Armagh Club football & hurling

[charlie stubbs]

Friday 24 July
IFC – 1st Round
St Paul's v Sarsfields at Davitt Park (7.00)  sarsfields by 3 st.pauls wont have the forwards to compete
Clonmore v Silverbridge at Granemore (7.00) bridge to struggle through by 2

Saturday 25 July
IFC – 1st Round
Ballyhegan v Madden at Abbey Park (7.00) madden by 1
Lissummon v St Peter's at Portadown (7.00)st.peters by 3

Sunday 26 July
IFC – 1st Round
Annaghmore v Culloville at Ballymacnab (2.00) cullaville by 8
An Port v St Michael's at Ballymacnab (3.45) st.michaels by 2
Collegeland v Wolfe Tone at Maghery (7.00)tones by 4
Keady v Middletown at Athletic Grounds (7.00)
keady by 5

[Goats Do Shave]

Saturday 25 July
IFC – 1st Round
Ballyhegan v Madden at Abbey Park (7.00)

That's a joke! One of the lads is getting married that day!!

[charlie stubbs]

Saturday 25 July
IFC – 1st Round
Ballyhegan v Madden at Abbey Park (7.00)

That's a joke! One of the lads is getting married that day!!

yous be missing many goats

[thewanderer]

Goats I'm sure your club has asked for the date to be changed or has there been no communication within the club? This fixture date has been out since the end of March. check it out!!!

[Goats Do Shave]

Goats I'm sure your club has asked for the date to be changed or has there been no communication within the club? This fixture date has been out since the end of March. check it out!!!

It's been changed till the Monday night.

[thewanderer]

sweat off goats, chance for a few neutrals to take in the game as its on a Monday.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

it depends who culloville are playing that determines what pitch they play on. cruppen played them on the new field at the start of the year but i think they played sarsfields on the old one. I would imagine they will play dromintee on the new field all the same.

i think the permutations leave it that not all the teams on 11 points can finish with more than 16 points so one more win will see cruppen and ogs definately safe, for culloville to catch either of these two they need to win all and cruppen and ogs to lose all games, which i cant see happening.

anyone going to watch clans and mullaghban, expect a dour, low scoring match with mullaghban playing almost everyone behind the ball. Cross will hopefully try to go unbeaten from a cruppen perspective as we have already played them twice. Worst thing for some teams is for them to play their "secong string" as these are all lads looking to break into the championship team. If st pats can stop the goals they should beat sarsfields but thats easier said than done.

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if its anything like cship semi final last year shouldnt be a problem st.pats where better all over the field surprised they have struggled this year to be honest as i know had a few good minor teams also recently.  does tasker play any senior football?

Our result aren't actually that different to last years really we've won 5, lost 7. Last year at this stage we'd have won about as many as we'd lost. Just a couple of bad results (Culloville and Mullaghbán at home and Cruppen scoring a last minute goal against us) and that fact that our managerial appointment didn't work out have put us in a difficult position.

Tasker's never played for the senior team so far, understandably so as he'd have been far too young last year and obviously Armagh minors come first this year. Would say there's a good chance he'll make an appearance in the championship at some stage.

[thewanderer]

Tasker is a good player but too arrogant and will need to mellow in the senior ranks before he gets the chop from some seasoned defender. im sure some of your own defenders will put him in check at training.

[fitzroyalty]

Just saw on orchardcounty a rumour that McDonnell has resigned...Not a reliable source by an stretch of the imagination, anyone hear anything?

[thewanderer]

See a debate on the orchardcounty into the possible restructuring of the divisions. This has previously been mentioned by a member of the county board and should receive some consideration. The idea is to increase the 1st division to 12 teams so as to increase the number of games at the top division, so as to keep matches going longer in the year. It has also been suggested that matches be played only once a week april, august and september on a sunday.This would allow some family time by playing games on a friday or saturday during the months of may, june & july and also attendance of inter-county games. It would also give inter county players more games with their clubs. To facilitate this proposal it has been suggested that the bottom 2 teams in div1 play-off with 3rd and fourth in div 2 with the winners playing in the 1st division therefor increasing it to 12 teams. This would be repeated in division 2 to leave 12 teams in it. Division 3 and 4 would have 11 teams each which would leave one having a bye each week but there would still be 20 games per season. what do you think? no point in wraping leagues up in August each year and sending our players to other sports.

[Carbery]

See a debate on the orchardcounty into the possible restructuring of the divisions. This has previously been mentioned by a member of the county board and should receive some consideration. The idea is to increase the 1st division to 12 teams so as to increase the number of games at the top division, so as to keep matches going longer in the year. It has also been suggested that matches be played only once a week april, august and september on a sunday.This would allow some family time by playing games on a friday or saturday during the months of may, june & july and also attendance of inter-county games. It would also give inter county players more games with their clubs. To facilitate this proposal it has been suggested that the bottom 2 teams in div1 play-off with 3rd and fourth in div 2 with the winners playing in the 1st division therefor increasing it to 12 teams. This would be repeated in division 2 to leave 12 teams in it. Division 3 and 4 would have 11 teams each which would leave one having a bye each week but there would still be 20 games per season. what do you think? no point in wraping leagues up in August each year and sending our players to other sports.

This suggestion would give 10 teams an extra two games and the rest of the teams two games less each year.
Hard to see clubs in Divisions Two, Three and Four agreeing to a situtation which would give their clubs less games each year.

[slievegullion]

See a debate on the orchardcounty into the possible restructuring of the divisions. This has previously been mentioned by a member of the county board and should receive some consideration. The idea is to increase the 1st division to 12 teams so as to increase the number of games at the top division, so as to keep matches going longer in the year. It has also been suggested that matches be played only once a week april, august and september on a sunday.This would allow some family time by playing games on a friday or saturday during the months of may, june & july and also attendance of inter-county games. It would also give inter county players more games with their clubs. To facilitate this proposal it has been suggested that the bottom 2 teams in div1 play-off with 3rd and fourth in div 2 with the winners playing in the 1st division therefor increasing it to 12 teams. This would be repeated in division 2 to leave 12 teams in it. Division 3 and 4 would have 11 teams each which would leave one having a bye each week but there would still be 20 games per season. what do you think? no point in wraping leagues up in August each year and sending our players to other sports.

This suggestion would give 10 teams an extra two games and the rest of the teams two games less each year.
Hard to see clubs in Divisions Two, Three and Four agreeing to a situtation which would give their clubs less games each year.

Maths isnt one of your strong points then. 10 teams would play 4 extra games, 14 teams would see no change, and 22 teams would play two games less.

[qub la la la]

duno what way that would work out. we've played once a week since the start of the league and an extra 4 games will make it a month longer. does championship season stay where it is? county board has aready made a mess of the u21 championship (again), which should go back to the end of season competition it used to be. Does the senior championships be put back so that the first round is in sept then? possible clash with ulster club games??

The number of games intercounty players get with their clubs will be entirely down to how far Armagh would go, obviously with a match every week then for whatever number of games armagh play the players will miss the club action. The only way this will ever change is if the county and club season did not run at the same time which will never happen. If you ask intercounty players if they really want an extra 4 games on the club season in the league each year i could hazard a guess that it wouldnt be that important to be honest.

[thewanderer]

not many mathematicians on the board div1 would then have 12 teams given 4 extra games, div2 12 teams same games, div3 & 4 would have 11 teams leaving 2 less games. correct about the county board not being able to organise a piss up in a brewery. A fulltime secretary and fulltime assistant and they cant even produce weekly league tables and as for the web-site never up to date for fixtures or results. If they worked for a private company they would be out of a job a long time ago.

[slievegullion]

not many mathematicians on the board div1 would then have 12 teams given 4 extra games, div2 12 teams same games, div3 & 4 would have 11 teams leaving 2 less games. correct about the county board not being able to organise a piss up in a brewery. A fulltime secretary and fulltime assistant and they cant even produce weekly league tables and as for the web-site never up to date for fixtures or results. If they worked for a private company they would be out of a job a long time ago.

(sigh)

You're certainly not one of the mathematicians anyway.

2 of the 12 teams in any new division 1 would have came from division 2 where they would already have been playing 22 games and would see no change in the amount of fixtures. So, as I already stated, only 10 teams would have 4 games extra.