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Nowhere specific to post this but I have recently started reading GAABoard. I have also, even more recently, stopped reading GAABoard. Not only is it poisonous but it seems loaded with posts from the guys behind the board (under the name Seafoid) that are either inane (but stop a discussion...

No doubt the McGeeney apologists will try to make excuses for that as well.

Donegal edging this 15 scores to 13. Could be extra time yet.

I have some sympathy with the view that when a team racks up decent tallies of points from play they are purring. But there can be no hard and fast rule. You want teams to go for the kill when goal chances are there. You can’t complain when they take their goal chances. Once those goals go in...

Happy to see TSG attempt some decent analysis. Cavanagh and Flynn are far from the best analysts but I had no problem with their efforts on our game. Thought the game was a bit weird. Mainly due to Fermanagh who were genuinely awful. We did our work early, completely bossed the middle third and...

Yeah there could be 1 or 2 late changes but the team is there are thereabouts. I can’t see people having massive issues with that selection. I know numbers mean nothing but in and around midfield is the best use of Rian. The front 3 that played through most of the league should be retained...

And I disagree with that. I referred earlier to what an on form Forker brings to the team. I would love to have that. The bit I disagree with is his form throughout the league. To me he is off the pace a little (maybe carrying a niggle or has a regime aimed at peaking later?), I don’t think he...

I wouldn’t be shocked or disappointed to see McQuillan selected against Fermanagh. The lad has a lot of convincing still to do but let the convincing commence.

Forker in everyone of the teams I’ve seen. Given that almost all of these are teams people would like to see rather than the one that they think management will choose the obvious question is - does Forker’s form merit selection? We all know what an on form Aidan Forker brings to the team. A...

Ciaran Mackin wouldn’t last 15 mins in that team. He would be dead on his feet having done the running of 6 men. If I was mischievous I could name the other 5 men. The balance of that team is wrong.

I think it’s midfield and half forward area we need to look at. 13-15 seem settled and each of them can and do their bit around the middle. I doubt anyone would name a team without Grugan in it. The other 4 positions are not nailed down. Strong contenders but not nailed down. Across those...

Skimmed through recent pages. Grumbling about selection, tactics and closing out games. “Counterbalanced” by stuff about it not mattering or possibly even a positive in terms of keeping powder dry. IMHO a lot of that on either side is nonsense or near nonsense. For me selections have been...

There are also some people home from afar who would never have got to game otherwise. It is what it is

Donegal will probably send someone to the division 4 final to get first word of how we are going to set up. Damn

No doubt that McBrearty and McHugh picked up knocks but I wouldn’t be rushing to believe everything the Donegal camp tell us. We got caught out very badly doing that very thing when McGuinness was last involved. As for armagh being “bad nordies” I don’t get that impression. When Armagh play...

Nobody has said we are automatically in an Ulster final. But we are in the decidedly weaker half of the draw. After ourselves the team playing at the highest level is Fermanagh. We have to turn up an beat these sides but we really should be doing that. The final would be a different matter...

Dublin are the clear favourites for the All Ireland. No other county is. The progress that Derry have made shows what is possible. We have to aim high

We have played a very settled team throughout the league. For the second year in a row we have a very kind championship draw. I can’t see us taking too many risks in the championship so the cork match is the opportunity to give a few boys a run out. Higgins is the obvious deputy for McKay and...

I’m going to disagree with this. There was one obvious negative. Generally Cavan were poor. Well short of Donegal. Maybe better than the rest of Division 2 but that’s a poor lot. They were there to be put to the sword and they were put to the sword in relatively short order. The game was...

Odd sort of a game that. Tight on the scoreboard but not a great game. A few spectacular scores but an absence of quality elsewhere. I felt that Donegal edged it and if any team deserved to win it was them. But in terms of a forward look we have more to bring to the table in terms of missing...