Armagh Club football & hurling

[ogshead]

every club has slabbers but ours are probably the worst. Its most of the older generation who NEVER praise the players no matter what it is just all negative comments . Every week on the sidelines its the same old shit . Shouting too the Ref " Take it yourself " . Even after a win they find something to moan about. Im not saying all of them are like that its just a handful who make the rest look bad. Anyway well done to the players for a great effort so far this season and i know you will see it through in the last few matches. Good Luck

I have never met a bigger set of know it alls than the older Clans men... Its a joke.

The conspiracy theories an all these fellas spout are unreal.

all in a days work nail!

Unfortunately. Does my head in listening to it. Did you know Joe Kernan was still managing Armagh this year and the Kernans refused to pass to Ryan Henderson against Monaghan when he came on apparently??

Thats the sorta shit they talk, I just sit there and nod.

It's not a conspiracy, it's all true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

f**k!! They were right all along!! Gonna have to start a thread on the main page about this!!

I heard a brilliant conspiracy story today that made me laugh out load. Someone was talking about the Peter Mc Donnell exit statement last week and was talking about the tactics getting leaked. They said that was because Joe Kernan had been coaching Monaghan prior to the game. Conspiracy story of the year I reckon!!

Wrong thread ;-)

Didn't realise there was thread going on but had seen that after I posted, my post only related to conspiracy theories and now I notice someone on the other thread is taking this seriously which proves how one rumour can spiral out of control!!

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

St Pat's drew with Clans in the semi final of the B Championship. Think it might have been 1-11 each.

We were 2 points up at half time, mostly from Kyle McEvoy's accurate free taking and a well struck penalty. To be fair, Clans probably should have been ahead at half time. They had a number of dangerous attacks but could neither take the simple point or manufacture a real goal chance. Couple of bad wides as well.

St Pat's played much the better football in the second half, particularly after Clans were reduced to 14 men after an off the ball incident. We were 4 ahead heading into injury time but gave away a stupid penalty and Clans got the equaliser with the last kick of the match.

Replay on Sunday at 2pm. Senior match between the 2 clubs is off.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

every club has slabbers but ours are probably the worst. Its most of the older generation who NEVER praise the players no matter what it is just all negative comments . Every week on the sidelines its the same old shit . Shouting too the Ref " Take it yourself " . Even after a win they find something to moan about. Im not saying all of them are like that its just a handful who make the rest look bad. Anyway well done to the players for a great effort so far this season and i know you will see it through in the last few matches. Good Luck

I have never met a bigger set of know it alls than the older Clans men... Its a joke.

The conspiracy theories an all these fellas spout are unreal.

i went to the Mullaghbawn Clans game the other week Clans far deserving of the 2 points, only side trrying play football.  I was by myself so just started talking to this older clans supporter, just about general armagh football before the game etc he seemed relatively sound until the ball was threw in.  every free gave to mullaghawn he was screaming in my ear then there was words exchanged with the mbawn supporters.  i actually left ten mins before end was getting a sore head!ref wasnt even bad!

Tonight some of the Clans players were slabbering to each other about slabbering. 

[fitzroyalty]

St Pat's drew with Clans in the semi final of the B Championship. Think it might have been 1-11 each.

We were 2 points up at half time, mostly from Kyle McEvoy's accurate free taking and a well struck penalty. To be fair, Clans probably should have been ahead at half time. They had a number of dangerous attacks but could neither take the simple point or manufacture a real goal chance. Couple of bad wides as well.

St Pat's played much the better football in the second half, particularly after Clans were reduced to 14 men after an off the ball incident. We were 4 ahead heading into injury time but gave away a stupid penalty and Clans got the equaliser with the last kick of the match.

Replay on Sunday at 2pm. Senior match between the 2 clubs is off.

Cullyhanna No.6 bit our player. Understandably our man retaliated and rightly so, though the Cullyhanna man hit the deck quicker than Philly Jordan being hit by a fart. The ref of course fell for it...

I have lost an awful amount of what little respect I had for Cullyhanna after tonight. Our players were kicked, spat at, punched and fouled. Right from throw-in this went on, with Cullyhanna supporters even getting involved. I am not as naive to think that we weren't in for a good hard game, but tonight was a disgrace and whats worse the ref couldn't even handle it...

A very soft penalty for Pat's in the first half when the mans momentum carried him into the area, though they maybe should have had another goal when they missed a one-on-one. Our downfall was missing easy frees and then conceding soft ones at the other end where we were punished by their accurate free taking. No denying we got out of jail tonight, mixed feelings as we never got out of second gear and fell for a lot of Cullyhanna's cynical tactics. Look forward to the replay 

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

How do you know that anybody was bit or spat at? Were you fit to see everything that happened everywhere on the pitch?! You come on making wild allegations yet the referee and 2 linesmen didn't manage to see all these mythical incidents that you are so well briefed on. If anybody from Clan na Gael had been punched they wouldn't have been long hitting the ground. There were 2 incidents in the match, one where a Clan na Gael man was sent off and another bit of a row along the sideline which I didn't see but again there was a linesman right beside it and no action was taken against anybody from Cullyhanna. I'll take the judgement of 3 nuetral officials over the typical whining of some Clans people.

[fitzroyalty]

How do you know that anybody was bit or spat at? Were you fit to see everything that happened everywhere on the pitch?! You come on making wild allegations yet the referee and 2 linesmen didn't manage to see all these mythical incidents that you are so well briefed on. If anybody from Clan na Gael had been punched they wouldn't have been long hitting the ground. There were 2 incidents in the match, one where a Clan na Gael man was sent off and another bit of a row along the sideline which I didn't see but again there was a linesman right beside it and no action was taken against anybody from Cullyhanna. I'll take the judgement of 3 nuetral officials over the typical whining of some Clans people.

Shock you didn't see that.

These aren't allegations, I was on the field of play, and I was spat at. I was also kicked off the ball... I'm near positive I didn't dream this incidents up 

I'll also inform you as to what happened when it kicked off at the sideline, beside the Cullyhanna bench (shock). Our player attempted to take a quick sideline and was forcefully stopped from doing so by the subs. This sparked the melee that proceeded, Cullyhanna were clearly the instigators yet in the end a Clans player was booked  Explain that.

This may come as a shock to you, but it is not uncommon for referees and officials to be bias towards/against certain teams. This certainly happened tonight.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

How do you know that anybody was bit or spat at? Were you fit to see everything that happened everywhere on the pitch?! You come on making wild allegations yet the referee and 2 linesmen didn't manage to see all these mythical incidents that you are so well briefed on. If anybody from Clan na Gael had been punched they wouldn't have been long hitting the ground. There were 2 incidents in the match, one where a Clan na Gael man was sent off and another bit of a row along the sideline which I didn't see but again there was a linesman right beside it and no action was taken against anybody from Cullyhanna. I'll take the judgement of 3 nuetral officials over the typical whining of some Clans people.

Shock you didn't see that.

These aren't allegations, I was on the field of play, and I was spat at. I was also kicked off the ball... I'm near positive I didn't dream this incidents up 

I'll also inform you as to what happened when it kicked off at the sideline, beside the Cullyhanna bench (shock). Our player attempted to take a quick sideline and was forcefully stopped from doing so by the subs. This sparked the melee that proceeded, Cullyhanna were clearly the instigators yet in the end a Clans player was booked  Explain that.

This may come as a shock to you, but it is not uncommon for referees and officials to be bias towards/against certain teams. This certainly happened tonight.

Not that much of a shock, I was umpiring at the far goal.

The most obvious explanation would be that the linesman looked at the situation, deserved that the behaviour of the Clan na Gael deserved a yellow card but that nobody from Cullyhanna had done anything wrong. Probably a similar enough process to what happend when Clan na Gael had their man sent off. And its a lot more common for players and supporters to be talking nonsense about biased referees than to actually come across one.

[fitzroyalty]

Of course it is cliche for me as a Clansman to complain about referees, but tonight was a poor performance. I think he definetely favoured Cullyhanna though seemed at the end to give us a few soft decisions to try and make up for earlier. The Cullyhanna penalty was a stonewall 13m free, was disgusted at that when he gave that decision. Also, there are plenty of biased referees out there, and would you believe it or not, not all of them are out to get the Clans 

[curvey]

I was at the game tonight and i don't think the ref was that bad, he got a few big decisions wrong but they evened themselves up and i think a draw was a fair result. Callahan's penalty decision was 5 meters outside the box and his momentum carried him into the box, the Clans penalty at the end of the match was a very harsh decision too so i reckon they evened themselves out. The Clans missed awful scoreable chances from free's whereas Cullyhanna's no 15 popped everything over.

Clans defensively weren't to bad but were bossed out of it around the middle and up front were brutal. As for the sending off he deserved to go as the linesman seen him striking and so did i, the lad that was sent off was bitten...thats fact but the ref didn't see it nor did the linesman, you can't send someone off for something they didn't see.

One point I'd like to know..........How the f**k can you postpone a senior match because of a B match replay.......WTF

[Orior]

Tis strange indeed

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

I was at the game tonight and i don't think the ref was that bad, he got a few big decisions wrong but they evened themselves up and i think a draw was a fair result. Callahan's penalty decision was 5 meters outside the box and his momentum carried him into the box, the Clans penalty at the end of the match was a very harsh decision too so i reckon they evened themselves out. The Clans missed awful scoreable chances from free's whereas Cullyhanna's no 15 popped everything over.

Clans defensively weren't to bad but were bossed out of it around the middle and up front were brutal. As for the sending off he deserved to go as the linesman seen him striking and so did i, the lad that was sent off was bitten...thats fact but the ref didn't see it nor did the linesman, you can't send someone off for something they didn't see.

One point I'd like to know..........How the f**k can you postpone a senior match because of a B match replay.......WTF

If you're the chair of the county board ya can do whatever ya want!

Strange one alright. Can only assume there was another reason to call off the senior match. Not sure what though - hadn't heard anything. Unless they want the B championship to finish on time given that the senior and minor championships are still to start and the u21 championship isn't near finished.

[fitzroyalty]

I was at the game tonight and i don't think the ref was that bad, he got a few big decisions wrong but they evened themselves up and i think a draw was a fair result. Callahan's penalty decision was 5 meters outside the box and his momentum carried him into the box, the Clans penalty at the end of the match was a very harsh decision too so i reckon they evened themselves out. The Clans missed awful scoreable chances from free's whereas Cullyhanna's no 15 popped everything over.

Clans defensively weren't to bad but were bossed out of it around the middle and up front were brutal. As for the sending off he deserved to go as the linesman seen him striking and so did i, the lad that was sent off was bitten...thats fact but the ref didn't see it nor did the linesman, you can't send someone off for something they didn't see.

One point I'd like to know..........How the f**k can you postpone a senior match because of a B match replay.......WTF

If you're the chair of the county board ya can do whatever ya want!

Strange one alright. Can only assume there was another reason to call off the senior match. Not sure what though - hadn't heard anything. Unless they want the B championship to finish on time given that the senior and minor championships are still to start and the u21 championship isn't near finished.

I heard before the match tonight that the senior game was off...don't know why though 

[curvey]

The sensible thing would have been to play extra time and finish the bloody match and then the senior match could have went ahead as normal, afterall we were playing in a ground with the best flood lights in the county.......F**king use them ya useless county board twats.

The replay should be interesting as the clans will feel they can't play as bad again and St Pats will feel they left it behind them

[lurganblue]

was at the match myself tonight lads and we were lucky to get out of jail after being brought down to the level of cullyhanna and under performing ourselves.  This was obviously their tactic from the off and it almost worked out for them.
Clans forward line didnt get going at all while cullyhanna dominated around the middle, with their number 15 scoring some cracker frees from distance.

My view of the sending off incident.
The cullyhanna number six was flattened by a late tackle around the middle as play went on with cullyhanna attacking.  He received some treatment and got up in a rage about the late tackle.  He then proceeded to mark his man and play continued.  I decided i would watch what way he reacts instead of followig play.  He clearly began standing down the backs of his markers ankles and then bit him on the shoulder.  The clans man imeadiately swung but missed him with his right then caught him with his left.  Clearly both deserved to go but the linesman (not the ref) only saw the punch.

I personally thought the ref was average but began to lose control towards the end.  The ref certainly wouldnt have lost us the match...

[JUst retired]

The County Chairman can not put a game off. It has to be done by C.C.C.
If you are going to make "bitchy" remarks ,make sure they are right.