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It is strange how the media call Monaghan "Farneymen" when many of the players don't live in the Farney barony. That would be like calling a Coleraine person a SouthDerryman (Loughinsholin)

I see the king was in Armagh today, the same people who were singing Londonderry songs in Clones. There may not be a London in Armagh but they sure had a king in it today

I can see both sides of the argument to an extent but coming from a coaches perspective kids need competition. Some of the best days my kids have been at tournaments in different counties, provinces. It built up a great comradery among the boys, boys from different schools gelled at these tournaments and friendships were made. Never won a tournament the boys couldn't tell you who won it but will remember the craic they had together.

When it comes to equal game time in principle I agree, but you've children showing up for go games who rarely train, you can tell they never practice at home but expect to play the same amount as some kids who never misses a session and you know is down the pitch practicing flat out and expect to get asked to play at the tournaments.

Is that fair on the kid who trains and practices?

Training is a tricky one. Firstly most kids want to go to training and maybe they don't attend because the parent can't take them. If a kid doesn't get to play then they are hardly encouraged to practice. I say equal game time up to u-12 anyway and where poss give weaker players more time, especially if the opposition is weaker.

The parent can't take them!! 40 years ago, when the family was lucky to one car how did these kids get to training or the club? I can't remember my dad ever taking me to the club, which was about 2 miles or more away

My father said recently that there was no training when he played under 16 football in the 1970s.

The biggest shame was making all underage competitions become All county competitions. There was a real pride in competing for South Derry honours. I have a few South Derry medals in the house which are good to have given that it changed to All county in 2008 even for the B and C leagues. They also used to have playoffs between North Derry and South Derry winners so you could become county champions but also do away with having to make long away trips to North Derry as a teen.

You would think nurses didn't know that is was a famously underpaid profession when they signed up to be one. They are all the same with their loud mouth personalities when I was in hospital. Actually the thought of having to be around nurses makes me want to live a healthy lifestyle to avoid hospitals.

Derry technically never lost the 1997 Ulster final either. They scored as much as Cavan did.

Derry will top the group easily but we should enjoy our day out in Croke Park as we may not be getting to the quarter final next year without Gallagher. Remember that we are only in this position now because of months of training under Gallagher.

I can see a Derry v Kerry quarter final coming

Donegal v Dublin in 2014 as I was a gambling addict then and had £600 on a Dublin win.

I just noticed that The Sunday Game removed the scene of Rory Gallagher from the intro.

The first game against Down was on 30th May

The whole trans saga is pushed by feminists to get females into male spaces, male sports teams and bathrooms, etc. When it is the other way around their true colours are shown, when Male-to-female trans people try to get into female spaces like bathrooms and sports teams.

I'll wait for the illegal streams start coming up just like how I stream my movies.

I wonder why all the young women wear tight jean shorts do the big Derry games. Maybe they are tourists because they have very tan legs to be Irish women. Lots of make up too, maybe they are looking to get one of the players as a boyfriend in the nightclub after the game.

some sort of incident involving Armagh supporters and loyalists in markethil

The same Armagh fans who were singing Londonderry songs at the game?