Ulster Senior Football Championship 2020

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SaintSeamy

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Should try and take the positives from this year.

Got promoted, Oisin O'Neill back into the side, Conor Turbit debut, Grugan has had a better year than 2019 and I think Soupy has come on a bit.

Really need to work on the defending. Maybe McGeeney will look outside the county for some help there lol
 
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Seamy

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Blaine Hughes- Kickouts one dimensional. Ball boounced over his head. Enough said.

Paddy Burns- Strong first half. Conceded 2 quick fire points in the second half in a 30 second period. Kept Brennan quiet overall.

Ryan Kennedy- Slow, labourious and fairly loose. Slight improvement in the second half but poor overall.

James Morgan Moved well when pressing forward. Defended relatively OK.

Conor O'Neill- Non pass remarkable. A lot of the damage came from the Donegal half forward line and O'Neill was largely anonymous

Aidan Forker- Marshalled Murphy very well but this limited his own performance. No fault of his own. Tried hard.

Mark Shields- Again pretty anonymous and rarely on the ball

Oisín O'Neill- Absolutely cleaned out in midfield. Same goes for both him and Sheridan. Only difference was that O'Neill still offered a hope of pulling a big score out of the bag.

Stephen Sheridan- Lacking in pace, physicality and cleverness. Should have been pulled ten minutes earlier.

Rory Grugan- His least influential game if the campaign. A game I expected him to have a massive influence on. Disappointing.

Greg McCabe-Shouldn't have been on the field and should have been replaced a lot sooner. Didn't really know what to be at.

Stefan Campbell- Carried the ball in to trouble so many times. Got turned over on 4/5 occasions. Very disappointing

Jamie Clarke- Poor opening half. Rarely saw the ball. Came out strong in the second half but the game was over at that stage. Glimmers of his best.

Rian O'Neill- Showed well, brilliant from dead balls and was one of the few still running at Donegal with 60+ minutes on the clock

Jarly Óg Burns- Not good enough for this level. Living off 1.5 good games he had last year. You can't stand soloing the ball on the spot at this level. No penetration, no drive and no studs evidently either given how often he was on the ground.

Subs-
Niall Grimley- Could have done with him fully fit and available for 70 minutes. Had glimpses of what he offered when he came in.

Andrew Murnin- On and off in a few minutes. So unfortunate.

Jemar Hall-Happy enough to pull and drag, generally seems to be his biggest contribution lately. Did ok on the ball but a bad wide kicked.

Conor Turbitt- Showed well and kicked a good score. Game was over but showed he's an option for next year.

Rest of the subs not on long enough

Sad end to what has ultimately been a very good year. We're now a Division 1 side and have seen the gulf in class today and where we've to get to for 2021.

Don't know what went wrong today. No doubt Donegal are unbelievably impressive. A well built, solid outfit who'll challenge the Dubs for sure. But we're not as bad as that. Hard to know what went on.

Up the Orchard!
 
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PutTheHighBallInLow

PutTheHighBallInLow

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SaintSeamy said:
Should try and take the positives from this year.

Got promoted, Oisin O'Neill back into the side, Conor Turbit debut, Grugan has had a better year than 2019 and I think Soupy has come on a bit.

Really need to work on the defending. Maybe McGeeney will look outside the county for some help there lol
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Maybe should look outside the county for a job lol
 
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Harper1

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Kieran really needs to ask himself if he is the right man to take this team forward.

He has had six years and despite a few years bouncing up and down the divisions he has eventually taken us back to Division 1. Remember that we were relegated to division 3 in Grimleys last year. So that is an achievement.

But equally he inherited a team that was beaten by Donegal in an AI QF by 1 point and has never been close to getting back to thta position. Today for me was the final straw. A 12 point hammering, and it could easily have been more.

Kieran has many, many strong points, but he is not tactically good enough to be a top flight manager. I feel he has taken us as far as he can.
 
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niall1980

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Harper1 said:
Kieran really needs to ask himself if he is the right man to take this team forward.

He has had six years and despite a few years bouncing up and down the divisions he has eventually taken us back to Division 1. Remember that we were relegated to division 3 in Grimleys last year. So that is an achievement.

But equally he inherited a team that was beaten by Donegal in an AI QF by 1 point and has never been close to getting back to thta position. Today for me was the final straw. A 12 point hammering, and it could easily have been more.

Kieran has many, many strong points, but he is not tactically good enough to be a top flight manager. I feel he has taken us as far as he can.
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Don’t know why people are using the 2014 game as a stick to beat us with. That team had McEvoy in goals. Vernon. Donaghy. Mallon. Moriarty and A Kernan in defence. We were a lot better then. Donegal are a lot better now than they were then
 
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Gaamaniac

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niall1980 said:
Don’t know why people are using the 2014 game as a stick to beat us with. That team had McEvoy in goals. Vernon. Donaghy. Mallon. Moriarty and A Kernan in defence. We were a lot better then. Donegal are a lot better now than they were then
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We were relegated to division 3 that year ???? Not sure if we were much better
 
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niall1980

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Gaamaniac said:
We were relegated to division 3 that year ???? Not sure if we were much better
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Seriously? Compare our back 7 that day and today and tell me we weren’t much better then? Do you think today’s team would have pushed that Donegal team so close?
 
Rufus T Firefly

Rufus T Firefly

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I’m afraid that game played out as I expected. I stated after we got clipped by Roscommon at home that the reality is that they were just better than us. Donegal are two or three steps above that Roscommon side and in my mind are a top four side.

Analyse it all you want, and criticise McGeeney all you want. Donegal are simply a vastly superior team and that was evident across the pitch in terms of tackling, movement, kick outs, shooting, handling. Bemoaning tactics and team selection is simply to give off that the deckchairs weren't being moved around on the Titanic. The ship was going down anyway.

And seeing I'm on my own patch here, can just say that the only thing worse than getting a mauling is where you get a mauling and the ref gives you feck all.

A very painful watch.
 
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