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No mention of Nemo Rangers. I take it they would be the most successful club in Cork?

How would four or five men that fit be pulling up with cramp? All put on to waste time for sure. They were totally happy to settle for a draw.

played 2 mins over the 5. should that have been the case?

Absolutely. Newcastle wasted so so much time during injury time. Referee rightfully added it.

Serves them right.

This

Hard to bate an oul last minute winner agin the Toon 😎😃

That last minute goal nearly felt as good as the Alisson header to get the Champion's League place.

I forgot about Mark Lynch. He was some minor alright.

Ach we were well beat and the scoreline flattered us, but good progress made

Derry don't often win the Ulster title and it's  a good foundation to build on

They will implode. It's Derry. They always implode.
One swallow does not a summer make.

Tyrone only got 2 all stars in 2018, the year of the all Ireland final. It took another 2 years of mediocrity before the prize

It took a season of mediocrity to claim the prize. They were the best of an average lot!

Feel free to go and win it then.
The old Derry mentality always looking for excuses. For someone to blame. You only won it cause everyone else was shit. A county of excuses of bluffers. When you did win it in 93 they couldn't wait to knife Coleman and get rid. A bunch of spoofers.

Trailer, I don't see any Derry posters in these replies except for one saying we were well beaten?

Maybe it's just me, but with the number of false dawns we've had with Derry over the last 25 years, its difficult for me to go to any game in absolute confidence that we're going to win. I remember going to Longford full of confidence in the qualifiers and getting turned over. On paper that should never have happened.

We "should" win.
We beat them in the league and we've arguably beaten stronger sides to get to the quarter final than Clare have.
But....championship is championship and we're not a well enough proven team to be sooo confident in our ability to beat Clare in a QF.

If Derry have their feet on the ground and if we have no major injuries AND if Clare don't bring a whole new level to their game against us (which can happen at this stage in the championship - see Tyrone last year) AND we don't have some ridiculous bit of refereeing then we should win.
Clare have nothing to lose here, no expectation off them and so no pressure. It's set up perfectly for them and they'll see it as a chance to get to an AIF too. Clare should lift their game, might get the rub of the green here or there and perhaps get a favourable referee. That tips the scales back a bit towards them.

Lots of if's in there and that's where the doubt comes in from my point of view.
Still really looking forward to it, especially taking the kids to see Derry in CP for the first time.

Perfect post, I think most of derry will echo that too

Totally realistic. As I said before Clare beat Roscommon who thought they would win. If Derry have any complacency (which hopefully they won't have) they could easily be turned over after not playing for a month.

[it will be their easiest game of the championship to date]

Its a dream draw for Derry, great chance of making an AI final. Easy enough match for their players to get accustomed to Croke Park ahead of an AI semi final.

There will be absolutely nothing easy about it. Clare will be just as glad that they got us as we are to get them. They'll not have any fear of us.

Lets be honest, it will be their easiest game of the championship to date. I never understand lads on forums warily trying to talk up the opposition ahead of a match as if their opinion is going to make one jot of difference.

Roscommon thought it was their easiest game to date and look what happened to them. Derry are no better than Roscommon. If they bring their Ulster form and aren't complacent they should be ok but I wouldn't write off Clare.

Its a dream draw for Derry, great chance of making an AI final. Easy enough match for their players to get accustomed to Croke Park ahead of an AI semi final.

There will be absolutely nothing easy about it. Clare will be just as glad that they got us as we are to get them. They'll not have any fear of us.

Didn't they use to carry him into the Omagh GAA in a coffin as part of the act.... too young to know but heard the stories! RIP Rock Steawart

that's true - he was a great showman

A lot of the ladies thought he was creepy if I remember right but I found him very entertaining. He lived in Cookstown for a while a few years ago.

I haven't been reading the whole thread so I don't know if this has been mentioned before. Someone put a thing up on Facebook listing 40 or 50 things which made Ukraine a very very resource rich country. Just wondering if it was exaggerated. Some of their housing doesn't look that powerful but then there are poor areas in every country.

Kilcoo missed so much stuff in the first 15 minutes. They shouldn't have needed the flukey goal to keep them in it. Fair play to them for their never say die attitude. When Kilmacud went two points ahead I was so sure it was over.

As good as Kilcoo are I think their negativity may cost them in the end, probably Kilmacud will beat them in the final.

Definitely looked like Derrygonnelly were the more negative team today and the game was over at half time because of it.

I've a close relative in the infectious diseases field, and they say that nasal swabbing is proving inadequate when it comes to testing for Omicron.

Throat swabbing may start to be incorporated for rapid tests as its more likely to detect it early on. Apparently Omicron affects the throat and renders the patient infectious a couple of days before it moves to the nose.

Not sure what that will mean for home testing though.

I got a home testing kit from Boots yesterday and the chemist said it was only to be used in both nostrils. I thought this was something new as I had previously only seen kits where you swabbed the back of your throat as well as the nostril,  You reckon this would be a step back instead?

I had a bad feeling about this one. Leicester were out to restore pride. They played and defended well for the whole 90 minutes. Even City wouldn't have wiped the floor with them tonight.

Not that i'm too worried about this but has anyone got a booster that is different from their first 2, eg Pfizer first 2 and moderna the booster?

Just wondering

All the same, though my wife is getting a different booster next week... lucky girl 

My two jabs were Astra Zenica and my booster was the Pfizer. No ill effects so far.