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Disappointing enough year for Kildare but there should be 4 or 5 who should make it at u20 level if they commit and apply themselves.

A good challenge will sharpen ye up.

Monaghan might be in the mix too.

AI between Kerry and Meath by the looks of it.

Going by the impartial assessment of the Northern Sound crew it sounds like Kildare have massed their ranks with (genetically modified) huge feckers, tried to muscle the Monaghan boys about, are playing with 2 sweepers and lumping the ball in high. However Monaghan's midgets are well coached and crafty.
Monaghan a goal ahead and now firmly at the vanguard of the Ulster challenge in this championship.

From what I've seen of them it is not an overly big or physically developed Kildare team this year. We have the wind in the second half but it sounds like Monaghan are the better team from KFM.

It's a wonder Syf didn't also mention his other mantra -that Kevin Walsh is a totally useless manager.

I've had my doubts about Kevin Walsh ever since I seen Sligo put up the most pathetic performance I've ever seen in the championship in 2013 (As a Kildare man I've seen plenty including conceding 7 goals). They lost to Kildare by a mere 13 points to 4 but kept 14 men behind the ball all game and only scored from play at the very end when O'Hara came on but it was a farcical performance to exit a championship.

To be fair to him he has done well at Galway but with the talent available you would need to be a fair disaster to not have them in the top 8.

Kildare can have no complaints after their gamesmanship up in Derry

I wasn't at it but I believe Kildare went up there determined not to be bullied like they were against Carlow and were expecting a traditional tough Derry battle. What transpired was that Derry had gone a bit soft and the battle was a bit one sided. Kildare should have got a couple of black cards but that is down to the referee. Mark Lynch was rightly sent off for stupidity.

What's that saying, its better to be talked about than not talked about at all?  I see all this sympathy coming from all sides about the treatment Flynn was at the end of and it was a harsh red he received, not much mention of the treatment Damien Comer and Ian Burke received but they managed to last 70+ minutes without getting a red even though I'm sure they were frustrated like Flynn was. No outcry about the 2 cowardly punches on Adrian Varley by David Slattery on the final whistle either.

You left out the punch at the start of the game. Why was that?

Because it wasn't a punch, yes Sean Andy grabbed his jersey and there was pushing and shoving but there was no punch

I seen a punch, it was no haymaker but he definitely landed a left hand. Cribbin didn't fall to the ground like Comer would have. It would be interesting to see the video from above the goal. Plenty of others in the town end were calling for the umpires to take action so I wasn't alone in what I saw.

It doesn't really matter 5 days after the match anyway.

Personal reasons. Off to Dubai to teach AFAIK.

Oh right, hopefully you get a decent replacement as I like Longford.

Denis Connerton steps down as Longford manager

What is the reason for that? He had them going in the right direction I thought.

Can someone point to a time when these smaller counties competed at the top level in Hurling. I never remember any Ulster county competing. The gap has always been there.
Same applies in Football. When did Wexford, Carlow, Wicklow, Antrim, Sligo etc every really compete?

It will all end in tears.

Kildare in the mid to late 70s were a top 10 hurling team, never made the breakthrough Offaly subsequently did.

All this a couple of days after 2 fantastic games of intercounty football.

I do agree that something has to be done to cut down on nonconstructive possession play but any new rules need to be well thought out and trialed before full implementation. If they can come up with something as successful as the mark then fair play.

Don't always like everything he has to say, but Eamonn Sweeney is spot on here!

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/brolly-and-spillanes-critics-sound-like-10yearolds-trying-to-persuade-you-one-direction-are-better-than-the-beatles-37141581.html

The gormless conformists in sensible ganseys with their incessant blather about innovation and motivation and sports psychology, who love the current game because it's as dull as they are, like to scoff at Joe Brolly and Pat Spillane's repeated assertions that modern day Gaelic football is terrible. They come out with that laughable line about the game 'evolving'. But most big football games these days really are terrible. Brolly and Spillane's critics just sound like 10-year-olds trying to persuade you One Direction are better than The Beatles because they're 'more modern'. Insisting that something is good when it's not doesn't make you a positive thinker. It makes you an eejit.

There are plenty of these eejits about here and many of them take the view they are taking because they support the teams that are currently doing well.  If their own team was out of the championship and their interest was limited to that of a neutral observer, perhaps they would develop a bit more perspective.

No other field sport could have produced something like the 15-minute spell near the end of last Saturday's Super 8 match when Dublin passed the ball back and forth (mainly back, not a lot of forth to be honest) without making any effort to score while Donegal made only cursory attempts to interrupt the routine.

I take it he is unaware of that Association Football game that is somewhat popular.

He needs to improve S&C and defensive structures, they have some nice footballers. Do they have much coming through in reinforcements next year?