Ciarán Murphy

No, not so much that they wiped the floor of them, but they were very competitive for 40 minutes.

And Conor Laverty, the down manager, was saying after the game...

Listen, that could have gone one of two ways.

So, you know, you go down to Kerry, you take a 25 point hammering to Kerry seven days out from your Ulster quarterfinal.

That's probably not going to do a whole lot for team confidence.

But as it turned out, they were more than competitive until the subs started rolling in against Kerry.

They took loads from it and they went out and just...

monster Donegal like it was a a mad performance by you know like Down who had to be were taken to extra time in the Division 3 final by Wexford who were subsequently hammered by they've always got a bit of confidence about them Down that's what you always hear about Down anytime they make it to Croke Park they've always got a bit of a swagger yeah they lost that Iron Final in 2010 though and

That was the first Ireland final of the five that they had qualified for.

So I think the sheen's come off that stat a little bit now.

Yeah, probably historical stuff.

There was amazing stuff from Laverty afterwards, speaking to the journo's car, OK, and put this one up.

Just to say, Laverty prefaces all this by saying that he doesn't care about being written off or what the critics say.

Then he whips out his phone.

He's checking it out now.

The graphic is showing has Donegal playing Tyrone or Armagh in the semis.

No mention of Donegal having to beat down first.

So yeah, he sees this graphic before the championship of, you know, Donegal's potential opponents in semi-final, Tyrone or Armagh.

And it's literally, yeah, they have to have the manager of the team that is actually playing them before they play that game.

It is a good bit worse that they went to the trouble of saying Tyrone or Armagh.