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The seriousness of this narrative is shown by the calls to ‘play on the front foot” disappearing after games where nothing about our style or game plan changed but our forwards happened to score more. If we kick a load of wides or are wasteful going forward next Sunday, expect to see claims that...

Dublin let Roscommon hold it for 6 minutes last year. Down didn’t pass it around for the craic, they wanted us to press up so they could create an overlap and leave space for their runners. It would’ve been silly of us to fall into such a thinly veiled trap. We got plenty of turnovers when...

They brought on 4 subs, 3 of them scored and we won by a point. Is that not in-game management? I don’t know what game some people were watching, we created plenty of chances and didn’t get the scores because our forwards lacked quality. Our tactics and gameplan weren’t the problem. The chances...

Tough to blame mcgeeney on that game, Down set 15 in their own half and showed little intent to go forward to create scores. As I said before, our forwards don’t score enough points so if we don’t get a goal against these bad teams it leaves us open for an upset, especially if they get a lucky...

Looking forward to complaints about our tactics not being attacking enough, when our forwards have wasted about 10 chances that half alone

Round 1 - Home to first named team - 18 May Connacht Munster finalists, 25 May Leinster Ulster finalists Pot 1 vs Pot 3 Pot 2 vs Pot 4 Round 2 - Home to first named team - 1 June Pot 4 vs Pot 1 Pot 3 vs Pot 2 Round 3 - Neutral - 15 June Pot 1 vs Pot 2 Pot 3 vs Pot 4 Play offs 22 June...

I’d also prefer a Tyrone final because it’ll be more of a shootout, mcgeeney and McGuinness will try to out tactic each other and bore us to tears. But let’s not pretend Tyrone are bad. A combined 15 with us would be fairly 50:50 if everyone from both teams were fit. Their young lads have been...

Neither must you if you think their goals are even remotely close to the point I was making

Donegal have the best set of forwards in the country to score 23 against Derry with McBrearty not even starting. Can't read anything else into it. It looked like Derry started to try go for goals after the 2nd went in, even though they had a lot minutes left and were definitely getting...

You’re playing a bit fast and loose with what I’m actually saying to create something of straw man here. I’m not delegitimising any wins or saying that scoring goals is a bad thing, obviously. I also said we have relied on goals to beat bad teams (Fermanagh, down, cavan, Westmeath) and don’t...

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...

Is it not pretty obvious, score 15+ points and have our forwards routinely play well in championship games. We keep relying on goals to put bad teams away because we can’t score enough points. That includes Down last year when we only scored 10 points. We’re wide open for an upset if the...

They’ll be more up for it and are a better championship team so are more likely to turn up on the day. I don’t think we’re in a position get carried away and think we’ll stroll past them, today would’ve been tight if it weren’t for those gifted goals and Fermanagh missing a near empty net. Only...

Defence has been good but forwards have been poor really apart from punishing some bad mistakes by Fermanagh. Down will put it up to us in the next round if we don’t get the finger out. Some shooting practice is badly needed.

That lineup looks like one or both of turbitt and jarly og are dummy names who’ll be late changes