Sounds class mate, well done.
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Where’s the medal now?
Ballinamalard, Portadown, Swifts, Coagh, Killymoon, Newry etc.
Big teams.
Good question.
That sounds like a fair achievement mate.
They say you don’t have to be a decent player to be a decent analyst but you appear to have mastered both.
Who was Bob Radcliffe ?
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Sounds orangey.
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Some footballing administrator, an oranjie I would suspect.
Not giving the ball away for the sake of it is a skill.
The fact is he WAS the go-to man whenever he played. And was really starting to get back to it last year.
This is a surprise and he had told people last year he was going on. So something shifted. Kissane leaving as well arises suspicion
Pathological liar alert.
Anthony Thompson is gone from the Donegal panel apparently. He should have hone at least two years ago.
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A good thing for Donegal.
His legs had gone and he hadn’t much football in him to start with. MacNiallais and McLoone are significant losses and that now makes it 5 when you take into consideration the McGee and McFadden but it will more or less force Gallagher’s hand towards the younger players which can only be a good thing for Donegal in the medium term.
A donkey of a ‘footballer’.
Three retirements and two taking a break. Nothing too far out of the ordinary.
McFadden hardly featured last season and McLoone was only a peripheral player really (and wrongly in my opinion).
Big Neil is back though as is Darach O’Connor.
The two taking a break is a bit odd surely
And now its snowballing. Rory Kavanagh (again), Christy Toye and David Walsh are hanging up their boots.
This is overdue to be fair, I think they’ve all struggled for impact in the past two years.
MacNiallais and McLoone will be losses but they won’t really miss the other from a footballing perspective I feel, maybe an experience loss but they have plenty of guys like Murphy, McGee, Gallagher, Lacey, McGlynn etc still there.
They do seem to have a severe lack of established options at midfield now though, they’ve a few lads like Carroll, Eoin Ban Gallagher, Ciaran Thompson there but you’d imagine they’d need to bulk up a bit first of all. Apart from that they’ve only got Gallagher who didn’t really play last year and it’s questionable what he can contribute this year, McElhinney and the option of flogging Murphy out the field for another year.
This is about 2 years overdue with Donegal though.
Toye is a loss for his impact off the bench. He’s been dire when starting in the last three years.
Kavanagh steadied the ship last year but wasn’t able for more than 40 minutes really. Colm McFadden may as well have not been there last year and Thompson was completely brutal.
McNiallas is a huge loss, McLoone can be good on his day but has struggled to find a consistent starting position.
Sorting out midfield will be the most important thing this season. They’re already saying that Gallagher is a doubt for the league and Murphy will miss most of it with his TV commitments, that’s no harm though as he was in need of a break anyhow.
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