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Firstly congratulations to Eunans & Rory Kavanagh on a thoroughly deserved win. It was a very accomplished performance from his young team. Totally agree with you regarding Ward. I felt that he has been somewhat harshly treated in terms of championship minutes these past few years with the county. But Ward was superb at #3 today. It will be interesting to see if Bonner gives him a proper run in 2022. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9116 - 07/11/2021 20:06:05 2388671 Link 0 |
Club football is in a poor state in Donegal, very few teams play the game at pace and on the front foot. Fair at to eunans, they pushed up on the NC kick out and made hay, some talented young players and at at times when they moved the ball at pace they were awesome. Thought caolon ward was very good today pity burns and smithers don't rate him as a starter at county level. NC probably have the best squad in the county but play alot of their football at walking pace. What's also alarming is that I don't think too many new players have put up their hands for inclusion at intercounty level, obviously haven't been to all the games but on what I have seen I think that's where we're at.
totalrecall (Leitrim) - Posts: 912 - 07/11/2021 20:18:20 2388673 Link 0 |
What replay, game is over. And i am sure kilcar players dont want it. But i imagine thats just posters fishing for a response from NC supporters. Mcguinness did a silly thing, but he is not the first player and definitely wont be the last to get frustrated and get involved in a moment of madness. As i said previously, we go beat well and can have no complaints. But i am super proud of the NC club and players representing us on our 100 year anniversary. We might not be the number 1 team in the county anymore, and need to rebuild, as a lot of the older lads have given so much to NC and Donegal. But we will continue to compete and produce excellent players. Big shout out to the three odonnells who won today, all were excellent. There father is a glenties man and a gentleman and i am happy for them. The keeper (Donegal) - Posts: 687 - 07/11/2021 20:36:38 2388678 Link 1 |
Fair play to eunans, full value for the big win. As someone said, big difference in the keepers impact. St eunans went to town on the NC kickout and NC had no joy on patton. I have to say I found first 20 mins or so a very hard watch. It's just so low risk. I'm glad the goal went in to open it up or it could ended like the kikcar vs nc final of a few years ago. When you saw it was mcgeehin one on one you'd know he wouldn't miss. Ulsterchamps_32 (Donegal) - Posts: 688 - 07/11/2021 21:13:43 2388680 Link 1 |
Congrats to St Eunans on a surprisingly easy win. Like most posters I thought NC would win but given I hadn't seen St Eunans all year I restrained from giving a prediction. Saying that given their success recently at underage level winning a county senior title was inevitable. The game itself was poor which I'd say didn't surprise many myself included. The game kinda reminded me of the 2014 AI final in that most expected NC to win despite respecting the threat of St Eunans much like Donegal that day. St Eunans mirrored NC in their set up just like Kerry and a poor kick out had a huge baring on the final result. The resulting ball in couldn't have landed to a better man than McGeehin who buried it. He is a class act and one of the best natural forwards in Donegal. panamasam (Australia) - Posts: 2779 - 07/11/2021 21:15:46 2388681 Link 0 |
Big congratulations to St Eunans on their win yesterday. They got their tactics 100% right in not going into contact while Glenties tally of one score from ply must be some kind of record. MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 08/11/2021 08:32:10 2388701 Link 1 |
Congratulations to St Eunans on a deserved win yesterday. They cleaned Naomh Conaill out in midfield, brought more intensity and physicality that what NC seemed to expect. Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1106 - 08/11/2021 09:45:07 2388715 Link 0 |
Caolan Ward put in some performance yesterday. Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1057 - 08/11/2021 10:10:29 2388717 Link 0 |
Well done to the Letterkenny men. If NC lose to Kilcar now in the final for 2020 all 4 teams would have won a senior title since 2017 whoever wins this game will have 2 titles in 5 years. TheRock2121 (Donegal) - Posts: 1139 - 08/11/2021 10:39:31 2388723 Link 2 |
2017 - Kilcar 2018 - Gweedore 2019- Naomh conaill 2020 - Naomh conaill 2021 - Eunans 2022 is the next one to be decided, can only see Eunans getting stronger and can see this team lifting a few. Naomh conaill will lose a few players with age profile, but have a good underage setup, so will be there or thereabouts, maybe take a few years to won it again. Kilcar have gone backwards, over dependent on mcbreartys, mchughs and mccleans. And when there gone will struggle. Might be another championship in them, as one is a poor return with the players they have. But for the size of the pick, they are doing well to compete with Eunans, Naomh conaill and Gweedore. Gweedore were disappointing this year, and lost it on the sideline, no gameplan against NC. I think they need to do what eunans did a few years ago, get rid of the older lads and trust the younger players coming up. That was the first championship defeat for Naomh conaill in three year's which is some going. Won the league this year, and made the final of the championship. Lets hope Donegal can get the act together and roll on 2022 The keeper (Donegal) - Posts: 687 - 08/11/2021 11:45:48 2388741 Link 1 |
I think 2020 still has to be decided? Kilcar wouldn't have appealed if they didn't want the game replayed, the decision was to replay the match after the 2021 Championship was over, you have to play within the rules. I'd fancy Kilcar now to win the 2020 Championship, NC will be rocked by that display yesterday. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2739 - 08/11/2021 13:02:59 2388758 Link 3 |
I fear you are misinformed keeper. the process is with the Donegal County Board at the moment after Ulster knocked them back on a technicality. Kilcar are out of the picture but are not withdrawing, why should they? All they are asking for is a chance to play the game on the pitch fairly, and as for the Kilcar players not wanting to replay, I shouldn't think the Glenties players are hopping with enthusiasm either besides which the word from Glenties is that they will not replay under any circumstances. Not much incentive for Kilcar to withdraw there especially in view of what happened at full time after the semi final. A huge pity to see such bad blood between two great clubs who both do trojan work but it is what it is. MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 08/11/2021 13:17:34 2388761 Link 3 |
Naomh conaill only look forward, as we will do after sunday. We will look to bring in some young players from our great underage system. And look forward to watching our great club in 2022. Thats what big clubs do, rather than looking back, we look forward, and thats the reason we are competing at the level we have done for a number of years. Maybe other posters could learn from that, and then maybe you will understand why naomh conaill are such a great club with great community spirit. Roll on 2022, hopefully Donegal get the act together and start competing again. And looking forward to watching naomh conaill and some of the younn talent mixed in with the older lads The keeper (Donegal) - Posts: 687 - 08/11/2021 17:46:16 2388808 Link 0 |
Game is long over, and 2021 is done now. We in naomh conaill look forward and are looking forward to 2022 and introducing some fresh blood into our squad. There is still the guts of a good team there, with some new additions. It has been a great year for naomh conaill, league champions, got to final of championship and are celebrating our 100 year anniversary. Roll and 2022, as naomh conaill are going nowhere, and will come back stronger. The keeper (Donegal) - Posts: 687 - 08/11/2021 19:31:14 2388819 Link 0 |
Firstly, let me state that this isn't a pop at any club in particular - more an general observation of the club football played in Donegal. I also concede that teams play to win, especially in finals and don't necessarily care what neutrals or outsiders think. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9116 - 09/11/2021 09:50:03 2388851 Link 0 |
I really don't understand were this narrative of NC going into rebuild mode and that the game on Sunday is the end of the road. Sunday was our first loss since 2019 and our first loss in 26 games. We blew every team away in the league and have already played and won a championship in this calendar year. When we beat Kilcar we obviously celebrated and then it was clear that the subsequent games were not good up until Gweedore because we knew we had to pick the performance up again for Kilcar doing it for a fourth time in 3 months was just asking to much. naomh_conaill_4 (Donegal) - Posts: 481 - 09/11/2021 12:29:45 2388889 Link 2 |
I agree with that Lockjaw, there is no interest for a neutral to go and watch negative defensive football, thank God there aren't many sticking to that style anymore, I was glad to see the attacking football from St Eunans pay dividends in the 2nd half, that is what people want to see. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2739 - 09/11/2021 13:27:51 2388898 Link 0 |
In other news it looks like Jim is going to take up the reins in Down along with Laverty & Clarke. That's a very interesting and exciting managerial ticket. Just a shame we can't have Jim involved in our own setup, even if it was in a coaching capacity. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9116 - 09/11/2021 13:33:56 2388901 Link 0 |
Yeah balance is the key. Noone is advocating a gung-ho approach and throwing all defensive discipline & responsibility out the window. But this safety first, absolute fear of losing attitude has had a detrimental effect on the quality and entertainment of our club football in my opinion. I know outsiders will scoff and laugh given that a lot of these tactics can trace their origins to the developments that McGuinness brought to the game. But Jim evolved Donegal into a more attacking threat over time.
Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9116 - 09/11/2021 14:04:35 2388906 Link 0 |
I agree NC are going nowhere, but we do need to introduce new players. Eunans will get stronger after sunday and some of our older players look well off the pace sunday, i am only chatting about 2, 3 players. Yes they were good against gweedore and kilcar, but for me them teams were very poor on the day and added nothing. Eunans are the team we have to set our standards to now by the looks of sunday, young fit and good on the ball, and strong 1 to 15. I would still have the older lads around as they are a great example to any young footballers. As for mcguinness heading to down, well we got what we deserved, thats donegal gaa for you, politicians and secret handshakes. The keeper (Donegal) - Posts: 687 - 09/11/2021 15:05:34 2388917 Link 0 |