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Greatest Armagh Player Ever?
Oisin Mc Conville by a mile.
TheGateKeeper , 05/02/2012 at 15:43

Clubs in Mid/South Armagh
thanks for all the help lads, i ended up working with a guy from dorsey emmets, so will be joining them. thanks for the help though
teddy_bear , 02/02/2012 at 17:27

Armagh Club Winners
It would be a huge help if any Armagh Gaels could help us fill in the winners below.

Minor Football Championship:

2005:
2006:
2007:

U21 Football Championship:

2002:
2003:
2004:
2005:

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Many Thanks
Admin
www.hoganstand.com/armagh
Administrator , 02/02/2012 at 10:06

Clubs in Mid/South Armagh
I could be a bit late here but if you are looking to join an up and coming club, then why not join Shane O'Neills Camloch (www.shaneoneills.com) we are situated about 5 mins from the main newry to armagh road. we are currently in Div 2 and the Intermediate Championship. Sure have a look on the club website at our recent successes and use the 'Contacts' section to get in touch with a club memeber to point you in the right direction.
dbrady10 , 01/02/2012 at 12:01

Minors will be strong in 2012
Not one of the team would get near the tyrone squad.
The tyrone forward line this year is the best set of forwards any of our minor teams has produced.
Look out for these names later on in the year: Sean Hackett, Danny McNulty, Sean Gallagher, Conor Mallon, Mark Bradley, Sean Molloy, Michael Cassidy and Peter McKenna - all tipped for senior county football
Goals_Will_Come , 01/02/2012 at 11:43

Greatest Armagh Player Ever?
Diarmuid Marsden, fantastic footballer, intelligent, quick thinking, perceptive, extremely accurate, amazing positional awareness and great team player, that would be my vote.
vm , 27/01/2012 at 11:45

John Kingham
i was at the mc kenna cup game game today in armagh against st marys and kingham was superb at midfield......for only his second appearance in an armagh jersey..he played the whole game and while he took a knock and looked tired for the final 10 mins or so i thought he was superb...won alot of clean ball in the middle and scored a couple of lovely points aswell...he has alot of skill for such a big lad....very impressed with him today in fairness
orchardman , 15/01/2012 at 18:24

John Kingham
I see John Kingham who is a native of Donaghmoyne in County Monaghan made an appearance for Armagh yesterday and I believe he done quite well, Kingham is very big and strong strong but he made no impact when he was given a few chances with Monaghan. What do fellow posters think of him and has he a future in the Armagh jersey.
ChronicDiarrhea , 09/01/2012 at 17:08

GAA Team Bonding/Training weekends
Check out the Break for Ball Winter newsletter, and read about the Dublin Club who headed to Belfast for a Team Building Weekend, enroute to winning
their Senior Championship.


http://www.breakforball.com/news/details/?id=42
Breakforball , 04/01/2012 at 12:21

Armagh Club Winners
From what I can remember, hope this helps.

Senior Football Championship

2008 Crossmaglen
2009 Pearse Óg
2010 Crossmaglen
2011 Crossmaglen

U21 Football Championship
2006 Crossmaglen
2009 Crossmaglen
2010 Crossmaglen

Minor Football Championship
2005 Crossmaglen
2006 Crossmaglen
Tom1916 , 22/12/2011 at 14:19

Armagh Club Winners
www.hoganstand.com/armagh are updating the Club Titles section on the Armagh site.

We would appreciate it if Armagh Gaels could check the information we have and post in any winners we are missing or details we may inadvertently got wrong.

Many Thanks
Administrator
www.hoganstand.com/armagh
Administrator , 16/12/2011 at 12:15

Greatest Armagh Player Ever?
well lads!. just wondering what are your opinions regarding Ronan Clarke. Would he have been a great if he wasn't so unfortunate with injuries?. I remember the buzz surrounding him in 02 but he doesn't seem to have gotten the chance to build on that because of injury.
laflour , 14/12/2011 at 11:38

Minors will be strong in 2012
This year could be a very strong year for Armagh minors. With some great new additions added to last year's very strong panel I believe we can go all the way. Very excited for this forthcoming year, we all need to be using the great facilities at hand in the Carrickdale and listen to the words of Mike McGurn when he is working with us.The future is bright, the future is orange! Up Armagh!
hoey123 , 13/12/2011 at 10:09

Greatest Armagh Player Ever?
wouldnt rate jamie clarke up there, definitly has to be geezer and stevie and mcgrane, inspirations to young lads out the back of the garden, without these role models when i was growing up, id be playing road bowls, geezer, stevie and mcgrane!
hoey123 , 13/12/2011 at 10:04

Clubs in Mid/South Armagh
dromintees a top club, located at the foot of gullion, great history and contain player, check out the website www.drominteegac.com for more information
hoey123 , 13/12/2011 at 09:58

Johnny Murtagh
why did he leave in first place?
ryan , 12/12/2011 at 18:02

New Championship Format
As there's not much happening on the field this time of year, and as just about every football county seems to be dissatisfied with both the national league and championship format, I'm going to propose a new format on each Hogan stand county forum.

I hope this will at least provoke debate.

Basically, this system is based on making the objective of the league games (i) Reaching the final phases of an open draw championship, rather than (ii) Redundant National league finals.
However Provisional Finals are retained by using a system which is based on to the Conference system used in American Grid-iron Football.

Incentives are supposed to be included at every stage so that teams aren't going through the motions in any match. It's not easy to explain these things on paper, but here goes;

Each Year the 32 Football Counties are divided into 4 "National Conferences" based on a seeding system determined by performance in the previous year.
For Example Dublin, Kerry, Cork and Tyrone might be seeded 1 next year, with each heading up one of 4 conferences.
Similarly Mayo, Donegal, Kildare & Meath might be seeded 2, and would also be placed in different conferences, each made up of 8 teams drawn from 8 pots of 4 teams ranked at levels 1-8.

For example, level 8 teams might include London. Carlow, Waterford and Clare, who would get the chance of seeing the top teams at their grounds using this system.

Each county would play 7 games in this "League" phase of the competition, which is very similar to how the 4 divisional leagues are played now, however without the finals given there is a new objective for these games which is explained as follows;

Later in the year, the 8 Provincial Finalists would be determined, not by championship as at present, but by the top 2 league records from each province, regardless of conference played in. Counties records would be compared across conferences first by points total, followed points difference, then points scored. (In the unlikely event of equal records mid-week play-offs could be used).

The 4 provisional finals would of course produce 4 winners, with these teams getting direct to the AI Quarter final as at present, having 8 competitive games under their belt.

The 4 provincial champions having qualified, conference placings would again be used to determine the 16 other teams with the best "League Records". If losing provincial finalists don't fall in to this category (possible but unlikely) they would exit at that stage.
2 series of an open draw "knock-out" championship, with home field advantage determined by league record, could quickly reduce 16 teams to 4 by the end of July, as is the case now.

8 teams now remaining, All Ireland Quarter finals, would take place and I'd suggest offering home field advantage to the Provincial winners to boost the significance of those titles and make up for the 2/4 week lay-off which they also experience with the current system, but without compensation.
Semi-finals & Final would be played in Croke Park as at present.

The 12 other teams who did not qualify for the All Ireland Series would play in a B Championship, with the prize playing in Croke Park on AI Final day before the AI Final, and a higher seeding the following year for teams which progress.

Although not perfect, the benefits of this system include;
1. Meaningful League Series, giving qualification for, and home field advantage within, the AI series.
2. Coveted Provincial Titles
3. Dublin & Kerry Regularly appearing in places like Aughrim and Carrick on Shannon
4. End of League Finals played in front of 10,000 people.
5. End of Back Door System
6. More meaningful games, and bigger attendances, for all counties.
7. Realistic target for Division 4 Teams.
8. Not playing the same teams year after year
9. And Best of all, all teams in all counties would be playing at the same times of year, leaving proper windows for Club.
spiritof1991 , 09/12/2011 at 14:36

Johnny Murtagh
hes talking about playing county for louth and armagh even tho he wudnt make the crossmaglen team!thats a bit deluded in my opinion!
manager5 , 08/12/2011 at 15:54

Johnny Murtagh
he'd be on the panel but not the starting 15
Tom1916 , 08/12/2011 at 13:12

Johnny Murtagh
Would he be on the Crossmaglen team if he had stayed?
manager5 , 07/12/2011 at 20:14