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Going by some of his rather questionable remarks in 2013 regarding Donegal's desire for Division 1 football jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20587 - 07/10/2013 12:04:29 1496963 Link 0 |
sure getting relegated to division 3 will make it easier to plan for the championship i would have thought haha hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 07/10/2013 12:14:44 1496982 Link 0 |
Chances are jim will focus on retaining Div 2 status at the very least. Like most managers he will use the league as a template to blood new players and hopefully go on from there. I'm sure he doesn't want to be playing Div 3 next year, regardless of what some people think I'm fairly sure he didn't want to be playing Div 2 this year either. wile_man_sir (Donegal) - Posts: 150 - 07/10/2013 12:15:51 1496984 Link 0 |
Division 2 is very competitive this year with three provincial finalists including a provincial champion and other teams striving for improvement such as Galway, Armagh etc nothing easy in Division 2 and promotion will be hard earned for any team, every team will and should be striving for promotion to Division 1, I don't believe Donegal will be any different Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 07/10/2013 12:21:06 1496994 Link 0 |
He should ...Morton are not a premiership side beal (Mayo) - Posts: 1388 - 07/10/2013 21:17:23 1497477 Link 0 |
Div 2 may be competitive but it's still a poor enough standard ! realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8571 - 07/10/2013 21:24:58 1497485 Link 0 |
I agree realdub the standard in div 2 won't give Jim mcguinness and Donegal too much trouble. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 07/10/2013 21:39:07 1497501 Link 0 |
Realdub you must be drinking out of Sam too much. Poor standard? I'd argue Donegal Monaghan Meath etc to be a higher standetd than Westmeath Kildare or Derry. We are talking about last years all ire champion and Ulster champion. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 07/10/2013 21:40:12 1497502 Link 0 |
jimbodub he used it as a springboard in 2011,still cant see them as being contenders D5dub (Dublin) - Posts: 283 - 07/10/2013 21:43:40 1497505 Link 0 |
Division 2 is fine for us, we'll get promoted and back to winning ways handy enough (with respect). Tyrone were div 1 finalists last year we'd been relegated. We battered them in the championship. Samsforthehills (Donegal) - Posts: 1070 - 07/10/2013 21:49:00 1497513 Link 0 |
Spot on Sam I expect ye to win div 2 with not too much hassle , when are fixtures out? KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 07/10/2013 22:00:07 1497526 Link 0 |
Realdub you must be drinking out of Sam too much. realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8571 - 08/10/2013 08:55:56 1497543 Link 0 |
What was the last team that went down and came back up the next year? Some even went down to Div3! MR (Louth) - Posts: 2570 - 08/10/2013 09:36:08 1497563 Link 0 |
JMcG has already set his stall out with regard to the league, he will treat Div 2 in the same way as he treated Div 1, as a means to an end. The Donegal squad is a small one & as the old saying goes "you can have whatever you want but you can't have everything". I'd say his target this year is the Ulster Championship, which is wide open, & everything after that will be a bonus. MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 08/10/2013 09:38:35 1497564 Link 0 |
Samforthehills - you may have "battered" Tyrone in the championship this year, but Monaghan also battered Donegal. So why do you think that you are going to walk the division? And putting "with respect" in your post, while simultaneously being totally disrespectful to the other teams doesn't really work. Division 2 will be extremely competitive next year with at least 6 of the 8 teams fancying their chances of promotion, so if Donegal or any other team go in with the idea that they will coast it, they could come unstuck fairly quickly. anfearbeag (Meath) - Posts: 1134 - 08/10/2013 09:56:44 1497570 Link 0 |
MR Suas Sios (None) - Posts: 1550 - 08/10/2013 10:27:21 1497584 Link 0 |
I think Donegal will take the league much like we did in 2011 and try to build up to the championship. The big difference this time is that Div 2 has better teams and we won't be taken as lightly as we did in 2011. We will drop points at some stage in Div 2 and promotion is certainly not guaranteed but I expect us to be much better than in the 2013 league campaign and hopefully in the mix for promotion. Tir Conaill Abu (Donegal) - Posts: 1671 - 08/10/2013 10:44:25 1497591 Link 0 |
they might find it hard to get promotion and then use the excuse like this year that they were not taking the league serious hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 08/10/2013 12:50:02 1497684 Link 0 |
jimbodub Fishermantom (Limerick) - Posts: 569 - 08/10/2013 12:54:50 1497691 Link 0 |
Fishermantom jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20587 - 08/10/2013 12:58:30 1497698 Link 0 |