NFL Division 1 2025

[JPO]

Armagh played great football at times. Great to watch long kick passing and high fielding again.Tyrone playing  the usual stuff...sideways ,backwards...handpass ...more handpasses...sideways again...and so on

[David McKeown]

Brutal looking starting 15 for Armagh, Tyrone by 7.

This aged well. To be fair I said something similar before the late changes.

Delighted to he wrong. I watched last week's game in an airport and it looked so awful, I was writing off the season already. Tonight has to give a bit of confidence, tactics and discipline on point and still with a fair bit of a first 15 to come back in.

No frees for breaking the 3 man rule this week which is good snd the only 50m indiscretion was from Tyrone. Much improved. Jaysus you were early writing us off!

McQuillan, McCormack and Rafferty out of boys who weren't starting last year were very good tonight and put the hands up. 

Yeah I was a little pessimistic after last week. Thought Murnin, Rafferty and McQuillian were very good tonight.

Still don't like the new rules. Keeps teams in games too long particularly with the wind.

Have other issues with them too

[Armagh18]

Brutal looking starting 15 for Armagh, Tyrone by 7.

This aged well. To be fair I said something similar before the late changes.

Delighted to he wrong. I watched last week's game in an airport and it looked so awful, I was writing off the season already. Tonight has to give a bit of confidence, tactics and discipline on point and still with a fair bit of a first 15 to come back in.

No frees for breaking the 3 man rule this week which is good snd the only 50m indiscretion was from Tyrone. Much improved. Jaysus you were early writing us off!

McQuillan, McCormack and Rafferty out of boys who weren't starting last year were very good tonight and put the hands up. 

Yeah I was a little pessimistic after last week. Thought Murnin, Rafferty and McQuillian were very good tonight.

Still don't like the new rules. Keeps teams in games too long particularly with the wind.

Have other issues with them too

Agree, but then we wouldnt have been as far ahead without 2 pointers and if Tyrone had the chance to get a short kickout away we wouldn't have been able to win so many of theirs.

[JPO]

If Tyrone had players capable of catching a ball above their heads they wouldnt need short kickouts

[Armagh18]

If Tyrone had players capable of catching a ball above their heads they wouldnt need short kickouts

Not sure if you watched the game but there wasn't that many clean catches from either team. All about the breaking ball and tbf Tyrone started to win a lot more break ball the second half.

[JPO]

I watched all the games on tv so far under the new rules and at least there were some high catches by Armagh players as there was last year. Its obvious now with the longer kickouts that most players are incapable of fielding  a high ball. It shows the sorry state football is in.

[Milltown Row2]

I watched all the games on tv so far under the new rules and at least there were some high catches by Armagh players as there was last year. Its obvious now with the longer kickouts that most players are incapable of fielding  a high ball. It shows the sorry state football is in.

If you're not training to catch a high ball because you've been working the short kick outs why is it difficult to not think the fielding them would be impossible

[Armagh18]

I watched all the games on tv so far under the new rules and at least there were some high catches by Armagh players as there was last year. Its obvious now with the longer kickouts that most players are incapable of fielding  a high ball. It shows the sorry state football is in.

Very difficult to catch a ball thats hanging in the wind, handy for the other team to break it.

[David McKeown]

You also have to kick the ball into an area where the team not taking the kick out can have an extra man.

[5times5times]

Write armagh off at your peril. Lads to return as follows.

Paddy Burns
Aaron Mckay
Rian ONeill
Oisin ONeill
Conor ONeill
Ciaran Mackin
Tiernan Kelly
Joe McElroy
Niall Grimley (banned obv)

[JPO]

There was virtually no high catching in any of the games on tv sisnce last weekend. The Dublin Donegal game this evening was as bad as anything I watched last year. The new kickout rule was designed to encourage the age old art of high fielding.Its obvious most modern players are not capable of doing it. Theyre also incapable of defending one on one. They were taught tactics ...marking space etc by coaches.

[Armagh18]

Write armagh off at your peril. Lads to return as follows.

Paddy Burns
Aaron Mckay
Rian ONeill
Oisin ONeill
Conor ONeill
Ciaran Mackin
Tiernan Kelly
Joe McElroy
Niall Grimley (banned obv)

Doubt anyone with a brain is writing any team off at this stage, especially last years winners.

Peter McGrane as well to come back who had a super debut year last year. Out of the boys you named there I'd say 6 are definitely 2 point takers

Only the league yet and we were poor for about 40 minutes last week, wonder how today would have went if Tyrone had the wind first?

[David McKeown]

Write armagh off at your peril. Lads to return as follows.

Paddy Burns
Aaron Mckay
Rian ONeill
Oisin ONeill
Conor ONeill
Ciaran Mackin
Tiernan Kelly
Joe McElroy
Niall Grimley (banned obv)

Doubt anyone with a brain is writing any team off at this stage, especially last years winners.

Peter McGrane as well to come back who had a super debut year last year. Out of the boys you named there I'd say 6 are definitely 2 point takers

Only the league yet and we were poor for about 40 minutes last week, wonder how today would have went if Tyrone had the wind first?

I think it's a massive advantage to have it second half

[JPO]

It takes one player to catch a ball no matter how many players are in the area the ball is kicked into

[nrico2006]

Keeper touched it.

What is the reason behind the keeper touching it, if it still goes over, affecting the value of the score?