Donegal GAA Discussion Thread

Cheers harpsman, got sorted. Appreciate the offer though 👍

ye wont get a days luck for it ye bad basterds 😂😂 , two seconds on the clock and ye kick it out and go down the field and win the game when a draw would have had the same outcome , poor old mayo 🤣

It's not often you come away after digging out a victory, in such a manner, absolutely seething with the match officials. They were shocking today. The black card was, to put it mildly, dubious. Mayo were awarded a point in the first half that was clearly wide. They had two clear breaches of the three up rule while we were pulled on our own kick out because, apparently, we had two men in the Mayo half. The game was stopped for an injury to Jason. He restarted the game with two medics still treating him. We were denied a penalty for a foot block and we couldn't buy a free in the Mayo half. Rant over.

There were a lot of positives today despite the tight scoreline. We created plenty of chances but weren't as clinical in front of goal as usual. We had some excellent individual performances. McColgan, Langan and Shane O'Donnell were excellent and Murphy was his usual self. McCole is now the best full back in the country and Roarty is a freak of nature. Having Patton back was also a big bonus.

Defensively we played well bar the spawny goal they scored. We looked really sharp in transition. However some of the forward line didn't quite fire. We spurned at least three goal chances, something we cannot afford to do again.

Does anyone know when the tickets might be on sale for Ballybofey?

Louth in Ballybofey. We should be winning that.

Yeah we will be fancied to make a SF from here and two of Kerry, Armagh, Tyrone, Galway or Dublin will be eliminated at the QF stage the way the draw is.

Of course nothing is won on paper and this championship has already seen strange results. Meath have beaten the Dubs and Kerry and Monaghan weren't far away from us so no game is a given. Still though I think we would see this as a favourable position after losing to Tyrone in Ballybofey.

Thanks for your big whinge. What does that make you in your opinion?

dry you eyes!

Jimmys Whinging Matches!

McGuinness said what needed to be said. Especially when we won. Had we lost then it would have appeared to his detractors as sour grapes.

I saw Peter Campbell's players ratings on Donegal live. I think he was pretty generous in some of his ratings. If we spurn the number of chances again against better opposition we'll be out. We are in a good side of the draw now but we shouldn't be looking past Louth. Any word yet on injuries? Yesterday was a bruising encounter.

You’ll be ok in a few days 🥲

Carroll was very dignified in his response and explained the choice of venue.

McGuinness is trying to create a siege mentality I understand but vast majority of Donegal panel are from the south of county not Inishowen so that was silly to bring up in first place, as Carroll pointed out places like Belmullet are 2 1/2 hour drive from Roscommon Town too.

Secondly not sure where this Mayo GAA training centre is, assuming he means Connacht Centre of Excellence which isn't Mayos but you would have to drive at fair speed to make that in 30 minutes given its near Knock...

ThIrdly he complains about hotel. They booked the Hodson Bay which isn't in Athlone (Jim might need an atlas). Its in Kiltoom where St Bridgets play (last years All Ireland club finalists and 2013 AI winners). They booked that because they wanted one with full exclusive access to gym/pool/sauna and nowhere in town would give that.

Spot on. The officials overall were brutal and for me there was more to many of the referee`s calls than him being just a poor referee or having a bad day out. I heard more people leaving the ground giving out about him than I have heard over many years following Donegal complaining about a referee in a game we lost. Even a few Mayo supporters sitting near us in the stand couldn`t believe some of the decisions he gave their way.

O`Donoghue elbowed Mogan as they were going for the ball, and then went to the referee looking for Mogan to be given a black card. Referee duly obliged. Not that it did Mayo any good. They were all over the place with the extra man and lost their shape. It also seemed to take a long time for the officials to let Mogan back on when his 10 mins was done.

We were a bit off tune shooting up front yesterday and left 3 - 4 goals behind us. One of which, as you say, should have gone to a penalty for a foot-block .The few times we ran directly at them yesterday we were running through them at pace quite easily. At the time I thought we should have been doing more of it, but with Mayo being a team that relies a lot on turnovers to get their scores, as the politician from Mayo said, upon mature reflectin, the game we played was probably the wiser option.

Good to see McColgan back, and any bit of game time on McGee is a plus. Patten has really come on under the high ball, but I though some of his kick out were not up to his usual standard yesterday. He left McColgan very exposed for one he put behind him, but then that boomer for Paddy`s goal effort and the ball that ended up with Moore for the winner gets him a lot of absolution.

Yesterday was our 7th game in the Championshipbofey, none being a cakewalk other than the second half against Cavan, so the two week break would have helped. But then if we had been given the chance to pick which of the three we could meet next week we would have picked who we have. We beat them easily last year, but they are a better outfit this year. That said towards the end of their game against Clare they looked panicky.