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How many periods of Extra time was there in junior final? Feel sorry for Aghagallon and not sure where an appeal sits with me.
But if the rules were not adhered to then we were wronged, could be argued Aghagallon won in ET2 as they were fitter, therefore gained unfair advantage.
Creggan won't be minding any of this btw.

Wasnt going to get involved but this is priceless. Aghagallon gained an unfair advantage cause they were fitter. Can we raise a motion to stop all club and individual training next year? This means that no one will have the advantage of being fit. Ill maybe get the boots back out myself actually. Great idea and one Ive been calling for now for a while.

Hoping to bring my 2 boys to their first game on Nov 11 vs Portugal. I see tickets go on general sale on Tuesday. Will it be difficult to get 4 tickets do yous think?

Anyone know when tickets go on sale for Portugal game?

From looking at the video it appears that the umpire at the top end where the melee happened was wearing a red LD hooded top, hardly surprised he didn't see anything

Was I watching the Same match? LD weren't only to blame surely. Aghagallon seemed to try and boot the Murray with the yellow hair out of the match all night . The Aghagallon boys who got sent off deserved it though maybe the ref or linesmen didn't see a LD aggression in the melee but that doesnt mean the Aghagallon boys were innocent

He deserved a good booting for dying his hair blonde in the first place, he's about 30 and he's up to that carry on.
Agree with the above as well, referee was shocking and linesmen were just as bad. Blinkers on all night and afraid to show LD men cards. Seems to be one rule for the big clubs and another for the rest

Referee seemed to be very consistent and the two commentators alluded to this. I thought he was decent too, the black card to Murray was deserved and didn't seem to be afraid to give a card in that situation?

The same player (Murray) seemed to be on the end of constant off the ball. Jerome and Caoimhe Morgan were very diplomatic but made it quite obvious in a round about away. The number 2 should have been off well before he was. I believe the first game he was also very lucky that no lineman were watching as not once did he look at the ball for 60 mins (a rival from the same group assures me this was the case).

The melee at the end seemed to be caused by a wrestling match between forward/defender, then the young lad Number 15 for Agh ran a serious distance to spark a melee.. The melee continued and I'm sure both teams were no angels, probably difficult to make out. 2 yellow cards handed out between both teams ( one ended up being a second it seemed).. Young number 15 then struck again after the melee had ended by the looks of the video, which explains his red.

Looked like two good teams going at it with a very boisterous crowd, team with the better discipline and experience got over the line on the night. Think this Agh team have serious potential and wouldn't be surprised to see the two meet again further in comp if Agh concentrate on playing football. LD seem to be easy target in this case because of their notoriety as one of the bigger clubs. They didn't react to the obvious targeting of their multiple star county players. Still don't think they have enough though, Creggan or Cargin. Hopefully more games online so we can see everyone and get better call as to should be putting the money on with Paddy Power 😊

That's definitely not the way I saw things and the 4 neutrals I was standing beside. I literally watched Murray punching a young fella in the stomach and then jumped to the ground holding his face. Not a finger put on him but from turning round it would look like he got stabbed. The melee at the end was started when one of the young subs was wrestled to the ground and punched a few times and boys jumped in to help him. The linesman needed to notice some of these incident and put a stop to it. The boys I was standing beside play in Division 1 in Armagh and a couple are on the county team. They were laughing and saying how do these boys play county together and how was half the teams not sent off by linesmen and umpires. The ref made a few stupid calls but he would have needed eyes in the back of his head to see all the wee niggly incidents. I actually didn't think it was that bad until the last 20 mins and even that was just more handbags than anything. All the nonsense aside the more experienced LD team deserved the win against a young Aghagallon outfit.

The ref was wearing LD shorts and socks also

Was I watching the Same match? LD weren't only to blame surely. Aghagallon seemed to try and boot the Murray with the yellow hair out of the match all night . The Aghagallon boys who got sent off deserved it though maybe the ref or linesmen didn't see a LD aggression in the melee but that doesnt mean the Aghagallon boys were innocent

He deserved a good booting for dying his hair blonde in the first place, he's about 30 and he's up to that carry on.
Agree with the above as well, referee was shocking and linesmen were just as bad. Blinkers on all night and afraid to show LD men cards. Seems to be one rule for the big clubs and another for the rest

Referee seemed to be very consistent and the two commentators alluded to this. I thought he was decent too, the black card to Murray was deserved and didn't seem to be afraid to give a card in that situation?

The same player (Murray) seemed to be on the end of constant off the ball. Jerome and Caoimhe Morgan were very diplomatic but made it quite obvious in a round about away. The number 2 should have been off well before he was. I believe the first game he was also very lucky that no lineman were watching as not once did he look at the ball for 60 mins (a rival from the same group assures me this was the case).

The melee at the end seemed to be caused by a wrestling match between forward/defender, then the young lad Number 15 for Agh ran a serious distance to spark a melee.. The melee continued and I'm sure both teams were no angels, probably difficult to make out. 2 yellow cards handed out between both teams ( one ended up being a second it seemed).. Young number 15 then struck again after the melee had ended by the looks of the video, which explains his red.

Looked like two good teams going at it with a very boisterous crowd, team with the better discipline and experience got over the line on the night. Think this Agh team have serious potential and wouldn't be surprised to see the two meet again further in comp if Agh concentrate on playing football. LD seem to be easy target in this case because of their notoriety as one of the bigger clubs. They didn't react to the obvious targeting of their multiple star county players. Still don't think they have enough though, Creggan or Cargin. Hopefully more games online so we can see everyone and get better call as to should be putting the money on with Paddy Power 😊

Great first post. Welcome to the board. LD very disciplined. A model club in many ways. Hopefully the referees going forward can offer their star players more protection and they have every chance of winning the lot. LD an easy target indeed.

Also agree with the linesmen. Not sure what their role is? They gave no support to the ref all night. not sure if there were dug outs for the LD subs but if there were the linesman may as well have taken a seat in it

Strange strange refereeing in the LD match. How he sent 2 Aghagallon players off during the melee with the whole LD team and backroom staff ill never know and gave LD a solitary yellow.

Have read this thread over the past few weeks and I do understand that its def not an easy job to be the man in the middle and I do admire their commitment. However, this game was shown on facebook live so many in the county and beyond would have seen it. Is there any accountability for a refs performance when there are so many clear and obvious decisions he got completely wrong?

Brilliant game. Absolute credit to both teams. Trojan efforts.

Been mentioned here before, all the top players were over 30. Not to take away from the efforts on the day but long term it aint great. Mention underage achivements on here and it only hype. Fair plau to st galls and cargin tho. Be a while before we see their likes again

8 antrim players getting to the pinacle of schools football and receiving a hogan cup medal in croke park might explain some of the hype in what otherwise is an absolute bleak outlook for the county? Care to explain the rest?

Mainstay of johnnies 3 in a row team on verge of competing in county finals in both codes. Hype justified.

Congratulations to st teresas/o donnells/mitchells/pearses in reaching county b final again along with rossa. Adh mor

Cuchullian's 2-07
St Brigid's 0-11


What odds a country minor final.....JS..?

Is St. Gall's beating Aghagallon a big shock? There seems to be a lot of talk about these Aghagallon teams coming through, a hope they'll make the transition to senior and be a real force.
I know they pipped us in an U21 final a couple of years ago but apart from that what else have they won at Minor & U21?

No big shock today HS. St galls never easy beat at any level. Fair play to them. Should be a good final.

Whos "us" they pipped at u21 if you dont mind me asking? Think they beat one of those belfast almagation teams in that final? They also played an almagation team in the minor final last year. A few st teresas players the standouts on that team.

Underage success is no real gauge anyhow. Been a while since cargin won an underage title id say but they find themselves back in another senior final today.

So st galls minors and seniors playing at different venues? I smell a rat. This makes no sense. All sorts of rumours going about

That's the JP McManus money put to good use then!

Prob nonsense to be honest. Ones saying about the JP money and the promotion of the games in belfast

Kilcoo be favs?

Go up to Tommy Frenchs and put all the money you can afford on Dublin to win the All Ireland in 2018 at 11/10. They simply wont be beat. Granted you will have to wait 9 months for your return but nothing on the stock market offers anywhere near the same ROI.

Bump. 1/2 next year. 50% ROI

A fella was telling me tonight st galls players were getting petrol money from county board for their semi on saturday. What way does that work? Was it only cause game was switched? Otherwise this bound to cause problems doown the line in both codes