Saturday 5 April 2008

Stop Paddy and you stop Derry

Derry kept their league campaign on track with the win over Tyrone but I believe Mickey Harte will be the happier of the two managers despite the defeat.
The win showed once again that Derry are going to be difficult to defeat when the championship comes round but after another seven points from Paddy Bradley, half the Derry total you just have to wonder where the scores are going to come for Derry once teams put double cover on Paddy or simply snuff out the room for the supply
For Harte it is another significant game for some of his returning warriors, but he also has problems up front.
Mulligan is out for the time being and the attack lacks a cutting edge, and while lads like Raymond Mulgrew and Tommy McGuigan are good young players they aren't exactly going to frighten Kerry.
Tyrone can still improve although I think they will still come up short, Derry are so predictable every team in the country will already have them measured up.

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