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It should be an interesting Super 8s.

A shame Mayo didn't make it really. Dublin will definitely come out of the Super 8s but I think you could say 6 of the other 7 will certainly fancy their chances of progressing. I just think Roscommon are there to make up the numbers and look to be physically a long way off the other three teams.

If Monaghan win today, as expected, then you have a very interesting group. Monaghan are a seasoned Div 1 side, Galway are progressing, Kerry have a lot of exciting forwards and Kildare have momentum in their favour. None of the four sides should have reason to fear the other as there is not a great deal between him.

I think it will be between us and Donegal for the 2nd place in our group.

7 of the 8 teams played in Div 1 this year and the only team from Div 1 who didn't make it were eliminated by another Div 1 side.

You've been exposed. By rights you should be banned again for making a second account to circumvent your permanent ban. Mods?

I should be banned for dismissing Roscommon?

Aren't you a sensitive wee soul, maybe run along now and stop diluting from the football discussion with your nonsense.

It should be an interesting Super 8s.

A shame Mayo didn't make it really. Dublin will definitely come out of the Super 8s but I think you could say 6 of the other 7 will certainly fancy their chances of progressing. I just think Roscommon are there to make up the numbers and look to be physically a long way off the other three teams.

If Monaghan win today, as expected, then you have a very interesting group. Monaghan are a seasoned Div 1 side, Galway are progressing, Kerry have a lot of exciting forwards and Kildare have momentum in their favour. None of the four sides should have reason to fear the other as there is not a great deal between him.

I think it will be between us and Donegal for the 2nd place in our group.

7 of the 8 teams played in Div 1 this year and the only team from Div 1 who didn't make it were eliminated by another Div 1 side.

A great game of football today. For the most part both teams tried to play football and it was worth watching. McQuillan gave a lot of soft frees I thought which made defending difficult. Towards the end i thought that bit if luck Armagh needed - and probably got last week - deserted them. The legs seemed to go and Roscommon deserved to win. Hopefully the lack of depth in the Armagh panel can be sorted next year with a few returnees , newbees and development of the younger players.

Best of luck to Roscommon in the super 8s. Maybe if they can beat Tyrone teams will move away from the defensive counter attacking crap.

I'd agree with all that Throw Ball. Roscommon played some great football and I'll be very interested to see how they get on against Tyrone next week. They've no need to fear them and hope they get rewarded for their adventurous play.
We died with our boots on. We played some really good football but run out of steam and were beaten by a better team. Roscommmons fans brought great passion and atmosphere. Could give dialled down on the booing of the ref at times though.
Fair play to Geezer for letting the younger lads at it again. We have something to build on but we have to get everyone back on board to compete with Donegal and Kildare etc next year. We need to learn how to cope with blanket defences to progress in Ulster otherwise we'll be in the qualifiers early doors again.

I agree i usually dont like to hear booing pf the ref but he was  a disgrace today. Gave Armagh some ridiculous stuff and in a tight game when fans see there team been rode there obviously going to vent there disgust. Thankfully it had no relevance to the result. The penalty decision was a joke and im sure when Joe watches it back he will be fairly embarrassed with himself especially when he see the first play of the game when there was a clear and obvious footblock. He had a nightmare and gave Armagh some pathetic frees even when i came home i watched the game back and it was that bad Dessie Dolan and O'Rourke felt the need in the studio to commemt on him favouring Armagh which i honestly have never heard before from pundits who never critise refs.

He made a number of terrible decisions for both sides.

Cathal Cregg got a free in after he elbowed Mark Shields in the face in the first half. He was lucky he didn't get a red never mind a free in.

If you genuinely think he didn't ride Roscommon in that match I'm speechless. Stop trying to draw false equivalence between a few anecdotal fücks ups at one end and a catalogue of them at the other.

I genuinely think he didn't ride either side and unlike you I watched the game objectively with no horse in it. The penalty call was a poor one but other than that Roscommon got the rub of the green with the decisions, the Roscommon no 4 spent his afternoon pulling and dragging out of Aidan Forker, he was pulled up a number of times for frees and wasn't booked yet I think it was McCabe and Shields who were booked after their first infraction. I think Roscommon generally got away with much more fouling around the middle of the pitch and were very undisciplined in their swarm tackling.

That's not to mention the time Cathal Cregg elbowed Mark Shields in the face and got a free in for it, when he was lucky he didn't get the line.

Rory Grugan also looked to have a good point waved wide.

Overall Roscommon were good value for their win but the referee did not impact them at all. Maybe you need to get away from an attitude where you expect the referee to pull on a Roscommon jersey because there will always be a bogey man if that's the attitude.

A great game of football today. For the most part both teams tried to play football and it was worth watching. McQuillan gave a lot of soft frees I thought which made defending difficult. Towards the end i thought that bit if luck Armagh needed - and probably got last week - deserted them. The legs seemed to go and Roscommon deserved to win. Hopefully the lack of depth in the Armagh panel can be sorted next year with a few returnees , newbees and development of the younger players.

Best of luck to Roscommon in the super 8s. Maybe if they can beat Tyrone teams will move away from the defensive counter attacking crap.

I'd agree with all that Throw Ball. Roscommon played some great football and I'll be very interested to see how they get on against Tyrone next week. They've no need to fear them and hope they get rewarded for their adventurous play.
We died with our boots on. We played some really good football but run out of steam and were beaten by a better team. Roscommmons fans brought great passion and atmosphere. Could give dialled down on the booing of the ref at times though.
Fair play to Geezer for letting the younger lads at it again. We have something to build on but we have to get everyone back on board to compete with Donegal and Kildare etc next year. We need to learn how to cope with blanket defences to progress in Ulster otherwise we'll be in the qualifiers early doors again.

I agree i usually dont like to hear booing pf the ref but he was  a disgrace today. Gave Armagh some ridiculous stuff and in a tight game when fans see there team been rode there obviously going to vent there disgust. Thankfully it had no relevance to the result. The penalty decision was a joke and im sure when Joe watches it back he will be fairly embarrassed with himself especially when he see the first play of the game when there was a clear and obvious footblock. He had a nightmare and gave Armagh some pathetic frees even when i came home i watched the game back and it was that bad Dessie Dolan and O'Rourke felt the need in the studio to commemt on him favouring Armagh which i honestly have never heard before from pundits who never critise refs.

He made a number of terrible decisions for both sides.

Cathal Cregg got a free in after he elbowed Mark Shields in the face in the first half. He was lucky he didn't get a red never mind a free in.

Looks like a Tymoan victory by at least 15 points going by their arrogant posters here.
How even dare we go out on the same pitch as those superman.

If we end up winning by 15 points then surely it wasn't arrogant?

I presume they bet Monaghan out the gate....

To be fair to Monaghan, they have managed a couple of victories in Championship matches in Croke Park in the past 17 years. Am I correct in saying Mayo are the only side in Connacht to win a Championship match in Croke Park since Sligo beat Tyrone in 2002?

[You've had a spectacularly easy route to the super 8s.]

We're very happy with our progress so far, Syf. Momentum is hard to beat.

Do you agree with Cregg's sentiments? You've had a spectacularly easy route to the super 8s.

Are you well.

An Armagh team that has lost about 10 key players this year and also has had to contend with injuries to other key players like Ethan Rafferty and Paul Hughes. They were also without Aaron McKay and Ben Crealey today through injury who would have started if fit.
Ah jaysis, you've lost the run of yourself. You pipped a team we obliterated in the QFs last year and outside of that beat a poor div4 team. You're on the wrong side of this debate, Syf. Familiar ground for yourself I suppose.

None of the teams Tyrone beat are as good as Ros.    Tyrone are the same as last year. Ros are not .

I'd expect we'll make lighter work of Roscommon than your boys did.

First time I have seen Cork live in person for a number of years. I can't understand how a side with their pick and tradition can be so woeful now.

Cork were completely disinterested.

I would have said uninterested!

Tyrone impressive, maybe it's my imagination, but they seem to have more proper ball players this year, like the years when they were champs.

Not really much of a change in personnel this year, certainly having McAliskey back from injury is a good thing. We do seem to be leaving more players forward and Frank Burns is having a super year.


I don't think we're playing anywhere near as well as we were this time last year but on the plus side I think we are less one dimensional than last year.

We were horrible in the first half but really pushed on at the start of the second half and finished the game swiftly.

Colm Cavanagh, Harte and Sludden were all excellent, encouraging to see Harte back to form after a poor 2018 to date. Good to see Bradley back and I think we needed a comprehensive win to regain a bit of confidence in the qualifiers.

Thought Rory Brennan looked very sharp when he came on.

Mattie had a very quite game.

Clares fitness levels were just not good enough yesterday, if they were anyway near what would be acceptable from a team playing at this stage of the championship Armagh would be out.

Did you see the game?

So the big 3 are now Dublin, Kerry and Galway.
Maybe we should just let them play a Super 3!.
It would avoid some awful takings which we'll get with 8.
Armagh, Fermanagh, Laois are awful.
Cork not much better
Ros, Monaghan, Kildare middlin.
Donegal and Tyrone -remains to be seen.

How much of Armagh have you actually seen this year?

Just to let Rosfan know Armagh,Fermanagh are as good as any team in Division two this year so if Armagh,Fermanagh are awful then so to was all of the Division two teams this year.

On what basis are Armagh as good as any D2 team?

On the basis teams from Div 2 this year are very average.

[btw, why are you always such a tool]

Diarmuid O'Connor's performance yesterday was one of the greatest in defeat in recent years.

Christ.

His performance yesterday was just off the charts, he was incredible.
btw, why are you always such a tool

The irony.

DOC played well but what I quoted is incredible hyperbole. For how well he played, Mayo's midfield  collapsed for much of the final 15 minutes yesterday.

"one of the greatest in defeat in recent years". Where's the hyperbole? Name a half dozen more that you can think of and I might reassess my post.

Until then, your disagreement, as usual, only strengthens the point.

You're not as good at ripostes as you seem to think you are. A bit like Tubberman. But that level of silly, bad-faith discussion is common here.

I can think of plenty of fantastic performances in defeat the last 12 months alone. Tom Parsons in the Galway match. Diarmuid Murtagh in the Connacht final. Andy Moran in the AI final. Sean Powter against Mayo. Paul Geaney against Mayo, both times. Ffs, Graham Brody against Dublin last week. I could name more if I was bothered.

DOC's performance fits comfortably with those performances but it doesn't comfortably outshine most of them. Invariably in a halfways tight game there is someone on the losing side who has put in an excellent performance so the list is always going to be long.

What you said was hyperbole. It's that simple. You'd be better served just putting your hands up and saying you went overboard than doubling down and running after the poster with an ad hominem attack.

Diarmuid Murtagh in the Connacht final? He disappeared in the second half as his side failed to score from play, collapsed and lost.

Lolzers.

To be fair to Diarmuid O'Connor yesterday, he ran himself into the ground, a performance of real leadership.

Only one?
Only competitive Provincial Final?

Roscommon played one Div 4 side to reach a provincial final.

Fermanagh knocked out Armagh and Monaghan to get there.

Why should we play any Ulater team in their own backyard..
Ros v any Ulster team - Castlebar.

Kildare will be sent to Navan to see what a real big Stadium looks like.
Cork's game will be as near the oppositions border as possible as the 6 Cork fans don't mind where they go.

Sure they might as well just play it in Roscommon, do you want the Ulster sides to play the game with their hands tied behind their back too?