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Armagh are a very unlikeable team, a lot of nasty individuals. Screaming in players faces and the like. It is one thing playing with aggression but it is another thing being nasty. Also on the TV broadcast I noticed an Armagh woman hurl abuse at Glass, I think it was around the end of first half.

Coagh in Tyrone/South Derry border, it is down the road from Ballinderry Shamrocks but is a Protestant village.

Castledawson in South Derry. There is a club called Castledawson but it isn't really in Castledawson, it is in a townland called Broagh and serves mainly the rural area. This is where Seamus Heaney was born but Bellaghy try to gatekeep him. Castledawson is a Protestant town with a soccer club called Moyola Park.

Ballyronan, South Derry. It is a mixed village, people there have to play for St. Patrick's Loup which is an area further west. It is some sort of hamlet.

In soccer parlance, Harte and Devlin have lost the changng room.

Very clear to be seen.

When you see how well Louth have pushed on under Brennan, it's clear to see they're not that tactically aware, especially how bad they've been caught out since the Donegal game. 

No Plan B.

But after the rows in Portugal it's clear to see the players have downed tools so the players must share the flack also.

The biggest thing is the fall - how far have things went south in the Derry camp in a month. Some drop off in standards.  Derry pushing for All-Ireland finals this past two years, winning Div. 1 NFL (I know it's only the league) but the self-implosion has been crazy this year.

Good chance they'll get Gallagher back......and there'll be no more trips abroad.

Big Glass cut a frustrated figure yesterday afternoon and it's not like him waving arms and the likes.

Did old club rivalries come to the boil in Portugal?

I'm hearing the Slaughtneil lads had told their hurling manager they'd be concentrating on club football this year and that was one of the reasons he stepped down.

It is silly for Glen and Slaughtneil to hate eachother as they will all end up as bones in the same graveyard. They are stuck with eachother for eternity.

Why do the media keep inflicting us with South Armagh accents? As if McConville wasn't enough, now we have Aaron Kernan and they also keep interviewing Rian O'Neill.

As long as Armagh or Donegal don't get to the final that is all I care about for the rest of the championship.
Derry will beat Westmeath, imagine the uproar if Harte knocked Tyrone out of the championship in the preliminary QF.

If Derry can stay within 5 points of Armagh until the 55th minute they will be fine as Armagh are always guaranteed to flop.

Losing this game technically doesn't make much of a difference to Derry although they will lose confidence. If they finish 3rd they will probably play Tyrone, Louth or Mayo away. I would fancy them to beat Tyrone or Louth. I actually had a dream that Derry played Mayo in the preliminary and won by 2 points.

Donegal must not be a very Irish nationalist people (as shown in my link) Now you can understand why I would never support an ROI county in football. Maybe they can go play in Connaught.

https://ibb.co/xHtQMrC

I wonder did they ever manage to drag McBrearty off the stand, wittering on for a long time.
Cringey stuff from Niblock too chuckling every time McGuinness did a fist pump.

It wouldn't surprise me if Tyrone beat Donegal in 2 weeks. No great shakes.

Also that is a very posh voice of Thomas Kane for a South Derry person.

I was actually wishing it would be bad weather for all the fans.

I will watch as a neutral, usually I would try to support the Northern county over the ROI but Geezer and Co. are a hard bunch to support. Hopefully they can engage in a brawl for neutrals entertainment.

I wonder why people don't complain about Brolly being given prime seats at matches by the Ulster council. People always whine on about how the top volunteers of Derry GAA deserve the best seats. Yes Brolly may have been a Derry player but he has been a member of Antrim GAA for 25 years now. He technically didn't contribute to the current success of Derry GAA.

I haven't watched the documentary yet but my mother was from Bellaghy. In the 1970s the Orangemen would go out of their way to parade through a Catholic housing estate even though they knew it was Catholic.

The draw suits me. At the start of the year I posted that I wanted Derry to give Armagh another sickener in an Ulster final. I didn't get that but they can always sicken them in Celtic park.

Celtic park seems to be lucky for Donegal, maybe because of the towns Tyrconnell history. I notice there is a street down the road from it called Tyrconnell street.

I see that the Derry Journal journalist wrote an article complaining about Derry fans reaction to the defeat. He said that they aren't real supporters. That is rich for him to say, he probably gets free tickets to the games. It is his job to go to the games.