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benny the clubs committees can forward any motions to the county board as they dont have to be ratified at the agm's as is every year

carrickcruppen st. patricks

heard today from a prominent crossmaglen man that big joe has taken aaron and stephen along as players on the ulster panel. i know aaron has established himself into one of the best players in armagh in recent years. stephen struggled to make his club team last year was in and out of the armagh team this year and now all of a sudden he is with ulster for the railway cup. i certainly think it is a bit harsh on the alot better players in the province! maybe with club championships still in action throughout the province he has been called in to make up numbers in training! i really dont know!

is anyone else thinking we should start a new armagh club football & hurling thread??

the main contractor in the athletic grounds re-development is to hand over this phase of the work completed to the county board on wednesday.

i would imagine then that the groundsmen will be in flat out in getting the pitch ready for the semi-finals of all grades.

could be some congestion problems with cut off dates for ulster club championships etc. so i would imagine that the lights would be on for some of the games to be played friday and saturday nights.

cruppen are at home to wolfe tones

tir na nog have to play clann eireann, keady and granemore i think!

last i heard ogs was winning 10 - 8

any updates?

candyman i think you are thinking of stephen murray from wolfe tones he is only about 5ft tall

a few of the lads are going travelling to australia so that could be a possible disaster short term! for the long term though they are still young and on return to ireland after their travels they will still have plenty of time ahead of them to continue their football

benny i seem to recall from this time last year that you labelled cruppen under21's a poor side that won a poor under21 championship having beaten no one!

does the fact that the team have now retained their under21 title make them any better having beaten clann eireann, keady, tir na nog and crossmaglen enroute to the final and beating a madden team who accounted for dromintee who beat granemore to get to the final make them any different?

i think it is a great achievment for this bunch of lads! from the team that won in 2007 4 of the starting team had been overage for this years team, and again only 4 of this years team is overage for the 2009 under21 championship

cruppen retained the under21 championship last night in a thrilling game in abbey park.

they completely bossed the first 15 minutes and then decided to stop for some reason allowing madden to take control and go into the interval with a 5 point lead with a few dubious scores their first point was at least 3ft wide and the umpire gave it as a score the linesman actually called the referee over to tell him how wide it was! then madden got a goal when it should have been a free to cruppen for a sliding tackle

things hadnt been looking too good at half time and some of the players got told a few home truths about their performance in the first half and their reponse was immense. cruppen made a few switches on the pitch and it paid dividends as the out-played, out-classed and out-muscled madden in every area of the pitch the scoreline for the second half was cruppen 2-6 and they restricted madden to 0-2 (2 free kicks)

im sure madden are well sick after playing so well in the first day - cruppen always knew that they couldnt play as bad again although it did look like it in the second quarter of the game last night

well done lads!

cruppen minors play the winners of madden v mullaghbawn in the second round of the championship

if they choose crossmaglen v clans as the first game in the refurbished athletic grounds the county should market the product and have it under the new lights too!

if done correctly they could fill the place and generate alot of interest and revenue in the athletic grounds

couldnt imagine them having the sense of the know how to do this unfortunately

was at county convention a few years back when a motion was passed regarding armagh county players and club matches not sure which one it was now the killeavey chairman tried to get it to cover all counties to cover killeavey when stanfield wasn't available and he was laughed at!

i would certainly imagine that any request from harps would be the same!

anyword yet on venues??

i heard that the draw wasnt being made until the county board meeting tomorrow night

full back i would imagine that is an administration error

newtown would be a logical venue for this game as it would be directly in the middle of both clubs although they could take it to ballymacnab