Derry Club Football & Hurling original

[p3427977]

Any news on Conor Doherty?

[Wildweasel74]

Seen him at the game yesterday walking  around down on the pitch after the game. Not sure how far away he is, but he's not off his feet.

[Mario]

Any news on Conor Doherty?

Mickey gives a bit of an update on his injury in this interview. Not far away it seems.
https://highlandradio.com/2024/03/17/mickey-harte-on-derrys-win-in-mayo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[clawaddy]

Its a funny old game. Two years ago Derry were  on the brink of Promotion to Div 1 when they played Roscommon away. They drew the game but could have won it in the last minute but for a "sequence of events" to work against them. The dropped point cost them promotion. In the final game Galway, already promoted rested some players resulting in A Roscommon victory and promotion. Next Sunday Derry play Roscommon and their approach to the game will have a big say in whether Roscommon or Galway are relegated. Different management but mostly the same Derry team???

[paddyjohn]

Nice to Joe Brolly back supporting Derry

[Wildweasel74]

Thought ole Joe said he was going nowhere near Derry with Harte in charge, was he there to watch Mayo yesterday?

[shawshank]

Watched that tackle on Loughlin a no of times now, for the life i can't see how he not brought to the ground there for a penalty.

total stonewall penalty. incredible decision

[Estimator]

Few thoughts on the game on Sunday.  Great to see a substantial Derry following in the crowd. Thought there was more than the 9000 odd that was announced at half time, but I suppose that may have just included the tickets sold and not all the U16s as well. 

The set up at Castlebar was superb as well, the facilities at McHale Park just emphasises the how poor they are in Celtic Park. The god-awful toilets, narrow gangways, congestion (people and traffic) of Celtic Park were non-existent Castlebar.  We got parked on McHale Rd, and it was handy to get out and away especially with the guards controlling the traffic.

As for the game thought Derry played in fits and starts, some excellent football, was followed up by a litany of school boy errors.  At times we were in complete control and others we looked like one more Mayo score away from total collapse. McFaul, McGuigan, Glass all hit excellent points, McCluskey took his goal very well.  I wouldn't be too concerned with the support we have for McGuigan. And ultimately finished out the game brilliantly despite being under pressure for 15mins of the second half.

Lynch continues to mix the sublime with the ridiculous. Super save in the second half, but some of the kick out selection was baffling.  Just like towards the end of the Kerry game last year, he seems to have a blind spot on his kickouts to his right hand side.  I know its easy to point this out sitting high up in the stand, but it occurred 2 or 3 times in the second half while we were already under pressure, he'd a free option to his right, but either kicked long or looked for someone to his left.

The Ref was fairly poor as well, Rodgers was getting pulled and dragged then shrugged the player off with his strength and a free given against him. McEvoy was jumping for a kick out, Mayo lad with his back to the play just jumped straight into McEvoy, with no attempt to contest the kickout and play allowed to continue.  At the time I thought that Loughlin played for the penalty, but a couple of comments appear that this might not be the case. Would need to see it again.  Mayo keeper was taking at least the same amount of time as Lynch, yet Lynch was blown twice for it.  Even with all that the Mayo crowd were still getting on top of him.

Derry will probably be able to give another couple of players a break next week again, and give the bench another run out.  I think it would take a serious set of scores to knock us out of the league final.

[JoG2]

Watched that tackle on Loughlin a no of times now, for the life i can't see how he not brought to the ground there for a penalty.

total stonewall penalty. incredible decision

100%..and the ref knew himself, as within a minute he blew Jordan Flynn up for a foul right on the edge of the big square, that was never a foul

[ck]

When does Derry club leagues start?

[AllStar15]

Are Ballinderry and Lavey both division 2 and Intermediate or have I picked that up wrong?

[shawshank]

Are Ballinderry and Lavey both division 2 and Intermediate or have I picked that up wrong?

Lavey are in Division 2 (relegated from Division 1 last season) and will play senior championship
Ballinderry are in Division 1 and will play in the intermediate championship (relegated from the senior championship last season)

league and championship are not linked, they are 'decoupled'

[AllStar15]

Are Ballinderry and Lavey both division 2 and Intermediate or have I picked that up wrong?

Lavey are in Division 2 (relegated from Division 1 last season) and will play senior championship
Ballinderry are in Division 1 and will play in the intermediate championship (relegated from the senior championship last season)

Thanks Shawshank, appreciate it.
league and championship are not linked, they are 'decoupled'

[Real Talk]

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. 

[Mikhailov]

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. 

Is Emmett Bradley not left footed?