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Kilcoo hammered DP own in ballymartin in the 1st or 2nd game of the league last year so hard to see if either team has improved or gotten worse in the last 12 months but you're right Kilcoo look like they will be hard to stop this year

I was big into wrestling as a kid from about 2003-2010. Since then i've just dipped into it now and again and always keep an eye out for results. I just enjoy the entertainment of it. Like i've always understood its not real but the wrestlers do risk themselves to entertain people and that has to be appreciated. Sometimes you can nearly predict who is gonna win but its nice when the creative team throws in a curve ball that keeps that bit of doubt in your head when you're thinking about who is gonna win

Does anyone else have problems getting on to the county website? Just seems to load for ages and can't load competitions to get results. Why in 2019 do we have a crap website platform?

If I were to have a stab at the starting 15 for Armagh id go with this;

Reid (Burns has done ok in nets but dont fancy a club midfielder doing nets for the county)
O'Hagan
Wells
Collins
Laverty
Flanagan
Guinness

Donnelly
McKernan

Mooney
Maginn
R Johnston
O'Hare
Harrison
J Johnston

Probably completely left field to what Tally will pick tbh. Anyone know whats happened to the Loughinisland players on the panel, thought both McClements done well in McKenna cup yet no sign of them on the league panel

Nanderson, what would the basis for picking some of these individuals to play against Armagh, past/current performances or potential? O Hagan is the only one I would agree with in defence but you're putting a man who got 1.1 from WHB in the corner, when he is one of the best attacking players we have. All Mc Kernan can do is sweep, he's not a midfielder and doesn't like marking. Mooney and R Johnston could blow teams away on their own but are inconsistent, this current system doesn't suit Maginn and Harrison, O'Hare is still a top forward, J Johnston shouldn't even be starting for Kilcoo never mind Down.

O'Hagan will be in the corner picking up Clarke like he always has done when the 2 teams meet as hes our best man marker. McKernans achilles heel is that he is so well versatile that he doesn't have a 'natural' position. And with Down not having any real good midfielders he will naturally fill the gap like he always has done. J Johnston is a player who on his day can be unmarkable, unfortunalty those days are few and far between. But i feel hes a better option than O'Hagan who suffers this problem as well. Who knows maybe the 1st few games of the club season might unearth another top forward,

If I were to have a stab at the starting 15 for Armagh id go with this;

Reid (Burns has done ok in nets but dont fancy a club midfielder doing nets for the county)
O'Hagan
Wells
Collins
Laverty
Flanagan
Guinness

Donnelly
McKernan

Mooney
Maginn
R Johnston
O'Hare
Harrison
J Johnston

Probably completely left field to what Tally will pick tbh. Anyone know whats happened to the Loughinisland players on the panel, thought both McClements done well in McKenna cup yet no sign of them on the league panel

Sadly mistaken ask anyone in the know and they'll tell you laverty Donnelly county board coaches have done all the training and coaching and dom looks after the selection side of things. Smart on his end but paying coaches for schools is a bad precedent to have started IMO

Pretty sure Magherafelt won the MacRory a couple of years ago and they had your fella Devlin from Ballinderry in training them. As far as I know he was the 1st coach employed by a school to help improve their football at all levels

One thing that was evident from the game today was that the barbers in Omagh and Enniskillen must have earnt a clean fortune over the weekend with all the fresh faded haircuts

Straightforward enough win for Down tonight in a tricky conditions. Offaly didn't really have any real threat from play and relied a lot on frees for their scores, particularly in the 1st half. Some very favourable decisions from the ref kept the game tight until the 1st goal. Always looked like  game where whoever got the 1st goal would push on and thankfully Quinn took his chance after Down missed a couple of earlier goal chances. Laverty at half back looks a real good player and links up play well as hes not afraid to get forward. Hes a bit like a more athletic O'Hanlon. Promotion looks almost secure now

Twitter suggests UCD played against a 'strong' wind during the 1st half.

Yellow Card is implying they threw away both wins.

I'm wild confused about some of the rules that were on show in the mckenna cup. Frees blown for catching the ball between the 40 and 21 when its meant to be inside the 21. Also, James Morgan got 2 yellows which should have been a sin bin but instead was shown a red card??

Good to see Uniteds attacking play improve so much under Ole but would be nice to see them close a game out defensively to start picking up some clean sheets

I thought Havern played a national league game or 2. Could be wrong tho. Any word of Laverty from Saul or Guinness from Carryduff,  are they with their universities for McKenna cup? Thought they might be in with a shout of a call up.

Laverty was a sub on the UUJ team, as well as Lorcan Harney starting for them. Guiness should be on the Queens team and would be good to see those 3 make the panel for the national league if they perform well for their Unis

I assumed the Quinn for mayobridge was Keith but it may be Cory. Havern definatley played McKenna Cup a couple of years ago and O'Hagan outshone him and got the spot on the team.

Keyboard u must be on the panel. Yes I agree the panel needed a complete overhaul but 15/16 new boys in is a lot? Great to see Kilcoo with lads on the squad. If Tally can get some players from the McKenna cup panel it will be a job well done.

Where is everyone getting these 15/16 new faces? Those 'new faces' have been involved with the county before bar McCarthy, McClements, Mason, Parr and Harney. Obviously a new manager will have a load of new faces in as its a clean slate for everyone and he must feel that these are the players worth taking a look at