Donegal GAA Discussion Thread

SKY 3,it is not been shown on terrestrial TV.

There was no finer forward than Paddy Bradley in his heyday,he'd still walk into most intercounty teams.Eoin is pretty damn handy too and will be vital to whatever limited chance of success Derry have this evening. Looking forward to a tight(ish) game.

I know of someone who spent an hour trying to get through Enniskillen. Hope too many didn't make that mistake!

Derry Minors arrived on the bus togged out

Good Donegal support here.

Shabby enough treatment for season ticket holders again...

Very poor from the Minors. Derry full value for the win. The missed penalty was symptomatic of the overall display.

does anyone know if there's a LIVE stream of the game??

Five each at half time. Derry should let the ball in quicker.

Too much standing around. Where is the drive to get forward?

Shades of Down in 2013.

Derry's set up contributed to it but we were flat, stationary and lethargic.

We need a massive improvement to take this title.

Two things.

1) we really struggle against such a defensive set up. It counteracts our own game so much it is hugely problematic.

2) we are incredibly light in terms of options and squad.


Big increase needed. Don't want to be going to scenic route.

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

Two things.

1) we really struggle against such a defensive set up. It counteracts our own game so much it is hugely problematic.

2) we are incredibly light in terms of options and squad.


Big increase needed. Don't want to be going to scenic route.

Totally agree. Are the players we rely on beginning to suffer physically through tiredness and injuries? The players coming off the bench don't offer that much. Would be great to get Mcloon and ryan Bradley back as well as a fit Anthony Thompson. Looking ahead it would be an incredible achievement to get to the All Ireland semis. Dublin, Kerry or Cork will not have to expend the same effort.

Mackas_view wrote: »

Not fully convinced it was just a bad day of the office I think it could of been partly a tactic played by RG.
We showed no sense of urgency or intensity either in getting back to defend or breaking on the counter attack. A few times the Derry forwards were let kick points without anyone closing them down.
It's a bit outside the box but I think we kept Bradley scoreless from play which was a priority, we didn concede a goal and we scored one. Sounds to me like three boxes ticked that were crucial to winning the game. Possibly to ensure we don't peak to early. I know the wides were shocking but that comes with complacency when you deploy that kind of tactic.

Just a bit of outside the box thinking. I don't believe so many top players can have a quiet day at the office just by coincidence

Don't think it's as simplistic as that, but I think they maybe didn't want to show too much. If they went out and did what they did to Armagh the hype leading up to the final would have been ridiculous so a poor performance and a win not necessarily a bad thing.

Alvin Holler wrote: »

Surprised that McHugh didn't start, not sure if there was any reason for this. O'Reilly seems to have a nice habit of scoring goals but doesn't offer much else.

That's a really unusual criticism. Your forward scoring goals - what else could you ask for? I think I see what you're getting at with his limitations, but given his role, he just can't contribute as much. Mark McHugh starts from the base of the field, often collecting the ball in defense. He gets so many more possessions, so obviously that makes it more likely he'd contribute to general play. He hasn't scored a goal in the last 2 games, though. Plus, O'Reilly does work very hard in tracking back.

The decision making was poor yesterday, the parallel running was out of synch and players generally looked lethargic. Some of the kick passes were very poor, and I remember at one point Frank McGlynn had space to run into, as well as a man to pass forward to, but instead he slowed down while in possession and waited what seemed like an age for someone to run off him. It characterised what seemed like a slow-thinking day.

I thought leaving Neil Gallagher at full forward for so long at the beginning of the game was unnecessary and definitely done for too long. We were struggling to move the play forward in midfield while Neil was sitting, marked up, at full forward. Neil then won the game with his strong spell later in the match. He has been effective there before but I would have switched him out immediately when things slowed down so much in midfield.

Derry defended excellently, and with McBrearty almost certainly injured, it was a good win but not a good performance.

Caileen OBoyle caused them problems. McIver however is far too emotional and close minded towards tactics to have took advantage. When he should have been playing to get the draw in the last ten minutes he was busy roaring abuse at the ref and busy deciding to take off OBoyle and Bradley. Bradley did not score but he had some good passes to OBoyle. Bradley and Lynch should have been closer to OBoyle.
McGoldrick who had 28 posessions did not have the talent to do anything with it. Unless OBoyle was injured subbing him was madness.

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

If they were leggy due to tough training that's fine, they got through, but if they were poor due to the fact that they may not be all that good then that is another problem.

Yeah they're sh!te Tod, but you knew that. Have you got bored of winding them up in the Roscommon thread?