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[all of them are a level below the two senior finalists]

So senior hurling final between Sleacht Néill and Kevin Lynch's in a few weeks.


Banagher didn't put up much resistance yesterday. Unfortunately for the neutral, it was over after ten minutes.


Draw for intermediate and junior semi-finals now between Swatragh and Lavey and Ballinascreen and Banagher. Two even enough games there you'd think. But all of them are a level below the two senior finalists.


Hurling structure very poor. No benefit to any of the teams. Huge own goal by the county board. Not sure who was behind that plan in Owenbeg but clearly needed changed back to the group stages next year. Nobody knows why it was changed.


Football now next week-end. Some good match ups and usually there's one shock on the cards. Which one will it be? Team will be hoping to get the win and come through injury free.

I wouldnt say swatragh are a level below lynchs. They always seem to give them a good game and have even taken them down a few times in the last few years.

And can someone tell me whats so bad about the structure? It looks fine to me. Our best team goes into ulster senior, 3rd best goes into intermediate and 5th into junior. Theres clearly a huge gap between the top 6 and the bottom 2 and the bottom 2 go home after their 2 losses.

Coleraine and Faughanvale giving a good example of why the leagues need restructured tonight. 2 poor teams, Coleraine deserved winners but average age of that team would be close to 40 and they arent going to improve any time soon to be going into division 1

Took the game in myself, two poor enough sides as you say but think your being  bit hyperbolic. Few older heads in coleraine team alright but also a few younger lads. Faughanvale decimated by injuries all year and one of the boys telling me they lost their whole full back line even from Sundays game. Your man Sweeney a big loss to them at full back and you could tell by how easily they conceded them goals in the first half. Coleraine will struggle rightly at senior but fair play to them for getting back there. I'd agree with you about the leagues need restructuring but don't forget why it was changed in the first place, it wasn't to help the likes of Coleraine or Faughanvale that's for sure. Some 'historical' clubs ego will never let them vote for a smaller league as they might find themselves in intermediate very quickly.

Screen, Bderry & Coleraine were the teams who fiercely objected to the 12 team league & cship.

I would have expected the objecting teams would have been the likes of slaughtneil, glen, magherafelt, and newbridge all of who have load of lads involved (or could be involved) with the county team and therefore miss a number of league games. Instead these teams all finished at top of the league. Very impressive from all of them! Whats ballinascreens excuse for finishing so low?

Few lads very touchy..he's been shown up to be a liability time and time again...Reality is he's only getting game time because he's from the city.

Token gestures biting Derry in the hole today. If that's whose inspiring the kids round Derry city we'd be better off leaving them to the soccer.

Stupid comment. Do you really think that meenagh picks his team with mcgurk or downey at corner back and then hes escorted into a private back room where the higher powers tell him hes obligated to start one player from the city? Baker is a solid player who has had great moments in the derry jersey and just unfortunately made a very bad mistake today after 90 minutes of football.

I thought Niall Loughlin was superb today. He does so much great work and really put his body on the line to draw contact and lay the ball off to murray for mcevoys goal. Hes an unselfish player. Shane could learn from him. Niall was through on goal and shane chipped it over the bar. I think we had an advantage there too so there was nothing to lose in just laying it off to him.

The state of the Derry league is sad.

Used to be an excitement with the league starting, a lot of chat around it, buzz around the camp. A few years ago The Derry Post would be good reading with previews and predictions.

The last few years it's gotten gradually worse with a lot of senior teams made up of mostly reserve footballers and reserve fixtures unfulfilled. Is there any way of putting more emphasis on the league again or is it a dead duck?

Dead right. To be honest I couldnt even confidently tell you which teams and how many are playing senior league this year. But maybe that says more about me.

Whos in charge of posting fixtures and results on derry website?

I wouldnt take Ryan O's comment on on the lavey men too seriously. Especially after posting 'disliking Lavey isn't that big of a deal'. 
Saying a club shouldnt have their quality players on the panel because the club underperformed in the senior championship? Sure by his logic there should be more banagher men on the derry team and niall loughlin and lachlan murray should be demoted to the development squad ...

at no time did I say that.

Don't take it seriously because you haven't worked out what I was saying. 👏👏

"Bar stuffing a rubbish Kilrea team how have Lavey managed to get 4 men onto a county team?"
The obvious implication here is that lavey arent a good enough team to warrant 4 men on the county panel. What else could you have meant?
And im saying thats utter rubbish. If the players are good enough theyll be on the team. No matter how weak their club team is.

I wouldnt take Ryan O's comment on on the lavey men too seriously. Especially after posting 'disliking Lavey isn't that big of a deal'. 
Saying a club shouldnt have their quality players on the panel because the club underperformed in the senior championship? Sure by his logic there should be more banagher men on the derry team and niall loughlin and lachlan murray should be demoted to the development squad ...

Anthony Tohill undoubtedly our best ever player but if were talking about just the last 25 years id have to give it to glass over him. Crazy that we could be even having a discussion about not including glass.

Kieran Mckeever is probably another who just about misses out because of his timeline (but still definitely in the all time 15)

I think it would be a fair comment if there was any evidence of some young footballer from sw antrim getting in for 6th form and taking the spot of someone else with better grades. But has this ever been the case? If they have created an environment where more kids want to come to their school (even for non academic reasons) then they should be proud of that.

What happened to Holy Trinity Cookstown? Are they not playing Macrory?

[depending on whether it was a foreigner or a native that committed heinous crimes]

Jesus, you northerners are obsessed with loyalists. You know, I used to want a united Ireland, but now I'm not so sure. Too many Palestinians. People IN THE SOUTH should be angry about the rape of a 10 year girl by someone who HAS NO RIGHT TO BE HERE. And what are these "sinister objectives" you're on about? Wanting people who have no right to be here, to not be here? Oooh. How dreadful.

The last time they rioted was when it was an immigrant who committed a heinous crime on a child when he had citizenship here.

Why don't these same thugs who use crimes against children by immigrants as an excuse for violence against immigrant communities do the same Irish men do similar.

The loyalists are your boodies are they not. Seems to be close links between Coolock says No and the UVF, no?
You seem to be advocating for an exceptionalism here.

No, that Algerian shouldn't have been here. He was turned down for asylum, and was given stay to remain as part of some amnesty. In other words, they just couldn't be bothered deporting him. If I remember right, he also had a conviction. This Somalian child rapist will now be kept here in jail at our taxpayers' expense, and could easily end up staying here under some similar amnesty, also. Which you, no doubt, would welcome.

Irish people that do similar are our problem to deal with. And they are dealt with. Sometimes not harshly enough, I admit. What do you advocate - that we deport them? Send them over to England? Isn't that what your 'boodies' in the 'RA used to do? Let our scumbags infest someone else?

I have nothing to do with Coolock Says No, and no - the loyalists and UVF are not my 'boodies'. Boodie. How are your 'boodies' in Hamas this weather, by the way?

You've created exceptionalism for rape victims. They are tiered in your eyes depending on whether it was a foreigner or a native that committed heinous crimes.

That is a logic of a deeply troubled person.

Can we agree that all rape is wrong and all criminals should be treated better.

Do you not think you'd be better served protesting for harsher sentencing for sex offenders, for more Gardai on your streets, for a more functional and resourced justice system and prison service than whipping up racial tensions?

Are you really that much of a bigot?

Ive never cared for this kind of attack on these rightwingers (in this case). Dont get me wrong, I take your point. But of course we can all agree all rape is wrong and we want to see all offenders locked up. I think this is a specific issue and the issue is that some of these attacks would be preventable if the government took a stronger stance on immigrants.

Think about the BLM protests. Were you saying "Black people are killing black people in america every day. Why do you only focus on when the white people / police officers commit the murders?" My guess is no you didnt say that (but if im wrong i apologise).

The point of that particular movement was: Yes, black on black crime is a massive issue. However we are focusing on this specific issue (police officers) because it is one we feel we can enact change. ... Or maybe all those protesters/rioters were just racists too.

Well done Newbridge. Silenced all the doubters (myself included) that the reigning champions were not the best side in Derry. Back to back is a serious achievement. Hopefully they can give Ulster a better crack this year.

On Magherafelt, they definitely didnt give their best performance today. They looked much better against Glen and Lavey. But maybe thats testament to the work rate of Newbridge that they can do that to teams. And neither side is going anywhere any time soon.

Regarding the last kick out were the free was brought forward, he's got a massive amount of praise on here and rightly so but what the hell was Fionn Mc Eldownney thinking, jumping along with Rogers and dispossessed his own man.
And also the fact that CD opted to go for 2 points rather than taking ball in as close as possible to level up the match shows a serious belief in himself. Is he one of the top 3 or 4 players in Derry? Personally I think so.
 Glass, Rogers,CD, Mc Closkey in that order.

Interesting. Id probably put Shane at 3rd though. Then Clucky and honestly Id just about give Padraig McGroggan the nod over Doherty. But hes certainly in that top 5 ballpark at the moment

[McGuigan was inside the arc as far as I can see]

McGuigan was inside the arc as far as I can see, so one pointer. It's the referees call anyway. Are we now going to appeal referee decisions?
Should Newbridge appeal the touch on the ground by Paudi which led to a 2 pointer for Slaughtneil?

The 2 point arc is always going to cause controversy but it has to be the refs call. We can't have these decisions being decided in a board room.

No he wasn't. His planted foot was just before the arc line or on it but it definately wasn't inside it.

The rule is one foot can be on the line.

Clearly a 2 pointer.

From the footage provided, your cannot definitely say that.

One thing you can tell from the footage is that he overcarried the ball. So go ahead and appeal it. He was lucky to get one point out of it never mind two.

Its one thing if the officials keep and submit an incorrect scoreline but this nonsense of appealing in-game referee decisions/mistakes has to stop. Refs will make mistakes. Theyre human. We just ask that they try to be consistent and unbias.

Slaughtneil are perfectly aware of the questionable calls that went their way in the lavey game (mainly the black card against lavey when they were through on goal and the overcarrying for Cassidys goal). Why didnt they appeal these or ask for a review? Were they not in favour of justice back then but they are now?

I count 9 steps for that slaughtneil goal.

Barry was very poor. Black card decision was awful but at least had the decency to even the score by giving a soft black to slaughtneil too.

Rory McGill and Ruairi O Mianian were exceptional