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Post by Ballyfireside on Feb 19, 2022 23:34:29 GMT
Ah I'll give you a chance to win it back, will be hard to find one I'll enjoy losing like you did. Bet added a bit of spice to it, a great game - if tomorrows game was in Donegal it would be cancelled, O'Donnell Park is 250yds down the road from me and if I kicked a ball up in the garden it would go over the bar down there, that would be two points over the bar for me in the wan night, now that's a bit of history, a pub quiz trivia -'what useless hoor on Sat 19th Feb 2002 .. etc...'
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Post by royalkerryfan on Feb 20, 2022 10:18:23 GMT
Orange weather warning... Should be some game 🙄
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Post by john4 on Feb 20, 2022 10:28:27 GMT
Orange weather warning... Should be some game 🙄 I'm no expert on these things but I'd consider the current weather conditions unplayable. I think there could be regrets if this goes ahead.
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Post by southward on Feb 20, 2022 10:41:23 GMT
Orange weather warning... Should be some game 🙄 I'm no expert on these things but I'd consider the current weather conditions unplayable. I think there could be regrets if this goes ahead. Agreed. Game could be a lottery, you might as well be tossing a coin for the result. Think it's still yellow for Kerry atm but not much difference a lot of the time. North Kerry is drowned, assume it's the same in Killarney.
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Post by kingdomkerry on Feb 20, 2022 10:54:00 GMT
Presume you can buy tickets entering the ground?
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Post by royalkerryfan on Feb 20, 2022 10:56:51 GMT
Presume you can buy tickets entering the ground? No you must purchase online in advance or in a supervalu
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Post by Attacking Wing Back on Feb 20, 2022 11:16:54 GMT
Presume you can buy tickets entering the ground? No you must purchase online in advance or in a supervalu Ya there has been mayhem at a few games when ticketmasters sytem went down so they cant scan the tickets. Had to just open the gates. Also went down the morning of some games so people couldnt even buy a ticket on the day.
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Post by veteran on Feb 20, 2022 11:30:30 GMT
These weather conditions are tailor made made for Donegal’s non stop hand passing game. Could be a frustrating afternoon for Kerry players and supporters alike.
If Donegal play with the gale in the first half and build a significant lead it could be good night Irene from an early stage. Therefore crucial that we play with the elements in the first half if we win the toss.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2022 11:30:32 GMT
Ah it's no worse than Edendork 2 years ago, at least David will be safe and warm in the stand 🤪
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Post by taggert on Feb 20, 2022 11:47:22 GMT
As far as I'm concerned, I want this league campaign to give us as many tough games as we can get, and if that includes losing, but critically, learning in the process, well that is fine by me. Tough conditions, tough teams, tough luck will all help build resilience because the truth is, come high summer would anyone really put their house on Kerry to win it out? We can possibly feel positive that the Dubs are losing that cloak of invincibility but they will still have a dozen players on the pitch come summer who have done it when it counts. We don't. We have come up short the last 3 years but marginally so. We need these games to give us the edge and margins we have been missing. Even today, can Paul Geaney be more than the bit part player he has been over the last 2 years, just averaging a point or two per game against serious opposition or are his best days behind him? Can Jack Barry step up and deliver consistent displays and become a permanent fixture on the team or was his ineffectual display against Tyrone, like Geaney, a measure of where he is at now against top oppisition. Can Paul Murphy hold his own against the powerful units that now are the norm around the middle 8 where the ability to hold players up and/or break tackles have become huge?
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Post by Ballyfireside on Feb 20, 2022 11:54:29 GMT
Orange weather warning... Should be some game 🙄 I'm no expert on these things but I'd consider the current weather conditions unplayable. I think there could be regrets if this goes ahead. Are scheduled local Club games being played down there today? The storm has just literally died down here in Letterkenny and if the big game was fixed for up here I'd hate to be the one having to decide if it should go ahead or not, it could just about be played as things stand but that could all change by the minute. You'd often hear of getting the 4 seasons in the round of a day but I was only saying to someone last week that we got 4 seasons within 5 minutes, literally, including snow and when it cleared the sun was shining on me and my dog as we roamed the hills of Donegal, getting drenched before we could make it back to the car. All I say is thank God for rural Ireland! All reminds of our late friend Mick Finucane, he always said the one thing he loved about Ireland was the weather, as he'd survey his Kingdom, literally (again!) from the slopes of Cnoc AN Oir - I think you can see parts of South Kerry and The Aran Islands from up there - open to correction there, hopefully we won't see them hooring Russians! Anyway good luck to Chiarraí inniu and hopefully I'll be addling the Dgallers by supper time! P.S. Nice chat on Radio Kerry site with Martin McHugh on his way down yesterday - an honesty enough appraisal if you subtract the modesty. My take on it for what it is worth is that together with next week vs Monaghan it will benchmark us vs Ulster - personally I think we have the class but have we the steel and then the management to get it together?
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Post by Mickmack on Feb 20, 2022 12:01:43 GMT
As far as I'm concerned, I want this league campaign to give us as many tough games as we can get, and if that includes losing, but critically, learning in the process, well that is fine by me. I agree but Jack isnt working to a 5 year plan but a 5 month plan. If you were in his shoes .....the anti Jack brigade are in the long grass....would you risk possible relegation by playing a team 7 or 8 new guys. There isnt much between any of the teams in division 1.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Feb 20, 2022 12:07:23 GMT
As far as I'm concerned, I want this league campaign to give us as many tough games as we can get, and if that includes losing, but critically, learning in the process, well that is fine by me. I agree but Jack isnt working to a 5 year plan but a 5 month plan. If you were in his shoes .....the anti Jack brigade are in the long grass....would you risk possible relegation by playing a team 7 or 8 new guys. There isnt much between any of the teams in division 1. As long as the population of the county is more than 1 there will be questions asked but that doesn't mean people are anti and don't want us to win. He is the best option so let's get on with it, we all make incidental comment, and nowhere more so than here, but they are nothing more than incidental notions, often in a minute and passing context - human nature!
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Post by Mickmack on Feb 20, 2022 12:15:38 GMT
I agree but Jack isnt working to a 5 year plan but a 5 month plan. If you were in his shoes .....the anti Jack brigade are in the long grass....would you risk possible relegation by playing a team 7 or 8 new guys. There isnt much between any of the teams in division 1. As long as the population of the county is more than 1 there will be questions asked but that doesn't mean people are anti and don't want us to win. He is the best option so let's get on with it, we all make incidental comment, and nowhere more so than here, but they are nothing more than incidental notions, often in a minute and passing context - human nature! With all due respect, that's not the point i am making the point i am making is about how Jack is managing 2022.....in the light of the anti-Jack sentiment ....he has 2 years ....but in reality....1 year.
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Post by taggert on Feb 20, 2022 12:17:00 GMT
As far as I'm concerned, I want this league campaign to give us as many tough games as we can get, and if that includes losing, but critically, learning in the process, well that is fine by me. I agree but Jack isnt working to a 5 year plan but a 5 month plan. If you were in his shoes .....the anti Jack brigade are in the long grass....would you risk possible relegation by playing a team 7 or 8 new guys. There isnt much between any of the teams in division 1. My principal point is i'd like players to be found out in the league, if its the case they are not up to it, rather than later in the year. I think Jack needs to avoid relegation for sure. I would not be advocating playing 5 or 6 new fellas at the one time anyway, Dublin are an example of how that plays out. I do feel the last 2 league campaigns gave Kerry an inflated sense of their own worth and value. Having watched the Tyrone semi recently again (courtesy of your upload), some of our players were abject on the day and a soft league and Munster campaign played a big part in that.
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Post by Deise Exile on Feb 20, 2022 12:18:20 GMT
Is the match still on?
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Post by john4 on Feb 20, 2022 12:20:25 GMT
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Post by taggert on Feb 20, 2022 12:20:50 GMT
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Post by Mickmack on Feb 20, 2022 12:37:32 GMT
I agree but Jack isnt working to a 5 year plan but a 5 month plan. If you were in his shoes .....the anti Jack brigade are in the long grass....would you risk possible relegation by playing a team 7 or 8 new guys. There isnt much between any of the teams in division 1. My principal point is i'd like players to be found out in the league, if its the case they are not up to it, rather than later in the year. I think Jack needs to avoid relegation for sure. I would not be advocating playing 5 or 6 new fellas at the one time anyway, Dublin are an example of how that plays out. I do feel the last 2 league campaigns gave Kerry an inflated sense of their own worth and value. Having watched the Tyrone semi recently again (courtesy of your upload), some of our players were abject on the day and a soft league and Munster campaign played a big part in that. Kerry definitely need to use the league learn who is up to standard. The games v Ulster teams are vital.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2022 12:43:00 GMT
There is a bit of water gathering near the sideline line between the two 45s, other than that the pitch looks in good nick, let's see what it's like when the teams arrive out, there is a gale blowing into the crokes end.
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Post by Ballyfireside on Feb 20, 2022 12:43:10 GMT
As long as the population of the county is more than 1 there will be questions asked but that doesn't mean people are anti and don't want us to win. He is the best option so let's get on with it, we all make incidental comment, and nowhere more so than here, but they are nothing more than incidental notions, often in a minute and passing context - human nature! With all due respect, that's not the point i am making the point i am making is about how Jack is managing 2022.....in the light of the anti-Jack sentiment ....he has 2 years ....but in reality....1 year. If what you are saying is right then the pressure is too much, just like it would be bad for players and Jacko spoke about this lately. Still I'd like to think the majority would support him in doing the right thing and if Sam is probably the key objective then blooding laddos is a good idea, and teams will do that once they move out of the relegation zone. Reading Marty Morrisey's book, he feels that the blocking of communications is detrimental to what is a community sport - is it all gone too serious? These guys are our own flesh and blood yet we don't know what is going on. We own the bloody GAA, I mean it isn't as if we are Oil Sheiks, in fact they probably only want to know the value of their investment. BTW Marty is also against paywalls and which I also think is a self-inflicted curse on ourselves, the GAA is a unique sport globally and we need to respect ourselves as a community. It is a bit like the privilege of being a Kerryman or indeed from any county, it comes with enormous responsibility. Chatting with a Donegaller lately we waz sayin how other countries don't have anything even near what we have in terms of the GAA - now maybe the exception is poor countries and where they still play ball on the road like some of us may have - I have seen this abroad and it is a real reminder, children mightn't have the price of a sweet but they can play sport for free and call in and talk to their hero neighbour, I bet no closed-door-training, etc - is it worse we are progressing? Bring back the good old days when Mickey Sheehy and the late Paddy Prendergast used to call to my parents' shop at Lisselton Cross and spend the day chattin with the locals. Mind you the Dublin team used to call during Listowel races and the crack was mighty, at least we were told something, might have been a load of auld nonsense but what we didn't know didn't worry us, now we know nothing and that is worrying, the fun is going out of it.
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Post by mg72 on Feb 20, 2022 12:45:28 GMT
There is a bit of water gathering near the sideline line between the two 45s, other than that the pitch looks in good nick, let's see what it's like when the teams arrive out, there is a gale blowing into the crokes end. It looks bad along the stand sideline alright. Hopefully the pitch will hold up alright. It could be a game of two halves again..
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Post by Ballyfireside on Feb 20, 2022 12:52:09 GMT
There is a bit of water gathering near the sideline line between the two 45s, other than that the pitch looks in good nick, let's see what it's like when the teams arrive out, there is a gale blowing into the crokes end. It looks bad along the stand sideline alright. Hopefully the pitch will hold up alright. It could be a game of two halves again.. Could you be sure it won't be postponed? Gale just rose again here and if it was here it could be postponed, though I'm no expert on things airspace.
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Post by Mickmack on Feb 20, 2022 13:44:24 GMT
With all due respect, that's not the point i am making the point i am making is about how Jack is managing 2022.....in the light of the anti-Jack sentiment ....he has 2 years ....but in reality....1 year. If what you are saying is right then the pressure is too much, just like it would be bad for players and Jacko spoke about this lately. Still I'd like to think the majority would support him in doing the right thing and if Sam is probably the key objective then blooding laddos is a good idea, and teams will do that once they move out of the relegation zone. Reading Marty Morrisey's book, he feels that the blocking of communications is detrimental to what is a community sport - is it all gone too serious? These guys are our own flesh and blood yet we don't know what is going on. We own the bloody GAA, I mean it isn't as if we are Oil Sheiks, in fact they probably only want to know the value of their investment. BTW Marty is also against paywalls and which I also think is a self-inflicted curse on ourselves, the GAA is a unique sport globally and we need to respect ourselves as a community. It is a bit like the privilege of being a Kerryman or indeed from any county, it comes with enormous responsibility. Chatting with a Donegaller lately we waz sayin how other countries don't have anything even near what we have in terms of the GAA - now maybe the exception is poor countries and where they still play ball on the road like some of us may have - I have seen this abroad and it is a real reminder, children mightn't have the price of a sweet but they can play sport for free and call in and talk to their hero neighbour, I bet no closed-door-training, etc - is it worse we are progressing? Bring back the good old days when Mickey Sheehy and the late Paddy Prendergast used to call to my parents' shop at Lisselton Cross and spend the day chattin with the locals. Mind you the Dublin team used to call during Listowel races and the crack was mighty, at least we were told something, might have been a load of auld nonsense but what we didn't know didn't worry us, now we know nothing and that is worrying, the fun is going out of it. Marty asked Rob Hennelly about " Mayos two main rivals Kerry and Dublin" last night.... as if Tyrone didnt matter....Sean Cavanagh looked stunned. Poor ould Marty comes out with some guff.
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Post by Hicser on Feb 20, 2022 14:27:24 GMT
7 point lead , I’m not sure it’s enough for the second half, Not a great game but conditions are poor,
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Post by taggert on Feb 20, 2022 14:28:52 GMT
Donegal obviously feeling that they can turn around a 6 or 7 point deficit at HT with the aid of the breeze. They made no attempt to go forward for the entire 2nd quarter. They will press Kerry very high in the 2nd half.
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Post by Mickmack on Feb 20, 2022 14:33:55 GMT
Kerry will need to avoid conceding goals in the second half.
Good test of the mettle now.
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Post by horsebox77 on Feb 20, 2022 14:35:24 GMT
We really have to keep our goal in tact, for us to have any chance we have to restrict any three pointer.
God though, it's a hard watch and I'm rattling.
Impressed with Adrain in first half, two of his turnovers lead to points by Paudie and Killian. His club mate at Centre Back is having a great game off the ball, he is seriously covering don't know is the camera picking it up or not.
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Post by kerryexile on Feb 20, 2022 14:36:45 GMT
Aodán Mac Gearailt said before the game that 6 or 7 points would be needed. He said before half time that the wind had abated a little. I think using horses for courses we can see this one out.
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Post by peanuts on Feb 20, 2022 15:26:42 GMT
Good win but Donegal were very poor. Kerry backs never under any real pressure. Kick outs were the biggest concern. Seanie was immense.
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