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2-0 win for Man City away to Newcastle in the 1st leg of league cup semi final tonight.

Other semi final Arsenal v Chelsea tomorrow.

Any need for 2 leg semi-finals in that competition anymore?

Live game tonight started at 8pm

Sundays final in Tuam at 1pm can be watched here.

Derry v Donegal on TG4 YouTube channel

Link here

https://www.youtube.com/live/adfiom8FHsg?si=QiSFJ_0rKWVKxRO-

Glenullin  werent really playing Gaelic football yesterday.They should install dartboards in their clubrooms and try that as a sport instead. Kerry  teams generally do play football so they do tend to win matches. 

And you think what An Ghaeltacht did yesterday was playing football? Certainly not the envision of the FRC fronted by our saviour Jim Gavin.

Must have been a record for the amount of hand passing in a 60th minute All-Ireland final from a winning team however they chose that way to win than entertain and won't care one bit now.

The tactics was a clear response to them playing more football in the semi final against Kildare opposition and nearly getting beat, plus would have known about the scoring power Glenullin had coming into that final and the best way to stop that was to retain possession with long boring passages of play.

Sure why would they not keep possession? They're in Croker for one reason and thats to get the win by any means necessary.

Agreed.
Gaeltacht would have been naive fools to kick the ball in to players who were double and triple marked.
Instead Glenullin were the ones who looked like fools, behind in the game from early on and then just sticking to their rigid defensive system, giving Gaeltacht easy possession and only breaking free of the shackles at the end when it was too late.

A win for Glenullin would have seen many copycat defensive systems, so thankfully they lost.

Most teams are programmed to sit back and not engage and after watching
Gaeltacht tactics on Sunday that proved successful you'll see many more copycats of long sustained periods of possession play.  FRC has already adjusted the hooter for the year ahead to prevent the boring passages of play with teams playing down the clock if the copycats happen I'll expect the FRC will look at restrictions on hand passes or a shot clock introduced.

I think you've that arse about face.. Gaeltach played what was front of them.

Not a hope will restricting the handpass come back into football, it was an unmitigated disaster

And, it was 1 game. Plenty of cracking games in jnr int and snr

We'll see especially if more use those tactics against a team in front of them.

They (the FRC) have already looked at restrictions on hand passing in their recent sandbox games and as I've said already they have adjusted the hooter system.

Thats Carrick who did worse in his time over Middlesborough than Keane at Sunderland, and wans talk credentials like it means anything

Managerial stats

Michael Carrick

G139 W65 D25 L49. Win % 46.76

Roy Keane

G181 W70 D42 L69. Win % 38.7

You could use stats to suggest Kevin McStay was a better manager than Mick O'Dwyer, cop on

Keane brought her home 🏆 Carrick languished

I wouldn't be able find stats for that if I even tried. You need to move on from Roy Keane, maybe he'll get the Irish job some day and we'll see can he improve his average win percentage.

Glenullin  werent really playing Gaelic football yesterday.They should install dartboards in their clubrooms and try that as a sport instead. Kerry  teams generally do play football so they do tend to win matches. 

And you think what An Ghaeltacht did yesterday was playing football? Certainly not the envision of the FRC fronted by our saviour Jim Gavin.

Must have been a record for the amount of hand passing in a 60th minute All-Ireland final from a winning team however they chose that way to win than entertain and won't care one bit now.

The tactics was a clear response to them playing more football in the semi final against Kildare opposition and nearly getting beat, plus would have known about the scoring power Glenullin had coming into that final and the best way to stop that was to retain possession with long boring passages of play.

Sure why would they not keep possession? They're in Croker for one reason and thats to get the win by any means necessary.

Agreed.
Gaeltacht would have been naive fools to kick the ball in to players who were double and triple marked.
Instead Glenullin were the ones who looked like fools, behind in the game from early on and then just sticking to their rigid defensive system, giving Gaeltacht easy possession and only breaking free of the shackles at the end when it was too late.

A win for Glenullin would have seen many copycat defensive systems, so thankfully they lost.

Most teams are programmed to sit back and not engage and after watching
Gaeltacht tactics on Sunday that proved successful you'll see many more copycats of long sustained periods of possession play.  FRC has already adjusted the hooter for the year ahead to prevent the boring passages of play with teams playing down the clock if the copycats happen I'll expect the FRC will look at restrictions on hand passes or a shot clock introduced.

This is simple,
An Gaeltacht were in front.
Glenullin were behind and should have been pro active in trying to get the ball back.

Instead they sat back inside their 45m line and hoped that An Gaeltacht would be stupid and carry the ball into trouble.

This is 100% the fault of the team who are behind. They must step up and try to win the ball back.

The alternative is to let your opponents run the clock down which is madness

Easier said than done to be pro active in trying to get the ball back when teams are coached to a inch of their lives to sit back and wait to pounce on a mistake or wayward kick pass.

I don't blame Gaeltacht for playing the way they did but their tactics along with Glenullin not engaging made it a truly shocking watch and after watching both previously that game had the potential to be a classic final.

Glenullin  werent really playing Gaelic football yesterday.They should install dartboards in their clubrooms and try that as a sport instead. Kerry  teams generally do play football so they do tend to win matches. 

And you think what An Ghaeltacht did yesterday was playing football? Certainly not the envision of the FRC fronted by our saviour Jim Gavin.

Must have been a record for the amount of hand passing in a 60th minute All-Ireland final from a winning team however they chose that way to win than entertain and won't care one bit now.

The tactics was a clear response to them playing more football in the semi final against Kildare opposition and nearly getting beat, plus would have known about the scoring power Glenullin had coming into that final and the best way to stop that was to retain possession with long boring passages of play.

Sure why would they not keep possession? They're in Croker for one reason and thats to get the win by any means necessary.

Agreed.
Gaeltacht would have been naive fools to kick the ball in to players who were double and triple marked.
Instead Glenullin were the ones who looked like fools, behind in the game from early on and then just sticking to their rigid defensive system, giving Gaeltacht easy possession and only breaking free of the shackles at the end when it was too late.

A win for Glenullin would have seen many copycat defensive systems, so thankfully they lost.

Most teams are programmed to sit back and not engage and after watching
Gaeltacht tactics on Sunday that proved successful you'll see many more copycats of long sustained periods of possession play.  FRC has already adjusted the hooter for the year ahead to prevent the boring passages of play with teams playing down the clock if the copycats happen I'll expect the FRC will look at restrictions on hand passes or a shot clock introduced.

Thats Carrick who did worse in his time over Middlesborough than Keane at Sunderland, and wans talk credentials like it means anything

Managerial stats

Michael Carrick

G139 W65 D25 L49. Win % 46.76

Roy Keane

G181 W70 D42 L69. Win % 38.7

Not sure if it was mentioned but it's very poor work from the GAA that there was only a week between the semi's and finals for the junior and intermediate teams.

Yes should be a two week break prep time like they get in the senior final. What was stopping them from scheduling the Junior and intermediate finals for Saturday the 18th? 

That's the day before the Senior and while Croke is in some order, its better to have it in its best conditions, weather this time of year also plays a part.

Back to the original dates would be best

Have you already forgotten the Junior,Intermediate hurling finals was played in Croke Park on Saturday or does the senior football final get more special treatment than the Intermediate,Junior finals?

Going back to the original dates isn't going to work when county teams are focused on promotion and avoiding relegation in the NFL. Best would be playing semi-finals in December and finals in played the first two weekends in January.

No but the blue ribbon event does and always will take preference

I'm only concerned about clubs over county tbf so counties missing players wouldn't concern me personally and counties at most miss a couple of players.. it's not going to make or break a counties league performance. Most times the lads that do play to the latter stages are given rest anyways

Latter stages is where all counties generally take the NFL serious. A March 17th club final would be sandwiched in between round 6 and 7 of the league.

We need to have a proper split season whereby club championship is finished at least 2 or 3 weeks before the intercounty competitive season commences.

Strongly reported that Michael Carrick will be the caretaker manager for the rest of this season and then a permanent manager appointed in the summer are they waiting for a manager who is currently tied up with a country in the World Cup?

You know more than most, or seem more interested 

Hard to miss the wall to wall media coverage Man United still get which is interesting when you consider how far the club have fallen since Fergusons retirement.

Not sure if it was mentioned but it's very poor work from the GAA that there was only a week between the semi's and finals for the junior and intermediate teams.

Yes should be a two week break prep time like they get in the senior final. What was stopping them from scheduling the Junior and intermediate finals for Saturday the 18th? 

That's the day before the Senior and while Croke is in some order, its better to have it in its best conditions, weather this time of year also plays a part.

Back to the original dates would be best

Have you already forgotten the Junior,Intermediate hurling finals was played in Croke Park on Saturday or does the senior football final get more special treatment than the Intermediate,Junior finals?

Going back to the original dates isn't going to work when county teams are focused on promotion and avoiding relegation in the NFL. Best would be playing semi-finals in December and finals in played the first two weekends in January.

Not sure if it was mentioned but it's very poor work from the GAA that there was only a week between the semi's and finals for the junior and intermediate teams.

Yes should be a two week break prep time like they get in the senior final. What was stopping them from scheduling the Junior and intermediate finals for Saturday the 18th? 

Strongly reported that Michael Carrick will be the caretaker manager for the rest of this season and then a permanent manager appointed in the summer are they waiting for a manager who is currently tied up with a country in the World Cup?

Too many players with potential and not enough leadership around them.

Looking at that team today-

Lammens- potential
Dalot- waste of a pair of socks
Yoro- potential
Martinez- good player- would he be better in midfielder?
Dorgu- potenial
Ugarate- same as Dalot
Mainoo- potential
Bruno- good player obviously
Mount- when hes good he's good but need more from him and also always injured
Cunha- good player but just not getting enough output
Sesko- potential

Top that off with a totally inexperienced manager who's basically there as a yes man for the board and you're going to struggle. I can see big protests in the coming weeks.

On a positive note, Lacey definitely looks like a player. Good to see a bit of passion from him as well.

A couple of people commending young Lacey's "Passion." Away and give your head a wobble, absolute petulance and stupidity when on a yellow to slam the ball on the ground like that was only going be one outcome.

Have just seen the sending off now,
stupidity I'd agree. If VAR was in operation it could have been red for his challenge.