Ulster Senior football championship 2024

[skeog]

Thats Armagh goosed.























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[tiempo]

Niblock thinks the Anglo-Celt is the most precious piece of silverware in Ireland. Odd take.

Northern Ireland?

[Truthsayer]

Niblock thinks the Anglo-Celt is the most precious piece of silverware in Ireland. Odd take.

Northern Ireland?

Ulster

[Caitlin]

Three questions;
1. How much do Armagh pay their psychologist?
2. Is he a GAA man?
3. Is he a sports psychologist ?
Mind you, McGeeney has questions to answer. Jarly Og should have gone for a score from that mark. Disappointed for all the Armagh supporters, my extended family have supported them through thick and thin but this is cruel.

[tonto1888]

Absolutely devastated. No words.
Well done Donegal. Hope the lads and lassies form here enjoy the night

[JoG2]

Absolutely devastated. No words.
Well done Donegal. Hope the lads and lassies form here enjoy the night

Really sore on youse tonto1888.. Won't mean a while pile now, but Armagh are winning games and have reached 2 Ulster finals in a row

[Tony Baloney]

Three questions;
1. How much do Armagh pay their psychologist?
2. Is he a GAA man?
3. Is he a sports psychologist ?
Mind you, McGeeney has questions to answer. Jarly Og should have gone for a score from that mark. Disappointed for all the Armagh supporters, my extended family have supported them through thick and thin but this is cruel.

Under a different manager he would have.

[StephenC]

Wow, what a game. To come from the depths of shite last year to collecting Ulster this year is just an amazing achievement - and while there were loads of people involved, there's no doubt that Jim is the heartbeat of it all.

Commiserations to Armagh - thought you were the better team over the 90 minutes and it took a couple of wonder-scores from O'Donnell to claw us back into it when it looked like you were cruising. Up and down the country we regularly use the cliche "there was nothing between the 2 teams" but jesus that's more than true for us and youse - 3 games this year separated by 1 point - doesn't get tighter.

Amazing to see all the Donegal people out on the pitch again in Clones - winning Ulster has exceeded expectations for this year and by christ we'll enjoy the next few days.

Up Donegal!

[AustinPowers]

A few things after  watching all that:

Football as a spectacle is  pathetic.

Penalties need to go

I think McGeeney has taken Armagh as far as he  can. I expect change  there

[thewobbler]

A few things after  watching all that:

Football as a spectacle is  pathetic.

Penalties need to go

I think McGeeney has taken Armagh as far as he  can. I expect change  there

Would those first two thoughts not be in competition with each other? 

One thing we don't need is more games of football.

Another thing we don't need is teams that do not push for a win, are rewarded with a replay.

[Sportacus]

A few things after  watching all that:

Football as a spectacle is  pathetic.

Penalties need to go

I think McGeeney has taken Armagh as far as he  can. I expect change  there

1. It is so bad, but sadly if you're under 30 it's all you know.  That said, the shooting today was very good.
2. Jarlath rightly highlights that we have a unique sport, and he's right, so get rid of penalties.
3. I'll be amazed now if Armagh retain McGeeney.  An amazing footballer in his day, but his team are so scarred now mentally that they just can't do it.  Jarly Og declining the free perfectly illustrated the problem.

[RedHand88]

Absolutely devastated. No words.
Well done Donegal. Hope the lads and lassies form here enjoy the night

Really sore on youse tonto1888.. Won't mean a while pile now, but Armagh are winning games and have reached 2 Ulster finals in a row

They have had very easy runs to these finals don't forget.
Last year it was Antrim, Cavan, Down. Then they beat both Galway and the mighty Westmeath by a single point to qualify for the knockouts.
This year it was Fermanagh and Down in Ulster.
I think that may be giving them a sense of unwarranted swagger.

[An Watcher]

Little sympathy for Armagh for a number of reasons:-
(i) they've had the handiest draw in ulster for 2 years and still couldn't win it
(ii) they keep renewing geezers contract despite him NEVER getting over the line
(iii)  every one of those games that they lost on penalties should never have went to penalties in the first place as they should have won in normal/extra time

[Wildweasel74]

When it comes to Penalties, normally a goalkeeper has to pull u out of a hole. Most penalties are scored, so keeper needs save a few. Armagh keeper kept repeatly going early, before the ball was kicked, left it easy for the kicker to go the other way. There always a 1 or 2 straight down the middle, best way to save a penalty is to stand u ground.

[yellowcard]

Well done to Donegal, they somehow found a way to win even though I can't say they necessarily deserved it on the balance of play. Neither did Armagh though as others have stated.

Yet again we found an ourselves in a tight game going down the stretch. It was always likely to end up in such an outcome when you engage in a low risk, possession style game of you attack, we attack. Then it becomes a 50/50 game of nerve and long distance kicking contest. Our efficiency was off the charts for 45/50 minutes but deserted us as the game wore on.

We can look back with regret on marks not taken, a missed mark, a gilt edged goal chance not taken and a few questionable refereeing decisions but ultimately we didn't do enough to win the match. The fear of losing took over again going down the stretch as I feared it might. Horrible to lose on penalties again but the rules are the same for both sides so no complaints, we didn't do enough to win the game even though I felt we were the better side for large parts.

It will be a tough ask to lift the team for the qualifiers now and unfortunately it might be the last chance some of those players had of lifting silverware.

Fair play to Donegal though they won that Ulster the hard way from a very difficult draw and even though it's not a pretty style of football I doubt if they'll care one jot now. McGuinness has proven himself as an elite manager again.