Division one 2021

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J70

Quote from: bennydorano on May 29, 2021, 08:57:59 PM
Can't believe how bad Donegal are ( no matter what way this ends up), they are not contenders.

We're contenders for Ulster, as always recently.

That's it.

Rudi

Enjoyable game, Donegal deserve huge credit for getting a draw again.

J70

Did well to get the draw in the end, again, but Bonner has a lot of work to do ahead of the championship.

Feel sorry for Eoghan McGettigan. Did not take his chance today with a lot of forwards out.

Captain Obvious

Armagh left that win and semi final place behind them. The three competitive performances should give the lads plenty of confidence going into the relegation play off.

bennydorano

If Armagh can stay up after a relegation play off that will be a result, not getting destroyed by our neighbours should be a good booster, getting annihilated by Kerry or Dublin in a semi wouldn't have helped the cause. Just need to find a few defenders and a gk outa somewhere. 

twohands!!!

Quote from: Rudi on May 29, 2021, 09:13:13 PM
Enjoyable game, Donegal deserve huge credit for getting a draw again.

Yeah I'd say Bonner happier than McGeeney.

Armagh will surely fancy themselves against Roscommon and Monaghan will be hoping for Galway in the other relegation game.


Rudi

Quote from: twohands!!! on May 29, 2021, 09:18:30 PM
Quote from: Rudi on May 29, 2021, 09:13:13 PM
Enjoyable game, Donegal deserve huge credit for getting a draw again.

Yeah I'd say Bonner happier than McGeeney.

Armagh will surely fancy themselves against Roscommon and Monaghan will be hoping for Galway in the other relegation game.

Armagh have improved and are worthy of their place in Div 1. On form they should beat Roscommon,  however I would not rule the Rossies out.

twohands!!!

Quote from: bennydorano on May 29, 2021, 09:18:14 PM
If Armagh can stay up after a relegation play off that will be a result, not getting destroyed by our neighbours should be a good booster, getting annihilated by Kerry or Dublin in a semi wouldn't have helped the cause. Just need to find a few defenders and a gk outa somewhere.

The Armagh standard of tackling continues to be so poor throughout the team - someone needs to explain to them that they need to at least pretend that their tackling attempts are aimed at the ball as opposed to at the man. They continually make it easy for refs to give frees against them.

Schkite

Draw in Omagh. Pity Monaghan couldn't have pushed on for the win, but can't have too many complaints after that shocking first half, Tyrone should have been well ahead.

Jack McCarron going off on a black was a killer, not only were we a man down for the finish, but I'd have fancied him to slot over that free Hughes missed. Oh well, with Donegal not winning we were headed for a relegation playoff anyway, but it would have been a morale boost to win, been a while without one now.

Thought Coldrick was way too involved with the cards in the second half too, wasn't a dirty game.

twohands!!!

Quote from: Rudi on May 29, 2021, 09:21:48 PM
Quote from: twohands!!! on May 29, 2021, 09:18:30 PM
Quote from: Rudi on May 29, 2021, 09:13:13 PM
Enjoyable game, Donegal deserve huge credit for getting a draw again.

Yeah I'd say Bonner happier than McGeeney.

Armagh will surely fancy themselves against Roscommon and Monaghan will be hoping for Galway in the other relegation game.

Armagh have improved and are worthy of their place in Div 1. On form they should beat Roscommon,  however I would not rule the Rossies out.

Not a cert by any means but Armagh would be favourites based on what both sides have shown in their games so far in the league.

Solo_run

Armagh have a terrible goalkeeper and defence. They seem to have an inability to control the match when it is close and they are running low on energy. What Donegal were doing in the last 5 minutes is what Armagh should be doing in the last 10.

Donegal were winning every 50/50 kick out from the Armagh goalkeeper and the tactic didn't change thus giving Donegal the chance to score. 

twohands!!!

Quote from: Solo_run on May 29, 2021, 09:28:17 PM
Armagh have a terrible goalkeeper and defence. They seem to have an inability to control the match when it is close and they are running low on energy. What Donegal were doing in the last 5 minutes is what Armagh should be doing in the last 10.

Donegal were winning every 50/50 kick out from the Armagh goalkeeper and the tactic didn't change thus giving Donegal the chance to score.

The hail mary point effort from Armagh was just an awful awful turnover.

That run of Armagh's kickouts that Donegal won late on was painful to watch.

Worth remembering that this is Armagh's first year in Division 1 in a while - you have a much better chance of getting away with this type of play in Division 2/3 but in Division 1 the better standard of the opposition mean that slackness like this will get punished.

Solo_run

Quote from: twohands!!! on May 29, 2021, 09:34:18 PM
Quote from: Solo_run on May 29, 2021, 09:28:17 PM
Armagh have a terrible goalkeeper and defence. They seem to have an inability to control the match when it is close and they are running low on energy. What Donegal were doing in the last 5 minutes is what Armagh should be doing in the last 10.

Donegal were winning every 50/50 kick out from the Armagh goalkeeper and the tactic didn't change thus giving Donegal the chance to score.

The hail mary point effort from Armagh was just an awful awful turnover.

That run of Armagh's kickouts that Donegal won late on was painful to watch.

Worth remembering that this is Armagh's first year in Division 1 in a while - you have a much better chance of getting away with this type of play in Division 2/3 but in Division 1 the better standard of the opposition mean that slackness like this will get punished.

Absolutely rinsed on the 50/50 balls. You would think a goalkeeper would stop doing it and vary his kick-outs. Hughes has been goalkeeper for Armagh (although he is an outfield player for his club) for a while. He needs to realise when something isn't working he has to change it up. He still makes the mistake of kicking the ball directly to the opposition with no Armagh player near. No wonder our defence is bad if he isn't telling them what is going on when he doesn't know himself.


Main Street

Quote from: Schkite on May 29, 2021, 09:25:34 PM
Draw in Omagh. Pity Monaghan couldn't have pushed on for the win, but can't have too many complaints after that shocking first half, Tyrone should have been well ahead.

Jack McCarron going off on a black was a killer, not only were we a man down for the finish, but I'd have fancied him to slot over that free Hughes missed. Oh well, with Donegal not winning we were headed for a relegation playoff anyway, but it would have been a morale boost to win, been a while without one now.

Thought Coldrick was way too involved with the cards in the second half too, wasn't a dirty game.
In added time Coldrick used up about 3 minutes consulting and dishing out blacks and yellows but did not add any time to compensate.

Hard to tell but I think we look a bit better than last year when we struggled against Meath and the game of shame v Cavan.
The repeat of the proven awful tactic of arsing about in our own half  v Donegal was  the low point in these 3 league games.

CK_Redhand

Dublin and Kerry (and probably Mayo and Galway) may be the better teams but you can't beat ulster clashes for tight games and drama. Very little separating the div1 north teams and that's without last year's ulster champions in it