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Don't put the blight on us
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 26/02/2019 16:02:28 2168419 Link 0 |
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Fair play to you gotmilk thrilled for Fermanagh, and I genuinely mean that.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 26/02/2019 16:10:55 2168427 Link 0 |
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Gotmilk I actually tipped Fermanagh to be relegated. What would I know? It would be great to see them in Division One.
OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 26/02/2019 16:31:00 2168439 Link 0 |
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Fair play to them, playing to their strengths, but do we really want to see them in div1? Their style is awful and theyd drag the decent teams down to a level we were all giving out about before. lilypad (Kildare) - Posts: 1363 - 26/02/2019 16:44:50 2168446 Link 6 |
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If they get to Division One they got there on merit. They are only one of four counties still undefeated in the league along with Kerry, Derry and Leitrim. They have the smallest amount of clubs of any county to pick from so fair paly to them.
OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 26/02/2019 17:05:36 2168451 Link 0 |
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Read my post carefully.....particularly the bit that said "The above are all players involved in the Donegal senior panel in the last 12 months, and most of whom are expected to be featuring come Championship as either starters or subs". Now as of January 2019, - Anthony Thompson has not taken himself off the panel, I thought he had in January, but was recently informed otherwise and apparently he may return by end of league. - Paul "Papa" Durcan is currently back training with the Senior panel. - Darrach O'Connor has not been dropped, and is expected to return to the squad before Championship. - Mark McHugh has opted out, but was part of the squad last summer (See my quote above). I don't know which part of Fermanagh you learned to read in, but you must have missed a lot of the Newspaper articles in recent years where Kerry management were talking about the rebuilding process and attributed poor starts in the opening rounds of the National League to missing key players due to Club Championship. You're general knowledge appears to be selective Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1106 - 26/02/2019 17:11:11 2168454 Link 0 |
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Seriously give over. Kildare were completely outplayed in Brewster. Was it 22 or 28 shots Fermanagh had that day? What's your issue with Fermanagh football? Is it that we don't give teams loads of space? If we could actually take the chances we create we would be averaging about 16/17 points a game. The only problem we have at the minute is we aren't clinical enough in front of goal.
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 26/02/2019 17:14:41 2168458 Link 1 |
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Well said. Every county is missing players. But it's who is playing that counts not who is not. Our lads that came in have done ok so far. Nothing has been achieved yet. Still all to play for , for every county."]Yes, every county is normally missing a few players at different stages of league and Championship every season, but I think the number of influential players Donegal are currently missing is really exceeds the norm this season. We are currently missing key Influential players, those players that really make a team tick. Those young players who featured last year and did well, had the experienced players around them steadying the ship as they found their feet in the team. This year has seen most of last years new players become the seasoned veterans, and yet we are shocked that they aren't seeing out games? I'm confident we will see things change in the coming weeks, might surprise a few on Saturday night against Armagh. Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1106 - 26/02/2019 17:23:39 2168459 Link 1 |
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Well said. Every county is missing players. But it's who is playing that counts not who is not. Our lads that came in have done ok so far. Nothing has been achieved yet. Still all to play for , for every county."]Yes, every county is normally missing a few players at different stages of league and Championship every season, but I think the number of influential players Donegal are currently missing is really exceeds the norm this season. We are currently missing key Influential players, those players that really make a team tick. Those young players who featured last year and did well, had the experienced players around them steadying the ship as they found their feet in the team. This year has seen most of last years new players become the seasoned veterans, and yet we are shocked that they aren't seeing out games? I'm confident we will see things change in the coming weeks, might surprise a few on Saturday night against Armagh."]Totally agree with your post. We played the young lads last year in the early rounds of the league too but the diff then was that we had paddy kicking an average of 8 points a game. These young lads need murphy and co back, hopefully starting on Saturday night.. Saturday's team selection will be interesting. rorysboys (Donegal) - Posts: 2392 - 26/02/2019 17:42:00 2168463 Link 0 |
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Totally agree with your post. We played the young lads last year in the early rounds of the league too but the diff then was that we had paddy kicking an average of 8 points a game. These young lads need murphy and co back, hopefully starting on Saturday night.. Saturday's team selection will be interesting. Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1106 - 26/02/2019 18:39:43 2168474 Link 0 |
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Embarrassed for you for this comment .. dragging teams down are you for real ???? The great teams will open us up and out score us .. teams without a plan will appear clueless and frustrated and score 6 or so points before going home with tail between legs tut tutting about our style all the way... if we actually figure out how to put the ball over the bar and convert chances then teams should be seriously worried as that has been the only thing preventing us from romping home the last few matches .. and from the second half in Letterkenny it appears we have found out scoring boots As for Donegal posters lamenting their top scorers from last year being injured... we are without Seamie who scored 75% of all our scores in 2018 .. but as Rory put it we focus on the men that take the field .. I advise DL does the same. Ferm favs for Div 1 I say ! KeshGFC (Fermanagh) - Posts: 334 - 26/02/2019 20:02:01 2168492 Link 1 |
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Not much good to yous when he goes awol before Monaghan game last year. rorysboys (Donegal) - Posts: 2392 - 26/02/2019 20:59:43 2168506 Link 0 |
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I don't begrudge a team who punch above their weight, play to a game plan and follow it up with results, and your analogy of Kildare coming without a plan, appearing clueless and not scoring is spot on. However, it's not good football to watch. Do we want to see it in division one? I can't imagine anyone from Fermanagh gives a hoot what anyone else want to see to be honest. Good on ye and keep playing to your strengths.
Sweetspot (Kildare) - Posts: 323 - 26/02/2019 21:08:48 2168510 Link 2 |
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Embarrassed? Get over your snowflake self. At least im honest no patronising pats on the back from me, we were awful against you up there, ive no problem admitting that, but id rather watch us than yous and from a neutral point of view id say if peiple were honest enough theyd agree.
lilypad (Kildare) - Posts: 1363 - 26/02/2019 22:12:29 2168523 Link 8 |
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I'd agree with that, Kildare are generally excellent to watch.
Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1106 - 26/02/2019 23:12:36 2168534 Link 6 |
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To be fair I'm embarrassed for you.
The_Fridge (Tyrone) - Posts: 2088 - 26/02/2019 23:17:12 2168537 Link 1 |
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Sorry to hear that but dont worry youll get over it.
lilypad (Kildare) - Posts: 1363 - 26/02/2019 23:24:54 2168538 Link 4 |
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Wouldn't have been hard for one player to get 75% of your scores last year, such a low scoring record anyway.. no harm, but Rory Gallagher is setting you guys up for a fall the way he did 3 years in a row in Donegal, flat out during the league and then totally off the pace by July, running sideways and utterly clueless. You deserved your win on Sunday and if Donegal aren't playing Fermanagh, you're a County I like to see doing well. How you can look past the amount of senior players we have either injured or rested and kid yourself on that it doesn't matter is a rare one! Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1319 - 26/02/2019 23:45:43 2168544 Link 0 |
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Congrats to all the Fermanagh supporters here on a very well deserved win at the weekend. In truth it should have been more were it not for some wayward shooting. From a Donegal perspective it was a repeat of the Tipp game. Playing some reasonable stuff in the first half before been absolute garbage in the 2nd. Of course the red card did have a baring but no excuse for another 2nd half of flat unimaginative predictable play. Countless times players running at pace off the shoulder receiving the ball to ultimately put the breaks on and turn back with a hand pass. It took 30 mins in the 2nd half for a foot pass to be played inside. Huge game Saturday night. in which the Donegal starting team will make interesting reading as alluded to already. I imagine some reinforcements will be called upon. The championship is what it is all about however even with players missing I am now a little concerned with how Donegal are going. panamasam (Australia) - Posts: 2779 - 27/02/2019 00:36:25 2168550 Link 0 |
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What I seen of Kildare of Brewster was nothing to special.
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 27/02/2019 09:01:02 2168578 Link 0 |