Derry Club Football & Hurling original

[93-DY-SAM]

Yesterdays result should be huge inspiration to our lads. Sitting nicely that no one is talking about our side of the draw if we get over monaghan we would be placed lovely in the long grass

Hmm not sure, hell of a lot of punditry floating about where this week is Derrys to lose and we'll be too much for Monaghan.
Thats a dangerous narrative, Monaghan will be lapping up as yesterday showed. They are a Div 1 team and ultimately we are Div 2 so not sure its warranted.

Also Paddy Power now has us favourites for Ulster which is another tag that we don't need.

Delighted for Down but, exact same ambush that we got from Donegal after winning the league, the thing about Jims ultra committed style of management is that when the bubble bursts it can fall apart so fast.Hopefully that will happen to them this time.

Monaghan will be no pushover, and anyone going into the game this weekend thinking this is Derry's to lose is deluded. We need a good competitive game, and if we can come out on the right side of that and get to an Ulster final, it'll have been a good weekend.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Think most of the noise coming from outside the County tbf. Hope so anyway

[GTP]

I can't imagine anyone in Derry circles will be complacent - Meath and Louth this year show we need to play at our best to win. I find the bookies odds a bit strange but hopefully the old adage that the bookies are always right proves true.

[tbrick18]

The closer we get to this game, the more nervous I get. I don't like this mood music around Derry being favourites in Ulster. Seems unfounded given we've won only 1 championship game in about 2 years - against Antrim.
Feet need to be on the ground and I'm sure Meenagh will be saying the same thing, but all this talk of bookies etc will reach the players.
We need a Down-esque performance to be sure of the win, anything less and Monaghan will punish us. On paper, us at full strength playing Monaghan at full strength would be a coin toss, but if we take the context of Monaghan's league into consideration, Derry should be winning this game. But we should have been winning against Louth and Meath too.
We're still a bit fragile, but if we can switch it on and play confidently I think we can win it.

Any word on injuries? Big Dan Higgins available again or still out?

[imtommygunn]

Why do you think you should have been winning against Louth and Meath?

I don't think it will take a down performance but it will need a decent performance.

[Liberation]

Whos for the big game tonight between Glenullen and Bdoire?  Heard rumours Skinner is togging out tonight and make an appearance, this is from my source in the office and fair play to them they are covering my shift tonight, big thanks to the Mud Dog rules fan.  WE HAVE ARRIVED.

[Wildweasel74]

Was over at Swatragh v Dungiven the nite, never seen 2 teams with so many men over 6ft. That lad Haran gonna be some player for Derry in a few years, scored 2:3 from wing forward, see he played around there. for Dungiven minors last yr. Not sure why he full bck in the U20's, Lad should be in the forwards.

[Estimator]

No changes to the line up - though they have added 27-29 as part of the squad.

[GTP]

Same 26 named for tomorrow, if they limit the 2 pointers for Monaghan and raise the intensity from the Antrim game should get over the line. 

[tbrick18]

Same 26 named for tomorrow, if they limit the 2 pointers for Monaghan and raise the intensity from the Antrim game should get over the line.

I think that will probably be the lineup too.
Very quiet on here given it's an Ulster SF tomorrow.

Hard to know where we are - a bit hot and cold at stages so far for us. Monaghan a poor league, but were missing players.
Could be a coin toss.
I'm hoping though we can increase our intensity and play with a bit of swagger and confidence - and if we do we'll win. If we just show up and go through the motions, it could be a hard watch.

I'm going to go with Derry by 3+.

[Ryan O]

Was over at Swatragh v Dungiven the nite, never seen 2 teams with so many men over 6ft. That lad Haran gonna be some player for Derry in a few years, scored 2:3 from wing forward, see he played around there. for Dungiven minors last yr. Not sure why he full bck in the U20's, Lad should be in the forwards.

Was he number 8 or 12 for Dungiven? I thought they were two really good players.

We'll say nothing about the referee performance in that one.lol. I was thinking on the way hom, I don't think there were any yellow cards nevermind red?

[HonDerry]

Same 26 named for tomorrow, if they limit the 2 pointers for Monaghan and raise the intensity from the Antrim game should get over the line.

I think that will probably be the lineup too.
Very quiet on here given it's an Ulster SF tomorrow.

Hard to know where we are - a bit hot and cold at stages so far for us. Monaghan a poor league, but were missing players.
Could be a coin toss.
I'm hoping though we can increase our intensity and play with a bit of swagger and confidence - and if we do we'll win. If we just show up and go through the motions, it could be a hard watch.

I'm going to go with Derry by 3+.

It's been very quiet, to be fair. We played Antrim in the quarter-final so not much to say about that.

On the positive side, we're close to a full panel again, which is a change from the injury issues last year. By all accounts, we've a much better medical setup this year.

Just Odhran Lynch, Dan Higgins, Matthew Downey and Marty Bradley on the rehab list, and hopefully none of them is far away.

By all accounts, the camp is in a good place, and the two-week break should have helped.

Derry for the win by a small margin, and if we don't get it done, we wont be in a good place for All-Ireland series.

[Derry Haiku]

Thundery showers and light winds forecast for 5 o'clock in Armagh tomorrow. Excellent!

[GTP]

I am not convinced by Glass at CHF (not that he plays there) seems like trying to shoehorn in the best 15 rather than a tactical plan. In saying that CHF was a problem throughout the league so may be the best option available.

[jb77]

He probably has the most potential for playmaking if he plays like an 11 and not 6 like the last day, good teams are wise to the over reliance on Ethan for setting up 11v11 scores.