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Derry fresh from destroying Tyrone, Dublin after beating the Cute Hoors in Kerry for the first time in 28yrs.  Please discuss.

The under card before the major powers do battle in the championship 

are Tyrone on the slide. I know its hard to answer and only the c'ship will tell. But plyrs at this level have a life span and a high number of Tyrone players have been to the well many times. But they will answer those question s come the summer. Tyrone have now lost to Dryy, Donegal and of course Cork last summer. Very unTyrone like!!

i said around the kildare quarter-final last year that tyrone looked like a team in decline. they continue to  look slow and one-paced. the legs are getting older and they have too many smurfs that can be out-muscled. they need more 6ft+, fast players that are skillful and comfortable on the ball a la kerry and cork. dublin will be a force this year, mark my words. i'll predict now that there won't be an ulster team involved at the semi-final stage of the championship. antrim will do well again, and will be a better match for tyrone in the ulster first round.

as for dublin v derry, the dubs by 4. derry don't have the steel required to match the major teams this year. the main champ contenders will be: cork, kerry, dublin, mayo and kildare.

Kerry don't have  a huge amount over 6ft. So thats bullshit already. Cork sacrificed skill for size in a couple of positions and it won them nothing. So bang goes that theory.

That's nonsense. Cork were the best team in the country last year - skill and size - and the only thing that beat them was psychological

As a Dromintee man, i don't see how our clubman can be accused of disloyalty to armagh

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But not for free!

Who else will decide?

It's immediately prior to the 2008 Ulster semi final since i saw down spirits so high...

[all of whom thought they were too good for Armagh]

Joe's Galway and Kieran and Aidan's Kildare both hammered, and Grimley's Monaghan beaten at home as well. Not much sympathy for these, all of whom thought they were too good for Armagh

I don't think thats the case, Im sure there were more obvious reasons for taking those jobs.

Were any of the kildare duo offered any jobs with armagh at any stage? maybe more accurate to say they weren't wanted?

Paddy O'Rourke and Donal Murtagh react to Armagh defeat - Audio

http://www.armagh-gaa.com/Football/News/Armagh-v-Meath-audio.aspx

Jaysus, i never like any manager (or assistant) citing passion, commitment and pride as a positive after defeat or victory. That is the bare minimum expected from a county footballer.

Didn't get to it but heard it was a great night's value. Judging by the clip below there looked to be a great atmosphere at it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABAA5NH3iY8

The Clare hurling crisis shows little sign of abating after the county's senior hurling panel produced a vote on no confidence in manager Mike McNamara.

Last week the players sent an unsigned letter to the county board seeking McNamara's dismissal, which they requested be read out during a board meeting to discuss the manager's tenure.

The board ignored the player's protests and confirmed that the Scariff native will take charge of the county team for a third season next year.

However, the players have now upped the ante, with a report in the Irish Examiner claiming they have expressed a vote of no confidence in McNamara.

Clare failed to win a game in the league and lost two championship encounters before they eventually overcame Wexford in a relegation semi-final.

According to rte radio this morning they voted 27-1 against McNamara

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Did he express pride?

In the book he says "stuff like that really gave you a buzz after the match". Shame isn't really up there in his list of emotions.

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Is that a no then?

Did he express pride?

I don't care about his sexuality and neither I believe do the vast majority of GAA supporters.  What I do care about is the damage the GPA have done and are doing to the GAA in general with their introducion of professionalism and greed into our games which is seeping like a cancer further and further into the organisation - eg two well known county managers visited county finalists in the west this week the fee being €500 in at least one case)

When will those like McCarthy get the chance to defend the old values on the Late Late Show?  Who will get the chance to explain what the €75 admission fee is used for?  How can somebody professing to love the GAA and all it stands for expect to be believed when he spices up his story with tales of one night stands with strangers and then sells it to the most anti Irish and anti Gay (Jane Moirs colum on Stephen Gately) tabloid in Britain.

BTW we are told 'coming outs' a big deal and then were told everybody in Cork knew anyway!

To be fair to him i thought he was distinctly uncomfortable talking about that one night stand but it's the only thing tubridy seemed entusiastic about. it was in the book so he couldn't avoid it.

don't let reiller's over zealousness distort your objectiveness on the interview.

You're getting carried away there reillers. the man did well but he's only telling his story, he's not dragging the country off its knees!

Did he say young boys


He's doing a Rafa now ?


Did well in this interview. Took a bit of guts to do what he did here tonight to be fair to him.

Don't think even his biggest adversaries would question his guts.

He did very well.

Dublin subs - and indeed one who wasn't on the panel -  are better than starting county players from other counties?

off the top of my head, where's paddy keenan, mark ward, anthony moyles, james kavanagh, gary white, johnny doyle, leighton glynn, dessie dolan, thomas walsh, either barden, McNamee, etc?