Is this really where we are now? Delegitimising wins because we scored 1 goal and had to make a save to prevent a goal?? It's a 70 minute match with 2 teams trying to do these things. Without our goal we still beat Cavan on points.I used Down as an example only as they’re our next opponent and because it was 14 scores to 12 just last year when they didn’t have murdoch, yet people think we’re going to stroll past them this year.
We definitely relied on that cavan goal when they were turning the pressure on towards the end, and needed rian to make a diving goal line save. That Galway game proves my point, it was our best win last year and best since the Tyrone/ Donegal games in 22, when we also kicked over 15 points. Something will need to change if we’re to get near that level this year.
The Galway match doesn't prove your point which was "We keep relying on goals to put bad teams away because we can’t score enough points".
Galway are a good team - I threw that result in to show that even against good teams we don't "keep relying on goals", never mind bad teams.
We scored 3 goals against Donegal in 2022 - a good win by your account - does this mean it's no longer legitimate?? Because you know, without those 3 goals there would only have been a point in it!! Or is it simply the case that because we put up more than 15 points that day all would have been rosey without goals?
What you are right about is that some people think we will stroll past Down. And you know what, it doesn't matter one jot because it only matters how the management and players approach it. A few people on a forum being confident/cocky really has no impact on the reality of the match itself.
For the record, I work with a few Down people and they think we will stroll past them too. No matter about our problems, Down people are seeing their team come off the back of a poor Division 3 League final performance and poor outing against Antrim, and they see Armagh as a Division 1 team who brushed Fermanagh aside.
It's hard to see how we aren't heavy favourites for this one.
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