Surely Kilcoo have a better right footed free takee than their full back. Surely Laverty should be on them.
Who’s the pansy in the leg warmers?
Woolie not enjoying the beautiful game.
Needing your goalkeeper to kick a free over the bar from 30 yards out in front of the posts is an odd one. Surely 1 of the 6 forwards would have that skill in their wheelhouse.
Ryan Jones in inspired form.
Took that goal brilliantly in fairness. That’s probably the game.
Magpies flying now
Desperate spectacle.Pass back…go forward…pass back.
Gaelic football is an abomination of a sport when played like this.
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Did this crowd beat the Tyrone champs?
This will be a great couple of weeks for @peddlerscross with Ballygunner and Kilcoo winning provincial honours. Is Kilcoo a big area?
The much maligned Eugene Brannigan in the track suit bottoms has been the best player on the pitch here.
He’s lightning fast with a great sidestep on him, nearly impossible to mark one v one when he presents as a pass option. Who was maligning him?
Kilcoo will beat the pick of the three teams left.
A lot of lads laughing at the tracksuit bottoms.
@Aertel220 Kilcoo is very small in the grand scheme of things. A pick of roughly 1k people.
They are lovely people but a bit odd. Their obsession with this competition and their backstory make them one of the most interesting club teams in Ireland.
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Very disappointing that the final was such a non-event but the draw in Ulster this year meant it was always a possibility - Down, Derry, Donegal and Monaghan champions were all on one side of it with no serious contender in the other half. The best that can be said about Derrygonelly is that their 3rd point meant they weren’t the lowest scoring team to play in an Ulster final, Ballinderry losing 5-2 to Crossmaglen still hold that record.
Kilcoo are a fine side and better conditioned than some intercounty teams. They had some very close scrapes in Down this year and a couple of their players were exposed a bit when ran at but none of the teams they have faced in Ulster have been able to show up that weakness. I expect at least one of the 2 teams they have to play yet to really go at them, will be interesting to see how that works out.
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They must be really tailoring their training to peak in Ulster/AI.
In 2019 they were unimpressive in Down before going on that great run too. As far as I know they have lost plenty League games in Down under Moran/Gilligan.
The Down championship is much better than some suggest. Kilcoo were 4 points down in the quarter-final replay in 2019 with 10 minutes to go, they won it and made the All-Ireland final. The idea that they gamble being beat in their own county championship so they can tailor their training for later in the year seems fanciful to me.
They beat Burren by 2 points in the final this year, with Burren missing their best forward. Young Rooney struggled badly in the Down championship this year, he has been made look like a superstar in Ulster because he has had no defending to do.
All in all it’s been a poor club championship I think …Thought Kilcoo looked bang average for large parts , until derrygonnelly started tiring and gaps appeared then they tagged on the scores …it’s not a vintage crokes team but they’d definitely have the physicality and fitness to stay with kilcoo for 60 mins …
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Club Football reached an incredible peak 5 or 6 years ago when you had Vincents/Portlaoise in Leinster, Corofin/Brigids/Castlebar in Connacht, Crokes/Nemo in Munster and then Crossmaglen/Slaughtneil/Kilcoo/Scotstown etc in Ulster.
Some great rivalries were built up between clubs who were seriously ambitious whereas this year there were a lot of new teams involved across the provinces who saw it as a bonus just to be involved.
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