NFL Division 2 - 2026

[Truthsayer]

Can't believe Cavan gave Darragh Canavan the amount of space they did.

I think it Was a bad sign how Cavan let Tyrone take over down the stretch, and especially widen the gap on the scoreboard. With 2 losses already I would have thought Cavan would have worked far harder to at least try to keep the losing margin down. The fact that Tyrone outscored them 8 points to 1 in the final quarter and so many of the Tyrone scores came after weak lazy Cavan defending is not a good sign for their survival prospects. Themselves and Offaly both with 3 losses now and score differences of -15 (Cavan) and -19 (Offaly) are in serious relegation trouble.

Cavan are useless. Seen Tyrone hammer them in championship in Omagh last year and when they met later Cavan cynically targeted Michael McKernan. Not unheard of for Cavan down the years but have no football to back it up.

Real classy post there, I'd say all the Division 1 teams along with some Division 2 teams would say Tyrone are useless too. It's all relative I guess, plus McKernan no angel himself.

He was targetted, wrecked after 4 minutes and off to hospital. Needed an operation on that shoulder since.
Considering Tyrone got to the All Ireland semi-final last year can't think who'd say they're useless... maybe Kerry though they beat everyone handy enough.

[gallsman]

Borh red cards in the Derry game poor decisions. Certainly didn't look like Glass struck anyone. Alex Beirne was shoved in the back and turned around and got sent off for it. Derry man did a Neymar.

Conor Doherty picked up one of the most moronic black cards you'll ever see.

[screenexile]

Neither of those were red cards in the Derry Kildare game both men went down very easily!

[gallsman]

Neither of those were red cards in the Derry Kildare game both men went down very easily!

Only one of them was literally rolling on the ground and smacking his hands off it. Mortifying stuff.

[ClubScene13]

First off jack flynn. Mr clutch. Secondly even against the wind (makes Flynns score more impressive) we should not be giving up a 11 point lead , after halftime tbh I think the players felt job done just control it hit on brake and win by 4/5, that's a bloody dangerous game particularly with 2 pointers. And dare I say foolish and naive add to that a few injuries and replacements and you have disaster. Also to give Louth credit mulroy would walk onto any team in country I include Kerry and Dublin in that. In my opinion one of the top 5 forwards in the country.
Now I'm probably going to get another ahh the ref was even handed malarkey here. But by jasus the standard of refs is getting worse by the game. The 4 black cards ? Rafferty wasn't even involved and tried to brake it up , there was no fists , pushing and dragging yes. A couple of yellow cards would have been sufficient. 4 black cards was nonsensical. Also late in the game ref pulled for a breach. There was non certainly not interfering with play. Louth get a 2pt from it. Honestly this may pass in division 2 but what happens when it's championship. They'll be all out war if it was Kerry.
Moving on Meath on 6pts now and should fingers crossed get promoted. Cork in cork. That will be fun.

Really? He scored 0-9 all from frees, something I have always thought is a regular occurrence with Mulroy. Really good player but he does 90% of his damage from the dead ball. Darragh Canavan kicked 0-9 today with only 1 free. I don't think mulroy could lace the boots of Canavan, Conaty, McGuigan, Finnerty, Walsh, Clifford x2, Con, Morris etc. then you can debate the likes of enda smith, Sean O'Shea, McCurry, Ryan odonoghue, Luke Loughlin

Only an opinion but it's something I noticed a few years ago and look out for with Mulroy all the time, you'd be surprised how little he gets from play

[Captain Scarlet]

I'm glad it was highlighted and more should be done to call it out.
There were a couple more over the terrace side guilty of flops too.

[Wildweasel74]

Talk Mulroy down if u want. I still have that freetaking capability in our team, we got nothing for consistant right footed frees.

[JoG2]

First off jack flynn. Mr clutch. Secondly even against the wind (makes Flynns score more impressive) we should not be giving up a 11 point lead , after halftime tbh I think the players felt job done just control it hit on brake and win by 4/5, that's a bloody dangerous game particularly with 2 pointers. And dare I say foolish and naive add to that a few injuries and replacements and you have disaster. Also to give Louth credit mulroy would walk onto any team in country I include Kerry and Dublin in that. In my opinion one of the top 5 forwards in the country.
Now I'm probably going to get another ahh the ref was even handed malarkey here. But by jasus the standard of refs is getting worse by the game. The 4 black cards ? Rafferty wasn't even involved and tried to brake it up , there was no fists , pushing and dragging yes. A couple of yellow cards would have been sufficient. 4 black cards was nonsensical. Also late in the game ref pulled for a breach. There was non certainly not interfering with play. Louth get a 2pt from it. Honestly this may pass in division 2 but what happens when it's championship. They'll be all out war if it was Kerry.
Moving on Meath on 6pts now and should fingers crossed get promoted. Cork in cork. That will be fun.

Really? He scored 0-9 all from frees, something I have always thought is a regular occurrence with Mulroy. Really good player but he does 90% of his damage from the dead ball. Darragh Canavan kicked 0-9 today with only 1 free. I don't think mulroy could lace the boots of Canavan, Conaty, McGuigan, Finnerty, Walsh, Clifford x2, Con, Morris etc. then you can debate the likes of enda smith, Sean O'Shea, McCurry, Ryan odonoghue, Luke Loughlin

Only an opinion but it's something I noticed a few years ago and look out for with Mulroy all the time, you'd be surprised how little he gets from play

Where would Louth be without Mulroy?
How would Mulroy perform playing with Galway , Kerry ...?

He's an elite footballer

[ClubScene13]

First off jack flynn. Mr clutch. Secondly even against the wind (makes Flynns score more impressive) we should not be giving up a 11 point lead , after halftime tbh I think the players felt job done just control it hit on brake and win by 4/5, that's a bloody dangerous game particularly with 2 pointers. And dare I say foolish and naive add to that a few injuries and replacements and you have disaster. Also to give Louth credit mulroy would walk onto any team in country I include Kerry and Dublin in that. In my opinion one of the top 5 forwards in the country.
Now I'm probably going to get another ahh the ref was even handed malarkey here. But by jasus the standard of refs is getting worse by the game. The 4 black cards ? Rafferty wasn't even involved and tried to brake it up , there was no fists , pushing and dragging yes. A couple of yellow cards would have been sufficient. 4 black cards was nonsensical. Also late in the game ref pulled for a breach. There was non certainly not interfering with play. Louth get a 2pt from it. Honestly this may pass in division 2 but what happens when it's championship. They'll be all out war if it was Kerry.
Moving on Meath on 6pts now and should fingers crossed get promoted. Cork in cork. That will be fun.

Really? He scored 0-9 all from frees, something I have always thought is a regular occurrence with Mulroy. Really good player but he does 90% of his damage from the dead ball. Darragh Canavan kicked 0-9 today with only 1 free. I don't think mulroy could lace the boots of Canavan, Conaty, McGuigan, Finnerty, Walsh, Clifford x2, Con, Morris etc. then you can debate the likes of enda smith, Sean O'Shea, McCurry, Ryan odonoghue, Luke Loughlin

Only an opinion but it's something I noticed a few years ago and look out for with Mulroy all the time, you'd be surprised how little he gets from play

Where would Louth be without Mulroy?
How would Mulroy perform playing with Galway , Kerry ...?

He's an elite footballer

I agree with that, he does get in any team in the country too, I just think top 5 in the game is too much

[Dunneroyal]

First off jack flynn. Mr clutch. Secondly even against the wind (makes Flynns score more impressive) we should not be giving up a 11 point lead , after halftime tbh I think the players felt job done just control it hit on brake and win by 4/5, that's a bloody dangerous game particularly with 2 pointers. And dare I say foolish and naive add to that a few injuries and replacements and you have disaster. Also to give Louth credit mulroy would walk onto any team in country I include Kerry and Dublin in that. In my opinion one of the top 5 forwards in the country.
Now I'm probably going to get another ahh the ref was even handed malarkey here. But by jasus the standard of refs is getting worse by the game. The 4 black cards ? Rafferty wasn't even involved and tried to brake it up , there was no fists , pushing and dragging yes. A couple of yellow cards would have been sufficient. 4 black cards was nonsensical. Also late in the game ref pulled for a breach. There was non certainly not interfering with play. Louth get a 2pt from it. Honestly this may pass in division 2 but what happens when it's championship. They'll be all out war if it was Kerry.
Moving on Meath on 6pts now and should fingers crossed get promoted. Cork in cork. That will be fun.

Really? He scored 0-9 all from frees, something I have always thought is a regular occurrence with Mulroy. Really good player but he does 90% of his damage from the dead ball. Darragh Canavan kicked 0-9 today with only 1 free. I don't think mulroy could lace the boots of Canavan, Conaty, McGuigan, Finnerty, Walsh, Clifford x2, Con, Morris etc. then you can debate the likes of enda smith, Sean O'Shea, McCurry, Ryan odonoghue, Luke Loughlin

Only an opinion but it's something I noticed a few years ago and look out for with Mulroy all the time, you'd be surprised how little he gets from play

Where would Louth be without Mulroy?
How would Mulroy perform playing with Galway , Kerry ...?

He's an elite footballer

I agree with that, he does get in any team in the country too, I just think top 5 in the game is too much

I did say forwards. For me it would be con , Clifford , walsh , Morris and mulroy.
But that's just my opinion, there is others who would have serious claims to be in it. But if I was to pick a fantasy team I'd have them 5 plus one in my forward set up

[twohands!!!]

I think it Was a bad sign how Cavan let Tyrone take over down the stretch, and especially widen the gap on the scoreboard. With 2 losses already I would have thought Cavan would have worked far harder to at least try to keep the losing margin down. The fact that Tyrone outscored them 8 points to 1 in the final quarter and so many of the Tyrone scores came after weak lazy Cavan defending is not a good sign for their survival prospects. Themselves and Offaly both with 3 losses now and score differences of -15 (Cavan) and -19 (Offaly) are in serious relegation trouble.

In my innocence and eternal hope of things never being quite as bad as I dare to imagine, I thought Cavan might at least manage to replicate the competitiveness of the Cork and Meath games. But no, once confronted with boogeyman Tyrone (whether a good Tyrone team or a bad one, it makes no odds to Cavan) we throw shapes for a while and then squeal like mice when they turn the screw even a little. All the endemic frailties, vulnerabilities and shortcomings that have dogged us for years were laid bare yet again today. Mentality is square one, team sport 101 stuff, and for us to show so little sign of addressing this massive elephant in the room bodes very, very ill for McCabe's reign and the years ahead in general. We embarrass ourselves repeatedly with this sort of nonsense.

Yeah it was the lack of effort and lack of fight in the last quarter that had me thinking "Cavan look like a side who are going to get relegated" The Cavan and Offaly score difference of -15 and -19 means that the gap to Louth (with a score difference of -1 ) looks a bit more than 2 points already.

[moonster]

Borh red cards in the Derry game poor decisions. Certainly didn't look like Glass struck anyone. Alex Beirne was shoved in the back and turned around and got sent off for it. Derry man did a Neymar.

Conor Doherty picked up one of the most moronic black cards you'll ever see.

Gareth McKinless strikes again

[Captain Obvious]

First off jack flynn. Mr clutch. Secondly even against the wind (makes Flynns score more impressive) we should not be giving up a 11 point lead , after halftime tbh I think the players felt job done just control it hit on brake and win by 4/5, that's a bloody dangerous game particularly with 2 pointers. And dare I say foolish and naive add to that a few injuries and replacements and you have disaster. Also to give Louth credit mulroy would walk onto any team in country I include Kerry and Dublin in that. In my opinion one of the top 5 forwards in the country.
Now I'm probably going to get another ahh the ref was even handed malarkey here. But by jasus the standard of refs is getting worse by the game. The 4 black cards ? Rafferty wasn't even involved and tried to brake it up , there was no fists , pushing and dragging yes. A couple of yellow cards would have been sufficient. 4 black cards was nonsensical. Also late in the game ref pulled for a breach. There was non certainly not interfering with play. Louth get a 2pt from it. Honestly this may pass in division 2 but what happens when it's championship. They'll be all out war if it was Kerry.
Moving on Meath on 6pts now and should fingers crossed get promoted. Cork in cork. That will be fun.

Really? He scored 0-9 all from frees, something I have always thought is a regular occurrence with Mulroy. Really good player but he does 90% of his damage from the dead ball. Darragh Canavan kicked 0-9 today with only 1 free. I don't think mulroy could lace the boots of Canavan, Conaty, McGuigan, Finnerty, Walsh, Clifford x2, Con, Morris etc. then you can debate the likes of enda smith, Sean O'Shea, McCurry, Ryan odonoghue, Luke Loughlin

Only an opinion but it's something I noticed a few years ago and look out for with Mulroy all the time, you'd be surprised how little he gets from play

Are you underestimating the importance of a good consistent placed kicker?  They are worth their weight in gold especially now with two pointers.

[cavanmaniac]

Yeah it was the lack of effort and lack of fight in the last quarter that had me thinking "Cavan look like a side who are going to get relegated" The Cavan and Offaly score difference of -15 and -19 means that the gap to Louth (with a score difference of -1 ) looks a bit more than 2 points already.

They had the look of lads dialling it in at the arse end of an outgoing manager's reign, not a newly-assembled squad in just their third competitive game under a new voice, tactics, backroom team and supposedly a fresh start? Oisín Reilly's lazy black card foul on Canavan near the end spoke volumes, in my opinion - it's worryingly early into a new leaf for that sort of mental checkout/I don't want to be here/I wanna go home. It didn't take long for us to revert to type. Most of us assume county footballers will play with heart and a bit of defiance, but Cavan (after the Meath manager referred to as much in his post-match interview) gave Tyrone absolute freedom to dance around unimpeded, and then threw in the towel once the scores inevitably flowed. There's an awful stink off the whole thing already.

[rodney trotter]

It would be head to head against Louth. Cavan beat Louth twice under Ray Galligan. The Louth game could define McCabes reign. He was bullish when he took over but Cavan are already out of the promotion race. They were at least challenging promotion under galligan without Lynch for the whole league last year.