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A couple of recent deaths among the Derry GAA family worthy of a mention here. The legendary Packie Farrell from ballinascreen would have needed no introduction to folk of my generation. And John McVey, formerly of magherafelt and newbridge; still a young man and a superb singer in his youth.

May they both rest in peace.

I would have been from the same vintage as John , it was such a shock to hear that sad news from the states, I remember Packie playing but didn't know him but by all accounts he was a real character

With Kilpatrick living in Newbridge, am suprised he doesnt transfer to them, esoecially as county champions, giving its a spin to Edendork.

Was said on commentary that he owns/runs a coffee shop in Magherafelt. Which one is that?

Coffee shops must be the way to go. Seems a good few GAA players in that line of business. Fair play to them.

Its cafe Mamo on Broad street

That was a much improved performance from Derry compared to the Meath game.
Real fight and drive from the lads tonight. Plenty of mistakes and if we'd taken half the scores on offer we'd have been 10point winners.
Felt like we were by far the better side, but we are just lacking confidence I think in the forward line.
Murray was outstanding - didn't see what the black card was for, but in general the ref I felt was very sore on us.
He gave Tyrone a 2 pointer in the 2nd have that looked inside the arc to me and the umpire initially signalled 1pt.

McKinless, Clucky, McGrogan, CD, Glass and Rogers particularly good. Paul Cassidy needs to step up a bit I feel though and Shane is playing like he is low in confidence. He should have shot for goal himself rather than tee up glass that time in the first half, looked like he didnt want to attempt the longer range frees too, but he did keep plugging away and still scored 4 so I've no doubt he'll come good.

Forbes put in a good shift too and Mcguckin did rightly in goals but his free taking was wayward.

All in all, a good shift with much more intensity and a lot less mistakes. Class to get the win over the red-arses who now must be nervous about the wrong end of the table.
They've still to play some really tough games. Meath I feel still look like they could top the group.
Cork will be no walkover.
Kildare next day for Derry will be a huge game - but if we can push on in our forward play and start taking the points when they are on, I think we've a very good chance of getting 2 wins on the bounce.

I would echo all of the above , as well as most of the established players really stepping up to the mark , it was really good to see  Rurai Forbes put in another solid performance,

As good a footballer as Mattie Donnelly was, his time up, Hes the same age as P Conroy and C McKeigue, and hes gone 2yrs.

He would be slightly younger than those two  Donnelly a minor in 2008 Conroy and McKaigue 2007

 Heard  a rumour at the weekend which I thought was a bit far fetched tbh but I see the Gaelic Life is posting it too  that Slaughtneil are set to appoint Austin O'Malley as their new coach

Lads or lassies. Can we stop picking out players on this forum?

These lads give up their time and represent our county. Out three/four nights a week, giving up their time.

We should be proud of their efforts.

Onwards and upwards (but not backwards or sidewards)

Well said Tickle

Gone with an experienced 15, bench looks light on midfield options but hopefully some of the newer additions can make an impact and provide more scoring forwards.

Bench light on cover for the full back line as well 

 I honestly neevr heard worse than that commentary tonight

Poor conditions, the co commentator is busy with all correcting he has to do with Jerome.

Umpires with no flags is poor for those involved. Half time Queens 0-8 UU 0-5.  A correction on the scoreline now.

If Jerome would just stop talking for a second and pay attention to the game it would be a much better product

My thoughts exactly

Patrick  McGurk  on now as a sub

Not good team news from a Derry point of view from the Sigerson game tonight as well as Dan Higgins Ruairi Forbes and Paddy McGurk are also out injured

 Its been out for a while but I just recently came across a show called Jack Irish (a crime drama set in a very unglamourous suburb of Melbourne )starring Guy Pearce , its  no Wire/ Sopranos but a good watch

Few boys being silly methinks. Surely it's more a conflict of interest for the parents who would like to have seen both matches as well as the boys themselves

That's my take on it also

Not sure if they are all old enough to be on the actual Glenullin Panel (Paddy Bradley I see has tweeted he has a young fella involved who I think is still under 16) but a very unfortunate position for four families to be caught up in

Need to keep the expenses bill down

Don't be overly worrying about the spreadsheets, they've a fair idea what they're at at this stage


Re squad

The 25 last night

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McEvoy
Rogers
McGuigan
McGurk
Higgins
Forbes
Diamond
McDermott

+ prob a few more we'll know about post Sigerson etc

Need to be carrying a big squad re training matches / setup etc

James Murray was mentioned here before and M'felt had a post up listing names involved and Odhran (Lynch) and James (assuming Murray) were listed.

I think Conall Higgins and  Eamon Young are involved as well

Sorry for hurting the feelings re glen 🤣🤣🤣

I thought Magherafelt were the team to beat followed by Bellaghy??

Yep Bellaghy have pushed Magherafelt closest at that age group over the last few  years