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Donegal GAA Discussion Thread

harpsman

Thought I d throw this up see if theres any interest.
Opinions on new backroom team,reasons for departure of old one, McGuinness claim that his players had 9 games in 11 weeks during championship season, possible new players or anything else!!

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harpsman

babybuilder wrote: »

Yes it was 1983 and I think it was in Irvinestown Co Fermanagh. I was at the game and I remember Charlie Mulgrew got his jaw broken . It was a hot day and you could say that Monaghan were fairly physical. I watched Monaghan against Tyrone and although they played ok I think Tyrone played into their hands by some of the lighter players attempting to carry the ball down the middle and getting turned over.

Agree that Tyrone played into their hands running into trouble. Unfortunately ball into their forwards was coming straight back out so they didnt have much option.
Monaghan have never been particularly likable-always had a nasty side to their play. But I think theyve improved since last year and will be very hard to stop in Ulster.

Not that one

Mc Hugh's "interesting" habit gets to me too. Really distracts me when listening to him, as i normally find his comments inte...informative.

Mackas_view

I thought Tyrone were very poor against Monaghan. I lost count how many times they carried the ball into contact and kicked ball in on top of the full forward line while Monaghan played a sweeper.

Bring on Antrim on Sunday. Really and truly they shouldn't prove much of a test but as I always say; Ulster championship is ulster championship and anything can happen. I hope to see McFadden and Paddy mac gettin their tails up and gettin scores on the board. Hopefully have them out of sight by halfway through the 2nd half and give a few lads a good run out.

Tryin not to be too optimistic but I'm a realist!

Redsoxfan

It was interesting to listen to Canavan on Sunday (jeez, I sound like Martin McHugh, where everything is "interesting") where he was saying that Tyrone people were far to confident/complacent in the build up to the Monaghan game and that it looked as if this had filtered through to the players.

I have wondered about this before. GAA players aren't professional, and so mix with supporters every day of the week. You would like to think that themselves and management are focused enough not to be caught up in what people around them are saying, but you wouldn't know.

Anyway, confident as I am, I hope that the general mood in the County is quitely confident rather than downright arrogant.

No talk from me of who we might play in any Final until Sunday night/Monday....

K-9

+Ld say the lads will be dying to get revenge on Monaghan so hopefully there'll be no complacency on Sunday. Important Colm gets back to form, if we're near 2012 form we should be too good for Monaghan but it would be some battle.

Ceist_Beag

I hope we're not getting ahead of ourselves talking about Monaghan or Armagh in the final! Hopefully Colm can find his form on Sunday and put up a decent score and as RSF stated, no injuries and more game time for those that need it, on top of a low key but comfortable win would be the perfect outcome on Sunday for me. Oh and if we do make it through I really would love to get one over on Monaghan - we owe them one!

babybuilder

Yes it was 1983 and I think it was in Irvinestown Co Fermanagh. I was at the game and I remember Charlie Mulgrew got his jaw broken . It was a hot day and you could say that Monaghan were fairly physical. I watched Monaghan against Tyrone and although they played ok I think Tyrone played into their hands by some of the lighter players attempting to carry the ball down the middle and getting turned over.

K-9

Can't remember the last time we beat Monaghan in the Championship, 83 if I'm not forgetting something?

harpsman

We did beat Armagh in 07,and couple of in the 90s. Its been a long time since we beat Monaghan. Problem is,not sure if we'd beat them at the moment.

Id like to see a big fielding performance from Neil,cos if hes not winnin k/os not sure if Id pick him ahead of other 3.

Redsoxfan

SM746 wrote: »

Ticket in there today, Covered Stand, Section CC. Opposite side to the tickets from last year.
Roll on the game now; hopefully do the business and hopefully get a long overdue crack at Armagh in the championship :-)

Aye, better than the Ulster Final tickets last year for sure, but that's probably due to the crowd expected. Could be glad of a bit of shade if the good weather stays.

SM746

Ticket in there today, Covered Stand, Section CC. Opposite side to the tickets from last year.
Roll on the game now; hopefully do the business and hopefully get a long overdue crack at Armagh in the championship :-)

smashey

flasher0030 wrote: »

"Foreign Sports"??? Redsox fan!!!!

Rounders?

FullBack Jam

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Less of the foreign sports now...

We wore a strange looking green when we lost to Antrim back in 2009. We wore white for the beginning of the good times back in 2011.

Looks like we will be picking from a full deck. Aside from winning (I don't care if it's one point or ten points), the most important things for me on Sunday are:
Good days for Colm and Paddy. Word is Colm was under the weather before the Derry game which might help explain the performance. He had a brilliant game against Eunans in the ACL recently. Paddy did likewise for Kilcar in their last non-starred game

Another good 70 minutes from Paddy McGrath

Game time for Rory and Big Neil

No injuries or suspensions

A win for our Minor team

"Foreign Sports"??? Redsox fan!!!!

Nidgeweasel

Aye, McFadden was holed up in bed with the flu the week before the Derry game. I just thought he had an off day, which was very worrying, but that would explain it.

Apparently he was involved in a huge amount of St Michaels' scores against Eunans.

This could be the game we need, with the greatest respect to Antrim of course, but it could be a chance just to open the legs a bit more.

Hoping (Expecting) two wins on Sunday. I'll be extremely disappointed for the minors if they don't get through as they've been really great this year. Hit and miss against Derry but minors usually are at times. Ne nice to see this bunch get to a final having been successful at u-16 and u-17 over the past few years.

RGM

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Word is Colm was under the weather before the Derry game which might help explain the performance.

I thought something might be up when I noticed he had hands on knees before the first half was even finished. Not the type to be winded like that.

Redsoxfan

RMDrive wrote: »

Cheeky b"£$%. And me wearing it all the time!!

Lol, by 'strange' I just don't recall it that well. Would prefer green to white myself, something like this would look better as a change jersey IMHO

http://www.oneills.com/shop-by-team/gaa/ulster/donegal-gaa/donegal-gaa-green-jersey-adults-1.html

Or the Mayo style jersey, but with gold instead of red as the second colour.

Indeed, have the old green with gold hoops as our change jersey would be better again.

Anyway, Sunday....

RMDrive

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Less of the foreign sports now...

We wore a strange looking green when we lost to Antrim back in 2009. We wore white for the beginning of the good times back in 2011.

Looks like we will be picking from a full deck. Aside from winning (I don't care if it's one point or ten points), the most important things for me on Sunday are:
Good days for Colm and Paddy. Word is Colm was under the weather before the Derry game which might help explain the performance. He had a brilliant game against Eunans in the ACL recently. Paddy did likewise for Kilcar in their last non-starred game

Another good 70 minutes from Paddy McGrath

Game time for Rory and Big Neil

No injuries or suspensions

A win for our Minor team

Cheeky b"£$%. And me wearing it all the time!!

SM746

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Less of the foreign sports now...

We wore a strange looking green when we lost to Antrim back in 2009. We wore white for the beginning of the good times back in 2011.

Looks like we will be picking from a full deck. Aside from winning (I don't care if it's one point or ten points), the most important things for me on Sunday are:
Good days for Colm and Paddy. Word is Colm was under the weather before the Derry game which might help explain the performance. He had a brilliant game against Eunans in the ACL recently. Paddy did likewise for Kilcar in their last non-starred game

Another good 70 minutes from Paddy McGrath

Game time for Rory and Big Neil

No injuries or suspensions

A win for our Minor team

My exact sentiments.

Redsoxfan

Less of the foreign sports now...

We wore a strange looking green when we lost to Antrim back in 2009. We wore white for the beginning of the good times back in 2011.

Looks like we will be picking from a full deck. Aside from winning (I don't care if it's one point or ten points), the most important things for me on Sunday are:

Good days for Colm and Paddy. Word is Colm was under the weather before the Derry game which might help explain the performance. He had a brilliant game against Eunans in the ACL recently. Paddy did likewise for Kilcar in their last non-starred game
Another good 70 minutes from Paddy McGrath
Game time for Rory and Big Neil
No injuries or suspensions
A win for our Minor team

Nidgeweasel

smashey wrote: »

And England wore white the other night.

Just saying!

So a draw?

The ulster council will be made up!

smashey

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

Real Madrid wore white in the European up final and won it so this could be a good omen.

And England wore white the other night.

Just saying!

Nidgeweasel

Redsoxfan wrote: »

BIG NEWS!

Donegal will wear white against Antrim.

This is potentially the most interesting news about this game so far (after the venue choice, obviously...)

Real Madrid wore white in the European up final and won it so this could be a good omen.

Redsoxfan

BIG NEWS!

Donegal will wear white against Antrim.

This is potentially the most interesting news about this game so far (after the venue choice, obviously...)

Redsoxfan

Clones it is for the Semi Final against Antrim. Good to have the minors on same day at least.

Head of PR for Ulster Council wouldn't answer me on Twitter the other night when I asked were there criteria or a list of venues for Semi Finals. I was civil about it, not looking for a row, just curious. All I got re. decision process was 'discussion and democracy'.

Nidgeweasel

Stumbled across this tonight.

https://soundcloud.com/highlandradionews/donegal-v-dublin-1992

harpsman

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Were you at the game? It was far from rammed. I agree that 22,000 seems optimisitic however, especially when there is only a very small terrace behind one end of the ground.

The seats on the terrace side in Clones are pure muck. I would be happier standing. Could barely see the game last year. If we win the next day out I'll be contacting the ST office to tell them I won't accept these tickets this year.

Anyway, I don't really care. I'll go wherever it's on.

I was at the game and the parts of the ground that were open were as full as Id want them to be given theres no stewarding.
I dont mind standing either,Im young and fit but there are plenty of people who dont want to stand for 2 hours,or longer if theres a minor game on as well. What is your problem with the seats on the hill side? Granted theyre old fashioned benches but the view is the same as the other side-good if youre back and middle,crap if youre front and end.

Redsoxfan

harpsman wrote: »

Celtic Park-22,000 me arse. What crowd was there the other day when it was fairly rammed? 18,000? And about 3,000 of those got a seat.
I dont give a damn if Clones is only half full. At least it has the "luxury" of seating on 2 sides of the ground. Id expect 15-20,000 the next day which is more than enough to justify Clones.

Were you at the game? It was far from rammed. I agree that 22,000 seems optimisitic however, especially when there is only a very small terrace behind one end of the ground.

The seats on the terrace side in Clones are pure muck. I would be happier standing. Could barely see the game last year. If we win the next day out I'll be contacting the ST office to tell them I won't accept these tickets this year.

Anyway, I don't really care. I'll go wherever it's on.

harpsman

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Just FYI, list of GAA grounds ranked by attendance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stadiums_in_Ireland_by_capacity

Omagh looks like it would have enough capacity for a Donegal v Antrim game. Derry would more than do the job too.

Will Clones even be half full?

Celtic Park-22,000 me arse. What crowd was there the other day when it was fairly rammed? 18,000? And about 3,000 of those got a seat.
I dont give a damn if Clones is only half full. At least it has the "luxury" of seating on 2 sides of the ground. Id expect 15-20,000 the next day which is more than enough to justify Clones.

Ceist_Beag

Story here. Fair play to them.

green and yellow

nice story about the naomh columba team helping a fella foot the turf down at the gaelteacht. i can't post the link here but it's all over the news today, donegal daily, independent etc.
the team bus stopped and all hands got off and saved the guy a lump of work.