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Happy enough with the league this year. Obviously would have preferred a different result today, but a bunch of lads who have been at the periphery of the squad in recent times got a lot of game time over the course of the league, and some of those had today  their first taste of a high-intensity game with something on the line.

I think some of our younger defenders aren't quite at the level required yet, but I'd be fairly hopeful that today will help bring them on, and, as I said above, I'd be fairly confident that the old guard have another tilt in them this year.

Can't see how you'd class Spurs at Anfield as a difficult game.  Must be one of the most lopsided fixtures in England.

True, but you can keep on relying on them till you can't. We'll see soon enough what they bring this year.

Can we assume Dublin defence be much tighter in the championship? Derry could/should have 5 goals..

Can imagine so as they won't be retaining the All Ireland be defending in the manner they have done today. 

Unless there are retirements, the defensive line has McCaffrey, McCarthy, Gannon, Fitzsimons and Cluxton all to return.

Dublin are missing the old guard. In the build up the media said this team would wipe the floor with everyone. Now they are beat they are missing x y or z. McCaffrey isn't a starter now. McCarthy, cluxton and Fitzsimmons maybe but they are old and will they be an improvement and they haven't played a tap all year.

Yes can't keep relying on the old guard, just because it worked last year doesn't mean history will repeat itself this summer.

True, but you can keep on relying on them till you can't. We'll see soon enough what they bring this year.

Can we assume Dublin defence be much tighter in the championship? Derry could/should have 5 goals..

Can imagine so as they won't be retaining the All Ireland be defending in the manner they have done today. 

Unless there are retirements, the defensive line has McCaffrey, McCarthy, Gannon, Fitzsimons and Cluxton all to return. 

Fair play to Derry.  Fantastic game.

Birth of a rivalry  here.

Reading lips easier than I thought

Highly enjoyable game, no matter what happens in ET. 

Fair play to Derry, some turnaround over the past few years.  Wouldn't mind a rematch of this later in the summer.

Ah stop, clear as day it was a foul.

Might be a better venue for that question.

Yeah, that was him.  He said it wasn't, but the stylistic similarities, and the threads he spent time on (and didn't) all pointed that way.

EG the return of previously (at least 2x) banned poster...

Not much concern shown for the 100 plus innocent victims. Are there calls from international leaders to wait for an internal investigation to determine the outcome or is that reserved for one state only.

Sid Waddell?

That was a few user-names ago.  He's been back (and banned) more recently.

I enjoy the fact that speeding penalty points stay on your record for 4 years, but insurance companies keep them on their records for 5 years.. Nice wee additional earner for them

Don't speed and you'll be grand.

I haven't seen the incident, but there can often be a lot of daylight between what a person in the crowd, or tv viewer (partisan or non-partisan), can plainly see, and what can be proven.  Sometimes best to go with the lesser, but more easily justified, punishment.

UN rapporteur calls for imposing sanctions against Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcw9W2iy4pY


Also, echoing other posts on earlier pages, I think it's way past time for the thread title to be changed.