they were good enough in ET last week then surely they were today. To throw away a 3 point lead with 15 to go and then a 1 point lead deep into injury time was very disappointing.
Once Donegal went ahead, you never felt we would win
Quote from: gallsman on April 27, 2024, 08:13:30 PMDown goals were a comedy of errors defensively. There was some running and handpassing in the build up, nothing more.
Genuinely shocked at how much credit people are trying to give down. They turned up to play as little football as possible, and when they did, were largely terrible at it.
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on April 27, 2024, 06:40:04 PMQuote from: square_ball on April 27, 2024, 06:39:04 PMThat's a poor call there on Duffy.
That was a poor spot
Quote from: Gael85 on April 27, 2024, 05:44:36 PMHavoren poor on the frees.