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[There was absolutely no calm among the management, up roaring at one another, no-one in control.]

A horrible melt down by Derry. Complete panic on the pitch and on the line both in normal time and again in ET. There was absolutely no calm among the management, up roaring at one another, no-one in control. Naturally this spills on to the pitch.

As for RG and his social media inputs. For the life of me I cannot understand why he is doing this? Is it attention seeking, ego, desperation? I dunno.

What was the management on the line up to?

Go 3 up, bring on fresh legs and break the play up. Bring on another sub a min later etc....some of our men were absolutely spent. Easiest thing in the world though watching from the sidelines that's for sure

Meenagh is a shrewd operator , Sat goes down as just one of those days 

Gallagher was saying in the video that it was a 'soft' decision to take Nial Loughin and Conor Doherty off, 2 lads that could barely run by the time they were took off and probably should've been took off earlier

Am I right in thinking that the stand in the athletic grounds in reserved for armagh season tickets?

"Injured duo Matthew Downey and Dan Higgins miss out". In the Gaelic Life article naming the panel

Did Ryan McNicholl opt out or is he injured?

Agree with those who are not overelly conserned about us not getting promoted this year.  Div 2 is the best place for giving young players a chance to develop and help to build a strong squad.

McKinlless's greatest strength is his reading of the game, good man to snap up ball among a group of players and then breaks  at pace with his head up and can take a score or give a clever pass... remember he got an Al-Star

Like to see Mathew Downey get more game time


That is a very good U20 squad

Managent wouldn't need to underestimate Cavan

Thought Matthew Downey has been good every time he's played

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STARTING 15
U20 FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
vs. MONAGHAN
18.03.26 | 7:30 PM
CASTLEBLAYNEY, CO. MONAGHAN

1. CAHIR HAMPSON
2. RORY SMALL
3. PÁDRAIG HARAN
4. FIONN McELDOWNEY
5. CAHIR SPIERS
6. CAHAL McKAIGUE
7. BLIAIN McDAID
8. TOMMY ROGERS
9. MICHAEL HIGGINS
10. EAMON YOUNG
11. CODY ROCKS
12. JOHNNY McGUCKIAN
13. JOHN BOYLE
14. CONAL HIGGINS
15. GER DILLON

Subs:
JACK McCLOY, COHEN CASSIDY, RONAN CANAVAN, DARA DOHERTY, LUKE GRANT, CAOIMHIN HARAGAN, CHRIS McCULLAGH, DARA McGUCKIN, DYLAN ROCKS, FINBARR MURRAY, CAOLAN HIGGINS, JUDE BRYSON, DARRAGH O'NEILL, SÉ MOLLOY, CONRAD MULLAN, TURLOUGH McHUGH, JAMES SARGENT, PADRAIC O'KANE, CATHAIR McBRIDE, CATHAL Ó MIANÁIN

Strong enough looking team with good players named on the bench too. Best of luck to them!

Who's captain this year?

Will Seargent play, is he fit again?  Hear he's in the Derry Senior set up.

He's close to being back. Has been doing the warm ups for the last few senior games

Will the u20s match be streamed anywhere?

That's some bench named

So can we make any calls this weekend?

Louth v Derry
Meath v Tyrone
Cork v Kildare
Offaly v Cavan

From a Kildare point of view I don't see us getting anything in Cork and Cavan will beat Offaly. Meath will win, but not 100% still on Derry but it'd be better for us if they won and Louth were out of the promotion hunt coming to Newbridge.

Tyrone will beat Meath.

Wouldn't be too sure about that. I think Tyrone have had a player drop off the panel this week and Canavan is on his travels.
Meath will be strong in Croker and will run at Tyrone - I can see them scoring plenty. It could be a high scoring game, but I give a tentative nod to Meath based.

Louth v Derry is coin toss. If Derry can hit the heights they did against Cork, I'll go with them.

Cork will probably have too much for Kildare, they are at home and I think I read they have some injured players back.

Cavan will beat Offaly.

So can we make any calls this weekend?

Louth v Derry
Meath v Tyrone
Cork v Kildare
Offaly v Cavan

From a Kildare point of view I don't see us getting anything in Cork and Cavan will beat Offaly. Meath will win, but not 100% still on Derry but it'd be better for us if they won and Louth were out of the promotion hunt coming to Newbridge.

Tyrone will beat Meath.

Wouldn't be too sure about that. I think Tyrone have had a player drop off the panel this week and Canavan is on his travels.
Meath will be strong in Croker and will run at Tyrone - I can see them scoring plenty. It could be a high scoring game, but I give a tentative nod to Meath based.

Louth v Derry is coin toss. If Derry can hit the heights they did against Cork, I'll go with them.

Cork will probably have too much for Kildare, they are at home and I think I read they have some injured players back.

Cavan will beat Offaly.

How was the player?

Rory Brennan

Anyone know what way injuries are fixed for saturday?

Killian Conlon said on derry gales that clucky and mcevoy could play?

Will be a hostile environment on saturday but we should have too much for them

Meenagh was saying in an interview after the cork match that mcevoy is backing training and should be getting game time very soon. So wouldn't be surprised if he is in the squad

Just to kick this up again. The NFL and NHL are the second biggest competitions in the GAA and yet so much of it passes without a second of coverage.
Kildare were in Div 3 last year and I never expect much, but Div 2 as a whole is barely getting a look-in. Kids consume so much through screens and highlights, and  it's a massive issue.

How can Clubber rock up at every game all summer and then when it gets to this game you have one camera and 90 seconds of highlights and that's it. Even a very basic thing on GAA+ YouTube.

Kildare v Offaly was a Saturday and there wasn't a single clip until TG4's GAA 2026 did a decent package on Monday.

Everyone is raving about Barry McNulty's scoring for Leitrim but that seems to have come from a streamer or a local crew.

Look at this about Match of the Day...

Traditional linear viewing of the Saturday and Sunday evening highlights programmes had declined by 770,000 to 6.88 million average weekly views last month compared with December 2024 but MOTD has gained 1.52 million viewers by making highlight clips available on its website and app at 8pm on Saturdays for the first time.

Its a joke. League of Ireland stream 500 odd games throughout the season between the 1st, 2nd and women's divisions (which costs the same per year as GAA+) and the GAA barely stream any. I don't know why they can't just let Rte, BBC and tg4 choose which games they want and stream the rest on GAA+.

Alex Beirne red card has been upheld so would assume same decision for Glass

Any news if the Glass red card was appealed?

Derry Journal saying they have appealed the red card just waiting on the outcome.

Derry will again be without Conor McCluskey who missed the victory in Kildare but it won't be a long-term absence.

They did have Ballinascreen duo Ryan Scullion and Marty Bradley back in the 26 at the weekend, while Dan Higgins and the rest of Derry's walking wounded are back on the training field.

"We'll have to build their load up progressively," Meenagh said, also indicating it would be a "week or two" before McCluskey would be in line for a return.