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appreciate that bradley will get the plaudits but from an armagh point of view i thought mark lynch was immense and did as much damage as was conleith gilligan

watched england match last nite, cant see what the hype is in henderson and thought jones was the pick of the bunch
methinks we got the wrong guy

he played on the left he played on the right that boy skinner made armagh look shit

On another day he could have got the line for the cowardly stunt on andy Mallon   Again Brennan saw this and took him off

He kicked the ball of his shins, hardly a cowardly stunt.  Mallon looked to be going for the windpipe pincer movement which seemed a bit more of a cowardly stunt to be honest.

+1

Agreed. A total over reaction by Mallon. Those sort of scenes should not be witnessed. I would have been happy to see Mallon being sent off for that.

feck off boys
mallon had won a free kick and bradley decided to lift the ball and whack it against him,the game was over at that stage there was no need to do it by bradley( 

he played on the left he played on the right that boy skinner made armagh look shit

On another day he could have got the line for the cowardly stunt on andy Mallon   Again Brennan saw this and took him off

best team won-lynch and bradley excellent saying that stevie`s miss and derry goal game changers
brennan had his tactics to a tee-- good luck in the final
hopefully we meet someone to put us out of our misery

armagh team realy focussed on this, there is no complacency
really fancy us ,
ARMAGH BY 4/5

If Eoin Bradley can be kept quiet it will go a long way to nullifying Derry, I would imagine Andy Mallon will be put on him.

I'd rather see Brendan Donaghy on him myself although Andy did a good job on Eoin last year despite what Paddy Heaney thinks.
It's important that Armagh back up the last performance and show that the Down performance was not a flash in the pan. I still reckon that there is room for improvement when you think that our two main men (McDonnell and McKeever) had a quiet enough evening against Down.  It should be a good game (depending on the weather) with Derry racking up some good scores in the league.
I'd presume that Armagh will line out the same 15 as the last time.

agree with this, although I personally feel that Armagh will move on from Down, in previous years I would have worried about this game but with the feeling in the camp being positive rather than overly confident I expect to see Armagh in an Ulister senior final come Sunday night,

justchecking are u-16s free into this game ?

Derry by 5

At least.

This Stallion boy has it right. Everything points to a Derry win:

Armagh peaked for Down and sure Down are shite anyway.
Armagh only beat Derry last year because of Jamie Clarke's disgraceful push on Kevin McGuckin.
Derry beat Armagh easily the last time the teams met in Clones.
Derry are dying to stick two fingers up at the world and the Ulster Council for making them go allllllllll the way to Clones for this game.
Derry probably have the best manager in Ulster, if not the country. Armagh's manager is useless and if it wasn't for Oisin McConville and Paul McGrane they wouldn't even being playing this game.
Armagh don't have many good forwards, especially with Ronan Clarke, Gareth Swift and Ger Houlihan unavailable.

definitely agree with this in fact why should armagh turn up  we will get stuffed, everything points to a derry win

Don't agree with those odds at all.

We have lost our best defender and best forward to injury (Gerard O'Kane and Paddy B) and our best midfielder (Fergal Doherty) can't commit this year.

Throw in our semi-final record against Armaghs, the strength of our quarter final victory against Armaghs, and those odds are miserly for a Derry punt.

The one hope clung to is this mystical 'Brennan Factor'. I will be very surprised if we turn Armagh over (not shocked though)

2/1 for Derry would be more like it.

is gerard o kane injured

Really can't fathom this decision at all.  Surely the Ulster Council are supposed to try to maximise attendances/revenue at the games.  This will definitely impact on the attendance.

maybe its to do with paying 20% of the takings in vat to HMRC whilst not paying any vat in the south

A lot of people both Armagh and Down who went to the game have said that they expect Armagh to lose to Derry. I have to say I don't see it myself but then again I am not familiar with Derry this season.

Paul most of the guys i have been speaking to think we will go to an Ulster final, I for one can`t see us losing to Derry but it will be tough. The down game has taken these guys on a fair way not just in the manner of the victory but the belief that they are a decent side (which a lot didnt have )
Training is really on the up 

37 pages on 1 game of football. An Ulster first round game. Jaysus Christ it wasnt that exciting

Still, the Armagh / Tyrone stranglehold on Ulster looks set to carry on this season too

Sorry Sammy for Armagh people who were expecting a hiding it was that exciting

That was a great game to watch.

Thought Down were very flat and will improve. Armagh are limited but played their wee hearts out. I'd imagine Down would hammer them if they meet in August.

You boys will see them in august in the back door after we come out of ulster
Keep knocking us

Feel quite confident that the orchard will do the biz tonite