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Went to Newbridge Kilrea game there thought it might be pre championship warm up with two teams who meet again in 4 weeks.

Turns out it was two half teams. Newbridge flying first half actually looked like Kilrea wouldn't score. Turned into a game in 2nd half with only 1 in it at a stage. All out just go for it stuff from Kilrea.

As a neutral attending this game its great to have hopefully unbiased opinion. Not a dirty tackle, few hard enough hits. No verbals between players.

The game ended with I reckon 6 yellow cards, a black card, a red after the final whistle. I think the ball was moved to 13 yard frees about 4 maybe 5 times.


When are Derry GAA going to step up with the standard of refs we are using, do we learn nothing from watching the like of Sean Hurson and Paul Faloon. Not a massive fan of Martin Mc Nally but he was superb on Sunday, mainly because he was invisible. The game is so fast players will get on with it any niggling will quickly fizzle out.

There was only one show in Newbridge this evening and unfortunately for double championship winners Newbridge and Kilreas 22man squad, he was wearing blue.

I wasn't at the game on Friday night but whenever I read about the ball being brought forward 4 or 5 times and the number of cards given out it wasn't hard to guess who the referee was

How Long Will I Love You
Glastonbury Song
Fisherman's Blues

[You do something to me]

If 'You do something to me' hadn't have come on (was our wedding song) she'd have flipped lol!

I enjoyed it btw, the Weller lookalikes where brilliant, I was going to buy a Fred Perry yesterday morning but just resisted lol

Nowadays it's probably just annoyance. Some of the photos of the punters at Oasis were magic last year 

Did they all look like this?

Nail on head lol

As good a place here to put it, as most acts at Glastonbury they play their main hits and the crowds love it..

Was at Custom house square last night for Paul Weller, lovely night weather wise, Magners flowing, but feel when these guys have so many to play from that they don't play the big ones, maybe try and promote other stuff. I suppose its his concert and he can sing what he wants, but the missus maybe recognised 2 or 3 songs at best and when the big songs did come on the crowd were massively involved, when he played lesser numbers the bar was full..

I as there with my wife last night also , she wouldn't be a huge fan by any means but between the style council songs and the old jam classics  along with his early solo stuff like changing man/ broken stones  she would have known about a dozen of the setlist songs and she enjoyed it a lot more than she expected

Minor game is 4pm Saturday in Parnell Park.

5:10pm in Mullingar I think.

It's not.

see its just confirmed.

Poor showing - well beat.

Who do we see as the future prospects in this group? Rocco Devlin unlikely to be around with soccer commitments.

Gormley looked good in midfield. Mulholland looks good along with tadhg Bradley and Thomas devlin. Higgy is very good also as was Sargent at full back. It'll be interesting to see if any have the quality to come through to senior. A couple of the better players are a bit small.

Bradley and the 2 Devlins are underage next year also

Looks like all of Magherafelt county men back tonight bar Eoin McAvoy  for their league game against Dungiven. Lynch in goals with Shea McGuckian at corner forward

Surprised to see Sean out, think the sun was rising when most of them got home this morning

I heard it was a late enough night alright

Lively enough game Swatragh v Ballinascreen. Screen well on top 1st half to lead by 6pts, should been more. Swatragh came into it 2nd half but Screen always had enough to keep ahead. Who the young skycraper at midfield for them? Screen has small forwards but they all very fast. Swatragh like kilrea, got players with discipline and attitude problems.

That Screen midfielder I think is a young fella walls (still a club minor)  I was at our game against Glenullin it was a very open game and finished up 2-27 to 4-12 in our favour  Eamon and Sean young togged out and ,showed well Oisin and Mark Doc impressive also ,

Sha

That Minor keeper has a fair bagful of saves this campaign, can't remember the last County representation Moneymore had

Young boy ONeill
Mark ?

Paudie
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That Minor keeper has a fair bagful of saves this campaign, can't remember the last County representation Moneymore had

Young boy ONeill
Mark ?

Paudie

Possibly Shane Barton ?

Two great results for the minors today,  Callum McLaughlin putting on an exhibition and ended up with 0-14 for the hurlers and it was good to see the footballers kick the ball in early so often tonight

Over at Swatragh Ballinderry the nite, good game in awful weather. Swatragh missed a bagful of points, McWilliams bck playing after a long time out, passing and score taking stands out, He gets up to fitness he be a big player for Derry nxt yr. Swatragh made a bad mistake, took him of 15mins to go, then missed 2 2pter free he would have scored. Ballinderry also got a point 0.5m wide, ref was on the wrong side to see it, swatragh umpire give it which was correct, but relied on the older Ballinderry gent behind the middle of the goal who gave it a point. Man had to know it was wide.

Who won the game ?

Great to see James Sargent named on the bench for tomorrow

Legends on Netflix is very good so far. Couple of episodes in. Set in the 90s civil servants trying to stop the flow of Heroin. A true story I believe.

Like all of these stories - trueish. I enjoyed it - entertaining stuff.

Really enjoyed Legends it has a great soundtrack as well, I watched the first episode of Amelia Clarks new show Ponies last night and it  looks promising too, a  Cold war espionage  drama set in 1970s Russia ( quite funny as well at times) 

 RIP and condolences to the McGuigan family, that Ulster final performance in 84  is one of my earliest vivid memories of  Gaelic Football.

Derry get over the line but turgid stuff to watch.

Similiar style to Derry U20's. Hard to watch with a lot of talented players.

Agree, over emphasis on systems, structures and tactics at these underage levels. We need to be more cavalier. In fairness young Mulholland and the sub Rocco Devlin were just that and were key to Derry's win imo.

Rocco Devlin had a big impact on the second half ,he is underage next year also and a very talented soccer player to boot ,and has already played for Dungannon Swift's first team