The 2024 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

Say Your Number

Could be here awhile

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130227#Comment_122130227

Yes, and Donegal. And their backroom teams will have been studying the oppostion keepers.

Say Your Number

Lucky

callaway92

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130282#Comment_122130282

Donegal keeper way off there too. Why aren't the commentators flagging it?

klose

The aul rectangular crossbar, lesser spotted.

callaway92

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130296#Comment_122130296

Honest to god a good foot+ off line for winning penalty save when it was struck

ShamoBuc

Jimmy's winning matches.

YabaDabaDooley

Armagh's penalty record is nearly as bad as Englands. Not a comparison they'll like in Crossmaglen and elsewhere. Awful for them.

Mr.Crinklewood

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130282#Comment_122130282

..and the umpires staring straight at it.

Surely linesmen would be more qualified and more experienced to be used in these situations.

YabaDabaDooley

McGuinness some man all the same. Remains a solitary loss in an Ulster championship game under his stewardship. 4 Ulster titles. He has the X factor.

evolvingtipperary101

Jimmy McGuinness is some man.

How long is McGeeney at this with Armagh?

McGuinness just sweeps in. First year. Ulster champs.

dxhound2005

11 Ulsters for Donegal, but still in sixth place out of the nine counties. But just one behind Down with 12 now.

martingriff

are the goalkeepers able to move once the other player does or when the ball is hit

blowitupref

More penalty shootout heart break for Armagh twice in Ulster finals and twice in All Ireland Quarter finals they must feel jinxed at this stage. As for Donegal back winning matches and trophies under Jim once again.

shockframe

Penalty shoot outs in Gaelic Football are the sign of an epic.

martingriff

The guy giving the cup is giving it socks everything the captain would say

castletownman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130324#Comment_122130324

Has to be in the top tier of managers of all-time. Only Gavin, Micko and Harte are ahead of him.

martingriff

The singer in Lanzarote will have to dust off his auld song

sligeach

Horrible way to lose a match. Whatever about professional soccer and paid players, I don't think amateur Gaelic football should be decided like this. Go to a replay, both teams giving their all for 90 minutes(not to mention all the hard slogging through winter months), only for the result to be decided by 1 player at the death, and sudden death as well in today's case. That Armagh player will be feeling like crap for some time.

YabaDabaDooley

As harsh as it is for any team losing on penalties i still prefer it to a replay. Both teams had approx 100 minutes to win in open play and couldn't do it. Get it done on the day. One group go home elated. The other deflated. That's life. Can only be one winner. Armagh had their chances but for the umpteenth time couldn't get over the line. It's cruel on them and they'll find it hard to pick up the pieces going forward but they still have the makings of a good team.. As for Donegal they are a genuine threat for the All Ireland. McGuinness will have his eyes on the big prize.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130368#Comment_122130368

There is no shootout in the All Ireland Final. Unless it is a draw in a replay after extra time? In soccer it is always the end of the road for a shootout loser. In GAA, Armagh are still in as well as Donegal.

windy shepard henderson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130368#Comment_122130368

i have the opposite view i hated the replays often the case would be a referee would play for them late in a game if it were close , extra games always brought on more injuries too this is something i actually like that has been brought in to football , if you look back on the game and especially the late stages of normal time armagh had two attacks to win the game and didnt take them they cant be blaming penalty's for the loss

sligeach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130359#Comment_122130359

Pfft! One All-Ireland success. And a certain Sean Boylan has been way more successful than McGuinness for starters.

Edit: I'll also add that some would say McGuinness is responsible for creating an ugly brand of football.

dxhound2005

So many games going to extra time is beginning to chip away at the theory about referees playing for draws. Since one team is going to lose, maybe on penalties, you would expect them to arrange a winner in normal time these days. There is no big pay day for the GAA like when there were replays, so that logic is gone out the window as well.

mfceiling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130386#Comment_122130386

You'd think McGuinness was the Messiah the way some go on. One All Ireland. One. They beat Derry because of the Derry keeper thinking he was a full forward.

Scraped a knackered Tyrone team and needed penalties to beat Armagh. Yet he'll be lauded as one the greatest ever managers of his time.

Me arse.

castletownman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130386#Comment_122130386

Fifth all-time then. Considering where Donegal were twice before him.

naughto

Donegal where no where before him taking over,hes only in 6 months and turns it around like he did takes some doing.

sligeach

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130406#Comment_122130406

Again. Nope. John O'Mahony led Leitrim to only their 2nd Connacht Championship success in 1994, which remains the case 30 years later. I think for some Leitrim people that was almost as good as winning the All-Ireland. He also won the All-Ireland twice with Galway in 1998 and 2001.

I'm sure there's plenty of managers ahead of McGuinness if you were to think about it.

YabaDabaDooley

Winning 3 Ulster titles and an All Ireland (only Donegals second ever) in his first stint as manager. Highest win ratio of any Ulster manager having only lost one game in 18 or 19 i think. Taking a long break to pursue a soccer career and come back first season win Div 2 of League and wins his fourth Ulster title. I dont know or care where he stands on any all time list but he is definately a great manager. He ticks all the boxes. And he's not finished yet.

evolvingtipperary101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122130450#Comment_122130450

Big difference managing Galway and Donegal…