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Replying To brayballer:  "Not true as 19 teams have won an All Ireland. I have great respect for gaa volunteers in particular counties that have never won. I was reacting to a Donegal contributor who thought I was from Wicklow and was being demeaning towards Wicklow for being in the Tailteann cup. Now that contributor was being childish and snobbish towards the weaker counties. If Donegal are winning all is great but when you are losing its the refs fault. Also it was Donegal that were whinging and crying about the Dubs playing in croke park. You get to play in Ballybofey a lot yourselves."
dhia is that what your trolling is about, Donegal and Dublin in the Super 8s years ago? never mind everyone agreeing that bringing the Dubs out of Croker is great for the game - including Dubs! Nobody is happier being out of Croker than the away Dublin fans sure

get over yourself

CCFabu (Donegal) - Posts: 192 - 28/05/2025 12:02:25    2613226

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Replying To brayballer:  "Not true as 19 teams have won an All Ireland. I have great respect for gaa volunteers in particular counties that have never won. I was reacting to a Donegal contributor who thought I was from Wicklow and was being demeaning towards Wicklow for being in the Tailteann cup. Now that contributor was being childish and snobbish towards the weaker counties. If Donegal are winning all is great but when you are losing its the refs fault. Also it was Donegal that were whinging and crying about the Dubs playing in croke park. You get to play in Ballybofey a lot yourselves."
That's a a misinterpretion of what happened. Donegal put down a motion that no team could nominate their home location as Croke Park as this was to be used as a neutral venue.

Ulsterchamps72 (Donegal) - Posts: 110 - 28/05/2025 12:30:55    2613228

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Replying To Whyme923:  "The four teams you've mentioned haven't been doing it consistently?

Do we think Gaoth Dobhair will go down? Kilcar have a lot of work to do only on 1pt."
If those clubs, or their key players, don't meet your criteria for consistency then there's only two or three clubs worth picking from.


Good form and winning club matches isn't the most significant factor when it comes to selection, but a lack of success or form at club level is pretty significant.

SurelyToGod (Donegal) - Posts: 461 - 28/05/2025 13:42:59    2613244

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Replying To Ulsterchamps72:  "That's a a misinterpretion of what happened. Donegal put down a motion that no team could nominate their home location as Croke Park as this was to be used as a neutral venue."
Come off don't be so smart or indeed silly, the world and it's mother know that the motion was aimed solely at Dublin.

sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 917 - 28/05/2025 14:10:17    2613248

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Replying To Ulsterchamps72:  "That's a a misinterpretion of what happened. Donegal put down a motion that no team could nominate their home location as Croke Park as this was to be used as a neutral venue."
Don't confuse the poor lad, bangwagoners like him have probably never even heard of Parnell Park.

peiledoir20 (Donegal) - Posts: 1208 - 28/05/2025 14:46:31    2613256

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Replying To sligo joe:  "Come off don't be so smart or indeed silly, the world and it's mother know that the motion was aimed solely at Dublin."
And proper order it was too. Why on earth should a team who already has advantages over the competitors be allowed the further advantage of playing two of their three games at home! And it is their home, let's be real.

WeGoAgain (Donegal) - Posts: 67 - 28/05/2025 16:22:04    2613278

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Replying To sligo joe:  "Come off don't be so smart or indeed silly, the world and it's mother know that the motion was aimed solely at Dublin."
No sure it was also aimed at all those other counties who were using Croke Park for home games as well

greatpoint (USA) - Posts: 447 - 28/05/2025 18:30:45    2613313

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Big week for tyrone, they won the ulster minor and the u20 all ireland this evening, fair play to them. But from a Donegal perspective its incredibly fustrating. Derry and Tyrone have dominating ulster underage this last number of years, our boys have been very close each year losing by one or two points, but we cant get over the line. I was in owenbeg for the u20 ulster final and i still cant figure out how we didnt win it. Devlin had tyrone playing some of the most negative football that ive seen in 35 years of watching gaa. But listen it worked for them. I believe lacey is back in the academy, he has a job of work in front of him. I seen that donegal u15s played against tyrone a few weeks back and tyrone put 7.21 on donegal. That ls crazy numbers, even if it is u15s. With the success the abbey and SW Donegal had in the mcrory this year iys imperative that the rest of donegal is amalgated into regions and entered into the mcrory as well. For me personally, thats were the competitive advantage lies. Because if we dont change what were doing at the minute were gona be watch the tyrone and derrys of the world lifting more and more underage titles and producing strong and more capable senior teams.

gaeltacht81 (Donegal) - Posts: 3 - 29/05/2025 00:26:33    2613350

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Replying To gaeltacht81:  "Big week for tyrone, they won the ulster minor and the u20 all ireland this evening, fair play to them. But from a Donegal perspective its incredibly fustrating. Derry and Tyrone have dominating ulster underage this last number of years, our boys have been very close each year losing by one or two points, but we cant get over the line. I was in owenbeg for the u20 ulster final and i still cant figure out how we didnt win it. Devlin had tyrone playing some of the most negative football that ive seen in 35 years of watching gaa. But listen it worked for them. I believe lacey is back in the academy, he has a job of work in front of him. I seen that donegal u15s played against tyrone a few weeks back and tyrone put 7.21 on donegal. That ls crazy numbers, even if it is u15s. With the success the abbey and SW Donegal had in the mcrory this year iys imperative that the rest of donegal is amalgated into regions and entered into the mcrory as well. For me personally, thats were the competitive advantage lies. Because if we dont change what were doing at the minute were gona be watch the tyrone and derrys of the world lifting more and more underage titles and producing strong and more capable senior teams."
Didnt see the Ulster final but that Tyrone team yesterday were a joy to watch. Absolutely no negative football at all.

The flair of their forwards was brilliant; mixing up great kick passing and powerful running.

drumalee11 (USA) - Posts: 353 - 29/05/2025 09:10:48    2613367

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Replying To gaeltacht81:  "Big week for tyrone, they won the ulster minor and the u20 all ireland this evening, fair play to them. But from a Donegal perspective its incredibly fustrating. Derry and Tyrone have dominating ulster underage this last number of years, our boys have been very close each year losing by one or two points, but we cant get over the line. I was in owenbeg for the u20 ulster final and i still cant figure out how we didnt win it. Devlin had tyrone playing some of the most negative football that ive seen in 35 years of watching gaa. But listen it worked for them. I believe lacey is back in the academy, he has a job of work in front of him. I seen that donegal u15s played against tyrone a few weeks back and tyrone put 7.21 on donegal. That ls crazy numbers, even if it is u15s. With the success the abbey and SW Donegal had in the mcrory this year iys imperative that the rest of donegal is amalgated into regions and entered into the mcrory as well. For me personally, thats were the competitive advantage lies. Because if we dont change what were doing at the minute were gona be watch the tyrone and derrys of the world lifting more and more underage titles and producing strong and more capable senior teams."
Would completely disagree that they're a very negative team. At the start of extra time in that Ulster final we completely sat in and they kicked 3 two pointers in a row which effectively lost us the game, we didn't push out on any of their shooters at all.

dgcrusader (Donegal) - Posts: 93 - 29/05/2025 09:56:39    2613378

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Replying To gaeltacht81:  "Big week for tyrone, they won the ulster minor and the u20 all ireland this evening, fair play to them. But from a Donegal perspective its incredibly fustrating. Derry and Tyrone have dominating ulster underage this last number of years, our boys have been very close each year losing by one or two points, but we cant get over the line. I was in owenbeg for the u20 ulster final and i still cant figure out how we didnt win it. Devlin had tyrone playing some of the most negative football that ive seen in 35 years of watching gaa. But listen it worked for them. I believe lacey is back in the academy, he has a job of work in front of him. I seen that donegal u15s played against tyrone a few weeks back and tyrone put 7.21 on donegal. That ls crazy numbers, even if it is u15s. With the success the abbey and SW Donegal had in the mcrory this year iys imperative that the rest of donegal is amalgated into regions and entered into the mcrory as well. For me personally, thats were the competitive advantage lies. Because if we dont change what were doing at the minute were gona be watch the tyrone and derrys of the world lifting more and more underage titles and producing strong and more capable senior teams."
You don't score 5-16 in a under 20 All Ireland final last night against a good Louth team and win three under 20 All Irelands in four years by playing negative football. Some outstanding (skill and well conditioned) young players coming through in Tyrone.

letsgetgoing (Roscommon) - Posts: 742 - 29/05/2025 11:05:06    2613392

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Replying To letsgetgoing:  "You don't score 5-16 in a under 20 All Ireland final last night against a good Louth team and win three under 20 All Irelands in four years by playing negative football. Some outstanding (skill and well conditioned) young players coming through in Tyrone."
Having been hammered by Donegal in the group stages they knew they had to tighten up and play defensively in the Ulster final.They learned a lot from that group game and I suppose Donegal showed their hand too much but the final could have gone either way.Tyrone looked brilliant in attack last night.They always seem to produce skillful and tricky forwards at this level.It is all down to the work being done in the clubs.The players come in to the county setup with all the skills and it then a case of county management putting all the ingredients together.

gunman (Donegal) - Posts: 1156 - 29/05/2025 11:35:08    2613402

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Replying To letsgetgoing:  "You don't score 5-16 in a under 20 All Ireland final last night against a good Louth team and win three under 20 All Irelands in four years by playing negative football. Some outstanding (skill and well conditioned) young players coming through in Tyrone."
Agreed. It's actually their forwards which have been the main difference in the games I've seen, so to say they're negative isn't true at all. They were fairly well beaten at midfield against both Kerry and Louth, but with the possession they did have, they had the quality up front to make use of it. There are some seriously classy forwards on that team.
I saw Omagh CBS winning two Hogan Cups in a row in 23 and 24. They played some brilliant football and racked up huge scores.
There's brilliant work being done at underage in Tyrone and they're producing some really exciting footballers.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2338 - 29/05/2025 11:40:20    2613405

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Hold on boys, thats my oppinion on what happened during the ulster final this year. Not the AI semi final, not the AI final, the ulster final which i attended. Did any of yous attend it? You could have heard a pin drop in the stadium for most of the game, and there was a great crowd there on a beautiful evening. Devlin set up his team to negate donegals attacking threat and i worked very well, but it was a horrible horrible watch. For the first time in my life i considered leaving before ET because the game was that poor. Did yas see how tyrone celebrated at the end of the ulster final, wild celebrations, far more animated than the celebrations when they won the AI final last night. And that tell its own story. That donegal u20 team hammered tyrone a few weeks before hand in ballybofey in tne championship. And develin changed his tastics to suit in the final. They won it and fair play to them even if it was so negative.

gaeltacht81 (Donegal) - Posts: 3 - 29/05/2025 11:52:57    2613408

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Replying To sligo joe:  "Come off don't be so smart or indeed silly, the world and it's mother know that the motion was aimed solely at Dublin."
Right, so Dublin are the only team with this significant advantage.

Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1425 - 29/05/2025 12:08:15    2613412

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Replying To gaeltacht81:  "Hold on boys, thats my oppinion on what happened during the ulster final this year. Not the AI semi final, not the AI final, the ulster final which i attended. Did any of yous attend it? You could have heard a pin drop in the stadium for most of the game, and there was a great crowd there on a beautiful evening. Devlin set up his team to negate donegals attacking threat and i worked very well, but it was a horrible horrible watch. For the first time in my life i considered leaving before ET because the game was that poor. Did yas see how tyrone celebrated at the end of the ulster final, wild celebrations, far more animated than the celebrations when they won the AI final last night. And that tell its own story. That donegal u20 team hammered tyrone a few weeks before hand in ballybofey in tne championship. And develin changed his tastics to suit in the final. They won it and fair play to them even if it was so negative."
I watched the Ulster final on TG4. Normal time was a fairly poor affair, very cagey, and Tyrone got a fortuitous goal. That's fairly natural after losing to Donegal in the group match. Tyrone were missing McElholm for that match, in fairness.
However, extra-time in the Ulster final was brilliant. Tyrone really went for it at the start of extra-time and kicked some massive 2-pointers. Donegal did brilliantly to get back into it again and it went right to the wire in the end.
Naturally the emotions after winning a tight game after extra time are going to be greater than in a game where you're home and hosed with a while to go, like last night.
Donegal were definitely unlucky. There's an argument that they were as strong as any team in the competition this year. If it had the same format as the minor competition, it's possible we'd have seen them meet Tyrone again in the All-Ireland.

WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 2338 - 29/05/2025 12:41:43    2613428

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Replying To gaeltacht81:  "Hold on boys, thats my oppinion on what happened during the ulster final this year. Not the AI semi final, not the AI final, the ulster final which i attended. Did any of yous attend it? You could have heard a pin drop in the stadium for most of the game, and there was a great crowd there on a beautiful evening. Devlin set up his team to negate donegals attacking threat and i worked very well, but it was a horrible horrible watch. For the first time in my life i considered leaving before ET because the game was that poor. Did yas see how tyrone celebrated at the end of the ulster final, wild celebrations, far more animated than the celebrations when they won the AI final last night. And that tell its own story. That donegal u20 team hammered tyrone a few weeks before hand in ballybofey in tne championship. And develin changed his tastics to suit in the final. They won it and fair play to them even if it was so negative."
You must not have been to many games before if you reckoned you were going to leave before ET. There have been many worse games we've been involved in down through the years. It's a sign of a great manager if you can adjust your team and tactics to suit what's in front of you. Look at Devlin's CV, one of the best underage managers we've seen in a long time. It just sounds like sour grapes from you tbh.

dgcrusader (Donegal) - Posts: 93 - 29/05/2025 13:56:41    2613440

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Been following donegal since 88, and no, its not sour grapes, its an oppinion. And by the way, you pick out one sort sentence from a paragragh about donegal youth developed and make generalisations about my character and how long ive been following donegal!! Anyway, the original piece was put up to get other peoples oppinions on the youth setup within donegal.

gaeltacht81 (Donegal) - Posts: 3 - 29/05/2025 14:26:48    2613446

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Replying To WanPintWin:  "I watched the Ulster final on TG4. Normal time was a fairly poor affair, very cagey, and Tyrone got a fortuitous goal. That's fairly natural after losing to Donegal in the group match. Tyrone were missing McElholm for that match, in fairness.
However, extra-time in the Ulster final was brilliant. Tyrone really went for it at the start of extra-time and kicked some massive 2-pointers. Donegal did brilliantly to get back into it again and it went right to the wire in the end.
Naturally the emotions after winning a tight game after extra time are going to be greater than in a game where you're home and hosed with a while to go, like last night.
Donegal were definitely unlucky. There's an argument that they were as strong as any team in the competition this year. If it had the same format as the minor competition, it's possible we'd have seen them meet Tyrone again in the All-Ireland."
Can add Derry into that too. They were missing a couple of players against Tyrone. However you have to admire how Tyrone really have a knack of following up Ulster titles with All Ireland's.

panamasam (Australia) - Posts: 2865 - 29/05/2025 17:21:18    2613485

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Replying To gaeltacht81:  "Big week for tyrone, they won the ulster minor and the u20 all ireland this evening, fair play to them. But from a Donegal perspective its incredibly fustrating. Derry and Tyrone have dominating ulster underage this last number of years, our boys have been very close each year losing by one or two points, but we cant get over the line. I was in owenbeg for the u20 ulster final and i still cant figure out how we didnt win it. Devlin had tyrone playing some of the most negative football that ive seen in 35 years of watching gaa. But listen it worked for them. I believe lacey is back in the academy, he has a job of work in front of him. I seen that donegal u15s played against tyrone a few weeks back and tyrone put 7.21 on donegal. That ls crazy numbers, even if it is u15s. With the success the abbey and SW Donegal had in the mcrory this year iys imperative that the rest of donegal is amalgated into regions and entered into the mcrory as well. For me personally, thats were the competitive advantage lies. Because if we dont change what were doing at the minute were gona be watch the tyrone and derrys of the world lifting more and more underage titles and producing strong and more capable senior teams."
I share your frustration but it's a familiar story. They sneak it against us then saunter to an All Ireland with Donegal the team to give them their biggest fill. You're right about the Tyrone tactics on the night but they had to change given what happened in Ballybofey weeks before. The loss of Cian McMenamin was huge as it allowed Tyrone to get a lot of ball from their own kickouts and they played keep ball starving Donegal of the ball and playing the game on their terms. It wasn't great to watch but they done what they had to do. Much like the senior side at the weekend we weren't as precise as we were in previous games. I thought when we got the goal we'd see it out. There was a couple of cheap turnovers and a poor call on Finbar Roarty brought in. Tyrone had their 4 minute purple patch but despite this we had them completely up against the wall when their keeper kicked it directly out only to get done by the 4 back rule. The punishment did not fit the crime but Tyrone got the breaks. I'm hoping this will be a big learning lesson for the group as many are under age next year backboned by the 4 masters lads who look like a very special group. Congrats to Tyrone. They really are masters at following up Ulsters with All Ireland's.

panamasam (Australia) - Posts: 2865 - 29/05/2025 17:32:18    2613488

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