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[but what weak/poor players are being dropped to accommodate them?]

There is much talk about the better players Dublin have to bring back in.
Fitsimmons , Mc Carthy, Mc Caffrey.
Which is all well and good, but what weak/poor players are being dropped to accommodate them?
When Dublin beat a 2nd team from Tyrone we were told that Dublin had no weak links at all.

Wouldn't call them weak/poor players but If all of Stephen Cluxton, Michael Fitzsimons, Lee Gannon;Jack McCaffrey  James McCarthy,Paul Mannion, Cormac Costello are fit/in top shape then I would expect they'll replace Evan Comerford; Seán McMahon, Cian Murphy; Tom Lahiff; Ross McGarry, Killian McGinnis, and Niall Scully in the starting 15 from last Sunday.

And how much of an improvement is that.
Outside of Comerford I am not sure you are replacing worse with better


The great hype with Dublin last year and this, was that their great strength was in their depth.
They could bring on players of equal quality to what they were bringing off.
Derry's weakness was the diametric opposite of that. (With which I agree). But the performance of Derry's subs on Sunday would say that has already gone some way in being addressed.

If they do win the ulster 1st seed. They be destined to met Dublin in a semi if they top the group qualifiers and win their quarter final. If they lost in Ulster and did draw in Kerry Dublin section in the qualifiers they might be better placed to avoid Dublin to the final If they managed to progress that far, food for thought.

My thoughts:
You might be able to manage to lose a game here or there.
But that will only make the management of winning them more problematic.
Try to win every game and you will lose the unwinnable  anyway

Trying to win every game isn't necessarily the best approach in the new system

I wouldn't be sure of that, and i don't think Mickey Harte could be convinced of it either.

If they do win the ulster 1st seed. They be destined to met Dublin in a semi if they top the group qualifiers and win their quarter final. If they lost in Ulster and did draw in Kerry Dublin section in the qualifiers they might be better placed to avoid Dublin to the final If they managed to progress that far, food for thought.

My thoughts:
You might be able to manage to lose a game here or there.
But that will only make the management of winning them more problematic.
Try to win every game and you will lose the unwinnable  anyway

There is much talk about the better players Dublin have to bring back in.
Fitsimmons , Mc Carthy, Mc Caffrey.
Which is all well and good, but what weak/poor players are being dropped to accommodate them?
When Dublin beat a 2nd team from Tyrone we were told that Dublin had no weak links at all.

I would love to see Derry winning Sam but they will need to have everything going right   to do it .

Do you not think it is going pretty well so far?

Armaghs to lose.

https://x.com/so_92/status/1774758687636070636?s=46&t=F_sQ_3viFZ6zidQYNagDEA

Good angle to show that Lane didn't see the incident at the time. Turn round due to the crowd's reaction

So he turned around, observed a player lying on the ground and an opponent standing over him, but didn't think to stop play to adjudicate.
That  seems like good refereeing.

So are you saying you want the referee to stop play every time that situation arises?

So a team on the attack in the final minutes of a game, a player on the defending hits the ground, the crowd reacts, referee stops play, consults all his other officials, nobody seen anything. Play restarts with a free to the attacking team which they aren't allowed to score from and the defending team are now set with everyone back and marking their opponents.

Fair point.

https://x.com/so_92/status/1774758687636070636?s=46&t=F_sQ_3viFZ6zidQYNagDEA

Good angle to show that Lane didn't see the incident at the time. Turn round due to the crowd's reaction

So he turned around, observed a player lying on the ground and an opponent standing over him, but didn't think to stop play to adjudicate.
That  seems like good refereeing.

It was very clear. Down need to beat Armagh to compete in Sam this year...

I think that Dessie Dolan will be cheering for the Orange men.

In the extremely unlikely event Down qualify for Ulster final, Westmeath would drop out of Sam, unless they can beat both  Wicklow, Kildare and Louth(most likely) and qualify for Leinster final themselves. In that case Louth drop out of Sam.
   Kildare must get to Leinster final in order to qualify for Sam in which case Westmeath drop out of Sam.
   If Down and Kildare can somehow reach provincial final both Westmeath and Louth drop out of Sam.
   As long as Down or Kildare or Sligo don't reach their privincial finals Westmeath qualify.

  If Sligo, Down and Kildare can reach their provincial finals then Westmeath, Louth and Cork drop out of Sam. Meath stay as Tailteann Cup winners.
  If Sligo, Down, Kildare and Cork qualify for provincial finals then westmeath, louth and Cavan drop out unless Cavan reach Ulster final in which case Monaghan drop out.
   Not to upset my fellow Ulster Gaels, if Fermanagh or Antrim qualify for Ulster final same outcome as if Down were to qualify.
    Is that all clear....

My head is spinning

Armagh have the players but they don't have the management. The inability to cope under pressure time after time must be frustrating; especially when it's the same issue time after time.

Winning is a habit.
And its a habit Armagh don't have at the minute.
I had thought their journey through div2 might have given them that but at the first hurdle they fell.

Much had been spoken and written of Dublin's kicking game prior to The final.
But IMO it was Derry's kicking that was the most incisive  and damaging.
This Derry team seems to be expanding in talent confidence and all aspects of the game.
I also noticed that some of our best players  yesterday were the young guns.
Murray, Mc Evoy, Doherty.
Looks promising for Derry at the moment

That game has ended Jarlath's "Save Gaelic Football" committee before it has even met.

Fair play to all involved.

Except Conor Lane. He was shocking.

What more do the critics want.
That game had everything.

they could ring bombscares into major social gathrings north and south and threaten to attack polling stations and confront politicians directly  north and south do major roadblocks to shut economy down.They could also make a deal with the far right in the south.

Seriously ?

Surely you don't believe that.

Sometimes I think he's Olly 

Is olly off his trolley?

they could ring bombscares into major social gathrings north and south and threaten to attack polling stations and confront politicians directly  north and south do major roadblocks to shut economy down.They could also make a deal with the far right in the south.

Seriously ?

Surely you don't believe that.

they dont need funding they can cause major disruption

The recent protests of the Flag the Backstop and Protocol are the height of their powers, re major disruption.
1974 is long gone.
They have nothing keft but emoty threats and comical scaremongering