Recent content by FearArdMhacha

Clans are very impressive. O’Neill is a wonderful talent. Anyone have a photo of the programme from the other night?

Yep we’re on about the fourth one more year and each year it’s less of a compelling argument. In 2022 we peaked under Geezer and from memory we needed to benefit from far fewer small margins, bar the Galway game. 2023 the small margins made a huge difference both for and against us. Added to...

If the most compelling argument for a manager is that he can fundraise well then were all doomed. If he would withdraw that then he’s no Armagh man. I think financially we would be as secure as we would be with or without him. I think the time is up because I don’t see us improving any longer...

I thought Crealy was contributing plenty up until he came off. Didn’t think his race was run. If he’d come back on for ET would he still have been on a yellow? By that point we were a man up. Don’t remember when Mackin came off but Duffy was gone also at that stage. Not sure it matters all that...

Fair play. This is the positivity I would like to feel even if we disagree on a handful of points. I think if several players would call it a day then that’s still not a compelling reason to hang onto a management that just isn’t delivering. It’s been punctuated this season by relegation (2...

I’m trying my best to allow the dust to settle and come back with a measured reaction to the game and the season as a whole. It’s fair to say that countless times yesterday players took the wrong option, made mistakes, poor wides, needless fouls… that’s football you can’t eradicate that and I...

That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking. Resisting the urge to delve too deeply into the bag of cliches it’s all on the day. We could click well and take out a big gun like Mayo or come up short against Monaghan. I’m looking forward to seeing the lads giving it a good lash

Great contest between Kildare and Roscommon. Well fit to beat either of those or Donegal but at some point need to start performing. I’ve no confidence in us today and if Galway push hard they could win by 6 plus. We’re without Rian, Turbitt hasn’t done it at all with any kind of pressure on...

All the better to start strong no point in allowing them to dictate things early on and then react. Keeping Harte quiet is a tall order if Cumisky can do that then that would go a long way to winning the match. I think his game is more about coming onto the ball and passing, good unselfish...

If Westmeath get close tomorrow they will feel they’ve done well. From their point of view if we were to beat them and Tyrone then they have as good a crack at Tyrone in a neutral venue After each potentially have lost two games. We have a lot of work to get through before entertaining any ideas...

I felt his teammates were reluctant to give the ball to him but can’t disagree with this. I think the most potential impact is with Nugent or Cian and so I feel it’s more important to get a bit of form into the former and some real time into the latter. I’d say 7-8 points in this one but we need...

I think supporters are right to speak their minds about the game on Sunday. If it seems negative then that might be warranted. Nothing personal has been said but our nerve has been taken into question in that we had so many ways to get over the line and didn’t take any of them. Not only that but...

I’m torn on the reintroduction of Grugan. On one hand it made sense to take him off as he was carrying a yellow and looked leggy in the first half. In other games we had often rotated forwards so they all had their rest up front when we were out of possession but against Derry that wasn’t as...

What are these new heights? Are we going to win or challenge for the All Ireland? I can’t see it. The catalyst was last year when we lost in similar circumstances to Galway, what is the reaction to that; get relegated, get around the cannon fodder unspectacularly and then fain to close the show...

What a dreadful way to lose a title. That was so hard to take I’m just gutted. Tactically I felt we did ok, it was slow and methodical but I don’t think there was much choice on that. We could have been much braver and Soupy really carried it to them and frightened them. We had so many ways to...