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Good performance by the footballers last night in Armagh. Took the lazy option of staying at home and watching it on tv.

Considering we were missing so many players it was an excellent result. Unfortunately young Murray isn't the answer to our full-back problems. My only gripe is that Diarmuid Connolly loses possession too much and wastes balls, and Gilroy should have taken him off earlier. 

Alwys nice to start with a win only saw the highlights but Bernards goal looked great

Looking forward to Croaker on the 19th which will be my first match of 2011 heres hoping as always

Walsh Cup Final now down for Sun 27th in PP. There was talk of doubling it up with the Laegue Match but this wasn't a runner due to the player eligibility rules.

Dunno what to make of last Sunday's trip to Walsh Park. Started really well and were eight points up mid way through the first half,went asleep for a while and were five down with fifteen minutes to go before a great finish,with two injury time points got us a draw.

Positives gave to include the form of Keaney and Conor McCormack and to a certain extent, Shane Ryan,the fact that we could go to Waterford missing McCrabbe, Boland, Treacy, O'Brien and Gough from last year's Champo team and the new man, Ryan O'Dwyer and still get a result.

Negatives..........still very poor at Full Back with Tomás getting a roasting from Seamus Prendergast before Peter Kelly went back there. Ironically, Brady did very well at 6 which is his best position, the lack of focus or whatever it is that causes us to go asleep for extended periods in games.

Anyway, more to be revealed as Jedward come to Croker on Saturday to be supported by our hurlers and footballers,each of whom take on the reigning All Ireland Champions.

Can't wait.

i AM TANGLED UP IN BLUE AGAIN ,A ALL IRELAND FOR DUBLIN AND JEDWARD TO WIN A FEW EURO

PITY WITH DID NOT GET BOTH TEAMS ON THERE FIRST DAY OUT ,I FEAR A WE COULD BE GIVEN A LESSON IN SUCH AN OPEN SPACE OF CROKE PARK AT THIS TIME OF YEAR ,,I HOPE I AM PROVED WRONG AND FOR ALWAYS ,,HERE,S HOPING

Proved wrong indeed Joey, and I am sure that you are extremely happy that this is the case.

Quality performance from the hurlers to go toe to toe with the All Ireland Champions and come out on top in a tight game. Know we hammered then in PP last year but this was worth so much more.

After the roasting he got last week,great to see Tomás putting in a good performance,also great stuff from Trainor,Rushe,McCaffrey,Dotsy and Joey. As for Keaney, just magnificent, 14 points scored ( 4 from play ) and a huge performance. Need to back it up with a performance in Tullamore next time out as we never got off the bus when we went down there last year and were destroyed by Shane Dooley.One more win and we won't be relegated. Beat Wexford and Offaly and we could be in the hunt for a bigger prize. Game with Galway in PP on 27th March could be huge .

Funny, but after the Hurling it was like the Football was in slow motion. Cork were very poor but we did what we had to do and scored 3 good goals. Hopefully the performances of fellas like Kev Mac, Declan Lally, Tomás and Catser will give Giller food for thought for the summer.

Hurlers are a work in progress Gerry.

Great first year with Daly but went backwards last year as fellas just never hit the heights they did in 2009.

Just think that with the return of Keaney and the introduction of Ryan O'Dwyer,the discovery of Conor McCormack and the graduation of Quilty,Plunkett and Clinton from the U21s the competition for places is now far stronger than it was last year with fellas chomping at the bit to get into the team. Can only be good.

Realistically we now have 22 -25 players who could make the first 15 whereas last year and the year before we were looking at 17 / 18.

Hung on in the end Frank for a great victory. Kilkenny introduced some of their heavy hitters in the second half to try repair the damage of a dismal first half,but despite the best efforts of Michael Fennelly, Fast Eddie and Taggy Fogarty we held on to win by 4 in the end. Their period of dominance coincided with a hailstorm blowing right into our goal for 10 minutes in the second half and during this period they scored about 2-4/2-5.

I know they didn't produce Richie Hogan,JJ,Gorta,Tommy Walsh or Richie Power but we were down a right few of our own first 15, ( Hiney, Joey, Peter Kelly, Keaney, Tomas Brady,Mossy and Dotsie ) but the new lads,particularly Conor Clinton and Daire Plunkett were top class.Plunkett's goal was a thing of beauty.

Really starting to build a strong panel now.

Strange days indeed ,another weekend and another 2 big scalps for the boys in blue .

Hurlers got to repeat there winning ways against Offaly,we were caught out last year by them after a great win over Tipp,

I think it was 1977 since we beat Kerry in Croke Pk ,,,,anyroad we are getting great entertainment for this time of year at a very small sum,,keep on rollin along