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[Yeah, Im sure the young people today who go to the top games really look forward to seeing meatheads like O Leary and Mc Keever strutting their silky skills for all to admire]

"Yeah, Im sure the young people today who go to the top games really look forward to seeing meatheads like O Leary and Mc Keever strutting their silky skills for all to admire"...

A huge disservice to two top defenders!...And yes as a matter of fact there are as many kids who view O Leary and McKeever as their idols as Clarke.

"one word springs to mind when describing Martin Clarke - Wingmirrors.

He never wanted to know when players like McKeever or Noel O'Leary were marking him."

Cant agree with this sentiment at all...Granted O'Leary did a fine man-marking job on him in All-Ireland final 2010 this can in no way be attributed to a lack of bravery on Clarke's behalf. With regards to his tussles with McKeever (which have always been the highlight of the Down-Armagh games in the last two years), I would contend that he came out on top overall without dominating as he did in other games.

On another note I am looking forward to Jamie O Reilly's return to county colours. Plays much more of a ball-winning, ball carrying role than the play-making role Clarke excelled at but a welcome addition to the squad.

[there was never a future for him in Ireland]

"Fair play to him to make the most of his talent and earn a few pound from it, there was never a future for him in Ireland when he didn't go on to third level education to gain a degree or teaching qualification that he will need when the AFL has finished with him."

This is funny...

Ripe old age of 23...9a's at GCSE, 3a's at A-Level...The fella was doomed!!...

As a Castlewellan poster I would have to agree MDG, bit cowardly of Pauly2 to slate any player like that behind an internet username. Incidentally, What do you think of Anthony Devlin as a footballer Pauly2?...Personally I think he would surely be in the top 10 players over the last 10 years in division 1 and has had a huge part to play in the upturn in Kilcoos fortunes over the same period. Very disappointed in Bryansford on Sunday and Mayobridge on Friday. On the face of things it looks like Burren and Kilcoo could make Down club football a 'duopoly' over the next while.

It really annoys me when posters give marty stick so blindly. Of course he should never be immune to criticism, but be fair and keep it on the same level as the rest of the team. He was by no means 'Brutal' or 'Awful' last night, as two of our previous posters have contributed. Yes, his performance was below-par by his own standards, but the reason his mistake count was so high was that while the majority of the rest of the team are happy to contribute a 7-yard sideways handpass to marty, it is his role to is trying to spread the play with direct long-range passing to our inside forwards. Inevitably this is will lead to more mistakes and dispossessions than other players, particularly when your playin against Dublin-the most negative, defensive team i have seen in quite a while.
Incidentally I wonder will the southern media go to town with 'puke football' with them.......