Armagh Club football & hurling

[stew]

Nothing but pure spite frm the harps 2get jp sent of! Shows wot the ogs boys think of him by liftin him on their shoulders after the whistle went. County champions 2009 get in there!

Jp is a ticking timebomb and it was no surprise to me tha he got sent off again, especially in this match. I was talking to a friend that is a huge ogs head and he predicted that this would happen and he was correct.

Again well done the Ogs and to bc's point, get in there and win the Ulster and AI, they have the talent and now that they have gotten over the Harps they can relax and hopefully enjoy a run in Ulster and beyond.

[under the bar]

Well done to Pearse Og's.  Gives their fans something to do now instead of smashing the windows of opposing fans cars.

[winsamsoon]

Game was brutal by all accounts don't expect the Ogs to go any further they just don't have that extra bit of class that is required.

Ref had a decent enough game so no blaim can be apportioned to him. On the Jp Donnelly issue i actually thought he did well evading several attempts by harps lads to nail him. He was then caught by the last man and a melee broke out which the harps seemed to be trying to keep going but it was nothing really so two yellows would have been enough imo

I hope the ogs prove me wrong and go on and give the ulster a good rattle . Good to see a new name on the cup  but for how long can the cross be contained

[full back]

Brutal game altogether, not that it will bother the Og's this morning.
The Junior game was probably better and that is saying something

Harps just hadnt the quality up front. Did they even score from play?

P. Hughes had a decent game as well although I did think he gave the Ogs a few soft frees

Og's have a lot of work to do before they can think of advancing in Ulster

[Goats Do Shave]

paul mcgrane made his comeback, scoring the opening point of the game today in Newtown for Ballyhegan. Unfortunately Davitt's still lost 10 - 7 to the intermediate champions. Kevin O'Rourke score taking the difference. Need to beat the Bridge next week to stay up!

be some escape 4 newtown to stay up now.  would feel sorry for ballythegan to go down, think newtown have got alot of their points when teams have been going through the motions at end of season.  thought if balyhegan cant beat an already relegated bridge they have no one else to blame

Correct Charlie!

Congrats to Ogs - once again their defence was superb yesterday!

[illdecide]

I think the game panned out pretty much how most people expected it too, what is it with the Harps and 2nd half displays thats 3 or 4 time this year i have seen them and they have not came out for the 2nd half in any of the games. The Og's are very good defensively and most teams will struggle to rattle any kind of score against them, i believe the Og's would get more out of Ronan Clarke if they played him at full forward (he is one of the best full forwards in Ireland) and to me he's not as affective out on the 45 meter line.

The Og's v Belfast hoors, well i hope the Og's can beat them cnuts and if they do they def can win Ulster but for me St Galls will win Ulster as i believe they the best team there at the mo (hope I'm proved wrong though)

[winsamsoon]

so do i saan because i have Dromore backed at 13/2

[orange2009]

Kieran Hughes says winning the Armagh SFC title is better than winning Sam in 2002

http://armagh-gaa.com/Armagh-TV/News/Og-Power-to-County-Title.aspx

[brokencrossbar1]

I actually think that Ogs could give Ulster a great rattle for this sole reason.  They seem to have an excellent defence.  Ulster clubs are won by teams with mean defences and if Ogs can limit sSt Gall's to 10 scores they will beat them as St gall's will have no one to hold Clarke.  I also agree that they should play him on the FF line, particulalry now.  This time of the year you need a strong fcal point in the attack and by playing him in there they can play any kind of ball in and he will win it.  If he takes 3 scores a game and wins 3 scorable frees, which he will, then Ogs will win against St Galls.

[ogshead]

Just wanted to say congratulations to our boys. Unbelieveable, I'm so proud to be an Ogs man. On another note, I don't why but a lot of newspaper reports and a harps man on the radio yesterday have been saying that the Ogs were a breakaway club from the Harps. This is total bull, the Ogs were formed as a result of the popular street leagues that were about at the time. Anyway, the talking's over and the Ogs are champions. The billboard at Mickeys was brilliant as well

[mackers]

As others have said, the game panned out as expected, anybody who was turning up to see a classic was always going to be disappointed. The Harps "marquee" players had a mixed day when they all needed to be in top form to win out. Charlie played very well, except for a bad wide, and carried the fight to the Ogs all day long. Thought Holmes played fairly well, Nippy was causing a v good Ogs defence all sorts of problems in the first half but didn't go well in the second when taken out to midfield and Toal had a stinker. Best of luck to the Ogs in the Ulster.
V impressed with the Harps minors who should give the Ulster tournament a big rattle. They are a big strong outfit. There was more football played in 10 mins in the minor match than there was in the whole of the senior game with plenty of talent on show.

Nothing but pure spite frm the harps 2get jp sent of! Shows wot the ogs boys think of him by liftin him on their shoulders after the whistle went. County champions 2009 get in there!

Come off it Ben, what do you expect? If there was an Ogs man who had jumped ship to the Harps, the Ogs boys would've done the same and I wouldn't blame them.  There are certain things that you don't do in our sport and what he did is nearly top of the list!

[umgolaarmagh]

No chance mackers, the ogs boys have a bit of class about them, thats why they have fought for 10-12 years for this championship victory and always believed they could win one

[nashville]

Congratulations to Pearse Ogs on a very well deserved Senior championship, think it has been coming for a while, just a pity it had to be against us!

On the game itself, I just think it was a case of Harps being out-played by a team with a deeper fitness reserve, a tighter defence and to be honest, and it hurts to say, looked like the team with the far greater will to win. They fully deserved to win what was an atrocious game and only for some wayward shooting in 2nd half Ogs could and maybe should have won by more. It seemed that it just wasn't to be Harps day with Toal and Swift both missing 21 yard frees straight in front of the goals, for Toal's miss I think Kevin should have told him where to go and hit it himself, maybe a bit of naiivety on Kevin's part but his game will come as he gets older and more experienced.

Remember lads it took the Harps 4 attempts in finals in the 80s to win one, yes losing to your biggest rivals in a Championship final will hurt, but hopefully it isn't the end of the road, the boys really need to push on and gain promotion next year and who knows what could happen with a the championship, if we can keep men like Toal, McCoy and Kelly working hard at it with noone leaving for the summer anything could happen with a good bunch of minors coming through, there has to be some talent there you don't win 2 in a row without the ability!

As someone else has already said, I am still proud to be a Harpsman today and was pleased to see so many of our players were gracious in defeat, I noticed quite a few of the boys waiting around afterwards to shake the hands of Ogs men.

Congratulations to Ogs and all the very best for your Ulster championship campaign, time to show all those doubters in Ulster who for the past 13 years have criticised Armagh club football as being crap. Good luck.


NaClairsigh Abú!

[BenDover]

Mackers come out of it! JP never transferred 2d best team in armagh for nothing. As someone already said with it bein so close 2 full time maybe a good talkin til n a yellow card each would've been better. Is there any chance that red can be rescinded?           Hard luck yest umgola

[Rufus T Firefly]

First of all, congratulations to our nearest and dearest. Pearse Og were the better team and we can have no complaints about the defeat.

For ourselves of course it was a very disappointing day. Looking back on the game now I feel that a lack of experience may have been a factor and possibly a lack of self belief amongst our players. At half time we were hoping that the players would be inspired by going in level and realise that the game was there if they wanted it badly enough. It wasn't to be unfortunately.

It is the nature of GAA games to look back after defeats and try and pinpoint where it all went wrong, and there can be a tendency to look at your own side only. For instance we missed a number of relatively easy scoring chances at vital times, that could have put the Ogs under pressure, and left the game more in the balance. However, on the flip side, Pearse Og dominated play in the second half, and by my count throughout the game had twelve wides to our six - they were the better team and deserved their victory - simple as that.

For us, I thought Conan Lennon, Collie Holmes, Charlie Vernon and Simon Lennon were excellent, and I thought Nippy, Martin McCoy and Philly McKinney gave it their all. For the Ogs, I thought the Duffys were very good, as was Andy Mallon, Ciaran McKinney and young Cullen in the full forward line.

Irrespective of the result and the performance, I'm still very proud to be a Harps man, and proud of the effort that the whole squad put in this year! Hopefully this experience can be built upon in the future! Onwards and upwards!