Armagh Club football & hurling

[thewanderer]

ogs well beat  by st pats who look a very good team. minor champs of 3 years ago. didnt help the ogs that they had to field without their main player anto duffy who was injured at senior county trainin the nite before. player welfare what a joke makin players train the night before a championship match. ogs also had a number of other players missing thro injury from the 1st game, held st pats to 3 with a minute to halftime but a goal and a point deflated them. wasnt expecting a lot from this team as they struggled at underage. good luck to st pats who have a good team and will take some stopping especially if they continue to get home advantage.

[Goats Do Shave]

Shamrocks (Ballyhegan & Maghery) got to the minor final in '99 only to be beaten by a Barry Boylan inspired Ogs. Destroyed every team that year, bar the Ogs, including a much fancied Cullyhanna team!

[JUst retired]

While agreeing that teams should only amalgamate to keep lads playing football  only. If you look at the clubs who join, they are in the lower reaches of their leagues,they are always in very rural area`s. The fact that they may be lucky and win something every now and then,is no reason to deny them the opportunity to do so.How often to clubs in towns amalgamate? They have no reason to do so.

[ogshead]

While agreeing that teams should only amalgamate to keep lads playing football  only. If you look at the clubs who join, they are in the lower reaches of their leagues,they are always in very rural area`s. The fact that they may be lucky and win something every now and then,is no reason to deny them the opportunity to do so.How often to clubs in towns amalgamate? They have no reason to do so.

If they join up and win something that's fair enough but I remember the time of the Cil Chluana amalgamation their aim was to win the St Pauls tournament in Belfast!! That was even before they played their first game!!

[JUst retired]

Did they win it?

[winsamsoon]

I remember a few years back St Paul's of Lurgan Joined up with Eire Og can't remember what they called themselves. But somewhere with an area the size of Taghnevan and Craigavon should be able to fields team and there should be no excuse.

[IVEDECIDED]

How is it possible to select a team when three team amalgamate? Who manages the team and who calls the shots? It is bound to lead to some arguments

an amalgameted team from clonmore , annaghmore and collageland got to the u-16 county final in 2000 they were named st john,s . i think a kilcluney side reached the latter stages of the minor championship in the late 90,s featuring players from ballymacnab,clady and granemore . when teams cant field on their own they normally join up with their parish neighbours , still would,nt like to be a  selector though 

Not sure of the spelling but think it was actually Cill Chluana... they reached the quarter finals and knocked out by the Ogs. Another team that was knocking around at the time was Laochra ONeills. Think they were made up of 4 clubs can't remember who exactly. Have to agree with the other posters about amalgamations though, they should only be formed so a team can be fielded to represent the area. Around the late 90's the two teams above were serious contenders for the championship and I feel that they were formed for the wrong reason

I remember being hammered in the U21 championship around 99-2000 by a 4 team mix I think they were called Craobh Rua

[winsamsoon]

Remember that myself saan in Tir Na Nogs pitch

[fitzroyalty]

4 teams amalgamating is ridiculous. same goes for ogs/st paul's, mind bein told about that but not believing it, i'm sure that was a match made in heaven 

[Onion Bag]

While agreeing that teams should only amalgamate to keep lads playing football  only. If you look at the clubs who join, they are in the lower reaches of their leagues,they are always in very rural area`s. The fact that they may be lucky and win something every now and then,is no reason to deny them the opportunity to do so.How often to clubs in towns amalgamate? They have no reason to do so.

If they join up and win something that's fair enough but I remember the time of the Cil Chluana amalgamation their aim was to win the St Pauls tournament in Belfast!! That was even before they played their first game!!

who told you the aim was to win St Pauls tournament, i played on that team, and i never even heard of the St pauls tournament till a few years after that, when the Harps and ogs i think won it

[JUst retired]

The St.Pauls /Eire Og amalgamation only lasted 1 year. At that time neither club could field at U16 level.

[McMonkfish]

cill chulana was four teams made up of ballymacnab, clady, granemore and mullabrack, we played them up in lissummon in the quarter-final, they lead for most of the game but the ogs came back, cill chulana actually miss a penalty in the dying minutes, i think the score was 1-5 to 10pts.

Laochra O'neills were made up of Shane O'Neills, Belleeks, O'hanlons and Lissummon i think, they destroyed us in the 1st half of semi final taking a 12pt lead into half time, we came back to draw in the last kick of the game with a monster kick from 50 yards up the hill in clady. The replay was a different affair we blew them away beating them by 12pts in Granemore.

[BenDover]

I was on an Ogs team that played cill chulana in the Mick Higgin's final in Abbey Park, remember them having some very good players and they were a v.strong team overall but they still didn't win 

Did 1 of them Ogs minor teams not play Laochra O'neills in the county final - the game where Tommy Graham saved a penalty for the Ogs?

[el_cuervo_fc]

I was on an Ogs team that played cill chulana in the Mick Higgin's final in Abbey Park, remember them having some very good players and they were a v.strong team overall but they still didn't win 

Did 1 of them Ogs minor teams not play Laochra O'neills in the county final - the game where Tommy Graham saved a penalty for the Ogs?

That was the U16 Final was it not?

[orange2009]

Orchard TV speaks to Paul Duffy in anticipation of the USFC game with Derry on 16th May in Celtic Park.

http://armagh-gaa.com/Orchard-TV/News/VIDEO--Paul-Duffy-looks-to-USFC-opener.aspx