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Lads there's a serious underestimating of Kilcoo on here. No team in Ulster will match them for pure dogged hunger and determination to get a result by any means necessary. Their collective experience will stand to them like few other teams in Ulster. The 2 Canavans would be food and drink to the Brannigan boys in Kilcoo if they met.

I quite fancy Ballybay to take Crossmaglen. at 33-1 for Ulster Ballybay has some serious value. Cross have firepower to be sure but they arent as hot as many would have you believe. After McConville and O'Neill they are an ordinary team. Ballybay will be well prepped for them. Thats gonna be a battle.

Watty Grahams will have sights on the Ulster Title and another bite out of Kilcoo but they could get tripped up if they are looking too far ahead. Plus McFaul's loss is huge, no two ways about it.

Probably says more about the teams in Armagh over the years than a reflection of Crossmaglen. Suppose they can only beat whats in front of them. Were they even tested this year?
Clann Eireann gave up the crown easily, Maghery seem to be a beaten docket and on the way down and that Ballymacnab team isnt getting any younger.

Never got out of 2nd gear. Totally untested and won at a canter. Doesn't really tell you anything about this group until they have serious questions asked of them. They'd harder league games I'd suspect. Let's be honest, granemore had a handy draw and found themselves in a final where they never really had a chance. To try and convince anyone otherwise Is tripe.

Aww now why you gotta go and bring facts into the equation.
Not a fan of the hype??

Fun fact. Benny and Danny was the management team for Carrick cruppen that year.

[A very good start to Danny Hughes managerial career,]

An excellent weekend of football finals we've just had. I thought the quality across the board was very good, and as other posters have highlighted, I expect to see several who featured in the senior final to be in Lavery's panel. Congrats to Kilcoo, Saval, and Teconnaught and best of luck to them for their Ulster campaign. I can't help but feel for Warrenpoint, what a battling performance they put in, some very good individual performances all over the pitch. Thoroughly enjoyed the intermediate final as well on Saturday, wasn't expecting that result and Saval full value for their win. Fantastic goal by McCarthy, completely changed the game. A very good start to Danny Hughes managerial career, promotion with Castlewellan last year and now a championship win with his home club.

If im not mistaken this isnt his first rodeo. hes been involved with a few clubs before this has he not?.Shamrocks maybe and another in Armagh.

[Teconnaught]

Teconnaught v Dromara

Rostrevor v Saval

Kilcoo v CPN

Tell me this. Do you reckon lumping the ball in from 60 yards repeatedly a la 'the great Down v Derry game' (DJ Kane main culprit) is a better way of playing football than how it is played now? Because I tell you what, I watched that game recently and it wasn't exactly pretty on the eye.

Who suggested lumping the ball in from 60 yards was a better way to play.
Lets be honest, football is shite nowadays for a variety of reasons and a huge responsibility lies at the feet of ego-driven coaches/managers and those that appoint them.

Burren and Mayobridge are getting some flack on here.

Maybe ive got it wrong and im being unkind to the 2 teams i mentioned; i dont mean to criticise unduly.
Maybe the players didnt execute like they were supposed to and didnt carry out management's gameplan etc. Who knows.
I guess you can only comment and make a judgement based on what you see unfold in front of you as a spectator.

Managers cut their cloth to suit. They set their team up the way they see fit to best get results. They look at the talent at their disposal and come up with a way to play that will hide or diminish their weaknesses and try to accentuate their strengths. They arent interested in entertainment or the fans behind the wire.

If a Manager thinks that by trying to starve the opposition of possession and turning the game to shite, living off placed-kick scores and not taking risks, in order to try stay in the game til the death, then thats his prerogative. But for the love of god can people not see that any gabshite of a manager can set a team up not to lose. You may keep the score down, you may restrict the opposition or frustrate them but when it comes down to it, you still have to have a go at the other team, go up the other end of the pitch and score.

last night the display from Mayobridge took this to a new level id never seen before. Never thought id see them buy into the nonsense but seems they have. How can those boys come off the field last night thinking they actually really went and had a real good cut at Kilcoo, trying absolutely everything they could to win that game. It was beyond woeful. Conleth O'Hare standing in at full forward all night watching his goalkeeper and co play crab football back and forth across the pitch. Its ridiculous. And thats a club that produced some brilliant footballers down through the years, now reduced to robots with football coached out of them and replaced with a bastardised version of basketball.

Some might laud this as modern day football, smart coaching, the only way to go against Kilcoo etc but i think it needs to be called out for what it really is.

And similarly, the previous week we had a Burren team laden with quality, pace and talent play some form of conservative shite too where they wouldnt actually have a go at beating a Point team who's best days are behind them. They got what they deserved for being overly defensive too.

[Rostrevor]

Rostrevor v Liatroim
East Belfast v Dromara
Saval v St John's
Ardglass v Teconnaught
Loughinisland v  CPN
Kilcoo v Mayobridge

Theres a serious fawning over intercounty players these days when they hang the boots up and no longer play.
Talk of 'retirement' would sicken your hole. Then again some fellas just cant quietly disappear off the stage without making it about themselves i guess.
Therell always be guest spot appearances on panels, column inches of bullshit to fill, regalling us of their heroics as players, as well as the odd controversial tweet to remind us how relevant they should be.

I merely asked a question.
And you answered as you saw fit. Didnt really answer the question ,mind you but how and ever.
I didnt realise that in order to share opinions and views on here you had to have a medal-laden football career.

And he never got an Allstar in 2010, but he did win a sigerson cup with St Marys.....just to put the record straight.

[The man owes nothing to Down or Burren, he's a legend.[/quote]Absolutely, enormous contribution to GAA , in his club, county and beyond.[/quote]]

Maybe if they had bought an elder stateman on a bit sooner they be in the semis.

He didn't do too much in extra time when we got to grips with him and hadn't the ball


s to take a penalty. Some leader that...

The man owes nothing to Down or Burren, he's a legend.
[/quote]

Absolutely, enormous contribution to GAA , in his club, county and beyond.
[/quote]

Id love someone to explain this to me, seriously.
How is he a legend.
And what is the enormous contribution to GAA, Club, County and beyond he has made?

Loughinisland
Mayobridge
Kilcoo
Burren
Longstone