If you’re a Derry football fan and you place a premium on statistics, then you may not view an Allianz Football League final outing as a particularly good thing.

Two years ago, Derry were saved from relegation to Division 3 not by themselves, but by virtue of a Tyrone win over Monaghan the same day.

ALLIANZ FL DIV 1:

Derry 1-15 Tyrone 2-12

Derry 1-15 Tyrone 2-12

Tyrone 2-13 Derry 0-13

Wexford 0-10 Derry 0-19

Wexford 0-10 Derry 0-19

Paddy Bradley has launched a stinging broadside at Derry GAA chiefs and a number of stayaway players after the county’s disappointing exit from the All-Ireland football championship in Pearse Park last weekend.

The latest evidence Donegal have ditched the defensive game-plan which won them a first Ulster title in 19 years last summer came in Ballybofey on Saturday when they took Derry apart.

Jim McGuinness says Michael Murphy and Rory Kavanagh are “in the picture” to play for Donegal in tomorrow night’s Ulster SFC tie against Derry.

Benny Coulter has been ruled out of Down’s championship campaign after suffering a suspected broken ankle on Monday night.

DERRY

HOLDERS Derry booked their place in the Dr McKenna Cup final at the Athletic Grounds, where six Conleth Gilligan points helped secure victory.

Kildare 0-19 Derry 0-13

DONEGAL’S 1992 All-Ireland winning manager Brian McEniff has called on the county board to act swiftly on indiscipline in club matches or risk players suffering more serious injuries than Leo McLoone’s broken eye socket.

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.

BACK in April, Eugene McGee and Joe Brolly went at it hammer-and-tongs on RTÉ radio. Debating the topic of payments to managers, the conversation naturally moved on to the area of outside bosses, with Brolly putting up a strong argument against them.

Derry 1-18 Fermanagh 1-10

A GRIEVING mother will today lead mourners at the funeral of her eight-year-old son who died earlier this week in Co Donegal.

Westmeath 1-7 Derry 0-13

PADDY BRADLEY has sensationally quit the Derry panel after being dropped for today’s All-Ireland qualifier with Carlow.

SPARE a thought for Gerard O’Kane today.

Derry 1-7 Armagh 1-10

LAST June, Gerard O’Kane jumped on a bus in Glenullin to broaden his football horizons.

LAST NIGHT, hurling and football managers from across the country met with GAA officials in Croke Park to discuss the effectiveness, or otherwise, of the latest batch of experimental rules.

Ulster 0-15 Munster 1-8

ALL-IRELAND champions Kerry top the nominations for the Opel GPA Football Team of the Year with 11 Kingdom players shortlisted.

Monaghan 0-20 Derry 3-16

Tyrone 0-15 Derry 0-7

TRY as he might, Gerard O’Kane couldn’t kick the habit.

WILL tomorrow deliver rain or blue skies? Like the weather in this part of the world, you might hope for sunshine but common sense says you should always bring your brolly (no pun intended).

Derry 0-13 Galway 2-7

Derry 1-9 Monaghan 0-14

FOOTBALLER of the Year Stephen O’Neill has lost his fitness battle ahead of this weekend’s Ulster Football Championship clash with Derry.

QUB 1-9, UUJ 1-8

Derry and Westmeath clash for the first time in the championship today as both sides bid to secure a place in the All-Ireland semi-finals.

Wexford have made one change to their side for this Sunday's All-Ireland hurling semi-final against Cork.

PAUL CODD, a member of one of Wexford’s most famous hurling dynasties, has been drafted in by the Leinster champions for Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland SHC semi-final clash with Cork at Croke Park.

AN All-Ireland minor medal winner in 2001, Cian O’Connor takes over the right half-back position from the injured John Gardiner on the Cork team to play Wexford in next Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland SHC semi-final at Croke Park.

CROKE PARK have defended the decision to delay the Derry-Dublin All Ireland football qualifier for a week, despite angry objections from Derry GAA chiefs.

THE Longford team for Sunday’s All-Ireland MFC semi-final against Derry shows one change from the team which defeated Meath in the recent Leinster final.