Derry Club Football & Hurling original

[Brendan]

Vale realistically an Intermeidate team to so shouldnt be getting snobby about it. It was no ordinary Donegal Junior team those fellas took

[Liberation]

Think hes still playing the old groundball pal.

[Cluborcountywhynotboth]

Vale realistically an Intermeidate team to so shouldnt be getting snobby about it. It was no ordinary Donegal Junior team those fellas took

As I said I'm just hearing it second hand, but by all accounts training was very basic and repetitive, not a single thing done on set up or kick outs etc... as you say they done a very good job in donegal, but to step from a junior team (albeit a good one) to Derry Senior is a massive step. And while you say Vale are an intermediate side; they aren't, they are senior at the minute and why shouldn't they want to strive to remain there and demand the best from management?? Or should all teams just stay in their lane based on the past?

[Brendan]

Vale realistically an Intermeidate team to so shouldnt be getting snobby about it. It was no ordinary Donegal Junior team those fellas took

As I said I'm just hearing it second hand, but by all accounts training was very basic and repetitive, not a single thing done on set up or kick outs etc... as you say they done a very good job in donegal, but to step from a junior team (albeit a good one) to Derry Senior is a massive step. And while you say Vale are an intermediate side; they aren't, they are senior at the minute and why shouldn't they want to strive to remain there and demand the best from management?? Or should all teams just stay in their lane based on the past?

Of course not but they have to be realistic in terms of where they are, and the underage pipeline doesnt suggest theyve much quality coming through to sustain it

[Liberation]

Will anyone sponsor Michaela?

[Newbridge Exile]

Saw the second half of Dungiven and Steelstown ( Donnacha Gilmore playing midfield for them) Dungiven won by three but Steelstown hit a lot of wides in the second half

[Brendan]

Slaughtmanus only scoring 2 points against one of the weaker teams in Division 2, must have been another fall out

[Ryan O]

No major shocks in the first round of the league I don't think.

Emmett Bradley dragged Glen out of hole with two injury time two pointers against Kilrea?

Glenullin with decent win over Screen and Ballinderry/ Vale draw.

Swatragh beat Lavey maybe a bit unexpected.

[Wildweasel74]

At that Swatragh game, never seen as many handpasses in my life. Not a wonder Derry cant produce forwards, kicking been drilled outta boys from a early age, the amount of lads afraid to kick a ball any distance. Lavey had the advantage at midfield but played the ball short and got pinned in 30/40m from their goal steady, handpassing  sideways bck and forth.

[jb77]

Glen probably the last team that would consistently kick ball in under Malachy, now it's just try and make Ethan do it all through the hands

[Ryan O]

At that Swatragh game, never seen as many handpasses in my life. Not a wonder Derry cant produce forwards, kicking been drilled outta boys from a early age, the amount of lads afraid to kick a ball any distance. Lavey had the advantage at midfield but played the ball short and got pinned in 30/40m from their goal steady, handpassing  sideways bck and forth.
[/quote I was at that one myself, I thought Lavey were very poor. Cailean o boyle there most dangerous scoring threat and he was in goals.
Same as last year I think I counted 7 in there management team.

[Derry Man]

Glen probably the last team that would consistently kick ball in under Malachy, now it's just try and make Ethan do it all through the hands

Did we watch the same glen team?

[JB3456]

Does anyone know how we are injury wise ahead of sunday?

Having watched the game yesterday, i think we are better than both armagh and tyrone i would not be worried drawing them

We havent won a game in Ulster since the shootout in 2023 so hopefully we get a good performance on Sat as we should be winning easy

[tbrick18]

Does anyone know how we are injury wise ahead of sunday?

Having watched the game yesterday, i think we are better than both armagh and tyrone i would not be worried drawing them

We havent won a game in Ulster since the shootout in 2023 so hopefully we get a good performance on Sat as we should be winning easy

Haven't heard anything which is good news.
We are coming in under the radar a bit, also good news.
And I agree on Armagh/Tyrone based on that match, but Armagh are better than they played in that game. Realistically, we should get to an Ulster Final IF we perform.
I'd expect Donegal to come through the other side of the draw. We'd know where we are really at after that game.

[Mario]

Does anyone know how we are injury wise ahead of sunday?

Having watched the game yesterday, i think we are better than both armagh and tyrone i would not be worried drawing them

We havent won a game in Ulster since the shootout in 2023 so hopefully we get a good performance on Sat as we should be winning easy

Armagh have beat us very easily the past few meetings. I think it's a bit of a stretch to say we are defintely better than them. That was always going to be a close game and only for a goal with the last kick Armagh would have got a deserved win in normal time.

While we should beat Antrim, i don't think we can be overly confident we'll beat Monaghan (probably) in a semi final. If it's a performance like Meath, Louth or Cavan we won't.