Yet, a modern analyst would probably focus more on slack defending than anything else, with both sides needing to shore up their rearguards if progress is to be made in the remainder of the league and into the championship.

Limerick GAA chiefs revealed they took the county senior hurling management to task following a below-par performance in Division 1B of the Allianz Hurling League.

Mayo 2-12 Derry 1-7

Mayo 2-12 Derry 1-7

The Cork senior hurling management have made a number of alterations to their squad for the forthcoming championship.

Derry 3-16 Westmeath 0-12

Derry 3-16 Westmeath 0-12

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes a win over Mayo tomorrow would throw his side right back into contention for the Allianz Football League Division 1 title.

Kerry 0-14 Derry 0-16

Tyrone 2-13 Derry 0-13

Derry 1-17 St Mary’s 0-14

Armagh 2-15 Derry 2-16 (aet)

Karl Lacey will make his first championship start of the season in Sunday’s Ulster final against Monaghan in Clones.

Derry 0-13 Down 1-5

Derry 0-13 Down 1-05

Derry 0-15 Sligo 0-08

Derry 0-15 Sligo 0-08

Derry 1-15 Down 2-17

Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea concedes Lar Corbett is facing a race against time to be fit to start Sunday week’s Munster semi-final against Limerick.

Derry 2-17 Westmeath 1-05

Derry 2-17 Westmeath 1-5

Derry 0-14 Longford 0-05

Derry 0-14 Longford 0-5

Derry 0-16 Armagh 0-16

Conor Counihan has named the same team that escaped from Newry with two points last weekend for this Sunday’s Division 1 trip to Omagh.

Wexford 0-10 Derry 0-19

Wexford 0-10 Derry 0-19

Conor Counihan will be without his three U21 players for Sunday’s Division One trip to Newry.

Derry 1-17 Laois 2-11

Tyrone 1-14 Derry 0-15

Donegal 2-13 Derry 0-09

John Brennan blamed some rash decision-making by his players in the last five minutes and a dubious point for Louth as the reasons why Derry failed to hang on in Celtic Park.

Derry eased their relegation fears with a significant, if hardly stylish, victory over out-of-sorts Meath in Navan.

Kildare finally got amongst the goals, conceded two more and Johnny Doyle showed he is still a key cog in the Kildare machine as they pushed themselves into promotion contention with a hard-fought victory over Derry at St Conleth’s Park yesterday.

Kildare 2-13 Derry 2-8

A hungrier Derry secured their first points of this League campaign in this disappointing encounter in Celtic Park on Saturday night.

Tyrone blew neighbours Derry away at Healy Park to step up their bid for promotion.

Allianz Football League Division 2: Tyrone 2-15 Derry 0-9

TWO first-half goals from Raymond Wilkinson, the first of them after just 43 seconds, guided Ballinderry to their 12th Derry SFC title yesterday.

Donegal 1-11 Derry 0-8

WINNING a provincial semi-final is no place to declare a famine is over but a millstone was lifted from the neck of Derry football yesterday.

Derry 3-14 Armagh 1-11

CONOR O’MAHONY returns to the Tipperary lineup for Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Clare in the Gaelic Grounds in the only change from the side that defeated Cork last month. O’Mahony is named at centre-back with Padraic Maher moving to half-back and John O’Keeffe to the full-back line in place of Paddy Stapleton.

Derry 1-18 Fermanagh 1-10

ANTRIM 0-13 DERRY 1-18

DUBLIN football defender Kevin Nolan says he and his team-mates train as hard as Premier League footballers.

CONLETH GILLIGAN showed Derry fans what they’ve been missing by turning in a brilliant performance as the Oak Leafers maintained their unbeaten run in Kildare.

Kildare 0-11 Derry 0-13

A GOAL in each half from Sean Leo McGoldrick and Paddy Bradley steered Derry to a comfortable win over Queens University in Section B of the Dr McKenna Cup at a frosty Celtic Park last night.

SATURDAY was a very satisfying day for Kieran McGeeney.