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Replying To rorysboys:  "People are very hard on Ryan. I thought he was good on Sunday . You say he wasn't tracked I don't agree . Ryan is always targeted. You say play him wing forward but sure your going to be up a dangerous attacking wing back then. I feel he needs to have a sort of a roaming role. People will say now I'm disagreeing because you have an opinion. I'm not your a very fair poster. But it's just my opinion."
I understand, look to be clear I have huge respect for Ryan McHugh, the years of commitment he has already given Donegal is amazing for a still relatively young player. I don't propose dropping him from the Donegal team, I think he still has a significant role to play for the next few years, I just don't think we should be using him at wing back considering the way the game has changed.

I am not opposed to using him in a roaming role, but which position on the field do you sacrifice a player to enable this?

Personally I think wing-forward is probably most suitable, as he can cause mayhem when he gets in close to goal and can take points and draw fouls/frees. I just noticed time after time when he plays from deep that opposition are able to counter is so easily, as its predictable now.

We should use him and Peadar Mogan etc in a rotation system, make us less predictable in some respects.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1332 - 25/03/2022 13:47:29    2407032

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Replying To thelowball:  "@rory, Took wee time out just to watch from afar to see how ur boy Bonner would make out. Donegal played one decent half in the last 3 or4 games, way below expectation for the talent at his disposal. Murphy still carrying the load despite posters putting other players above him in the( whose Donegals best player category). Rory, diehard Bonner fan that u are, u are counting down! Wii that championship game with Armagh see him gone. Very tired of his rhetoric and excuses after games. By the way seeing u never miss a game, maybe u could send ur private jet stateside and and give us a spin!"
Wasnt long for you to like your post. How many user names have you anyway. Sad really.

rorysboys (Donegal) - Posts: 2609 - 25/03/2022 14:02:15    2407035

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Replying To JoeSoap:  "I agree there are huge expectations with him, he gets a rotten time from opposition a lot no doubt. But I did think he was in a poor run of form for the last while. I thought he was much better against Dublin though from where I was sitting I couldn't figure out who the Dubs had on him. Hopefully he keeps improving and gets back to what we know he can do"
Yeah I was the same, Dublin didn't seem to have any one player marking him for the full game, not sure if that is because of their system or if they were just chopping and changing during the game.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1332 - 25/03/2022 14:04:22    2407036

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@ Rory, It's simple. One Name, one game, how bout u Mr Donegal. Hope u and Bonner had nice time in Croke Park. Dunno, same old!

thelowball (USA) - Posts: 400 - 25/03/2022 14:43:43    2407050

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Replying To JoeSoap:  "My father always used to say that we ran into two of the best teams in Ireland in the 60s and that delayed our first Ulster for a long time. We were only beaten by either Down or Cavan in the 60s if my memory serves me, and I'm nearly sure that the three of us were the only counties to contest an Ulster senior final as well in that decade - though I may be wrong on that.

For a sports mad county it is strange that it took us so long to break through nationally"
I've heard that before about the 60s team.

Donegal won three if the first Ulster under 21 championships in the 60s and then dropped off to the 80s and their all Ireland successes. Them 2 teams ultimately were key contributors of 1992.
The first minor Ulster was 1956. Mick McGinley (Paul the golfers father) was on that team.

I think football was slow to take hold because when the gaa coded their own version of football soccer was strong in Donegal and the teams wouldn't change over to Gaelic football. In 1972 were there still any Gaelic teams in inishowen? In that regard it's great to see players like Ryan Bradley winning an all Ireland or caolan mcgonagle and Conor O'Donnell pushing through.

Ulsterchamps_32 (Donegal) - Posts: 802 - 25/03/2022 15:19:35    2407066

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Replying To Ulsterchamps_32:  "I've heard that before about the 60s team.

Donegal won three if the first Ulster under 21 championships in the 60s and then dropped off to the 80s and their all Ireland successes. Them 2 teams ultimately were key contributors of 1992.
The first minor Ulster was 1956. Mick McGinley (Paul the golfers father) was on that team.

I think football was slow to take hold because when the gaa coded their own version of football soccer was strong in Donegal and the teams wouldn't change over to Gaelic football. In 1972 were there still any Gaelic teams in inishowen? In that regard it's great to see players like Ryan Bradley winning an all Ireland or caolan mcgonagle and Conor O'Donnell pushing through."
The soccer thing is true. Gweedore weren't founded until 1933 and before there was another club but locals also played with Dungloe. Even today there are 3 soccer clubs to one GAA club in the area. Inishowen still had GAA clubs but there were always more hurling than football in the early days. Burt were still going in the 70s. And another club named Naomh Mura in the same parish.

Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 746 - 25/03/2022 19:20:58    2407101

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Replying To Rolo2010:  "The soccer thing is true. Gweedore weren't founded until 1933 and before there was another club but locals also played with Dungloe. Even today there are 3 soccer clubs to one GAA club in the area. Inishowen still had GAA clubs but there were always more hurling than football in the early days. Burt were still going in the 70s. And another club named Naomh Mura in the same parish."
Is there a particular recommended book or a number of books on the history of GAA Clubs in Donegal?

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1332 - 26/03/2022 11:34:18    2407147

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Replying To Commodore:  "Is there a particular recommended book or a number of books on the history of GAA Clubs in Donegal?"
I think there's a book by some priest but I found out about Naomh Mura from Donegal GAA website. They had a list of results from finals back in the 70s and 80s.

Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 746 - 26/03/2022 16:01:44    2407206

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Replying To Rolo2010:  "I think there's a book by some priest but I found out about Naomh Mura from Donegal GAA website. They had a list of results from finals back in the 70s and 80s."
How can you post over 500 times about Donegal GAA and not know about Fr Seán Ó Gallchóir, he is the renowned GAA statistician in the county. His last book is over 300 pages. He is the man who stops lads spuffing at the high stool with "I played for Donegal", if you did it is in his book.

Ulsterchamps72 (Donegal) - Posts: 103 - 26/03/2022 16:47:27    2407215

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Replying To Ulsterchamps72:  "How can you post over 500 times about Donegal GAA and not know about Fr Seán Ó Gallchóir, he is the renowned GAA statistician in the county. His last book is over 300 pages. He is the man who stops lads spuffing at the high stool with "I played for Donegal", if you did it is in his book."
I just forget his name. Don't have a heart attack. And I said I got the information from county website.

Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 746 - 26/03/2022 17:51:08    2407226

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What kicked off the fight at the end ?

ulsterrules (Donegal) - Posts: 259 - 27/03/2022 15:55:06    2407347

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Replying To ulsterrules:  "What kicked off the fight at the end ?"
Probably Bonner seeing he gets blamed for everything else.

rorysboys (Donegal) - Posts: 2609 - 27/03/2022 17:20:08    2407401

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Armagh no.3

letterkennyGuy (Donegal) - Posts: 168 - 27/03/2022 17:43:46    2407416

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I suppose firstly well done to Donegal. The game was gone at the end and they pulled out a win.

Armagh certainly set themselves up not to go at full throttle given the players they didn't start. Donegal were the better team and deserved their lead coming up to half time. Patton has to really catch that ball that led to the goal or at the very least a punch to the wing. A punch down the middle is too much of a lottery. Even though they got two points after it gave Armagh something to play for. Armagh pushed up hard on kickouts hard in the second half and did loads of damage. The wind was probably a little more of a factor than it looked. Pattons long kickouts were also very loopy and he'd a few careless ones in there as well.

The missed penalty was crucial as scoring would have killed Armagh off and all it did was give them more fuel to drive on and they started to really drive on.

The lack of score from half forward was also concerning. Conor O'Donnell did not play as well as other games. Shane O'Donnell also not as good though he did start well. Basically there has to be more of a scoring threat throughout the team. That's were I suppose that's were a fully fit langan, Thompson, Farrah and nod should help. It was good to see langan on the end and he did well for the point. Defenders going forward also have to be careful as they seem to be almost getting in the way at times.

Mogan covered some pile of ground today in fairness to him.

Armagh I guess will have to be favourites come the next match. When they started to go for it in the second half it was there for them and they have to feel Donegal are there to beat. It should also focus Donegal. They'll know there's a lot of work ahead.

It's not good to see the messing at the end. I don't know what happened. It never even looked like boiling over until it did.

Ulsterchamps_32 (Donegal) - Posts: 802 - 27/03/2022 17:49:16    2407422

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Replying To rorysboys:  "Probably Bonner seeing he gets blamed for everything else."
Very funny, but there are alot of people who blame him, But who else in the last 5 years could we have had there are no outstanding candidates that anyone could stand over. Apart from mcguinness who will never manage us again. I would love to be wrong.

ulsterrules (Donegal) - Posts: 259 - 27/03/2022 17:59:52    2407442

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Great to win by only a point. Will let Donegal know that Armagh are a serious outfit come championship.

In regards to Armagh, still a horrible shower of wannabe bullies. Every ulster game they are involved in there's always a ruckus. Not to mention the stamp on Murphy after his over head point. Will be a spicy affair when they meet in a few weeks.

fielder (Donegal) - Posts: 137 - 27/03/2022 19:37:51    2407512

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Not too bothered about Armagh come the championship - will be easily enough dispatched of.

McGo72 (Donegal) - Posts: 68 - 27/03/2022 19:54:21    2407524

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Good win for Donegal, sometimes we have bottled those tight moments in games so it's nice to do the business and also in Letterkenny where a win was well overdue. Hopefully that's that ghost exorcised once and for all now on that particular ground.

I'm sure Armagh felt that by holding back Grugan and O'Neill in particular from starting that they will Donegal a little from their championship plan of operation. With video analysis etc these days and how well Ulster teams know each other, I'm not certain there is much advantage to it unless Armagh have novel attacking plays up their sleeve for the game in Ballybofey.

I think with 4 weeks of high level training now and players to come back (and hopefully no more injuries in training) that we can handle whatever Armagh have to throw at us. It seems McGonagle is the main injury concern in terms of not getting back on time. We have a number of players who will need to get up to speed between now and then, the likes of Langan, Brennan and hopefully Gallen and Thompson too will be good to go.

I'm optimistic we can win in 4 weeks time. I think it's time for this particular group of Donegal players to deliver now on their excellent potential. We have brilliant firepower and I pray we go at teams this summer and ditch the lateral play. Today was more direct, let's see more of that. We have nothing to be afraid of and there is opportunity aplenty but we must be ruthless and clinical in how we go about our business.

Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1403 - 27/03/2022 21:10:15    2407563

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Replying To McGo72:  "Not too bothered about Armagh come the championship - will be easily enough dispatched of."
I think you are from Armagh so stop talking sh1te on the Donegal thread, great win today but we should have got over the line easier, the penalty would have put the game to bed, we need to practice taking penalties for sure, sets it up nicely for 4 weeks time. should be a real Ulster battle in MacCumhaill Park.
Well done to Declan and the boys securing div1 status for next season, now lets win Ulster.

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 3175 - 27/03/2022 21:14:04    2407565

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will there be any suspensions for either side for the handbags after the game.

jacktheboy (Donegal) - Posts: 475 - 27/03/2022 21:27:19    2407578

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