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GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by AnDúnAbú94 - Today at 09:05:00 PM

Some people on here would want to wise up a small bit. That game was a team early in their development setting up to exploit a much better team's weaknesses. And they nearly succeeded. Not every game is going to be a classic, there'll be some boring games to watch. We're the only sport in the world where every boring game is met by calls for rule changes. If Tyrone Donegal is brilliant tomorrow, the same people will be on about how much they enjoyed it. Leave the rules alone and let the sport develop ffs.

[They turned up to play as little football as possible]

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GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by tbrick18 - Today at 09:03:50 PM

Down goals were a comedy of errors defensively. There was some running and handpassing in the build up, nothing more.

Genuinely shocked at how much credit people are trying to give down. They turned up to play as little football as possible, and when they did, were largely terrible at it.

Down turned up with tactics to keep Armagh out. What should they have done? Gone man-to-man for a spectacle? That statement in bold is a nonsense comment.
Down defended their goal, Donegal did that last week but had a kickout tactic and broke at pace - which won them the game. That's since been lauded as a tactical masterclass as Donegal got the tactics right to stifle Derry's attack and get over the press.
Down had a tactic of stifling the Armagh attack and then run at them at pace - it almost worked. A better team using the same tactic will beat Armagh as they can't cope with pace at the back.
Just my opinion.

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General discussion / Re: The far right

Last post by reddgnhand - Today at 09:02:03 PM

There was over 20000 foreigners armed to the teeth in the north for years don't remember any of these far right groups about then.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Footba...

Last post by downtothecore - Today at 08:57:47 PM

Beat by 1 or beat by 10, still BEAT

We were expected to get beat by 10 by most people and we should have won and in the process gave our biggest rivals a reality check..their footballers are no better than ours. Next year we can fully expect to turn them over.

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General discussion / Re: Things that make you go Wh...

Last post by seafoid - Today at 08:45:05 PM

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0427/1446053-sunak-rwanda/

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said claims the Rwanda plan is causing an influx of migrants into Ireland show its deterrent effect is working.

"The deterrent is ... already having an impact because people are worried about coming [to the UK]," the Prime Minister said.

It comes after Tánaiste Micheál Martin said the UK's asylum policy is driving migrants in fear of being deported to Rwanda across the border from Northern Ireland into the Republic.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0427/1446053-sunak-rwanda/Emergency laws will be brought to Cabinet on Tuesday to enable the Government to send asylum seekers back to the UK.

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee is expected to discuss a new returns policy with her British counterpart when she visits London on Monday.

Earlier this week the Minister said that 80% of recent International Protection applicants arriving here came from the UK, via the land border with Northern Ireland.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Footba...

Last post by sdg - Today at 08:41:36 PM

Beat by 1 or beat by 10, still BEAT

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Footba...

Last post by guevara - Today at 08:39:42 PM

If anyone leaves clones today thinking we haven't progressed in the last 2 years then they need their head read.

If that is progress then we are doomed. Two very fortunate goals kept us in it.

An intercounty player who can't kick the ball over the bar from 25 metres out summed it up.

Having the ball on yheir '21 and going back to our goalkeeper when we were behind. We can't kick pass and are petrified of making a mistake.

[Genuinely shocked at how much credit people are trying to give down. They turned up to play as little football as possible, and when they did, were largely terrible at it.]

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GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 08:38:24 PM

Down goals were a comedy of errors defensively. There was some running and handpassing in the build up, nothing more.

Genuinely shocked at how much credit people are trying to give down. They turned up to play as little football as possible, and when they did, were largely terrible at it.

Agree with that, they setup to make sure armagh couldn't play, and were aiming for a smash and grab, which they nearly got.  Some alright passages of play to be fair, but as a whole they weren't good

Armagh were brutal too

I wouldn't butter that display up with Down were negative and that's why blah blah..

Teams set up against Dublin most games to dull it down..

It's how you get past that tactic and Armagh were found wanting for 70 minutes

[Genuinely shocked at how much credit people are trying to give down. They turned up to play as little football as possible, and when they did, were largely terrible at it.]

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GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by Ethan Tremblay - Today at 08:29:17 PM

Down goals were a comedy of errors defensively. There was some running and handpassing in the build up, nothing more.

Genuinely shocked at how much credit people are trying to give down. They turned up to play as little football as possible, and when they did, were largely terrible at it.

Agree with that, they setup to make sure armagh couldn't play, and were aiming for a smash and grab, which they nearly got.  Some alright passages of play to be fair, but as a whole they weren't good

#10

GAA Discussion / Re: Ulster Senior football cha...

Last post by guevara - Today at 08:28:42 PM

Anyone thinks football doesn't need rule changes after watching that shite needs their head looked at!

Absolute negative crap!

Change it to what though? They've been changing it for years.

It needs something because that was pure crap! And do you know what? Some Intercounty Managers will have watched that and think Down played well.

You've two Managers  there on the guts of £80k a year....allegedly & thats the shite they serve up. Football has gone backward so much.

When you've an intercounty player unable to put the ball over the bar from 25 metres something is badly wrong.

What the answer is I don't know but maybe a rule were once play enters an opponents half you can't go back into your own.

You must maintain a minimum number of players  in the opponents half.

Scrap that forward mark!