Meath v Armagh - Sat 6th February

[orange2009]

Paddy O'Rourke and Donal Murtagh react to Armagh defeat - Audio

http://www.armagh-gaa.com/Football/News/Armagh-v-Meath-audio.aspx

[Hardy]

Hardy we had 5/6 marks in the 2nd half.
Macken was poor and rightly taken off.
Crawford was as quiet as I ever saw.

OK. Somebody said above Vernon made the only mark of the match. I wasn't allowing for the exclusively Armagh-centric view of some Armagh supporters.

Interesting about Macken - shows the problem with highlights.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Hardy we had 5/6 marks in the 2nd half.
Macken was poor and rightly taken off.
Crawford was as quiet as I ever saw.

OK. Somebody said above Vernon made the only mark of the match. I wasn't allowing for the exclusively Armagh-centric view of some Armagh supporters.

Interesting about Macken - shows the problem with highlights.

Think that was me said that. Apologies, I was just referring to Armagh, Meath had a few marks right enough.

[Hardy]

Just messing, TAM.

Edit - on checking, I owe you an aopolgy. You said Vernon made the only mark of the match for Armagh. My mistake.

[tyroneman]

Is Henderson doing anything this year to win over the sceptics? Loads of talent but  never seems to have any supporters outside Lurgan.

[Shortso79]

Eventually made it to Navan last night - between the diversions and the fog - the journey took longer than expected.

It was an encouraging display in relation to heart and determination - going 6 points down straight after the restart was a big blow - but Armagh came back well

Apart from Stevie - thought Charlie was our best player.

Henderson took two lovely points from play

Hearty was at fault for the 1st goal - I'd say O'Rourke will prob rotate the goalkeepers in the league

Ref was bad for both sides - however Meath did get two very dubious frees at the very end - whch they gladly took.

As always we will need to win all our home matches.

The Season Ticket worked ok - a few signs wouldn't go a miss though outside the ground.

PS

Did anyone else see Armagh's warm up tactics ?

[Jinxy]

I was impressed with Vernon.
Strong, fast and covered a lot of ground.
Well able to take a score too.

[Midman]

I was impressed with Vernon.
Strong, fast and covered a lot of ground.
Well able to take a score too.

Its funny you should say that, I was discussing Charlie lining out on the 40 with a friend a we both thought his score taking might be the thing that let him down. What do others think?

[mountainboii]

I was impressed with Vernon.
Strong, fast and covered a lot of ground.
Well able to take a score too.

Its funny you should say that, I was discussing Charlie lining out on the 40 with a friend a we both thought his score taking might be the thing that let him down. What do others think?

Seems to miss more than he scores, but he's a midfielder so I wouldn't be too bothered about his scoring ability to be honest. If he can learn to lift the head and make better use of the ball when he wins it, he'll be a great asset for us for the next decade. Just needs to cut a few of those surging runs short and play the ball earlier at times.

[Throw ball]

Meath V Armagh National Football League Highlights 2010

Not to well up on the tech things but would there be ant reason why I cannot watch this or listen to the interviews?

[orange2009]

You might want to try the original source for the interviews, not the copied vesion:

http://www.armagh-gaa.com/Football/News/Armagh-v-Meath-audio.aspx

[Orior]

PS

Did anyone else see Armagh's warm up tactics ?

Was it the bumping?

[T Fearon]

no, they had big hand held yokes, like they use in the rugby, and each player had to run through them, to simulate a double shoulder charge/ 2 man tackle. I am guessing it was introduced by Mc Gurn.

Re the season tickets well when we went in they had a wee girl, about 12 or 13, who God help her couldn't work the scanner, a queue was forming but another lassie turned up and sorted the problem. Very far from satisfactory and unprofessional, why they simply can't have a turnstile for season ticket holders with an experienced operator is beyond me. Then when we got in we were informed, again by another yong lassie of school going age, that a section sealed off was for season ticket holders, about 10 minutes before the throw in. Really in season two this should be sorted out with signage etc

[Aghdavoyle]

Paddy O'Rourke and Donal Murtagh react to Armagh defeat - Audio

http://www.armagh-gaa.com/Football/News/Armagh-v-Meath-audio.aspx

Jaysus, i never like any manager (or assistant) citing passion, commitment and pride as a positive after defeat or victory. That is the bare minimum expected from a county footballer.

[mackers]

Paddy O'Rourke and Donal Murtagh react to Armagh defeat - Audio

http://www.armagh-gaa.com/Football/News/Armagh-v-Meath-audio.aspx

Jaysus, i never like any manager (or assistant) citing passion, commitment and pride as a positive after defeat or victory. That is the bare minimum expected from a county footballer.

You're right but I think they were proud of the team as they fought back from six points down. Must say that when we went six points down I thought we were for another mauling in a venue where that has happened more than once. The team did show a lot of bottle.
Ultimately though we were still beat and I remember the same sort of reaction to the Tyrone defeat in the championship last year and look what happened after that, probably our worst championship performance in a decade. Next week's match is a very important one, we need to cut out the silly mistakes and build on some of the good parts of last night's match.