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Lacey playing to his strengths by turning defence into attack

Last week Donegal's Karl Lacey and Galway's Finian Hanley exchanged emails. They both work in Ulster Bank, in different branches, and are often in touch. Galway had been sent crashing out of the All- Ireland football championship by Meath in a dramatic qualifier game in Navan so Lacey commiserated with his colleague. They discussed how different life is without football and how difficult it is to find something to fill the void.

Although Hanley's season is now over, Lacey's life still revolves around football. For the last seven months the Donegal player has been up at 6.30 three mornings a week to travel to the gym in Letterkenny for a weights session before work. And every other day he is on the pitch, sometimes twice a day.

This year, training with Donegal has been particularly intense. Jim McGuinness took over from John Joe Doherty and a whole new approach came with his appointment. So far they have only lost one game, an inconsequential league match against Laois. Lacey was injured that day so he has yet to lose a game in the Donegal jersey in 2011.

In April, they were crowned Division Two champions and a month later they beat Antrim in the opening game of the Ulster championship. After the match they faced a lot of criticism over their style of play. They were accused of playing too defensively but Lacey says Donegal weren't worried about the critics -- all that mattered was the win.

"We achieved what we set out to do," he says. "Now we are improving every day, and as we go on we are showing what we do isn't all defensive. We don't want to be like Barcelona , Chelsea or Real Madrid , we will simply do whatever it takes to win."

Donegal have still managed to score 5-30 in three championship games -- not a bad return for a team that plays defensively. But what Lacey did have a problem with was the way television pundit Pat Spillane treated his team-mate Ryan Bradley .

" Ryan got man of the match against Antrim. He'd put down a few hard years with the county team, but he'd never really made the breakthrough. But this year he'd really worked hard to make it into the team and we were delighted for him. He was a happy man that day for getting the award, you could see it from the pictures on RTE and then it went back to studio and Pat Spillane said there shouldn't have been one.

"There were so many people watching, it was embarrassing for Ryan. Pat Spillane said there was no man of the match but they still handed him the crystal, he made a fool out of Ryan. That's what we were annoyed at. Who has Pat Spillane managed? Who is he to say he knows everything? Personally, I don't listen to him; he is doing a job he is getting paid for so let him at it. They have to talk about something.

DVD/Blu-Ray releases for the week of Oct 25th. - Famous Monsters ...

Brace yourself for a whole new breed of Blu-ray: Four powerful films…eight thrilling versions…in dazzling, terrifying, high-def clarity with the purest digital sound on the planet. Two bonus disc and over 65 hours of archival and never-before-seen content, including the totally immersive MU-TH-UR mode feature, makes this definitive Alien collection!

Lost in a mysterious cloudbank, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends must contend with a freak mechanical failure that first sends their small plane climbing to an impossible height, and then plummeting through endless mist. After regaining control, the survivors are confronted with a horrifying realization – the very ground beneath them has vanished and a malevolent force lurking in the clouds wants them dead.

THE BISBEE CANNIBAL CLUB – Chemical Burn Entertainment

Vegetarians are disappearing from the little town of Bisbee, AZ. When a group of locals discover that their secret hallucinatory cactus garden has been used as a human barbecue and burial site, the existence of the Bisbee Cannibal Club becomes horrifyingly apparent.

A BLOOD PLEDGE (Blu-ray/DVD) – Media Blasters

Strange rumors start to spread through school about Unjoo’s suicide. Unjoo’s younger sister Jung-un who attends the same school gets suspicious about Unjoo’s death. She is determined to find out the truth by questioning Unjoo’s friends Soy, Eugene, and Eun-young who were said to have been, with Unjoo before her death. Was it suicide or something else entirely?

CANNIBAL GIRLS – Shout! Factory

They do EXACTLY what you think they do! Second City TV regulars Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin star in Ivan Reitman’s Canuxploitation classic as a couple on a romantic holiday who settle into a quaint little bed-and-breakfast run by a trio of flesh-eating ladies who fancy them for tomorrow’s menu.

CARRIER – Code Red

Something strange is happening in the small town of Sleepy Rock, but no one can put their finger on it. Sleepy Rock was a place you might find in a fairy tale until one day, the nightmare is unleashed. It dissolves friendships, families, anything else alive. And there’s no stopping it. Once Sleepy Rock was a loving and religious town, now it’s a town out of control. The only solution…Kill! Anyone who could be The Carrier….One touch and you’re gone! Director of Photography by Peter Deming (Evil Dead 2), Music by Joseph Deuca (Evil Dead) and sound mix by actor Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness).

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