Derry Club Football & Hurling original

[GTP]

A positive development publishing the squads. Hopefully they will get to continue putting up the match day squads for our hurlers and footballers long into the summer.

And if you are reading the 'All Competitions' tab on the website should either have fixtures and results available or be removed.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Somebody from the county board has been reading here, going to great lengths to publish all the underage panels now

And boys said we'd no influence 😜

Now, maybe a bit of promotion of the leagues wouldn't go amiss.....

[Brendan]

Somebody from the county board has been reading here, going to great lengths to publish all the underage panels now

And boys said we'd no influence 😜

Now, maybe a bit of promotion of the leagues wouldn't go amiss.....

Last year they done Instagram stories for each round of the league...which was an improvement on before

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Fair enough. Still an X man for the Derry stuff tbh

[Interstellar]

Donegal have become what we were a couple of years ago.

Irrespective of management there are too many established players mcguigan, ethan, cassidy just not at the level required. Mcguigan has become just a free taker and very poor at the penalty today.

How do we not have a backup keeper? Whatever chance we had disappeared with no kick out strategy. Completely cleaned out at midfield.

[Mario]

We cant put in a performance for 70 min. Even today we looked good at times, first 20 min was prob exactly what tally wanted. 5 min into second half the same but without a proper goalkeeper we are just looping kickouts up in the air and we get cleaned out and hit for about 7 points in 5 min after each period. Then we are desperate and play hopeless 1 dimensional football.

Lynch is the most important player on our team. Some individual performances are a concern but I think it's just a culmination of everything. They haven't become bad players overnight. There is a chance to regroup now and hopefully turn a corner in the group stage.

[jb77]

Saving grace is that Odhran Lynch's injury isn't as bad as initially expected, hope tally has to something to show for this block of work between the groups though

[NotedObserver]

We cant put in a performance for 70 min. Even today we looked good at times, first 20 min was prob exactly what tally wanted. 5 min into second half the same but without a proper goalkeeper we are just looping kickouts up in the air and we get cleaned out and hit for about 7 points in 5 min after each period. Then we are desperate and play hopeless 1 dimensional football.

Lynch is the most important player on our team. Some individual performances are a concern but I think it's just a culmination of everything. They haven't become bad players overnight. There is a chance to regroup now and hopefully turn a corner in the group stage.

Lynch the most important player? If they just held onto scullion instead of outfield player

[Wildweasel74]

That's the day as bad as it seen in championship in a long time and that's taking in general,when we had poor teams. Not 1 positive can be taken from the game. 7 or 8 lads are so lucky our subs bench is so unexperienced.Harte took the team back, Tally totally sunk it.we a mile off where we were 2 years ago, even with injuries. Somebody explain Derry tactics on Defence, midfield and kickout because I see none. PS the Derry support there was shockingly poor.

[tbrick18]

Hopefully all the Lynch critics over the years now see how important he is to Derry.
A huge part of the issues today was the keeper but too many of our main players just didn't perform.
McGuigan not at the races at all, his penalty was awful. Murray really the only forward making a fist of it, and we couldn't get the ball to him.
Glass seemed to pick up an injury in the first half too, was limping. Came out in the 2nd half with his knee strapped, wasn't his usual self either.
Rogers was prob our best player, but gave away 2 needless scores for not handi g the ball back and pushing a man after the free was given.

We have no kickout strategy, or maybe we do and McNicholl couldn't deliver.
Toothless in attack, side to side with no-one off the shoulder.

Big Higgins was decent, don't know why he was taken off. I thought Murphy should have seen red for the hit on Loughlin, might have been a different game if they were down to 14.

Really strange substitution too on Toner just as he was lined up to hit a free. Why didn't htye wait until after he hit it?

That was the stro gest team Derry had out in a while, and apart from the first 20 mins we weren't at the races.

Really disappointing across the board, players and management.

[Brendan]

They say noone in Derry is good enough to take the team, so 10s of thousands spent on another blow in only to take the team further backwards, why can't a Derry man just be given a chance?

The players very clearly have a love in for Gallagher, you'd assume they'd have a bit more respect for a fellow Derry man and not some one on the county manager merry go round just looking another big pay packet

[Wildweasel74]

Glass was injured 15mins in, i be worried he's done knee ligaments, couldn't move well at all.

[Wildweasel74]

Brendan who would u give it to in Derry, used to be Derry created good managers, now there nobody, alot of Derry club senior teams have had outside managers in recent years.

[Ryan O]

Mc Nicholl decision making is absolutely shocking, he can't see the kick out quick enough nevermind be able to implement it. Numerous opportunities to get short direct quick ball to Ethan and Ciaran on particular and he delayed too long until Donegal had it covered. For a member of backroom team to have to go and give him a hat to keep the sun out of his eyes 20mins into 1st half shows the level of goalkeeper preparation he's doing. Sick of hearing, he's not a keeper its not his fault.

Baker 1v1 is a poor of corner back as I've seen in Derry jersey niggling, pulling and dragging then when matters he's caught to far off then can't his feet sorted to actually track a man.

You would love to know what the thinking was taking off Niall Toner for Cahir Mc Monagle right when he was about to take a free. Also he was one of our only hopes in picking up breaking ball around the middle?
Paul Cassidy looks like the player we always though he was a club level, Scoring seems to be least of his worries, actually getting himself wound up long enough to get a shot away is the first hurdle.

And just for another point, Donegal were there for the taking today, we missed about 2-3 in first half and at least 6-8 points in 2nd half.

[Brendan]

Brendan who would u give it to in Derry, used to be Derry created good managers, now there nobody, alot of Derry club senior teams have had outside managers in recent years.

Paddy Bradley, Deeks have been successful where theyve went, enda muldoon been involved with alot of these lads from underage, fellas these lads on the panel would have grew up admiring and not another mercenary