that we use in your basic biology classes. All dissections start with the external anatomy. For instance, you can see the nictitating membrane that covers the eye, the tympanic membrane, which is the eardrum, which is this disc behind the eye, the front legs, which are not webbed, and the back legs, which are webbed. You can see the nostrils from the top. And then when you cut the frog's mouth, you can also see them from the inside. Dissections will have you cut the angles of the mouth so that you can open them up wider. This one's already been cut. And then view the internal features of the mouth. For example, at the back of the throat, kind of a circular opening there is the esophagus. If you go a little bit farther towards the tongue, there's a slit, which goes to the lungs. And that's the glottis. There it is. That's the glottis. The tongue attaches to the front of the mouth. These two openings here are the eustachian tubes. And if you look to where they go to, they actually attach to the tympanic membrane. And they equalize pressure when the frog dives. There are two sets of teeth around the edge is the maxillary teeth. And you have two kind of pointy teeth here at the roof of the mouth called the vomarine teeth. Those are next to the nostrils, which you can also see from the inside. So just to recap, nostrils, eustachian tubes, esophagus, glottis, tongue, maxillary teeth, vomarine teeth, nictitating membrane, tympanic membrane.


The question I'm being asked is, can you or should you call the IRCC call center? Call for your number if you have a complex immigration question. That's a very good question. So the answer is yes and no. The thing is what we always recommend clients to do if you're submitting the application by yourself and you're doing everything by yourself. If you have an important question, yes, call the call center. But we actually recommend to call five times. Because you'll be surprised to see that every time you call, you have a different answer. So sometimes when you call multiple times, you'll get bits and pieces of different answers. And that'll help you make a final decision. The thing is immigration is extremely complicated. And some agents that you speak to have a lot of experience. Other ones are junior ones or they're freshly trained. Some of them specialize in certain types of applications. Some of them are just having a great day and will give you a lot of information. Other ones just are kind of short and impatient. So I usually say always call at least five times and take down detailed information. The other thing is, and I'm sure you know this, if you've called the call center, sometimes you can call for days and you can't get through. Other times you can, sometimes you have to wait a very, very long time. Here at the office, we often have, I'll hear a little music in the background for a long time. And I know that one of my case coordinator is on hold with IRCC for a very long time. So you have to be very patient, keep trying. And of course, if you have a very complicated case, then it's always best to seek legal advice with an expert immigration lawyer. I hope this was helpful.


Hello, everyone. Welcome to Options with Doug. Streaming live daily on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel at 1.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Before I get started, I need to go through the Disclosures. General disclosure, all Bookmap limited materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Risk disclosure, trading futures, equities, and options involve substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Here's my contact information. The best way to get in touch with me is through Discord. My name on Discord is Doug P. Also in Bookmap Discord, the Options-Doug Chat channel. That's a great place to post questions, comments, and content all related to the topic of this presentation as well as the primary topics of the channel, which are options, order flow, the impact of options markets on stocks and futures, and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two-step process for trading and the first is planning, and I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day-to-day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as a directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real-time order flow in Bookmap and real-time market maker hedging flow in SpotGamaHero to confirm my thesis and for setups for entries and exits. And when I talk about setups today, I will be talking about setups in an underlying asset. My analysis is based on the options market order flow and hedging flow, but the setup I will be talking about in underlying asset setups can be taken with futures, options, or shares of stock. Questions and comments are welcome, and I will be watching both the options-dug chat channel and Discord as well as the chat and YouTube for your questions and comments, so please feel free to post. All right, my agenda for today, what I want to cover is news items, economic data events, and earnings for today as well as the rest of the week. Then I'll go through my positional analysis. Excuse me. Then I'll review setups, and I'll go as cover as much as I can until 2 p.m., and then that is the FOMC announcement. And then finally, we'll cover the live market, look at the live market at 2 p.m. All right, so news items for today. Obviously, the FOMC announcement at 2 p.m. Eastern time, and then the press conference begins at 2.30, just as my presentation will wrap up. So again, I'll cover as much as I can up to 2 p.m., and then we'll stop and watch the live market, primarily the S&P 500. All right, so first of all, again, FOMC meeting today, and the market, the CME Futures, this is the CME Fed Watch Tool pricing in a 99% chance that there's no increase. So the current target rate, that's the current rate 525 to 550, and the market is pricing in a 99% chance that that remains the same, and that a 1% chance of a 25 basis point increase. All right, so with this expectation, this high, the market will obviously be, market participants, the algos will be parsing the statement, and then the press conference for any changes. All right, just one note that Spot Gamma is looking for a pretty big move after this meeting, either up to the 4,500 SPX call wall, or down to the SPX 4,400 call wall, and we'll take a look at those levels in just a minute. All right, so that is the big event for today and the rest of the week. I didn't see any other high impact data coming out for the rest of the week. All right, let's get started with positional analysis now. This is the ES Futures, S&P 500 Futures in Bookmap, and before I take a closer look at this chart, I want to take a look at a larger time frame. I'm going to start with the 30 day one hour chart for SPX. This is showing the August 18th options expiration put dominated negative gamma rally that began on that day. And then here is the September expiration, slightly positive gamma, but very call dominated. And so far, price is trending lower after the September expiration. All right, let me point out some levels on this chart. First of all, the dash purple lines are showing the lower and upper weekly expected move. This is just based on the options market. That's what the options market was pricing in for the week. And then the dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. And right now it looks like SPX is trading within that range that may change in 20 minutes. And the expected move for SPX today was plus or minus about 30 points. All right, let me point out all right, let me point out spot gamma levels on this chart. First of all, pretty narrow range here. Here's the 4400 put wall. These are proprietary spot gamma levels shown with the dark red lines. So that's the put wall, the strike with the largest net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support. The next level up is 4450. That is the volatility trigger that has spot gamma's proprietary gamma flip level. Below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment, market makers have to trade with price to hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to enhance or increase volatility. On the other hand, above that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. In a positive gamma environment, market makers have to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure. And that tends to subdue volatility. And then finally, the call wall is at 4500. That's the strike with the largest absolute positive gamma. That is also the absolute gamma strike. So the strike with the largest absolute positive and negative gamma. And the call wall can be expected to act as resistance. So again, spot gamma was looking for a large move after the announcement today, either down to the put wall or up to the call wall. All right, let's take a look at the levels that are in play for today. Just to give you some perspective here, we'll include a little bit of yesterday. So now it looks like these two levels, the zero gamma level, did act as support in the morning. And now price is broken below that level. And also the volatility trigger. So the zero gamma level is at 4451. And the volatility trigger just below that at 4455. And note the there were there was only one shift lower in levels for SPX from yesterday to today. Actually, no, they're just one one shift lower. The volatility trigger shifted slightly lower from 4460 to 4450. All right, let's go back to book map. So in book map, I have my my own cloud notes. And I'm showing SPX levels, there's the 4450 and the 4451. 51 acting as support earlier today. I also have spy levels on this chart. There's the 444, 443, and prices pretty much for most of the cash open session traded within that range between spy 443 and 444. And now there's a pretty big price difference between SPX and ES. And today when I looked at it this morning, it was about 46 points. So ES 4450, I'm sorry, SPX 4450 is actually at ES 4496. So ES minus SPX today is 46. And we'll talk about setups in a few minutes. So, you know, all this is will change pretty significantly in 15, 16 minutes. All right, let's take a look at NASDAQ most likely. Take a look at NASDAQ, take a look at the levels and play. So here's the actually before I take a look at the start, let me go to a couple of charts. First of all, QQQ to see the levels and play for today. Note this combo level, combo all one. It's an important level combination of QQQ and NDX Gamma acted as resistance just before the cash open. And again, just after the cash open. And now the 370 level is acting as resistance. 370 is the absolute gamma strike. And I forgot to mention for spy, both the call wall and absolute gamma strike move lower. Call wall down to 450 and the absolute gamma strike down to 440. And for QQQ the put wall did shift slightly quite lower, quite a bit lower from 370 to 350. Spot gamma noted that was because of the addition of about 25,000 puts at the 350 level. All right, then finally, let's take a look at NDX. And on this just a little bit. So here's the NDX call wall at 15,250. And then prices now hovering trading around the volatility trigger at 175. All right, those levels are shown on my bookmap chart. And my cloud notes again. There's the NDX 250 call wall. There's the QQQ 370 absolute gamma strike. And then the NDX 175 volatility trigger. All right, so this the levels and play for today. We'll take a look at setups in a few minutes, just from from this morning. We'll see what options traders are doing as well. All right, let's take a look at gamma notional. We'll see how market makers were positioned on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day. This will give us an idea of how market makers may react to changes in price and applied volatility. So this is gamma notional. Again, market makers position on the gamma curve at the beginning of the day for SPX, SPI, NDX and QQQ. Note all these numbers are negative. This is at the beginning of the day. Quite negative for SPI 1.92 billion negative. Also negative for SPX and for QQQ. So this indicates for those indices that traders are long puts. Makes sense before an FOMC announcement. Market makers are short puts and they have to trade with price to hedge their delta exposure. And let's take a look at the Vana model now. This is the Vana model for SPX. And let's just check for SPX. See where price is trading now. So I've got around 44 or 48. So that's pretty close to the bottom of the Vana model here. So that's showing, let's zoom in on this. So somewhere just to the right of this line. So showing a very slight Vana tailwind. What this chart is showing is market makers delta notional. It's their delta exposure and how that changes with price on the horizontal axis. So delta notional on the vertical axis, price on the horizontal axis. There are two curves on this chart. The gray line is just showing how market makers delta notional will change with changes in price. And then the purple curve adds implied volatility to the equation. And that is showing how market makers delta notional will change with changes in price and implied volatility. So as I was saying before, if price increases and volatility decreases implied volatility, there's a slight Vana tailwind. Market makers can buy back short futures. But that's only good for a few points. And then that Vana model really levels out. All right, so that's the Vana model for SPX. Let's just take a look at QQQ so we can get a sense of NASDAQ. So this curve is a little bit more typical of a negative gamma environment with a steep skew to the left. So I've got QQQ trading right around 369. So showing a little bit more of a Vana tailwind for QQQ. Price increases, wrong tool, price increases, implied volatility drops, market makers can buy back short futures. All right, let's take a look at some setups now and we'll see what options traders are doing. I'm going to start with the SMB 500. This is the hero signal, hedging impact real-time options. What this chart is showing is price for SPX and options trades and market maker hedging activity for a combined signal for SPX, SPY, XSP, and ES futures. So if you treat any form of the SMB 500, this is the signal that you want to take a look at. All right, let's assume that on this chart. So this is the cash open right here. Note this huge drop looks like a big block order right at the open, at the cash open. And let's take a look, separate outputs and calls. So somebody was created, I bought a lot of puts that's shown by the blue line, falling blue line, negative, negative notional value here, minus 2.4 billion. They are buying calls also, so they're buying puts. Right now that is 400 million positive. So put buyers definitely in charge today, much more aggressive. Let's just take a look and see what they were doing the last time I checked this and think or swim. This is SPX and this is the put volume. This may be hard to see, but this is the all these purple little rectangles indicating puts that expire today. So traders are buying September 20 puts. Let's just see what they're doing the last time I checked this. So I'm going to scroll up to the options chain for today. And the last time I checked this, this is the high volume for puts. And that is 44, actually 4455 to 4400, maybe 4395. I think it's 4500. So notice all the high volume. This is volume for today. These are the strikes. These are what large traders are doing. You can obviously see the concentration of volume there in the 20 September options in the 4455 to 4400 strikes. All right, so they're buying puts. All right, let's take a look. So that really, if you were trading this morning, set up a nice short right around here, right around 1012. So traders were buying puts. Initially they were buying calls. That activity stopped. They actually started selling calls and price dropped pretty sharply. Sharply as it can today in this pretty narrow range. So let's go take a look at book map. Go back to ES futures. So anyway, if you're trading this morning looking for a short, here's that series of lower highs and then the short set up, that quick drop from 444 to 443. All right, let's go back to hero now. See what options traders are doing. So they continue to buy puts and they're right around 140. They started buying calls again and price responded higher about 10 minutes later. Let's just check and see zero DTE. Sorry about that. I don't know why it zooms out so much. So the bulk of the volume is in the zero DTE puts. We saw that in thinkorswim, but they're also buying long term puts as well. So this kind of light blue line is showing options that expire today. These are the puts they're buying that expire today. And then the blue line is showing all expiration. So that is options longer term options. So they're buying short term and longer term puts. Again, they're also buying calls, but the put buyers more aggressive. Well, let's take a look at NASDAQ. I've got about four minutes left. I'm going to zoom in on this. So this is a combined signal for NDX and QQQ. And let's take a look. There was a set up this morning. Nice divergent short options traders taking negative delta positions. It took price a few minutes then responded lower. And then it looks like right around 1120 options traders started taking positive delta positions again. And price responded higher a few minutes later. All right, let's go take a look at book map.  So here's the short set up at 371. That divergent short. That was good for about two points in QQQ. We're about 80 points or so in NNQ with that divergent short confirmed by order flow. Give me just a moment. I want to get CNBC running on my other computer just so I can see any commentary. And hello, Hunter. Welcome. Glad you're here. All right, so we're waiting on the Fed decision. So here's the here's the long set up preceded somewhat by large traders buying ice with iceberg orders they use to hide their size. And these are pretty small. But you know, that's to be expected before the FOMC announcement. All right, let's go back to the SAP500. Interesting, this large iceberg order was in on this. You can see by the falling light blue line, right? I've got about 30 seconds. So I think between what I'm saying in YouTube, there is a delay 20 seconds. So we know options traders have been buying puts all day, both zero DTE as well as further out expirations. All right, 2 p.m. Initial reaction sharp drop lower. Put some in this. So no change. And Hunter, yes, just contact me in Discord, Doug P with a direct message. And I'll I'll be glad to answer your questions about one on one mentoring. All right, so it looks like so far an initial bearish reaction looks like the put buyers were were on the right side of the trade so far. So I'm watching CNBC. I haven't seen anything about the about the statement. So a quick drop from 443, which was around, which was support earlier today down to the 4435 level that was noted as support in the spot game. I am Founder's note. We'll see what options traders are doing. Let's go back to SAP500. Actually, let's I'm going to go back to a quicker look back period so we can get a instead of looking at the entire day's worth of data, I'm just going to look at the last 30 minutes. Zoom in. So they started buying calls right around 130 shown by the rising orange line. And then the put buyers kind of stopped. So price responded higher until the announcement dropped sharply sharply lower. Traders continue to buy puts. Let's go back to book map. Note all the sell iceberg orders and the green volume dots. Those are showing buy minus sell market orders. There were some aggressive buyers there and large traders selling selling that with iceberg orders. Large traders continue to sell with iceberg orders. So the move lower is being fueled by put buyers, large traders with iceberg orders. Looks like there were also some sell stop orders that shown by the yellow line, the following yellow line. Now aggressive buyers stepping in shown by the CVD line, cumulative volume delta, maybe finding support at the 4435 level. We'll see. Let's go see what options traders are doing again. So it looks like the call buyers have taken their foot off the gas. Traders continue to buy puts back to book map. So still looking bearish CNB says the fed indicates inflation remains elevated. So that was in the statement. Job growth slowed but remained strong. Let's check on Nasdaq. And Hunter, I'm not sure what DII is. This is, I'm showing you what I trade here. ES, Nasdaq futures, and then primarily large cap stocks. Sorry, I don't trade the Dow Jones. If you're interested in, again, one-on-one, want to talk about it, we can do that. But normally I don't trade the Dow. Most traders that I know trade either ES or NQ or some, the Russell 2000 RTY. But the two primary futures contracts, equity futures contracts, and ETFs that I trade are SMB 500 and Nasdaq. All right. So sharp move lower in Nasdaq down to the 300 level in Q300 level, as well as the QQQ 368 level. Let's go take a look at hero, go to Nasdaq. So remember we're on a 30-minute look back period. So this looks bearish. Spot Gamma talks about this when the call and put line are going in the same direction, either up or down. That is a very strong signal. So when traders are selling calls and buying puts, that's very bearish. All right. I'm going to go back to all day looking at the data for the entire day. Let's just take a look at the total signal. Still bearish. We can scan through some stocks real quick. See what traders are doing there. There's Apple. Definitely a bearish setup today. That was one of the setups that I was going to talk about. Apple AMD. Divergence short this morning. Sharp move up. Options traders really weren't supporting it. Price reverse lower. Great hunter. Again, just contact me through a DM direct message and we can set something up. All right. So AMD. Let's take a look at Meta maybe. Continues lower. Microsoft moving lower as well. Nvidia. Let's just take a look at this. This was another great divergent short setup this morning. Notice the hero signal falling with price increasing. Setting up a short. Nvidia continues to move lower. Let me just check something here. Interesting. So bonds are slightly higher. The note ZN is actually flat. And the ZB just a little bit higher. So actually the 10 year, 30 year actually slightly lower for the day. Two year slightly higher. So I'm looking at treasuries. All right. Let's scan through on book map. Scan through some of these stocks. SAP 500. It looks like it is chopping around now. All right. Let's go to book map. Take a look at some stocks. So it looks like NDX, NASDAQ, NQ may have found support at the 368, 300 level. Here's Apple. Short set up this morning. Talked about that. AMD. Divergent short after that sharp move up. Meta. Pretty similar pattern. Quick move up in the morning. Then price moving lower. Microsoft pretty much weak from the open. Trend break and a move lower in Nvidia with that divergent short set up. Let's go back to the SAP 500. So possible support at the 4435, 442 level. See what options traders are doing. All right. So there was a sharp drop. Traders taking negative delta positions. Consolidation. And now they are taking positive delta positions. Let's take a look at NASDAQ. All right. So similar drop lower, but more of a consolidation instead of a steep rise like the SAP 500. Let's go back to book map. So now NASDAQ consolidating between 368, 369. Let's go back to the SAP 500. Let's go back and check hero. NASDAQ still flat to sightly rising. Starting around 209. Let's see what traders are doing. It doesn't provide much clarity. The total signal helps more. So right around 209, traders started taking positive delta positions slightly. So the balance shifted slightly positive delta about nine or 10 minutes after the announcement back to the SAP 500. All right. So about the same time, the balance has shifted, shifted positive positive delta. And for the SAP 500, a little bit more prominent shift to positive delta about the same time as NASDAQ. Steeper line for hero. Let's go back to book map. All right. Does anyone have any questions, any stocks that you want me to take a look at? Just let me know and I'll look at anything you want to. So it looks like at this point, the markets are in a waiting consolidation, waiting mode for the press conference that begins in 10 minutes. So a sharp move lower. Options traders continue to take negative delta positions. Then a consolidation with support around the 4435 level. Let's take a look at NASDAQ again. Same thing. Quick move lower. Traders taking negative delta options positions. This drop in NASDAQ. Definitely fueled by stop orders. Shown by the drop. The yellow line. Also that red. Small red dot there. Those are sell stop orders. Fueled that quick move lower. Also some large traders in selling with iceberg orders. Those numbers are not significant. Really 50, but they were still helping to move NASDAQ lower. And large traders continue to sell with iceberg orders. Shown by the falling light blue line in the sub chart. So again, it looks like waiting C mode at this point. Let's check hero see what options traders are doing. So for the SMB 500, there was an initial burst higher about 210. Traders taking positive delta positions. And it looks like that has pretty much flattened off leveled off. Go back to the shorter timeframe. And that really that shows they are starting. They've really stopped taking positive delta positions. Starting to take negative delta positions. Although that line is definitely more choppy than the one day cumulative or look back period. Let's go to NASDAQ. So now it's turning more sharply negative. Let's take a look at puts and calls. So it looks like they have stopped buying calls. Maybe slightly selling calls. Start up buying puts again. Add those lines together to get the total signal and it's it is dropping. Again, wait and see mode before the press conference begins back to book map. All right, so net for the day pretty bearish day. Again, the SB 500 maybe finding support at the 4435 level as well as the spy 442 Kilma to volume delta definitely rising aggressive buyers coming in. No, they actually started around 140. Then came in right at right after the announcement.  That green dot there small green dot shows that that was 580 by stop orders. Field that little jump higher to that liquidity in the order book. Those are resting cell orders. I can darken that up a bit. Limit cell orders and now price moving higher. Let's go take a look at hero again. So the hero signal after 110 overall continues to move higher. Let's take a look at NASDAQ. Remember want a 30 minute look back period. Let's smooth that out a little bit. Still shows a lot of positive delta positions coming in right about 224 223. Let's go to book map. So it looks like NASDAQ has broken out of this QQQ range the 369 to or 368 to 369. NASDAQ has broken above the 369 level. All right. Anyone have any questions comments? I'm going to wrap it up in a couple minutes. Any stocks again? If you have any stocks you want me to take a look at please let me know. Let's just take a look at VIX see what applied volatility is doing. So as a proxy for implied volatility we'll look at VIX. Interesting. Sharp move lower. Move higher. Now moving down. Bullish signal. Let's see when the so it really started moving lower. All around 215. So right around here for NASDAQ the final test of the 300 level. And for ES that was the final test so far of the 442 level. All right. Looks like the press conference is about to begin. This is all I have for today. I want to thank everyone for watching. Thank you for your questions and comments. And I will see you tomorrow. We'll cover the aftermath of the FOMC announcement and press conference. Now it looks like let's just take one quick look at HERO again for the SB500. That's odd price going lower and HERO going higher. Oh that's for NASDAQ. Same for the SB500. So right at the moment options traders are we're not driving price for at least a few minutes. Now price is responding. So Powell says he remains strongly committed to the 2% inflation target. All right. So anyway it looks like the market likes what he's saying. So I'm going to wrap it up again. Thanks everyone. Thanks for watching. Thanks for your questions and comments. And we'll cover the aftermath tomorrow. Thanks again. Bye.


It's time to talk, get a games on Highlands and in particular an exciting weekend ahead in the conclusion to the Alliance National Football Leagues and in particular Division 1 and 2, which is the Northwest focus on. To take a look at this, I'm joined by our match analyst, Martin McEwan from the Irish News, GA writer, Cajaroke and gentlemen, you're welcome to Highland once again. Well, the way it is, guys, as we know, Kerry will top Division 1 and will go to the final. All we are promoted and down are relegated. Other than that, there's a lot to be decided, five promotions and five relegations to be decided this coming weekend. Martin, it certainly does make for a grandstand, finished to a league, so it does. Yeah, definitely, it makes for a great weekend of football and particularly a great Sunday of football. And looking at it, you know, I always remember when the Premiership, the last day of the Premiership, it was always good weather and we're looking forward to it and you'd have a great occasion and everything else and I think it's going to be the exact same thing on Sunday. So it just shows you what the league means. We look at the league, you have the teams in their division that are equal and everything else, so you have no hammers or anything else that will happen in the Championship. So yeah, really looking forward to it. It's supposed to be a big question to be asked at the weekend. Does anybody want to play Kerry in the final of the Fallen weekend with the Championship only a couple of weeks away? That's hard to know. Is any of these other teams that can get to the final against them, do they want to play them or not? Yeah. It's a huge weekend, Keher. It's fantastic for the league that it's going to end like this. It is. It is. And funny you were talking there is, you know, something we maybe don't do very well is market this particular weekend because sort of the state of affairs most years where there's a lot to be decided on the final day and we maybe don't market it all that well. You know, I suppose TG Keher made a good first at it at the weekend with the Hurlin and their sort of split screen idea, but there's just so much going on around the country that, you know, it is supposed to enthrall for people that are interested in it. There's a whole lot to be decided whether anybody wants to be playing Kerry as another issue, whether we maybe need to look at the idea of league finals in the titan calendar and the fact that, you know, hand on heart, I'd say most teams probably don't want to play in them, given how close they are to the championship. So there might be something there to look at as well. Yeah. Well, before we look at the top, obviously we've got the Northwest interest in the form of Donegal and Tarone. Basically, it's a case that both teams need to win if they are going to avoid relegation. How big an order is that for both of the sides this weekend? Martin, Donegal of home advantage against our map, but Tarone have to go to Kerry. So they do. Yeah. Well, first of all, we look at it from a Tarone point of view, if they've gone down to Kerry, I remember what happened in the last time they're down to Kerry and then they won the All Ireland the same year, so it depends on what team Kerry put out. Now, you have to save. If you were Jack O'Connor on the Kerry management team with the league final of following weekend, you would definitely rest players that would you do. You'd look at it from your own point of view. You're not going to worry about any other county. You're preparing for the championship down the road and nothing else. So I feel that Kerry will rest a lot of players, a lot of the big name players, particularly at the weekend. And you know, looking at that there, you'd expect maybe Tarone to pick up the two points down in Kerry and from Donegal's point of view, us, you know, playing in Latter-Kinney, bad record in Latter-Kinney and everything else, but look at the record went or other record went in Balboffay, the last day against Monah, and maybe it's no harm to sort out this record in Latter-Kinney as well this weekend, because I know from a club point of view, all the players playing for the county love playing in Latter-Kinney. So the problem is, it's a big game in Latter-Kinney.  The fact that they're playing Donegal four weeks time, would they like another shot at Kerry in Crow Park? Maybe they would. No one cared in the beginning that he would maybe like to have another go with them. They were very impressive in the first game against Dublin in Crow Park. So they maybe want to play Kerry again after last weekend in Crow Park and in the league final, I mean, that's what team he takes while he rest players and everything else. I mean, he has to have one eye on the championship game down the road as well. So I think done Tarone played Donegal, maybe Kerry will be far better with me with dates and everything else. A few years ago in a league match and beat them and Balboffay and then Donegal beat them in the channel that game was in Balboffay, beat them in the championship in Balboffay later on later on the year. So it's it's a lot of cat and mouse stuff and everything else and what's going to happen. But Donegal need to one and Tarone probably need to one to be sure that both teams are safe. So it's a game, maybe that particularly Donegal, the fact of playing our ma would have liked to be safe before this. But yeah, we need the two points. And please God, we'll get them on Sunday. Does Declan Boter, do you think Kehar want to make a statement for Donegal in this game against Armaa given that in three weeks time, the three or four weeks time, they're going to be beaten again in the championship in Balboffay? I think it's a game where where you kind of feel that Donegal are going to have to match Armaa's fire for it. I mean, it probably still lead to Armaa, the the Ulster semi-finals a couple of years ago when they were talked up and Donegal wiped them off the face of the earth that day. And I suppose that set Armaa's championship ambitions back a long way that day because you sort of you thought they were getting there. And then you realized that they were they were probably still nowhere near at that point. And, you know, Armaa still is as good a league as they've had. We'll we'll feel there are definitely a lot of points to prove one of them being in Balboffay in a month's time. That'll be the biggest one. I think Donegal have to come at it in the sense that they're not safe, obviously. So there'll be no softness. I can't see Armaa taking the game soft at all. I think Keir McGeaney will want to lay down a bit of a marker in one way. He'll also want to learn a fair bit in terms of who picks up, you know, if Michael Murphy plays on the edge of the square, slightly different. You know, Aiden Forker has picked them up a couple of times when he's when he's playing deeper. But if Murphy plays on the edge of the square, who picks them up? Who goes on Paddy McBrady at the minute on the form he's in? On the other side, you have who, you know, for Donegal, who picks up Rihanna Neal? You're probably looking at Brent McCulloch at the minute, like, but, you know, I think both managers will be looking at it, as Martin said, one eye very much on that sort of thing as to as to how individual battles go on the day. But I think, I mean, Donegal will be will be just very wary of the drop. They're they're they're in a fairly precarious position. They're the way the thing things sudden is there much to learn on Sunday for both sides, Martin, given the fact that Ulster Counties know each other so well. We differ, maybe if it was a side that you were playing down the country. Well, suppose when you look at it from our last point of view, they started the league off very, very well, and people were saying, oh, the level of fitness was very, very high. You know, everything else going into the first couple of games of the league and they they met double on their own. And then they did a bit of a slip off that and they got back on track against Kildare and everything else. And everybody's saying that was at the game last Sunday. They were very, very impressive against against Kerry and and and that's letting grounds and the difference in them.   They kept, you know, they controlled aggression, which which the way they play and everything else. So they definitely have improved. And you look at it, you say that that we look back to that game that Kehar was on about there in Breffney Park that Donegal won easily in the championship game. I think from that time, you'd have to think that our math improved when Donegal have gone gone back since that there when we look at it. And Donegal are going to be short then play a few players on Sunday. And probably our mark coming with near enough, a clean, a clean ball of health with them and everything else. So I think I think Kehar is right. Kearn McGinney likes to win every game he plays. That's that's the way he plays, but like Mickey Hart was in the past. So I think our math will come with a very strong team. So it's a big test for Donegal. And I think that as we looked at it from from the marking point of view, that would be the big one looking forward to the championship or anything else. Can you get the edge on the on that other player and can you know, the likes of Brent McColl, you know, did a great job on Kearn, Kilkenny last week. Can he do the same job on Rayon and Eileen and everything else? And no, Kerry dropped Morley back as a sweeper in front. It'll be important who Donegal drop in that role in front of in front of memory. So yeah, it's going to be a bit cagey and everything else. But from Donegal's point of view, they need to win the match. And that's the most important thing. And whatever way you have to want it, you have to want it from our math point of view, you know, it's not the end of the world that they don't want to win the match, but they would probably like to still, you know, want it and go go into the into the game in four weeks time and get a league final, which is definitely going to help them are my players and other game in Crow Park and looking at it from the point of view of going into going into the Donegal game on on a fair high and giving them confidence, considering exactly what Kara said about the hammering they got the last time they played Donegal. So they definitely want to put that to bed. Kara, just on Tarone, would it be the end of the world of Tarone losing and Kerry at the weekend and end up end up on Division Two? I think recent history tells us not the end of the world for Tarone, given that we've been in Division Two twice in the last seven or eight years and done all right out of it. I think reached the Northern Semifinal out of it in 2014, 2015, whatever year it was, they were be carrying the Northern Semifinal. You know, I don't I don't think it's the end of the world for them. I think there I think I was on with the ocean at the start of the year. And I said that I expected to start slowly and could be in a wee bit of relegation while they're coming into it. I don't think there's anybody really too surprised at how their league campaign has sort of panned out for them. They will be keen to avoid it. I suppose Kerry will probably rest a few players, Martin's right. But Kilarney has not been a or trolley. Kerry in general has not been a happy hunting ground for for Tarone. I think their last five visits, the average feet is 12 points. Like average margin of the feet is 12 points. So, you know, is Jack O'Connor going to look at the All-Ireland champions are coming here and we have an opportunity to relegate them. Is that a big enough incentive for Jack O'Connor to go, you know what? Yes, we've got a league final coming up. But it'll be another game before the championship. Will they go out at full pelt? There's definitely a wee there's definitely a wee. But the idea of relegating the All-Ireland champions certainly I think Kerry will still be very hurt by the All-Ireland semi-final last year, you know, on the on the circus that was around it. And then the way that the game went and, you know, they I'm I have no doubt that they would very much feel that they left the game behind them with the chances they missed and David Clifford got off injured in the normal time and different things. Like, you know, Kerry will be looking at it very much again. You know, how much of a marker do they need or want to put down? I would imagine that they'll they'll probably want to put something on to run at the weekend. And the idea of relegating them probably does probably does interest Kerry, but all right. They I don't I don't foresee a wholesale change. I think you'll maybe you'll get, you know, if you have Sean O'Shea back in the pen, what way he is, you might still look at the like a jack savage getting a wee bit more game time or, you know, things that got maybe Kylian Spallant get a wee bit more game time or. You know, I don't see beyond that. I don't see them going wholesale changes. And it just it makes it makes it a very tricky assignment for Taroum. Yeah, Martin, I know after the male game earlier in the year, we did, of course, see Donny Gall in their opening match and the times there was questions and Donny Gall since then, of course, have picked up two victories. We're going to draw along the way, Martin, of course, in our camp campaign. You did say at the end of it that that could be a crucial point. Could that be the point in Sunday that keeps Donny Gall in Division One? Yeah, well, hopefully, hopefully it is, as they say. You know, I still I don't agree with Carol and Kerry. I believe that Jack O'Connell will, in my opinion, rest players. I think that's a sensible thing for Kerry to do. I mean, remember last year, Taroum were down in the Nile and we lose them in the league and we saw what happened to the championship. So I'd be shocked if he doesn't now. Maybe maybe he's looking at that they're they're such a rivalry between Taroum and Kerry that they'll want to relegate them or put them in that position and everything else. But I think Taroum or Kerry are looking at one in the National League and maybe the bigger picture down the road. But from Donny Gall's point of view, we should have got the two points that day was almost looking at now. If we had the six points, he still wouldn't be safe. Anyway, in the league, you still would have to nearly get at least to draw against against our man Sunday. But I think local and from Donny Gall's point of view, it's been an up and down league. You know, there's been some good performance and some very poor performance and suppose that's what the league's about. But sometimes in the league and maybe it's a good position to be going into and Donny Gall that we have to get a victory on Sunday. Sunday is a good way to go into the league, the last game of the league, because other teams are going into and they don't know do we want to play Kerry in the final? We don't know what kind of a team we want to put out. Is it sometimes looking at us like it's a challenge game because it doesn't really matter because we look at Mayo from Mayo's point of view. They are looking at, I think if they get to the league final, it's two weeks in that league final, they play a Galway and that's a massive game for both teams situation. So because Galway are out there going to be out in the league final as well that weekend. So I think local and you don't want to show your hand too much early on, but from Donny Gall's point of view, I think it's not a bad thing. We've got to won a game. We've got to won a game in there, Kenny, and we've got to get out there and show what we're about. And my opinion, keep woods to the game, carry the ball as much as we can and run at our mark. And then definitely we saw last Sunday when we kicked high ball into the Dublin full back lane, the problems we caused with them, maybe start putting more ball in and on top of whatever full back lanes we're playing against. But I think it's a good way to go into the last game of the league. I think even you could get beat, you could end up staying up and everything else. So from that point of view, it's a good game, but it'll be calculators all out all over Ireland on Sunday. Full live match commentary of course from Donny Gall against Donny Gall this coming Sunday, of course, taking on our map at the Donnell Park and letter, Kenny. A full house, of course, expected as well. Fingers crossed is going to be a good occasion for Donny Gall. Kehar, what about the occasion that's going to be in Clonus? The two sides bringing up the end of the table, Dublin and Monaghan. Whoever wins here will look to be safe in the division. Can the dubs continue their winning form? Like what they've had over the last two games, Kehar. Or does Bante have a surprise for them coming to Clonus on Sunday, do you think? It's a strange one, because you looked at the Monaghan game against Kerry, and they were actually watching that game back. And actually Monaghan played a lot better in the first half than they were probably given credit for, but they were dreadful in the second half. And the goals that they considered were bad, and then they came down and ended Donny Gall's run in Balbuffet. And you're thinking, right, well, they've had their blip, and most teams in most leagues at some stage will have a bad performance. And you kind of thought Monaghan was the second half against Kerry, and then they went out of the weekend, and were, I think, fairly terrible against Kildare again. You just start to wonder where exactly they're at at the minute. I mean, Dublin have lost to Clonus in the racing past, but just the way that things have gone for Dublin in the last few weeks, I think they would definitely be going there as favorites. I think most people would fancy a Dublin to win that and stay up, but I think looking at it this morning there, that game just goes to prove how tight Division One has been, where realistically and feasibly, you could get the six points and still get relegated. And no team has been relegated on six points for 18 years out of Division One, or it was 1B at that stage, or Mies were relegated on six points. So that's how tight the margins are, and it's come, I suppose, people will maybe say, ah, Monah, I've dropped off a wee bit or whatever, but it's not too often you get Armah pushing on from a good first year. Kildare have come up undone really, really well as well. And so the gap that Monah might have had, and the wee bit of a safety net beneath them of a team being weaker than them, or a couple of teams being weaker than them, has kind of disappeared, and everybody's kind of in the group. I don't think Monah are any worse this year than they were last year. I don't think they're any better, but I think they're looking at the longest unbroken run in Division One outside, double and carry at the minute, and it just might be on its way out. Yeah. What about a draw on Clonus Kerr? Everybody finishing on five points, goes to score a difference? Just for the crack. Just for the crack. One really right, one not really right. Yeah, okay. Listen, before we go to Division Two then, I'm going to ask your predictions at the weekend in the relegation. Fadkar, who do you see going down? Is there going to be a big call? I see Monah and probably going down, and then that leaves. To be honest, I still think Throne are in trouble. I still think Throne are in trouble down in carry. Okay, two Ulster teams going down. What about you, Martin? Yeah, I wouldn't rule out Monah and Dublin, both going down. That the end up is hopefully Donny Guller, good enough to beat Armagh. I think Mayor showing signs last weekend with a team they put out against Throne that they don't want to get to the league final. And if they put out some team in Kildare, good enough to get a victory in it. Kildare probably got picked up most of their points at home, and I don't know if they picked up any points away from home at all. I think they've got, didn't they, they beat Monah and they beat Dublin and they drew with Kerri. And that's the five points they got. So they haven't won a game or picked up any points away from home. So this is a big one for them, but Mayor continue to experiment and put out a weaker team. You expect maybe Kildare could have won that. So you could have Throne won in and Kerri, and you could have Donny Gull won in, and you could have Kildare won in, and Dublin could go down, and Monah and the two teams down on six points. So one thing I'd like to say about Dublin, and I saw them last weekend, I think from number five to number 15 or 16 or 17 of the players they have, I think they're the best in the country. But I think they have a serious problem from one to four. And I think that's what could end up letting them down. But from five, when they get the two smalls to come back into the team, they've got the two smalls who might get in the team in Conakalla, I think that's going to make them very, very strong.  So I think they're the best in the country. And I just think their problem is definitely in their full back lane and their goalkeeper. And that's for the problem now, can they patch that up or not? And if they do, they're still going to be very, very hard to beat. But I'm putting them down that they're going to be relegated along with Manu. You're laughing at them, Keher. No, not a but, not a but. Yeah, we'll wait and see what happens on Sunday. Let's step in quickly to Division Two, Keher. I know you were in home bag last week. You watched Derry. It wasn't the best Derry performance this year against what's looking to be a very, very strong Galway team. But Derry know that they have to win at Meath at the weekend and hope that the tribesmen can do them a bit of a favourite, Keher, if they're going to go to the top flight. Yep, Galway were mighty impressive. Now I had to say in home bag, aside from whatever performance Derry produced, I think at their best Derry would have struggled with that Galway team on Sunday, the way they played. It has taken it out of their hands and I suppose the frustration, Shane McGuigan was a big loss against Galway. But again, the way the game went, I don't know that it would have been any significant difference in terms of the result. But the big impact was the actual sending off of Shane McGuigan down in Ross Common and then not been on the pitch to kick what would have been the one and three which would have left Derry in a position this weekend where promotion was in their hands if they went to Meath and wanted to go up. And that decision has taken it out of Derry's hands completely and I suppose we can only go on the video evidence that we've seen. But it's exceptionally harsh on Shane McGuigan. They've been sent off for what he was sent off for. So it's probably for certain and that's the sense. But then I suppose Rory never pulls many punches and he came out after the game on Sunday and he just said, look, it's out of our hands but if we weren't good enough to beat Galway and we weren't good enough to beat Ross Common then that's it. Maybe we don't deserve to go up. So I'm not, look, it's hard to argue with that synopsis either. Borek Joyce, by the chat of him after the game on Saturday got the sense that he's definitely going to rest players. He's definitely going to take a chunk of his team out and go easy at it. You know, they'd do six weeks running including the league final now. So I would say that, you know, Ross Common will fancy it down there and if that happens then it doesn't really matter what Derry do. And Navin, which Navin has become a lot trickier looking in the last two or three weeks as well. You know, a month ago you were saying Derry would definitely win on Navin and now you've picked up a wee bit of form and it's maybe not as clear cut on it. So one right there. Yeah, just finally then Martin will nip over to division three. If Derry are to stay in division two they could be joined by Louth who are chasing back-to-back promotions under Mickey Hart. A new term agreed this week as well by the Louth GA and Mickey Hart and of course Gavin Devlin as well as the coach under Mickey. It's been a fantastic period for Louth Football all of a sudden they can find themselves from being in the bottom division to the second tier in just a couple of seasons as was why the reason Mickey Hart was brought in. Yeah, exactly. And I mean that's good work by the Louth County board and I mean else to get them and they got them right away afterwards. There were probably a lot of counties thinking about where they were the first county to get them on board and it's a massive achievement to do it with Louth.  And we know there's massive population in Louth now with the likes of the amount of people from Dublin that moved into county Louth and commuting up and down to work on it. So it's only better Louth they're going to get and I think they're actually building a big center of excellence or maybe they have a center of excellence in Louth and they're trying to get their home field sorted out in Louth. So it's great times for Louth and there's a great buzz about Louth and everything else and it's a massive achievement for Mickey Hart and Gavin Devlin to get them to get them promoted. But I was just thinking there Ashwin Carr was speaking about Galway you know they probably are a division one team and you could you probably have nine teams there and maybe Russ Common and Derrier are a bit behind them and that there. But you know we look at it the only other thing I would say about that there is if Galway, if Russ Common beat Galway they're playing the league final the following week and they could meet in the championship if Galway beat me also. Maybe Galway might want to maybe beat Russ Common and not let Russ Common not end up on a league final they might maybe want to play Derrier. I don't know but I think looking at it from the point of view but it just shows you how competitive all divisions are their teams in division three they're good enough to be in division two and I mean and that's why the league is a great competition it's a brilliant competition the only thing is disappointing we talked about that area on Ashwin menu because maybe you know all right this weekend is going to be great great for it but there were other weekends it was terrible terrible for football to be played so we have our best footballers in the country maybe playing in the worst conditions it's something we could look at maybe down the road. Yeah something new to think about but listen the permutations are fascinating guys ahead of the final weekend of the Allianz Leagues right across the boards there's five promotions and five relegations all to be decided we're hoping that Donegal in the North West Counties won't be part of the of the relegations Carol Kane of the Irish News and Martin McHugh is always thanks for joining us. Thanks man. See you Carol.


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