Armagh team for the Championship

[naka]

guys
we dont know if sk was sounded out, he is 29 maybe he doesnt want to play county level any more, its his decision, i would love him back as he would by my centre half in the championship
cunningham will play county levelin the future, for what its worth i see at least a fair few in front of him at the moment, forker, brian mallon, mal, anto duffy,clarke,rafferty,mc donnell, mc parland, but he is young and will get his chance in the not to distnat future. remember this time last year he was unheard of.
i really dont like words like disgrace etc, its an amateur game and these guys do what suits them not what suits us

i see hanratty morgan ak and hearty as sure starters come june, if sk comes so will he be, i never saw cunningham playing much this year and he probably realises this as well
tyrone will beat us but we will hit the quarters

[Applesisapples]

Joe put his kids interests in front of the County whilst he was county manager, some of them played when there were better options and I am glad he went,

How do you say that? AK clearly is a top class player. Not everyone was convinced about SK, but his position hasn't been claimed by anyone else, so where are these clearly better options? POR is now sending for TK, we might have won in Laois if we had someone to knock over frees. And I don't think Joe played PK.

SK might not wish to play for Armagh, which is hardly surprising given some of the comments about him previously.

You comment on the Laois game begs the question as to where Michael Stevenson was. Paddy obviously doesn't know his own players.

[Applesisapples]

It's as simple as this, if Stevenson was good enough to start against Down andtake the frees, why when we have been crying out for a consistent free taker was he not included against Laois?

[Applesisapples]

Sorry but someone above disagrees, although from the games I've been at last year and this we struggle with frees when Stevie's not available and even then outside 35 metres we are dodgy.

[armaghniac]

My mistake then. I seem to have forgotten that armaghniac is an infallible authority on Armagh football.

I seriously doubt my infallibility, but perhaps I am fallible in this judgement also. 

My original point was that we did miss some easy scores against Laois, including frees. This was  disheartening compared to Tralee where some nice scores built up momentum. A couple of wides less and a closer game and we might have found the energy to shade it. You can disagree. The damage was done by the ref in any case. I didn't comment on PORs selection in Portlaoise, where the changes were actually quite effective and MOR hit a nice free even if he subsequently missed one.

But overall Armagh's freetaking is not in the first rank of late.

[bennydorano]

Maybe I'm getting more crabby as I get older but between the Armagh wans on this site and the Armagh board (Sliothar really is a piece of work) we seem to easily outnumber other counties on the halfwit deluded front.

[DuffleKing]

Ah here Benny, take a read through some of the Mayo threads.

[JUst retired]

Ach Benny,does Sliothar not get enough stick on the other board

[armaghranger12]

If by all reports that Hearty is not returning to the County set up, it's about time that POR and PG had a talk with Ciaran McKinney. He is the best choice left for goals.

[Applesisapples]

What happened to Hearty's wee brother?

[Armaghgael]

Heard rumors of Toner returning anyone confirm true or not?

[Goats Do Shave]

Was told his girlfriend has come home... so you never know!

[fitzroyalty]

What shape would he be in though? Midfield wouldn't be my main worry against Tyrone to be honest. Still think we will beat them though.

[bennydorano]

Last i heard Toner had his work tools forwarded on to Oz, not the actions of man comin home anytime soon.

[yellowcard]

1. McEvoy
2. Mallon
3. Donaghy
4. Morgan
5. Kernan
6. McKeever
7. Duffy
8. Vernon
9. Mackin
10. Forker
11. Hanratty
12. Duffy
13. Clarke
14. Rafferty
15. Mallon