National Football League 2024

Muckser

Muckser

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Hoops said:
Promotion is far from certain, cavan have Fermanagh & Meath at home plus our game. Anything less than 3 wins for us opens the door for them to take a promotion spot. Wouldn’t bet on us to win in cork on the last day if they need points to stay up
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Great points and head to head will be vital.
 
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Wide ball

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Strange game imo, we played well in parts and bad in others

Positives
No goal conceded
Didn't lose
Blaine
Defensively good (in the main)
Work rate
More players back

Negatives
Passing
Shooting
Forwards tackling
 
ragingbull

ragingbull

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Cavan & Cork games worry me I feel like the same thing is going to happen like last year start the league well end it poorly & got relegated except its promotion this time
 
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DooReg

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Ouch It’s Francie said:
Folks - stop with the gulf between Div 1 and todays game. I was in Healy Park last night and Tyrone were awful first half, Mayo wee atrocious second half. Todays game was an arm wrestle and we had the chance to pull away at times and Donegal had the same. As I informed my divingmidget fiends last week after the Galway game - it’s February FFS! Having a beer with a few Mayo fans that stayed in Omagh last night. I said the same. “Youse owned the League last year and the arse fell out of your trousers come championship”. There’s eff all difference between what I watched today and what I’ve watched in Div 1.

Let’s not get animated in February.
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I think the arse will fall out of Derry. Too good too early. A few injuries to key people and they become average. Watch this space….
 
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POINTMAN

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niall1980 said:
But he’s done, remember…….
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Fair play to Murnin, he was very good today.
Note - I didn't say he was "done" - I said his best days were behind him. Doesn't mean he can't have a great game for us on any day.

A draw was probably a fair result today - we messed up quite a bit and could have scored more, but O'Donnell missed that goal chance and Blainne saved the penalty.

Some on here feel that promotion is assured, but I feel Cavan will be very tough and the last game in Cork could be tough especially if they need the points.

Hopefully we get enough points to get back to division 1 and get to play regularly against the big boys.
 
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niall1980

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POINTMAN said:
Fair play to Murnin, he was very good today.
Note - I didn't say he was "done" - I said his best days were behind him. Doesn't mean he can't have a great game for us on any day.

A draw was probably a fair result today - we messed up quite a bit and could have scored more, but O'Donnell missed that goal chance and Blainne saved the penalty.

Some on here feel that promotion is assured, but I feel Cavan will be very tough and the last game in Cork could be tough especially if they need the points.

Hopefully we get enough points to get back to division 1 and get to play regularly against the big boys.
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Fair.

Cavan have Meath next week. Hopefully they can do us a wee favour
 
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Wide ball

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I do think midfield is a problem, crealy should be starting imo, and also would of liked to see more of mcpartlan but I can only assume he is injured. Our forward options are fantastic and as iv said before I'd like to see more used rather than start McElroy (played well today) in the half forward line. In saying that Our forwards where poor today grugan missed one of the worst frees iv ever seen, we played bad with the wind and Donegal let our defenders have the ball but the likes of turbitt and grugan where always crowded out, felt for mcconville tbh at the game you could see he had loads of space but the ball never came over to him, we went down blind alleys in the first half I remember a few occasions we went down the stand side got crowded out came back amd rather than switch the play to where none of their defenders where close to him we just went back to the same spot we came from. It must be frustrating for him and any forward who goes through that, imo that will be mcconvilles last start this season as he played well first 2 games but didn't see enough ball the last 2 games and with Rian and Nugent back now they will take his spot, young McGrane played well I thought, I dunno what to make of Donegal, the kick out press we all expected and heard about was shite, they tackled well but seemed a bit blunt, I was convinced at half time we would lose as they would be with the wind but although we only scored 4 the second half we defended very well.
 
JoeH

JoeH

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Uptheorchard said:
We’ve an unbelievable squad.................
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So when Jemar came on he picked up breaking ball and if a shot with a foot rather than an attempted hand pass for a point had took place we'd have won.
Every team is limited to five subs and each game is different.
Maybe v Fermanagh a different squad will be used as I'm sure after today's game some players may struggle to be ready.
None of us are at training and none of us are aware of injuries etc that some players may be carrying hence a squad.
Only 26 can be named and only five subs can be used.
You obviously have a serious issue with the management team and that's your perogative.
However we are top of division 2, unbeaten and playing pretty ok. I wouldn't like to think what you'd write if we were in kildares position
 
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