All Ireland Qualifiers

Armagh have reached the last 8 in The All Ireland series would you rather we play in

  • The Super 8 format

    Votes: 9 22.5%

  • Knock out Quarter Final

    Votes: 31 77.5%
  • Total voters
    40
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stevie_06

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Kem said:
Recent interview with Tomas O Se is worth a look. Think his idea of requiring kickouts to pass the 45 line a good one. Forces a contest for possession and limits the opportunities for hand passing out of defense.
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Watched that on YouTube and and quite entertaining

FYI had the below on in background during my run. Think it has probably been the most balanced media reaction I have seen. Apart from McGinley comments on Morgan thought it was pretty accurate

 
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DooReg

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Armagh_paul said:
I still can't bring myself to comment on the game. It was an emotional 90-odd minutes of football and can't go through it all again at the moment.

For her first game, the girlfriend was enthralled by it and she was mesmerized by our support when going to take our seats in the Cusack stand and she said she could feel the tension. The first half was a bit of back and forth between the teams and nothing exciting and the second half looked like we were on our way to a beating. At the 70th minute I was saying to her, we are done, 14 men and a couple of points down and she kept telling me to have a bit of faith in them FFS. A couple of minutes later we are level and I am standing there in disbelief (she has a picture of me standing looking out onto the pitch looking shell-shocked). Anyway, there is another Armagh supporter joining the ranks!

A few people left when Armagh was losing and heading into injury time, I bet they are kicking themselves now!

Did not see the Tiernan Kelly incident, and stayed away from the media for the last few days, that loss was hard to take and what's worse the way it was decided was horrible. I have noticed a lot of people on here saying there is no defense for him to do that, his actions really haven't helped we have been involved in a number of brawls this year and some will be saying "See! It is all Armagh's fault" and the same will happen in the future. Brawls have done us no good and if management thinks this is acceptable they shouldn't be anywhere near football.
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But Geezer is right to ask the question “if someone pushed you what would you do?”. That’s usually where it’s starts. Someone pushing someone - there’s retaliation of same. Then another enters the fray and another push. Suddenly there are a dozen lads pushing. It’s starts with the simple thing and there’s not one county player in Ireland who wouldn’t push back. No one is condoning the eye gouging but let’s be real here folks, the rest of its was just pushing about until that incident occurred.
 
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stevie_06

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bcb1 said:
I would agree with you in that regard about the victories in the championship but as a season I think we have a bit of a blinkered orange view. I think we are in that group of teams below the top 2 (who I believe are Dublin and Kerry) who if they got the right bounce, right tactics, right way of playing, could win it. Derry are in that bracket, Tyrone, Galway, and to a lesser extent Mayo and the Rossies. I think Galway and Derry have got the tactics and playing style right, either will need the bounce of the ball in the final to win it but who’s to say they won’t get it.
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Fair enough.

But to be honest I would have us a right bit ahead of Roscommon currently.

I think Dublin and Kerry are not as far ahead as some people believe. I know McConville made a similar point. I think the league really had some alarm bells ringing for Dublin and maybe to date in the championship have flattered to deceive. They really haven't faced anybody of note.

Kerry there is still that question mark. One somebody really puts it up to them like Tyrone last year do they have the capacity to come out on top.
 
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stevie_06

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DooReg said:
But Geezer is right to ask the question “if someone pushed you what would you do?”. That’s usually where it’s starts. Someone pushing someone - there’s retaliation of same. Then another enters the fray and another push. Suddenly there are a dozen lads pushing. It’s starts with the simple thing and there’s not one county player in Ireland who wouldn’t push back. No one is condoning the eye gouging but let’s be real here folks, the rest of its was just pushing about until that incident occurred.
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Padden makes similar point in the link I posted. He mentioned about Rafferty getting involved with Comer and that it all started from Comer trying to stop the quick kick out.

Same thing with Morgan and Walsh wrestling. Walsh I think made initial contact knowing he would happily take a yellow along with Morgan but that would have been Morgan second yellow
 
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Armaghball

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bcb1 said:
I would agree with you in that regard about the victories in the championship but as a season I think we have a bit of a blinkered orange view. I think we are in that group of teams below the top 2 (who I believe are Dublin and Kerry) who if they got the right bounce, right tactics, right way of playing, could win it. Derry are in that bracket, Tyrone, Galway, and to a lesser extent Mayo and the Rossies. I think Galway and Derry have got the tactics and playing style right, either will need the bounce of the ball in the final to win it but who’s to say they won’t get it.
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Kerry and Dublin probably the top 2, but neither of them are anything special going by the weekend, but are capable of upping their game and improving I think the winner of Derry and Galway will win the whole thing.
 
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bcb1

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Armaghball said:
Kerry and Dublin probably the top 2, but neither of them are anything special going by the weekend, but are capable of upping their game and improving I think the winner of Derry and Galway will win the whole thing.
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Agree that Kerry and Dublin are not a million miles ahead of anyone but both Galway and Derry will need to be at their absolute peak to beat them. Traditional teams always enter finals expecting to win. That’s tough to match but it can be
 
William Of Orange

William Of Orange

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The red card was such a big call , watching the replay we get starting to drive at them 2 points down …guess we will never know what would have happened.
 
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Ouch It’s Francie

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William Of Orange said:
The red card was such a big call , watching the replay we get starting to drive at them 2 points down …guess we will never know what would have happened.
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I said the same thing to the brother that was beside me… Galway’s lads are flagging. Two players on their knees gasping and a big hit by McCabe. We weathered the storm and had a grip on the game. We were coming and bingo - red card!! That took the wind out of our sails and the extra man made Galway look great. Momentum was talked about for the past two weeks and we had it. As you say we’ll never know. But the resilience we showed and the resolve to get back was something out of the story books. It’s a game that we’ll talk about in our old age. And fuck the begrudgers. We owned Croke Park on Sunday, well for a while
 
northarmaghgael

northarmaghgael

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stevie_06 said:
See statement has been issued by Kelly's club condemning the online abuse
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It’s about time someone with a bit of authority publicly stated something for the fella. It’s 48 hours after the game and I am sick to death hearing about the incident involving TK, and national tabloid journalists jumping on the bandwagon all for a bit of views or likes. Being from Lurgan, and having saw this lad play from 10/11, he lives and breaths football. He gives up his time to volunteer around his club taking underage teams and being a coach in summer camps etc. He played a vital role for the St Ronans Hogan team back in 2018, and from this young lads around the town really do admire him. It was a moment of madness, but the commentary since the incident is equally as disgusting. I am a firm believer in what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch, or in this case stays within the GAA and their disciplinary proceedings, and other commentary outing the lad shouldn’t be tolerated. Let the GAA carry out their disciplinary proceedings and leave it at that.
 
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thecritic

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northarmaghgael said:
It’s about time someone with a bit of authority publicly stated something for the fella. It’s 48 hours after the game and I am sick to death hearing about the incident involving TK, and national tabloid journalists jumping on the bandwagon all for a bit of views or likes. Being from Lurgan, and having saw this lad play from 10/11, he lives and breaths football. He gives up his time to volunteer around his club taking underage teams and being a coach in summer camps etc. He played a vital role for the St Ronans Hogan team back in 2018, and from this young lads around the town really do admire him. It was a moment of madness, but the commentary since the incident is equally as disgusting. I am a firm believer in what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch, or in this case stays within the GAA and their disciplinary proceedings, and other commentary outing the lad shouldn’t be tolerated. Let the GAA carry out their disciplinary proceedings and leave it at that.
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TK is just going to have to ride the storm on this one unfortunately - it will blow over but he'll need good people around him in the interim. He'll just have to serve his suspension and get back out there to show the honest player that he is. Unfortunately being from the 'wrong' side of the border hasn't helped him either.
I hope the whole squad and management stick together for another season as I think they can have another shot at this. We do need to address our discipline however - it has been a problem in general for a long time now and while we've seen some great individual improvements, collectively we have to be smarter.
 
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