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The 2015 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

Fr Tod Umptious · 2015-04-26 22:23:08

Now with the league done I think it’s time to start this thread. Here are my own thoughts Leinster - Once again it’s a one horse race, Dublin are by far and away the best team in the province, that saw two of it’s teams head down to Div 3 this year, after being in Div 1 last year. They will be looking to put things right…

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#3332 22-08-2015 9:20am
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Just checking......
Is it Kerry-Tyrone this Sun...what time throw in?

and is Mayo-Dublin semi....what time throw in as well?

Cheers.

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#3333 22-08-2015 9:37am
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Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Just checking......
Is it Kerry-Tyrone this Sun...what time throw in?

and is Mayo-Dublin semi....what time throw in as well?

Cheers.

Kerry v Tyrone 3.30 23/08
Mayo v Dublin 3.30 30/08

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#3334 22-08-2015 10:35am
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I hope it's a classic but I doubt it will be and I think Kerry will win by 10 or 12 points.

I think Tyrone have been made to look a bit better than they are by the teams they have faced so far.

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#3335 22-08-2015 11:57am
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Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I hope it's a classic but I doubt it will be and I think Kerry will win by 10 or 12 points.

I think Tyrone have been made to look a bit better than they are by the teams they have faced so far.

To be honest all the teams in the last 4 have been made to look better than they are by the teams they faced.

Dublin have faced no one near this level.
Mayo beat a tired Donegal outfit.
Kerry blew away a Kildare team that gave up.
Tyrone beat a one dimensional Monaghan.

These two games will be the only games that will possibly show us how poor or how good some teams actually are

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#3336 22-08-2015 12:00pm
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Tyrone by one. Tiernan McCann to score the winning point in injury time.

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#3337 22-08-2015 2:55pm
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frostyjacks wrote:

Tyrone by one. Tiernan McCann to score the winning point in injury time.

How would he celebrate frosty.........?

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#3338 22-08-2015 3:14pm
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frostyjacks wrote: »

Tyrone by one. Tiernan McCann to score the winning point in injury time.

You clearly havent seen McCann trying to kick a ball

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#3339 22-08-2015 4:10pm
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Stoner wrote: »

How was ould he celebrate frosty.........?

He could do the old Klinsmann celebration. I think about half of the gaa world would spontaneously combust.

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#3340 22-08-2015 4:29pm
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Kerry by 7, handy!

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#3341 22-08-2015 4:37pm
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frostyjacks wrote: »

Tyrone by one. Tiernan McCann to score the winning point in injury time.

I would fear for the sanity of the Boards GAA mods if that happened.

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#3342 22-08-2015 5:04pm
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frostyjacks wrote: »

Tyrone by one. Tiernan McCann to score the winning point in injury time.

Tyrone to win by a hair.

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#3343 22-08-2015 5:42pm
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BonnieSituation wrote: »

Tyrone to win by a hair.

Ba-dum-dish!

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#3344 22-08-2015 5:56pm
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ProudDUB wrote: »

I would fear for the sanity of the Boards GAA mods if that happened.

I'll have to read the manual again, but I'm nearly sure there's mention of a red button in the case of extreme situations....

Edit .. yup .. last used in 2002 Saipan

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#3345 22-08-2015 6:02pm
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frostyjacks wrote: »

Tyrone by one. Tiernan McCann to score the winning point in injury time.

After picking the ball off the ground and running for 10 steps of course.
It appeared to go wide, but ref wasn't interested in Hawkeye

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#3346 22-08-2015 6:33pm
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Stoner wrote: »

How would he celebrate frosty.........?

I was thinking a Balotelli style message on a t-shirt under his jersey, maybe something for O'Rourke to go home and chew on.

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#3347 22-08-2015 7:08pm
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DoctaDee wrote: »

I'll have to read the manual again, but I'm nearly sure there's mention of a red button in the case of extreme situations....

Edit .. yup .. last used in 2002 Saipan

Away off with you and your puny wee red button, I'd be thinking more along the lines of a cyanide pill stashed in one of your back molars.

Then again, the force of Kerry moral outrage may very well break the entire interweb, so you get to have a Sunday evening off for once. Swings and roundabouts really.

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#3348 22-08-2015 8:02pm
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Who's gonna be keeping an eye on the Sunday Game thread?

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#3349 23-08-2015 11:49am
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Will the weather will have an impact on today's game?

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#3350 23-08-2015 11:52am
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Kalyke wrote: »

Will the weather will have an impact on today's game?

You'd imagine it might favour Tyrone but I seem to remember a deluge at Kerry v Galway a few years back and the Kingdom still came out on top.

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#3351 23-08-2015 11:54am
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mickmackey1 wrote: »

You'd imagine it might favour Tyrone but I seem to remember a deluge at Kerry v Galway a few years back and the Kingdom still came out on top.

An absolute classic!

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#3352 23-08-2015 11:56am
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Kalyke wrote: »

Will the weather will have an impact on today's game?

It would imagine it would definitely favour Tyrone,likely to be a lower scoring game.Possibly will lead to a more dour,even more defensively minded game.It still shouldn't affect the result, the Kingdom should prevail.

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#3353 23-08-2015 12:13pm
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Kalyke wrote: »

An absolute classic!

Possibility the most overrated game in the history of the GAA.

There was a downpour of historical proportions and both teams were not as willing to commit themselves with the intensity we usually see because the conditions did not allow for it.

Thus we got a fairly open free flowing game, a bit like a league game.

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#3354 23-08-2015 12:24pm
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Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Possibility the most overrated game in the history of the GAA.

There was a downpour of historical proportions and both teams were not as willing to commit themselves with the intensity we usually see because the conditions did not allow for it.

Thus we got a fairly open free flowing game, a bit like a league game.

Completely over rated game.Nice football played but it had zero intensity.

Kerry were only tipping along and doing enough to win.As soon as Galway went in front after Joe Bergin scored a goal in the second half Kerry just eased up another gear and won with a degree of comfort.Kerry could have won that game by as much as they wanted to.

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#3355 23-08-2015 1:15pm
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Yeah agree about Kerry tipping along and doing enough to win. Didn't feel like a classic at all.

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#3356 23-08-2015 1:54pm
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Match thread for today's game here.

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#3357 23-08-2015 1:54pm
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I would like to see Kerry really have a cut at Tyrone from the get go. With allot of the spotlight on Tyrone it would be interesting to see how they cope with a fast and furious start from Kerry.
Have the wet gear packed.
http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

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#3358 24-08-2015 2:07pm
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Peist2007 wrote: »

Tyrone are going to get absolutely shafted on Sunday. You heard it here first

Like death and taxes

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#3359 24-08-2015 2:11pm
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Peist2007 wrote: »

Like death and taxes

And crap goalies

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#3360 24-08-2015 2:15pm
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Bambi wrote: »

And crap goalies

Yes but a team can have a bad goalkeeper. Or a good one. Sometimes the bad goalkepper plays well. Sometimes a good goalkeeper plays badly. What you should not expect is that the ref will shaft you on every big decision. Which is what happened yesterday, as predicted. Thanks for the strawman though

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#3361 24-08-2015 2:25pm
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Peist2007 wrote: »

Yes but a team can have a bad goalkeeper. Or a good one. Sometimes the bad goalkepper plays well. Sometimes a good goalkeeper plays badly. What you should not expect is that the ref will shaft you on every big decision. Which is what happened yesterday, as predicted. Thanks for the strawman though

It's the risk you take when you rely on working the ref for the win, sometimes a bad ref will spot a good dive and you'll rue not converting that soft peno he awarded earlier.

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