Congrats to Armagh on the win last night, no complaints (well a few), but best team won on the night. Dublin were second to everything first half yesterday and rightly went in with a spanking via a melt down on the kick outs and looked a very inexperienced team.
We seemed to loose the head and composure a bit with the application of the new rules - to be fair i felt it was a bit of a weird application. We also looked like wed put in a heavy training block in the week and looked very very leggy. But no excuses Armagh were well worthy winners. We were though better second half, but by a distance second best on the night.
Not overly concerned, with a team that young i expect boom and bust performances and im delighted some got that experience last night, up North, with an away crowd baying right on the pitch and blood and thunder in the tackle with no quarter given will bring some of these young lads on no end. Much different game then dropping the shoulder in Croker with 20k Dubs at your back.
A short note on the new rules - they were absolutely chaotically applied last night, no one on the box or in the ground - including the players and management teams seemed to know wtf was going on - im not sure im clearer this morning, the rules can be very poorly applied and they can also have a very poor influence of the game, the last 10 were set up to be a ding dong of a finish instead the ref turned it into a skitter - not good..
We go again next up Galway, congrats to Armagh!
