Paul Grimley - Statement to Armagh fans

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Armagh just don't feel right to me. the whole thing has a 'lack lustre' do rightly vibe. the manager "will hang around until someone better comes along', the reemergence of peter McDonnell, (already tried and failed)... the Morgan row.. then the disastrous cavan game.. followed up by players feckin off during the championship and on and on. what's going on? great players just not performing! Arron kernan former young footballer of the year- poor. ciaron mckeever captained Ireland against oz-poor. the players look unfit,disinterested and leaderless.
there 'IS' something rotten in the middle of this orchard. is it the lack of funds? maybe the players and the team are underfunded. has doing up "fortress athletic grounds" scuppered our county teams ambitions? do senior players like mckeever and kernan see their careers ebbing away and are just punching in the time? malachy mackin? what happened there? he was great in the league then dropped??? what ever is wrong ITS NOT WORKING!!!
We need to recognise that football is changing. the fast paced all-out Dublin style or the attritional Donegal style seems to be the way to go. we don't have the pace for Dublin's way so maybe a return to our attacking wingbacks and the diagonal ball to the forwards. either way if I were the manager i'd be handing the players dvds of matches featuring Andy McCann and cathal o rourke, ger reid players of lesser physical and football ability but guys who found a role in the making of a great team

Mackin didn't play in the league either.