Armagh v Donegal USFC 14/06/2015

[naka]

Just in from the game, that was atrocious. No discernible game plan from Armagh, no passion from the majority of the team as well. Thought Coldrick was terrible.

I thought Coldrick was all right. One or two questionable frees and an inexplicable lack of a card for an Armagh midfielder, but nothing that made any difference and overall a decent performance,  at least from tv viewing. Armagh people should have the ref well down their list of things to be upset about after that game.

Sounds like a Fianna Fail election manifesto. You're going nowhere under Geezer.
Best team won but coldrick was awful
Donegal played him well got some easy frees yet we seemed to work so hard for our frees
Bad day but Armagh are young we are building so not too despondent

Indiana
We will keep mc geeney
He will be ok for us

[Dubh driocht]

I think the Armagh posters need to ask a few more questions here. Forget about the nine point margin- I don't think I've ever seen a more one sided Ulster Championship game.Look at the slating Paddy O'Rourke and Paul Grimley got in recent years. Mc Geeney was a great footballer who led by example but I'm not sure if he's a great manager. If it's true that he has raised a six figure sum for the team, and I had contributed, then I would be asking for my money back. I think Armagh have got a better squad than Down at present but there is no way a Jim McCorry team would have been embarrassed the way Armagh were today. However, they could not have got a handier draw than Wicklow ( who finished joint bottom of Division 4 with London- yet Martin Carney said today that Armagh would not get it easy against them!! Either he hasn't a clue or Armagh really are bad). Maybe Geezer should ask Grimley or POR for some tactical advice.

[stew]

I am devastated, completely and utterly gutted after that performance, for those Armagh fans crying about the referee please stop, he was not that bad, I did think Donegal got the odd call but nothing was going to change that result today, that game was men against boys from the get go and I am shocked at how far we have fallen since the AIQF of last year, I know Division 3 ball is not the best and they already had a tough game against Tyrone but for the love of all that is holy you cannot go out against a team of this calibre and shit yourself, and sadly, that is exactly what we did, the second they went longball into the lone full forward for the first time we should have known they had changed things up.

Screaming at the TV does you no good but my week is fucked and I hope to God Geezer shows up in the qualifier because if this is the best he can do tactically he needs to go!

[T Fearon]

Dunn Droicht,you've never seen a more one sided Ulster Champiinship game? You weren't at the 1999 Ulster Final then? The early goal knocked the stuffing out if Armagh and dampened the crowd.It was reminiscent of Celtic V Juventus,with all the hype but it just evaporated on the pitch and then stands with an early goal from Juventus.

Such are the vagaries of sport,had they not conceded the goal they may have settled into the game and put up a much better performance.

[snoopdog]

Did Kerry not show the way to beat Donegal in last years AIF. Similarly,  could Armagh not have copied Tyrone tactics in the previous round. Very surprised at Armagh. Very poor

How? By latching on to the goalkeepers mistake? That was the only diff between Kerry and Donegal last sept.

[thewobbler]

There have been beatings like this handed out since the dawn of the Ulster Championship. But I guess what a few people are getting at is that a team that has been so lavishly funded  has never been beaten like this before.

To be honest, us Ulster folk might as well get used to it. Donegal have the best individual players in Ulster by a distance, they're almost perfectly balanced between defence, midfield and attack, and most importantly they all know their roles down to a tee and are 100% committed to playing as a structured team. And even without bringing in new blood, they'll be a force for the next 2-3 seasons.

You have to remember that Dublin have been swatting off teams on a par with Armagh, Down and Derry by 15-20 points for the past 3 years, yet Donegal are a match for them. They're that good.

For the other 8 counties in uUlster, our best hope of an SFC going anywhere else is that Michael Murphy picks up a knock (nothing major, but enough to keep him out of a game or two), and torrential weather conditions.

[T Fearon]

Keep it in perspective.Armagh hammered Donegal in 2010 yet Donegal were AI Champions two years later.Similarly Mayo hammered Dinegal in 2013. If The  early goal had been avoided or indeed if Campbell had not missed an open goal at the start of the second half the result would have been much closer.Do not judge a team on one game.

[Over the Bar]

Tony has been at the Buckie a bit too hard if he's putting that thrashing down to an early goal.  Armagh simply don't have the players and half of those on the pitch didn't haven't the bottle. 

[JoG2]

I thought the Ulster Championship didn't have turkey shoots?

More mythology

Why do you do it to yourself?  I don't like Big Brother. I wouldn't continuously watch it and then come on here lamenting about it. Do your wellbeing a favour and stay clear of watching the Ulster Championship

[T Fearon]

You underestimate what the loss of an early goal can do in an overhyped fixture,particularly from the underdogs perspective.It was exactly the same when Celtic met Juventus,coming off the back of defeating Barcelona a few years ago.Hyped up to the nineties but a soft early goal deflated the whole team and fans,a blow from which they never recovered in the tie.

[An Watcher]

Sorry snoopdog I'll rephrase that, did Kerry last year and Tyrone this year not show how to be competitive against Donegal

[Wildweasel74]

We not playing soccer Tony, why use the comparison

[Minder]

Heard Murphy interviewed after Tyrone and Armagh and he starts with "hi come here", is this a Donegal thing?

[Throw ball]

No matter about blanket defences 25 scoring chances each and one team wins by 9 points. Donegal forward systems are nearly as good as their defensive.

[omaghjoe]

Heard Murphy interviewed after Tyrone and Armagh and he starts with "hi come here", is this a Donegal thing?

Nah say it in Tyrone as well in a similar context, usually to signify that the speaker is deadly serious and going to be very honest.

However the way he said it was very Donegal

A more common expression might be "c'mere till i tell ye" although that may indicate a rebuttal is coming, although not necessarily