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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

Forker is in the same boat as Rian, neither is playing well compared to what they can do, but ultimately we’ll need them in an ulster final so should try let them play themselves into a bit of form. No point dropping them now and hoping they can find their form in the final. I’d say murnin and...

Must be a month or so since mcgeeney said he was back in training pushing for a spot. He’d be better used as an impact sub similar to soupy than the fly goalkeeper role. Or even bring him in as goalkeeper in the last 20 minutes and really change the flow of the game. Some analyst had said they...

Last year mcpartlan wasn’t seen until the Antrim game, then got minutes in every game after that. Hopefully we see a similar approach and the team gets mixed up a bit next weekend as we’ll need something to spark a reaction and some positivity in this Ulster campaign. Realistically all we can...

Downplaying this loss does no one any favours. This isn’t merely a division 2 final loss. This is the second failed test of the year against a very mediocre Donegal team who will likely be soundly beaten by Derry when it comes to it. It’s added to the list of recent poor defeats to Donegal in...

McMullan was not a problem today, I thought he played fairly well and was unfortunate in his 3 wides, the shot was a fine decision in each. What were grugan murnin turbitt etc doing that we were relying on a debutant to hit those shots in the first place. Why did those senior players allow us to...

Intermediate level, they weren’t even our best 3 subs on the bench, they wouldn’t have made any impact on the result. Nor would any other change in team selection we could talk about other than starting rian, our only player who regularly does well under pressure.

That’s a damning indictment on the mentality of this team. The set up or individual players didn’t matter today, it was a big game and our lads dirtied the trunks as they do every time the pressures on. Don’t be surprised if we take Down for granted and they come out and turn us over in ulster.

Where are all the good forwards everyone says we have

I don't know about reverse angles, but yes mcgrane had a month's ban lifted on appeal. Mcmenamin also had his ban lifted on appeal for dropping the knee in mcentee, and we don't need a reverse angle to see that was as deliberate as can be. It's safe to say that having a ban lifted on appeal...

take the orange glasses off for a second, thats the game mcgrane got away with punching jordan in the mouth and kneeing gormley in the face, then there was the whole row ending with canavans jersey being ripped off. All a bit of craic for us at the time, especially when it ended in a win against...

Getting the excuses in early, possibly mind games to get mcgeeney to rotate a bit. Surely a beating from us would be a real knock to confidence going into that Derry game, especially if Derry go out and beat Dublin after it. McBrearty is a loss in fairness but surely they can’t not go for a...

Wouldn’t worry about Rian, remember we needed him to get that late point against Donegal, which put us a point ahead when the rest of the forwards couldn’t hit a barn door. It looks like we’ve a very strong squad, though I wonder how strong we would look had we been in division 1 this year. We...