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Replying To eddieSize5Balls: "Our goal chances were half chances. Each one was the ring option. Daire and Aaron should have passed for their chances. Last week was the same. I just find it worrying to have back to back poor performances. Armagh will be tough. Why the fuck is it on a Saturday night?" 2 of our goal chances were 1 on 1 with the keeper and not half chances. Winning the matches is all that counts. You get nothing extra winning by 10 or more points? Scenicparish (Donegal) - Posts: 465 - 27/04/2025 21:13:52 2604776 Link
I'd say mcGuinness is just happy to get through that today. It's not easy to get to the level they need to be at with the week break and they didn't get to it all and still managed a fairly comfortable win. If down had a little bit more of a forward threat then they could have got really close. There was sloppy give aways going forward and some generally quite frustrating play and it just won't do against Armagh. Murphy was kind of cranky enough and probably was right to take him off. They took gallen off and mcbrearty and they struggled near the end to penetrate without them. Interesting that gallen did reference his injury and that he's good now. Hopefully it's just a matter of match fitness now. The down keeper made some fine saves against femanagh as well. He gets out and spreads himself well. In the circumstances I think obaoil might have been better taking the point to keep the scoreboard ticking. They hadn't scored for a while when that chance came up. Over all MC gee might still be off it a little but he's getting there. It was a lovely kick pass for the Doherty goal chance. It's a Saturday i think to facilitate a double header of the men and the women. I guess demand will be great and expect a huge Armagh crowd there. Ulsterchamps_32 (Donegal) - Posts: 800 - 27/04/2025 21:27:40 2604782 Link
Replying To eddieSize5Balls: "Our goal chances were half chances. Each one was the ring option. Daire and Aaron should have passed for their chances. Last week was the same. I just find it worrying to have back to back poor performances. Armagh will be tough. Why the fuck is it on a Saturday night?" In what world are they half chances, and you're saying Down had clear ones but ours weren't because the wrong option was taken (in your view)? Sure aren't Down's only half chances by that notion, your man had Pat Havern waiting for the pass to score into an open net, but he took the "wrong option" and his shot was saved, so was that a half chance? Nonsense Conor O'Donnell should have had a goal first kick of the second half. Daire and Doherty both clean through and the keeper saves. Clear cut goal chances missed. Plenty to work on and Armagh will be favourites, but you're going OTT on today CCFabu (Donegal) - Posts: 155 - 27/04/2025 22:52:41 2604819 Link
Replying To Scenicparish: "2 of our goal chances were 1 on 1 with the keeper and not half chances. Winning the matches is all that counts. You get nothing extra winning by 10 or more points?" And the player took the wrong option. Shooting when the keeper is basically on top of them instead of working an angle or taking an easy point or a pass. eddieSize5Balls (Donegal) - Posts: 123 - 28/04/2025 00:06:49 2604841 Link
Replying To Scenicparish: "Scoreline flattered us? Are you for real? We were in second gear for most of the match and reacted to Down's scores whenever we needed to. The goals will come when they are needed. Jim has to manage the team and substitutes were made at the correct time today. The bonus today is no more injuries. Roll on 2 weeks time." Second gear in a big game is not a good idea. We were in second gear the entire second half last weekend too. Im hope I'm wrong and our best performance of the year is in two weeks time all the same! eddieSize5Balls (Donegal) - Posts: 123 - 28/04/2025 00:09:00 2604843 Link
It was a strange kind of game yesterday I thought. Down were obviously sent out to take the sting out of the game and try to frustrate us. It worked to an extent for the first 15 minutes or so. But I always felt that when Donegal upped the ante then Down would struggle to contain us. We then found ourselves six or seven points up without ever having looked all that wild impressive in doing so. After that it was about containment, and just keeping things ticking over. Yes Down did get in behind us a few times, and it could have been interesting if they hadn't snatched at a couple of goal chances. But at no stage did I ever feel that we were seriously in trouble. I reckon if we were so inclined, we could have put the foot down and beaten them by 10 plus points. But there are no medals handed out for hammering a Division 3 team in a semi-final. Two weeks time will obviously be a massive step up. I reckon we'll need a full deck, or as close to it as possible. Armagh seem to have a bee in their bonnet about winning Ulster. We all know how highly Jim regards an Ulster medal. Another ding-dong battle awaits. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9734 - 28/04/2025 09:31:57 2604882 Link
Replying To eunans4ever: "Absolutely brilliant again today - kicking , good under high ball , unreal 1 on 1 save and kicking a 45. We are lucky to have him and thankfully big ginger and Maxi got him involved in gaa again way back in 2014….. Blessed to have him at club and county." Everyone knows who got patton back playing gaa. And it's nobody from St eunans. Patton is donegals most important player. Alot of comment about the game yesterday. We were poor no sugar coating it . People on about playing in second gear. Rubbish Hopefully it's only a blib but there are a few worrying signs. Maybe it's a good thing to dampen the talk of being all Ireland favourites. One thing I know is that we're still too open in defence. Can we win ulster of course we can . Hopefully yesterday was one of them days rorysboys (Donegal) - Posts: 2607 - 28/04/2025 10:57:29 2604912 Link
Ah lad, yes we were sloppy yesterday, and I agree with you completely that we need to tighten up and lift things considerably. But there was no way that Donegal team was at full tilt yesterday. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9734 - 28/04/2025 11:26:42 2604931 Link
Replying To eddieSize5Balls: "Scoreline flattered us. Very poor performance over all. Gallen poor again. Patton the reason we didn't throw it away. Our lack of goals is going to kill us in my opinion." No idea what game you were watching Gallen was far from poor, movement excellent and created scores and also 2 goal chances. It was notable that the team lost shape when him and Murphy went off. dgcrusader (Donegal) - Posts: 80 - 28/04/2025 11:46:05 2604943 Link
On Gallen I just think he needs to get the fire back in the belly a wee bit. There was a chance in the second half yesterday where he turned down a shot opportunity and laid it off, whereas last year he would have just lamped it over the bar without even thinking. I'm hopeful a couple of good early scores against Armagh in a big match will get the juices flowing for him again. He's too good not to make a return to form soon. Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9734 - 28/04/2025 12:10:01 2604955 Link