Donegal GAA Discussion Thread

Steve The Barman

Alvin Holler wrote: »

Pretty certain it is. So all the group winners will be looking to avoid Eunans.

Hard to see past Eunans, Naomh Conaill or Kilcar. Fair play to Malin and Termon, they always seem to over-perform come the championship.

Some big names in the relegation battle - Killybegs, Four Masters and Ardara but Glenfin will probably be relegated.

teams can't draw the teams they have played in the group stage with so Glenties can't draw Termon and Kilcar can't draw Eunans etc

Ceist_Beag

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Gweedore out and Cassidy has called it a day as far as I can see.

Something far wrong when the group of players Gaoth Dobhair currently have perform so poorly. And whatever about Cass in the media, he will be a big loss to the club as he still is a great role model for the younger lads there.

Redsoxfan

Boom!

Naomh Conaill v St Eunans

And then

Glenswilly v MacCumhaills
Malin v Dungloe
Kilcar v Termon

Nidgeweasel

That is a lovely draw.

Interesting as the wee man would say.

Redsoxfan

Nidgeweasel wrote:

That is a lovely draw.

Lovely for Glenswilly, Kilcar and Malin/Dungloe...

Nidgeweasel

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Lovely for Glenswilly, Kilcar and Malin/Dungloe...

Ha. It's a good draw in general I think.

I think it's far more open than it looks and even the relegation draw is a humdinger.

Nothing much in the intermediate. Glen v St Nauls probably the pick of the bunch.

doc_17

Does anyone else think Cassidy had that tweet in the can? Lot of pictures from a large timespan to have at his disposal an hour or so after the game.

Redsoxfan

Nidgeweasel wrote:

Ha. It's a good draw in general I think.

Nidgeweasel wrote:

I think it's far more open than it looks and even the relegation draw is a humdinger.

Well, I guess any one of yourselves, Kilcar, St Eunans and Glenswilly (now that Neil Gallagher is back and Michael Murphy has recovered so quickly) will fancy their chances.

As for the others, Malin/Dungloe won't have done much to get to a semi final.

Redsoxfan

doc_17 wrote:

Does anyone else think Cassidy had that tweet in the can? Lot of pictures from a large timespan to have at his disposal an hour or so after the game.

Twitter on the ****ter?

Nidgeweasel

More shítetalk from Cassidy.

No bitterness though, has moved on. Never mentions it.... Clouster.

K-9

Paddy McGrath and both Eoin and Ryan McHugh got Ulster All Star awards, I'd expect to see all 3 nominated for the All Stars, McBrearty as well.

Did Ryan get Young player of the year in 2014?

downthemiddle

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

More shítetalk from Cassidy.

No bitterness though, has moved on. Never mentions it.... Clouster.

The man who headed to America for years, including the year he was manager, accuses his team mates of having no commitment.

doc_17

And bringing half the team with him when he went. Leads to resentment when they all land back and take other people's places who were available all summer. He doesn't seem to see that though.

Ceist_Beag

No doubt Cass has no defence to the points made. He is in no position to criticise others given how he himself behaved in the past (and as Nidge said, he's clueless about letting the Jim story go). All that said, he does have a point in what he is saying but it seems nobody else at the club is prepared to stand up and say it. There is clearly something wrong at the club. I don't know the ins and outs of it but I don't for a second think that Cass is the only one with concerns and if nobody else is prepared to speak out then I don't blame him for doing so. Any club with the number of county players Gaoth Dobhair have (at minor, u21 and senior level) should be performing much better than they are.

doc_17

Wonder if Cassidy still supports Celtic!!

downthemiddle

Apparently Rory wants a four year term.


http://hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=260904


I wouldn't mind a four year term as manager of Barcelona.

Nidgeweasel

7 years of that clown.

Holy Jesus.

henke

Probably get it too with players publicly backing him.

jjdonegal

I gave him the season last year; defended him on here as I was prepared to reflect when over. At the end my patience is more or less up as I can see no plan. We have much less discipline in the tackle and we seem to have zero attacking strategy at times. Threw away Tyrone and the negativity against Dublin when chasing the game annoyed me. The whole Leo situation bizarre too. Players seem to like him so maybe they see something that I have now given up on finding. He is overseeing a transition and we are not a squad capable of an AIrl and nor have we been since Jim left but we are certainly capable of winning Ulster and we lost 2 bad finals. County Board delighted to have a Yes man so he will get the extension too.

I'll keep coming back to the one question if he does go - who next?

Nidgeweasel

jjdonegal wrote: »

I gave him the season last year; defended him on here as I was prepared to reflect when over. At the end my patience is more or less up as I can see no plan. We have much less discipline in the tackle and we seem to have zero attacking strategy at times. Threw away Tyrone and the negativity against Dublin when chasing the game annoyed me. The whole Leo situation bizarre too. Players seem to like him so maybe they see something that I have now given up on finding. He is overseeing a transition and we are not a squad capable of an AIrl and nor have we been since Jim left but we are certainly capable of winning Ulster and we lost 2 bad finals. County Board delighted to have a Yes man so he will get the extension too.

I'll keep coming back to the one question if he does go - who next?

John Joe + the Hegartys.

:cool:

Alvin Holler

It's seems odd. I understand we are going through a transition but what worth is a four year deal anyway? If results are crap you won't last that long anyway.

I've backed rory as the players seem to like him and results have been decent. So many counties struggle to get their best 15 out but bar Durcan and possibly Brick we have that. The use of substitutions probably cost us an ulster title but the only alternative is Declan as far as I can see.

I don't see that as an improvement.

Nidgeweasel

Alvin Holler wrote: »

It's seems odd. I understand we are going through a transition but what worth is a four year deal anyway? If results are crap you won't last that long anyway.

I've backed rory as the players seem to like him and results have been decent. So many counties struggle to get their best 15 out but bar Durcan and possibly Brick we have that. The use of substitutions probably cost us an ulster title but the only alternative is Declan as far as I can see.

I don't see that as an improvement.

2 x Ulster championships
Not to mention the 21's.

If the future of our county is in the hands of Rory Gallagher and Maxi Curran I would be very worried.

Murphy14

Can't believe RG would demand a 4 year term the county board should make some demands of him like a few new faces in the back room team preferably from the county, bring in more of our promising under 21 players rather than have them playing in America for the summer (Mc Menamin & Mc Clenaghan). And finally we need to win Ulster yes we are in transition but we have the most talented group of players this is a once in a lifetime era

Nidgeweasel

And just for the record the last 4 years now read

L3 W1 in Ulster finals.

Our u-21 record turns my stomach.

We're on a bad losing streak and it needs sorting out. Again, if you think Rory and Maxi are the men then I'm all ears as to why.

And just cause Declan is the only apparent internal candidate shouldn't stop us. There are external candidates we've got some damn good footballers who would be a dream to work with. Let's not sell ourselves short.

logie110

Another 4 years of these tactics would depress me. Found it hard to watch the last day against Dublin in croke park.

Nobody interested in James horan?

PressRun

logie110 wrote: »

Nobody interested in James horan?

Not sure if Horan is interested in managing at the moment. He has a pretty busy job, as far as I know, and a young family.

jdbarry

PressRun wrote:

Not sure if Horan is interested in managing at the moment. He has a pretty busy job, as far as I know, and a young family.

Saw a quote from him at the weekend that he would find it difficult to manage anyone but Mayo. He was being half linked with the Roscommon job but ruled himself out.

babybuilder

henke wrote: »

Probably get it too with players publicly backing him.

Easy for the players to back him if there are guaranteed a starting place every time.

Nidgeweasel

Clubs to decide on Monday whether Vomit gets the 4 years he is after.

downthemiddle

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

Clubs to decide on Monday whether Vomit gets the 4 years he is after.

Bye bye Rory