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Replying To waynoI: "Ahhh here the scoreline tells its own story." No it doesn't . The scoreline never tells the full story. If it did why would we watch games, read reports, watch the Sunday game for highlights etc. If the scoreline says it all why would we bother. Who's to say there wasn't 5, 6, 7 amazing saves, 15 shots of the upright, 4 red cards, a gale force wind coming in from the Atlantic and a dog lose on the pitch. The scoreline doesn't say it all. DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 24/07/2016 19:14:46 1889307 Link
Replying To border Gael: "Wonder why were there no county players playing in Donegal today? Tyrone players are all out with their clubs today. This type of game is destroying Gaelic Football as a spectacle. In all honesty who would pay in to see these two teams in action again apart from family." Because Donegal are playing this Saturday. Tyrone aren't playing for 2 weeks. benjyyy (Donegal) - Posts: 1422 - 24/07/2016 19:23:37 1889310 Link
Replying To DoireCityFC: "No it doesn't . The scoreline never tells the full story. If it did why would we watch games, read reports, watch the Sunday game for highlights etc. If the scoreline says it all why would we bother. Who's to say there wasn't 5, 6, 7 amazing saves, 15 shots of the upright, 4 red cards, a gale force wind coming in from the Atlantic and a dog lose on the pitch. The scoreline doesn't say it all." Or one of does Fire breathing Dragons from Derry flew over head scattering players and supporters to run for there lives from all directions ...i know exactly what your talking about,i wonder will the Fire breathing Dragon be in the new Jim McGuinness movie ??? Because i think the movie will need excitement ! WhyTheLongFace (Meath) - Posts: 876 - 24/07/2016 19:27:00 1889312 Link
Bit of perspective lads. Yes it was unusually bad but with games up and down the country you are going to get the odd outlier. The game wasn't even that defensive but just an off day for both teams. It was moved from 3pm to 12pm so maybe still a few sore heads from last night! John Haran, who played in the game, had this to say on Twitter https://twitter.com/johnjazzharan/status/757228081996304384 These 2 teams played last month and it finished 2-12 to 6-5 so don't go overboard. I agree it is an amusing scoreline. benjyyy (Donegal) - Posts: 1422 - 24/07/2016 19:27:23 1889313 Link
Replying To benjyyy: "Bit of perspective lads. Yes it was unusually bad but with games up and down the country you are going to get the odd outlier. The game wasn't even that defensive but just an off day for both teams. It was moved from 3pm to 12pm so maybe still a few sore heads from last night! John Haran, who played in the game, had this to say on Twitter https://twitter.com/johnjazzharan/status/757228081996304384 These 2 teams played last month and it finished 2-12 to 6-5 so don't go overboard. I agree it is an amusing scoreline." Finally some common sense. A huge amount of people on here see a headline and base a comment on that or simply one article or something they overheard in a pub rather than taking a step back to try and understand what is going on and trying to figure out and see the real picture. DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 24/07/2016 19:47:07 1889326 Link
Replying To WhyTheLongFace: "Or one of does Fire breathing Dragons from Derry flew over head scattering players and supporters to run for there lives from all directions ...i know exactly what your talking about,i wonder will the Fire breathing Dragon be in the new Jim McGuinness movie ??? Because i think the movie will need excitement !" There is as much truth in that statement as some of the other posts on here who knew nothing about the game. Point well made!! DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 24/07/2016 19:48:54 1889329 Link
Replying To DoireCityFC: "No it doesn't . The scoreline never tells the full story. If it did why would we watch games, read reports, watch the Sunday game for highlights etc. If the scoreline says it all why would we bother. Who's to say there wasn't 5, 6, 7 amazing saves, 15 shots of the upright, 4 red cards, a gale force wind coming in from the Atlantic and a dog lose on the pitch. The scoreline doesn't say it all." Good man an apologist for the sh#te football, if you watched enough games over the last few years & opened your eyes to what's on display you might see that, probably difficult when your trying to rack up likes with endless posts, truly blinded to reality, sad really, not even worthy of a debate. moc.dna (Galway) - Posts: 1212 - 24/07/2016 19:50:55 1889333 Link
Did the ref blow it up after ten minutes???? WildPundit (Tipperary) - Posts: 1709 - 24/07/2016 19:50:57 1889334 Link
Replying To moc.dna: "Good man an apologist for the sh#te football, if you watched enough games over the last few years & opened your eyes to what's on display you might see that, probably difficult when your trying to rack up likes with endless posts, truly blinded to reality, sad really, not even worthy of a debate." He's not apologising for shte football and why would he? I think the players themselves will know they were in a terrible game, no need for the whole country to jump on it. The game had 27 wides, 6 balls dropped into the keepers hands and 2 shots hitting the post. An unusually bad game it was, but there are people just using it to suit their narrative instead of getting a bit of context. benjyyy (Donegal)* - Posts: 1422 - 24/07/2016 20:01:35 1889338 Link
Replying To moc.dna: "Good man an apologist for the sh#te football, if you watched enough games over the last few years & opened your eyes to what's on display you might see that, probably difficult when your trying to rack up likes with endless posts, truly blinded to reality, sad really, not even worthy of a debate." Which games are you referring to? As much as I enjoy vague, pointless comments backed up with no facts or precedence I believe in this case they are warranted. Was it just low scoring games like Cork and Roscommon in the league ;) or what. You remind me of spillanes comments saying football was dead in 1992 and as another user said on here "I remember Breandan O hEithear writing in 1984 saying "if football was a hospital patient it would be on life support". I also remember elderly football followers at that time saying the great Kerry team of 1975-86 would not have lived with the Kerry three in a row team of1939-42." As someone else pointed out these 2 teams had a high scoring game last month. This is not a common occurrence. Go to any county GAA page and look at senior game scores and reports. These low scores are far and few between but due to the age of 24 hour media we hear about them more regularly despite them not increasing in number. Look at the league this year (when teams are still getting going) D1 had a game average of 30.6 points per game bobobo (Clare) - Posts: 20 - 24/07/2016 20:10:03 1889341 Link
Replying To benjyyy: "He's not apologising for shte football and why would he? I think the players themselves will know they were in a terrible game, no need for the whole country to jump on it. The game had 27 wides, 6 balls dropped into the keepers hands and 2 shots hitting the post. An unusually bad game it was, but there are people just using it to suit their narrative instead of getting a bit of context." Well said again and nice to hear some actual commentary about the game. Notice from the 17 games played in Donegal yesterday that the average score was 27 points per game. People are just picking out the bad instead of looking at the good. bobobo (Clare)* - Posts: 20 - 24/07/2016 20:21:56 1889347 Link
Replying To benjyyy: "He's not apologising for shte football and why would he? I think the players themselves will know they were in a terrible game, no need for the whole country to jump on it. The game had 27 wides, 6 balls dropped into the keepers hands and 2 shots hitting the post. An unusually bad game it was, but there are people just using it to suit their narrative instead of getting a bit of context." Yeah even if half those wides and one post ball had gone in this wouldn't have been raised. Everyone has an off day DoireCityFC (Derry)* - Posts: 1580 - 24/07/2016 20:24:00 1889349 Link
Replying To moc.dna: "Good man an apologist for the sh#te football, if you watched enough games over the last few years & opened your eyes to what's on display you might see that, probably difficult when your trying to rack up likes with endless posts, truly blinded to reality, sad really, not even worthy of a debate." I'm not apologizing for anything. Neither am I jumping on the football is dead bandwagon when I don't believe it is. A low score doesn't mean the game was bad. I watched the 2011 rugby cup final in NZ and it ended 8-7 I think. Very low scoring affair but amazing game. Didn't mean the sport as a whole was dead due to a low scoreline DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 24/07/2016 20:27:26 1889351 Link
Replying To benjyyy: "Bit of perspective lads. Yes it was unusually bad but with games up and down the country you are going to get the odd outlier. The game wasn't even that defensive but just an off day for both teams. It was moved from 3pm to 12pm so maybe still a few sore heads from last night! John Haran, who played in the game, had this to say on Twitter https://twitter.com/johnjazzharan/status/757228081996304384 These 2 teams played last month and it finished 2-12 to 6-5 so don't go overboard. I agree it is an amusing scoreline." I don't have twitter or any social media (not it savvy)........can you post what he said? DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 24/07/2016 20:29:48 1889357 Link
Indeed 0-3 0-2 is a very strange result. Cant remember any such result in my club games down through the years. Now and again you would hear of one team been held to a very low score but very rarely two teams. Must have been a gale force wind or else they must have been wearing wellingtons. KY4SAM2015 (Kerry) - Posts: 898 - 24/07/2016 20:35:12 1889361 Link
And a lot on here saying the blanket defence is finished. Lol The two managers must be way better than J MC Guinness or M Hart as never did their teams come out with a result like that. Fair play to Eunans/ Glenswilley, at least their is a topic about Donegal club football on here--- usually it's the county team who are in the spotlight. But seriously a poster on here saying nobody would go watch them again except family-- well that's a load of nonsense. First of all as we set out to a match how do we know it will be low scoring?? How do we know it will produce a big score as was pointed out in the last game both teams played in We don't know what will happen in a game --- I usually set out and hope for the best for my team. But anything can happen and I'd bet that those who were present today will never withness a score line like that again. This was a one off but because it is Donegal club football ,and seeing how our county set up this gives the people who hate Donegal football a chance to knock us once again. So called S::t football won't put me off going and I have followed football since1963 and Iv seen good and bad all through those years Even so called top teams down through the years played some terrible games. EG-- 1980 ALL IRELAND FINAL-1983 -All Ireland final. Terrible games. There are men in London who go to games here every Sunday and indeed Saturday if they are on. Real GAA people. Nothing puts them off SamOnErrigal (Donegal) - Posts: 1427 - 24/07/2016 20:49:45 1889368 Link
I'd say there was some grumbling in the stands from the ex-players of each team who are always the most critical pundits! Sounds like a very poor game - no one likes watching a wide-fest! Brolly (Monaghan) - Posts: 4472 - 24/07/2016 20:51:45 1889370 Link
I'd ask why these lads aren't on the county panel we never managed to concede less than 8 points when Jim was at the helm ruanua (Donegal) - Posts: 4966 - 24/07/2016 21:28:27 1889395 Link
Other results from Div 1 this weekend. Dungloe 3-13 1-6 Termon St Michael's 1-16 1-13 Kilcar Bundoran 2-13 4-08 Ardara Gweedore 1-12 1-09 Glenties This result was an aberration & down to bad shooting MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 24/07/2016 22:48:51 1889438 Link
Replying To border Gael: "Wonder why were there no county players playing in Donegal today? Tyrone players are all out with their clubs today. This type of game is destroying Gaelic Football as a spectacle. In all honesty who would pay in to see these two teams in action again apart from family." Donegal have a game against Cork next weekend, Tyrone don't. Donegal county players play for their clubs every weekend except the weekend before a game when they get together. Tell me the Tyrone players will play the weekend before the QF and then I will be impressed. MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 24/07/2016 22:54:13 1889440 Link