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The 2015 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

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    #302
    Diabhal Beag
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    Taking some lovely scores


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    #303
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,131 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Lovely score from the sub, to be fair Longford aren't lying down completely.


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    #304
    dastardly00
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    Well done to the ref for giving that black card to the Longford player even though Dublin scored a goal at the end of the attack.


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    #305
    zetecescort
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    Tipp 1-17 Waterford 0-3 40 min


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    #306
    Boom__Boom
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    Dubs forwards shooting the lights out - they had 1 effort hit the post and 1 dropped short.

    Every other effort was a score.

    The Dublin defence conceding 8 points in a half is a bit of a surprise.


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    #307
    Peter Anthony
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    Leinster Championship is an embarrassment. Even the Dub fans were leaving at half time, the attendance is paltry. Who wants to pay to watch that rubbish?


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    #308
    zetecescort
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    Tipp 1-24 Waterford 0-5 FT


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    #309
    Neeson
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    The silence in the stadium after every score says it all.


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    #310
    Peter Anthony
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    Pathetic, utter farce of a match. The Provisionals need to be overhauled and the Dubs moved out of Croke Park, for their own fans sake.


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    #311
    Say Your Number
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    This is awful stuff, Dublin stroll down the pitch twice and score a goal both times, I was hoping Longford might at least be able to keep it respectable.


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    #312
    Peter Anthony
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    RTE fecked up showing this. Fermanagh and Antrim would have been a far better spectacle, this is just ****e.


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    #313
    kona
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    Peter Anthony wrote: »
    Pathetic, utter farce of a match. The Provisionals need to be overhauled and the Dubs moved out of Croke Park, for their own fans sake.

    Why move Dublin out of croker? Longford would have gotten dismantled if ya played it in Longford.


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    #314
    seanhynes
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    Dublin should just play with a handicap of going out on the beer till 4am night before games against sides up until the Leinster Finals:D play with a bit of a hangover for interests sake ,I'm sure the likes of Jimmy Keaveney and Barney Rock were at that


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    #315
    Peter Anthony
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    kona wrote: »
    Why move Dublin out of croker? Longford would have gotten dismantled if ya played it in Longford.
    1. Its an unfair advantage for Dublin

    2. The attendances and atmosphere are pathetic, would be more of an occasion seeing Dublin elsewhere than in a stadium 70% empty

    3. Probably better for Dubs fans


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    #316
    Fudge You
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    Peter Anthony wrote: »
    Pathetic, utter farce of a match. The Provisionals need to be overhauled .


    Please stop saying this, without coming up with an option.

    Its the all ireland, sometimes, big teams play the small teams, and this is what happens. Not every game will be dublin v kerry.

    Same with any cup competition in any sport. Tennis, snooker, rugby, soccer. The big teams will meet in the end, but small teams have to be beaten first.


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    #317
    Fudge You
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    Peter Anthony wrote: »
    1. Its an unfair advantage for Dublin

    But did you not see the leinster council vote?? Other counties voted for dublin to play in the stadium.


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    #318
    The Assistinator
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    jesus I don't think I sat through anything as bad as this in a long time pure boring can't blame Dublin they can only play what's in front of them but sheedy was very naive


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    #319
    seanhynes
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    tickets would be harder to get but sure a better atmosphere and a slightly more competittive game is better than watching this ,I'm sure some fans wouldn't be too sickened to miss out on a ticket away to Longford


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    kona
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    Peter Anthony wrote: »
    1. Its an unfair advantage for Dublin

    2. The attendances and atmosphere are pathetic, would be more of an occasion seeing Dublin elsewhere than in a stadium 70% empty

    3. Probably better for Dubs fans

    The stadium is 80,000 seater it needs to be used to pay for itself. It's first round of championship and Longford are crap. I'm sure the Longford players are delighted to get a run out in croker.


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    #321
    KevIRL
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    Chin up Longford at least you outscored our lads today....


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    #322
    seanhynes
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    Cluxton wearing a hat to prevent sunburn he could have pulled up a sitee and enjoyed some sun


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    #323
    The Assistinator
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    kona wrote: »
    The stadium is 80,000 seater it needs to be used to pay for itself. It's first round of championship and Longford are crap. I'm sure the Longford players are delighted to get a run out in croker.
    I remember talk one time that it takes 30000 for croke park to break even on a game day not sure if it's true but if it is it would make less sense to play it here


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    #324
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,131 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Ah for f*cksake, why doesn't he just blow it up, what's the point of them playing another 7 minutes.


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    #325
    tafkach
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    This is just terrible.. I mean they said during the game that 8 players left the Longford panel earlier this year... You really would wonder what keeps ANY of the Longford players to put themselves forward for that sort of humiliation... Never mind the poor chap that was badly hurt..


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    #326
    letowski
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    I think Darragh Maloney was been a bit generous to Longford saying it was over at half time. It was 1-4 to no score after 5mins.


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    #327
    Very Bored
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    Peter Anthony wrote: »
    RTE fecked up showing this. Fermanagh and Antrim would have been a far better spectacle, this is just ****e.

    I suspect RTÉ is only concerned with viewing figures. Even BBC in the north is showing Fermanagh and Antrim as a delayed coverage game. I agree with you in principle, but people simply wouldn't have watched Fermanagh - Antrim as they would know that the standard would be poor, no insult intended to those two counties. With Dublin - Longford, there are those who will watch because at least one good team is playing, others because of the chance of an upset, however slight, and then there are far more who will automatically watch it because its their county.


    Peter Anthony wrote: »
    Pathetic, utter farce of a match. The Provisionals need to be overhauled and the Dubs moved out of Croke Park, for their own fans sake.

    I thought the Good Friday Agreement had already done that :D.

    Seriously though, the other provincial championships are better than Leinster at the moment. Certainly Ulster is and Munster and Connacht will produce at least one decent match a year. None of the other three are the cakewalks for one team that Leinster is. And that's only the case because Dublin are going through a period where they have a very good team.

    The Dubs have won nine of the last ten, and will make it ten from eleven shortly. Prior to that though they won it once in ten years and in that decade six counties from twelve (in reality, eleven because Kilkenny never enter it) won it. This period of dominance by one team is unprecedated and it will eventually end. The hurling has become somewhat more competitive in Leinster and likewise so will football given time.

    Also, if you get rid of the provincials, what do you replace them with? Be very careful what you wish for as a Champions League-style competition, which has been mooted in the past, would likely do to GAA what it has done to association football, basically destroy it. At the start of the season everyone knows that the winner of the Champions League will come from either Germany, Italy, Spain or England. No-one else has a look-in. At least in GAA, we have seen the (re-)emergence of certain teams after years of struggling. That wouldn't happen if the door was basically shut by a Champions League-style format.


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    #328
    iDave
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    kona wrote: »
    The stadium is 80,000 seater it needs to be used to pay for itself. It's first round of championship and Longford are crap. I'm sure the Longford players are delighted to get a run out in croker.

    No self respecting footballer should be delighted with what happened today regardless of the venue


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    #329
    deadybai
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    The match should have been played in Longford. But that doesn't mean Longford would have made the score more respectable .

    It was a senior team vs a junior team end off. Two tier championship all the way


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    #330
    Fudge You
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    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Ah for f*cksake, why doesn't he just blow it up, what's the point of them playing another 7 minutes.

    Because the referee has to, he has no choice. It is the rules, he has to play 70 minutes. This is not an u-10 match, which obviously a ref would blow up early if it was so one sided.

    You are just repeating what McStay, and the two boyos in the studio said. Come up with your own opinion.


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    #331
    kona
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    iDave wrote: »
    No self respecting footballer should be delighted with what happened today regardless of the venue

    That's true but at the end of the day Longford knew they were going to get destroyed and to be fair it could have been alot worse, they also put ten points on Dublin, which is more than can be said for others.


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