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anyone got any ideas as to who obama will pick for vp? if he picks clinton he cant keep his change argument going yet she has a very big gun to his head, she got 18m votes about 20 states and if she ran as an independant (not a hope) she'd kill off obama. does obama dumps change and picks hillary or try and grind it out without her?

john edwards could be a candidate. not sure if hillary wud want to be v.p. shell back him for sure but cud end up being a supreme court judge or something else

Anyone know anything on our Minor panel?

Bryansford won Ulster U17 title (Paul McGirr Cup) last year and are unbeaten in the ACMFL yet not one player has made the squad! Am I missing something here? And they all attended trials as asked to do so....

Cant get my head round that one either, Bryansford have some great minors as do Mayobridge who are also still unbeaten and there is only two from these two teams on the panel, they must have some team.
I think its the management, no harm to Dessie Kennedy but he hasn't got a clue, never did!!He wouldn't know how to change a light bulb never mind a game!  How do these people get the County job?? They won the all ireland with a great team and only just. Some of the minors from that year just laughed at him. Dont think Turley is much better.

he seemed to be blamin an average panel of players for the presumptive defeat to tyrone in the IN today, but in fairness tyrone undoubtably  have the better squad

[had a super game against derry in ulster final]

In fairness I dont think Colgan is the man for middle of the park. Id be going for Lynch or Rodgers, that said Rodgers has not go the physical presence that Lynch has.

colgan has come on a good bit, had a super game against derry in ulster final. lynch lacks pace. wat about grant at full back?

I was at that game too.  I would not have called his performance as "super". I thought that he was average that evening and not one of the better players on the day

people tend to scrutinise his performances alot more because he didnt excel from minor at the rate people expected, but hes a quality player and one with a winning mentality which can be lackin among the more senior players!

[In fairness I dont think Colgan is the man for middle of the park. Id be going for Lynch or Rodgers, that said Rodgers has not go the physical presence that Lynch has.]

I'd say that it won't be far from this:

1. McVeigh

2. Howard
3. Cole
4. Rafferty

5. Murphy
6. Doyle
7. Carr

8. Colgan
9. Gordon

13. Sexton
10. Hughes
11. Rogers
12. Clarke

14. Coulter
15. Murtagh

With McComiskey, McGuigan and Murney the first 3 subs, and Coulter switching occasionally with Clarke.


I'd much rather see extra men in defence, but if we have to go out with 6 forwards, I'd be happy enough with this team.

Tyrone are hardly going to have a target man, or play super-direct football, so Cole might get away with playing full-back. My major concern would be that Tyrone's strongest line will undoubtedly be their half-forward line, and by the looks of things, we're going to face-off directly with an extremely attacking half-back line. Our half-forwards will no doubt get back to support, but when it's the likes of Hughes and Rogers (and Murtagh) doing so, it's more for nuisance value than defensive expertise.

If Down can stop Tyrone stopping Gordon from attacking the ball at midfield, we should dominate that sector...in which case we wouldn't be without a chance. Our forward line has to be worth 12+ points if given half the play or more. No doubt Harte's number one plan though is to stop Dan Gordon.

In fairness I dont think Colgan is the man for middle of the park. Id be going for Lynch or Rodgers, that said Rodgers has not go the physical presence that Lynch has.

colgan has come on a good bit, had a super game against derry in ulster final. lynch lacks pace. wat about grant at full back?

did anybody o over to casement yesterday to watch either of the hurling matches?  big score for the minors. how do you think they will do in the final.

good to hear the hughes nd niall donnelly on the team, wer they playin?

anyone know the ref for the tyrone game?

if we all put a few pound together we Could buy Marty Clarke from Collingwood?

lynch is not up to county standard though we are not spoilt for choice of midfield by any means. we seriously walsh need to be on the team !

RE: mourne rover
downey was rather ineffective when he came on, gave the ball away easily on one occasion and earned himself a booking for a clumsy challenge