Well Farmer, how are you holding up as our All Ireland dreams hang by a thread.
I would make one personnel change to the team vs Galway. I would bring in Fintan McBrien for Michael Foley. Bring Duignan out to the half forward line and have McBrien in corner forward. I would leave Maxwell in at full forward. Thinking back to the games vs Tyrone and Armagh, Donegal didnt look too clever under the high ball and hopefully we could win enough ball to launch into him.
Iâve been on Donegal GAA forums in the past couple of days and there is annoyance that there was club chamnpionship games played last weekend but not sure if any injuries were picked up. Some fella posted that Devenney went off injured but there doesnt seem to be anything in the national press about it.
Seeing that the Rossies are playing at 3 and Leitrim at 7 it would be nice to still be in the Championship long after theyâve gone !!!
Well the Leitrim team has been named. 2 changes from the Galway game. Mohillâs Ciaran Kennedy comes in for Barry Prior and Fintan McBrien replaces James Glancy.
Glad McBrien is in but surprised Prior has been dropped. Once again McKeon has been named centre back and Maxwell at left half forward - does Dolan think hes kiddidng anyone naming them there ?
Well the Leitrim team has been named. 2 changes from the Galway game. Mohillâs Ciaran Kennedy comes in for Barry Prior and Fintan McBrien replaces James Glancy.
Glad McBrien is in but surprised Prior has been dropped. Once again McKeon has been named centre back and Maxwell at left half forward - does Dolan think hes kiddidng anyone naming them there ?
Im sure you are all dying to know thisâŚdue to a clash of colours, both teams will be wearing their provincial colours. Leitrim will wear White and Donegal will wear Saffron.
Meant to post on this but technically not allowed during work and internet access has gone in the evenings since I moved accomodation
Anyway a few points:
Ciaran Kennedy should not be playing. He will probably be marking Roper who will destroy him. Prior had a poor game against Galway but is a much better player
In favour of McBrien instead of Glancy
McWeeney will not play in the corner anyway. Wouldnât be surprised to Kennedy and McWeeney swap positions and McKeon staying centre half. I just think that he may be playing double bluff but Iâm only guessing. I would play McWeeney centre half and McKeon at full.
Whoever is appointed free taker needs to put them over - simple as that
good quote from Shane Foley who said that the team had prepared themselves for the qualifiers for the first time this year where as in other years they would have put everything into the Championship match.
We drew with Donegal two years ago in Ballybofey in the league where we should have won. Nothing to fear from these lads
just saw this on Hogan stand:
âDonegal look to have a real injury crisis ahead of their All-Ireland SFC Qualifier against Leitrim in Pairc Sean MacDiarmada, Carrick-on-Shannon on Saturday, 7th of July. Ciaran Bonner, Barry Dunnion and Colm McFadden look certain to miss the game, and there are also fitness doubts concerning Brendan Devenney, Christy Toye, Brian Roper and Michael Hegartyâ
Farmer id hope he would leave McKeon full back. The man is immense there and you are robbing Peter to pay Paul if you move him out.
We are not far away from taking a big scalp. Hopefully tomorrow evening will be the time.
Anyway I better go and do a bit of work cos have to catch the 4.00 train to Carrick - enjoy it Farmer and hopefully there will be another day out next weekend.
That was a tough one to take. No doubt about it Leitrim deserved to win that game. Owned the first 25 minutes. The penalty miss was crucial and Leitrim were all over the place for last 10 minutes of the half. But there was no way they deserved to be behind at the break. The 2nd half was quite even and Glancyâs goal will live long in the memory.
Donegal were out of the blocks quicker in extra time knocking over 3 points in the first period but Leitrim responded well to get within 1 on two occasionsâŚjust couldnt get level at all.
The ref was a disgrace and that is not sour grapes - he was poor to both sides but Maxwell nearly had to be murdered to get a free.
There was a super rendition of Lovely Leitrim before extra time - hair stand up on the back of your neck stuff !!!
This is a good Leitrim team and they deserve the rub of the green at some stage. Hopefully they can entice a high profile manager down there. I know Sean Boylanâs mother is a Leitrim woman so they could do worse than approach him.
It was the worst feeling Iâve had at a match in a long, long time - my heart went out to the players. They deserved a lot more out of the year than they got. Very proud of them all the same.
a gallant & plucky performance by the underdogs- hold your head up high - you ran an average team pretty close & can be proud of another glorious failure