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Congratulations to St Galls. Nice the way the county board recognised their achievement on the county website!!   

Well I was at the games tonight and there is no way the crowd there would fit around any of the grounds up the country and that was even after half the st johns and Rossa fans left! Well least not if everyone wants a good view of the game!

Think casement is the best venue, always get a gd crowd at those games. Both teams have a big following and a lot of neutrals like myself like to go. Don't think any other ground could hold that many people!

Would need to get a few more good players on board, took niblock to come on and score a late goal to prevent an embarassing defeat to London!!

Well the issue was that it was 1 on 1 until another lamh dhearg guy fly kicked the st galls guy in the back while the 2 were fighting... when it becomes 2 on 1 are you still meant to stand back??  The third guy that got involved sparked the rest, as you say the initial incident would have fizzled out itself if it had not been for that.

Def agree the red cards were a bit much, some of the guys that were actually trying to break things up and are now going to get suspended for it.

Wasn't trying to be unfair just more putting a question out there!  Wasn't at the rasharkin game so cant really pass any comment but did see the LD v Cargin and they were far from innocent in that.  Quite a number of their players were involved and it was definitley a 2 way thing... not all on Cargin.

For the most part it was nothing more than a scuffle between 2 players which most other players tried to break up including one that was then also booked in the end.  One of the worst offenders, a lamh dhearg county player, actually fly kicked a st galls player in the back and managed not to get booked at all!   

Once calmed down tho that was it over and the rest of the game continued without incident.

Not sure if it is a bit of a coincidence but there seems to be a common denominator between quite a few incidents over the last year; LD v Cargin in casement, LD v Rasharkin and now this.

Was up at the Ahoghill game, dont think Galls necessarily fielded a weak team.  Think the outcome was a result of a couple of players injured, bad weather and the fact that Ahoghill just weren't gonna give up.  Dont think either team even scored in the second half until about 20 minutes into it but not for lack of trying. 

Not really surprising that they were being cleaned out, we were down to 14 men and Bradley still saw fit to continue to play the sweeper for the last 15 mins of the first half.  May as well have been playing with 13!!  2 extra derry men left our boys having to work twice as hard to win anything, thats bound to really take it out of you.

Obv not the same one as you lol

I definitely wouldn't have said he was outstanding, he did clear up quite a bit of ball but also lost the ball on a number of occasions that led Donegal scores.

In saying that he wasn't the only one.  If I was to pick who I thought was good in defence on the day I would have to say Ricky Johnson.

Didn't hear the game on the radio but was up at it and wouldn't have said Healy had a great game.  He won a fair few balls but got caught out a number of times either being too slow releasing the ball and or gave the ball away.  Usually a solid enough player but seemed to be having a bit of a nightmare on the day.

Dont know just read somewhere that he was injured. 

Was interesting to see Antrim playing without him anyway, I dont think his presence was really missed that much. Thomas and Neeson were both on target with their frees. 

Thomas was on form in the first half tho faded out of the game completely in the second,  not sure if this is just a lack of game time as he hasn't played a whole game all season.

Sean Burke had a brilliant game right to the end and O'Neill also played very well up front while also dropping bk to support the defence.

Think he has a shoulder injury.

id say players like loughrey, Sean kelly, kevin o boyle, both bradys and terry o neill. too many in it for themselves. dont know too much about the new boys. hope a few more to add to the list above.

Simon, not sure if I am understanding your reply but are you listing loughrey, Sean kelly, kevin o boyle, both bradys and terry o neill as players that are only in it for themselves?