Tell those Derry lads the provincial championships are finished.
Clones looks a great venue
At a time like this, your thoughts turn to Eamon Coleman. By god, He’ll be enjoying this one
They didn’t even interview anyone else before this year’s chsmpionship.
I can’t see a Rory Gallagher managed team scoring enough to beat Kerry or Dublin.
Conan will be buzzing on Woolies podcast
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It’s a proper cauldron.
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With a savage smell of burgers and onions on big days. A proper venue.
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Nice interview with Brendan Rodger’s and Rory Gallagher on BBC
Terrible atmosphere there today was flat as a pancake until the end.
If ever a man deserves this moment, it’s Chrissy McKaigue
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Derry are gonna bring some crowd to Croker in a few weeks
Tough job for Rory to keep their feet on the ground.
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Fantastic scenes which few would have envisaged 3 or 4 years back. They did have decent minor teams back around 2016 and 2017 though before the change to U17. You called the Derry success story from a long way out. Essentially beat the provinces “big 3” to win it which only adds to the achievement.
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Outscored Michael Murphy I’m fairly sure. Murphy has previous for this, I remember one of the Mcmahons mark and outscore him when Murphy played full forward against Tyrone one year. Glad to see O’Rourke bring a bit of reality to where Murphy ranks in the game.
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Now it’s probably chicken and egg with Murphy himself wanting to come out and have an influence on things but it’s a recurring theme with this Donegal team. You’d be doing well to stop him winning a mark if Donegal had anyone that would chance kicking it in to him
No they have tried that, particularly in the game against Tyrone I mentioned. The reality is he has no idea how to create space through movement, (probably because at underage he was always bigger than everyone else so didn’t need to) so any decent fullback is able to spoil him when he plays as a traditional full forward. At this stage I think they would be better off bringing him on late in a game, I think they would get more from the forwards if they weren’t putting everything through his hands. Even his 45s today were poor, criminal for an intercounty side not to be scoring from 45s on a fine day like that.
That must have been a very sweet victory for Rory Gallagher against his former charges in Donegal.
I called it months back yeah.
Gallagher was talking All Ireland’s to this group back in November.
He’s them totally brainwashed.
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Chrissy wlill be on the batter tonight
All roads lead to the Wattys
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great day for Derry and scenes, and to think that people want provincal championships scrapped
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