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In less than 24 hours I've gone from extremely downbeat and disappointed to have lost our grasp on the Anglo celt to being upbeat, positive and raring to go for the qualifier draw next week. Sentimentality aside, this is 100% the best outcome if we're serious about giving the all ireland a good rattle. Tough ulsters did not serve us well in the previous couple of years when the final stages arrived. I'm confident the players will be ready to step it up in the next round and if we have to head to Killarney or Cork, so be it. Making a provincial final gives home advantage surely but im not sure that's even a massive advantage to us this year anyway given that our fortress is unavailable. Delighted to hear Langan should return fairly soon. And of course, massive congratulations to Down who were well worth their win after an excellent and meticulously planned performance. I hope they can repeat it next week. Oh and someone mentioned 2013... totally different kettle of fish there. They might have been burnt out and hungover from the AI win but there were other matters internal to the county going on then with club fixtures and what not. WeGoAgain (Donegal) - Posts: 165 - 27/04/2026 15:45:45 2669289 Link 0 |
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One this season is fairly flying for the Monaghan seniors!!
NORTHMEN (Donegal) - Posts: 35 - 27/04/2026 15:57:47 2669291 Link 0 |
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Best of luck to your underage teams, genuinely mean that. The 20s should have enough for tyrone if tyrone don't find anotger way to grind it out. But saying monaghan seniors are flying is a bit of a stretch surely!!!
WeGoAgain (Donegal) - Posts: 165 - 27/04/2026 16:20:24 2669297 Link 0 |
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Donegal will be fine this season. Said it weeks ago after seeing ye in league final. Ye couldn't repeat that intensity every match had to be a lull ye have got your lull and as a result play two less matches so should be fresh come all ireland first round. Id be suprised if donegal are not there or thereabouts winning whole thing by end of season. seanie08 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1978 - 27/04/2026 16:28:10 2669303 Link 0 |
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Langan is the key. If he is gone, I genuinely think our chance at Sam goes without him at full tilt. shaggykev (Donegal) - Posts: 427 - 27/04/2026 18:43:28 2669340 Link 0 |
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Fair play for the positivity. Was listening back to the Donegal gaa podcast and rightly or wrongly martin mchugh was immediately jumping to a positive view about using it as an opportunity to target the all ireland. Eamon mcgee was the same on otb and he's been pretty consistent in this view for a good while. He did acknowledge there is no way in earth mcGuinness wouldn't target Ulster as he puts such a value in it. Personally it will be disappointing not to walking up the hill at clones and experiencing the complete joy in winning Ulster. Regardless though you have to see the positives and go with it. The draw will obviously be a major factor in things. We will be away after that and up to the quarters it looks like a toss for home advantage so we could be back in letterkenny yet...... In relation to down I guess they will just about know if they need to beat armagh to get into the race for sam before throw in but I hope they can get to the same levels again and get through to the final. Ulsterchamps_32 (Donegal) - Posts: 1001 - 27/04/2026 18:44:31 2669341 Link 1 |
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Whats your take on a potential Monaghan ambush of Derry? A few people today at work were chatting about an Armagh v Derry Ulster final, and I said it could be a Down vs Monaghan final, but was met with silence and blank looks. Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1787 - 27/04/2026 20:44:54 2669356 Link 1 |
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No disrespect intended to Down here (It was great to see them win), but does anyone think that Jim engineered this loss? Donegal have their Ulster medals and Jim Mc Guinness knows it's almost impossible to peak 3 times in the one year. Donegal put a effort into winning the league and the last thing they need is a hard Ulster campaign unlike Kerry who can basically be at 60% in Munster and still be in the final. foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2504 - 27/04/2026 21:10:50 2669362 Link 0 |
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Fair play for keeping an eye on everyone's jerseys, the hungry eye sees far!
Expertinall (UK) - Posts: 29 - 27/04/2026 23:07:58 2669398 Link 0 |
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I admire your optimism. A championship game away in Tralee would be class but I'd be fairly worried. For me, an ideal first game of these two would be against a Westmeath, Kildare, Dublin or Louth. I know everyone loves Louth but we have battered them 2 years in a row. We do owe Cork one as well. Derry would be tough but winnable. Armagh would be very very tricky away from home. I wonder will Jim have the boys play a challenge match with a county that's in the same boat as us? 4 weeks is a long wait. eddieSize5Balls (Donegal) - Posts: 344 - 28/04/2026 03:46:11 2669404 Link 0 |
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Ah yes blame kerry sometimes thst doesnt help kerry anyway cork test kwrry this year . Not their fault the redt are so behind. Excuses blaming kerry etc to say was engineered doubt that yes ye came back but doubt engineered. Anyway no guarantee ye get back either by the way ye will be there but not 100 percent guaranteed.
Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 1285 - 28/04/2026 09:15:33 2669419 Link 0 |
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this is only the second defeat as a manager Jim has in the ulster championship. Ulster medals are hard to come by and his record shows what that he loves this championship, so no way did he throw the game. Donegal where beaten by a better team on the day. Kerry can only beat what is put infront of them, yes they get 1 competitive game in Munster a year, this is the fault of the other teams. Limerick/Clare/Tipp/Waterford are clearly hurling counties . Cork/Galway/Dublin are probably the only true duel county's. Although I do hope you are right and Jim's boys lift Sam this year ;-) ulsterrules (Donegal) - Posts: 275 - 28/04/2026 09:29:39 2669426 Link 1 |
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Eddie we probably could end up meeting roscommon again.
Tyrion (Donegal) - Posts: 175 - 28/04/2026 10:30:02 2669446 Link 0 |