I’d like to hear @armaghforsam opinion on development squads
I agree with much if that. I would say though that Cavan have won plenty of Ulster under 21 titles in the last 10 years but are not miles ahead of us. I think Monaghan have only won one and I have to be convinced how far ahead of us they are.
I will add that Tyrone won the All Ireland under 21 title in 2015. At the equivalent age at minor Armagh beat them. At under 21 Tyrone beat Armagh in Breffni when the starting Armagh team was strange - I seem to remember those on senior squad didnt start. Without checking back that squad included players like Grimley, Rafferty, Jack Grugan , O'Hanlon, maybe Comiskey. Circumstances have conspired that all these have not been available.
I would be of the opinion though that in a county the size of Armagh you will only have a top underage team occasionally. The key is to bring the average player standard up and get a couple of better players to progress each year.
Development officer - are you referring to coaching officer?The most important thing is to get it right at U14 level whether it be development squad or whatever but whenever club coaches are ignored and “the school” decide where will be. Surely for the benefit of Armagh football we need to go back to the clubs -we will never have success until we get this right but our development officer hasn’t a clue - never had and never will have
prime example St Pats Armagh have mostly tyrone people managing the teams they don’t really care about Armagh football why round they -so why would we take their word rather that our hard working club coaches who surely know these players better and what their strengths and weaknesses are
When I phoned our development officer I wad told that unless one of my players was playing school football he wouldn’t be good enough to be on the development squad
I believe its Games Development Manager going by Armagh's 2020 Fixtures and information booklet.Development officer - are you referring to coaching officer?
Would it not make sense that if someone can't make the school team then they're not going to make other squads unless there's been a big fall out at school?
Would you not consider schools as being a good bench mark for players?
Would agree with this. Personally never gave a shite about school football and a lot of the lads I grew up with didnt either. Same lads would run through a wall for their club though.Whatever the title it’s still the same issue. A lot of lads don’t want to play school football but will continuously play for their club but these kids no matter how good they are and they are being ignored by the system we have in place
O'Rourke was a former Armagh great wasn't he
The league is more high profile these days also
More chance of Ireland scoring a goal than McGeeney goingIf McGeeney was going to go, he’d have done so by now.
It’s near the end of November. If the NFL starts beginning of February, that’s 2 months preparation. Is a new manager going to achieve any more next season that McGeeney would?
So it looks like he’s staying on for 2021. So let’s stop the “McGeeney out” talk. He’s got the team promoted to Division 1 and he deserves a chance to manage there.
In what way?The league is more high profile these days also
Do explain& a much better competition than the Championship.
Is he not part of the underage team in Armagh??I said great player i.e someone who wasn't a previous high profile inter county player. FYI things weren't much different under him!
Which part did you fail to understand?In what way?
I mean your high profile bitWhich part did you fail to understand?
We got new turf laid in AG.
It came from the motherland.
Is this the 1st Ulster final to be played on foreign soil