Dún na nGall v Ard Mhacha - Páirc Uí Dhómhnail - Leitir Ceanainn - 11ú Aibreán

[thewanderer]

Anto duffy is a class act and won player of the county final last year. he is still only 19 but will be a senior star for armagh in the not to distant future. ps lemallon would u say the same about Jamie's performance against donegal, cant be dismissed after 1 bad game. u must be some consistent player

[DuffleKing]

Was martin o'r injured or not on the panel? Also heard Kevin o'rourke is to be brought back on panel. Hope this is true should be a big boost for us in the forward line if so.
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wont be a boost if were looking scoring forwards.  what a joke by the county management if they are to introduce new players and omit players already in the panel who haven't been given game time. i have no problem if they omit players who have had a chance and haven't taken it.

Sure if they're not good enough in training to earn game time then that's the end of it.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Was martin o'r injured or not on the panel? Also heard Kevin o'rourke is to be brought back on panel. Hope this is true should be a big boost for us in the forward line if so.

I'd be amazed if he brought Kevin O'Rourke back onto the panel though no doubt he should never have dropped him. Its one thing introducing players who were unavailable due to u21 duty or injury but why would a manager bring a player in after Easter who was deemed not good enough in January?

[ArmaghGAAforum]

Was martin o'r injured or not on the panel? Also heard Kevin o'rourke is to be brought back on panel. Hope this is true should be a big boost for us in the forward line if so.

I'd be amazed if he brought Kevin O'Rourke back onto the panel though no doubt he should never have dropped him. Its one thing introducing players who were unavailable due to u21 duty or injury but why would a manager bring a player in after Easter who was deemed not good enough in January?

Who said Kevin O'Rourke wasn't good enough.  He could well have backed off from playing this year due to any amount of reasons.  I do agree that I can't see POR agreeing to bring KOR back at this stage.

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Was martin o'r injured or not on the panel? Also heard Kevin o'rourke is to be brought back on panel. Hope this is true should be a big boost for us in the forward line if so.

I'd be amazed if he brought Kevin O'Rourke back onto the panel though no doubt he should never have dropped him. Its one thing introducing players who were unavailable due to u21 duty or injury but why would a manager bring a player in after Easter who was deemed not good enough in January?

Who said Kevin O'Rourke wasn't good enough.  He could well have backed off from playing this year due to any amount of reasons.  I do agree that I can't see POR agreeing to bring KOR back at this stage.

Paddy O'Rourke presumably. Its possibly that Kevin O'R left the panel of his own volition but I would have thought that was unlikely.

[mhacadoir]

where abouts in letterkenny is the ground? is it hard to get to, park etc?

[ardmhaca08]

He was told he wasn't good enough and I heard this from a reliable source. Good to see Marty O'r back. Swift at number 11 for sunday i hope

[lawnseed]

hello elephant in the room??? whys everyone in the forwards getting dropped to get mor his place??  when we have a huge misfit there? fuks sake i sound like a teenage american sitcom!! ARRON KERNAN IS NOT A FORWARD! if he was a forward his da would have had him there 7 years ago. hes out of the backs so where does he fit in? MOR is a forager hes the guy who dives into the ruck and comes out with the ball, he doesnt hold the ball up (kernan does) apart from frees, he scores as much as kernan. if hes fit i dont see a problem-- straight swap

[ogshead]

It depends. If he was a 20 goal a season midfielder, I'd certainly rather see him in a Spurs shirt

Tone, rule number one as an Armagh football supporter, never ever support a sawker team over your Gaelic team.

Clarke was offered a tennis scholarship at a college in the states when he was seventeen, he must be some athlete as thats a very high standard of tennis to be offered a division one scholarship.

It was JJ who was the tennis player

[mountainboii]

Whats the story with Paul Mc Keown?

Any Cross men about able to answer this? Shocking lack of options for the corner at the minute. Mallon, Duffy and Shannon seems to be it really, and two of those are converted wing backs. Probably forgetting someone.

Could Stephen Kernan be another potential addition or has injury ruled him out?

Can't see many coming in at this stage and making an immediate impact, maybe they'll have more chance in the game(s) after Derry. Even at that, only Clarke and Comiskey look good enough to bring about any sort of improvement this year.

[Shortso79]

Interesting quote from a local newspaper :

"The new Armagh Management have used 29 players during the course of the six league games played so far though only seven (Andy Mallon, Brendan Donaghy, Paul Duffy, Finnian Moriarty, Kieran Toner, Aaron Kernan and Stevie McDonnell) have started all the league games.

Ryan Henderson and Joe Feeney have featured in all six either starting or coming on as a sub.

Armagh have scored 4-78 with 17 different players.

However Stevie McDonnell has scored just under half of that total - 2-35.

Alarmingly, the next highest is Aaron Kernan on 0-9 then Ryan Henderson on 0-6 , Gareth Swift on 1-3, Finnian Moriarty on 1-2 and Stefan Forker on 0-5"

[Shortso79]

Paul McKeown is out with a long term injury

[Shortso79]

where abouts in letterkenny is the ground? is it hard to get to, park etc?

Bump - any Donegal folk out there ?

[RMDrive]

where abouts in letterkenny is the ground? is it hard to get to, park etc?

Bump - any Donegal folk out there ?

It's about half a mile outside the town on the road (R250) heading to Churchill/Glenties. AFAIK there'll be a shuttle bus running out from the bottom of the town beside Dunnes Stores, but it's a short walk anyway. Parking isn't great around the ground but it will be well stewarded and you can park along the main road no problem. Eunan's always do a good j when the host games so yous should be well looked after.

[J70]

where abouts in letterkenny is the ground? is it hard to get to, park etc?

Bump - any Donegal folk out there ?

where abouts in letterkenny is the ground? is it hard to get to, park etc?

Bump - any Donegal folk out there ?

It's about half a mile outside the town on the road (R250) heading to Churchill/Glenties. AFAIK there'll be a shuttle bus running out from the bottom of the town beside Dunnes Stores, but it's a short walk anyway. Parking isn't great around the ground but it will be well stewarded and you can park along the main road no problem. Eunan's always do a good j when the host games so yous should be well looked after.

There should be tonnes of parking in and around the retail parks where the new Dunnes Stores, Lidl's, Ramada, cinema and all those businesses are located, which would be the direction Armagh ones would be coming from anyway. In the map I've included, the area marked "Cinema - Shop Units..." along the lower section of the map, on the banks of the river. The pitch is in the area where Ballymacool is marked in the bottom left corner.

Sorry about the size of the map!