Armagh v Donegal USFC 14/06/2015

[BluestackBoy]

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

It comes out in us whenever there is a camera close.

"Like" & "ya know" are more examples.

Women go mad for it Minder, you should try it out!!!

[Mourne Rover]

Tony keeps lamenting the early goal, and claims the game could have worked out differently if it had been avoided. However, Donegal could have had two other early goals as Armagh's defensive system fell apart. Donegal scored largely at will in the first half and did not even concede a single free in their own half until well after the break. The second half was a training match and consisted of Armagh keeping 13 men behind the ball in a contest which they were usually around ten points behind. Armagh were probably unlucky not to get a consolation goal but that would simply have resulted in Donegal stepping up a gear. Armagh are probably at about the same level as or ahead of six or seven other Ulster counties but they never seriously competed with Donegal today.

[omaghjoe]

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

It comes out in us whenever there is a camera close.

"Like" & "ya know" are more examples.

Women go mad for it Minder, you should try it out!!!

North Donegal for ewes (yeows)

[T Fearon]

An early goal in any game is a huge psychological boost to one team and a huge psychological blow to the other.Doesnt matter what code.This is particularly true in a game like yesterday,overhyped since the draw was made.

Of course Donegal are further advanced and experienced than Armagh,but they are not as far advanced as the score line and respective performances seemed to suggest yesterday.

[tyroneman]

An early goal in any game is a huge psychological boost to one team and a huge psychological blow to the other.Doesnt matter what code.This is particularly true in a game like yesterday,overhyped since the draw was made.

Of course Donegal are further advanced and experienced than Armagh,but they are not as far advanced as the score line and respective performances seemed to suggest yesterday.

Cloud. Cuckoo. Land.

[Estimator]

An early goal in any game is a huge psychological boost to one team and a huge psychological blow to the other.Doesnt matter what code.This is particularly true in a game like yesterday,overhyped since the draw was made.

Of course Donegal are further advanced and experienced than Armagh,but they are not as far advanced as the score line and respective performances seemed to suggest yesterday.

Like the early goal Joe Kavanagh scored in the '93 All Ireland final
Like the early goal Noel Donnelly scored in the '97 Ulster semi final

[seanaglis]

An early goal in any game is a huge psychological boost to one team and a huge psychological blow to the other.Doesnt matter what code.This is particularly true in a game like yesterday,overhyped since the draw was made.

Of course Donegal are further advanced and experienced than Armagh,but they are not as far advanced as the score line and respective performances seemed to suggest yesterday.

Cloud. Cuckoo. Land.

I actually think he has a point

Look at last years ai where donegal never recovered from the shock of conceding an early goal

Or 2011 when  they won it where mayo never recovered from the early 2 goals

[From the Bunker]

An early goal in any game is a huge psychological boost to one team and a huge psychological blow to the other.Doesnt matter what code.This is particularly true in a game like yesterday,overhyped since the draw was made.

Of course Donegal are further advanced and experienced than Armagh,but they are not as far advanced as the score line and respective performances seemed to suggest yesterday.

[illdecide]

Don't know where to even start...Donegal were good and Armagh were bad (how's that for analysis ). The early goal was crucial and the few pts scored after that to put Donegal 1-02 to 0-00 up was basically game over and you could see it in the body language of the players after that. McGeeney is getting it in the neck from everyone this morning but if i'm being totally honest I don't think there was much he could have done yesterday to salvage anything after the start Donegal got off to. Yes you can make a sub or two and change positions here and there but ultimately when the players are out on the pitch it's up to them really. You can all blabber today about this and that but there wasn't a person in the country would have predicted that result yesterday as everyone thought it was going to be a tight game (even the Donegal players were shocked at how easy they got it).

Nothing went right for Armagh yesterday and everything clicked for Donegal and sometimes that's the way it goes but I know one thing if we're luck enough to get thru the qualifers and meet Donegal again it will be a lot tighter than it was yesterday but you have to call a spade a spade and that Donegal are a top 3 team in the country who will still be playing football at the end of August (i'll be surprised if they're not).

[GJL]

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

It comes out in us whenever there is a camera close.

"Like" & "ya know" are more examples.

Women go mad for it Minder, you should try it out!!!

[Canalman]

Donegal play a kind of tsunami football when they attack. Very hard to defend with multiple players attacking in a line.
The two McHughs key operators in that team imo.

Very enjoyable game to watch tbh. Sunshine helped. Armagh imo had one of those days

[naka]

watched the game again last night
Donegal are physically very strong on the ball and in the tackle as well as being extremely disciplined
had to laugh at spillane saying Armagh spent the winter in the gym cos they were physically over run

the Donegal system is actually very fluid with constant rotation in the forward line which given that it is ostentively 4 years old allows it to be honed to near perfection,
for me Armagh are at least 3 years away from this and I can see only experienced teams like the dubs Mayo, Kerry and monaghan giving these guys a testing time.
Donegal will be there or thereabouts

[Jinxy]

watched the game again last night
Donegal are physically very strong on the ball and in the tackle as well as being extremely disciplined
had to laugh at spillane saying Armagh spent the winter in the gym cos they were physically over run

the Donegal system is actually very fluid with constant rotation in the forward line which given that it is ostentively 4 years old allows it to be honed to near perfection,
for me Armagh are at least 3 years away from this and I can see only experienced teams like the dubs Mayo, Kerry and monaghan giving these guys a testing time.
Donegal will be there or thereabouts

I'd actually agree with him here for once, insofar as Armagh looked like a team who spent the winter in the gym doing bicep curls, bench-presses and nothing else.
Working on their 'Geezer Muscles' basically.

[Mikasa]

What exactly was Armagh's game plan?

At least Jamie Clarke showed some heart and tried to tackle and put pressure on Donegal's defence.

[A man from Down]

Donegal were a joy to watch yesterday...... actually so were Armagh.