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Galway have a very strong bench some good young talent coming through and are have very effective manager in Joyce.

And even if Comor doesn't start he is a top quality player to bring on in the last 15mins

Armagh beat a Derry team not 'tactically' prepared for the Armagh game and no real on the bench.

I think this Galway Armagh game will be a cracker and the Ref will have eyes in the back of his head to keep the players in check. 

I'm hoping that Harte & Horse have enough pride  and football knowledge to prepare properly for the Westmeath game and set up the team using the most of Gallagher's successful tactics to be able to won our kickout's as well as Westmeath's 

Also effectively close down large spaces in front of the Derry defence !!! ... they surely  have learned from the mistakes made in the Donegal and Armagh games.

We know they have missing players but that in itself is no excuse ... they need to have Westmeath well analysed and prepare accordingly ... No excuses.

And 'Horse Devlin' needs to treat all the players with respect and not be shouting at them from the side line like animals.

Our players are not getting paid 

[Rawhide]

Was reading over this thread back from December 2023 and I have to say that Rawhide seems to have his finger on the pulse of how the set up has changed since Harte has come in ... and it is certainly not for the better and it also explains the performances/lack of the 'RG winning system' in the Championship so far.

So where now ?

When i think of O Lynch its the getting caught sometimes when he's outfield that's a problem.  However mostly he gives us that +1 when our play goes into attacking mode that he makes a significant contribution.  As a shot stopper he is also excellent .. had 2 great saves v Roscommon.  As far as Shane McGuigan is concerned he covers a lot of ground from the opposing 14 to his own 14yrd line and is very often the 'break ball winner' in mid field and of course a top drawer efficient finisher so it's also great for L Murray, C Murphy and D Gilmore giving us more options. Baker is not ready yet to mark players like C O'Callaghan, C Basquel (nor are there many that could ? ) ... So to beat Dublin we need a floating additional 4 players can add to our defensive system during the course of the game .... Dublin will not let that happen. 

The best we can hope for is to limit them to a 8 t0 10 pt defeat.  Here's hoping i'm wrong

Sure if the Canavan's can do it  ...!!!!

I get the feeling that E Bradley must have missed some training and wasn't part of the panel ... did any of you guys see him at all.  B Rogers since he got his All Star is a very closely marked/fouled players and isn't as nearly as influential as last year .... although he has played a lot of Club football and Hurling and also has got married .... there's only so much an amateur can do ... he needs a rest.  So maybe Emmet Bradley( could help with the Right Footed free kicks along with N Loughlin ) will come in for the Roscommon game . Just watched the game last night again and its unbelievable how much ground Shane Mac covers during the course of a game.  In the last ten mins he was inside his own 14yrd line helping out his defence ... incredible engine and very much the team player. 

Emmett was there and kitted out on Sunday.

Good to know that JoG2 ... he needs at least a 35 min competitive run out and who do you think are the U20's most likely to feature in the Ulster SF Championship squad?

Indeed your correct E Brad is left footed ... Loughlin and Toner are right footed

I get the feeling that E Bradley must have missed some training and wasn't part of the panel ... did any of you guys see him at all.  B Rogers since he got his All Star is a very closely marked/fouled players and isn't as nearly as influential as last year .... although he has played a lot of Club football and Hurling and also has got married .... there's only so much an amateur can do ... he needs a rest.  So maybe Emmet Bradley( could help with the Right Footed free kicks along with N Loughlin ) will come in for the Roscommon game . Just watched the game last night again and its unbelievable how much ground Shane Mac covers during the course of a game.  In the last ten mins he was inside his own 14yrd line helping out his defence ... incredible engine and very much the team player. 

 Interesting to see which Derry team will start v Mayo .... any word on the injuries to O Lynch, C Doherty and G McKinless also Mayo have used a lot of players so far will Paul Durkin be fit to play ?

Well folks what's the Derry starting team v Mayo gonna be ?

What age are the County Minor teams 17 or 18 ?

And who is in charge of the Minors in 2024 ?

Agree with DS on the performance of the Ref and assistant officials there very very poor no protection given too (in patricular ) targeted players on one occasion Conor Glass charged/went through B Rogers and Glen still got the free ) .... also disappointed with Shane McG's shooting ... earlier in the year he was scoring from the corner flag ....

And Lavey even more disappointed

Its very hard to compare the different styles of football/footballers over a 20 year period. I remember Enda Gormley having a fantastic All Ireland both as an attacking forward and also showing a great appetite to tackle back .... Eamon Coleman always said that the teams' defence should start in the full forward line.  In the 2022 Ulster Final nobody epitomised this better than Shane McGuigan when he made a brilliant catch in the final minutes to secure victory.  In the Tyrone team that won their 3 All Irelands under Harte the played a complete team game (just as Derry did this so successfully this last few years) and the intensity of their tackling was unreal. 

Hope Derry under Harte can continue these parts of their game

Although we played Tyrone (with MH as manager) in the NFL at Celtic Park in 2011 and we beat them ... Declan Mullan was on at RHF and he had a great game.