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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!

the american rule is that when a player transfers to a team in the states he is barred from returning to play for his own club for 60 days. when the 60 days are up he can return at any time and is eligble to play immediatly the transfer is signed back. ps i hope the transfer forms were signed by the harps. a point of note also the boys who returned and then flew back out to boston to play in the all american finals after togging out in the armagh championship 1st round had to be illegal for one club??? was it san fran or ? rules breach? interesting!

The 3 Harps lads who were in San Fran were still there for the first round of championship, they missed the win over the nab, so when they flew back to Boston they were still legal to play for San Fran as they didn't feature in any league games whilst they were home. Any participation for home club in any game ends the American transfer.

So I fully expect to see Loughran on Sunday, off the bench with 20 to go.

Any Ogs men know what time Loughran's flight in from the states is? He would need some time to get over the jet lag!


Anyone know when the last time a Div. 2 team won the Senior Championship?

Even if Loughie did fly back he would be ineligable to play (plus I wouldn't start him as I don't think it's fair on the boys who've busted their ass all year ) for the Ogs so I'm sure he'll be enjoying himself in San Fran waiting to hear the result.

Spirit word on the grapevine is a badly injured quad muscle any truth in this? If so its a bummer for him def deserves a crack at a county final.

Why would he be ineligible to play? Surely it's the exact same situation as Kelly, McCoy and McConville who were in San Fran? They came back to play in Quarter Final, just because he comes back later does not make him ineligible to play.

Have heard Ogs men referring to it as their "Johnny Corvan" moment.

Some new players for Derry panel. Just suggestions and open to discussion:

Joe O'Kane
Collie Devlin
Gavin McLaughlin
Michael McGoldrick
Gavin Donaghy
Blaine Gormley
PJ McCloskey

These are players that I have seen playing and know are good enough. Some may be unavailable due to travelling/not being interested but they have county ability. I haven't seen any of Loup's matches but Brian Doyle sounds like a good player. Is he good enough for county football. Also Paul McVey. Saw a lot of him as an underage player and thought he had great ability.

Absolutely nothing to do with Armagh Club Football and Hurling.



On the game, the nerves are really starting to hit me now I can only imagine how the players are feeling. Both teams have strong players all over the field who can make a difference. Harps have Holmes, McCoy, Vernon, Swift, Toal, Quigley and Kelly, all who would trouble any team. Ogs then have a very strong selection of players round about county standard/well above it like McCoy Rafferty and Duffy in defence, Moore, McManus and 4 Clarkes! Just shows there really will be an excellent standard of players on show this Sunday, as is probably the first time in a long time that both teams will go into the game with a full strength side available so really should tell a tale!

Any Ogs men know what time Loughran's flight in from the states is? He would need some time to get over the jet lag!


Anyone know when the last time a Div. 2 team won the Senior Championship?

Harps 1-12 Crossmaglen 0-05


Congratulations to the minors on reaching their second consecutive Championship final. Next Sunday will be a huge day for the club, and regardless of any final results I am pleased to say there looks to be a promising future for the club with most of those minors sensible heads who will stick at the football. Two years in a row now we have beat Cross convincingly at this age group, hopefully a few of these lads will make the cut and push the Senior team on over the next few years.

Congrats to all involved and heres hoping for a REAL Harps Super Sunday next weekend!

Good win friday night. Nippy, Peadar & Young mc coy were the pick of the bunch for me. SHould be a good game against granemore....

Funny that, I thought Peadar was way below usual standard and didn't really stand out aside from his goal. He then went off injured at half-time so I must have missed something...

I thought Harps were extremely lucky last week only for Clans poor first half (and second to an extent) shooting, Clans dominated the start of the game completely!

Any thoughts on team selection? Will McCoy start this week after getting a half last week? Anyone hazard a guess at the starting team?

I think Ulster are the team who have a few Harps lads out there for the summer, anyone confirm this? Don't know much about it just know we were a few young lads down this summer.

Is that a ploy of have we really got that many missing Candyman? Who??

cried that one in well.. 2-0 carrick

this game has late equaliser written all over it...

Liverpool haven't been beaten at home yet this season, Man United have..twice.

Looking good for the Pool eh?!

Wednesday 8th April 2009.

Liverpool 1 - 3 Chelsea.


Man United haven't been beaten in the Champions League in 23 games, doesn't mean they are going to win it this year.

Talk about putting the scud on the pool...

I hear Peadar Toal is no longer with the County Panel...

I also heard that he scored 0-10 against Crossmaglen in the 7s yesterday... Heard this in the club from an inebriated source, can anyone confirm?

From what I hear the Harps played quite well yesterday considering the team they were able to field... 18 players togged out, and realistically probably 10 or more who will only see B football once the league starts... After the performances I saw them give last week, wee bit more encouraging to hear the finger is out..