2023 Club Championships

Did Deano start?

No. Came on around the 20min mark

Good standard here

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He’s just kicked some score

Right game now after those substitutions. Some great scores on both sides.

All square with 5 mins left.

Inter county standard here in Parnell park. The Ballymun lads must have been on the zeros in Marbella

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An awful goal to decide the game.

Rumours of Ballymuns demise have been exaggerated. @peddlerscross was right to put them in the power rankings.

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Paddy Small’s hammer gone. That may well be that for his year even though they played well without him.

Utterly mental kickout from Comerford cost them the game.

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Watched the second-half of that after training. Ballyboden were flattered by the 5 point winning margin in the end. Thought the Ballymun supporting cast did well. Evan Comerford made a couple of point-blank saves but his kick-out at the end left a lot to be desired. He’d placed John Small under serious pressure with a similar quick one a few minutes earlier. I had a chuckle when MDMA slalomed through the Ballymun defence only for his handpass to hang in the air for an eternity and drop short.

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Balinteer and Templeogue are the other teams in the group according to the commentator so you’d still fancy them to progress in 2nd place.

Same here. It was a wake effort.

You wouldnt know.

If Deano goes on honeymoon and Small out, their forwards are weak enough.

Elsewhere Watty Graham’s Glen stamped their authority all over this years Race for Andy Merrigan with a comprehensive 1-15 to 0-09 win over @glenshane crowd.

All done without Hercules who’s sunning himself in Santorini this week and no sign of fellow Derry panelists McFaul, Ethan Doherty or Conleith McGuckin. Looks a policy decision to give them a rest after Gallagher’s antics at the start of the year.

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If Cluxton ever goes on another career break for the Dubs it has to be Hanlon next in line

Hasn’t the Derry championship some format where no team gets knocked out first round? Great management so.

No its 2x Groups of 7 woth Top 4 in each making Quarter Finals. A bit ridiculous.

Absolutely no chance Glen weren’t going to make it out of the Group.

Comerford is a shitheap

What a boring format. County’s do not help themselves at times

Ballinteer are no gimme - they’ve a few decent underage teams coming through. Apart from the kick at the end i thought comerford was decent. His backs weren’t exactly bursting their bollox to show for the ball and Boden had a massive lad in midfield alongside MDMA to do battle there

It’s a major improvement on what they had which was a group where every team qualified. Now it’s the bottom 2 in each group into a relegation playoff, 5th finished for the year and the top 4 through to straight knockout. Each club get 3 home championship games in this format to allow local scores get settled/some enthusiasm be built up.

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