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Hope the defeat isnt to bad on the Nab... can really have a bad effect on a club and knock them back!

One thing that wouldnt have helped is that the Nab had possibly one of the handiest draws to get to a final in years, bye in the first round, clan na gael in the QF, then the only real test was Granmore (and IMO there are better Cship teams in the county Ogs, St Pats, Dromintee to name a few)

Now that is not their fault!!!!! they can only play who is in front off them.

What im really getting at is that there wouldnt have been enough tight games in there too build up real momentum!

I think a big element that will affect the game today is experience!

Now people will say the Nab have nothing to lose and rightly so.... If those Nab players are in the right mind frame that they are going to win, soon as they cross the white line and into a packed Athletic Grounds the fact of having nothing to lose will go out of their mind and they will just be concentrating on playing well and not making any mistakes.

Cross have been there so many times before and they know how to ride out the storm....If one or two mistakes creep in its how the Nab react to this will determine how close the game will be... I think the Nabs defence is good enough but they need to play out of their skin to keep the Cross forward line quiet.

People have questioned Cross's midfield but it had been questioned all last year too and they are AI champs.

Nab have 3/4 good forwards but again i think Cross will have the experience to deal with them.

Along with the fact i still think Cross will need to have an off day and everything will need to go right for the Nab i still cant see past Cross on this one.... But who knows what can happen in 60mins!?

maGHERY 1-12 D`TEE 2-6 D`TEE GOT PEN IN INJURY TIME COMFORTABLE WIN FOR MAGHERY SARSFIELDS BT CRUPPEN

Cruppen were playing St Pats! Cruppen won by 1 or 2 i think?

The u21 final was a game of two halfs!! the wind dictated the game, cross went all out the first half to score as much as they could and then defend for their lives second half.

Cruppin didnt get it right first half in my opinion, they should have pulled more bodies back to cope with the wind. Yet in saying that some of cruppin players didnt want to know first half but came out fighting second half and i think scored 7 8 points in the first 10 minutes and had cross rattled but then a young lad for cross got hurt and game was stopped for about 6 7 mins!

This took the momentum away from cruppin and when cruppin was going on the attack got caught at the back to concede a goal late on which killed the game as a contest.

Cross by far the better team on the day, pity game was played in such bad conditions, would have being great to see what the two teams could have produced on a good day!

[Cross v Cruppen u21 Final athletic grounds @ 2.30pm Sunday]

Cross v Cruppen u21 Final athletic grounds @ 2.30pm Sunday

yea coalisland beat carrickcruppin in the final by about 4 or 5 points! carrickcruppin had a man sent of in the semi final and iwith them only having two players for the inter change during the final you could tell it had a big effect on the rest of the players!

It was a very good standard of football on saturday, be a while before it catches on but should see it doing well in the future?

Carrickcruppen 1-05 Dromintee 0-09

I must say Cruppen played some pretty horrible stuff. I was very disappointed they were anywhere near us and its an indication of how poor we were tonight. We were missing some players through injury but we certainly had more than enough on the field to be far too much for Cruppen. If Cruppen continue like that I think they will struggle.

However bad we were, a win is a win and its 2 more points in the bag.

Cruppin should have had that game dead and buired at half time!! they hit i think 8-10 wides in the first half, ref give dromintee some easy frees at cruital points in the second half!

And to be honest i wudnt say that is was because dromintee were bad, cruppin outplayed dromintee in most areas of the field, had about 70% posession in the first with it being 50/50 in the second half! they just just through it away, another game cruppin should have won!!!

Was at the cruppin game, poor first half from a cruppin point of view... clans should have seen it out but to be fair to cruppin they came right out at the start of the second half and never stopped!! cruppen missed a free right at the end for the win.

I think armagh are going to suprise a few people, they should beat down, seen them play twice this year with one of the occassions againest armagh and they are not a great side to be honset. They have a one or two great players who carry the rest of the team but amragh are capable of dealing with that.

As for the all ireland i fancy cork, looked very impressive and cork it won sigerson with a few of them players also on the u21 team as well.

Was very disappointed with down 2day, we can use the excuse we had a few boys missing but i heard armagh people talking in the crowd, obviously the crossmaglen boys were missing and there is at least 4 of them, then they had toner and two fellas along the side line who were not stripped out so they were not at full strength either!! Armagh were looking good to be honest.

We were beaten by Armagh i think

Just seen the team there on HILL16 looks an impressive team on paper
more than i thought....thats a very physical side we've a relatively small forward line....

whats shane byrne like at full back? is fitzsimons overage?
colin moore seems to be making a name for himself as a solid corner back?
tight call between niall brogan and guckian at half back but i've hears the latter is a quality performer?

Meath will be a very daunting task but whoever comes out of this battle i reckon will have a considerable confidence boost

Was at that armagh match..armagh came out winners! they are ooking very good considering there championship isnt till mid march, so i would imagin that they would only be half way through their preperation....plus they were missin cross boys plus senior boys toner and folker!

Could be the team to look out for in ulster?

[ref gave them a lot of easy frees in the scoring zone!]

Cruppen beat the 'bridge by a point - heard the lads played shocking well with some key players missing and were robbed of a point at the end.  Pity.

well to be honest was at the game and the ref kept the bridge in it!!! They did have some good passages of play but have to admit, ref gave them a lot of easy frees in the scoring zone! 

cruppen badly needed that win to keep their promotion hopes alive, they have another tough one on sunday againest tir na nog!

Well that's what happens when you foul.  - I heard we got nothing of the ref.

well if you classify good tackling as fouling then you may think again!! there was one occasion were a cruppen man done the perfect near hand tackle ( that you would teach a youngster to do) and he was blown up for it because the bridge man went down to the ground for because he was of balance...and that happended on several occassios!! but the ref def did not give them nothing!!

Cruppen beat the 'bridge by a point - heard the lads played shocking well with some key players missing and were robbed of a point at the end.  Pity.

well to be honest was at the game and the ref kept the bridge in it!!! They did have some good passages of play but have to admit, ref gave them a lot of easy frees in the scoring zone! 

cruppen badly needed that win to keep their promotion hopes alive, they have another tough one on sunday againest tir na nog!

Marty ferris is on the county panel for one reason....the management team say he is god enough to be!!!

He had not played a match in over a month and no player is going to be 100% match fit going into a big game!

We'll see the next day out if he he'll prove himself....have every faith!

No disrespect to madden but they have had an easy path to the final which aint their fault, they can only play who is in front of them....however they have not being tested by a strong enough side leading up to the final and i think cruppen will just blow them away...the match againest cross was just unreal!!! so predict a cruppen win, they have to much fire power but however much they win by is down to how they play!?