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[movement to create space to allow players to take the defender on]

Pure crap, a team playing with fear of Donegal, and that message had to have delivered by the manager in whatever what they communicated to the squad. No body taking anyone on except McGuckin, slow laborious play with no purpose. Higgins is a quality player. A coached team that took one of the best u20 forwards in Ulster out of game in any threatening way. Hopefully this is a wake up call about how not to play

Was at the game yesterday evening, the above were the comments I made on the Donegal game a few weeks ago. Make no mistake, this is the result of coaching. Literally no kicking of the ball when the space was available to kick it forward-however I could live with that if we had purpose in our attacking play, if we were structured & movement to create space to allow players to take the defender on, but no, we were so static. There simply was no evidence of coaching weaving movements that shift defenders that then allow for a space that then allows the forward to take his opposing player on. Gallaghers comments were crude, but unfortunately blunt in truth. Last years u20 team played exactly the same way.

The last 2 years u20s played like this and Tyrone went onto win AI's where I felt we had better players, coached to play in a way that stifled them.
It's frustrating when so many of us see the same thing but it's not being addressed.

On u20s progressing to senior - I think part of the reason this is now less likely is that there's too big a step in terms of physicality and intensity coming from u20, as opposed to u21. Strong u21 players were more likely to be equipped to step up, imo.

Disagree with this and we've seen it already with Donegal this year. They've regularly had 3 or 4 u20s playing on their senior team throughout the league without looking out of place, in fact they added to the team significantly and they won the league.

[he wasn't offered a look in with the seniors like some of the others and that's why he withdrew completely.]

Oisin was definitely good throughout but he wasn't offered a look in with the seniors like some of the others and that's why he withdrew completely.

Hope no one starts with the lack of commitment thing either like after I said JD and McAteer left, you won't have to worry about seeing them in a Derry jersey again.

Did I understand what you have posted correctly, an u20 player withdrew from the u20 panel because he wasn't invited unto the senior panel like some others i.e Eamon Young & Higgins etc??

Heads up his hole if that's true. Can't believe it's true though.

Armagh very hard to beat at home!

Fancy tyrone to nick this one but don't think they'll have enough to beat donegal. Winning against armagh though should keep the natives happy with their outside manager after a very poor campaign.

If they are Zionist, f**k them

Is this honestly where we are?

90% of Zionist Jews in the diaspora supported genocide.
The cult is a cancer
 

So Jews are all fair game?

It's. An. Ambulance. Service.

Their politics are none of your business.

The ambulances should not have been targeted. I still suspect it to be a false flag event. The language used by the suspected group just doesn't ring true for Iran supporters. On the subject of attacking ambulances Israel has bombed/destroyed over 100 ambulances in Gaza since 2023 almost always with people inside. Do you condemn those attacks.

https://news.sky.com/story/police-launch-investigation-after-arson-attack-on-ambulances-in-north-london-13523274

As always politicians climbing over the top of other to condemn this while the Jews are playing the victim card as usual.

Would make you want to vomit at times.

But not someone torching ambulances?

Maybe the 'victim card' is valid here?

Jewish ambulances?  Do they not rush to the rescue of  other denominations?

Maybe if you bothered your ass to read an article about it.....
"We serve the wider community, we don't just serve the Jewish community and you'd like to think that life-saving activities would be sacrosanct, but clearly they're not,"

It's a volunteer church run ambulance service. Does Trocaire only help Catholics?
This would be the anti semitism people talk about.

Almost certainly a false flag attack. Israel is desperate for Britain to join the war on Iran because they are taking a battering. It's now widely accepted that the attack on Bahrain was a false flag by the USA/israel and also the Diego Garcia attack was a missile from an Israeli submarine. Israel is the kind of terror state which has absolutely no qualms about attacking ambulances as seen throughout the genocide in Gaza.

Do you say stuff like this to people in real life or just on the Internet?

British Jew here

I, & many British Jews like me, are not remotely intimidated because we know this to be a false flag by Israel. The story was broken by Yeshiva World News who were posting live on scene footage just minutes after the Fire Brigade were called

We are NOT stupid.

That's a post on Twitter by a British Jewish person. I'd be very surprised if this wasn't a false flag. Israel has constantly lied over the last number of years

https://news.sky.com/story/police-launch-investigation-after-arson-attack-on-ambulances-in-north-london-13523274

As always politicians climbing over the top of other to condemn this while the Jews are playing the victim card as usual.

Would make you want to vomit at times.

But not someone torching ambulances?

Maybe the 'victim card' is valid here?

Jewish ambulances?  Do they not rush to the rescue of  other denominations?

Maybe if you bothered your ass to read an article about it.....
"We serve the wider community, we don't just serve the Jewish community and you'd like to think that life-saving activities would be sacrosanct, but clearly they're not,"

It's a volunteer church run ambulance service. Does Trocaire only help Catholics?
This would be the anti semitism people talk about.

Almost certainly a false flag attack. Israel is desperate for Britain to join the war on Iran because they are taking a battering. It's now widely accepted that the attack on Bahrain was a false flag by the USA/israel and also the Diego Garcia attack was a missile from an Israeli submarine. Israel is the kind of terror state which has absolutely no qualms about attacking ambulances as seen throughout the genocide in Gaza.

McKinless marks nobody, has he ever? better when giving free run at it , breaking forward, cant defend

He marked McElholm against Tyrone!

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Really well also. The Louth result was hopefully a blip for us. Win against Cavan and hopefully Tyrone will do us a favour by beating Cork. Tyrone need the win to ensure they play in the Sam Maguire and not the tailteann cup. The last day will be very interesting as all teams bar offaly have something to play for.

[this was supposed to be of benefit to all 6 counties]

One of the Gaa president wants a scaled back Casement which would suit antrims needs. Burns was too intent with a vanity project for which they are 100m short of funding.

Perhaps you can characterise it as a vanity project, but this was supposed to be of benefit to all 6 counties rather than a free stadium for Antrim.

In the 1950s Antrim could build Casement in the first place, now they just want a handy ground with half the capacity paid for by someone else.

9 counties, surely?

A 30,000+  stadium in Belfast never made  much  sense, financially or geographically.

Totally disagree. Easy access for almost everyone because of excellent motorway routes for all. Compare it to the shithole that is clones with the pathetic road infrastructure. Clones is still a decent ground on a good day but it's disgraceful in this day and age that on a wet day 80 of 90% of the spectators will get a complete soaking. That's not good enough for big games like Ulster finals. The sooner casement is built the better.

Still appeal as it simply was not a red!

Definitely. Also if it's not overturned a second red card later this season would result in double the suspension so much better to get this thrown out.

Yer mans had a fair few snidey comments. Keyboard warrior. Best ignored

Nothing snidely about it. If a man can't make the Swatragh team who are a bottom 6 club in the senior league, how can he be deemed good enough for our county team. Absolutely nothing against the lad but he's clearly not good enough.


If he wasn't Anthony Tohills son would we even be having this conversation.

Let's stop talking shite on here lads. Tohill is a very good player as we saw in the sigerson. He's also a good leader and the very experienced QUB management picked him as captain. He also did reasonably well for Derry last year and was developing. He's more than good enough to play for swatragh so let's cut out all the bullshit. Having said all that Meenagh has made the judgement that he's not quite good enough for the Derry panel at the moment and I for one am satisfied with that judgment. Let's just get behind the lads selected. Roll on Saturday and a tough game against Kildare.

Seems incredulous even by Trump's standards. The man is absolutely sick... but what does it say of those who support him? Hitler led a population to do terrible acts

Deep down the vast majority of his supporters will be silently cheering this. Not all of his supporters are racist in fairness but every single racist in the US will be a trump fan and there are plenty of them.

Lads there's been a lot of clamour for him in here but you can't shy away from the fact he played in 2 McKenna cup games and was poor. Carried the ball into tackles and both his passing and shooting was erratic.
I'm willing to give Meenagh the benefit of the doubt to be honest that he either just isn't sharp enough yet or hasn't stood out enough amongst those at intercounty level to warrant a start so far.
If he ends up starting and playing a blinder then brilliant. I just feel we've always excuses for someone or another who isn't playing. The overwhelming majority of the best players in the county are on the panel. There has to be some element of trust that the management team know what they're doing.

Agree with this. The management wants to win matches and they're going to pick the best team for that. If anyone is playing well in training or gets a chance and plays well they'll be on the team. They're in place, they're experienced and we have to trust their judgement.

The second last post uses the 2023 AI semi to show his tactical nous. We were led to believe he was gone by that stage.

He was gone. Surely they were using the same tactics they'd used all season though?

It's definitely implying that he identified Kerry's weaknesses. Any way not sure it's the best advert as we were still beat

Fair enough, we did play well that day though. Caused kerry lots of problems and unlucky not to win.

The second last post uses the 2023 AI semi to show his tactical nous. We were led to believe he was gone by that stage.

He was gone. Surely they were using the same tactics they'd used all season though?

Lads, we've had 2 and a half years of instability and chaos. This year is all about stabilising and developing the squad. Keeper played well today and Mcateer will benefit from his first start. Good to see Matthew Downey back and fit, he did well. Mckinless played really well but our key players who missed the McKenna cup were rusty and that cost us. Fair play to Meath, they're a good side and the ref allowed them to push the boundaries.