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Good to see Donal involved. Knows Armagh footbal inside and never misses a club a game.Seen him at alot of Armagh championship games at all grades this year. Why would we not see more of Paul Mc Keown in a county jersey. I think he is one of the brightest prospects in Armagh.

Sad to hear of the retirement of the twins. As well as being two of the nicest fellas that you could meet they were two tremendous players. Played against them on more than one occasion and always found them to be great competitors who always played hard but fair. John on particular has never been replaced on the Armagh team and even last year was easily the best club player in Armagh in my opinion.Steven Mc Donnell hasnt been the same player for Armagh since he quit. Two very adaptable players as well. Tony has i sure represented both Armagh and Cross on every line on the field and handled most positions adaquately. Massive loss to cross and to football in Armagh.

Just to clarify a few things ref the second alleged incident last night at the dugout which I was about two foot away from at the time.

Our player was hit with a late tackle in the back from a Clans player just before he fell out over the line with the ball in his hand. The referee in one of the few decisions he got right in the second half gave us a free and our player attempted to get up to take it quickly. the clans player stood on him to prevent him from getting up and our subs stopped him from doing so. At no time was he pulled over the wire. Your manager came charging into the middle of all and was held back by one our players.
The linesman was on the scene and the referee and a county board official none of whom could see anything thing wrong. The Clan Na Gael player was booked our subs told to sit in the dugout and that was it.

On the game as a whole I think that both teams were fairly even throughout and the referee while making some comical decisions at times(Our midfielder getting hit with an elbow in the middle of the pitch at one stage allowwing play to go on was laughable if it wasnt so serious) but in fairness to him I think he was even enough to both teams. Clans penalty was no penalty but on reflection ours was on the very edge of the area (Sorry thats as far as my bias allows me to go).

On the sending off The Clans player was caught and the Cullyhanna man ended up in hospital. Both teams played on  the edge of the rules on the night. Both teams played some good football at times and the last three subs that came on for Clans made a difference just as the cullyhanna subs dis as well. Any word where the replay is on sunday as I think that there is a double header in The Athletic Grounds.

Seriously good win for Cullyhanna in a great game of football. Dromintee missed a few chances after half time which were costly for them but st Pats had a great last twenty minutes to win the game comfortably in the end after a Gary Mc Cooey goal. Alot of wides by both teams but Malachys introduction at half time along with a great performance from our half back line laid the foundations for victory. Two good points to get against a strong dromintee team.

Pats beat Killeavey by 3. Good performance spoiled by conceding two late goals. Good performance from the forwards in the first half scoring one nine. Tired towards the end particularly at midfield and when Eoin Mc Ardle went off. Still its good to go through.

Cullyhanna 10 Killeavey 4

Good win for the pats despite having midfielder sent off for 2 yellow cards. No stevie for Killeavey though. Good battling performance with an awesome display from Eugene Casey in almost unplayable conditions.

Backs and midfield worked really hard and good to see a better appetite from our lads. Great displays from Stephen Reel Eoin Mc Ardle, Brookie and Paidi Mc Creesh in defence. Tony Donnelly worked hard with Ciaran o hare and Mal round midfield with all the forwards woking hard under pressure.

Terry Toner made his debut in goal and done well.

Match should never have been played due to waterlogged pitch. Still its a great two points for us and badly needed as well.

Cross comfortably for me with 5 or six points to spare. I dont think that the Ogs will be able to get enough ball into their forwards.

The intermediate should be a cracker. I saw both games between Cullyhanna and Culloville this season and one was a close tight game with both sides almost af full strength which the blues won. the other was and end of season fixture which the pats won comfortably with Culloville understrength.Big danger for Cullyhanna is a good Culloville forward line. If our fellas play to their best however though i think we can win. Getting that best performance has always been tough for us in finals.

I was at the mmatch and to be fair the bridge appeared to be the better team in normal time.They couldnt deal with the Culloville full forward line and I though that Kieran and Peter Hatzer wer suprb on the day and will take a lot of watching in the final.Thought that the bridge when they went in front close to the end tried to be too smart by throwing the ball around and playing about across the field instead of trying to go for another score. I felt that the referee was poor throughtout and awarded a lot of very dubious frees beore his last decision which has been talked about the bridge supporters since. Felt though that Gerard Mc Garvey should  have been sent off for the the foul on the original free kick which was about sixty yards out. Culloville were a much better team in the first period of extra time and the gola was a killer. Shane O neill was majestic for the blues in the second half and in extra time.Good game of football between two well matched teams. Thought that the bridger played as well as they possibly could but I think that Culloville will improve for the final. For the bridge I thought that

If its the same Flea(Declan Mc Coy)  he had two nephews playing for cullyhanna as well. Good luck to the harps in the final. I remember seeing the same two teams play each other in the county feile final about 4 years ago. Tight match as well.

Pints. Will you please move on from this stupid line of arguement. Everyone at this stage knows how much you love cullyhanna and in particular Ciaran and Stephen.

Get over it. I take it (a) that you were not in Cullyhanna on saturday and as you admit yourself you are going on second hand information again(b) that you are quite sure that everyone in Cullyhanna is a 'sneaky coward'.

If you have any more issues please pm me and I will meet you or contact you to discuss these issues. Please stop using this board to peddle your nonsense.From what I can see on this board by the lack of response to your prompts Pople from both Cullyhanna and the bridge and other posters from clubs through out the county are sick listening to it.

Thank you for withdrawing this allegation Dougal. I think that Mackers has already confirmed that Ciaran and Fr Cullen (Our club Honoury Vice President) were jointly presenting the medals at the Blitz. In total 197 children from nine teams took part in the competition which was superbly organise by our under 8 mangement and the youth committee. W e congratulate Silverbidge on their performance at the  tournament and look forawrd to going back up to the bridge to take in part in some of their tournaments perhaps later on in the year.

With regard to the overall situation between the two clubs i feel that it is time that supporters from both sides should stop fuelling stupid rumours and carrying tales between both clubs and making allegations on public forums such as GAABOARD.COM without seeking out proper internal explanations first of all. I know one Silverbridge poster in particular who seems to want to drag this stupid feud on and on and I am not talking about you Dougal.

i think that there is a willingness on both committees and indeed on most senior team players to move on . After all they are the people with most influence at clubs as role models for younger members and as club decision makers. I hope they succeed in improving relations in the not too distant future.

A superb player and freetaker and in my opinion Armaghs finest ever forward. Always delivered in the big games. If you look back at his efforts for cross I can recall him being man of the match in about six of their couty finals wins. Great ambaasador for both his club and county and though as a cullyhanna i have been on the end of a few of his wonder shows (a thirteen point tally in a club league game springs to mind) he was always cross biggest dangerman. I dont think he has missed any of their championship games in their great run. I also find him a nice fella on a personal level with great time for kids and fellow supporters. I know that he has come to our underage presentations on many occasions and been absolutely excellent.

oh to be born at the other end of the parish where everybody is a s good as gold. By the way I lined out for the bridge a few times meself many years ago. I wish i had stayed and become as upright a citizen as yourself.

We are only interested in getting justice served and not the type administered by Micky Maillie and Co.

By the way I have never had any problems with Ronan Quigley as a referee and although he can make wrong decisions i have never found him on a personal level to be a bad fella. Then again he is from the bridge where only gentleman exist in their utopian world and where everyone is an authority on justice and what is the right thing to do. After all the bridge never get men sent off or abuse referees. In fact they are all students of the rules of the GAA all pleasant sociable chaps.

Doesnt surprise me at all and just shows some of the idiots that are refereeing at the top level in Armagh. We had  a similar situation at our game vs Pearse Ogs where our so called county referee(self-appointed authority on justice for all clubs and players that he doesnt like) refused our manager the chance to attend to our player Paul Toner who was very seriously injured at the time. Our physio who approached him at half time about the incident the venerable MR Hughes proceeded to lecture him with his finger pointing in his face. Our man said something along the lines of F-off back to him he abandoned the match and requested an escort back to his car even though nobody went next or near him. Result two points lost, fine for the club and physio suspended for 12 months. Well done Paidi the suspension is as long as our player could possibly be out of football. I notice that he didnt abandon the tyrone game when Brian Mc Guigan approached him at half time in the westmeath game.