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[yet]

Decent performance and a lot of positives.  i thought the defence did ok with Duffy, Donaghy and Mallon being the pick.  MF worked hard but need to win more first time ball.  Swift was excellent, Stevie played well but he should not be playing anywhere outside of the 30m infront of the goal.  He is need there to get scores.  Come champioship I would like to see the team line out,

Hearty

Mallon  Donaghy  Mckeown/Morgan

AK  McKeever  Duffy

Vernon  Toner

Dyas  R Clarke  Padden

Stevie  Nippy Jamie

I cant see McKeown making the county team. Would the other Kernan not be in front of him?

Paul will make the cut as will Morgan.  PK is not a corner back.  He is the type of player needs to play centrally so I can't see him playing in the corner. 

have to say I don't see what the attraction is with Dyas, someone suggested playing in the HF line come championship WTF? I have yet to see him play well for Armagh

I think he's over rated myself and what has he achieved in club football to warrant a call up. A spell in Aussie Rules seems to be enough, he may well be a lot better than i think but i haven't seen it yet

Dyas does a lot of work that goes unnoticed.  I reckon he would be a very useful wing forward as he is good at foraging and can work very hard.  Also he can work as a cover for either AK or Paul Duffy, giving them more licence to attack.

Have to agree about Dyas.  Hope he shows us the potential he had a few years ago.

if the game goes ahead in Croker, Great!! I'll be there.

And I'll be joinning you 

I certainly won't.
I'd watch the effin Windsor-Saxe-Coburg -gotha wedding before this crap. 

Ah come on now.

The NFL is a fu*king superb game.

Give it a try.

Will they allow boozing at the game?? which is the whole theme at the NFL games.

So sorry to hear the news.  Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and close friends.

R.I.P.

No Jim McGuinness , Enda McNulty, McCarten, Tohill, Cormac McAnallen (r.i.p.), Ciaran McManus

Complete farce & we all knew it was going to be.

Basically its a list of famous GAA men who went to uni picked by old men looking thorough pen picks of old gameday programmes.

seems big joe is in the picture for the royals manager job. good luck to him

Good luck to him surely.  taking over a up & coming team.

Will he be flying there too??

Dwon aer fcuknig sihte.

Amrgha er birllaint

Ger Houlihan

After studying the game at the weekend,

Cork will win by at least 5 points.

Apple, after studying so hard, I am interested to how you came to your conclusion ?

Cork are a good team.  Better than what they have been playing.  They are a bigger team and are due a good performance.

Though, I could be wrong.

After studying the game at the weekend,

Cork will win by at least 5 points.

Time for Micko to go to the museum................this is a joke......

Lets see you giving any level of commitment to the GAA when you are 70+ never mind what Micko has been doing for 50 odd years.

A great man sure, but don't you think its time to move on. 

Hang up the boots.

Come to Belfast on Sept 16th and ask him in person as he is a guest at the Bredagh Talks Sam & Down Chat Night.It'll cost you a tenner.

Time for Micko to go to the museum................this is a joke......

Theres always one

http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2010/0730/kerry_down.html

This guy at rte.ie hasn't prerdicted one win all year.

The Paul Merson of the GAA.

Here is Paddy power opinion 
      
         (6-4) Kerry
      
         (2-1) Cork 
      
         (10-3) Tyrone
      
         (11-1) Meath
      
         (14-1) Dublin
      
         (14-1) Kildare
      
         (25-1) Down
      
         (100-1) Roscommon

Sur, what would Paddy know.

Kerry
Tyrone
Cork
Kildare
Meath
Galway
Monaghan
Dublin
Down
Sligo

Not so much 2010 rankings, but these are the top 10 teams in the country.  Btm 7 could be muddled about a bit.

[we dont have the players]

I don't see the harm in bringing in a few of those minors next year and giving them actual game time in the McKenna cup and league and not just having them warm the bench all year.  In fact i'd say there would be a great opportunity lost if we didn't have the likes of Grugan, McParland, Tasker, McVerry, Murnin in there.  If they're good enough why hold them back?  No they shouldn't be brought in to the team en masse and left to sink or swim, but they have to start their intercounty career at some point so why not let them start gettting that experience from 19/20.  It's not that young.  County sides up and down the country have lads that age playing. Tyrone didn't win the AI until 2003 but they had the 98 minor side personnel getting senior championship experience in 2000.

i agree totally. Some people though, think that throwing all the minors in next year will win us the All ireland. It wont. As you say, experience is key but not all will be good enough or ready at that stage. Some will, some wont - its the nature of the beast. And even when they are ready it will take a while before "intercounty" standard becomes "all ireland" standard, if at all. No offence to any of them because they're all better players than I, but can you imagine them forming a half forward line and challenging the likes of O'Se, O'Mahony, Jordan, Harte, Gormley, McMahon, animals like O'Leary, Canty & even Freeman, McQuaid et al?

however, whatever way it is approached these young fellas wont be winning a senior AI medal for a few years - we dont have the players at the minute and my argument is with the boys who think we do. Playing for the county at 19 is one thing challenging for major honours against seasoned stars is another.

Might I add, I am not belittling the acheivements or talent of these boys but just calling for some levity in our standing in todays game and the likelihood off a mass influx of teenagers, however talented, raising us to top 5 standing in the next year or 2.

We have the player.

They are not coached. They spend all of their time on conditioning and skill drills.

We have no game plan worth talking about and only a tiny percentage of training time is spent work, adapting, implementing it.

Similiar to Spillaine's complaint a few years ago about the Armagh boys spending too much time in the gym and not enough on  putting the ball over the bar.

Anyways, lets look forward to next season with some excitement.  I know I am.

Wheres the good pubs to go to in Bristol!!!!!!

Going there on a stag doo???