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Ballinderry keeper was excellent in the county final, several great saves and kickouts were good. has to be in with a shout for the derry number 1 jersey

Derry team to play Armagh

1. Gillis
2. McAlarey
3. McGuckian
4. McBride
5. O'Kane
6. McGuigan
7. Bateson
8. Dohery
9. Patsy Bradley
10. Mullan
11. Mickey Lynch's wee lad
12. SL McGoldrick
13. E. Bradley
14. Paddy Bradley
15. Wilkinson

No place for either Barry McGoldrick or James Kielt

Looks good - plenty of options on the bench - believe Mullan is going to cause havoc in the Armagh defence - more convinced now - Derry by 3

Mullan has serious pace and scoring power and if fully fit will cause havoc, but he has struggled with injuries this season and hasn't enough football played imo. hasn't lined out for his club this season yet ( i think) if he lasts til half time itll be a miracle. that said Derry by 3.

i know im biased towards nuig but the character our lads showed today to come back from 8 points down (i think) at a stage to force extra time, then to have the legs after the game yesterday to keep motorin for the whole of extra time was amazing. you'll be hard pushed to find a better 2 games of hurling played for the ret of the season

They've done that all season as well. They could easily have lost a few games that they ended up winning. They've finished most of their matches strongly though.

Out of the 6 games they played, they could have lost 5 of them.  DIT hit so many wides and lost by a point. UCD were well ahead and NUIG equilised with the last puck of the game. CIT were 7 points up having missed 3 guilt edged goal chances. And that was only the group stages.
Sign of a good team tho, with character in abundance.

i take your point about the CIT game, we got outta jail there but as for the rest of the games thats college hurling. among the top colleges theres rarely a puck of the ball between them. In the last few years at the nuig hurling matches iv been at the vast majority have swung on tiny margins. if you look at the LIT game on friday, if canning had been on top form from frees etc i dont think NUIG would have won that game, even though john lee did an exceptional job on him

[you'll be hard pushed to find a better 2 games of hurling played for the ret of the season]

i know im biased towards nuig but the character our lads showed today to come back from 8 points down (i think) at a stage to force extra time, then to have the legs after the game yesterday to keep motorin for the whole of extra time was amazing. you'll be hard pushed to find a better 2 games of hurling played for the ret of the season

Sound, no point in watching any so.

Any football on?

Sure why would ya want to watch that stuff? id rather watch camogie to be honest! 

i know im biased towards nuig but the character our lads showed today to come back from 8 points down (i think) at a stage to force extra time, then to have the legs after the game yesterday to keep motorin for the whole of extra time was amazing. you'll be hard pushed to find a better 2 games of hurling played for the ret of the season

Who scored the goals in the Fitzgibbon Final i had a bet on a couple?

Morey got the NUIG one anyway. Not sure about the WIT one. Maybe Hammersley.

yeah it was hammersley

The first match was as good a game of hurling as you'll see all year. NUIG stuck John Lee on Joe Canning and Lee was outstanding. Probably helped that he knows Canning so well from Galway training. Probably marks him fairly regularly. Joe had a real off-day. He even missed a few frees he would normally put over blindfolded.

yeah canning was poor enough, he could have stolen it for them right at the end but he blazed over a 21yard free when LIT were 2 down. barry daly (nuig 12) hurled a storm at midfield

WIT beat UL 1-15 To 0-14

NUIG beat LIT 1-24 to 1-23 aet

two brilliant games, if i was a betting man id be puttin the savings on NUI to win tomorrow. they were just in a different class to any other team i saw today.

Full time LIT 1-15  UCD 2-9. The hot favourites go through.

any match report?

any match report?

Solid second half performance by NUIG  yesterday against a tough St Pats side. Galway just had too much class all round the park for them. Seamus Hennessy absolutely brilliant and Finian Coone reliable from frees and some nice scores from play.

my man of the match was tommy walsh, great scores and running out of him!