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Tullysarron is a small rural club on the Armagh / Tyrone border, you need to travel a bit more! Anyway football wise (i stand corrected) but think they are the only club in whole of Armagh never to have won a championship! They'd good underage teams a few years back but appear to have imploded. Maybe theyre putting a big push on the B's as a way of getting their hands on a championship. I always put a bloody bet on them to win the Junior but wasted money (them and Dromintee but stopped that a few years ago).

The real final is Harpos Army v Ogs Pre-senior Post-minor Near-Retirement Development Reserve B Team! What about Clans - Ogs final?

 Wouldnt rule out Granmemore, if Armagh get knocked out theyl have big Toner back in. Also the Nab have McCone  back playing so will take a bit of beating. Altho Harps seem to be getting injured players back and throw in Vernon and Swift and theyl def make a late push. Newtown had good start but have fallen away too. Pick between Peters/Keady/B'hegan to go down

Whats this about Tullysarron hype? Surely theres hype about them evry year and never ever deliver, altho i believe young Comiskey is carrying them in alot of matches, if hes fit theyl could take Junior and push for promotion but I'll not hold my breath, i tip them most years and they falter at some stage!

Any more updates on young Nugent?

  Henderson for me just does not cut it.  ( i hope be scores a bag full on sunday and proves me wrong but i cant see it)

Henderson may not be Stevie but he adds alot more scoring threat than Mallon. Mallon does not do it for me in any way, i cant even think of 1 single match when he has ever run riot or even cointributed massively. Its a North Armagh thing where they rave about him, sorry dont buy into it and can count himself very lucky to be used as sub on Sunday never mind start. Hes been about long enough now that he should be contributing more, considering the impact Mackin and Clarke had when they came on in the league final. Hope he proves me wrong too, but id go with Forker, Stevie and Henderson, all capable of geting 1 or 2 scores to back-up Stevie 1.10! With Clarke, Hanratty and Tony Kernan in the wings

With leagues now underway, anyone care to update their predictions for league and championship based on early form (only for fun mind you, i know things can change)

Div.1: Cross - win the league pulling up
Div.2: Granemore - should just get across the line
Div.3: Tullysarron - handed out 2 big hidings to big hopefuls in 3 already
Div.4 Cross II - depends if seniors need a hand   

Senior C'ship: Cross to avenge last years hiccup
Intermediate: Hard to Know, Ballyhegan might give it a rattle.
Junior: Tullysarron - dead certs I would say (although see note Re Div.4 winners)

Here whats this about Harps playing Tullysarron in a challenge last week, with 8 of county final team playing, and only scraping by? Sarron chap telling me on Paddys Day, took it with pinch of salt

 Thanks wanderer. So when will this league start and when will the matches be played, in Mid-Armagh the B matches were traditionally played on a Wednesday evening. Who decides who the weaker teams are?

Definitely think this is a good idea, as long as the clubs grasp it. A proper run B league playing against teams you would come up against in the old leagues. 

Sorry maybe sum1 can help me out, i havent really been paying much attention to the board recently, but is this B league idea a reality or a discussion topic ie 2 section, North & South.

Ok someone may as well start it, Championship predictions for 2010:

Senior:-
Winners: Cross
Runners-up: Granemore

Intermediate:-
Winners: Culloville
Runners-up: Madden

Junior:-
Winners: Tullysarron
Runners-up: Forkhill

And before someone states the obvious I know it all depends on the draw as to who the finalists willl be.

 I'd like to extend my sincere sympathy to the McCann family, and to the Middletown club as a whole. A great loss, and puts everything into context when you hear of such tragedies.

 Good luck to Cross the Ogs on Sunday (sorry force of habit) 

 Took in the game on Saturday. Get the whinge in 1st, how do they justify £9 in? I thought they were trying to promote the bloody thing, surely a fiver would hav been more than enough!!

Anyway i thought it was a decent enough game despite the terrible conditions. I suppose you knew that it wasnt going to be a wee run out for eithor team when Sheehan was trying to throw his weight about, he was kicking etc at Aaron before the ball was even thrown in, p@*ck.

Overall Ulsters attack never really got going, especially O'Neill / Murphy / Bradley, although on good day they would probably run riot. Some reports had Hub Hughes playing well, but i actually thoiught he was terrible in the 1st half and very lucky to stay on, he did improve at the end of the match of the match but have to say he was lucky to stay on. Joe McMahon is real unsung hero, the workrate that man has is unreal. The intro of Daniel Hughes was telling, his pace really troubled Leinster.

From an Armagh point of view, i thought Aaron done well, he really is a classy footballer. McKeever, what can i say, the man really is suited to winter football  , although as someone else said id rather have him. I felt sorry for young Donaghy, he obviously was one of our better performers this year but badly judged 1 ball and it cost him dearly.

On an other note, the respect that the crowd showed all subs that were taken off was commendable, even found myself clapping tyrone players, good to see everyone buying into the whole ulster thing and not just their own county men.

Anyone know what the attendance was? have to say there was a very decent crowd and most people seem to have went away happy, although a liitle cold! 

[Frannie Hanratty]

Frannie Hanratty played well in midfield and played a delightful pass to set up Clarke for his goal.


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Is this the same boy that was playing earlier in the Junior championship? Does this now mean he cant play any further part in the junior championship? Theres a few defenders in the junior that will sleep a bit better now!

I do know that the players thought alot of him cos he stood up for them, and the commitee wanted to break the bond between him and them.
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well the way it was put to me was that anyone who was capable of playing football and wanted to play thought alot of him, the 1s that couldnt kick barn doors and who wouldnt get a game on a PSP liked him

Has Big Audi left Tullysaran or was he sacked or what?

Heard last night that he was pushed.

Dont think he was pushed, was more a case that the people running the club were constantly putting obstacles in his way, and he didnt take too kindly to it. Apparently theres alot of petty politics in the club and i believe he wasnt standing for it. I heard that he walked because of the way the club in general was treating the players.

I do know that the players thought alot of him cos he stood up for them, and the commitee wanted to break the bond between him and them.

  The Harps or Mullabrack chaps may divulge his name, but to see him giving instuctions from the line is embarassing!