Ulster Colleges

[bennydorano]

RESULT
@DanskeBank_UK MacRory Cup - Round 3 🏆

🟩🟥 @stpatsarmagh 2-15
🟪⬜️ @stpaulsbbrook 1-11

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@DanskeBank_UK MacRory Cup - Round 3 🏆

🟥⬜️ @AcademyDgn  4-10
⬜️🟦 @StMarysGSM 2-10
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Was at Armagh derby today. Bessbrook a very physically imposing side, Armagh struggled with their size around the middle but have some great footballers. Size could be their undoing at the business end.

[bennydorano]

Final round of group games this week (with some groups already done) & the first play off round next week. It seems an awful pile of effort to get down from 18 to 16 teams tbh but there's still a bit of jeopardy about. If Armagh lose to Abbey they'll drop from 1st to 3rd and end up travelling to Colmans in the play off round instead of a relatively handy homer.

[marty34]

Final round of group games this week (with sone groups already done) & the first play off round next week. It seems an awful pile of effort to get down from 18 to 16 teams tbh but there's still a bit of jeopardy about. If Armagh lose to Abbey they'll drop from 1st to 3rd and end up travelling to Colmans in the play off round instead of a relatively handy homer.

Are the current group tables available anywhere?

[bennydorano]

https://ulsterschoolsgaa.com/competitions/macrory-cup-25-26/

That's as good as you're getting, it's not great

[marty34]

https://ulsterschoolsgaa.com/competitions/macrory-cup-25-26/

That's as good as you're getting, it's not great

Thanks Benny.

[Smokin Joe]

https://ulsterschoolsgaa.com/competitions/macrory-cup-25-26/

That's as good as you're getting, it's not great

It is desperate that there isn't a league table nor even all the results populated anywhere for what is a premier competition.
Some difference compared to Munster with their Corn ui Mhri having pretty much every game shown live on Clubber.

[Targetman]

Very impressed with the Abbey tonight in their big win over Armagh, I don't know how that Armagh team beat Omagh based on tonight's game, serious pace in that Abbey team

[bennydorano]

Wasn't there 2nite, was at the last 2 Armagh games and I thought they rode their luck both days tbh, obviously didn't learn much. Being talked up as contenders has done them no good, hopefully the reality check will! Quick turnaround to play Colmans next week, big ask now.

[Smokin Joe]

Very impressed with the Abbey tonight in their big win over Armagh, I don't know how that Armagh team beat Omagh based on tonight's game, serious pace in that Abbey team

I guess the Abbey team contains quite a lot of that great Dromintee team?

[lurganblue]

Very impressed with the Abbey tonight in their big win over Armagh, I don't know how that Armagh team beat Omagh based on tonight's game, serious pace in that Abbey team

I guess the Abbey team contains quite a lot of that great Dromintee team?

Some of it yeah, but probably not as much as youd think.  D O'Rourke as the captain as a standout of course.

They look a quality side.  I was surprised at St Pats not making a game of it though. If Abbey are contenders, I dont know what went on up in Omagh as they were well beaten on a rotten evening (snow, wind etc).

[Goals_Will_Come]

*MacRory Cup Fixtures*

*Play-offs (w/c 8 December)*

1 Abbey Donegal v Cathair Dhoire
2 Omagh CBS v Patrician Carrickmacross
3 St Patrick's Dungannon v South West Donegal
4 St Patrick's Maghera v St Paul's Bessbrook
5 Our Lady's Castleblayney v St Joseph's Donaghmore/St Mary's Magherafelt
6 Abbey Newry v St Patrick's Cavan
7 St Joseph's Donaghmore/St Mary's Magherafelt v St Michael's Enniskillen
8 St Colman's Newry v St Patrick's Armagh

*Quarter-finals* (6-10 January)

A 1 v 7
B 2 v 8
C 3 v 5
D 4 v 6

*Semi-finals* (21-24 January)
B v D
A v C

*Final* – Sunday, February 8

[bennydorano]

I noticed it a while ago that the play off round would lead to repeat group fixtures immediately in the QF, surely avoidable?

[onefaircounty]

Very impressed with the Abbey tonight in their big win over Armagh, I don't know how that Armagh team beat Omagh based on tonight's game, serious pace in that Abbey team

I guess the Abbey team contains quite a lot of that great Dromintee team?

I was talking to one of their minor coaches and he said six start for the Abbey but they'd have more on the St Pauls team thats struggling, which must be a bit of a concern.