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Congratulations to all our Mayo posters. Fantastic

P.J. rumours abounding......

From the outside looking in it would be best for Galway. Would never doubt his standing in Galway football but he has employed the slow laborious football with this side.  I spoke to one of the Armagh players after the AI final win and he said they couldn't believe how slow Galway were in their build up play and gave us plenty of time to get our defensive shape.

Even under the new rules they were too slow and played too much possession football.  Galway have some serious forwards and a more direct approach would have to pay dividends for them.

If Geezer stays in Armagh he needs to take the shackles off the team. At full flow their biggest strength is pace yet he wants it slowed down. Hasnt adapted well enough to the new game.

Lazy post. Armagh have played attacking football all year. Very little sideways nonsense and Geezer has them playing a direct running game. Yes, it can be tinkered with and improved.  There are a number of reasons (excuses!) for Saturday's performance but no one is interested in that now.  One of the main reasons in fairness was Kerry's excellent defence, some of it down to a predictability in the way we have attacked

Someone said it during the week. That Donegal team are like the Tyrone team of the noughties. Always some shit going on.

Yeah going down myself but when i sit here looking at both teams side by side that Kerry front 6 is just mad and if they're fit and click Armagh will be in a spot of bother. I think if we're still in it with 15mins to go then we have a chance but I fear we could get torn apart down in Killarney and I'm really fearful of this game tbh. The only thing in Armagh's favour is the underdog tag and we certainly love being written off, the big factor for me (someone mentioned above) is if Kerry push up hard on Armagh and force the keeper to kick it long then we're in serious trouble beacuse that's our weakest point (middle of the field, with no big men there to compete). If Kerry allow us to take short kickouts then they're not wise...

Yes.  For all the hype around the Kerry injuries they are getting their big players back as we are losing ours.  We said it at the time but Crealey leaves a massive gap in our team when we're going up against the big guns.  Kerry will be very aggressive on our kickouts, if we can retain 35/40% of them then we have a great chance but I think every Armagh fan is really worried about this.  Rafferty has to have a Tyrone 24 Ulster semifinal match and JOB and Murnin have to deliver big time.

Out of interest why was Blaine Hughes not playing yesterday?
The significance of Rafferty's dropped ball coming home to roost now.

Picked up a knock during the week. Sincerely hope him and Murnin are fit for the weekend

Need some height around the middle. Kerry cleaned us out in this department last year. Obviously Crealey is out for season. Are there any options here?

I was watching Ciaran Mackin in the warmup.  Surely he's an option in there.  He's a horse of a lad and some leap on him.

See a request from Armagh to train on the Inniskeen pitch has been refused. Any word on who refused permission?

When was the last time Armagh let a team they were playing at at home train on the Athletic Grounds pitch days before the game?

McGeaney working the playbook of cute hoorism.

I wouldn't be making as big a deal of it as Gavin Devlin seems to be. The reason I asked the question was that I wouldn't have thought it was Louth's place to refuse permission as it's not their ground (as compared to your analogy of Armagh refusing permission for a team to train in the AG) but it looks as if that's the way it has worked out.

See a request from Armagh to train on the Inniskeen pitch has been refused. Any word on who refused permission?

Does anyone really believe the woe is us nonsense from the Armagh folk on this thread?

I think everyone is expecting a comfortable win for Armagh in front of a partisan capacity crowd at their home ground against a mentally suspect Derry group lacking anything like the kind of squad depth Armagh has.

I'm already planning my trip to Killarney for the next round.

Armagh by close to double figures, pulling up.

That's what we were being told in the run up to both the Tyrone and Monaghan matches........

At the end of the 70min game, both teams went into the dressing rooms knackered. At the resumption of play ET Monaghan players were still knackered, falling to ground with cramp, yet not a bother on the Armagh players, bounced onto the pitch and played as fresh as a daisy, which begs the question - what was put into their apple juice drinks during the break?

Although you're clearly on the wind up your manager had a very strange take on that citing Monaghan having had extra time in the Derry match! If inter-county players can't recover from an extra 20 minutes football two weeks later he needs to be asking questions of his S&C coach.

We never do things easy and although clearly the better team overall Monaghan showed their resilience again in the fourth quarter.

Although there were very few poor performances from an Armagh perspective Oisin Conaty deserves special mention again. How lucky we are to have him.

Disappointed in the stewarding on the Hill yesterday.  We were in at 2.30 to get a good spot as we had an elderly supporter with us. Had a great spot in the middle of the field and the area around us was full 30 minutes before throw in yet the stewards at the top kept sending latecomers into our section through to throw in and beyond when they should have had it closed and sending people on down past our section.

Looks like Monaghan should concede a walkover to save themselves being embarrassed🙄

Not many Armagh posters at that craic.  Most recent prediction of a one-sided game came from a Derry poster up to no good 

How could you forget renshaws.

Wasn't a frequent attender. It was for the unsophisticated palates from Tyrone, Armagh and Derry. I was more of a Dukes man myself.

Dukes.....now you're talking. Lived in Ireton St just down the road. Think I was in it 3 nights a week every week for pints of Smithwicks. Great times.

Yeah you'd never catch Armagh or Derry ones at that lark 

It needs a slap no matter who does it. That keep you happy?

It's not about who does it, it's about who pontificates about it. You understand the difference?

I do.

Yeah you'd never catch Armagh or Derry ones at that lark 

It needs a slap no matter who does it. That keep you happy?

I would read too much into the scoreline.  Same if it happened in the final. They need to put in a performance against a bigger team and they wont get that for a while

That Monaghan side are still dogged as f**k and will be absolutely gunning for us. Always a bogey team for us as we well remember from '23

Down folded yesterday afer the first Armagh goal. Monaghan have the houdini act in their DNA, so they'll not give up just because we have a good first half. With Tyrone, we let them back in, we should not accord Monaghan the same opportunity.

Yesterday's match has no relevance to the final. Down were very poor. The match is barely worth reviewing.  One word for Pete McGrath and his "Down don't bend the knee to anyone" comment after the Donegal win.  What a load of nonsense.

Monaghan will bring lots more and will be provide a hell of a challenge. Discipline will be key with Beggan about.  No doubt he will get a lot of media attention in the build up and in a lot of ways he deserves it for his contribution to Monaghan football.  I think Geezer will go after his kickouts though as he is very hit and miss with them.  He had several howlers on Saturday evening and was the same in the Ulster club final.