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Mayo V Tyrone All-Ireland Football Final - 5 Like(s)
Mayo are delighted tyrone won today. Sure didn't David brady say he'd be jumping for joy on off the ball if tyrone won. They have a bad record against kerry and they've no fear of tyrone.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 28/08/2021 22:04:34
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Dublin Vs Kerry - 5 Like(s)
Replying To Northsidegaels: "Nonsense. The best refs in all sports use common sense why would you want to reward the defender who is illegally trying to stop a goalscoring chance by bringing it back for a free? We want to see goals in our game and the benefit of the doubt being given to the attacker. You must not have played the game yourself as its impossible to hop or solo the ball whilst being fouled, con o callaghan alone could have a highlight reel of goals where he is being fouled and has to over carry as a result but is rightly given the advantage and buries it. Besides the first one wasnt even steps anyway and Kerry had men over breaking hard at goal when the ref decides to bring it back for a difficult free which kerry miss, ridiculous referring" The aul common sense argument can justify anything. The ref was not wrong here. He just applied the rule. Change the rule and then he can apply that. If being fouled you can take as many steps as you like.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 23/05/2021 17:07:31
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Donegal GAA thread - 5 Like(s)
I see Donegal and Tyrone tossed a coin for the venue of the under 20 Leo Murphy final. It's on in the O'Donnell park in letterkenny on Saturday at 12.00. Tyrone must have won the toss.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 08/03/2022 20:47:59
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Connacht Club Football Championship - 5 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "It's irrelevant to a player putting hands on a ref. That's completely inexcusable and will result in a suspension. I haven't seen anyone disagree with that.
However, it's not irrelevant to the disappointment experienced by the team who lost the match as a result of a very poor decision.
These are separate things. Whomever laid hands on the ref will get dealt with. No arguments from anyone.
Separately, the M/M contingent, players, management and supporters (the 99%+ who didn't touch the ref) have every right to be very aggrieved at a ref failing to apply a basic rule which cost them the match. They know the effort that went in to making it this far. They may never get an opportunity like this again." Any grievance the team had of the ref is undone by the behaviour of the players who did touch the ref. It's a team game and them players let their team and club down. Maybe focus more on that.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 12/12/2021 15:06:21
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Dublin Vs Kerry - 4 Like(s)
Replying To mayotyroneman: "You obviously don't understand the rules. On both occasions Spillane and moynihan travelled for 8 or 9 steps while being fouled. Referee couldn't allow scores because both players had over carried. Correct decision on both occasions was to award free kick to Kerry as the foul was the initial transgression. Excellent refereeing decisions." Find it quite frustrating the blinkered view of some commentators and fans on this kind of thing. It's as clear as day that moynihan over carried the ball and it to brought back and free in awarded. The rte radio presenters were a torture to listen to about it.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 23/05/2021 15:59:04
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Donegal GAA thread - 4 Like(s)
Replying To JoeSoap: "My father always used to say that we ran into two of the best teams in Ireland in the 60s and that delayed our first Ulster for a long time. We were only beaten by either Down or Cavan in the 60s if my memory serves me, and I'm nearly sure that the three of us were the only counties to contest an Ulster senior final as well in that decade - though I may be wrong on that.
For a sports mad county it is strange that it took us so long to break through nationally" I've heard that before about the 60s team.
Donegal won three if the first Ulster under 21 championships in the 60s and then dropped off to the 80s and their all Ireland successes. Them 2 teams ultimately were key contributors of 1992.
The first minor Ulster was 1956. Mick McGinley (Paul the golfers father) was on that team.
I think football was slow to take hold because when the gaa coded their own version of football soccer was strong in Donegal and the teams wouldn't change over to Gaelic football. In 1972 were there still any Gaelic teams in inishowen? In that regard it's great to see players like Ryan Bradley winning an all Ireland or caolan mcgonagle and Conor O'Donnell pushing through.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 25/03/2022 15:19:35
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NFL Division 1 - 4 Like(s)
Replying To suckvalleypaddy: "Galway play better football than Donegal but are not as clever as them with the way the rules are. Football won today at least." That some nonsense of a post.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 09/02/2020 20:10:24
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Connacht Club Football Championship - 3 Like(s)
Replying To WanPintWin: "I'm sorry, but that's nonsense. The rest of the team and supporters don't lose their right to feel aggrieved, because a few players were bang out of order.
They're completely separate incidents. That's like saying the 10s of thousands of Louth supporters have no right to be annoyed about the awful decision in 2010, because a few lunatics went on to the pitch and attacked the ref.
The ref made a very poor error and M/M contingent have every right to be extremely annoyed.
Also, the M/M players who put their hands on the ref were completely out of order and should be suspended. It was completely unacceptable.
Both of those statements are true." It's not nonsense. When the team cool down and look at how their players behaved you can't be proud of that. I'd be much more annoyed about how the players behaved than about the refs performance and would just leave it and not bother moaning about the ref. They are players representing the club not supporters and players misbehaving do let the club down. The ref made a mistake, refs have and always will make mistakes and you have to just accept and move on.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 12/12/2021 17:35:24
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Donegal GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Well done to the ladies yesterday. Based on them losing in Ulster to Armagh and to cork in the round robin it was hard to be optimistic but they really delivered a performance. I thought Dublin were on a mission after last year against meath and the defeat to Donegal in the look league semi. Donegal out foxed them and outplayed them. It's the first final in 9 years that dublin won't be in. The first goal in the second half was so important and the run from Amy Boyle carr was super.
It doesn't get easier next week with meath. Hopefully a good crowd will be able to make it to Dublin for the semi.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 10/07/2022 11:19:28
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That Tyrone/Armagh Row - 3 Like(s)
Fair play to gough. These incidents are horrible to watch. Historically teams know that if evey man goes in it might one man each sent off or more likely a few yellows. There will be no all out schmozzle in the next match gough refs and a few more examples of using the red cards so freely will soon clamp it out fully.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 07/02/2022 08:38:55
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This Weekends Football - 3 Like(s)
Replying To arock: "How can an empty stadium possibly be classed as "home advantage" you could play these games on a club pitch never mind an empty stadium." Because you train there, you know the surroundings, you know the pitch dimensions, it's more convenient, you don't have to travel as far. Do you not agree?
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 08/11/2020 15:33:43
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Donegal GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To TheRock2121: "Anyone catch the under 20 game.? Seemed to be a good win for the lads." I watched the stream on beosport. And at least they stream lasted the full game this time and doubt Charlie Collins left his team sheet behind!
It's hard to get a full judgement from not being their live though for what it's worth.
Armagh were defensive at the start and donegal dominated possession though lacked penetrtaion. Eventually after 7/8 mins the long ball into the big man worked with mcgettigan taking a fine catch and passing it to mcglynn who finished the goal well. The game was uneventful then again for a while and eventually donegal went on on run from say the mid way point of the first half. Mcgroddy came into it and kicked a few nice points from play. He is also a reliable free taker.
Dowling from a long kickout and dunleavy also hit points. Donegal also dominated the breaking ball from kickouts and their half back line and midfield turned over armagh quite a bit and that was part of the reason Armagh only scored one point in the first half.
Although wet and it didn't seem windy though it did help with kickouts and scoring into the river goal. Ultimately the game was pretty close to being over at ht with score being 1-7 to a 0-1.
Armagh were much better in the second half and nearly had donegal rattled when they had it back to 5 points. Dowling impressed at that point with a few important plays that led to scores and that finished the game off. He's a powerful man. Probably need players playing off his runs a little better as well though. Mcglynn also hit two nice points. He did miss another straight forward goal chance they and I'm not sure what he did after doing everything right except the finish. He's the youngest player on the team and you can see the quality. Apart from his frees mcgroddy did go out of it and you don't want that.
Kieran tobin seemed to kind of everywhere for the whole game, one careless turnover and a harsh overcarrying call after a lovely bit of skill aside. Overall he'd a very fine game reading and linking the play. He comes across as really enthusiastic as well and that's great to see. Paul o'hare also did well. I think this his third year at under 20. The subs also added to the team. I guess Jamie grant is injured as he never made an appearance. Good to see O'rourke coming on as a sub though not sure he's back a 100%.
Overall winning is obviously very positive though there are a few other things I noticed. You can see the club pattern of play of possession first and turning backwards and going backwards when they could be more offensively minded. They were ponderous at the start, playing around the edges and could have just went for it a bit more. No more than most donegal teams they are predominantly a running team. I would like to see a bit more kick passing but that's a wider point than this team. The fb doherty looks a strong traditional style fb and overall did well. He probably has to look at his positioning and using the end line as a defender more than he does.
They can go and watch tyrone and down today and get prepared. Tyrone walloped Down in the leo murphy so they'll be favourites. Perhaps though down were keeping their powder dry. Surprised that cavan hammered monaghan. Monaghan were the ulster minor champions from three years ago and cavan were not good at minor level at all. Underage can be a funny business.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 02/04/2022 12:07:08
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OUR BEST TEAM - 3 Like(s)
Replying To greatpoint: "What podcast was Eamon McGee on?" The Backdoor gaa podcast. You'll get it on youtube.
Ulsterchamps_32 (Donegal) - 26/10/2020 21:16:40
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Ulster Championship - 3 Like(s)
I've been thinking about how Donegal have been playing. It strongly entered my head to go very defensive when mcgee was sent off. Four points up, let Down attack, turn them over and beat them on the counter attack. It would have been the wrong tactic and would have given Down a suckers chance. Instead we kept pushing up on kick outs and killed the game early. It shows great conviction on Bonners part and something to really commend him on. You play to your strengths and that's our forwards.
Some of the point taking was really good, a few stick out to me. In the first half Mooney bursts up the field and pretty much leaves everyone for dead (he's one speedy player), langan though doesn't give up and makes a really good block, McGlynn tidies up but is under a lot of pressure in the corner, he gets a lovely fist pass out to Eoin ban who breaks a tackle and gives a lovely kick pass to Thompson, Thompson looks up and gives a diagonal kick ball into space for Murphy to run on to. Murphy immediately gives a little dinky kick pass over to McBrearty, McBrearty turns the defender, hand passes to ward who kicks it off his bad foot over the bar.
Later in the half donegal have possession in their own half in a pretty unthreatening place. Ryan McHugh gives a nice forward handpass to Brennan who does a quick turn and beats the defender, he kicks it into McBrearty in the corner, McBrearty immediately gives a lovely little dinky kick pass to Murphy who turns quickly and kicks the ball over the bar with his bad foot.
In the second half Down kick for a point, Patton gathers the kick from around the crossbar, hand passes to McFadden, who hand passes to Ryan mcHugh, mcHugh kick passes it out the field to Eoin ban, who carries the ball for a bit. Eoin ban kicks a really good pass into McBreartys chest on the end line, close enough to the sideline (it was a lovely pass and takes the second defender out of the game). McBrearty then gives a kick pass close to the ground across to Brennan who does a little swivel and kicks it over the bar with his bad foot.
Now people may have given up reading the post at this point!! but there a few really interesting points here, the use of the kick pass, using the space on the field with balls played into the corners, players looking up and moving the ball quickly, some really good interplay and players kicking points with their bad foot.
I know Down were not good and I know fermanagh will be way tougher to break down. Sometimes though you just need to celebrate the play for what it was and some of the play on sunday was excellent. Well done Donegal.
Ulsterchamps_32 (Donegal) - 13/06/2018 00:10:05
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Monaghan GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Judging by the posts over the last few weeks there'll be a lot of disappointed Monaghan posters after that result.
Well done the Monaghan team.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 27/03/2022 16:12:01
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Ulster Final Donegal V Cavan - 3 Like(s)
Cavan had a look of a team that were not going to be beat. Emotion certainly helped them though they mixed this with very good tactical play as well. I don't think Donegal were prepared at all for what Cavan brought. They weren't at the pitch at the start and when they did get the run on them in the middle if first half needed to push on and maybe take the emotion away from Cavan. I also don't want to be too critical as it does a disservice to Cavan. Cavan made Donegal look ordinary. I do think gallen would have helped so it's a pity he was injured.
I hope they look at it in the right way and use the hurt next year to push on but there are certainly no guarantees.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 22/11/2020 18:51:12
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Connacht Club Football Championship - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Farney1990: "I think a few points have to come across here. The scenes at the end were ugly unfortunately.
But here we have a team probably training 9 plus months, 2 or 3 pitch sessions a week on top of the extra gym sessions involved at club level, particularly at the top level of the club game to be robbed by not one but two disgraceful decisions in the dying minutes.
This is a provincial club game (the big stage of the club game) so you've got your best teams and I suppose the best referees should be appointed too.
Yes there is going to be suspensions for the players (deservedly so I must add) but who is reviewing the referees performance? ? Surely at this level they have to be reviewed??" That point about training, gyms is completely irrelevant. The ref can't be touched like that. End of story.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 12/12/2021 12:25:55
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Donegal GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "Well I suppose the talent Donegal have on tap is better than he had to select from in Kildare in my opinion anyway, I should have said 'a' Jack O'Connor type, someone with an outside perspective and a strong winning mentality, he seems to have Kerry back to winning ways and they are the favs for Sam. I forgot Buckley is with Monaghan now.
I think under the current set up from the county board down we are content to stay in div 1 and be also rans in the race for Sam and have a good crack at Ulster.
McGuinness believed we could win the All Ireland, I don't think that belief is there from the top down anymore,
if you are going to win the thing it's starts with believing you can in the first place.
Good luck to the women today, it would be brilliant to see them win the league." I kind of get the overall point but Jack o'connor sticks on my craw because his motivations were not for the betterment of kildare football. They were for the betterment of Jack o'connor and wouldn't want someone like that near donegal football. If Peter Keane was still managing kerry they'd still be favorites.
It doesn't mean I'm against outside managers. Look at the esteem mickey moran is held by kilcoo. Brian mcivor won donegals only league. The Donegal players just didn't seem mature enough to fully buy in fully and McGuinness sorted all that out. McGuinness was very abnormal as well though. I can't see anyone else having won that all ireland with that donegal team. He was obsessed got the players to an incredible level of fitness and got a tactical run on other teams.
I think this donegal have achieved more and ultimately a whole pile of other things have lacked an edge at times. No donegal team under bonner as downed tools either though and he's a million times better than some outside mercenary that doesn't give two hoots about donegal football.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 10/04/2022 18:49:26
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Donegal GAA thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Tirchonaill1: "Not much odds anyway about what bs is spouted on here unless we get a top management team in place that can really change the mindset and get the best out of our players we will just get more of the same.
The fans are voting with their feet, spoke to a fair few people today who were that sickened after the Ulster final display that they didn't go yesterday and were glad today they didn't go.
I predicted earlier that Armagh would have round 80% of the support and I'd say I wasn't far wrong." The Donegal teams deserve supporters better than you. You never add anything positive to any discussion.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 13/06/2022 19:50:14
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Donegal V Cavan Ulster Semi Final - 2 Like(s)
It will interesting to see if cavan push up on the donegal kickout. Armagh near the end did make inroads when they started to push up and turned over donegal a few times. Though in 2020 cavan never bothered and were successful. They had a good defensive structure that donegal struggled with it. If they do push up I don't know whether raymond galligan will come out to cover pattons longer kick. I think donegal will continue to push up and as much as it did work against armagh though it was only from mid way through the first half that it really started to work. Armagh were leading up to that point. Galligan is a much better keeper than Hughes or rafferty though. He was very good against donegal in 2020 and very good against dublin in the semi final as well.
Donegal are susceptible to be turned over when carrying the ball out of the defence. Mayo get really good success against donegal when doing that. Perhaps donegal need to share the load a bit more. Ban is a great carrier of the ball so try to get it to him when the opposition are pressurising. Use langan, mogan and have shane o'donnell coming back the odd time. Mcff helps on that front too.
Hopefully Jason mcgee is ok too and he's bound to have take a lot of confidence from armagh. The point he scored he kind of powered through the defence and it would be great to see more of that. I think mcff will come back in and pick up and I wouldn't completely rule out neil mcgee either. I'm not sure though who you'd drop. I suppose they are nice decisions to have and having a game changer or two on the bench is very important as well. The last time against cavan farrah and thompson and mcmenamin were injured in the lead up. Mcff was away with the army and think Jason mcgee was struggling with injury as well. Having the injuries earlier in the league also gave Shane o'donnell and Connor o'donnell and Jason mcgee plenty opportunity. All this (injuries permitting) should create more strength off the bench. Oisin farrah made a big difference against tyrone in the league though is he fit enough. i do remember last year Conor o'donnell making a big difference against armagh last year in the league.
We've struggled with mckeirnan in the past so will be interesting to see what they do there. I don't think donegal have any 6ft plus defenders and although they did do well at the back last week I'd think cavan could try and use Thomas galligan at ff from time to time and launch a few ones in.
Ultimately you have to fancy donegal. If cavan keep it close there is a suspicion about donegal. Though maybe they should also try and focus on positives of recent close games. We were coasting against armagh in the league and possibly should have lost it in the end though won it with the last kick. Every time you here about derry it's that they should have beat us last year but they didn't. Tyrone had us beat in the league this year but donegal really turned it around in the second half. There was no michael murphy that evening either. A common enough feature in these matches in a winning point from mcbrearty so maybe just leave him on the field even if it's not going well for him.
Ulsterchamps_32 (National) - 01/05/2022 12:39:45
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