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Exactly correct,imagine giving you a penalty in the last minute, and then making you miss it!!!!

yeah yeah , the same ref would  probably  had it retaken if we had,ve scored 

tony o'hare is down as an ogs ref, and often refereed our underage games, a lot of the time very harsh against us. sour grapes torres. use should have had the game wrapped up with 15 mins left

Get an appointment with Gerry McEntee

A player from my club suffered from the groin/hip flexor problems that you describe and went to see gerry mcentee 2 years ago, who performed key hole surgery. the player swears by it and says he hasn't had a problem with it since

The next move will be to ban the shoulder charge altogether and I'm going to start watching real contact sports like hockey or something!!

Lot of knee jerk reactions going on here, in the cold light of day Monaghan are a more experienced outfit than this Armagh team. They are hell bent on getting an Ulster title that they feel they deserve and were by far the hungrier team. We are clearly a team in transition with a new management in place and we're playing without one of our two class forwards. We got promoted out of a very poor Division and the management need one if not two more years to develop us into a team challenging for honours. Divsion 1 football next spring will bring us on hopefully.

None of our much maligned HF line (the main source of our problems yesterday along with our CHB)  lined out in their positions on a regular basis for us before which especially in the case of Nippy Swift is an indictment of the previous regime. I would persist with Swift and AK in their positions and use Mackin as a sub. Our midfield was made up of two lads of about 23 who came up against a formidable and experienced pairing in Lennon and Clerkin. Vernon and Toner will be an outstanding pairing in a few years, ably assisted by Lavery (aged 23/24) who is a player that I didn't rate but he's much better than I gave him credit for. 

If we can get a handy draw in the qualifiers and get Ronan Clarke fit then we will achieve our aim for the year IMO which is to get to an AIQF. New teams and new management trying to change a style of play will lead to huge swings in performance like we have experienced this year. Hopefully the players will continue to work hard and keep their hunger and the management continue to learn from their mistakes.

23 is a fully grown senior inter county footballer. Bit old to be playing the youth card.

Rubbish..........at 23/24 McGeeney, McGrane et al were getting their arses whipped by Derry, they learnt from that, hopefully our lads will learn from this also. Players aren't in their prime until 26-28. The other thrust of my argument is that the lads of that age are only getting to play in their positions now (with the exception of Kieran Toner who has played a few years in MF at this stage).

Lavery looks like the only one with the required tools. Armagh are at a crossroads One wonders will that little wizard off their minors at corner forward last year be given a shot at it. Or simply be deemed too small. The latter I'd suspect. A sea change is required in Armagh football in my view. Talent has to supercede size. Currently in Armagh the latter is king IMO.

Have to agree with that indiana, it seems that POR places a lot of emphasis on size in his team, rather than a genuine scoring threat and a bit of flair (exception jamie clarke). It seems he is content to play midfielfders as half forwards, and IMO the team will never improve without 5/6 forwards who have the potential to get you at least 2-3 points per game. You only have to look at teams like Cork and Kerry; they do not rely on 1 forward to get all their scores. Their whole forward line can take a score and they are miles ahead of Armagh at the minute. The good thing is that the squad is young and hopefully they will produce their best in the next couple of years

[Armagh Club Fixtures for w/e Sunday 13 June 2010]

Armagh Club Fixtures for w/e Sunday 13 June 2010

Monday 7 June
ACL – Div. III (7.30)
Clonmore v Middletown (Oliver Hearty)

Wednesday 9 June
B' Championship – 1st Round Replay (7.30)
Annaghmore v Crossmaglen (Tony O'Hare)
(Extra time, if required)

ACL – Div. I (7.30)
St Patrick's v Pearse Og (Raymond Watters)

All-County 'B' League

Section A (7.30)
Clann Eireann v Clan na Gael (Mickey Leonard)
Wolfe Tone v St Paul's (Noel Martin)
Tir na nÓg v Maghery (Seamus O'Neill)
Sarsfields v St Peter's (Rory Robinson)

Section B (7.30)
Collegeland v Armagh Harps (Kevin McNeice)
Ballyhegan v An Port Mor (Ger Devlin)

Section C (7.30)
Madden v Keady (Paudie Hughes)
Granemore v St Michael's (Jim Slevin)
Ballymacnab v Middletown (Oliver Hearty)

Section D (7.30)
Mullaghbawn v St Patrick's (Stephen McKinley)
Carrickcruppen v Dromintee (Dessie McDonnell)
Silverbridge v Culloville (Kevin Murtagh)

Friday 11 June
ACL – Div. II (7.30)
Armagh Harps v Clann Eireann (Oliver Hearty)

ACL – Div. IV (7.30)
Corrinshego v Grange (Noel Martin)

Saturday 12 June
ACL – Div. I (8.00)
Dromintee v Crossmaglen (Ger Devlin)

Sunday 13 June
ACL – Div. I (2.00)
Sarsfields v Killeavy (Gary Smith)
Maghery v Culloville (Kevin McNeice)
Carrickcruppen v Whitecross (Ronan Quigley)
Mullaghawn v Clan na Gael (Noel Martin)

ACL – Div. II (2.00)
Clonmore v Ballymacnab (Damian McConville)
Armagh Harps v Wolfe Tone (Kevin Murtagh)
Ballyhegan v Tir na nÓg (Kevin Gallogly)
Madden v Clann Eireann (Jimmy McKee)
St Michael's v Keady (Stephen McKinley)
Silverbridge v St Peter's (Stephen Murray)

ACL – Div. III (2.00)
Collegeland v Shane O'Neill's (Rory Robinson)
Eire Og v An Port Mor (Paudie Hughes)
Annaghmore v Belleek (Barney Henry)
Lissummon v Clonmore (Jim Lynch)
Middletown v Forkhill (Eamon Nugent)
Tullysaran v St Paul's (Joe Murtagh)

ACL – Div. IV (2.00)
Mullabrack v St Patrick's II (Paul Boylan)
Killeavy II v O'Hanlon's (Vincent O'Neill)
Derrynoose v Grange (Keith Smith)
Phelim Brady's v Clady (Seamus O'Neill)
Corrinshego v Killean (Patrick Duffy)

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it's granemore v ballymacnab in division 2 on sunday

Tony your ignorance is shining like a beacon, one of the great features of that goal was the off the ball running of men like Canvan and Mc Guigan, they wreaked havoc there so that Mulligan was fit to target and bring to him the two men that he neede to get round before he pulled the trigger on the best goalkeeper in Ireland at the time.  Get with the game.  As for oisins goal well the fact the goalkeeper didnt come out and smother what was affectively a GAA tap in says more about a lack of concentration possibly through boredom. 
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It's unlikely that the Kerry goalkeeper was suffering from boredom as he saved a penalty before half-time and smothered another goal chance from Diarmuid Marsden not long before the mcconville goal. he was coming towards mcconville, and possibly predicting, like most keepers would, that oisin would shoot to the far corner. Oisin shot unexpectedly to the near post and I think it is unfair to credit this goal to a lack of concentration from the keeper, rather than a nice piece of skill by Mcconville

Grange beat Ballymacnab in the nab last night in the 'B' Championship by 4 or 5 points. It was a poor game with county minor Michael McKenna the stand out player at CHF