Better for Big Lynchy to sink the ship tonight than in Croke Park.
Derry will be fine.
Winning the league is a poisoned chalice in the era of the split season. Mayo looked great in the league final last year before falling on their holes a week later.
Ryan McHugh speaks very well.
Limerick will beat Clare out the gate tomorrow.
I don’t think so
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Winning the Division 2 League title is where it’s at.
Tough one for @glenshane to try and blame this one on the officials and HQ but I’m sure he’ll find a way
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I thought we got a couple of handy decisions tbh…not on the dublin/kerry scale though, obviously
Derry are the victims of the split season. You can’t be motoring too early in this new season.
I was bricking it watching lynch in the league final. And I’m not even from derry.
Christ I missed a statement of intent from Donegal by the looks of it. Looking forward to watching it back on the highlights. Jim McGuinness is something else. He has that mystique. Lads second guessing what he’ll come up with next. Not the end of world for Derry in this system. They’ll regroup. 3 in a row in Ulster is extremely difficult to achieve. Even McGuinness first iteration came unstuck in 2013 against Monaghan.
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We said it here weeks ago Derry would get broke up playing Donegal Tyrone and Armagh just to win an Ulster . They won’t give a fcuk about tonight
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Yeah very similar to Mayo last year. They’ll be happy enough to take the break before the Round Robin. It’s a cod of a system really where a defeat like that has no ramifications. In the past they’d be worried about drawing the likes of a Monaghan in Clones or even Westmeath away in the first round of the qualifiers.
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A team needs to play in a woefully naive way for them to use it though. Just as in 2014, a small bit of organisation would be enough to nullify a lot of what was tried this evening. A few of them Donegal lads likely to be shown up a bit short of the standard as the summer goes on.
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They are guaranteed to face a provincial winner in the round robin now, they would have wanted to avoid that.
Agree totally.
Derry weren’t beaten tonight by fitter, faster, stronger, technically better footballers. They were destroyed tactically which is easier to take and easier to rectify. That’ll teach em.
I wouldn’t trust Donegal to seal the deal in Ulster.
@Cheasty where in the Ulster Finals power rankings would a Donegal v Armagh Final rank?
1 win from 3 will more than likely be enough to secure a preliminary quarter-final place. Although Armagh were the only group winner who failed to win a quarter-final last year against a team coming off a quick turnaround.
If it’s the same as last year though you play last game of the round robin, preliminary AIQF and QF on 3 consecutive weeks - that’s not an ideal way to go chasing Sam.
I’d say they’ll all have a good laugh at Big Lynchy tonight over a few pints.
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