This could rival yesterdays dirge!!
Wish we'd played that way!
Wish we'd played that way!
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Harold Disgracey on April 27, 2024, 05:53:33 PMAbsolute scutter and the ref is useless.
Quote from: rrhf on April 25, 2024, 03:09:36 PMQuote from: Armagh18 on April 22, 2024, 09:19:50 PMI Watched Donegal back last night. To say they blew Derry off the field is an understatement. Probably the biggest shock in football since they bate the dubs in 2014 and yer man was at the helm then also. Mc Guinness takes a lot of flak but I think he is a strategic genius and he has rebuilt Donegal again. Can they win the all Ireland. Id put them ahead of Derry at the moment who will now suffer from an inferiority complex with the teams who beat them, as they always do..Quote from: OgraAnDun on April 22, 2024, 09:10:22 PMDonegal have to be favourites for Ulster and serious All Ireland contenders after that performance at the weekend.Quote from: Armagh18 on April 22, 2024, 08:39:03 PMQuote from: OgraAnDun on April 22, 2024, 08:21:26 PMArmagh must be worth an each way bet. Likely to be top seeds having had some warm up matches to try systems/squad before the Ulster final against a jaded Donegal or Tyrone. They'll probably not have a better chance of making a semi or a final for a while.
In all seriousness, bar drawing Dublin I'd be very disappointed if we don't make a semi final. Donegal, Tyrone, Kerry, Derry, Galway, Mayo all very good teams but have their flaws, time we pushed on, sick of hard luck stories at the qf stage.
You have a serious chance of making top seed and then a 66% chance of drawing Clare or Louth/Kildare as 2nd seed in your group. Avoid the preliminary quarter final thereafter and you're set up to beat the hard luck stories!
Quote from: Applesisapples on April 22, 2024, 03:44:46 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on April 21, 2024, 05:15:26 PMTo be fair the BBC could not find why there was 1 black and 1 yellow appeared bizzarre, a big call that impacted on the game. Do you know why?Quote from: clarshack on April 21, 2024, 05:13:27 PMAnother example of Tyrone being refereed differently again. How can one be a yellow card and the other black?
Did you see the whole incident or just what we seen on the telly?
Quote from: Armagh18 on April 21, 2024, 09:47:13 PMTyrone and Donegal an interesting one, Donegal will surely not allow the Canavans and McCurry freedom of the park like Cavan did. And Donegal have better forwards than Cavan. Full credit to Cavan for dragging themselves back into that.
Quote from: SouthDublinBro on April 21, 2024, 04:04:59 PMThat's the end of that Derry team. Too one dimensional.
Quote from: RedHand88 on April 21, 2024, 01:37:24 AMQuote from: Truthsayer on April 21, 2024, 01:29:18 AMQuote from: Captain Obvious on April 21, 2024, 01:00:17 AMQuote from: Truthsayer on April 21, 2024, 12:22:39 AMQuote from: RedHand88 on April 20, 2024, 11:59:45 PMDerry were not serious All Ireland contenders ffs. They are at a level below Kerry/Dublin, same as Armagh/Mayo/Galway/Tyrone/Donegal.
A few facts:
They beat Clare and Cork to get to AISFs the last 2 years.
Kerry played sh1te against them last year and still bate them.
They won the league final against Dublin reserves and believed the hype.
I also really think the new structure hurts teams in Derrys position. 4(?) weeks of no championship football before potentially playing Dublin or Kerry.
My prediction: they'll get through the group by beating the guff but will go out at the quarter final stage to a bigger team. Questions will remain over Harte but he will get to stay and we will see the same next year, only a bit worse.
True though they were being mooted with Dublin and Kerry as top 3. That league 'win' (penalty shootout) was very overstated and hyped. Harte got left behind in managing a long time ago. Hadn't beat Dublin, Kerry or Mayo in the championship 2009-2020. I don't think that would
have happened to Rory Gallagher today.
Yeah something like that wouldn't happen with a Rory Gallagher managed team
https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2017/0722/892196-galway-v-donegal-report/#:~:text=Galway%20routed%20Donegal%20with%20a,once%2Dfeared%20defence%20to%20shreds.
https://derrygaa.ie/allianz-football-league-roinn-2-derry-0-12-galway-4-11-20-03-22/
That championship match was 2017 he'd brought them on a long way since that.. as for a league game irrelevant sure Tyrone got hammered in the league by Kerry in 2021 and took Sam up the road a few months later.
Mickey can't handle the big championship games... not in years...
Great man for the McKenna cups though! #champion #warratrophy
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on April 21, 2024, 01:10:27 AMStill think we issues up front. If McGuigan is held or off his game, the other lads can't seem to pick it up. Murray was good last day, wouldn't knew he was there the day. Glass was poor, but there were a half dozen even worse than him. We just have to see where they go in a month's time. I rather see McAvoy at Full back and McKinless back in the center. And keep a more defensive set up, as under Gallagher, and play horses for courses. Certain teams you should know there style of plays and what suits. Donegal today, you had match their style, we played way too open.
Quote from: yellowcard on April 20, 2024, 10:36:38 PMIt wasn't the defeat itself for Derry, it was more the nature of the defeat because whatever way you look at it that was a hammering.
Derry can still recover from that defeat because they have enough recovery time. But huge questions remain over Harte tactically because he was out manoeuvred yet again by Jimmy McGuinness. There was nothing overly surprising about Donegals defensive counter attack style but it was surprising that Derry seemed to have no plan how to break them down.
It's a good result for the remaining teams in Ulster now though as it opens the championship right up and Donegal, Tyrone and Armagh will all think they can win Ulster now tonight.
Quote from: RedHand88 on April 20, 2024, 09:25:22 PMQuote from: screenexile on April 20, 2024, 08:10:12 PMQuote from: From the Bunker on April 20, 2024, 08:08:14 PMQuote from: marty34 on April 20, 2024, 08:00:18 PMDonegal's day for sure. Were the better team on the evening.
But this day will soon be forgotten. Things move on. Derry will re-group and Donegal will move on. One game doesn't make a summer.
Derry will move on and are still a top team.
That also counts for the League Final. People on here were losing the run of themselves about a game Derry could not see out twice.
Who are these people? I didn't see anybody from Derry do that!
Did you not? Because I saw plenty!!