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[Clarke will be back]

Berf I think this is a very young team yet but a lot will depend on how they get on in the St Galls game.  In many respects it is set nicely for them in that there is very little expectation for them to do well but they have a great focus on for their first game, beating the AI champions in Cross.  The one thing that we like is a challenge and this is as big as they get.  Clarke will be back and the experience of Oisin and Francie will be vital but they definitely need more from the MF.  I still think they will struggle to beat St Galls but if they do that opens things up for them.  You would have to fancy whpever comes through that side of the Draw to win it outright with Burren and Coleraine in the other semi.

From what I hear bc, he won't be back for the St Galls game. He got 8 weeks for the incident in the Bridge, 4 weeks doubled because he was sent off earlier in the year.
On the game yesterday, it sort of backed up what I thought all year. The county team have never replaced the twins and Oisin so the job to replace them in Cross is even tougher. They're still a talented bunch but the Armagh championship is wide open again and I don't think Cross will beat St Galls (although the Ogs pushed them hard last year).
A lack of firepower hurt Dromintee with Miceal O'Rourke their only threat. A team with better forwards will punish Cross as even they can't keep winning games with 30-40% of possession. Worryingly, from Cross's perspective, without Oisin and Francie they would have been beaten yesterday.
David McKenna needs a good coach to take him to one side and teach him how to time his jumps (bring back Beefer and his balloons). Vincey Martin was giving away 3-4 inches in height but was timing his jumps much better.
It's tough on Dromintee who played well up until the final third of the pitch but in fairness, once Cross conceded the equalising score on two occasions they seemed to up the workrate and get important scores against the breeze.

Re: Clarke, from Armagh forum:

He will be back, wrongly reported somewhere as an eight-week suspension when it was four.

[K Carragher (0-3) for P McKeown]

Anyone got the teams and scorers from cross game?

P Hearty
P McKeown
P Kernan
J Morgan
A Kernan (0-1)
D O Callaghan
S Finnegan
J Hanratty
D McKenna (0-1)
M McNamee
S Kernan (0-1)
F Hanratty (1-0)
T Kernan
A Cunningham (0-1)
O McConville (0-4)

Bellew for McNamee, K Carragher (0-3) for P McKeown, M Aherne for S Finnegan, M McNamee for F Hanratty

P McEvoy
C Fegan
E Martin
M McGahon
C McGuinness
A O Rourke
B Shannon
V Martin
G O Neill (0-2)
K Fearon
Micheal O Rourke (1-4)
S O Neill
K Dyas (0-1)
Martin O Rourke (0-1)
O Gaughran

P O Hare for K Fearon, P Courtney for O Gaughran, D McKenna for ?

I thought it was Cunningham that came off.

Could have been, I just copied from Irish News tbf.

Heard there was a good muck savage thread. Gone now though.

Anyone got the teams and scorers from cross game?

P Hearty
P McKeown
P Kernan
J Morgan
A Kernan (0-1)
D O Callaghan
S Finnegan
J Hanratty
D McKenna (0-1)
M McNamee
S Kernan (0-1)
F Hanratty (1-0)
T Kernan
A Cunningham (0-1)
O McConville (0-4)

Bellew for McNamee, K Carragher (0-3) for P McKeown, M Aherne for S Finnegan, M McNamee for F Hanratty

P McEvoy
C Fegan
E Martin
M McGahon
C McGuinness
A O Rourke
B Shannon
V Martin
G O Neill (0-2)
K Fearon
Micheal O Rourke (1-4)
S O Neill
K Dyas (0-1)
Martin O Rourke (0-1)
O Gaughran

P O Hare for K Fearon, P Courtney for O Gaughran, D McKenna for ?

Micheal O'Rourke



Bernard Brogan

Elvis is alive and kicking. You can catch him in the International Bar, Lurgan on a Sunday or the I.N.F. Lurgan for the Monday Club.

How did Kielty keep saying Down got three all stars? Embarassing.

Thought the two of them weren't that funny really...

The dancing at the start and the end was a joke, not needed and there was some of them who were actually shit dancers.

Could they not have scrapped the dancing and shown a highlight package of the award winners? Even twenty to thirty seconds each?

Pathetic show.

My head hurts reading that.

[GAA: Down star finished with International Rules seriesDown footballer Benny Coulter has said he will not play in the International Rules series again.]

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but what convinced Coulter to return?

GAA: Down star finished with International Rules series
Down footballer Benny Coulter has said he will not play in the International Rules series again.

Tuesday, 07 November 2006
Tags: Local Sport International Rules Coulter

Coulter was speaking to the Irish News after Sunday`s fiasco which saw the compromise rules game descend into a violent brawl.

The Mayobridge clubman has now added his voice to the chorus of those calling for the series to be abandoned.

"I think they should call it off. I`ll not be back near it," said Coulter.

http://www.u.tv/Sport/GAA-Down-star-finished-with-International-Rules-series/2ab2e773-0be5-4883-9184-7898663944b0

Probably should have asked him before he played in the 2008 series? Just as well he did play too as he got two goals and a over to help Ireland win the series.

That's you assuming anyone cares whther any of them take part in this farce

Well there is 21 pages on it here already, people have been asking for ages about the squad etc. The stadiums will have thousands of people watching, even more will be watching live on tv.

Need I go on?

[GAA: Down star finished with International Rules seriesDown footballer Benny Coulter has said he will not play in the International Rules series again.]

Apologies if this has been mentioned before, but what convinced Coulter to return?

GAA: Down star finished with International Rules series
Down footballer Benny Coulter has said he will not play in the International Rules series again.

Tuesday, 07 November 2006
Tags: Local Sport International Rules Coulter

Coulter was speaking to the Irish News after Sunday`s fiasco which saw the compromise rules game descend into a violent brawl.

The Mayobridge clubman has now added his voice to the chorus of those calling for the series to be abandoned.

"I think they should call it off. I`ll not be back near it," said Coulter.

http://www.u.tv/Sport/GAA-Down-star-finished-with-International-Rules-series/2ab2e773-0be5-4883-9184-7898663944b0

Probably should have asked him before he played in the 2008 series? Just as well he did play too as he got two goals and a over to help Ireland win the series.

[This illdecide fella must be a legend]

lola you seem to have a lot to say about football for one who hasnt even played senior football. its amazing what knowledge and opions u get from being on the terraces. come on you really are related to illdecide who in the same position. lol

This illdecide fella must be a legend

On a serious note though that comment gets up my nose. Because i've never played senior football then i'm not entitled to an opinion, it's the same too when people say you can't become a good manager if you haven't played at the top level .

And i bet a good few here on the board didn't play senior football so i can take it their opinion means f**k all too

Not really, as far as I cold gather he was a mouth and Pints regularly made a wee boy out of him.

Was that the only match yesterday?

Never did understand why people try and post under two diff identities . U will always get snared

R u smoking the same stuff

Ok I will play along with this charade, so what club are you from? You have a very extensive knowledge of the Clans but you have went to lengths to say you aren't a Clans man?

It is funny that during your prominence illdecide has taken a back seat?

Well they're not going down this year and i've seen quite a few of their games this year and i believe the will turn this around and be up near the top soon enough. I don't believe the current management team know how to play this new team and they certainly didn't look the sharpest this year, with the right men in charge and a few of the young lads coming through the Clans will be back challenging for honours.

It's not just the clans i go to watch, i attend a match every week around the Lurgan area and have seen a good bit of the Tones and Clann Eireann too with the odd Sarsfields game and enjoy it but i have to say on ability the Clans def seem to have the more skillful players on Board but their management team don't seem to know how to get it out of them

When are you going to go back posting as illdecide?

Lolafrola are you going to put yourself in the ring for the Clans job next year? You did well this year with the B job anyway.