Recent content by h754136

I'd be surprised if there's much change in the defensive set up. Like all top teams, we don't mark one on one, instead defending in numbers when out of possession. We'll mind the house well, but leave ourselves a bit open to shots from distance. The gamble is that our own forwards do enough...

I'm not sure this sort of thinking is accurate nor useful. Derry haven't just had 'a bit' more success than us at underage level in recent years - they've had way, way more success. Derry have appeared in 6 of the last 8 Ulster minor finals, winning 3 of them (and they really should have added...

I would temper that positivity a small bit. In addition to the three named checked above Rafferty, Mackin, McCabe, Grimley, Hall, Nugent and Campbell are all also well into the second halves of the their careers. They are not young, never mind very young. I don't see an awful lot of scope for...

So deflated after today. Real shades of 2015, when Donegal took the wind out of another Armagh side that seemed to be going places. That particular side never really recovered, and I’d worry about the long term damage that today does to the current group. The beginnings of a recovery could be...

Great news. Getting out of jail big time on this. We'd do well to remember that our cards will be marked for the rest of the year - officialdom will be gagging to nail us.

Wouldn't be that earth shattering were Westmeath to turn over Meath, or even Kildare, in a Leinster semi-final. The system is a bit of a mess this year. Not a lot of time to schedule in a preliminary round should it be required. Also seems quite possible that the handier route to an AI QF could...

Young lads preferring to do trades and the gender imbalances of school staff bodies are surely universal issues, so can't really be used to explain the specific issues in Armagh. In any case, St. Ronan's won an All Ireland four years ago and St. Paul's have made a couple of MacRory finals in the...

Calm yourselves ffs. At this moment, there is absolutely zero suggestion that this was the case. These are extremely damaging and dangerous insinuations to be firing out without a shred of evidence.

We’ll get hammered on this for two reasons: 1. The suits love to send out a strong message on discipline pre-championship. 2. There’s this idea out there that we got off lightly from the Tyrone incident. The brawl is an open goal for officialdom to knock us down a peg or two. We are so...

Really entertaining game, didn’t want it to end. Shame not to get anything from it, but happy enough to see us compete well. We were the better team in that second half, and if a few break had went our way we would have got over the line. This is our level now, we belong with the Kerrys and...

Calm down kids. The last Kerry free was for a very obvious square ball. The only issue I’d have with the ref so far is that he’s too quick to award marks. For me, a player has to actually land with the ball secured in his hands before he can really be considered to have caught it. We look a...

The Rafferty thing isn't very difficult to figure out. He has something that is a big weakness in Hughes' game: distance off the tee. Hughes is a very decent keeper and has been gradually improving over the years, but he has never had distance in his locker. This leaves the whole kick out...

That is just not true. 12 of their starting 15 from the 2021 final were on the field by half time today. One of the lads not involved was Bryan Walsh, who isn't a first choice option. Flynn and Orme came off the bench against Tyrone last year and were also heavily involved today. They were...

That seems premature. We're still third, with a decent +ve score difference. The next game week is crucial. Even a point against Kildare will probably be enough for safety. Dublin would then need three big wins to usurp us, which just won't happen - they're gone. And it would take a very...

11 scores today isn't great, but remember this is winter football. The 8 Division One sides averaged just over 13 scores this weekend. Last weekend it was just over 10. If we'd tacked on an extra point or two each weekend then everything would be rosy. We're not far away. Over halfway through...