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Best of luck to Donal and his mgt team and players. They have had a great run. As I said months ago we can compete with 70% of Ireland but in Ulster it's elite and we suffer. This run will build confidence which is lacking in our players ,our hurlers are applauding being in tier 3/2 Leinster , if our football can bring home an all ireland i will be delighted. Match is streaming our the caravan is heading down if anyone needs a lift

Big win today for the minor footballers, well done to all involved

Not much stir about Saturday lads 

Where was young JJ Higgins tonight? Hurt?

Jj and Liam had all star trials the next day so opted out for the u20 game

Anyone remember the last time one of our schools made an A final? St marys maybe?

u20 is group system, we have Donegal, Derry and Monaghan still to come. Fermanagh already played Donegal , losing by 2 points.

Good luck tour U20s tonight in Tempo v Fermanagh

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Congratulations in order for Ryan McQuillan making the team of the Sigerson selection

Bannside, any new faces in the Casements line up for this season ? Any major difference you see in approach with Mattie ?

Minors level with Donegal here at Dunsilly with 10 left on the clock, work rate is fantastic

Your are 100% correct.....we lambast and wring our hands that our school teams can't compete in A competitions, yet in hurling our schools are in the B competition (Mageean winners only qualify to go into B semifinal). Our u17 and u20 hurling teams play in a revamped ulster championship and have struggled at times over the last number of years , but then progress to B level competition in Leinster where we are only just competitive and hang on by the finger nails. In Ulster football we are a mile off the top teams and that gap is not narrowing. The introduction of an Ulster B competition is welcome, but as EOC said, we need rid of the dysfunctional & outdated provisional system and have a graded all Ireland competition as already happens at Academy Squad level up to u16 and works really well, so the model is there.

U20 had a convincing win against Wicklow ahead of the senior game on Saturday. Reality is our u17/u20 football could be competitive with around half of the teams in the country , but in Ulster we have the underage powerhouses of Donegal, Tyrone and Derry , with the others not that far behind.

Moneyglass beat Ballymena

I think Lisburn could struggle this season. Eoin Dixon moving to Eire Og a huge loss in regard of scoring power, their keeper away as well i believe. Will Oisin Gorman be back this season? He is a top quality player but is at uni in England i think and went off to the states last summer.

A few things seemed to have changed from the start of the campaign . We are a lot more compact and solid in the middle of our defence, we are kicking the ball more and not running the ball from defence into a very slow ponderous attack, and a few players starting in positions that are more natural too them , and starting ryan and eunan made a big difference.