Derry Club Football & Hurling original

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marty34

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Quote from: Wildweasel74 on June 28, 2022, 12:48:54 PM
Derry county board refused to go through the club allocation route, unlike Galway, mean Derry be holding up 4 corners, again. There central allocations will go on later, possible nxt week, for anybody, where as Galway will have entire blocks in both cusack and hogan solely them. Slack. It not be a sell out but Derry fans be all over the place mostly in the upper stands

Does it really matter?

Everybody who wants to see the game, will see it I presume.

The sense of entitlement these days is shocking.

markl121

Quote from: Wildweasel74 on June 28, 2022, 12:48:54 PM
Derry county board refused to go through the club allocation route, unlike Galway, mean Derry be holding up 4 corners, again. There central allocations will go on later, possible nxt week, for anybody, where as Galway will have entire blocks in both cusack and hogan solely them. Slack. It not be a sell out but Derry fans be all over the place mostly in the upper stands
Get into the Hill then sir

Wildweasel74

Them Dungiven lads look wild men lol

Wildweasel74

We Coming in nicely under the radar here, hope they keep bitching abiut Armagh and appeals another week.

Fear Bun Na Sceilpe

Quote from: Wildweasel74 on July 01, 2022, 02:52:14 PM
We Coming in nicely under the radar here, hope they keep bitching abiut Armagh and appeals another week.

Well above the radar now, i have us favourites

Wildweasel74

Don't think it, not anybody who was st Owenbeg that day, alot has changed, but if we get a bad start again we be in trouble.

JoG2

Quote from: Wildweasel74 on July 01, 2022, 05:19:53 PM
Don't think it, not anybody who was st Owenbeg that day, alot has changed, but if we get a bad start again we be in trouble.

Agreed. With the Ulster run and factoring in that league game , at best we are at 50/50. We definitely have a chance if everything clicks and OL has a solid game.

Having an AI semi to look forward to is great. Some excitement with the underage players.

Wildweasel74

Watching abit of afl highlights there, see Brown, only his 2nd full start scored 4 goals/overs, turned into a very big strong man and his fitness seems to be through the roof compared to his minor day's.

WT4E

Sometimes I can't sleep at night thinking about the fact that derry people talk about their county team in their club football chat!!!!

Wildweasel74

Until this Yr, there was hardly enough about to talk about the county team lol

JoG2

Game day. Magical times. Safe travels to every man, woman and wain. Win, lose or draw, it won't be for a lack of effort from this incredible bunch of men.

Fear Bun Na Sceilpe

To be fair the Derry chat was more active than most , support at games was the problem , plenty die hards on here though, so fair play to those lads

Derry Optimist

 When fully analysing Derry's Senior performances this year, there is only one definite conclusion. It has been a very successful one.Their League position was really consolidated and only for a combination of unfair decisions, in the Roscommon game, they would have been promoted to Division One.

They performed magnificently in all three Ulster Championship games against teak, tough opposition and emerged victorious Anglo Celt winners for the first time in 24 years.The combined skills and dedication of all the players, inspired by an equally dedicated and imaginative  management team, under the genius that is Rory Gallagher, saw to that.

In the All Ireland quarter final, against Clare, we saw an insight into the attacking skills that this team can perform when they reach the next level of their development.
In order to progress to that necessary level, I am sure that both players and management know that they have to evolve to a situation where they can not only   cope with long kick outs but use them to their advantage.This will require at least four other  different players to complement the aerial skills of Conor Glass and the current cameo appearances of Emmett Bradley in that sector.

We will need these four others to maximise a middle third which requires tall,high fielding ,fast,athletic midfielders with vision, spread across the centre of the pitch from one sideline to the other. In addition much tweaking needs to be done by our present half backs and half forwards to win breaking ball. At present we are weak at that.If maximised properly this is the most effective sector to lauch our forward strategies.

To make this necessary strategy effective, we need to use different players. If a committed  Ciaran McFaul were to return with the possibility of Callum Brown coming home  from Australia and the coaching of Oisin McWilliams and Anton Tohill to improve their aerial skills they, along with Conor Glass and an ever present Emmett Bradley, would greatly enhance our long kick out strategy.

This is a must if we are to bring this talented team onto the next level ie to be really cmpetitive against the Galways,Dublins and Kerrys of this world. The advent of the fit  Downeys,Lachlan Murray and the inclusion of one of the aforementioned middle third players in the full forward line  should greatly improve the opportunities for Shane McGuigan, Niall Loughlin ( he needs to be used more often in an advanced  scoring position),Benny Heron and Paul Cassidy to score more.

To do that properly,however, Rory Gallagher needs to give more meaningful game time  to more of the Derry substitutes. Just one further comment on the fact that a lot of Derry's main players were not at their best on Saturday last.There are two reasons for that. First of all defensively Galway brilliantly mirrored Derry's defensive strategies, thus reducing their normal effectiveness. It is also true that there was a crucial footblock on Paul Cassidy, a trip on Benny Heron, Hawkeye disallowed a legitimate Conor Glass point  and a blow into the stomach of Gareth McKinless when Derry were very much in the ascendancy.If these mistakes had been rectified and the resultant frees had been converted, this would have given Derry an extra four points at the interval.

Secondly, in my humble opinion, there was another reason why Derry were easily overturned for 2-4 of Galway's scores. Unlike Galway, Derry had three difficult provincial games which took their physical and mental toll, mainly because of the constant robotic nature of how Derry played in all those games,albeit successfully. In the long term being able to match a short kick out strategy with a long kick out strategy will be less physically and mentally  demanding on the players and hopefully much more rewarding on the scoreboard. I firmly believe that if the foregoing tweaks and adjustments were implemented with all of the  above mentioned players in situ, Chrissy McKaigue will be climbing the podiumto to claim the  Sam Maguire Cup within the next few years.

In the meantime, a big thank you to all the players and Management for bringing Derry's biggest ever cohort of supporters to follow  the County.It is hard to believe that over 70,000 supporters in total, over all the games, have left the Oak Leaf  County  team since only a few hundred turned up to watch the first home National League game just over five and a half months ago. Doire ABU!!

lenny

Quote from: Derry Optimist on July 12, 2022, 03:38:51 PM
When fully analysing Derry's Senior performances this year, there is only one definite conclusion. It has been a very successful one.Their League position was really consolidated and only for a combination of unfair decisions, in the Roscommon game, they would have been promoted to Division One.

They performed magnificently in all three Ulster Championship games against teak, tough opposition and emerged victorious Anglo Celt winners for the first time in 24 years.The combined skills and dedication of all the players, inspired by an equally dedicated and imaginative  management team, under the genius that is Rory Gallagher, saw to that.

In the All Ireland quarter final, against Clare, we saw an insight into the attacking skills that this team can perform when they reach the next level of their development.
In order to progress to that necessary level, I am sure that both players and management know that they have to evolve to a situation where they can not only   cope with long kick outs but use them to their advantage.This will require at least four other  different players to complement the aerial skills of Conor Glass and the current cameo appearances of Emmett Bradley in that sector.

We will need these four others to maximise a middle third which requires tall,high fielding ,fast,athletic midfielders with vision, spread across the centre of the pitch from one sideline to the other. In addition much tweaking needs to be done by our present half backs and half forwards to win breaking ball. At present we are weak at that.If maximised properly this is the most effective sector to lauch our forward strategies.

To make this necessary strategy effective, we need to use different players. If a committed  Ciaran McFaul were to return with the possibility of Callum Brown coming home  from Australia and the coaching of Oisin McWilliams and Anton Tohill to improve their aerial skills they, along with Conor Glass and an ever present Emmett Bradley, would greatly enhance our long kick out strategy.

This is a must if we are to bring this talented team onto the next level ie to be really cmpetitive against the Galways,Dublins and Kerrys of this world. The advent of the fit  Downeys,Lachlan Murray and the inclusion of one of the aforementioned middle third players in the full forward line  should greatly improve the opportunities for Shane McGuigan, Niall Loughlin ( he needs to be used more often in an advanced  scoring position),Benny Heron and Paul Cassidy to score more.

To do that properly,however, Rory Gallagher needs to give more meaningful game time  to more of the Derry substitutes. Just one further comment on the fact that a lot of Derry's main players were not at their best on Saturday last.There are two reasons for that. First of all defensively Galway brilliantly mirrored Derry's defensive strategies, thus reducing their normal effectiveness. It is also true that there was a crucial footblock on Paul Cassidy, a trip on Benny Heron, Hawkeye disallowed a legitimate Conor Glass point  and a blow into the stomach of Gareth McKinless when Derry were very much in the ascendancy.If these mistakes had been rectified and the resultant frees had been converted, this would have given Derry an extra four points at the interval.

Secondly, in my humble opinion, there was another reason why Derry were easily overturned for 2-4 of Galway's scores. Unlike Galway, Derry had three difficult provincial games which took their physical and mental toll, mainly because of the constant robotic nature of how Derry played in all those games,albeit successfully. In the long term being able to match a short kick out strategy with a long kick out strategy will be less physically and mentally  demanding on the players and hopefully much more rewarding on the scoreboard. I firmly believe that if the foregoing tweaks and adjustments were implemented with all of the  above mentioned players in situ, Chrissy McKaigue will be climbing the podiumto to claim the  Sam Maguire Cup within the next few years.

In the meantime, a big thank you to all the players and Management for bringing Derry's biggest ever cohort of supporters to follow  the County.It is hard to believe that over 70,000 supporters in total, over all the games, have left the Oak Leaf  County  team since only a few hundred turned up to watch the first home National League game just over five and a half months ago. Doire ABU!!

Good post. Re the midfield options Brendan Rogers excelled there against Clare and played a lot of the Donegal game out there also so he could be a possible partner for Glass going forward. Paudie Cassidy will hopefully be fit next year also.

Newbridge Exile

 Tragic news from Lavey this evening with the passing of Collie McGurk , RIP and condolences to the McGurk family.